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NYC Vintage Photos: Central Park in Blue by Augustus Hepp Show Structures...
Bethesda Terrace, 1870s. Photo by Augustus Hepp via Museum of the City of New York A few years after Central Park was completed, Augustus Hepp, the head gardener for the park was commissioned by the U....
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Video: New Yorker Cartoonist Roz Chast Creates Mural Live at Museum of the...
The exhibitions at the Museum of the City of New York seem to just be getting better and better, and Roz Chast: Cartoon Memoirs is an engaging, fun exhibit inspiring for both adults and kids. Even if...
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Art Exhibit Pops Up in Abandoned Level of Nevins Street Subway Station in...
Photo by Phil America “Getting into this exclusive art gallery could literally kill you,” proclaims the headline of the New York Post article on a guerrilla art exhibit by Phil America located in the...
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Fun Maps: 2016 NYC Primary Election Results, Mapped!
You know the results of last week’s primary election in New York state but the team at the Center for Urban Research at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York updated the database of...
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Remnants of Original Fulton Street Subway Station Hidden in Plain Sight
Fulton Center may be still sparkly new since 2014, with improved connections underground between the numerous subway lines there, a new oculus art piece, and an interior retail space, but you can...
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A Pedestrian Bridge Between Governors Island and Red Hook Could Be a Reality
Maybe it’s a natural human tendency to want to build bridges, at least in New York City. There have even been plans to infill the Hudson and East Rivers so we could just walk over to New Jersey. Then...
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Inside the Clandestine M42 Basement Deep Under Grand Central Terminal
Deep below Grand Central Terminal, there’s a hidden power station known as M42 that does not appear on a single map or blueprint. In fact, its very existence was only acknowledged in the late 1980s...
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Misplaced: Photo Series Explores NYC’s Famous Buildings Moved to Barren...
All renderings via Misplaced In the photography series Misplaced, interactive designer Anton Repponen takes iconic New York City buildings and landmarks and situates them in desolate environments....
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Photographer Weegee’s Bowery Photographs from 1940s and 1950s On Exhibit at...
Under the Third Avenue El, 1943-45, © Weegee / International Center of Photography. The International Center of Photography (ICP) holds more than 20,000 images by the legendary New York City press...
View ArticleThousands of LED-Lit Pigeons Will Be Released in Brooklyn Navy Yard in Fly by...
We’re of the opinion that if you’re a die-hard New Yorker, you kind of love pigeons (or at least have a morbid curiosity about them). We’ve been on a pigeon-themed landmark tour of the city and hung...
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New Citywide Ferry Website Released in Advance of Summer 2017 Launch Date
In March, we took a deep dive into the Citywide Ferry system that will open (partially) in the summer of 2017, the first citywide ferry in one hundred years. Yesterday, the NYCEDC and Hornblower, the...
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History of the Revolutionary War Submarine The Turtle, First Used in Combat...
A replica of The Turtle submarine from the American Revolutionary War as seen in the show TURN in AMC In our Secrets of Governors Island compilation, we covered The Turtle, the world’s first submarine...
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Architecture Pasta in the Shape of Paris Landmarks by Fonbelle
Photo by Valerie Lechêne for Untapped Cities The Paris-based company gourmet food company Fonbelle has a line of Parisian landmark-shaped pasta. So if you’re tired of penne or just missing Paris, you...
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The Top 10 Secrets of NYC’s Abandoned City Hall Subway Station
New York City’s abandoned City Hall subway station is one of the the city’s most mythical places – accessible but barely so. It’s so beautiful, New Yorkers can hardly imagine a time when so much...
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Stunning Interior Photo of Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava Lost in Fire
Photograph by Richard Silver It was with heavy heart that we saw the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava, formerly the Trinity Chapel, go up in flames yesterday. The church on 25th Street between...
View ArticleDate While You Wait Spices Up NYC Subway Commute
While most of us complain about the subway commute (too crowded, too slow, you name it), Thomas C. Knox, a business specialist at Apple, has been using it as an opportunity to meet new people and...
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NYC’s B-110 Bus Operates Only Within Hasidic Jewish Areas of Brooklyn
Sure, the Chinese community in New York City has their dollar vans that run between neighborhoods like Chinatown, Sunset Park and Flushing. But the Hasidic Jewish neighborhoods take the ethnic-defined...
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In Smökers Project, Cute Cabins Replace Orange Steam Vents in NYC
Photo via Mark Reigelman It’s clear from Brooklyn-based artist Mark Reigelman’s website he has a sense of humor – his team photo is himself, cloned eight times. He has a sarcastic wit – shown in the...
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Tesla Statue Survives Fire at Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava
Photo via NY Daily News Yesterday, FDNY officials announced that some of the several hundred Easter candles may have caused the massive fire at the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava (formerly...
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The NYC Apartments Jane Jacobs Lived In: Greenwich Village to Brooklyn Heights
Jane Jacobs, husband and son in front of their home at 555 Hudson Street. Photo from Becoming Jane Jacobs Here at Untapped Cities, the legacy of Jane Jacobs impacts our daily life – what we write, how...
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