A sign commemorating the inventor of Scrabble mysteriously appears, then disappears, in Jackson Heights, Queens.
The original home of the US Open Tennis Championships was in the old Newport Casino!
Find out where you can see the last surviving letter written by this legendary Revolutionary figure!
Liquid nitrogen tanks on the street are not dangerous, says Verizon. Have you ever seen these out-of-place nitrogen
While sewers were once directly monitored way back, leading to fun maps about the various smells in NYC, things are
Double-lettered subway signage was used in the NYC Subway until 1985. (via Wikimedia Commons) Last week we dove into
Calvary Cemetery in Queens If you’ve been following Matt Green’s quest to walk every street in New York
We found a curious thing on the New York Transit Museum Facebook page yesterday, a subway sign for an 11
The orange and white-striped vents that let out steam are a familiar sight in parts of Manhattan. But what
Recently, a reader asked us “Why are some street signs brown?” Street signage in New York City today is an
Henderson Place Historic District on the Upper East Side You’re familiar with the famous historic districts in Manhattan: Greenwich
Yesterday, an Untapped Cities reader contacted us asking us what those mysterious green mailboxes are on the streets of New
You’ve probably noticed the giant letters posted on the windows of restaurants in New York City, and perhaps vaguely
We all love fire escapes and what they represent both visually and historically for the New York City landscape. But
This video came out a few years ago on National Geographic when the R160 subway cars were introduced in New
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