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Top 10 Secrets of the Chrysler Building in NYC
Photo by Dark Cyanide The Chrysler Building is one of the most beloved of New York City’s skyscrapers, an architectural manifestation of both the Art Deco era and the automobile age. Famous as it may...
View ArticleThe Innovative “Dry Line” from Big U Will Protect 10 Miles of Downtown...
We last reported on the Big U plan last year, a striking proposal by Bjarke Ingels to fortify lower Manhattan and one of the winners of the Rebuild by Design competition. Since then, we’ve sat with...
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LaGuardia Airport’s Jet Age Hangars 2 and 4 Are Mid-Demolition
Photos by Dark Cyanide for Untapped Cities It’s easy to hate on LaGuardia Airport, even the politicians do it. Just last year, Vice President Joe Biden compared it to an airport that would be found in...
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The WWII Radio Towers Atop Steiner Studios in the Brooklyn Navy Yard
Image by Deek 2013 via Deviant Art Last week, Untapped Cities reader @nationsofnations tweeted at us, asking us if we had a story about the “replica bridge on top of buildings in brooklyn.”...
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NYC Film Locations: Birdman by Alejandro González Iñárritu with Michael Keaton
Birdman, the 2015 Best Picture Academy Award winner was shot in New York City, telling the story of a washed up superhero actor played by Michael Keaton, looking to make his comeback in a play he has...
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The Time There Was An Airplane in Penn Station and Amelia Earhart Broke a...
From the collection of Ron Ziel, photo by Bettina Winston from Trans World Airlines. Shared by Justin Rivers, The Eternal Space We’ve been preparing for our upcoming tour, The Remnants of Penn Station,...
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Fun Maps: The Shortest Streets in NYC
Map via Curbed Last year, we revealed what were the shortest streets in Manhattan and now Curbed NY has mapped the shortest streets in New York City! It doesn’t get any better than Fun Maps and...
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Cities 101: Why Is the Ice on the Hudson River Flowing Both Ways?
This winter, with New York City’s Hudson and East Rivers particularly frozen (and sometimes trapping the ferries), New Yorkers are getting a first-hand glimpse at, well, nature. In-the-know New...
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Tour Historic Brooklyn Kings Theatre in New Events Series with Untapped...
Untapped Cities is excited to announce the Behind the Scenes NYC Tour Series in partnership with the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) to provide special access to some of the...
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Before and After Photos Inside Brooklyn’s Kings Theatre, An Opulent Former...
All photos by Matt Lambros, After the Final Curtain On Monday, March 16th at 6pm, we’ll be bringing guests on a special tour of the Brooklyn Kings Theatre, which just re-opened after a multi-year...
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Fun Maps: Animated GIF of NYC Subway System Shows Its History and Evolution
Well here you have it: a GIF subway map of New York City that shows the subway lines in order of construction, created by Appealing Industries via Paste Magazine. You’ll notice that the first lines to...
View ArticleCities 101: How Ice Gets Broken on the Hudson River
Last week, we explained in our Cities 101 column why the ice on the Hudson River flows both ways, and today we’ll show you how the ice gets broken up to clear a channel for barges. This video by The...
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Win Tickets to Our Sold Out Tour of the Brooklyn Kings Theatre with NYCEDC
Photo by Matt Lambros of After the Final Curtain The launch of our new Behind the Scenes NYC Tour Series with the NYCEDC has been so successful, we have a long waiting list for the March 16th Brooklyn...
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Photographs Inside the WTC Transportation Hub by Santiago Calatrava
Photo by Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork ANIMALNewYork has just released incredible new photographs of what the inside of the World Trade Center Transportation Hub is looking like inside. The last time we...
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Film Locations for Downton Abbey: Film Locations for Downton Abbey: Highclere...
As season 5 of Downton Abbey has come to close, we thought it was high time we updated our list of film locations for the popular British television show. Here are 10 notable spots from the first five...
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Inside the Abandoned Children’s Hospital and Tunnels at Seaview Hospital,...
Photo by @nativenyc Seaview Hospital was once the largest tuberculosis sanatorium in the country, now listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places and is also a U.S. Historic District and...
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8 of the Weirdest and Most Bizarre Foods in NYC
We’re pretty sure in New York City you can get any food you can dream up, and we credit that to the melting pot that the city is and its population that likes to push the boundaries. Here are 10 of the...
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NYC Then & Now: Melding NYC Photos Together Using the App Timera
Using the app Timera, New Yorker Dan Kafalas (who previously contributed a photograph to our Top 10 Secrets of the Chrysler Building piece), melds vintage photographs with images from the same...
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Fun Maps: Most Popular Dog Breeds in NYC By Neighborhood
Somehow we missed this one. Thrillist had a Fun Map of most popular dog breeds by neighborhood recently, based on rankings from the American Kennel Club. Biggest discovery: French Bulldogs, which seem...
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The Top 10 Secrets of NYC’s Flatiron Building
One of the New York City’s most beloved buildings is the Flatiron Building. Though never one of the tallest buildings in New York City, it was nonetheless revolutionary in its own way due to its...
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