Secrets of NYC
✉️ The Lost Pneumatic Tube System at the NYSE
Long before fiber optics and wireless networks, bursts of compressed air kept Wall Street moving.
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Untapped New York was started in 2010 by a then student at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), where she is now a professor. We love architecture and believe there is no better place to celebrate it than NYC!
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13 of NYC’s Active Prisons: Rikers Island, The Tombs, Manhattan Correctional Center
The word infrastructure usually conjures up images of roads, highways, bridges and mass transit. One thing that Kate Ascher taught
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Why Does Williamsburgh have in “H” in parts of Brooklyn?
Did you know Williamsburg used to have an “h”? This week’s entry is a cross-post with Gotham Lost and
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The Manhattanhenge Sunrise in NYC
When posting about the Manhattanhenge sunset earlier this year, I had found information from Time Out New York that the
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AUTOMATS, TAXI DANCES and VAUDEVILLE: Manhattan’s Lost Places of Leisure
Secret passageways under Chinatown, remnants of a bygone Bowery beer hall, a rooftop film studio”¦Author David Freeland writes of
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The History of NYC’s Club Limelight aka Church of the Holy Communion
It can be argued that only in the repurposing of architecture can the lines between commerce, religion and politics be
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NEW JERSEY: The Van Liew-Suydam Farms
For many, fall conjures up childhood memories of pumpkin picking, mugs of apple cider, hayrides and corn mazes. Just an
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EMPIRE STATE Pays Tribute to the Grateful Dead
Not sure how long this is going to last, but as of tonight the Empire State Building has gone tie-dye
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Sunset Park, Brooklyn
Still, it is not a place without problems. It was designated a federal poverty area in the 1960s. Garment sweatshops
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A Look at the Vinegar Hill Neighborhood in Brooklyn
Nestled between symbols of urban industrialization and modern residential development (aka a Con Edison plant and glass condos), Vinegar Hill
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IN PICTURES: The Manhattanhenge Phenomenon in NYC
Manhattanhenge did not disappoint, as the edges of buildings grew bright, anticipating the sun to wax into view. But more
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A Tour of St. Mark’s Place: Beyond the Beatniks
An architectural tour about what is not there? Eric Ferrara of the East Village History Project/East Village Visitors Center
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Summer Streets arrives all 5 boroughs of NYC
In a dramatic reappropriation of urban space for public use, Times Square was closed off to cars earlier this summer.