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Behind the Scenes Look at The Wavertree Ship at South Street Seaport
There is a beautiful new resident at South Street Seaport and her name is Wavertree. The Wavertree was built in 1885 and has a historical connection to New York City, which is more than the beloved...
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“Work in Progress” at Storefront for Art and Architecture Uses Scaffolding...
Those familiar with the Storefront for Art and Architecture on Kenmare Street in Nolita will know that it occupies just a sliver of a space, true to its name. The facade is movable, opening out in...
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NYC Film Locations for Luke Cage, Netflix’s Latest Marvel Show Set in Harlem
Luke Cage is the latest Marvel series to debut on Netflix, following Jessica Jones and Daredevil. Fans of Jessica Jones will know who Luke Cage is – he appeared as a bartender with special powers in...
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Photos: There’s a Mini Redwood Forest in Downtown Brooklyn with 4000 Tiny Trees
Lost Man’s Creek, made to scale from a 790 acre area of Redwood National Park. The open area here represents a creek that exists in the real forest. Until this weekend, Spencer Finch was most...
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500 Ton Legs for the New York Wheel on Staten Island, World’s Tallest, Arrive...
The New York Wheel, when opened on Staten Island in Spring 2018, will be the world’s tallest at 630 feet. Starting Monday, the first major components of the ferris wheel – pieces of the four legs –...
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Inside the Stunning Renovated Rose Reading Room at the New York Public...
This morning, the New York Public Library reopened two historic rooms at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building at 42nd Street, Bryant Park after two years of renovation – the Rose Reading Room and the...
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Cities 101: Exploring the Tiny Doors on the New York Public Library Facade at...
We’ve wondered about this for a while – what’s up with the tiny doors and micro balconies on the back facade of the New York Public Library, Stephen A. Schwarzman building at Bryant Park? With such a...
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Green-Wood Cemetery Chapel is Criss-Crossed with Hundreds of Fuschia...
Yesterday, the interior and exterior of Green-Wood Cemetery Chapel was criss-crossed with hundreds of fuschia parachute cords for a two week site-specific installation by Brooklyn artist Aaron Asis....
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There’s a Monument to a Staten Island Ferry Attack by Giant Octopus in NYC
New York City has had some terrible nautical disasters – including the sinking of the General Slocum steamboat off North Brother Island in 1904 and the capsizing of the Normandie (SS Lafayette) in...
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Inside Shipwrecked, A Hidden Mini Golf Course in Red Hook, Brooklyn
Shipwrecked Miniature Golf in Red Hook, Brooklyn checks off so many things on our list. First, the 18-hole course is hidden on the second floor of an industrial brick building. Second, it’s...
View ArticleVideo: At Long Last, the Second Avenue Subway Line Gets a Test Run
Over the last five years, we’ve been documenting the construction along the Second Avenue Subway. On our second visit, we went deep into the Lexington Avenue/63rd Street stop and in 2015 we revealed...
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Inside an Empty Greenpoint Lot, Lot Radio Spins Music in a Shipping Container
On an unseasonably warm October day, we headed to Lot Radio – an independent radio station spinning out of a reclaimed shipping container in an empty lot in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, just a short walk...
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Bloomingdale’s is Painting Over Its Historical French-Style Facade in Black...
A few years ago, we highlighted a portion of the Bloomingdale’s department store uptown, on the 60th Street side, that was a remnant of an earlier store. The French-inspired design had a mansard roof...
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Fortune Telling All-Seeing Trump Zoltar Stalks NYC Street Corners to Glee of...
Misfortune telling machine Trump Zoltar appeared on the streets of NYC yesterday and today [Update: We have new photos from today’s appearance of the All-Seing Trump at Trump International Hotel at...
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Fun Maps: NYC Subway Map “City of Women” Shows a System Where Every Stop...
City of Women Map, via The New Yorker and Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas. City of Women is one of the creative cartography pieces in the Queens Museum exhibit Nonstop Metropolis: The Remix...
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Remnants of 1904 Union Square Subway Station Hidden in Plain Sight
Many of Untapped Cities’ writers and photographers revel in accessing New York City’s off-limits spots, but often, incredible remnants of urban archeology are hidden in plain sight. Our popular...
View ArticleExclusive Video Clip: PBS American Experience “Tesla” Shows Inventor’s...
Here at Untapped Cities, we’re pretty obsessed with Nikola Tesla, tracking him around New York City including checking out the room he died in at The New Yorker Hotel and making sure one of his...
View ArticleNew Trailer for “New York At Its Core” Exhibit at MCNY: From Bed Stuy to...
The Museum of the City of New York will launch a comprehensive exhibit, New York At Its Core, on November 18th that chronicles 400 years of the history of the city. The exhibit will occupy the entire...
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A Taxidermy Kitten Wedding at the Morbid Anatomy Museum in Gowanus, Brooklyn
If you haven’t yet visited the Morbid Anatomy Museum in Gowanus, the exhibit “Walter Pottery’s Kitten Taxidermy Wedding” may just be the ticket to get you in the door of this quirky museum. The Kitten...
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Columbia University Student App Maps Out NYC’s Traffic Accidents
Traffic Accidents in NYC by Area cluster As New York City’s Zero Vision policy comes under fire after a recent release of hit-and-run data, the Columbia University student project “Traffic Care” is...
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