Cute “NYC Gifathon” Video Celebrates NYC in 30 Animated Gifs
Sometimes it takes a non-New Yorker to capture the whimsy that can be New York City. London-based animator James Curran came to New York City for a month in November, and created one gif a day which...
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Fun Maps: World Wide Metro Map Unites All 214 Subway Systems Around the World...
Inspired by architect Constant Nieuwenhuys‘ 1959 “New Babylon” collage that imagined a globe of interconnected, borderless cities, New York City-based collective ArtCodeData has created one about...
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10 Buildings and Structures in NYC That Have Changed Colors
New York City’s architecture changes and evolves with design trends. Sometimes, buildings get full makeovers. Other times, they go through slow transitions, barely noticed. Here are 10 buildings and...
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Inside the Ziegfeld Theatre One Last Time, Plans to Convert to Ballroom...
Just last summer, we reported on the mini-museum that’s in the lobby of the iconic Ziegfeld Theatre at 141 W. 54th Street. It seems that part of life here in New York City is living through the ups...
View ArticleTake a Video Trip Through the TWA Flight Center at JFK Airport
A few years ago, we were given the chance to roam and photograph the TWA Flight Center with nobody in it (except our guide from the Port Authority and a security guard), in a push from the National...
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Fun Maps: Interactive Map of NYC’s 311 Complaints in 2015
If you love maps, there’s a good chance that the company CartoDB may have powered many of the ones you’ve seen. On Untapped Cities alone, CartoDB has been attributed to maps like the oldest place to...
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Hanger Barn Art Installation Made of Thousands of Discarded Hangers Coming to...
We can always count on the City of Dreams competition to offer a unique architectural installation on Governors Island, often made of a collection of a single item. In previous years there have been a...
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Fun Maps: PlowNYC Shows Real-Time Street Plowing in NYC
We hope that you are all safely ensconced at home, viewing Blizzard Jonas from your window like we are from Brooklyn. But if you’re like us, you might have plans sometime today too (we’re headed to...
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Step Inside Nikola Tesla’s Hotel Room at The New Yorker in 3D
We’re excited to be partnering with 3D visualization company Matterport to bring visitors digitally inside unique New York City locations over the next few months. We’ll also be adding to the...
View ArticleAnimals, a New Animated Show on HBO Set in NYC Shows Life of City’s Pets
From the creative minds of Mark and Jay Duplass is a new animated show, Animals, on HBO premiering on February 5th, showing “unexpected tales of urban life” from the perspective of city animals. It...
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Renderings of MTA’s Open Gangway Prototype Subway Cars for NYC
Via MTA Capital Program Oversight Committee Meeting, January 2016. Renderings are from 2013. There’s been a lot of excitement in the transit world about New York City’s open gangway subway cars, though...
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The NYC That Never Was: An Avenue Between 5th And 6th Avenue
In May of 1910, the ill-fated New York City mayor, William Jay Gaynor, proposed a new avenue to be added to Manhattan’s street grid that would go between Fifth and Sixth Avenue between 8th Street and...
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SHoP Architects to Bring NYC’s First Wood High Rise Building to Chelsea
On the corner of 18th Street and 10th Avenue, diagonally across from a future entrance to the High Line sits five holdout buildings that harken back to an earlier era of the Meatpacking District....
View ArticleFun Maps: A Day in the Life of the Citi Bike System in 2015
Todd W. Schneider is a software engineer who has been analyzing the New York City’s open data in his spare time, documenting the results on topics as varied as Citi Bike trips, Uber v. Taxi pickups,...
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6 of NYC’s Most Unique Musical Instruments You Can Visit
Photo by Bob Martin/Garden State Theatre Organ Society Musical instruments are not always the first thing that comes to mind when you think of architecture, but they are often embedded into landmark...
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Behind the Scenes at the US Capitol Subway System in Washington D.C.
On a recent visit to Washington D.C., we had the opportunity to extensively check out the United States Capitol Subway System, one of the most unique in the world. The exclusive transit system is not...
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Fun Maps: Where Foreign Born New Yorkers Live in NYC
New York City is known as the “melting pot” of the United States, but just how many foreign born residents are there and where do they live? This is what the NYU Furman Center has tackled in a...
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Guerrilla Scratch & Sniff Stickers in NYC Subway for a Better Smelling Ride
We all know how bad the New York City subway system can smell sometimes. In the worst of times, we pull up our scarves or shirts over our noses and try not to breathe. But there might be a real...
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12,000 Vintage Photographs from Bronx Zoo and New York Aquarium to Be Preserved
Kodiak bear and keeper, Bronx Zoo, December 18, 1905. The WCS historical photo collection is a priceless resource for exploring how animal care has changed over time. Photo © WCS. Attention vintage...
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The Abandoned Portion of NYC’s Bleecker Street Subway Station Platform
In 2012, the Bleecker Street subway station was renovated to create a much-needed transfer from the uptown 6 train to the B/D/F/M trains, as previously transfers were only available to those on the...
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