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Untapped Staff Picks: Mapping Song Locations in NYC, Analyzing the Layers of...
Here’s what the Untapped Cities staff is reading in the HQ today! NYC One Man Has Set Out to Map All the Song References to NYC [Curbed NY] Museum of Natural History Announces First Adult-Only...
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Untapped Staff Picks: Famous NYC Buildings Under Construction, Best French...
Here’s what the Untapped staff is reading in the HQ today! Five Famous NYC Buildings and Bridges Under Construction [6SqFt] Nearly 3,500 Years Old, an Egyptian Monument Gets a Laser Cleaning [NY...
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Daily What!? A Japanese Artisan Village at Lincoln Center Until Monday
On the plaza of Lincoln Center until Monday, there’s a Japanese artisan village set up in conjunction with Heisei Nakamura-za revival of a rarely performed 19th-century kabuki ghost story at the Rose...
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New Dates Added for Our Woolworth Building Tour for August, October,...
Our exclusive Untapped Cities Woolworth tour has been so popular, we’re offering more chances to check out the off-limits building this summer and fall. Although our July 17th tour is sold out, we’ve...
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Daily What?! Edgar Allan Poe’s Raven Mantel Discovered by Untapped Cities Editor
A couple years ago, we sent Untapped Cities editor Benjamin Waldman on a quest to track down places that memorialize Edgar Allan Poe. In the process, one particular item that gave him trouble was...
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Your Week Untapped: Top 10 NYC Events July 14 – 20
July 14 It’s the last day of French Restaurant Week! Museum of the City of New York hosts the tour of St. John the Divine, “Hidden Genius: Rafael Guastavino at St. John the Divine” in conjunction with...
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Daily What?! Massive Phoenix by Xu-Bing On Display at St. John the Divine
On a visit to the cathedral of St. John the Divine, you’ll see the exhibit Phoenix by Xu-Bing hanging in the nave of the epic cathedral, one of the largest in the world. The two birds that make up the...
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Untappped Staff Picks: NYC’s Secret Japanese Kitchen, Live Action Pac-Man in...
Inside the Hallet Sanctuary in Central Park Here’s what the Untapped staff is reading in the HQ today: Live Action Pac-Man to Return to Streets of NYC [Gothamist] NYC’s Secret Japanese Kitchen [Messy...
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Daily What?! Inside the Cooper Union Building Clock in the East Village
The Cooper Union Foundation Building at Astor Place stands today amongst modern monoliths, remnants of a day when the elevated IRT Third Avenue rail still ran down the Bowery. With even more big...
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Untapped Staff Picks: Nancy Reagan’s House in Flushing, New Cooper Hewitt Museum
Here’s what the Untapped staff is reading in the HQ today! Nancy Reagan’s House in Flushing [Brownstoner Queens] With a New Name and New Look, the Cooper Hewitt Museum is Primed for a Grand Reopening...
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Untapped Staff Picks: 5 Pointz to Be Demolished by October, What 57th Street...
Here’s what the Untapped staff is reading in the HQ today! Was Hemingway’s Beloved Memoir ‘A Moveable Feast’ Finished Within These Walls? [6SqFt] 5 Pointz to be completely demolished by October, with...
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Untapped Staff Picks: Floating East River +Pool Almost Real, Historic Navy...
Here’s what the Untapped staff is reading at the HQ today! Dive-Ins: The Floating +Pool in the East River Is Almost a Real Thing [Curbed, Untapped previously] Dollhouses, skully and puddles: Lower...
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Daily What?! Inside the Unfinished Crypt of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine
On a tour of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine last week with the Museum of the City of New York, looking at the hidden genius of Guastavino’s tiles, we were led into the usually off-limits crypt...
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Daily What?! Miniature Fairy Doors Are Popping Up All Over NYC
Photo by Bryan Thatcher of SuzyMae checking out a door A couple days ago we came across this adorable find by Scouting NY on Wythe Avenue in Brooklyn. In fact, these architecturally detailed miniature...
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Untapped Staff Picks: Mysterious White Flags on the Brooklyn Bridge, World’s...
Here’s what the Untapped staff is reading in the HQ today: Everyone Has a Theory On The White Flags Over The Brooklyn Bridge [Animal] The Brooklyn Bridge Has Always Been a Magnet for Mystery [City...
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The Tunnels in Wetzlar Germany Used by the Leica Company to Rescue Jews in...
The town of Wetzlar, Germany recently celebrated the return of iconic lens and camera manufacturer, Leica, which was founded 100 years ago in this manufacturing enclave outside Frankfurt. The new...
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The Evolution of Lincoln Center from Notorious San Juan Hill to Cultural Hotspot
Introducing our new series with 6sqft, a publication on architecture, real estate and neighborhoods in New York City. The glossy cultured patina of Lincoln Center reveals nearly nothing of what the...
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Join Us for An Upcoming Untapped Cities Tour! Woolworth Building, Museum of...
Tickets for our upcoming Untapped Cities tours are going fast. Our Edgar Allan Poe Greenwich Village tour is already sold out, but there are two tickets left for the August Woolworth Building tour (and...
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Untapped Staff Picks: Makeover for Port Authority, Lowline Gets City Funding
Here’s what the Untapped staff is reading today! The Geography of Melancholy [American Reader] $90 Million Will Be Spent To Make Port Authority Bus Terminal Less Soul-Crushing [Gothamist] The Hidden...
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The Underground City Beneath the U.S Capitol and Library of Congress
The enclosed train that runs between Dirksen and Hart. Image via Below the Capitol. It’s obvious that urbanists have a fascination with the subterranean, whether of the macabre nature like the...
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