In Exhibition “Give and Take,” Artist Ian Trask Makes Incredible Artworks Out of NYC Trash
The exhibition “Give and Take,” at Brooklyn’s Ground Floor Gallery showcases Ian Trask’s stunning recycled compositions made out of New York City waste.
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Daily What?! In Greenwich Village, a Table Split Between Inside and Outside at Cafe Español
Artist Shani Ha has installed a bistro table split between inside and outside of Greenwich Village’s Café Español as part of her installation “Table for Two.”
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Vintage Photos: The 12 Oldest NYC Museums
Check out vintage photos of the ten oldest museums in New York City, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum Art, and the Brooklyn Museum.
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Your Week Untapped: Top NYC Events December 22nd-December 28th, 2014
It’s the final week of the holiday season in New York City! We have selected our top events, including caroling in the East Village, a story-telling open mic at the Brooklyn Historical Society, and a lesson in “iPhoneography.”
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Fun Maps: Mapping the Great Divide in Real Estate Prices in NYC
Map makers Constantine Valhouli and Cat Callaghan have created visualizations of property costs of New York City neighborhoods as well as bordering New Jersey.
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Your Week Untapped: Our Top 10 NYC Events from Dec 8 to Dec 14, 2014
Untapped Cities has a list of performances, tours, and the quirkiest holiday markets you’ve ever been to, all inside one amazing city.
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Your NYC Holiday Untapped: Top 10 Must Visit Alternative Holiday Markets
10 alternative holiday markets in NYC: Vegan Holiday Shop-Up, LIC Flea, Artists & Fleas, BUST, Hester Street Fair, Morbid Anatomy Fair, Crafts at the Cathedral
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12 Vintage Photos of NYC Christmas Tree Lightings: Rockefeller Center, Madison Square, Prospect Park, Washington Square
The first Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree
Last year, we brought to you 7 alternative Christmas trees to the crowded, hyped one at Rockefeller Center. This year, we’ll bring you back in time to when Christmas tree lightings were much simpler than they were today. The above image shows the very first Christmas …
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Your Week Untapped: Our Top 10 NYC Events from Dec 1st to Dec 7th, 2014
The Holiday Season is kicking off here at Untapped Cities. We are excited for special holiday tours of some of our favorite historic house museums, as well as vintage train rides, classic tree-lighting evenings, and an exclusive tour of one of our favorite NYC locations, the Woolworth Building!
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Your Week Untapped: Top 10 NYC Events for Nov 24 to Nov 30, 2014
At Untapped Cities, we are getting excited for the holiday season. Check out some unique Christmas tree displays, your favorite anime movie on the big screen, or an autumn wander with an artist through the Lower East Side.
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“Gowanus Wild” Photographer Captures a Marriage of Opposites in Industrial Brooklyn
Miska Draskoczy’s nature photography series “Gowanus Wild” asks viewers to look at the industrial Brooklyn neighborhood from a different perspective.
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Fun Maps: Ecologist Recreates Manhattan in 3D before 1609
Landscape ecologist Eric Sanderson and illustrator Markley Boyer used a British map from 1776 to create 3D images of how Manhattan looked in 1609.
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