Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island has launched its third annual Sketch 4 Freedom contest, and Untapped Cities founder Michelle Young is a judge! Win $300 and art supplies Blick Art Materials, and Four Freedoms merchandise.
More“Don’t give up!” reads a sign on one of the staircases. “IT’S TRY-ON not TY-RON” reads another of the witty signs NYC Parks has snuck into Fort Tryon Park.
MoreFrom a XXX-porn house that is now a children’s theater to a police station in a former smut shop, discover ten seedy remnants of gritty old Times Square you can still see today.
MoreInside the new Terminal B at LaGuardia Airport. Photo courtesy LaGuardia Gateway Partners.
LaGuardia Airport often gets a bad rap, from Donald Trump down to the plebeians who use the airport who are lately battling standstill traffic with all the construction. All this snarl and frustration is intended for a good end however, with a whole new …
MoreMeet Elyse Marks, a restoration architect working on NYC’s most historic buildings who is certified as a rope access technician, performing gravity-defying inspections!
MoreAt Miller Field on Staten Island, you can get tantalizingly close to abandoned airplane hangars and control towers while walking amidst Vanderbilt and military history.
MoreSee how subway and transit signs evolved from painted pieces of wood to the sleek metal signs and digital kiosks we have today at a new exhibit inside Grand Central.
MoreHear ghost stories of the West Village, uncover secrets of the subway, go inside an abandoned hospital, and discover more ways to explore NYC with Untapped Cities!
MoreA new video series by artist Aaron Asis, who is also our new Artist in Residence at Untapped Cities, goes into the forgotten and abandoned places in NYC. In the latest, we go into the off-limits New York State Pavilion, a remnant of the 1964 World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.
MoreGo behind-the-scenes a the construction site of the largest landfill-to-park project in the world, Freshkills Park in Staten Island!
MoreIt was only a matter of time. New York City now has a Dog Restaurant Week. Organized by Petminded, a travel planning company for pet owners, the first-ever Dog Restaurant Week has sixteen participating restaurants, of which five have dog menus!
MoreFrom the maritime entrance to NYC to the top of a building in the Bronx, discover some of the most unique and historic lighthouses in and around the city!
MoreDiscover the many secrets of NYC’s Grand Central Terminal in this Untapped Cities tour led by Tamara Agins of the NYC Department of City Planning.
MoreDiscover infectious and contagious disease wards, an autopsy room, the kitchen and other off-limits places on our hard hat tour of Ellis Island Hospital.
MoreTake a ride through the history of the world’s largest rapid transit system by weaving in and out of the past, present and future transit hubs of NYC.
MoreFrom a XXX-porn house that is now a children’s theater to a police station in a former smut shop, discover ten seedy remnants of gritty old Times Square you can still see today.
MoreAt Miller Field on Staten Island, you can get tantalizingly close to abandoned airplane hangars and control towers while walking amidst Vanderbilt and military history.
MoreA new video series by artist Aaron Asis, who is also our new Artist in Residence at Untapped Cities, goes into the forgotten and abandoned places in NYC. In the latest, we go into the off-limits New York State Pavilion, a remnant of the 1964 World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.
MoreFrom a XXX-porn house that is now a children’s theater to a police station in a former smut shop, discover ten seedy remnants of gritty old Times Square you can still see today.
MoreThere are a number of playgrounds around NYC (and many more parks) that are built above burial grounds. Read about 5 that still have bodies buried beneath them!
MoreIt’s August, one of the last prime months of the year for a significant new influx of public art installations in NYC. Here’s all the new art to check out!
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