Although the old Metropolitan Opera House in NYC had an opulent, gold interior, it was demolished in 1967 after being denied landmark status.
Discover the best places to see pink and white Cherry Blossom trees across all five boroughs this Spring in NYC!
In the early days of the pandemic, the world was fascinated with imagery of NYC eerily empty.
This past Saturday, Urban Park Rangers from the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation led a group of New Yorkers
Until the events of September 11th, the sinking of the General Slocum disaster was responsible for the largest loss of
We’re doing a bunch of fun events with Will Ellis, the author of Abandoned NYC and Untapped Cities columnist,
From mass burial grounds to abandoned psychiatric hospitals to haunted townhouses, this is an “architectural” version of a most haunted
Unlike other photographers of the abandoned, the work of Christopher Payne has always been about the delicate balance between human
Gantry cranes, utilized as slips for ships carrying both goods and people, were used throughout the 20th century. However, due
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Most New Yorkers have never heard of North Brother Island, but they should take comfort in the fact that new
An Untapped Cities reader, Alex Quintana, tweeted us about the shipwreck of the HMS Hussar last week, after reading our
Just 350 yards east of the Bronx, an uninhabited island known as North Brother Island lies in the East River,
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