Lower East Side
11 NYC Neighborhoods with Thematic Street Names
New York City has a long tradition of incorporating more than just a geographic location into a street name, dating
New Renderings Revealed for the Lowline, World’s First Underground Park
We’ve been following the Lowline project for several years and the organization is one of our partners in our
Secrets of Eldridge Street Walking Tour
On Sunday October 30th at 3pm, Untapped Cities and the Museum at Eldridge Street invite you to join a Historical
100 GATES Project in Lower East Side Celebrates its 100th Mural at Katz’s Delicatessen
The 100 GATES Project was created by Billy Rohan, a local artist and pro skateboarder, who noticed that the Lower
Tour the Lowline, Which Just Got NYC Approval, with a Docent on our Subway Tour
In 2012, we visited the first iteration of the Lowline – an exhibition in an Essex Street warehouse that showed the
The History of Recovering NYC African Burial Grounds
As New York City grew and developed in its earliest years, several cemeteries became iconic public grounds. In many cases,
The Top 10 Secrets of the Bialystoker Synagogue in NYC
One of Untapped New York’s exclusive tours is a visited inside the normally off-limits Bialystoker Synagogue on the Lower
Pop-Up Robert Moses Exhibit about LOMEX Opens on Lower East Side
As part of Lower East Side History Month, a condensed pop-up version of the exhibit about the never-built Lower Manhattan
Listening to the Lower East Side: The History of Yiddish Spoken Newspapers in NYC
Does newspaper have a sound? Is it the rustling of paper? The pop-up ads of the digital world? The short
10 Repurposed Theaters in NYC
You have no idea how many times this native has planned to see a show, enters the building, and then
New Documentary “Streit’s: Matzo and the American Dream” About Last Family-Owned Matzo Bakery in US
Last fall, after the Passover holiday, Streit’s, the oldest family-owned matzo bakery, closed its five-floor factory on Rivington Street
10 Artist Occupations and Squats in NYC
Since the city began undergoing intense gentrification in the late 1970s, many artists have stepped up and to occupy and
