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Upcoming Untapped Cities Tours this Month: September 2016
We have a great set of behind the scenes tours coming up this month, with a special visit to the Brooklyn Kings Theatre and the return of old favorites like the Secrets of Grand Central Terminal, the...
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NYC Day Trip: A Visit to The Big Duck, Long Island’s Famous Example of...
“Are you an architect?” asked the Suffolk County Parks representative inside the architecturally famous Big Duck in Flanders, Long Island, “I can always tell.” The Big Duck is one of those iconic must...
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Will Governors Island Become a Year Round Destination? NYC Hopes So.
#GovIsland365 Cube. Photo by Julienne Schaer for NYCEDC On Friday just before Labor Day weekend, the NYCEDC launched an interactive installation on Governors Island called #GovIsland365 that will...
View ArticleCleaning of the Blue Whale at American Museum of Natural History Is...
Once a year, the enormous blue whale model that hangs from the Irma and Paul Milstein Family Hall of Ocean Life at the American Museum of Natural History gets cleaned – and it’s being livestreamed on...
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Cities 101: Decipher the Hidden Internet Infrastructure of NYC’s Streets with...
In 2015, artist Ingrid Burrington released a handy illustrated pocket guide to the cryptic symbols you see spray painted on the city’s streets. She raised money for its publication on Kickstarter (our...
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NYC Weekend Trip: A Guide to Kingston in NY’s Hudson Valley
Wall Street in the Stockade Historic District in Kingston There’s something to be said about a city whose mayor gives historical kayaking tours in his spare time. Kingston, the latest “it” city in the...
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New R179 MTA Subway Cars Arrive for Testing at 207th Street Rail Yard to...
Photo via New York Transit Museum You know those old C trains with the ribbed metal pattern on the outside and gray seats on the inside? Often the air conditioning is broken and the cars make for a...
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The Top 10 Secrets of the New Yorker Hotel
Photo via Flickr by George Estreich The New Yorker Hotel at 34th Street and 8th Avenue is one of those storied Manhattan icons – so much history and so many secrets, it’s hard to whittle them down. The...
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NY Train Project Recreates Signs of All 62 Bronx Subway Stations
NY Train Project. He first tackled Manhattan and then in 2015, completed all 157 stations Brooklyn. Now, he’s finished the Bronx. He tells Untapped Cities: “Working on the Bronx stations was...
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Replica of Palmyra Triumphant Arch, Destroyed by ISIS, Will Be at City Hall...
The Palmrya Triumphal Arch replica in Trafalgar Square in April, will come to New York City. Photo via Flickr by Garry Knight It’s official! The Institute for Digital Archaeology (IDA) has officially...
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Replica of Palmyra Triumphal Arch Revealed at NYC’s City Hall Park
Until 1 pm today, a replica of the Triumphal Arch of Palmyra was under a cover at City Hall Park when there was a large unveiling for the public. The 20 foot tall, 30 ton marble replica of the Syrian...
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Inside the Off-Limits Banking Halls at Art Deco Skyscraper 20 Exchange in NYC
WPA murals inside the banking hall at 20 Exchange Place Other skyscrapers in the Financial District have received more attention in recent years, notably 70 Pine, but 20 Exchange was more than...
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The NYPL at 42nd Street Now Has an Adorable New Book Train
Photo by Jonathan Blanc/NYPL We’ve come a long way from the plans to completely destroy the stacks under the New York Public Library‘s Stephen A. Schwartzman Building at 42nd Street-Bryant Park. Not...
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New Renderings Revealed for the Lowline, World’s First Underground Park
We’ve been following the Lowline project for several years and the organization is one of our partners in our tour, the Past, Present and Future of the NYC Subway, which provides docent-led access to...
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Photos: Stepping onto Hart Island, NYC’s Mass Burial Ground
The ferry to Hart Island, visible in background across from City Island in the Bronx In a city where everything seems to be just at one’s fingertips – from a taxi ride to the hope of a better future –...
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Photo Project Documents All 210 of the NYC’s Public Library Branches
NYPL Spuyten Duyvil branch. All photos by Elizabeth Felicella. The new exhibit, Reading Room: A Catalog of New York City’s Branch Libraries, opened yesterday at the Center for Architecture, featuring...
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Quirky In-Ground Dover Garbage Cans in Astoria Hide Household Waste in NYC
We’ve only seen this in one place in New York City in all our explorations – in-ground garbage cans to hide household waste. We came across these on a walk around the Astoria and East Elmhurst...
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The Top 10 Secrets of LaGuardia Airport in NYC
LaGuardia Airport’s Marine Air Terminal in 1974. Image via Library of Congress. Last night’s first 2016 Presidential debate featured many memorable moments (and painful ones) between candidates Hillary...
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Robert Moses Lands Punch to Donald Trump Campaign from the Grave
In a surprising post-debate moment last night, the much-maligned Robert Moses has landed a punch to the Trump campaign from the grave, over eighty years later. Here is what TIME reporter Zeke Miller...
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You Can Sit on Priceless Original 18th Century Furniture at Brooklyn Kings...
The Brooklyn Kings Theatre, opened in 1929, was built as one of the five Loew’s Wonder Theaters in the New York City area, the most opulent movie palaces in the country. The Loew’s Kings Theatre was...
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