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The Upper West Side’s Historic Hotels & Apartments: Ansonia, Dakota,...
It’s hard to imagine today that people had to be lured to settle on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, but such was the case at the turn of the 20th century when the first New York City subway line...
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10 of NYC’s Most Unique Manhole Covers
One time we wrote about all the manholes inside Westminster Abbey, London (amazingly, there are over 50). New York City also has an amazing array of manholes and after our recent discovery of a Flickr...
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Untapped Staff Picks: Brooklyn’s Hoodie and Mask Check-in, Is Banksy a Woman?
Rats on the Graybar Building at Grand Central Terminal It’s Taylor Swifts City Now [NY Times] Do 8 Million Rats Really Live in NYC? 9 Urban Legends About NYC and the Gross Truth [Bustle] Death by Audio...
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The Smallest Commercial Brewery in the World Was in Coney Island, Brooklyn
Coney Island Brewing Company. Image via Wikimedia Commons by Amuggle In 2011, the Coney Island Brewing Company opened up to much fanfare, selling (really small) batch brews–in fact, before it closed in...
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A House Made Entirely of Wax is Slowly Melting in London This Month
Over the course of one year, artist Alex Chinneck built a “brick” house made entirely of wax, in partnership with a team of engineers, wax manufacturers and chemists. It was for an installation at the...
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Inside NYC’s Temporary Disaster Housing Unit Prototype at Office of Emergency...
We took a visit inside the Office of Emergency Management (OEM) again last week, one of our favorite city agencies because it looks just like NASA inside. On the agenda for this visit included a look...
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6 Things to Know About the New Fulton Center Transit Hub in NYC
There’s been a lot of hype around the new Fulton Center Transit Hub that opened this morning at 5 A.M. Senator Charles E. Schumer proclaimed that it was a “a metaphor for a revitalized downtown.” MTA...
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Cast Iron Gate from Herald Square’s Hotel McAlpin is in Fulton Center Transit...
Herald Square seems packed full of retail, department stores, and office buildings today, but there’s a large apartment building at the corner of 34th Street and Broadway that was once the Hotel...
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5 Unique Mobile Trucks in NYC: Knife Grinding, Paternity Tests, Cellphone...
You know about food trucks, but New York City is full of other types of unique mobile truck businesses. And no, we’re not talking about the NYPD trucks that process delinquents… 1. Del Re’s Knife...
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The Strangers Project Hits Up NYC’s Washington Square Park
In Washington Square Park, we ran into Brandon Doman, founder of The Strangers Project, an on-going collection of over 10,000 handwritten journal entries Doman has collected from around the country....
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New Underwest Doughnut Shop Opening in a Car Wash on the West Side Highway
Image by Melissa Hom via Grubstreet As you can imagine, we are pretty excited to hear (via Grubstreet) that a new donut spot is opening up in a rather unique location: a car wash on the West Side...
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Futuristic “Pier55″ Park Coming to Hudson River Park
Image via Pier55, Inc./Heatherwick Studio. Renderings by Luxigon. Hudson River Park, that wonderful five-mile stretch of greenery, has struggled with funding issues in the past looking before to...
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Fun Maps: Old Road Maps of NYC 1928 to 1980
We’re always on the look out for fun maps of NYC and we came across this site recently, NYC Roads by Steve Anderson. It looks like it was laid out in the 1990s but it does have a nice archive of road...
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A 5Pointz Memorial on First Anniversary of Whitewashing [Photos]
One year ago today, New Yorkers woke up to the news that Long Island City street art haven 5Pointz had been whitewashed, following a long effort by 5Pointz organizers to save the building and get it...
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Inside the Women’s National Republican Club in NYC
On Monday, The New York Adventure Club took members inside the Women’s National Republican Club, a gorgeous clubhouse built on the site of the former home of Andrew Carnegie at 3 West 51st Street at...
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Fun Maps: Day Glo NYC, Paris, London Show Complexity of City Grids
Artist and scientist Stephen Von Worley made these incredible “day glo” maps of a handful of the world’s major cities ostensibly to understand in his own words, “what other treasures I had missed.”...
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Untapped Staff Picks: Inside the Russian Tea Room, Coney Island’s Untamed Creek
Coney Island Creek Here’s what the Untapped staff is reading in the HQ today! 21 Brooklyn Secrets You Didn’t Know Existed [Thrillist] The Everything Guide to Last Chance New York [NY Mag] A Las Vegas...
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The Upper West Side’s Historic Hotels & Apartments: Ansonia, Dakota,...
It’s hard to imagine today that people had to be lured to settle on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, but such was the case at the turn of the 20th century when the first New York City subway line...
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Fun Maps: How Connected Will Your Neighborhood Be With LinkNYC Pay Phone...
Following last week’s announcement that New York City’s pay phones would be converted into high speed WiFi consoles, Ben Wellington from I Quant NY created more of his fun maps analyzing the WiFi...
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NYC Vintage Photos: Marilyn Monroe in the Subway
Marilyn Monroe in Grand Central subway station. Photo by Ed Feingersh/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images You’ve seen the iconic image of Marilyn Monroe on top of the subway grate (though it wasn’t all...
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