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05/06/13 10:00am

Your Week Untapped: Best NYC Events for May 6-12

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Our curated events picks for this week: PULSE Art Fair, Frieze Art Fair and the Untapped Cities Secrets of Grand Central tour.

MONDAY, MAY 6:  The Explorers Club lecture series with Dr. Pat Wright: The Lemur Crisis in Madagasar. Join Dr. Wright as she takes you to the rainforests of Madagascar and learn about her lemur conservation work that since its beginnings in 1986 has intertwined research, education, health and economic improvement. 6pm reception, 7pm lecture at The Explorers Club, 46 East 70th Street. FREE for members / $5 students / $20 general admission. For reservations call 212 – 628 – 8383 or email reservations@explorers.org.

TUESDAY, MAY 7: Architectural historian and Woolworth Building authority Gail Fenske will present a second lecture on the great Gothic tower: The Woolworth Building: Highest in the World. This illustrated talk will explore the professional relationship between architect Cass Gilbert and client Frank W. Woolworth. 6:30-8pm at the Skyscraper Museum, 39 Battery Place. FREE.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 8: How Buildings Stand Up at the Center for Architecture Foundation. Learn about the structural systems that support buildings and how they work to resist the forces of gravity, wind, weather and earthquakes. Get the inside scoop on how new materials and technologies affect the way we build and experiment with simple structural models to gain a first-hand understanding of the push and pull at work in a building’s bones. 6-8pm at 536 La Guardia Place. $35. Buy tickets here.

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05/01/13 8:56am

Jane’s Walks 2013: Untapped Picks

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Jane’s Walks were inaugurated on May 5, 2007, in Toronto, by the Center for the Living City to celebrate the birthday of Jane Jacobs. The Center for the Living City is a non-profit organization created by Jane Jacobs’ friends to “celebrate her life and legacy by helping people organize walks in their communities around the time of Jane’s birthday in early May.”

Every year since, free neighborhood tours have been held to honor the legacy of the urban activist who argued for “mixed use neighborhoods” and “eyes on the street.” From its first year in Toronto with 27 tours, Jane’s Walks expanded to New York City with the help of Jane Farrow, a CBC broadcaster. Today, Jane’s Walk has expanded to over 75 cities in 15 countries, with over 500 neighborhood tours available. (more…)

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04/29/13 9:00am

Your Week Untapped: Best Events for April 29-May 5

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Our curated events picks for this week: PEN World Voices Festival, Parisians vs. New Yorkers at the French Embassy, the New Yorker’s passport to the arts.

MONDAY, APRIL 29: Local Roots NYC celebrates their two year anniversary with a party featuring a photo booth, stations to make instruments out of vegetables and to decorate a postcard for local farmers, and a hootenanny. All are welcome to bring a home baked good as well as an instrument for the hootenanny. There will be pinatas filled with goodies by Liddabit Sweets, Ovenly, GranolaLab, McClure’s and their other CSA artisanal purveyors. Attendees receive a complimentary pint of beet wheat brew, made specially for the event. 7-10pm at 61 Local, 61 Bergen Street, Brooklyn. FREE, please bring a dessert or instrument!

Also on Monday: Bravery in art, democracy in politics, and the sheer raw zeniths and nadirs of modern life: Join PEN as they kick off the 2013 PEN World Voices Festival with this exciting event. Bringing together writers from different countries, genres, and disciplines to read from their works, The Opening Night event is a perfect preview of what is to come. Hosted by Bartunde Thurston. 7-8:30pm at The Great Hall, Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street. $25 general admission; $20 PEN members/students. Buy tickets here.

TUESDAY, APRIL 30: Intro to the NYC Startup Community. For the first time, General Assembly is bringing its class to the French Embassy in New York, home to French culture and higher education. This free class is an orientation to help newcomers to the startup scene get acquainted with the exciting world of tech in NYC. We will give you the inside scoop on key events/meetups to attend, people, companies, VCs, blogs, incubators, programs, hot issues, and more. 7-9pm at the French Embassy, 972 5th Avenue. FREE. Register here.

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04/22/13 1:35pm

Your Week Untapped: Best Events for April 22-28

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Our curated events picks for this week: JR’s Inside Out Project arrives in Times Square, Here and There by Maya Lin opening, Brooklyn Botanical Garden’s annual cherry blossom festival.

