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NYC v. Paris: Brooklyn Diner at the Eiffel Tower and in Williamsburg
When culling together our ongoing NYC v. Paris series on all the quirky things that exist in both cities, through Brooklyn Based we came across “Bedford Diner” in Paris that claims to be on both...
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Untapped Staff Picks: Inside the Chelsea Hotel, Crazy Christmas Lights in...
Photo of Dyker Heights by Untapped Cities photographer Will Ellis for BKLNR NYC Dyker Lights: The Legend of Brooklyn’s Winter Wonderland [BKLNR] In the Shadow of Rising Towers, Laments of Lost Sunlight...
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7 Alternatives to the Rockefeller Christmas Tree in NYC
Photo by Nicholas Santasier ‘Twas the day before Christmas and a grand NYC-style tree you were looking to see. Rockefeller Center was too busy, you said, too busy for me. But with city so big, with...
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Drink Cocktails in a Ski Gondola in Paris at the W Hotel Opera
Can’t get to the slopes this winter? The W Hotel Paris – Opéra has a fun new twist on the standard sidewalk cafe. You can take a drink one of the three ski gondolas, set up in just inside a border of...
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On This Day in History: The Christmas Riots Broke Out in NYC 1806
Old St. Peter’s Church at today’s 22 Barclay Street, built 1785-1786. Source: Wikimedia Sometimes we forget that even New York City has come a long way to garner its reputation for religious and ethnic...
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The Top 10 Untapped Cities Posts of 2013
It’s been an amazing year for “untapped,” quirky news and we thought we’d take a look back at our most popular articles for 2013 on Untapped Cities: 1. Then & Now: NYC’s Pneumatic Tube Network Yes,...
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Daily What?! Pavilion of Thousands of Discarded Cups Coming to Governor’s...
For the 2014 FIGMENT Festival on Governors Island, Inhabitat reports that the City of Dreams Pavilion, a visitors lounge, will be made of thousands of discarded cups collected all over New York City....
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Closing of Torah Animal World Museum in Brooklyn Which Displays Every Animal...
Image by Matt Green via I’m Just Walkin’ Amazingly enough, there are THREE locations for the Torah Animal World museum, which is “a taxidermy museum claiming to display every animal mentioned in the...
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City as Canvas: Graffiti Art Exhibition from Collection of Martin Wong Comes...
Martin Wong, an East Village artist and collector of graffiti art, amassed a significant body of street art which included works by Keith Haring, Lee Quiñones, LADY PINK, FUTURA 2000, Dondi,...
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5 Street Art Hotspots in NYC Besides 5Pointz: Welling Court, East Harlem...
With the whitewashing of 5Pointz in November, the curators are looking towards the future. While many hope that 5Pointz will rebuild elsewhere, one small consolation is that the artists at the graffiti...
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Your Week Untapped: Top 10 Events This Week in NYC January 6-12
Second Avenue Subway Construction Welcome back to our curated weekly events picks for New York City! Monday, January 6th: The 37th Annual Three Kings Day Parade featuring live camels, colorful puppets,...
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Where in the World is Untapped Cities Today?
Take a guess where we shot this photograph from today? This skyline, which may be reminiscent of London perhaps or a Midwest city in the United States is in fact Paris! This is the La Defénse business...
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The Apartment in Paris Where Jim Morrison Died at 17 Rue Beautreillis
In Paris, between St. Paul in the Marais and Bastille, is the apartment where Jim Morrison supposedly died in 1971 at the age of 27, according to official reports. Located at 17 rue Beautreillis, the...
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Daily What?! FDR Drive is Made of Rubble from WWII London Blitz
A new book Rubble: Unearthing the History of Demolition reveals that a large portion of the landfill on top of which the FDR Drive is built comes from building rubble from the WWII Blitz on London and...
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Abandoned Hart Island in NYC May Be Turned Into a Park
Rikers Island inmates performing adult burials on Hart Island. Photograph by Joel Sternfeld via The Hart Island Project Our story on the abandoned Hart Island in New York City, the largest tax-funded...
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Judge Rules City Illegally Gave Away Public Parkland for NYU Expansion Plan
If you’ve been following the debate over NYU’s expansion plans in Greenwich Village, you’d know that the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation (GVSHP) has been one of the vocal interest...
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Fun Maps: The Cast Iron Buildings of NYC
Smith, Gray & Co. Building on Broadway and Bedford Avenue Cast iron buildings are normally associated with Soho in New York City, and we recently learned to decode the signs of history on the...
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Untapped Staff Picks: Crowdfunded Skyscraper for South Street Seaport, Jazz...
New York City Welcome to Gracie Mansion [Vanishing New York] Bronx Celebrates Centennial with 12 Months of Events [NY Daily News] PBS’ ‘The Poisoner’s handbook’: Jazz Age murder mysteries [Bowery...
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Daily What?! There’s a “Big New Yorker Book of Cats” (and Dogs)
Somehow we missed the existence of The Big New Yorker Book of Cats, a collection of New Yorker cartoons and stories about cats! It opens with the below cartoon: “I know a lot of people will say, ‘Oh,...
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New Visions for the Abandoned Gowanus Batcave by Syracuse University...
In 2012, Untapped contributor Will Ellis (of Abandoned NYC) took us inside the Gowanus Batcave, an abandoned MTA powerhouse turned homeless squat. At the time, the fate of the Batcave was up in the...
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