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Fun Maps: Tracking NYC’s Water Complaints
Heat Graph of NYC Water Complaints in 2015 New York City’s drinking water is one of the best in the country, but it doesn’t mean that issues don’t occur. After all, some parts of the water system are...
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The Newsstand, The Pop-Up Subway Shop at Lorimer Reappears at The MoMA
The Newsstand at the MoMA For about six months between June 2013 and January 2014, a pop-up “newsstand” was in action inside the Lorimer Street L subway station in Williamsburg. Taking the standard...
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Video Shows Renovation Work at Chumley’s, Iconic Greenwich Village Speakeasy...
Fans of the iconic Greenwich Village speakeasy Chumley’s at 86 Bedford Street will be excited to hear that not only has the liquor license been issued (following a community-supported petition), but...
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Inside the Abandoned Catskill Game Farm, Once Home to 2000 Exotic Animals
The Catskill Game Farm in Catskill New York, a destination that once housed 2000 exotic animals, was in operation for over 70 years. Beginning with a small collection of white-tailed deer, donkeys,...
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BBQ Films to Reenact Beetlejuice’s Wedding in Next Immersive Film Event
We can always count on BBQ Films to bring us back to the ’80s. On March 20th, Beetlejuice will invite New York City’s living and undead to celebrate his nuptials to Lydia Deetz at the House of Yes in...
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Isa Genzken’s Oversized “Two Orchids” Art Sculpture Welcome Visitors to...
At an entrance to Central Park on 60th Street and 5th Avenue, you can always count on a great art installation by the Public Art Fund. Most recently, an old-school vintage looking street clock was...
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New Remnant of Original Penn Station Discovered by Untapped Cities Team
After running our popular Remnants of Penn Station tour for over a year now, we can safely say that it’s a station that keeps on giving, very unexpectedly. We discover new remnants of the original...
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From Raw to Renovated, Photos Inside the New Brooklyn Army Terminal Annex,...
All photos via NYCEDC In anticipation of our upcoming Behind the Scenes NYC tour of the Brooklyn Army Terminal, we are pleased to share with you images from the newly renovated Annex Building, which...
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10 Things the Dutch Introduced to NYC and America from Bowling to Santa Claus...
Image via New Amsterdam History Center In 1609 when Henry Hudson sailed up the river that would eventually bear his name, he did so under the Dutch flag. Unlike his English brethren running to the New...
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Photos: Inside the Oculus of the New World Trade Center Transportation Hub
There’s already a lot that has been said about the World Trade Center Transportation Hub, designed by Santiago Calatrava (too much, we think). New York Times architectural critic Michael Kimmelman,...
View ArticleThere Used to Be a Helipad on the MetLife (Pan Am) Building in NYC
Embed from Getty Images Today, you’ll probably come across the re-envisioned, glass-clad renderings of the MetLife Building (formerly Pan Am Building) at 200 Park Avenue (say it ain’t so!). They’re...
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Photographer André Vicente Gonçalves Captures “Windows on the World” from 20...
Lisbon Portuguese photographer André Vicente Gonçalves started his career in computer science, and it is perhaps this rational side that has led him to his most well-known work: Windows on the World,...
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10 Things to Know About NYC’s New World Trade Center Transportation Hub by...
Last Thursday, the World Trade Center Transportation Hub (also known as the Oculus) soft opened to the public. Most of the media’s coverage has focused on the controversy over the station, but today,...
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Fun Maps: The Lost Rivers of Brooklyn
Lost streams of Brooklyn, mapped by Eymund Diegel We’ve previously gone in search of Manhattan’s buried streams and most recently reported about efforts to daylight a river in the Bronx, so we were...
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New Competition to Reimagine World’s Fair New York State Pavilion in Flushing...
Today, the National Trust for Historic Preservation and People for the Pavilion announced an international visioning competition to reimagine the beloved World’s Fair New York State Pavilion in...
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Watch Out, Those Pigeons in NYC Might Be Made of Felt
Mother Pigeon’s pigeons just outside Madison Square Park yesterday, snapped by Untapped Cities writer Laurie Gwen Shapiro Walk by quickly and you just might think these pigeons are real, until you...
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The Castles of NYC: 10 Fairy-Tale Inspired Buildings
Image via Flickr by Lucas Who doesn’t love a fairy tale? Even pragmatic New Yorkers could not resist referencing the architecture of European nobility in the earlier days of the city. While many...
View ArticleVideo: Masstransitscope, A Zoetrope Art Piece in an Abandoned NYC Subway Station
Masstransitscope is one of those great serendipitous surprises to brighten up your commute, plus it’s located in an abandoned subway station in Brooklyn. Installed by Arts for Transit in 1980, the...
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Historical NYC App Shows Croton Aqueduct Stone Remnants in Upper Manhattan
Photo via Paul Kittas We’ve previously covered the existing remnants of the Croton Aqueduct, the first to bring fresh drinking water into New York City. Paul Kittas, creator of the app On Coogan’s...
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Game of Thrones Dragons Crash Land in NYC’s Union Square Today
Photo via Twitter by Brian Rohrmann As part of a guerrilla marketing campaign for the release of the fifth season of Game of Thrones on DVD, Khaleesi’s dragons have crash landed onto Union Square and...
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