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The 10 Smallest Historic Districts in NYC
We previously rounded up 8 beautiful historic districts in Manhattan that were smaller than a block and we decided it was time to look at all of New York City. All the boroughs except Staten Island...
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Brooklyn Bridge Love Locks Creeping Back and Onto Lamp Posts
Where there are love locks, there are police cutting them down. Sometimes, it’s to keep a bridge from collapsing, as the case is on Paris’ Pont des Arts. In typical New York City style, the love locks...
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Untapped Staff Picks: Secret to NY Bagels, History of Madison Square Park
Madison Square Park. Image via Museum of the City of New York Here’s what the Untapped staff is reading in the HQ today: Replicating New York’s Bagels? The Secret Is in the Tap Water [NY Observer]...
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Daily What?! The “Morgue” of the New York Times
Director Vanessa Gould, who previously helmed the documentary Between the Folds, just released a new trailer for a forthcoming work called OBIT: Life on the Dead Beat of The New York Times, a...
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The Whitney Studio at New York Studio School Named National Treasure
Whitney Studio. Photo via New York Studio School Today, the Whitney Studio in Greenwich Village was named a National Treasure by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. A birthplace of the Modern...
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Film Locations: The Blacklist Season 2 in NYC, DC
It’s the second season of The Blacklist and Reddington is already up to no good. We’ve been documenting the film locations so far, just like we did with Season 1 and decided to share them with you...
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What’s Inside the Oldest, Unopened Time Capsule at NY Historical Society
Yesterday afternoon, two historic events occurred. First, the oldest known, unopened time capsule was opened with ceremonial pomp at the New York Historical Society. As we published about earlier, the...
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Untapped Staff Picks: Met Museum New Roof Garden, Statue of Liberty as $300M...
The Met: Roof Garden Commission [Architizer] Situation NY Is an Interactive Installation at the Storefront for Art and Architecture [6sqft] Camera Obscura: Queens’ ‘Forgotten River’ Looks Ahead to...
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The History of NYC’s Newspaper Row, the Former Epicenter of News
Newsboys and newsgirls on Newspaper Row, Park Row, NYC. Image via Library of Congress While news continues to make its way around the world, it may be hard to imagine today that the publishing industry...
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Fun Maps: Explore the Phantom Architecture of NYC’s Past
“…each block is covered with several layers of phantom architecture in the form of past occupancies, aborted projects and popular fantasies that provide alternative images to the New York that...
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Daily What?! Bitcoin ATMs Pop-Up in NYC Accepting Cash Deposits
Bitcoin ATM at The Yard in Williamsburg. Image by Alban Denoyel of Sketchfab We have a history of reporting on fun ATMs, from the Gold ATM on 57th Street, the Cupcake ATM from Sprinkles, and even some...
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12 Crazy Facts About NYC’s Iconic Ansonia Hotel on the Upper West Side
The Ansonia about 1904, image via Library of Congress If there is one building that epitomizes the Upper West Side’s bohemian origins, it just might be The Ansonia with its rather scandalous and...
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35 Photos from Inside the Demolition at 5 Pointz Street Art Haven
5Pointz from 3rd floor of demolition. Photo by franklyfrank The last time we heard from urban explorer __Macgyver and his crew, they were creating pyrotechnic fire art in New York City’s abandoned...
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Inside the World’s Largest Tiffany Clock at Grand Central Terminal
There are many, many secrets to Grand Central Terminal as you may have read in our ever popular article on the Top 10 Secrets of Grand Central. One we haven’t mentioned before is the access to the...
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See The City Campaign Encourage NYC Residents to Explore 5 Boroughs
New York City’s tourism agency is hoping that these vintage-inspired, stylized new posters will encourage New Yorkers to go explore their own city. Here at Untapped Cities, we certainly support that...
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Broadway Stages is a Film Studio in the Greenpoint Oil Spill Remediation Zone
On a recent OHNY tour of the Greenpoint Oil Spill Remediation Project run by ExxonMobil and the Newtown Creek Alliance, we were also shown Broadway Stages, a film studio within the spill zone. The...
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Untapped Staff Picks: Staten Island Wheel Gets 4-D Ride, Hart Island May Go...
The skeletal structures of the Hart Island Pavilion Building have gone untouched since 1976. Image via the Kingston Lounge. Staten Island Ferris Wheel Project Will Include a Subway Simulation Ride...
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10 Hidden Apartments in NYC & Paris: Madison Square Garden, Eiffel Tower,...
There’s something about architects and businessmen wanting to live in the places they create. And we’re not talking about a live-work studio. We’ve been noticing a historical trend of apartments in...
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There’s a 20-foot Lego Statue of Liberty in Madison Square Park
Image via Trevor O’Brien In celebration of the new LEGO store in the Flatiron, there’s a 20-foot version of the Statue of Liberty in Madison Square Park, built over the course of four days with the...
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Win 2 Tickets to Halloween in the Crypt with Untapped Cities & New York...
Recently, we put together our top 10 picks for an off-beat Halloween in NYC this year. One of those picks was spending Halloween in a crypt, with a Roaring ’20s band and unlimited alcohol. Sounds...
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