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Every week Untapped Cities offers a variety of unique behind-the-scenes tours and events aimed to help you rediscover New York City! Whether you want to explore somewhere you have never been, get the inside scoop on a new museum exhibit, or discover the inside of historic building you may pass everyday, you can do it this week on an Untapped Cities adventure:
Join Untapped Cities Insiders for a curator led walkthrough of “Germ City: Microbes and The Metropolis,” the newest exhibition the Museum of the City of New York.
You can join this tour if you are or become an Untapped Cities Insider!
Go inside the historic Woolworth Building on our Special Access Tour! On this tour, guests will gain entry to the landmarked building – which is usually closed off to the general public – to learn its history, explore the cathedral-like lobby, see the intricate mosaic ceiling up-close on the mezzanine level, and peek inside the cellar-level bank vault.
TOUR HIGHLIGHTS:
Insider Tour of the Woolworth Building
Explore the Ellis Island’s abandoned hospital on our behind-the-scenes hard hat tour. Once the standard for United States medical care, the 22-building hospital compound has been left to decay for nearly 60 years. On this experience, guests will visit the contagious disease wards, the autopsy rooms and other spaces usually closed to the public.Behind-the-Scenes Hard Hat Tour of the Abandoned Ellis Island Hospital
Take a ride through the living history of the world’s largest rapid transit system (in area) by weaving in and out of the past and present transit hubs of lower Manhattan. We’ll uncover information and learn about spaces even the most seasoned commuter might not know about. Using the 6 train as our own ten-car time machine, we will ride through and see three abandoned ghost stations that 4, 5, and 6 riders unknowingly pass through everyday: Worth Street and the famed City Hall Station. We will not stop inside these stations.
Underground Tour of the NYC Subway
Flushing Meadows-Corona Park has lived many lives from marshy tidal wetlands to an early 20th Century ash dump, to the site of not one, but two World’s Fairs. This tour explores the past, present, and future of this 900 acre park which was an obsession of the late “Master Builder,” Robert Moses. Join playwright, author, and Untapped Cities Tour guide, Justin Rivers as he leads you on a journey through Flushing Meadows’ many treasures including hidden time capsules, the Fountain of the Planets, the Unisphere, and the historic New York State Pavilion.
TOUR HIGHLIGHTS:
Tour the Remnants of the World’s Fairs at Flushing Meadows-Corona Park
TOUR HIGHLIGHTS:
Behind-the-Scenes Hard Hat Tour of the Abandoned Ellis Island Hospital
Hear stories of New York City’s tattoo ban, which lasted from 1961-1997, as told by five New York historians and tattoo artists at Caveat’s “Illegal Ink: The bizarre story of NYC’s Tattoo Ban.” Speakers will include local tattoo shop owners like Mehai Bakaty, owner of Fineline Tattoo, and author Efrain John Gonzalez. “Illegal Ink” is part of Caveat’s ever changing line-up of “intelligent nightlife” presented at the Lower East Side speakeasy.
If you are or become an Untapped Cities Insider, you can attend this event for free!
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