Secrets of NYC
✨You Can Touch the Times Square New Year's Eve Ball!
Find out how you can take home a piece of the old New Year's Eve ball!
Secrets of NYC
Discover the hidden side of famous buildings and places, or delve into off-limits spots, and gain a deeper perspective of the city's rich urban fabric. (That's the Untapped New York team with friends inside the M42 basement... deep below Grand Central 🤫)
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Architecture
See NYC’s Last Wooden Sidewalk at the City Reliquary
New York City streets are proverbially paved with gold, but in reality, they have been paved with everything from dirt
Arts & Culture
The Keith Haring Mural Inside Brooklyn’s Woodhull Hospital
Hospitals may not be the first places that come to mind when you think of where to see works of
Arts & Culture
The World’s Fair Replica That Was in Times Square
The long lost Trylon and Perisphere were the symbol and centerpiece of New York City’s 1939 World’s Fair
Arts & Culture
Meet the Man Behind the New Year’s Eve Countdown Clock
Even though Times Square was nearly empty this New Year’s Eve, an estimated one billion still had their eyes
Architecture
A Look Inside the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Arch in Brooklyn
Standing proudly at Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza, the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Arch acts as both a monumental entrance
Architecture
The Hidden Guastavino Dome in NYC’s Custom House
The Alexander Hamilton Custom House, now the National Museum of the American Indian, was built to impress. Designed by noted
Architecture
Vintage Sign Announces Closure of City Hall Station 75 Years Ago
The new year of 1946 opened with the closure of one of New York City’s grandest subway stations. At
Arts & Culture
The Evolution of NYC’s New Year’s Eve Ball in Times Square
The large, glittering, colorful ball that drops from a pole atop One Times Square at the end of every year
New York
How NYC Subway, LIRR, and Metro-North Responds to Snowstorms
Ever wonder how the New York City subway and the regional train lines like Long Island Railroad and Metro-North prepare
Architecture
Long-Shuttered Tunnel to Grand Central Re-Opened
We love to discover secret tunnels and hidden passageways here at Untapped New York, so we were excited to hear
Arts & Culture
Go on a Behind-the-Scenes Tour of the City Reliquary Museum
Open up New York City’s cabinet of curiosities on a special behind-the-scenes tour of the City Reliquary Museum with
Architecture
Discover the Plan to Revitalize Cass Gilbert’s Abandoned Train Station
No trains have stopped at the abandoned Westchester Avenue station in the Bronx since the 1930s. The Gothic-style station designed