On Oct. 19, 1847 NYC held a cornerstone ceremony for a 425-foot tall Washington Monument. The monument was not built and the fate of the cornerstone is unknown.
In 1985, after the Whitney Museum announced expansion plans, Storefront for Art and Architecture held Before Whitney, an exhibition of alternative designs.
In 1983, as the centennial of the Statue of Liberty approached, the Storefront for Art and Architecture launched a competition to reimagine the NYC landmark
10 forgotten examples of car-centric history in NYC from parking in Washington Square Park, driveway of the Met Museum, the Westway, and Penn Station driveways.
In honor of Memorial Day, we're looking back at the history of the white marble Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, located at 89th Street and Riverside Drive.
City Island Railroad Car, c. 1910. Photo from Library Congress via Wikimedia Commons. Imagine if New Yorkers could commute by high
In July 1927, Popular Science profiled a proposal for a sixteen mile elevated highway that would span the rooftops of a Manhattan avenue in NYC
The Met Museum of Art in NYC remains unfinished to this day. Here are tidbits about where to see these incomplete portions today and how they came to be.
A note from Untapped New York founder, Michelle Young: 9/11 happened on the first day of registration my sophomore year
At the NYC Skyscraper Museum through January 2015 is the exhibit Times Square 1984: The Postmodern Moment showcasing plans for Times Square never implemented.