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Can Scaffolding Be Beautiful? A NYC Photo Series by Anderson Moran

St. Patrick’s Cathedral, 50th Street and Fifth Avenue. Photo by Anderson Moran. Last August, The New York Times shed light on an often-ignored piece of temporary infrastructure–the scaffolding–via a...

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Elusive 190 Bowery Will Open Doors For First Time Since 1966 For Art Show...

Photo by frankwza for Untapped Cities/BigScreenNY Competition An art show opening Saturday inside the elusive 190 Bowery building brings together what New Yorkers love best: abandoned/inaccessible...

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The SoHo Memory Project, A Mobile Historical Society for the Iconic NYC...

SoHo native Yukie Ohta and founder of The SoHo Memory Project is hoping to create a mobile historical society to chronicle the evolution of the neighborhood from rural farmland to the high-end retail...

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Fun Maps: Tracking the Biggest NYC Parking Ticket Offenders by State

I Quant NY has a new map, as quirky as always, looking at the distribution of parking tickets in New York City by state. Using the city’s Open Data, he uncovered that parking tickets are charged to...

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Boston’s Anti-Tourist Guide of 1993: Welcome to Fear City Mirrors NYC’s of 1970s

Fear City, Boston Version from 1993. Scan courtesy of John Landers, of Brooklyn NY Untapped Cities readers may remember the 1975 anti-tourist pamphlet released by the New York City Council for Public...

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Photos Inside 190 Bowery’s “Cancelled” Art Opening FIRST SHOW / LAST SHOW

FIRST SHOW / LAST SHOW at 190 Bowery. Photo via artnet A few days after the epic announcement that the elusive 190 Bowery would open for the art show FIRST SHOW / LAST SHOW, the opening was abruptly...

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Inside the Clocktower of the Jefferson Market Library, a Former Courthouse...

The landmarked Jefferson Market Library that sits between Sixth Avenue, Greenwich Avenue and Tenth Street had a fascinating prior life. The building was formerly a courthouse, with a prison next door...

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(Not So) Fun Maps: Heat Maps of NYC Rat Complaints Automatically Updates Daily

Rats are a fact of life in New York City and if you’re like us, maybe you’re even a little bit fascinated by them. It seems like others are too, with every few months another rat map appearing. This...

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Daily What?! The Smallest Theater in NYC Is Traveling Around Town

Theatre for One in NYC. Photo by Darial Sneed. We have to admit this is pretty clever–a theater for one in a traveling theater, supposedly the smallest theater in New York City at 4 feet by 8 feet....

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10 Colorful Posters of NYC Neighborhoods in See Your City Campaign Expansion

Last October, New York City’s tourism agency, NYC & Co. released a series of vividly colored posters and neighborhood guides by artist Remko Heemskerk highlighting areas like Long Island City,...

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Untapped Cities Remnants of Penn Station Tour: New Tour Slot Added for May 31st

In partnership with The Eternal Space, a play about an untold story of the destruction of Penn Station, we have added another slot of our special tour of the remnants of Penn Station on May 31st with...

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The Traboules of Lyon, France: Renaissance Architectural Gems Inside Hidden...

New York City has its hidden alleys, Paris its passages, and Sydney its laneways. But Lyon, France has something even more astonishing perhaps–the traboules. These medieval/Renaissance architectural...

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Inside the Construction 135,000 Square Foot Green Roof at Barclays Center

The 135,000 square foot green roof atop Brooklyn’s Barclays Center is taking shape (despite an extensive delay) and we recently got a nice note from our friends at Architects Newspaper that they got...

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Behind the Scenes NYC Tour of Hunts Point Terminal Produce Market with NYCEDC

Inside Hunts Point Terminal Produce Market, image via CBS. Opened in 1967, Hunts Point Terminal Produce Market is the largest produce market in the country. It occupies 105 acres, with four primary...

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A Day at the Races at Belmont Park, A Historic Track Just Outside Queens

When you think of horses and New York City, usually the carriages of Central Park come to mind. But right outside Queens is Belmont Park, a racetrack that still stands testament to a glory era of...

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The Top 10 Secrets of Washington Square Park

Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village is a wonderful respite from the city with is magnificent arch and public spaces. But all around it, secrets abound in the history of how it came to be. Here...

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Cities 101: Listen to Clips of Announcements on New Second Avenue Subway

We received two sound clips from an anonymous source, rather mysteriously recently, in response to our recent photo expedition down in the construction of the Second Avenue Subway. All it said was...

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10 Forgotten Examples of NYC’s Car-Centric History from Old Penn Station’s...

With its 24/7 transit system and a subway system that dates from 1904, New York City seems like a city of mass transportation. Its residents expect a lot, always pushing for better and increased...

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Win Two Tickets to the 2015 Chelsea Music Festival Gala in NYC

Canoe Studios in the Starrett-Lehigh Building, Opening Night Venue for the 2015 Chelsea Music Festival The Chelsea Music Festival is one of our favorite annual events in New York City, one The New York...

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20 Film Locations Worldwide from Game of Thrones: By Kingdom from Kings...

In many ways, Game of Thrones, the HBO television show, has come into its own this fifth season, diverging, fast-forwarding and reimagining the all-encompassing books by George R.R. Martin. The early...

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