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On the Wall at Keens Steakhouse, A Blood-Stained Playbill Held By Abraham...
An artifact that hangs on the wall of Keens Steakhouse in Midtown comes from a fateful evening: a blood-stained playbill Lincoln was supposedly holding when he was assassinated at the Ford's Theatre...
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The Top 10 Oldest Intact Cemeteries in NYC
There are many superlatives possible when looking at New York City’s cemeteries — largest, smallest, most-filmed in. Today, we place our attention on the oldest cemeteries in New York City, focusing...
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Get Lost in NYC’s Only Corn Maze, Shaped Like the World’s Fair Unisphere
The Queens County Farm Museum, located on 47 acres in Floral Park, is NYC's oldest working historical farm. This year, at the city's only corn maze, a three-acre labyrinth is in the design of the...
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Inside the Met Opera’s Armory Full of Weapons for the Stage
If you’ve been to the Metropolitan Opera, you know there is often a lot of fighting happening on stasge. In the back of the house, there is an armory filled floor to ceiling with weapons of different...
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New Bowery Mural by Japanese Artist Tomokazu Matsuyama “Matzu” Underway
The latest artist to grace the Bowery Mural on Houston is Japanese artist Tomokazu Matsuyama “Matzu” who started working on an incredibly detailed, layered mural and is close to wrapping up. Read More
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Central Park’s Lasker Rink & Pool To Be Demolished in $150 Million Park...
Central Park's North End will be getting a much-needed $150 million restoration and reconstruction, and the Lasker Rink & Pool will be demolished and completely rebuilt in a more naturalistic...
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The Original Granite Eagles at Penn Station Are Missing from Their Pedestals
The eagles from the original Penn Station are near and dear to our hearts here at Untapped Cities. We’ve taken road trips to see nearly all of them, which are scattered along the east coast from...
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Sneak Peek Inside the New Hunters Point Library in Queens
Twenty years in the making, the new Hunters Point Library in Long Island City will open next week. We were given a sneak peek inside the striking new library, designed by Steven Holl Architects, as...
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Sit on the Iconic Couch from ‘Friends’ Atop the Empire State Building (and...
It's the 25th anniversary of the television sitcom, Friends and Warner Bros. has put replicas of the famous orange couch all around the world. One is atop the Empire State Building until tomorrow....
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The Bat Signal Lights Up NYC for Batman Day
It's Batman's 80th birthday and on Saturday night for Batman Day, the bat signal was projected in NYC and twelve other cities around the world. In Gotham, it lit up the side of the Domino Sugar...
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A Giant Rock Outcropping in Northern Manhattan is For Sale for $3 Million
In Inwood, a curious 30,000 square foot, 30-foot tall outcropping of bedrock in Inwood is currently for sale for $2.99 million. It gets even more complicated — the rock actually has two owners. Read More
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Fun Maps: Discover NYC’s Eye-Popping Subway Art and Architecture
The new New York Subway Architecture & Design Map, created with Sandra Bloodworth, Director of MTA Arts & Design and Linda Tonn, the Chief Architect of MTA looks at NYC's most notable subway...
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Inside the Carnegie Hall Archives, Built into a Former Elaborate Artist Studio
Most of the famous artist studios in Carnegie Hall were demolished earlier this decade, but you can see the elaborate details of one of them if you visit the archives of the famous concert hall. Read...
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New Book Shows NYC’s Bridges As You’ve Never Seen Them Before
For years, Dave Frieder had uninterrupted access to the top of the city’s bridges, all the way up until 9/11. After 25 years of working on a project to document all of NYC's major bridges, he has...
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NYC’s Hidden Coffee Shops to Discover for National Coffee Day
September 29th is National Coffee Day. NYC has no shortage of coffee shops and we've discovered many of them but today, we are sharing our favorite truly hidden coffee shops. Read More
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See Lego Versions of the World’s Most Famous Art at New York Hall of Science
The Art of the Brick will have incredible LEGO works by award winning artist Nathan Sawaya, including re-imagined recreations of Michelangelo’s David, Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, Van Gogh’s Starry Night....
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Virgin’s Hyperloop Pod Will Be on Display at Rockefeller Center Today
This afternoon, Virgin's Hyperloop One Pod will be on display to the public at Rockefeller Center for Climate Week, following the company's groundbreaking successful test of the transportation...
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See an Incredible Exhibit of Graffiti-Tagged NYC Subway Trains from the ’70s...
The new exhibition Henry Chalfant: Art vs. Transit, 1977-1987 at the Bronx Museum shows the striking photography of Henry Chalfant, who documented the street art and urban culture in New York City,...
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Monumental Equestrian Sculpture Showing African-American is in Times Square
A new monumental equestrian sculpture, Rumors of War, has just arrived to Times Square, by the artist Kehinde Wiley with an African American astride a war horse wearing hoodie, jeans, and dreadlocks....
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A High-End Deli Made of Felt Opens at Rockefeller Center Today
Starting today, a fake upscale deli made of felt will be at Rockefeller Center, made by the artist Lucy Sparrow. Delicatessen on 6th will be on the corner of 49th Street and 6th Avenue next to...
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