The story about the Central Park Five, told in its latest rendition in Netflix’s When They See Us, from filmmaker Ava DuVernay, is as relevant today as 1989, when the real-life events unfolded. You have racial profiling, police brutality, an eager Donald Trump looking to make a splash in the media, a large gap between the haves …
MoreBefore 2010, urban beekeeping was banned in New York City. When that regulation was lifted, in conjunction with a trend towards urban agriculture, beekeeping became an it-trend. In New York City, you can find bees of the non-aggressive Apis mellifera species in some of the most surprising places: the United Nations garden, in Green-Wood Cemetery, atop the …
MoreTransit-goers can now see a new colorful heart-shaped sticker on the side of select subway cars in celebration of 2019 World Pride the Stonewall Uprising anniversary.
MoreThe Weeksville Heritage Center in Crown Heights, on the site of one of the largest free-black communities pre-Civil War is raising funds to keep the doors open.
MoreIn honor of Pride month the new digital billboards on One Times Square showed the Pride Flag yesterday. The stunning photos were taken by @nyclovesnyc.
MoreOn a corner of Fulton Street and St. James Place in Clinton Hill, a new honorific street sign has been installed for Notorious B.I.G. who grew up on this block in Brooklyn.
MoreAll the luxurious and unique locations Succession, the drama series on HBO, films in NYC to recreate the high-powered world of the fictional Roy family.
MoreThe Brazilian street artist Kobra has been hyperactive in NYC since last fall, painting a series of 18 large-scale murals entitled “Colors For Freedom.”
MoreIt is with great excitement that we are marking the 10th anniversary of Untapped Cities and our first ever article which published on June 8, 2009!
MorePride month is here and NYC’s largest-ever LGBTQ flag, “Ascend with Pride” will be on the steps of Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island.
MoreThe Corning Museum of Glass is a great stop along the Fingers Lake wine tasting trail. The new exhibit New Glass Now is open, featuring the best of modern glassmaking around the world.
MoreGet a rare look onto abandoned Hart Island, mostly off-limits to the public but the burial place for over one million people and has served as a Cold War missile base and more.
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