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Quiz: Guess these 10 NYC Landmarks from Their Floorplans
Slate has a great architecture quiz today (and it’s not easy!). We decided to create a New York City-centric one to test you architecture buffs with 10 floor plans from notable New York City...
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The Top 10 Secrets of Carnegie Hall in NYC
In 2014, Carnegie Hall completed an impressive (though initially controversial) renovation to the tune of $230 million. This transformation converted the beloved artist studios, home to the likes of...
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5 Remnants of NYC’s Pneumatic Tubes And Where to Find Them
“N.Y. Post Office Pneumatic Tube” c. 1912. G.G. Bain Collection via Flickr. Earlier this month, we found an NYC coffee shop designed to sort, roast, and transport its coffee beans around the store...
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14 Architectural Finds on the New High Speed Seastreak Ferry to Port...
Whether you’ve made the trek from New York City to the Hamptons and Montauk, to the North Fork wineries or perhaps to the Revolutionary War spy town of Setauket, you’ve likely either sat on a crowded...
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5 Quintessential Creative Venues in Brooklyn from New Book Brooklyn Spaces
House of Yes. Photo by Michael Blase. Oriana Leckert is the founder of the website Brooklyn Spaces and has also been an Untapped Cities contributor, writing one of our favorite pieces on 7 of the most...
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NYC’s Cutest Lighthouse: The Stepping Stones Lighthouse
This is probably one of the most adorable lighthouses we’ve ever seen and we caught sight of it while on the new Seastreak ferry from Manhattan to the east end of Long Island. The Stepping Stones...
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The Lowline Launches New Kickstarter to Build World’s First Underground Park
New York City is one of those places where even built up places get torn down and rise again. But what about the city’s underground spaces? The Lowline project hopes to use a new solar technology to...
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Impressive Time Lapse Video of NYC Skyline from Rockefeller Center by Patrick...
When one watches a video by illustrator Patrick Vale, documenting in time lapse the incredibly detailed line drawings he makes of New York City’s skyline, the sense of the city’s architectural...
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Explore 5 NYC Street Art Pieces in 3D with Sketchfab
Today, we’re excited to announce a new series with the 3D platform Sketchfab, showcasing 5 new pieces of New York City street art you can explore digitally in three-dimensions. While there is no...
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2015 Paris Dîner en Blanc Takes on Two Locations: Palais Royal and Louvre
Paris Dîner en Blanc at Palais Royal. Photo by heleneworldwine The Paris Dîner en Blanc remains one of the most exclusive pop-up dinners in the world but it’s getting bigger and bigger by the year. In...
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TWA Flight Center at JFK Getting 3D Laser Scan to Digitally Preserve Landmark
Back in 2012, the Port Authority gave us solo access to photograph the TWA Flight Center in hopes that coverage could galvanize support for the repurposing of the landmarked terminal at JFK Airport....
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Recreation of Seinfeld’s Apartment Coming to NYC June 24th
For five days between June 24 and 28th, Hulu is bringing New Yorkers into a recreation of Seinfeld’s apartment. Though the original was supposed to have been on the Upper West Side, the set will be...
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The Forgotten Power Plant of the Original Pennsylvania Station NYC
One of the locations you’ll discover on our Remnants of Penn Station tour (next one on July 26th) is the original coal-fired power plant of the station, built as a mirror image using the same...
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Exploration at Execution Rocks Lighthouse in Long Island Sound [Photos]
Untapped Cities and New York Adventure Club took a group of 25 explorers to Execution Rocks Lighthouse this past weekend, one of the most unique locations in the New York City area. The journey to the...
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Today in NYC History: Google Doodle Celebrates Arrival of Statue of Liberty...
On June 17th 1885 the Statue of Liberty arrived from France in New York Harbor aboard the steamship, the Isère. Today’s Google doodle celebrates this momentous event, which 200,000 people came to see....
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Photos Inside a Charming Wood Cottage Built Atop East Village Building
Here at Untapped Cities, we’ve gone around the city documenting some of the fun suburban style houses and cottages that sit perched atop typical New York City apartments. There are two in the East...
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Get It: All 468 NYC Subway Station Signs On One Poster
This particular Kickstarter definitely doesn’t need more help, and that’s certainly not why we’re writing about it. But designers, transit enthusiasts, and architects are going gaga over this subway...
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Daily What?! Rooftop Cottage in Greenwich Village Has Porch and Green Meadow
Photo by George Steinmetz via Gothamist We’re excited New Yorkers are finally getting behind the fascination that are rooftop cottages–could there be any better way to beat the urban jungle, while...
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Discover the Little-Known Floating Clubhouse of the Manhattan Yacht Club in...
The Honorable William Wall (aka the “Willy Wall”) is the floating clubhouse of the Manhattan Yacht Club, anchored in the New York harbor just near Ellis Island. The open air bar has incredible views...
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Lots of NYC’s Drinking Water Comes from Drowned Towns in the Catskills
Bishop Falls, one of the lost towns in the Ashkoan Reservoir. Image via Lost Towns of the Hudson Valley New York City has some of the best drinking water in the country, but it didn’t come without a...
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