photography
![Go Inside the Historic Staten Island Home of Photographer Alice Austen](/content/images/size/w100/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/alice-austen-house-staten-island-nyc-untapped-cities1.jpg)
Go Inside the Historic Staten Island Home of Photographer Alice Austen
Alice Austen first picked up a camera in 1876 at the age of ten and went on to become one
![Discover New York’s Hidden Islands in the New Book Archipelago New York by Photographer Thomas Halaczinsky](/content/images/size/w100/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/halaczinsky-archipelago-new-york-untapped-cities-shiloh-frederick-4.jpg)
Discover New York’s Hidden Islands in the New Book Archipelago New York by Photographer Thomas Halaczinsky
From Manhattan Island to Fishers Island off the coast of Long Island‘s North Fork, New York is an island
![Life-Size Art Installation Honors Mom-and-Pop Shops of the LES](/content/images/size/w100/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/unnamed-8.jpg)
Life-Size Art Installation Honors Mom-and-Pop Shops of the LES
Mom-and-Pop shops add to the unique character of each New York City neighborhood but unfortunately, due to many factors including
![New Exhibition at NYC’s International Center of Photography Investigates the Elusive Pursuit of Wealth](/content/images/size/w100/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/chinarich2005-lauren-greenfield-icp-exhibition-nyc-untapped-cities.jpg)
New Exhibition at NYC’s International Center of Photography Investigates the Elusive Pursuit of Wealth
Xue Qiwen, 43, in her Shanghai apartment, decorated with furniture from her favorite brand, Versace, 2005. Photo courtesy of ICP.
![Photo Exhibit at Alice Austen House Traces Impact of Development on Staten Island’s North Shore](/content/images/size/w100/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/untapped-cities-gareth-smit-northshore-road-1.jpg)
Photo Exhibit at Alice Austen House Traces Impact of Development on Staten Island’s North Shore
View from the top of Victory Boulevard of Manhattan at sunset. Victory Boulevard was established in 1816 as the Richmond
![Thinking Central Park Exhibition Reimagines Park with Fantastical Refuges and Shelters](/content/images/size/w100/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/salinger-refuge-central-park-gonzalez-manhattan-eden-gordon-untapped-cities-1.png)
Thinking Central Park Exhibition Reimagines Park with Fantastical Refuges and Shelters
Lady Gaga’s Belvedere, 2017. Image via the Galerie Richard What if Central Park was reimagined? Or the skyline of
![NYC Then & Now: Alfred Stieglitz’ Photograph “The Glow of Night” and the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue](/content/images/size/w100/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/photo-by-alfred-stieglitz-1897.-print-by-r.h.-russell.-retrouched-by-riff-chorusriff.-courtesy-of-nypl.org_.-1-1.jpg)
NYC Then & Now: Alfred Stieglitz’ Photograph “The Glow of Night” and the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue
You’re at the intersection of 5th Avenue and 59th Street looking southeast from the southern tip of Central Park.
![New David Attie Photo Exhibit Featuring Truman Capote Opens at Brooklyn Historical Society](/content/images/size/w100/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/david-attie-truman-capote-brooklyn-historical-society-brooklyn-new-york.png)
New David Attie Photo Exhibit Featuring Truman Capote Opens at Brooklyn Historical Society
For those into photography, David Attie is a 20th century artist who is hard to forget. However, his passing in
!["In the South Bronx of America": 1970s Mel Rosenthal Photos at MCNY Show Another Side of Borough](/content/images/size/w100/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/in-the-south-bronx-of-america-mel-rosenthal-museum-of-the-city-of-new-york-nyc-4-e1464283806263.jpg)
"In the South Bronx of America": 1970s Mel Rosenthal Photos at MCNY Show Another Side of Borough
Photo by Mel Rosenthal/Museum of the City of New York In the 1970s and 1980s, the South Bronx was
![A Look At NYC’s ‘Forgotten Borough’ In 1983 With Christine Osinski’s “Summer Days: Staten Island”](/content/images/size/w100/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/damiani-summer-days-staten-island-nyc-untapped-cities-e1458671510680.jpg)
A Look At NYC’s ‘Forgotten Borough’ In 1983 With Christine Osinski’s “Summer Days: Staten Island”
In 1982, artist Christine Osinski moved to Staten Island with her husband after being priced out of Manhattan, something many
![Photos Series “Store Front II” Documents NYC’s Endangered Small Businesses](/content/images/size/w100/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/1-photographing-new-yorks-endangered-mom-and-pop-stores_brownsville_brooklyn_nyc_untapped-cities_stephanie-geier.jpg)
Photos Series “Store Front II” Documents NYC’s Endangered Small Businesses
The increasing homogenization of businesses is apparent everywhere: the uniform fast-food chains sprouting up in neighborhoods around us, the Starbucks
![The Oldest Known Photograph of NYC is Not What You Think](/content/images/size/w100/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/samuel-morse-daguerreotype-of-unitarian-church-on-on-the-east-side-of-broadway-across-waverly-place-nyc1.jpg)
The Oldest Known Photograph of NYC is Not What You Think
Every so often, articles or social media appear claiming photographs to be the oldest taken in New York City. Such