A sign commemorating the inventor of Scrabble mysteriously appears, then disappears, in Jackson Heights, Queens.
The original home of the US Open Tennis Championships was in the old Newport Casino!
Find out where you can see the last surviving letter written by this legendary Revolutionary figure!
At Untapped Cities, with our mantra “Rediscover your city,” we have long espoused the idea that you can be a
At the exhibit, The Rise of Sneaker Culture which opened at the Brooklyn Museum in July, sports and fashion go
Editor note: Untapped Cities columnist Janos Marton, New York City lawyer, activist and founder of the website janos.nyc has
Prospect Park. Photo by gigi_nyc from the Untapped Cities Google Glass Scavenger Hunt Prospect Park is one of the
Construction workers waiting to receive their paychecks on Christmas Eve, 1931. They erected the tree spontaneously in gratitude for their
The Blacklist. Photo by: Craig Blankenhorn/NBC It’s the second season of The Blacklist and Reddington is already up
Image via Library of Congress New York City has historically looked to Europe for architectural inspiration, particularly in the Beaux-
The United Nations predicts that by 2015, 88.3% of the population of the United States will live in urban
We’ve eaten in parks before but eating with “Wildman” Steve Brill is a slightly different experience. The self-titled
Urban legend tells that this Japanese house was built special for the Japanese Ambassador, and it was shipped over piece
From mass burial grounds to abandoned psychiatric hospitals to haunted townhouses, this is an “architectural” version of a most haunted
Cornelius Vanderbilt II’s Mansion at 742-748 Fifth Avenue (between 57th and 58th Streets). Photo via Library of Congress.
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