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Untapped Staff Picks: UN’s New Security Council, Painters on the Brooklyn Bridge
A Look Inside the United Nations’ Restored Security Council Chamber [Dwell] The story of ‘Painters On The Brooklyn Bridge’, a classic photograph taken 100 years ago this month [Bowery Boys] Old...
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History of Bellevue Hospital, Where First NYC Patient with Ebola is Quarantined
Horse-drawn ambulance at Bellevue Hospital in 1895. Image: Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons As many of you know, the first patient with Ebola in New York City is now quarantined at Bellevue Hospital...
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Street Artist Clet Arrives in NYC, Hacks Lower East Side Sign on Stanton Street
We’re quite excited to see that French street artist Clet Abraham has arrived in New York City. We previously covered his witty sign hacks in Europe. He’s done his first hack on a Do Not Enter sign on...
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Daily What?! Urban Explorer Scales the Roof of Grand Central Terminal
Photo by darkcyanide Last week, we brought you inside the Grand Central Terminal clock, the largest Tiffany clock in the world, with urban explorer darkcyanide and dirtydav1. This week, they’ve scaled...
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Untapped Staff Picks: Prefab Problems at Barclays Center, Houdini Museum in...
Here’s what the Untapped staff is reading in the HQ today: Has the Failed B2 Tower at Barclays Center Ruined Large-Scale Prefab Housing for the City? [6sqft] Haunting Photos of NYC by Alex Teuscher...
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Daily What?! Diamond District Has Diamond Lampposts to Match
We’ve walked by the Diamond District in Midtown Manhattan so many times, even reporting on the Gold Arcade that’s midblock. But somehow we managed to miss its most symbolic architecture–the diamond...
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8 Highlights from the NYC Archaeological Repository: 200 Year-Old Douche,...
In New York City, it’s not surprising there are some renown vaults holding all sorts of precious things. These include the gold vault at the Federal Reserve, The New York Times “morgue,” and the Van...
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Woolworth Building Condominium Renderings, Get Tickets to Upcoming Tour
The Woolworth Building has been in the news a lot recently, with the renderings revealed for the new condominiums that are going in, starting at $3.875 million and going up to $110 million for the...
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Untapped Staff Picks: History of Greenwich Village Parade, Modest Proposal...
Developer secures funds to build new 3 World Trade Center skyscraper [Circa] A History of the Village Halloween Parade: Puppets, Performers, and NYC Pride [6sqft, How the Puppets Are Made] The woman...
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5Pointz Sign Comes Tumbling Down in Final Demolition Phase [Video]
Screenshot from video by Hans von Ritter If you’ve been planning to stop by 5Pointz before it fully comes down, you should do so soon. Since our last photographs inside the demolition on October 13th,...
View Article5 Awesome Paris v. NYC Videos Comparing the Two Iconic Global Cities
There’s a lovely video spreading around the internet called Paris / New York, so well done you don’t realize it’s an ad for British Airways until the very end. Of course, it takes on a city duality...
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6 Underground Vaults of NYC: Federal Reserve Gold Vault, Archaeological...
The underground of any city is fascinating. It reveals layers of history, things thought discarded or tucked away. It contains the underbelly of the city’s infrastructure. While the catacombs of New...
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15 of NYC’s One Block Streets
On Friday, The New York Times published an article on New York City’s one-block streets–contending that they carry something antithetical to the city in some ways, proclaiming that bigger is not always...
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Brooklyn’s The Noble Experiment, Inside NY’s Only Exclusive Rum Distillery
We took a trip to The Noble Experiment, the distillery in Williamsburg that produces Owney’s Rum and the only exclusive rum distillery in New York. Walking down an industrial street filled with street...
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Daily What?! There’s a Boat Prow Jutting Out of Roosevelt Island
One of the many quirky finds on Roosevelt Island is this boat prow that juts out into the West Channel of the East River. It sits in Octagon Park and faces out towards Manhattan, with some light...
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The NYC That Never Was: 1 WTC and the Competition for the World Trade Center...
A note from Untapped Cities founder, Michelle Young: 9/11 happened on the first day of registration my sophomore year in college. I was sleeping and I remember hearing bounding footsteps in the...
View ArticleVintage Photographs: Construction Workers High Above NYC
#2639110 / gettyimages.com The fact of life here in New York City is such that if you want buildings that can “scrape” the sky, you’ll need those without a fear of heights to build them and maintain...
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Daily What?! In NYC, a Fleet of Mobile Trucks Just to Store Cell Phones and...
We all know about food trucks. We’ve also reported on some more unique mobile trucks in New York City, like one for sharpening knives, one for checking paternity called “Who’s Your Daddy?” and a...
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Untapped Staff Picks: 5Pointz Owner Seeks Trademark for Name, LIRR Train...
Here’s what the Untapped staff is reading in the HQ today: 5Pointz Owner Wants to Trademark Name of Demolished Art Mecca [DNAInfo] Midtown Site of the Iconic Lutèce Restaurant Sells for $17M – Will It...
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6 Locations to Experience the Masonic History of NYC
The Freemasons have long been a mysterious force in both American and European history. The group in New York City however has become more open to inquisitive eyes in the last decade, reaching out for...
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