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Pop-Up, Floating Library Coming to the Hudson River, NYC
Lilac Museum Steamship, image via Travsd Library lovers, rejoice! From September 6th to October 3rd, a Floating Library is coming to the Lilac Museum Steamship, located at Tribeca’s Pier 25 on the...
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8 Historic Buildings That Have Been Moved in NYC
Our recent fun map about the farmhouse that moved from the Upper East Side to Greenwich Village reminded us of all the other buildings in NYC that were literally picked up and relocated. Here’s a list...
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Demolition of 5 Pointz Graffiti Mecca Begins in Long Island City, Queens
Image via Instagram by notexactlyblue The day has come for 5 Pointz. Animal New York reports that as of this morning, “a backhoe began tearing into the building that was once the graffiti mecca of New...
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The Garryowen Club: A Hidden NYC Bar Inside the 69th Regiment Armory for...
The armories of New York City are a wonderful, active testament of an earlier era–when residents self-started their own militia groups. The 69th Infantry Regiment, known in popular culture as “The...
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PHOTOS: 2014 NYC Dîner en Blanc Hits Manhattan Waterfront at Battery Park...
Image by Dennis Gault After two years in rather epic locations in Manhattan–Bryant Park and Lincoln Center, the pop-up Dîner en Blanc returned to the New York City waterfront last night at Nelson A....
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Top 12 Secrets of the NYC Subway
The New York City subway carries many secrets, like any extensive system that was built over time. But the NYC subway also comes with it quite a bit of lore–from its urban explorers who have explored...
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The Abandoned Subway Level Below Times Square Port Authority
Image by Peter Dougherty via NYCSubway.org We’ve mentioned the abandoned level below Times Square before in our piece about abandoned subway levels and platforms in New York City. But this is the first...
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A Crown Heights Building Has Doubles in Brazil, Israel, Australia and More
Brooklyn’s Chabad-Lubavitch Orthodox Jewish spiritual center. Photo: Andrea Robbins and Max Beacher The New York Observer has a remarkable story about a particular building in Crown Heights, Brooklyn,...
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Cities 101: What’s That Tar Gunk on NYC’s Subway Platforms?
Every time we go through Columbus Circle subway station, we wonder about those big patches of black tar-like substance that just keep growing on the subway platforms. Last year, when there wasn’t...
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Steel Spinning Pyrotechnic Fire Art in Abandoned NYC Subway Stations
One of the many things we love on our #untappedcities Instagram live feed, is getting an inside peek into the cool things all of you readers are exploring and photographing. Just recently, something...
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5 Lost Neighborhoods in NYC: Radio Row, Little Syria, San Juan Hill, Five Points
Yesterday, we covered 10 buildings that refused to be demolished in the face of development. These spunky buildings (and the people who lived in or owned them, of course), make for some of the best New...
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Untapped Staff Picks: Graffiti Cat Baxter Gets Life Outside 5Pointz, NYC...
Photo of Baxter the 5Pointz Graffiti Cat by Rachel Fawn Alban Baxter the ‘Graffiti Cat’ Finds the Purr-fect Life Outside of 5Pointz [WSJ, Untapped previously] New York Subway Platforms Are “Dangerously...
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Vintage Photos: The Original Penn Station Would Have Turned 104 Years Old in...
Tomorrow, September 5th marks what would have been the 104th Birthday of the original Pennsylvania Station by designed by architects McKim, Mead & White. For the occasion, we’ve rounded up some of...
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The Lost Neighborhood of Radio Row at NYC’s World Trade Center
Radio Row. Image via Ham Gallery. Before the internet and before television, there was radio broadcasting. The advent of radio at the turn of the 20th century had major repercussions on the reporting...
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Untapped Staff Picks: Rizzoli’s to Reopen in NoMad, Picasso Tapestry from...
Inside the old Rizzoli’s Bookstore Rizzoli’s Will Reopen in NYC’s NoMad Neighborhood [Rizzoli, inside the Old Rizzoli's] Snooping in an Abandoned Storybook Castle in New York [Abandoned NYC] After 55...
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Fun Maps: The Times Square Vice Map of 1973
In 1973, things were pretty dicey in New York City. The economy was tanking, crime was up, and Times Square was nothing like it is today. In fact, in 1973 the Office of Midtown Planning and...
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Up Close with the Original 1811 Commissioner’s Plan for NYC
We all know the famous 1811 Commissioner’s Plan for New York City that laid out the grid system of Manhattan (fairly close to how it is today). There are various scanned versions online and different...
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Untapped Staff Picks: Met Museum Has New Plaza, Vignelli Subway Manual Back...
Here’s what the Untapped staff is reading in the HQ today: Behold, The Met’s Newly Renovated 70,706-Square-Foot Plaza [Gothamist] Massimo Vignelli’s NYC Subway Manual Is Coming Back In Print [Fast Co,...
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5×5 Temporary Public Art Project Takes Over Washington D.C.
Glenn Kaino, Bridge at DC Navy Yard There’s an uneasy tension in Washington D.C. that you can feel palpably on the streets. More than just new buildings going up and cranes dotting the skyline,...
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There’s Going to be a Theater Piece About the Dirty Gowanus Canal, Brooklyn
We’ve been noticing a fun trend recently. Plays, as in theater pieces, particularly about urban history and transformation. First there was The Eternal Space about the demolition of the original Penn...
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