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An Elevated Park is Coming to the World Trade Center As Bridge to Battery...
Rendering via Port Authority of New York and New Jersey The World Trade Center is getting a new elevated park, something which The New York Times announced today as the development’s “best kept...
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Fun Maps: What if the Manhattan Grid Was Extended Across the Entire Earth?
This fun website, ExtendNY, extends the Manhattan grid ACROSS THE WHOLE WORLD. Moving the cursor moves the little green street signs and updates their street and avenue numbers. So for example, Paris...
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The Last B-Boy Breakdancing Battle at 5 Pointz, October 6, 2013 [PHOTOS]
Photographer Eric Lau contacted us after seeing our coverage on the recent whitewashing of 5Pointz and shared his photographs of the final B-Boy Battle at 5Pointz on October 6, 2013. He told us that a...
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Food Carts in NYC Become Latest Target of Advertising by Big Banks
Food carts get branded…by banks We’ve been noticing this disturbing but unsurprising trend recently on the Upper West Side: food carts branded with advertising for big banks. On a stretch between 67th...
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Untapped Cities Contributor Profile: Larissa Zimberoff
This week we profile Untapped Cities contributor, Larissa Zimberoff, who has written about NYC’s skeeball scene, gone urban exploring for remnants of underground rivers in Manhattan, explored Staten...
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Daily What?! Step Back in Time at the NYC Fire Museum in Hudson Square
If you want to get off the standard museum path, our latest favorite is the NYC Fire Museum. Located in a stunning 1904 Beaux-Arts firehouse next to one of those ubiquitous stacked parking lots on...
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Thanksgiving Sale at the Untapped Cities Shop! Get 15% off With Code TGIVING
In celebration of Thanksgiving, Small Business Saturday, Black Friday, Cyber Monday and all that goodness, we’re offering 15% off to our Untapped Cities Shop through Monday using the coupon code...
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What Does Grand Central Have in Common with the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade?
The Grade Harvest Wines Mural in Grand Central Terminal. Image via Justin Ferate For everyone that survived the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade yesterday (or the crowds in the subway), we have a fun...
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Exclusive Untapped Cities Tour of the Woolworth Building: January 22, 2014
For more than half its life, Lower Manhattan’s iconic Woolworth Building has been off-limits to all but the lucky few employed in its handful of professional office spaces. While the lobby has been...
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Vintage Buses to Run on M42 Line for the Nostalgia Special in NYC
Yesterday, just as we were publishing about the return of the MTA’s vintage “Nostalgia” trains and buses, we caught sight of the Omnibus in Midtown on 3rd Avenue with a sign “Keep Back: BUS IN TOW.”...
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Untapped Mailbag: What’s the Difference Between City, State and National...
Recently, Untapped Cities reader Rachel Potter submitted the following preservation query to our mailbag: I have a question about landmark preservation rules – recently I saw the article about the ‘64...
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Photos from the 2013 New York Botanical Holiday Train Show in the Bronx
The TWA Flight Center in plant form at the Holiday Train Show It may surprise you, but the annual Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden is a must-visit for architecture buffs, as well as...
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Where Pipe Organs Are Built and Repaired in a Gowanus, Brooklyn Workshop
Recently, we took you inside the music shop Retrofret in Gowanus which specializes in rare and bizarre instruments. What we didn’t share with you yet is that one floor below, connected to Retrofret is...
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We’re Looking for Spring 2014 Interns at Untapped Cities!
Yup, it’s our magnetic wall! It’s amazing to us that we’re about to welcome our sixth internship class here at Untapped Cities. Are you interested in how it all comes together? Journalism, blogging,...
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Daily What?! The Film Noir Video Rental Store on Bedford Ave in Greenpoint,...
With the advent of Netflix (and the interim stage, Redbox), the neighborhood video store has been rapidly disappearing. But right at the beginning of Bedford Avenue in Greenpoint is the Film Noir...
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Fun Maps: Yahoo! Autocomplete Insults Your City, State and Country
As reported by The Atlantic Cities, Keir Clarke has been building a Yahoo! Autocomplete Map, showing search suggestions when you type in a city, state or country. The results range from funny to...
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Former St. Vincent’s Hospital Building in Greenwich Village to Become Medical...
In our roundup of nautically-influenced architecture in New York City, the O’Toole Medical Services Building of St. Vincent’s Hospital in Greenwich Village was high on our list. Built originally for...
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Giveaway: Win a Ticket to our Woolworth Building Tour and Get Us to 10,000...
At Untapped Cities, our community of contributors and readers are the most important thing to us. We began with one person writing and photographing the city and now have over 300 contributors around...
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Urban Profile: Orit Greenberg, Boardwalk Empire Film Scout in NYC
We first met Orit Greenberg, a film location scout for Boardwalk Empire, when she was looking for a 1920s bank interior for the fourth season. She had come across the abandoned Bank of Manhattan in...
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Inside NYC’s Gilded Age National Arts Club in Gramercy Park [Photos]
There are some places you step into and you’re instantly whisked into a bygone time. The National Arts Club in Gramercy Park is one of those, and it’s not surprising that it’s been used as a film...
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