This Thanksgiving, our Chief Experience Officer reflects on his gratitude for the play that changed his life!
This now-obscure holiday was once bigger than Thanksgiving...and the 4th of July!
Find out what's happening this weekend (and next week) in NYC!
🔌 Stand at the former location of Edison’s first central power plant
🔧 Visit the spot where Nikola Tesla tinkered in his first laboratory
💡 Explore more shocking sites as you revisit the earliest days of NYC's electric age
🗓️ Sunday, October 19th at 2 pm - 4 pm ET
🎟️ Untapped New York Members at the Insider tier and higher get 50% off!
❤️ Proceeds support the Brooklyn Greenway Initiative!
⏰ Every Weds. & Fri. at 10 am + Every Sat. at 10 am & 2 pm ET
📍Fulton Center, Manhattan
Ride through abandoned stations, learn about the system's early blunders, and uncover features even daily commuters don't notice!
🎟️ Get 50% off as an Untapped New York Member at the Insider tier or higher!
🍂 Catch the early fall foliage on a cruise up the Hudson River as you sail aboard a historically inspired vessel
⏰ 11 am - 1 pm ET
📍Bleecker Street
Get your caffeine fix at some of NYC's oldest coffee shops! Sip on warm drinks and snack on chocolate-covered espresso beans as you uncover surprising stories about NYC coffee history, including its ties to the off-off-Broadway scene.
🇮🇹 Sip wine, pick pumpkins, enjoy live music, see classic cars, and take part in more family fun at the 2025 Italian Festival & Exotic Car Show hosted at Casa Belvedere, a 1908 mansion once home to descendants of the Roebling family (designers of the Brooklyn Bridge!). 🕐 Sat: 12 pm - 6 pm & Sun: 12 pm - 5 pm
🥯 Fill yourself with bagels and schmears from the city's best bagel joints, delis, and restaurants at NYC's first-ever Loxfest, hosted at Pier 16 in the South Street Seaport and presented by fultonfishmarket.com 🕐 10 am - 3 pm - Book Here
👷Don a hard hat and walk through the abandoned halls of Ellis Island's forgotten hospital complex 🕐 11:30 am - Book Here
👉 Reach out and touch the physical remnants of Dutch New York as you explore the colonial history of Lower Manhattan 🕐 2 pm - Book here
⏰ 2 pm - 3:30 pm ET
📍Washington Square Arch
Uncover the early roots of NYC's famous thoroughfare and learn how this part of Manhattan transformed from marshy farmland to home of the Gilded Age's elite and eventually the Bohemian haven that Greenwich Village is known for.
🎟️ Get 50% off as an Untapped New York Member at the Insider tier or higher!
🚂 Stay out of the rain on a tour of the gorgeous interior spaces of Grand Central Terminal, from the iconic Main Concourse to the grand Vanderbilt Hall
🎉 Celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day with a two-day festival at the Brooklyn Children's Museum, where you can join Native artists sharing their living traditions with Haudenosaunee social dances, beadwork and pottery workshops, traditional mush making, a Native artisan marketplace, and more! - Included with museum general admission
💀 Visit a breathtaking Día de Muertos ofrenda by acclaimed artist Laura Anderson Barbata. Titled Reposo y Recuerdo (Rest and Remember), this immersive installation has transformed the interior of The Green-Wood Cemetery’s landmark Historic Chapel with handwoven hammocks, papel picado, cascades of paper marigolds, and community offerings that visitors are invited to contribute.
🏙️ Learn about the architecture of the Financial District and the World Trade Center on a tour led by a PhD architect
🪶 Take part in the 10th Annual Gathering & Celebration at Randall's Island for Indigenous Peoples' Day, featuring a sunrise tobacco and water ceremony, Indigenous advocates and activists, and cultural performances
🐱 Hear stories of Ned the Bridge Cat and more feline Brooklynites of the 19th and early 20th centuries on a cat-themed tour of Brooklyn Heights that ends near the Brooklyn Cat Café - Book Here
🎵 Peek inside 33 1/3 of the city’s best record shops when acclaimed photographers James and Karla Murray share images from their newest book on New York’s vibrant vinyl in a virtual talk with Village Preservation - Book Here
👨🎨 Discover how Mercer Labs’ 36,000-square-foot space serves as a cultural laboratory where creativity and innovation blend when you join one of the founders, multidisciplinary artist Roy Nachum, for an evening at the National Arts Club - Book Here
🌸 See how artificial flowers are handcrafted using vintage techniques on a behind-the-scenes tour of NYC's last fabric flower factory - Book Here
👻 Explore some of the most haunted sites in NYC in a free virtual talk with Leanna Renee Hieber and Andrea Janes, authors of America’s Most Gothic: Haunted History Stranger than Fiction - Book Here
🖼️ From ale houses to avant-garde galleries—discover NYC’s most eclectic neighborhood on a Secrets of the East Village walking tour - Book Here ⭐ Untapped New York Members at the Insider tier and higher get 50% off
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