MONDAY, APRIL 22: For INSIDE OUT NEW YORK CITY, JR and his team invite New Yorkers and visitors to take self-portraits in a specially designed photo booth stationed in Times Square, the site of the world’s first ever photo booth almost 100 years ago. The black-and-white self-portraits will be overlaid on a backdrop designed by JR and printed on the spot as a 3’ x 4’ poster. The posters will either be displayed in Times Square or in the home community of the portrait’s subject. The goal of the project is to allow each portrait-taker to express through his or her face a message to the world. Also check out the Documentary Inside Out: The People’s Art Project at the Tribeca Film Festival. 5:30pm at AMC Loews Village 7, Screen 3, 66 Third Avenue. $11.50. Buy tickets here.

TUESDAY, APRIL 23: Bert Stern: Original Mad Man exhibition. In this exhibition of photographs by Bert Stern, the full sweep of his remarkable career is revealed; from the work that signaled his meteoric rise in the advertising world of the 1950′s through the 1960′s and 70′s when he became the prototype of the fashion photographer as the embodiment of glamour: a legend himself. Groundbreaking images of the great personalities of the world, from Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Marilyn Monroe and Twiggy to Louis Armstrong and Frank Lloyd Wright, made Bert Stern a celebrity in his own right. The release of the documentary Bert Stern: Original Mad Man will coincide with the Staley-Wise exhibition. The film is a particularly American and totally honest story of self-creation, a fall from grace, and reinvention. 11am-5pm. Exhibition on view until May 18. Staley-Wise Gallery, 560 Broadway. FREE.

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04/21/13 10:03am

Untapped Mailbag: NYC Type-In at the Museum of the American Gangster

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This is our new column featuring the awesome questions and love letters we get in our Untapped Cities Mailbag. Submit your own to info@untappedcities.com or through our contact page.

Earlier, we showed you the Museum of the American Gangster and the surviving speakeasy inside at 80 Avenue A in Alphabet City. We were informed that our article inspired the location for this afternoon’s first NYC Type-IN event, a jam session for manual typewriters and the people who love them. Bring a stamped envelope -or- functioning manual typewriter and be part of: speed typing showdown, snail mail letter session. There will be Q&A with typewriter experts and manual typewriter swap.

The event is hosted by Mike McGettigan from Trophy Bikes. The event is free on Sunday April 21st. Drop by between 1-4pm. 80 St. Marks Place. If you would like to bring a functioning manual typewriter to the event, then please let the organizers know the make & model so they can prepare a table space for you.

Here’s a “preliminary list of mechanical attendees,” meaning the typerwriters not the people:

NYC Type-IN Museum of American Gangster

Have a burning question about cities? Want us to track down an obscure piece of history? Or just want to share something awesome about your city? Write to us at info@untappedcities.com or through our contact page. 

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04/18/13 2:46pm

The Secrets of Grand Central Tour

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Did you know there is a tennis court inside Grand Central? Or that the ceiling is backwards? Untapped Cities Events is hosting a “Secrets of Grand Central” tour led by Untapped Cities architecture writer and guide, Tamara Agins, author of our popular series on Grand Central. Bonus: the tour ends with a drink at the Campbell Apartments, the Gilded Age office and salon of tycoon John W. Campbell, now converted into a soaring hidden bar.

Join us on Sunday, May 12th at 2:30pm, only 20 tickets available:

The story of Grand Central Terminal is that of New York City itself: the structure embodies the social, cultural, economic and technological evolution around it.  It is one of great men, feuding architects, ingenuity, rejuvenation, secrets and surprises.  On this tour, we will tell you these stories — about what once was, what could have been, and what can be; about the struggle to save and restore Grand Central as preserved icon of past, and of challenge to ensure that it serves New York’s future. We will show you what it was like in the booming age of the railroad, as a rundown embarrassment, and as a renovated jewel at the center of the city. Together,  we will explore the interesting and unique spaces produced for and by it.  Whether you pass through it every day on your morning commute or it’s your first time in the Beaux Arts beauty, you are sure to leave having learned, seen, or experienced something new and extraordinary.

About Tamara Agins: A native New Yorker, Tamara Agins works for the Department of City Planning and gives tours for the Municipal Art Society. With a background in political ecology, she is engaged in issues of urban sustainability and climate resilience in the NY-Metro region. She is always up for an adventure.

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