NYC’s Oldest Brick Townhouse: The Mooney House in Chinatown
The Bowery, NYC's oldest thoroughfare, is unsurprisingly home to the oldest surviving brick row house in the city at 18 Bowery!
Discover the hidden side of famous buildings and places, or delve into off-limits spots, and gain a deeper perspective of the city's rich urban fabric. (That's the Untapped New York team with friends inside the M42 basement... deep below Grand Central 🤫)
The Bowery, NYC's oldest thoroughfare, is unsurprisingly home to the oldest surviving brick row house in the city at 18 Bowery!
This 1920s building on the Bowery had many lives before it became a legendary NYC music venue in the 1990s!
You can still find remnants of the original McKim Mead & White-designed Penn Station from 1910 inside today's modern transit hub!
A number with a 212 NYC area code is a badge of honor that bestows “old New York” authenticity. But why were those three numbers chosen?
Locate the private streets of NYC on an interactive map!
Buell Hall is the only reminder of the lost Bloomingdale Asylum and the battle between real estate and mental health in Morningside Heights.
Discover a futuristic tepee in Wisconsin, a concrete Spanish masterpiece in St. Louis, and more NYC relics across the nation!
Untapped New York witnessed the spectacular test of the 2025 Times Square New Year's Eve ball drop.
A new street art hotspot has some unconventional holiday decorations!
What happened to the 104 bronze figures that once lined NYC's famous thoroughfare?!
Did you know the fames concert venue was almost demolished?!
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