Walking through the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood in Manhattan, it's easy to forget the historical significance of this area. Where upscale restaurants, bars, and newly minted condominiums now litter the paths along the Hudson River, there once were criminal hotspots and gang-marked territory.
Summer intern Charmaine Poh recounts the progress of Untapped Cities since she started.
Take a tour of the notorious crime scene photographer Weegee's exhibition at ICP and see his favorite haunts in Times Square and Hell's Kitchen, back when they were seedy areas littered with theaters and brothels.
Meet Norman Little, an East River Ferry Captain.
Untapped CIties' Charmaine Poh talks with Noah Rosenburg of Narratively, a long-form journalism start-up based in NYC.
With 600 stations and 10,000 bikes in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens, the Citi Bike project is bound to change transportation and social culture in NYC.
To celebrate the Olympics kickoff on Friday night, The London Candy Co. and the Drury Lane online bakery co-hosted a private pop-up candy event at the London Candy Co. store on Lexington Ave.
Spend a summer afternoon in the historic Suffolk County Vanderbilt Mansion built for William K. Vanderbilt II, an intrepid explorer and collector of over 17,000 marine species.
Untapped Cities had our summer cocktail hour last evening at HQ.
Singaporean entrepreneurs are bringing their experience abroad home in the form of cafes popping up all over the city.