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Untapped Staff Picks: Most Radioactive Place in NYC, GE Sign Coming Down at...
Here’s what the Untapped staff is reading in the HQ today: New York City Huge Crowd Gathered Yesterday to Protest Pan Am Homeless Shelter [Brownstoner Queens] NYC in the Summer of ’49 [Gothamist] A...
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The Rock, A Fairy Tale Restaurant Perched in the Indian Ocean off Zanzibar
If there was anywhere to travel half way around the world for, it just might be The Rock in Zanzibar, Tanzania. This restaurant, perched on a rock in the Indian Ocean, seems dropped from a fairy tale....
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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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Daily What?! What’s the Staten Island Ferry Doing Cruising Up the Hudson River?
Last week from the Untapped Cities HQ, we spotted the Staten Island Ferry cruising up (and down) the Hudson River. And we don’t mean downtown around the New York Harbor, close to its natural habitat....
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Implosion Sculptures by Ewerdt Hilgemann, Moments in a Stream, Arrive At Park...
The temporary sculptures along the Park Avenue Mall are one of our favorite public art initiatives in New York City. The curated pieces, done by one featured artist at a time, always seem to be in a...
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The Gilded Age Mansions of Millionaire Row on NYC 5th Avenue
The Cornelius Vanderbilt II Mansion on 57th Street and 5th Avenue, now demolished Our new series with 6sqft, a publication on architecture, real estate and neighborhoods in New York City explores the...
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Scaling the Top of the Eldorado Apartments on Central Park West
Eldorado Apartment, Central Park West. Photo by Untapped contributor Luke Kingma on Instagram There was a time, not too long ago, when the ubiquity of the smartphone and Instagram wasn’t part of our...
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8 Bear Sculptures and Monuments in NYC
The bear figures in so much of mythology, folklore and fairytales that it’s not surprising there are many monuments to the noble animal in New York City. Here’s a roundup of bears both past and...
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The Gilded Age Mansion’s of Fifth Avenue from 59th Street to 79th Street
Last week, we walked you through the many mansions, predominately lost, along Millionaire’s Row on Fifth Avenue up to 59th Street. Most of this stretch has been converted into upscale luxury retail...
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Fun Maps: Most Common Language Spoken in Each Neighborhood of NYC After...
Using data from the American Community Survey, Business Insider mapped out the most common language spoken in each NYC neighborhood that isn’t English. And an even more fun map of the most common...
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Untapped Staff Picks: Oldest Bridge in NYC, Inspiration Apartment for ‘Rear...
Polo Ground Steps Reborn Here’s what the Untapped staff is reading in the HQ today! You’ll Never Find The (Unofficial) Oldest Bridge In New York City [Jalopnik] Inside the real Greenwich Village...
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Find Architectural Artifacts from Demolished Buildings in the NYC Subway at...
When you enter into the subway at the Eastern Parkway-Brooklyn Museum stop, perhaps after seeing the monumental Swoon sculpture in the Brooklyn Museum, you may notice something a bit out of the...
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Daily What?! Gastro-Architecture: NYC Landmarks as Food by Nicholas Blechman
Nicholas Blechman, the art director for the New York Times Book Review has a really fun new series on landmark architecture as food, called Gastro-Architecture. While many of the drawings are from all...
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Morningside Heights from Revolutionary War Battle to Bustling University Campus
Early construction of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine circa 1902. Image via Library of Congress Today, it’s hard to imagine Morningside Heights without the flurry of students hurrying to class at...
View ArticleFun Maps: Brooklynites Complain Most About Rats in NYC
We may be the only people in New York City who are pretty obsessed with rats, apart from writer Robert Sullivan who wrote an amazing book about the NYC rat. Thus, we were rather excited to see yet...
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Fun Maps: NYC’s Most Poop-Infested Neighborhoods
You’ve seen the signs, “Curb your dog,” but still it’s hard to imagine that New York City is still better than Paris in cleaning up after pups. Meanwhile, Some of us at Untapped Cities are still...
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Fun Maps: The Move of 121 Charles Street Farmhouse from UES to Greenwich Village
The Charles Street farmhouse turns west on 14th Street, in 1967 We previously featured this little farmhouse that could at 121 Charles Street in Greenwich Village, which was moved in 1967 from the...
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Vintage Photos: The Origins of Herald Square, Macy’s and Manhattan Mall
Herald Square is today known for many things. There’s the flagship Macy’s department store and the pedestrianized part of Broadway that extends to Times Square. And it serves as an epicenter of the...
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