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Downtown Doodler: My Love of the Beatles
On December 8, over 31 years ago, John Lennon was shot and killed. I wasn’t alive then, but every
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The Untapped Holiday Gift Guide
It’s that time of year. Need some gift suggestions for your friend/lover/puzzling family member? Want to give
Food & Drink
Sunday in Chinatown – Wah Fung No. 1 Fast Food, Inc.
Chinatown is an anomaly. Adjacent to Tribeca and Soho, two neighborhoods where you often count yourself lucky to find a
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The Bowery Mission
DoYouHaveOneDollar.org asks the question, “Can 1 million New Yorkers give one dollar each to help the homeless, poor and
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Tap This: Fitz and the Tantrums, Tastekid and Black Blazers
Welcome back to “Tap This,”where our editors report on their top picks of the week. Untapped Managing Editor, Alley
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How Zoning Shaped the New York Skyline
Most people (even residents) never realize how New York City’s iconic skyline has been shaped by the city’s
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Daily What!? A Trip to the Moon in the West Village
Hugo, Martin Scorsese’s film adapted from Brian Selznick’s The Invention of Hugo Cabret, reminded me of my favorite
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Lost: 33 Foot High, 8 Ton, Statue — Have You Seen It?
In 1868, the New York Life Insurance Company relocated its headquarters uptown to a Griffith Thomas designed Italianate style building.
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Manhattan before the street grid: The Randel Maps
The Museum of the City of New York will soon be opening its exhibition on Manhattan’s grid, with borrowed
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House of Oldies: Selling Last Century’s Hits for Half a Century
For twenty years, Mitch Broder wrote about New York for the nation’s largest newspaper chain. On Mitch Broder’s
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HERE NOW!: How Foursquare and Facebook Measure Voting With Your Feet in New York
Foursquare Check-Ins in the Boroughs By Category The Spatial Information Lab at Columbia University has a new project which measures
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Improv Everywhere: No pants subway rides, Best Buy takeovers and freezing Grand Central
At Untapped, we’ve always prided ourselves on digging up some of the quirkiest things about New York. From Napoleon’