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Inside the Abandoned New York State Pavilion at the Queens’ World Fair Site...
We’re going to venture a guess that even the NYC Parks Department was unprepared for the sheer number of people excited to catch a glimpse of the long-closed, and deteriorating New York Pavilion from...
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The Abandoned Mansion of Wyndcliffe in Rhinebeck
Image via Flickr by Joseph This article is from our partner, Urban Ghosts, a website on hidden history and offbeat travel. The abandoned mansion known as Wyndcliffe stands on the eastern bank of the...
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North Brother Island: The Last Unknown Place in NYC, by Photographer...
Unlike other photographers of the abandoned, the work of Christopher Payne has always been about the delicate balance between human presence and physical structure. His study of the Steinway Factory...
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Daily What?! South Street Seaport Mall at Pier 17 Demolition Fully Underway
Yesterday, the 2014 Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance Conference fittingly took place aboard a Hornblower Cruise boat which took attendees on a tour around the New York City harbor while speeches and...
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Lost Landmarks Project Give Pedestrians On-Location View onto NYC History
For three days this spring, Matt Felsen, a student at Parsons Design + Technology will set up classic binocular viewers in different parts of the city. Instead of a present day view, the viewers by...
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Daily What?! Inside Frank Woolworth’s Gilded Age Office in the Woolworth...
We’ve been a longtime partner of the Woolworth Tours and in scouting missions for our exclusive Untapped Cities tours of the Woolworth Building, sometimes we get to access some cool spots we haven’t...
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Design Principles for NYC’s “Sixth Borough”: The Waterfront
Last Thursday, the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance hosted its annual conference aboard a Hornblower cruise ship that spent the afternoon sailing around New York harbor while panels and speakers...
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Urban Profile: Andrea Janes of Boroughs of the Dead
In June, we’re hosting a tour on Murder, Scandal & Vice: Crime & Corruption in 19th Century NYC led by Andrea Janes of Boroughs of the Dead. Afterwards, we’ll be taking guests to a hidden bar...
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Daily What?! The Hidden Rooftop Gardens of Rockefeller Center
Image via 620 Loft and Gallery When dodging people on Fifth Avenue and at Rockefeller Center, you probably don’t have a time to look up and ponder what secrets may lie in the tourist trap. But atop the...
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Daily What?! Remnants of a Lost Department Store in Brooklyn...
In the long hallway of the Hoyt-Schermerhorn subway station in Brooklyn, it’s hard not to notice the repeated blue and yellow tiles fitted prominently with the letter “L.” Yet, you might wonder what...
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Cities 101: Get Your Hair Cut, Keys Made, and Shoes Shined in a NYC Subway...
Barber shop in the subway entrance at W. 40th Street and 7th Avenue We’ve been wondering about this phenomenon for a while: the prevalence of barber shops, locksmiths, bodegas, and shoe repair shops...
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Inside the Epic Safe Deposit Vault in NYC’s Woolworth Building
Every couple months, we take Untapped Cities readers on an exclusive one hour tour of the Woolworth Building. Each time, visitors see slightly different locations depending on who is the leading the...
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Behind the Scenes at 9/11 Museum Construction at World Trade Center, Opening...
Tridents inside the 9/11 Museum from the original World Trade Center towers The 9/11 Museum, thirteen years in the making, is opening today ceremonially with President Obama and becomes publicly...
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Fun Maps: 24 Hour Breathing Map of Manhattan’s Population
As you know we love maps so much, we have a column dedicated to it. And this one is particularly beautiful. Joey Cherdarchuk of Dark Hose Analytics uses Census and Bureau of Labour statistics to chart...
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Beautiful Graphics of NY Train Project Celebrates NYC Subway Tile Mosaics
Last week, we recorded a segment for Cityscape on WFUV Public Radio, an NPR affiliate in New York City. In one part, host George Bodarky asked us about the tiled signs in the subway. For those that...
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The Abandoned Diner in Whitehouse, New Jersey
Image by Gregg Obst While New York City has its own abandoned diner, the famous little lost diner on the West Side Highway, New Jersey also has its fair share of endangered diners. We were alerted to...
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Untapped Staff Picks: Skydivers Flying Over Manhattan, NYC Outdoor Summer...
New York City Guy Wants to Bring Luxury Campground to Rockaway Beach [Curbed NY] Every Summer Outdoor Movie Screening in One Calendar [Thrillist] The Rockabus Won’t Be Running This Summer [Brokelyn] A...
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NYC’s Shortest-Lived Buildings: Grand Central Station, Crystal Palace, Folk...
Cornelius Vanderbilt II’s Mansion at 742-748 Fifth Avenue (between 57th and 58th Streets) Recently, we rounded up New York City’s architectural superlatives, ranging from narrowest building to...
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Behind the Scenes at the American Museum of Natural History in NYC
“I’ve been wanting to work here since I was 3 years old,” says Jake Cesareo, an artist at the American Museum of Natural History, who you may have also seen riding his oversized cupcake around town....
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Take a Look Inside Massimo Vignelli’s Famous 1972 Subway Map
Yesterday, urban enthusiasts and design-philes mourned the death of Massimo Vignelli, the graphic designer who created the iconic 1972 subway map. Here’s a look at that famous map, from a website that...
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