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Untapped Mailbag: What’s the Restaurant on the Finale of Broad City?
It’s been a while since our last Untapped Mailbag in which we answer questions from readers, submitted via Twitter, Facebook or e-mail. But we received quite a challenge from reader Hanna, who wanted...
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Ridgewood Intermodal Terminal Dispatcher Booth is Pretty Adorable at...
In 2010, the Ridgewood Intermodal Terminal opened at Myrtle-Wyckoff station on the border of Brooklyn and Queens, line facilitating subway to bus transfers along the L and M lines. The project from...
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Untapped Staff Picks: Santa Con Gets Civil Rights Lawyer, Caffe Reggio Shut Down
Caffe Reggio shut down by Health Department Here’s what the Untapped staff is reading in the HQ today: A Hairstylist Provides Free Cuts to Homeless [NY Times] The New 7 Wonders of the Modern World...
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When Holland Tunnel Police Rode in Adorable Miniature “Catwalk” Cars
In the Old Images of New York Facebook group today, a member posted this fabulous image of a Holland Tunnel Port Authority police cop in a narrow Packard “catwalk” car that ran along tracks in the...
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Untapped Staff Picks: No Public Tours at Gracie Mansion, An Olive Oil Bar Has...
Image via Flickr by Clemens v. Vogelsang Here’s what the Untapped staff is reading in the HQ today: No Public Tours at Gracie Mansion Since de Blasio Moved In [NY Post] Mayor de Blasio Wants to...
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15 of NYC’s Former Prisons: Jefferson Market, Bellevue, Essex Market, City Hall
New York City’s prison population is the lowest it has been in 10 years–10,923 inmates as of September 2014. But still, an ongoing question for the NYC Department of Corrections is where to house the...
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Daily What?! There’s a Lois Lane in NYC on Staten Island
Lois Lane, via Google Maps There’s no Clark Kent nearby, but there is a Lois Lane in New York City. That is, there’s a lane named Lois, on Staten Island. In 2005, the New York Times dug into this fun...
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Untapped Staff Picks: Wall Street Bull is 25, NYPD Silent on Traffic Deaths
Here’s what the Untapped staff is reading in the HQ today: Preservation Watch: Seaport Museum Expects To Remain on Schermerhorn Row [Curbed NY] The Piggery War and Other Ugly Dispatches From 1800s...
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Learn How to Speak New York (and New Jersey) with Fun Website from WNYC
The soothing, familiar voices of the hosts on NPR–Brian Lehrer, Amy Eddings of All Things Considered, Sotorious Johnson, Manoush Zomorodi–take on “How to Speak New York” in this fun web tool developed...
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Getty Museum’s Director of Security Tests Lego’s “Museum Break-In Set”
First of all, there’s a Lego Museum Break-In Set. That’s pretty cool and sufficiently art nerdy for us here at Untapped Cities. But what’s even better is that the J. Paul Getty Museum’s Director of...
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Fun Maps: What If Manhattan Could Only Be Accessed by Car?
A highway engineer from Vancouver has done some serious math to calculate how many bridges would be needed in Manhattan if it could only be accessed by car. The result: it would need 48 additional 8...
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See NYC’s Holiday Department Store Windows Via Google Maps (Saks, Macy’s,...
Once Upon a Time at Saks Fifth Avenue Just a couple weeks ago, we reported that you could now get inside Gramercy Park via Google Maps. Now, you can the holiday department store window displays in New...
View ArticlePuppet Johnny T on “Manspreading” in the NYC Subway [Video]
We last caught up with puppet Johnny T and his hilarious video about New York City subway etiquette. Now, The New York Times interviews him about the latest MTA campaign against “manspreading.” Seeing...
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Happy Holidays in 3D from the Untapped Cities Team!
3D selfies of the Untapped Cities Team by Sketchfab: Catherine Mondkar, Rachel Fawn Alban, Christopher Inoa, Michelle Young, Augustin Pasquet, Marta Elliot, Luke Kingma, Alexander McQuilkin and Bhushan...
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NYC Urban Explorers Illicitly Photograph Second Avenue Subway Construction
We recently received a “Christmas gift” of photographs from an anonymous group of urban explorers who had recently made it into the Second Avenue Subway construction. At Untapped Cities, we’ve been...
View ArticleCities 101: This Man is the Voice of the NYC Subway System
In this above video, meet Charlie Pellett, a news anchor and reporter for Bloomberg Radio for over 20 years. He’s also the voice of the New York City subway system, most famous for “Stand clear of the...
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Fun Maps: The Oldest Place to Drink in Every NYC Neighborhood
Ben Wellington from I Quant NY is at it again, with a map of the oldest place to drink in every New York City neighborhood. Because Wellington is using New York State’s Open Data on liquor licenses,...
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Top 25 Surprising, Daily What?! Articles on Untapped Cities
At Untapped Cities, we have a “Daily What?!” series, which consists of one surprising thing every weekday. The column keeps us on our toes at all times looking for quirky New York City stuff. We’ll...
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Photographer Ken Schles Looks Back at the East Village of the 1980s
View from 224 Avenue B. Photo by Ken Schles. Ken Schles lived in an abandoned building in the East Village in the 1980s, photographing and witnessing drugs and AIDS destroy the people he knew. While...
View ArticleTake Video Tour of NYC in 1949 in Full Technicolor
In this clip from the 1949 Metro Goldwyn Mayer film Mighty Manhattan – New York’s Wonder City (via Viewing NYC) you get to see some of the iconic sights of New York City in full technicolor. If you...
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