Artists tasked to develop the virtual space of the Jeu de Paume have devised a geolocation project called "Le Truc," which tracks four objects as they pass from one person to another. This is Untapped Paris' story with one of the four trucs!
Perhaps you’ve heard of an elephant graveyard, but how about a boat graveyard? Does such a thing exist? Turns out it does, and New York City has one. Known as the Witte Marine Scrap Yard, the Arthur Kill Boat Yard, or simply the “Staten Island Boat Graveyard,” the city’s only remaining commercial marine salvage yard is located in Rossville, Staten Island.
Manhattan is a bigger island than people think. Photographs from a hike in Fort Tryon Park and Inwood Park, which are just around the corner from each other.
Six Flags New Orleans has been abandoned since Katrina flooded the facilities in 2005. In November 2010, a YouTube "tour" of the site came out, showing an eerily vacant yet somehow still intact amusement park. Untapped correspondent Guy D. Choate documented his visit to the park.
It was amazing. I woke up still a bit drunk of course from New Years Eve. To tell you the truth, wasn't excited so much for New Years Eve as I was for the Dip.
Delta Terminal 2 at JFK just got a badly needed makeover. A café called Croque Madame has wallpapered the walls with a fleur-de-lis like pattern and hip tables with iPads and leather seats.
A couple days before New Years, I went to say my goodbye to the Barnes & Noble at Lincoln Center. I savored my last drink from the café and embarked on my photo mission to document what would soon be lost to a discount retailer.
It was a winter wonderland yesterday in Central Park during the snowstorm. Untapped caught some usual and unusual suspects frolicking in the snow: children, skiers, and otters (in the zoo of course) and some statues.
On December 19th, Untapped correspondent and Columbia University urban planning student Alex Wallach went to check out the MTA Nostalgia Train ride. This article is a companion piece to the Untapped Paris coverage of the vintage metro ride in Paris.
Snow may have "paralyzed" Paris in a "catastrophe" (CNN's words, not mine) yesterday, but some lightheartedly took to the streets in the first ever snowboard ride down Montmartre!