Secrets of NYC
The Met's Original Building is Still Hiding Inside the Museum
See remnants of 1880s museum buildings built into the modern galleries!
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Daily What?! Hess Triangle, the Smallest Plot of Land in NYC was 500 Square Inches
Lovely eminent domain. It’s been practiced on land large (Manhattanville for Columbia University, for example) and small. This tiny
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Explore a Former Speakeasy with the Museum of the American Gangster
One of two safes with unlaundered liquor money left over from Prohibition in the basement of William Barnacle Tavern Prohibition
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“Cops In Bike Lanes” Tumblr Calls Out Officers Breaking The Law in NYC
Last month a new Tumblr surfaced called Cops In Bike Lanes, that is dedicated to calling out NYPD officers obstructing
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Street Art Hotspot: JR at the Elizabeth Street Garden in Nolita
When we stopped by the Elizabeth Street Garden this weekend, one of our favorite urban havens in New York City,
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History of NYC Streets: The Victorian Mansions of Church Avenue in Prospect Park South, Brooklyn
Brooklyn’s Church Avenue not only has an interesting backstory regarding its titular church––it also, notoriously, sections off middle
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Bansky in NY Day 9: Night Vision Horses on Truck and Car in the Lower East Side
Perhaps to counter the criticism of the simplistic nature of his last few works, Banksy pulled out all the stops
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Sad Photograph of Pan-Am Worldport Terminal Demolition at JFK Airport
Despite the efforts of Save the Worldport, this photograph captured by Untapped Cities’ Laura Itzkowitz shows the fate of the
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The Ink Pad and Casey’s Rubber Stamps: Stores in NYC that Only Sell Rubber Stamps
If you walk down 7th Avenue while heading into Greenwich Village, you may miss this gem. The Ink Pad is
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10 Man-Made Areas of NYC: From Governor’s Island to Battery Park
It’s easy to think that the place you’ve lived in has always been the same–that New York
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Daily What?! A “Deli-Inspired” Pop-Up Gallery, “The Space,” Coming to Lower East Side next to Katz’s Deli
The space next to Katz’s Deli in the Lower East Side is going to become a pop-up gallery dedicated
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Interactive Doc, “A Short History of the Highrise” on The New York Times: Part I, “Mud”
The latest initiative from Highrise are four short films produced with The New York Times Op-Docs that make up an
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NYC That Never Was: A Gym in Morningside Park Sparks 1968 Columbia University Protests and Shutdown
Plans for the Morningside Gym. Image via WikiCU, user Tao tan In 1960, Columbia University proposed the construction of a