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Photos Inside the Level Club, NYC’s Former Masonic Clubhouse and Hotel
We previously covered the history of the Level Club, a former masonic clubhouse and hotel on the Upper West Side of Manhattan–but recently Scouting New York got some great photographs of the lobby....
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New Photo Exhibit at Four Seasons Restaurant Pits Two Iconic Modernist Houses...
Although the Picasso tapestry at the Four Seasons Restaurant is now on display at the New York Historical Society, the iconic restaurant in New York City’s Seagram Building has offered yet another...
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The Top 10 Secrets of NYC’s Bryant Park
Bryant Park. Photo via Wikimedia by Jean-Christophe BENOIST Bryant Park is one of the city’s most illustrious public spaces, but it has come a long way from its more humble origins. As we’ll show in...
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NY Film Locations: Orange is the New Black Exterior Set at Rockland...
Rockland Psychiatric Center, Exterior Set of Orange Is The New Black Our readers have been eating up our roundup of film locations for the hit Netflix show Orange Is the New Black, but we wanted to...
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The 2015 11 Most Endangered Historic Places List is Out and South Street...
Schermerhorn Row on Fulton Street New York City has one spot on the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s annual 11 Most Endangered Historic Places list: South Street Seaport. This morning’s...
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Female Inmates Create Art Mural Inside Rikers Island with Groundswell
The Rose M. Singer Center at Rikers Island is the women’s barracks of Rikers Island, opened in 1988 as a $100 million state-of-the-art correctional facility under Mayor Edward Koch. Despite...
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The NYC Cemetery That Moved Four Times: The Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue...
Tucked right in Chelsea overshadowed by tall buildings is the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue Cemetery, a sudden green respite on 21st Street fronted by wrought iron gates (and now a Citi Bike...
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Step Inside NYC’s Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New Video
Image via Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum For architecture enthusiasts, a visit to the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum on New York City’s Upper East Side is already a treat, as it’s...
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Behind the Scenes at the Hunts Point Produce Terminal with NYCEDC [Photos]
The Hunts Point Produce Terminal. Photo via NYCEDC Yesterday, 25 Untapped Cities readers had a chance to go inside the Hunts Point Produce Terminal with the NYCEDC in our Behind the Scenes NYC series....
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The Top 10 Secrets of the Statue of Liberty in NYC
The Statue of Liberty may be one of the most visited sites in New York City (if you’re willing to battle with the tourists), but it too has a long list of secrets and fun facts. Here we explore the...
View ArticleExclusive Video Clip: NYC’s Blackout of 1977 Explored on PBS American Experience
For those of us that lived through the peaceful blackout of 2003 in New York City, an outage that affected eight states as well as Ontario, Canada, there was always the memory of the violent 1977...
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WNYC Launches Live NYC Subway Agony Index and Guide to Hot Subway Cars
Photo by Nick Reale for Untapped Cities It’s summer and New Yorkers know what that means: riding the subway can be unbearable from the heat. Plus, it involves other people–the inevitable moments you...
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The Epic Jewel Heist at NYC’s American Museum of Natural History in 1964
American Museum of Natural History. Image via Wikimedia Commons Today, we published a guest article on Refinery29 about New York City’s unsolved mysteries. Here’s an excerpt from one of our favorite...
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Daily What?! There’s a Bronze Bart Simpson “Bartman” Sculpture on NYC’s 6th...
In our discussion of all the outdoor art to see in New York City this month and last, we were remiss not to include the bronze Bart Simpson sculpture on 6th Avenue in front of the News Corp. building....
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Tour the Underbelly of NYC’s Stunning, Landmarked Woolworth Building
We’ve made a big update to our long-running tour of the Woolworth Building with even more behind-the-scenes access than before! On August 12th, Untapped Cities will offer an hour-long tour of the...
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The Haussmanhattan Project: 18 Photos Blending Old Images of NYC and Paris
NYC’s Flatiron Building on Île de la Cité with the Pont Neuf in Paris You may remember one of the early Fun Maps that we made, What If Manhattan Were Like Paris? where we superimposed the Hausmannian...
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Cities 101: NYC Subway Trash Tracker Finds Stations With Dirtiest Tracks
A vacuum car, also called a “Vaktrak.” Courtesy of Ishaan Dalal. If you sometimes feel like the tracks on some subway stations in New York City are straight up gross, there seems to be a reason for...
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NYC Vintage Photos: The Construction of NYC’s Woolworth Building Subterranean...
Woolworth Building under construction. Image via Library of Congress The construction of the Woolworth Building, once one of the tallest buildings in the world, was such a feat that there is a wealth...
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Top 10 Secrets of the George Washington Bridge Connecting NYC and New Jersey
You readers really surprised us with the amount of love for our Top 10 Secrets of the Lincoln Tunnel last week. We’ve all been stuck in there and it’s fun to think there are secrets even of the most...
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The New Stapleton Waterfront on Staten Island, from Homeport Navy Base to...
Rendering of New Stapleton Waterfront on Staten Island On July 25th, we’ll be hosting our next tour in the Behind the Scenes NYC Tour Series with the NYC Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC). Our...
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