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World Trade Center Walking Tour
Explore the WTC grounds with a longtime docent of the 9/11 Memorial Museum.
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The Art of Style by Kit Mills 028: A Bright Spot in Midtown
Like a less skeevy Beetlejuice Midtown, land of high-rise office buildings and terrible food, is not generally known for the
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#untappedcities Instagram “Pic” of the Week: Ceiling of J.P. Morgan’s Study in the Morgan Library
This week’s #untappedcities Instagram “Pic” of the Week goes to @newyorkcityhistory for this detailed shot (reminiscent of a giant
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Former Banks of NYC Repurposed into Drugstores, Ice Cream Parlors, Apartments and Pop-Up Stores
We’ve been on a kick lately tracking down re-purposed buildings in NYC, finding out the new uses for churches,
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The Harvest Dome Launch in NYC: From the Brooklyn Navy Yard to Inwood
The Dome being pulled by the Inwood Canoe Club. Yesterday, the Harvest Dome, a floating installation of 500 broken umbrellas
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Featured Urban Website: Manhattan Sideways is Documenting Every Numbered Side-Street
Our new favorite online urban eye candy, Manhattan Sideways, makes us reconsider the less documented parts of the grid system.
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Cities 101: New York City’s Subway Maintenance Cars De-Ice, Suck Up Trash
A retired revenue collection car on display at the New York Transit Museum. Source: NY Transit Museum. The New York
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The NYC That Never Was: Skyscraper Bridge Apartments Across the Rivers
The prosperity and opulence of New York in the 1920’s spilled from the speakeasies and jazz parties to the
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Weekly Map: Time Travel with Vintage NYC Subway Maps & the Second Avenue Subway
Here, in chronological order, a roundup of historical, replicas and future iterations of the New York City subway map. Until
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A Look at Hunters Point, Long Island City: A Modern Industrial Corridor
Hunters Point, Long Island City is a rapidly changing neighborhood flanking the East River on its eastern bank. Neighborhood history
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Daily What?! Manhattan Mini-Storage is a Greek Temple on Riverside Drive
Up on 134th Street and Riverside Drive is a curious building, reminiscent of a Greek temple, which houses a Manhattan
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One Night Holiday Aboard the Fifth Element’s Fhloston Paradise Luxury Space Liner in NYC
Our friends at BBQ Films are at it again after their re-creation of American Psycho for Patrick Bateman’s birthday
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Untapped Mailbag: Worldport Pan-Am Terminal at JFK Should Be Saved
Photo by Jon Proctor via Wikimedia Commons Our piece on the preservation of the Worldport Pan-Am Terminal at JFK Airport