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NYC’s SRO Housing Problem and the Micro-Apartment Initiative
Rendering of micro-unit apartment. Source: Mayor’s Office via Bloomberg Next City’s Forefront Magazine took a deep dive into the problems of SRO (Single Room Occupancy) units in New York City,...
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Daily What?! Tracks on NYC’s High Line Section 3 Are Engraved with Dates
If you have tickets to see Carol Bove’s installation on the last and final section of the High Line, be sure to also look for some easily missed bits of history on the train tracks themselves....
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Street Art: French Artist Clet Abraham Hacks Road Signs
The Italy-based French artist, Clet Abraham, has been hacking street signs all over Europe, injecting a little humor into the mundane commute. The above photo was taken at Villa Léandre in Montmartre,...
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Saving America’s Endangered Post Offices: What’s For Sale in NYC and Newark
The Frank L. Lautenberg Post Office in Newark, NJ, which is to be sold. Image via Save the Post Office In 2011, the United States Postal Service (USPS) identified a list of 3,700 post offices that may...
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What if Manhattan Was in the Grand Canyon, or Designed Like Paris?
Everyone is talking about photographer Gus Petro’s project “Merge,” which places Manhattan inside the Grand Canyon. Petro says, In the end of 2012 I travelled to USA to experience something new. And...
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“Vamp Camp” on True Blood Takes Design Cues from 18th-Century Prison Theory
The “Vamp Camp” prison and test facility in True Blood Those that (still) watch True Blood, HBO’s vampire drama will be familiar with the latest location, “Vamp Camp,” a veritable prison and research...
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The Stand, an East Village pop-up gallery in a bodega’s beer storage shows...
On the corner of 7th Street and Avenue C in Alphabet City, a mini pop-up gallery and performance center has been installed in a former bodega’s beer storage. Founded by artist Lori Der Hagopia, ”The...
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Daily What?! 18 Foot Sand Castle Built on Water Street in Downtown Manhattan
Image from imgur via Reddit This 18-foot sand castle that’s been built on Water Street across from 1 New York Plaza yet was built by Matt Long, a professional sand sculptor. He’s a wood restorer by...
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Untapped Mailbag: Asbestos at the TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport
In our behind-the-scenes look inside the TWA Flight Center last year, we focused on the architecture and preservation efforts for the landmarked building. One thing which was pointed out by a reader,...
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Untapped Mailbag: Are Millions in Gold from the HMS Hussar Shipwreck Still in...
An Untapped Cities reader, Alex Quintana, tweeted us about the shipwreck of the HMS Hussar last week, after reading our article about the abandoned North Brother Island. The HMS Hussar was a British...
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Rare 1905 Black & White Film from Inside the NYC Subway
This rare black and white footage taken inside the New York subway system was taken in 1905, seven months after the opening of the metro system in October 1904. The subway travels from 14th Street to...
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NYC’s First Prefabricated Apartment Building Rises in Inwood, Manhattan
The Stack is New York City’s first prefabricated apartment and it’s rising away from the real estate fray in Inwood. Nonetheless, people are watching it closely as it could be the sign of things to...
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The Battle for a New Penn Station: Madison Square Garden Limited to 10 Year...
Rendering for a new Penn Station by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) Yesterday, the New York City Council voted 47-1 to limit the permit for Madison Square Garden to just 10 years. MSG’s 50 year...
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Daily What?! Vintage Subway Train in the NYC Google Office
For transit nerds, the NYC Google Office in Chelsea has a fun vintage train sitting in a common work space. The “Google Rapid Transit” train shown above is a recreation of what looks to us like the...
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NYC’s Lowline, the World’s First Underground Park, Gets Political Support
When we checked out the Lowline preview last year, it was clear that the radical idea of an underground photosynthetic park would require more than just technical expertise. It needed political and...
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Harvest Dome Floating Installation of 500 Discarded Umbrellas Launches July 31st
The first Harvest Dome, which was destroyed after getting marooned on Rikers Island The Harvest Dome, a floating installation of 500 discarded storm-snapped umbrellas and 128 two-liter soda bottles,...
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Transit Space Race: Mapping Every Transit Project in the United States
The non-profit Reconnecting America has mapped every transit project under construction and planned in the U.S. based on information gathered in 2012 from local sources such as “long range plans,...
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A Hydrogen Balloon Takes off from NYC’s Wanamaker’s Department Store in 1911
If you’re a period drama fan who loves shows like Mad Men and Mr. Selfridge, you’ve learned that department stores used to go all-out in terms of publicity stunts. In the first season of Mr....
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Daily What?! The Strand Bookstore’s Central Park Outpost: How it Works
Though The Strand bookstore’s Central Park outpost on 5th Avenue and 60th Street is a familiar sight on nice days, the process behind this type of city concession may be less so to readers. NYC Park’s...
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Cronut for Breakfast, Croissant for Lunch: NYC to Paris in 57 Minutes in the...
Rendering of the A2 Hypersonic Jet Last week, we reported on the Solar Impulse plane showcased at JFK Airport which can fly for 26 hours straight without fuel. Equally groundbreaking, but more on the...
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