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NYC’s Forgotten ‘War on Christmas Trees’
Discover how an obscure holiday crackdown affects festive street vendors today!
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Discover the latest public Art installations in NYC, exiting new exhibitions, and more! Pictured here are our partners at Artechouse, a space for innovative experiential Art located in the former boiler room of the Chelsea Market!
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Take a Tour of the Secrets of Edgar Allan Poe’s Greenwich Village with Boroughs of the Dead
Edgar Allan Poe, image via Wikimedia Greenwich Village was a hotbed of literary talent and scandal, even in the 1840s,
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Ron English Criticizes American Consumerism with Street Art at Bowery Mural
The Houston Bowery Wall is a rotating canvas for street art, run by real estate developer Tony Goldman, Jeffery Deitch
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5 Oversized Clay Masks Arrive at Rockefeller Center by Artist Thomas Houseago
The Thomas Houseago outdoor art installation Masks (Pentagon) will be unveiled at Rockefeller Center on Tuesday, April 28th. This site-specific
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A 500-Foot Canopy of Mirrored Discs Arrives in Madison Square Park
This week, the Madison Square Park Conservancy has been in the process of installing a new outdoor sculpture exhibit by
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All 15 JR Street Art Pieces for Walking New York Throughout NYC’s 5 Boroughs
French street artist JR, whose work has previously been shown in Times Square, Fordham University and inside abandoned hospitals on
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Winners of the #UntappedCities #BigScreenNY Instagram Contest To Display at Big Screen Plaza April 27 to May 1st
In the last month, Untapped Cities has had the pleasure of looking at the many reader Instagram submissions from the
Architecture
Abandoned Bronx Borough Courthouse Closed for 37 Years Opens With No Longer Empty’s Latest Installation
Built between 1905-1914, the Old Bronx Borough Courthouse at 878 Brook Street has been shuttered for the last 37 years.
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Today in NYC History: Students Occupy Columbia University (1968)
Plans for the Morningside Gym. Image via WikiCU, user Tao tan One of the first great student protests, the Columbia
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Spy Shop Inc. in NYC’s West Village Helps You Live Out Your James Bond Fantasy
At one point in our lives we’ve all imagined what it would be like to live like James Bond.
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Today in NYC History: New York City Had Its Own Version of the Boston Tea Party (1774)
Before the term was hijacked by the far right-wing, the Boston Tea Party was beloved as one of the iconic
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Fun Maps: The Lost Record Stores of Paris
Paris was once at the forefront of the music industry and dotted with phonographic shops. The project Disquaires de Paris
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Aerial Photo of Massive JR Work of Man Walking at Flatiron Plaza in NYC
On the cover of this special new issue of The New York Times Magazine is a massive JR street art