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2000 Pounds of Cranberries Fill NYC’s Rockefeller Center Pop-Up Bog
For the 11th year, Ocean Spray has brought in 2000 pounds of cranberries to a 1,500 square foot pop-up bog in front of 30 Rock, to showcase some of the 800+ cranberry farmers that have provide the...
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Inside the Exhibit Affordable New York: A Housing Legacy at Museum of the...
Habitat for Humanity Rowhouse Project, Bronx, NY, Murphy Burnham & Buttrick Architects Photograph: © Kevin Chu + Jessica Paul There may be no topic hotter than affordable housing in New York City...
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Daily What?! Burial Vault Discovered Under NYC’s Washington Square Park
Photo via NYC Department of Design and Construction Washington Square Park is already rather ghoulish, with its prior history as a potter’s field – the city’s burial ground for the unclaimed and poor....
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10 Stunning Interior Landmarks of NYC: Treasures of New York
Photo by Larry Lederman from Interior Landmarks: Treasures of New York You may remember last year’s exhibit Rescued, Restored, Reimagined: New York’s Interior Landmarks at the New York School of...
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NYC Film Locations: Master of None Starring Aziz Ansari on Netflix
Master of None, released Friday November 6th on Netflix, has quickly become an over-weekend sensation (we admit, we binge watched the whole first season). The New York City-set comedy stars Aziz...
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Take a Look Inside the S.S. Columbia, America’s Oldest Passenger Steamship,...
In September 2014, we reported on the S.S. Columbia Project, an initiative to bring America’s oldest surviving passenger steamship to New York. While it served its previous life in Detroit as one of...
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Discover New Exhibit Jacob Riis: Revealing New York’s Other Half with MCNY...
Photo by Jacob A. Riis. Image via Museum of the City of New York, Gift of Roger William Riis Today, most people probably know of journalist and social reformer Jacob A. Riis through the photographic...
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$8.5 Million Astolat Dollhouse Castle Now On View at Columbus Circle NYC
Dubbed “The World’s Most Valuable Dollhouse,” and certainly the city’s most expensive piece of “real estate” at the moment, The Astolat Dollhouse Castle is appraised at $8.5 million dollars and for...
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NYC Skycrapers Light Up For Paris As Multiple Attacks Hit the City
1 World Trade Center via EarthCam Here at Untapped Cities, we have strong ties to both New York City and Paris. As the founder of Untapped Cities, I was born in New York but lived in Paris in 2010, and...
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“Topography is Fate” Shows Scars of War at New Gallery in Crown Heights
Last week, a new gallery, Happy Lucky No. 1 opened on Nostrand Avenue in Crown Heights – on a stretch becoming increasingly peppered with new coffee shops, bars and businesses. The new space, designed...
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Original Penn Station Rises Again at The Eternal Space, An Off-Broadway Play
It’s one thing to see a lost building rise again in front of your eyes. It’s another to feel emotion for a building many have only seen in photographs. The new off-Broadway play The Eternal Space,...
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Gulliver’s Gate, a Miniature World of NYC and Other Cities is Coming to Times...
‘Tis the season for miniature creations in New York City apparently – beyond the annual train show at the New York Botanical Garden and in Grand Central Terminal, the $8.5 million Astolat Dollhouse...
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10 Highlights of Affordable Housing: A New York Legacy at Museum of City of...
Affordable Housing: A New York Legacy is an impressive, comprehensive exhibit that showcases New York City’s leading role in the affordable housing movement since the 19th century. While we shared...
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NYC Parks to Will Go Inside Washington Square Park Arch on Periscope Today
Top on any urban explorer’s (and Untapped reader’s) list is getting to see the inside of the Washington Square Park Arch. Occasionally, press get access but as the story goes, we have Dadaist Marcel...
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Film Locations: Amazon’s Man in the High Castle Reimagines U.S. Under Nazi...
The new Amazon show, Man in the High Castle is (loosely) based on the 1962 book by Philip P. Dick that reimagines the United States if the Allied forces had lost World War II. The East Coast to the...
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These NYC Newspaper Boxes Are Actually Guerrilla Composting Sites
New York Compost, a project by designer Debbie Ullman, a former art director at the New York Daily News takes those ubiquitous but underutilized newspaper boxes you see on the sidewalks of New York...
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10 Highlights of the Exhibit Jacob Riis: Revealing New York’s Other Half at...
Last month, we shared with you a curator walkthrough of the fascinating exhibit, Jacob Riis: Revealing New York’s Other Half at the Museum of the City of New York. Here are 10 highlights of the...
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Daily What?! There Was Once a Venetian Lagoon in NYC’s Canal Street Subway
Alexander Brodsky’s Venetian Lagoon in Canal Street Subway Station. Photograph by Andrew Moore For two months as the year 1996 turned into 1997, a mirage of a Venetian lagoon appeared to commuters on a...
View ArticlePenn Station Atlas Project Hopes to Make Hated Train Station Less Confusing
It’s no secret that Penn Station is really confusing. And there are very clear reasons for it. The labyrinth was birthed when the air rights were sold to Madison Square Garden, the original...
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The NYC Photographic Haunts of Jacob Riis, from Exhibit at Museum of City of...
A central highlight of the comprehensive exhibit Jacob Riis: Revealing New York’s Other Half at the Museum of the City of New York is a map showing the places where Riis photographed in the city in...
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