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Brooklyn Heights Transformed into 1920s for the Filming of Passing with...
If you walked through Brooklyn Heights recently, you may have suddenly been transported into 1920s New York City. Looks like it’s the set of the film Passing, starring Alexander Skarsgard, Tessa...
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A Blockbuster Video Pop Up Shop Opens in NYC Friday
The last of the Blockbuster Video stores closed in 2014 (apart from a last private franchise in Bend, Oregon) but its place in pop culture remains. With its nationwide reach, at 1,700 stores at its...
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NYC Filming Locations for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel on Amazon
Photo courtesy Amazon Studios The Amazon Original series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is back for its third season! The show began in New York City in 1958, and is part Mad Men-esque in its mid-century...
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Fun Maps: NYC is Most Linguistically Diverse Urban Area in the World
Did you know that New York City residents collectively speak at least 637 languages and dialects? A recent impressive map from the non-profit Endangered Language Alliance, first reported by Gothamist,...
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Live Jazz at The Campbell, Grand Central’s Secret Speakeasy
The Campbell, formerly the Campbell Apartment, is the jazz-age speakeasy located inside a spectacular space in Grand Central Terminal. And now, appropriately, you can take in live jazz in The Campbell...
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A Gravestone Modeled After the 1939 World’s Fair at Kensico Cemetery
Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York is one of those sprawling, rural cemeteries with winding roads, bucolic hills, lakes, and impressive vaults, not dissimilar to Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn or...
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Subtle Mosaic Art in Subway Pays Tribute to Lost Penn Station
The redesigned entrance into the 34th Street-Penn Station subway station (on the 1/2/3 lines) opened to little fanfare and a beautiful, subtle mosaic artwork got even less attention. If you don’t look...
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Inside Abandoned Fairfield Hills State Psychiatric Hospital in Newtown,...
In Newtown, Connecticut stands the ruins of a stately psychiatric hospital. The Fairfield Hills State Hospital opened in 1931, with brick Georgian style buildings spread across 770 bucolic acres. In...
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Tin Pan Alley on 28th Street Designated NYC Landmark
Within the former Tenderloin district, Tin Pan Alley was the tiny sliver of a block of 28th Street between Broadway and Sixth Avenue. Starting in the late 1800s, the stretch was synonymous with...
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Secret “FDR Train Car” No Longer Beneath Grand Central (And Was Never His!)
Like all of the most beloved places around the world, Grand Central Terminal is full of myths. After all, the feat of the building’s construction and its later resurrection is legend-worthy — who...
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Watch Trailer for In The Heights, New Movie from Lin Manuel-Miranda about...
The trailer for the highly anticipated film, In the Heights from Lin Manuel-Miranda of Hamilton fame and Jon M. Chu, director of Crazy Rich Asians has just dropped. There’s singing, dance routines in...
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Vote for the Best New Things in NYC This Year! #NYCSuperlatives
It’s been two weeks since we launched the first-ever “NYC Superlatives” awards on the LinkNYC kiosks! If you haven’t voted yet, you can vote for the top contenders from the voting so far directly in...
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We Climbed to the Top of the Washington Square Park Arch!
Yesterday, the Untapped New York team had the honor of climbing up the Washington Square Park arch, the iconic landmark in Greenwich Village designed by Stanford White. The special visit was courtesy...
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Vintage Typewriters Abound in the Bankers Club Atop the Equitable Building
One of the highlights of the Equitable Building’s recent extensive restoration, including a rehabilitated lobby, street art mecca, and new rooftop lounge, is the display of vintage typewriters inside...
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Property Line Markers in NYC Sidewalks Offer Crossing Only By Permission
You’ve probably stepped on one of these metal private property line markers on the sidewalks of New York City and didn’t think too much about them. But what are they exactly? Usually, the bronze...
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Filming Locations for Marriage Story in NYC and Los Angeles on Netflix
In the critically acclaimed film Marriage Story on Netflix, written and directed by Noah Baumbach, we follow Charlie and Nicole, (played by Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson) a theater director and...
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TWA Hotel Pool Turns into a Rooftop Ski Chalet for the Winter
New York City doesn’t have its own ski resort (yet) but you can take in the vibe at the new Après Swim Runway Chalet at the TWA Hotel’s rooftop pool. The destination that made the JFK runway view look...
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Neir’s, One of NYC’s Oldest Bars Closes Sunday; Rally Planned
Photograph Courtesy of Neir’s Tavern Neir’s Tavern, one of New York City’s oldest bars and restaurants, will close this Sunday because, well, the rent is just too damn high. The owners had hoped to...
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Tour the BAM Hamm Archives, Tucked Away in an Industrial Brooklyn Building
The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) has been a New York City institution for over 150 years. Founded in 1861, BAM is the oldest performing arts center in the United States. Its performances and events...
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Photos Reveal the Apartments of the Last Residents of the Chelsea Hotel
In the book Hotel Chelsea: Living in the Last Bohemian Haven, photographer Colin Miller and writer Ray Mock interviewed and photographed the last residents of the famed Chelsea Hotel. The artist’s...
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