How much do you really know about the systems that keep a city alive? The Works: Anatomy of a City contains everything you ever wanted to know about what makes New York City run.
An in-depth look at the history of concrete and how it has influenced architecture through the ages
This bookstore has a fairy tale history; the original shop was owned and run by an American but was closed down by the Nazis during the war and became the meeting point for Hemingway’s "Lost Generation."
David Freeland is the author of Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville: Excavating Manhattan's Lost Places of Leisure, a must for any New York city buff. In a new short film, he explores the abandoned club that started the jazz movement on 133rd Street.
Untapped takes a poll of New Yorkers on their cab tipping etiquette--here are the results!
The original interior featured a six-floor lobby, a tri-level auditorium in homage to an Arabian tent, a massive elephant head, and was ornamented in “black marble, red leather, aluminum gilt, and 300,000 crystal jewels.”
Untapped Paris checks out the first Dead Drop in Paris and inadvertently runs into gay cruisers and a lot of condoms.
Polo Ralph Lauren planner, Grace Yen, tells Untapped about her engagement at the New York Botanical Gardens, in the dead of winter.
"A hotel for me is a movie. I imagine why people will come, why people will come back. What they will live, what they will feel. I hope for them to feel more creative, more intelligent, more elegant, more sparkling, more poetic, more foolish, more in love." - Philippe Starck
Why fixate on a single entity when New York City is further drenched in chain stores every passing year.?