The beloved book Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem is coming out as a feature film with Edward Norton and Alec Baldwin as Robert Moses, with many great locations that create the film noir mid-century aesthetic of the book (including old Penn Station!)
MoreStreecha Ukrainian Kitchen, located in the basement of an East Village brownstone, will reopen Sunday serving its classics: borscht soup, potato dumplings , stuffed cabbage, and sausage with sauerkraut.
MoreNothing quite prepared us for the fake New York City literally inside the Paramount Building in Times Square. Except you can’t actually walk in it. Water towers, fake facades, and more make the town.
MoreThis weekend, you can rent the largest sand castle ever created in NYC, created by master sand builder Matt Long the “Sandman” at Luna Park on Coney Island.
MoreThere’s something very Wes Anderson about the Jane Hotel. Beyond the eclectic shabby chic interior, the check-in desk is staffed by men in bell caps and maroon uniforms. Keys and mail are still stored in the boxes behind the counter and a call bell is rung for the baggage.
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.
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.
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.
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!
MoreA silver Spitfire plane that served in World War II, flying more than 51 missions during the war, is en route to the NYC-area in an attempt to complete the world’s longest flight.
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