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It was amazing. I woke up still a bit drunk of course from New Years Eve. To tell you the truth, wasn't excited so much for New Years Eve as I was for the Dip.
Delta Terminal 2 at JFK just got a badly needed makeover. A café called Croque Madame has wallpapered the walls with a fleur-de-lis like pattern and hip tables with iPads and leather seats.
A couple days before New Years, I went to say my goodbye to the Barnes & Noble at Lincoln Center. I savored my last drink from the café and embarked on my photo mission to document what would soon be lost to a discount retailer.
It was a winter wonderland yesterday in Central Park during the snowstorm. Untapped caught some usual and unusual suspects frolicking in the snow: children, skiers, and otters (in the zoo of course) and some statues.
On December 19th, Untapped correspondent and Columbia University urban planning student Alex Wallach went to check out the MTA Nostalgia Train ride. This article is a companion piece to the Untapped Paris coverage of the vintage metro ride in Paris.
Snow may have "paralyzed" Paris in a "catastrophe" (CNN's words, not mine) yesterday, but some lightheartedly took to the streets in the first ever snowboard ride down Montmartre!
Like a stereotypical architecture person, I visited the Rodin Museum and remembered nothing except how beautiful the building was. But for those more interested in Rodin, the gardens contain all of his most famous works: The Thinker, The Gates of Hell, The Kiss, Monument to Victor Hugo, Balzac and The Burghers of Calais.
High above the cacophonic streets of New York, 25 lucky people get to see an intimate performance of world-class musicians while drinking bottles of Vueve Clicquot to the backdrop of Lincoln Center.
We happened to discover this storefront on 666 Bond Street recently, for the fashion label e.vil. Clever gimmick or cool enough for the East Village, its namesake? The label has been around since at least 2001, favored by Madonna, Paris Hilton and J.Lo.
Over the past six weeks, I've been teaching the Bill of Rights to 16-18 year old incarcerated juveniles in the Rikers Island Prison as part of the Rikers Island Project, an advocacy and legal workshop run by Fordham Law School. .