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🛶 Canoe on the Gowanus Canal + More Ways to Summer in Brooklyn
Untapped New York's founder and author of Secret Brooklyn, Michelle Young, shares her favorite things to do!
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Cities 101: How Do NYC Subway Stations Get Cleaned? Powerwashing.
5.9 million people on average ride the MTA daily. That’s almost six million pairs of shoes walking up
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10 Notable LGBT Landmarks and Sites in NYC
June marks one year since the Stonewall Inn was designated an individual New York City landmark within the historic district
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Vintage Photos: The Transformation of the USS Vermont at the Brooklyn Navy Yard
On the Twitter account @Discovering_NYC, run by Tess Stahl, an Untapped Cities contributor, we recently came across this quirky
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Untapped Cities Tours This Weekend: Remnants of Penn Station, Rooftop Reds Tour and Tasting
Tour of Rooftop Reds, world’s first commercially viable rooftop vineyard The weather is going to be stellar this weekend
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“Please be Advised: THIS IS A POST”: NYC Street Art by Paul Richards
If you walk down Eighth Avenue near the intersection of 14th Street, you will see two unassuming signs hammered to
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The Top 10 Secrets of 230 Park Avenue, the Helmsley Building in NYC
230 Park Avenue, now known as the Helmsley Building, is that gorgeous building on Park Avenue everyone takes photographs of,
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The Top 10 Secrets of Fort Tilden State Park in NYC
Fort Tilden is located in the Rockaways in Queens County and is part of the Gateway National Recreation Area. It
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Inside Brooklyn Vinyl Works, A Vinyl Record Factory in Brownsville
Will Socolov, owner of Brooklyn Vinyl Works In an unassuming, industrial building in Brownsville, Brooklyn, is Brooklyn Vinyl Works, one
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The Lost Grave Digger's House on Washington Square South in NYC's Greenwich Village
In 1918, New York City photographer Jessie Tarbox Beals took a series of photos of Grace Godwin’s Garret at
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Untapped Cities Contributor Profile: Tom Hynes
This week we profile Untapped Cities contributor Tom Hynes who writes a column on animal-related New York City history
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MTA Adds Second Avenue Subway Line to NYC Subway Map
Though not on the MTA website yet, the Second Avenue Subway line has been added to the subway map contained
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Latest Look Inside the Queensway As Design Phase Begins for Former Rail Line
We recently took a trip to explore the potential QueensWay Park site with Andy Stone, director of the New York