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Guide to the NYBG Holiday Train Show, An Annual Love Letter to NYC
Discover which NYC buildings—both lost and extant—have been recreated out of plants!
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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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10 NYC Hiking Trails to Try This Summer While Social Distancing
In spite of its reputation as a concrete jungle, New York City is home to a great many parks. Many
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Join a Virtual Talk on the Secrets of the Financial District!
Acre for acre there is more history in the Financial District than anywhere else in the country and most of
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Explore Queens’ Addisleigh Park, the “African-American Gold Coast of NY”
Nicknamed the African-American Gold Coast, Addisleigh Park in Queens was home to figures like Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, and Jackie Robinson.
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10 Beautiful Places to Discover in Suffolk County, Long Island
The summer will be unlike most others we have lived through. Travel abroad will be challenging, and even domestically some
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Discover Jackie Robinson’s House in Flatbush, Brooklyn
At 5224 Tilden Avenue in East Flatbush sits one of the Brooklyn homes of baseball great Jackie Robinson. The house
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Beautiful Naval Cemetery Landscape Reopens to Brooklyn’s Nature Lovers
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Naval Cemetery Landscape (NCL), a 1.7-acre memorial landscape on the edge of the
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Take a Virtual Tour of the Remnants of New Netherlands in Jersey City
Today at noon, join us for a tour of the remnants of New Netherlands in Jersey City! In this half
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There’s a Statue of Robert Moses in Babylon, Long Island
There’s a historical quaintness to Babylon, Long Island. There’s an old-fashioned Main Street that contains several landmarked buildings.
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33 Black History Sites to Discover in NYC
Historic Weeksville in Brooklyn For the last few hundred years, New York City has been one of the country’s
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Brooklyn Grand Army Plaza’s History as a Site of Protest and Honor
One of the most iconic spots in Brooklyn, Grand Army Plaza is a public plaza comprising the main entrance of
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There’s an Avenue Named For Robert E. Lee in Brooklyn
Fort Hamilton, at the southern tip of Brooklyn, is as an active duty U.S. Army installation and is not
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John Brown’s Burial Place and Farm, Abolitionist Who Led Harper’s Ferry Raid
On the road to Lake Placid, New York you’ll start to see historical signs making where the pre-Civil War