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Your Week Untapped: Top 10 NYC Events January 5 – January 11, 2015
Welcome to 2015! Here are our top 10 event picks for NYC this week, including the launch of several art and film festivals, great NYC Parks department tours and a day to design your own Central Park....
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Inside the Abandoned Loew’s Canal Theater in NYC
Untapped Cities contributor Matt Lambros of After the Final Curtain has a new article on his website about the abandoned Loew’s Canal Theater at 31 Canal Street, closed since the 1950s. It has a...
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Daily What?! Makeshift Shoe Shine Stand on 6th Avenue Uses Humor
Our friends at Narratively have a great in-depth piece on one of the official shoe shiners of the Grand Central Partnership and it reminded us of the makeshift shoe shine stand on 6th Avenue we...
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Photos of Deteriorating Central Park in the 1980s v. Now
Belvedere Castle then Yesterday, Gothamist had a great photo series on what Central Park looked like in the 1980s (tough times) versus now. For those who have never seen anything but a glorious Central...
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Je Suis Charlie: Remembering Charlie Hebdo in NYC and Paris
Photo by Yana Bannikova Paris-based photojournalist Steven Wassenaar, a contributor to Untapped Cities who previously showed us life amidst war on the border of Syria and Lebanon, shared with us this...
View ArticleVisit the Graffiti-Ridden NYC Subway in 1986 [Video]
If you’re curious what the New York City subway system looked like the 1980s, check out this video of Times Square-42nd Street in 1986. The rail and photography enthusiast runs a German website called...
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From NYC to France with Love: Snowmen at Brooklyn Bridge for Je Suis Charlie
So this is awesome. Two snowmen sitting on the Brooklyn side of the bridge–one American with a tricorner hat, holding a firecracker and American flag. The other with your French stereotypes, yes, but...
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Your Week Untapped: Top 10 NYC Events January 12th-18th, 2015
Monday January 12th New York City speakeasy, The Back Room, hosts its weekly Lucky’s Lounge Mondays, an evening of free live jazz from the Prohibition era featuring Svetlana and the Delancey Five....
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2015 NYC No Pants Subway Ride [Official Video]
One of the best events of the year is the No Pants Subway Ride, which took place again yesterday afternoon. You can see photographs from previous year’s events here and here, where maybe the press got...
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Salvage Supperclub is Changing How New Yorkers See Food, One Dumpster at a Time
Photo by Andrew Hinderaker A few times a year, New Yorkers may come across a dinner party inside a dumpster. While at first glance, it may seem like yet another “hipster” pop-up, the Salvage Supperclub...
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Abandoned Photographer Will Ellis Speaks about New Book Abandoned NYC
On February 4th, longtime Untapped Cities columnist Will Ellis will be giving a talk for our events series about his new book Abandoned NYC at the East Village speakeasy The Red Room. There are just...
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Your Week Untapped: Top 10 NYC Events January 5 – January 11, 2015
Welcome to 2015! Here are our top 10 event picks for NYC this week, including the launch of several art and film festivals, great NYC Parks department tours and a day to design your own Central Park....
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A Togolese Dinner After Hours in a Bed Stuy Bodega Through Feastly
When was the last time you had a home cooked Togolese dinner inside a bodega after hours with a group of strangers and a DJ? Probably never. The “WOÉZÕ Comfort” meal is one of the offerings on...
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Inside Underwest Donuts, a Boutique Donut Shop in NYC’s West Side Car Wash
Underwest Donuts, a boutique donut shop which opened in December 2014 inside the 24-hour West Side Highway Car Wash, embodies in one swoop the evolving demographics and urban landscape of the far West...
View ArticlePBS Documentary “Edison” Tells of Challenge to Bring Light to Lower Manhattan
In February 1881, Thomas Alva Edison left his workbench in Menlo Park, New Jersey behind for New York City with the challenge of not only bringing electric light to lower Manhattan, but also to prove...
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There’s a Cabin in the Woods On Top of The McKittrick Hotel [Photos of The...
Yesterday, The McKittrick Hotel announced the arrival of The Lodge, a wintertime conversion of rooftop bar Gallow Green into a veritable cabin in the woods. Since this is the McKittrick Hotel of Sleep...
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An Eerily Beautiful Photo of Empty Grand Central Terminal Due to Phantom...
Photos of Grand Central: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin Proving that man is no match for the hype surrounding potentially disruptive weather forecasts, here is a beautiful shot...
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New Photos Inside the Observation Towers of the NY Pavilion in Flushing...
Looking towards the Tent of Tomorrow from the first deck Robert Fein is one of the passionate members of the 3000+ group People for the New York State Pavilion on Facebook, supporting the preservation...
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Daily What?! The Curious Door to Nowhere in NYC’s Penn Station
Penn Station, even the current incarnation, is full of fun secrets–the subject of our upcoming tour on the Remnants of the Original Penn Station. Yesterday, we discovered a new curiosity: this door to...
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FDNY Turns Williamsburg into Ice Palace in 7-Alarm Warehouse Fire,...
Photo of Williamsburg warehouse fire. Todd Maisel/New York Daily News For those following the 7-alarm warehouse fire that began Saturday morning in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, the New York Daily News has...
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