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10 Fun Facts About the Sunset Park Material Recovery Facility, NYC’s State of...
In our latest Behind the Scenes Tour, a series produced in partnership with the NYCEDC, we brought Untapped Cities readers into the Sims Sunset Park Material Recovery Facility at the South Brooklyn...
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Live Carvings of Ice Dinosaur Sculptures at Grace Plaza Today for Grace-ful Ice
A “Dimetron.” Photo via Instagram by Okamoto Studio Arts Brookfield has invited New York City-based artist collective Okamoto Studio, a specialist in ice sculptures, to do a live carving at Grace Plaza...
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Inside and Atop the Spire of Art Deco Skyscraper 70 Pine in Lower Manhattan
Recently, we had the opportunity to tour the redevelopment of 70 Pine, a landmarked Art Deco skyscraper in Lower Manhattan that is nearing completion on a three-year conversion from office to luxury...
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Fun Facts About the London Underground Subway System
What we love about old cities like London are the many fascinating discoveries that are literally beneath the surface of the streets. The London Underground subway system or the Tube, as its popularly...
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The Oldest Known Photograph of NYC is Not What You Think
A daguerrotype of the Unitarian Church on the east side of Broadway across Waverly Place. Fall 1839 or winter 1840, by Samuel F.B. Morse and John William Draper from the Smithsonian National Museum of...
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Cities 101: The First Working Escalator Was Installed in Coney Island, Brooklyn
With the new exhibit Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland at the Brooklyn Museum, it seemed like an appropriate time to talk about the first escalator, which was installed in Coney Island in...
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Early Vintage Video of NYC Snow Plowing from 1930s
While we wait patiently for snow to arrive in New York City (maybe never?), here’s a look back at one of the earliest film footages of the Walter Snow Fighter, a four wheel drive snow plow built by...
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Photos from the 2016 New Year’s Day Polar Bear Plunge at Coney Island
On New Year’s Day January 1st this year, our very own Erica Price went to document the annual pilgrimage that is the Coney Island Polar Bear Plunge. Organized by the Coney Island Polar Bear Club,...
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Quiz: How Well Do You Know NYC Food Slang? From Savoring Gotham
Savoring Gotham. Photo via Oxford University Press blog A new book from Oxford University Press, Savoring Gotham: A Food Lover’s Companion to New York City is a veritable encyclopedia of food terms,...
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Untapped Cities Tour: The Remnants of Penn Station, Get Reproduction Ticket...
In 2015, we hosted over 10 sold-out experiences of the original Untapped Cities-developed tour, The Remnants of Penn Station in partnership with The Eternal Space, a play about an untold story of the...
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Suspended Forest of Discarded NYC Christmas Trees Will Be On Display in Queens
What happens to all the Christmas trees that get thrown out after the holidays? Besides city-wide sponsored mulchfests (this weekend) and curbside collection by the Department of Sanitation, whereupon...
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Crown Heights’ Hidden “Hole in the Wall” Restaurant Serving Up Home Cooked...
We thought we were well-versed in the world of New York City’s hidden restaurants (after all, we wrote a whole book about it). But nothing quite prepared us for the awesomeness of this hole in the...
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In Tribute: 5 Iconic David Bowie NYC Moments and Places
David Bowie in New York City, photo via Hollywood Reporter Performer David Bowie, a longtime resident of New York City, passed away on Sunday after an 18-month battle with cancer. Born in London in...
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Chinese Tuxedo Restaurant on Doyers Street Looks to Restore Chinatown History
5-7 Doyers Street when it was the Chinese Theatre/Chinese Opera House Behind a storefront at 5-7 Doyers Street in Chinatown that long concealed a mahjong den and a famed tunnel that stretched to...
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The Parts of NYC Moved from the United Kingdom, Now Part of City’s Land &...
Photo via London Remembers It may come as a surprise that parts of New York City (ranging from a cherub sculpture to 11 blocks of land) are from the United Kingdom, but given the city’s colonial...
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Steve ESPO Powers’ Love Letter to Brooklyn Coming Down from Macy’s
It was not a good day in New York City signage news yesterday. First, DNAInfo reported that the History Channel billboard that has become iconic on the Bronx skyline is on its way down. Then Curbed NY...
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Cast of Homeless Boy’s Arm as Street Art in Crown Heights, Brooklyn
On Rogers Avenue, between Sterling Place and Park Place in Crown Heights, is one of the most unique pieces of street art we’ve seen recently. It’s a sculpture, often tucked behind refuse and recycle –...
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Photos of Abandoned Port Morris Branch Train Tracks in the Bronx from the...
James and Karla Murray are the photographers and authors of the fantastic books about New York City’s unique disappearing storefronts, aptly titled Store Front and Store Front II. They also run a fun...
View ArticleAmerican Museum of Natural History Unveils 17 Foot Tall, 122 Foot Long Dinosaur
A new dinosaur unveiled today at the American Museum of Natural History hits many superlatives for the museum. It’s the tallest yet at 17 feet – just two feet shy of its home at the Wallach...
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Celeb Cat Lil Bub To Appear at Museum of the Moving Image This Month
In Queens, The Museum of Moving Image exhibit “How Cats Took Over the Internet” has been so successful, it’s been extended through February 21st this year. Announced yesterday will be the addition of...
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