The Heroic Canine "Chief" of NYC's Engine 203 Firehouse
Meet the award-winning firehouse dog, Chief, who is still around today...
Untapped New York was started in 2010 by a then student at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), where she is now a professor. We love architecture and believe there is no better place to celebrate it than NYC!
When John D. Rockefeller, Jr., decided to finance the construction of Rockefeller Center in the 1930s, he intended his music
Photograph by David Heald © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York. Few buildings in New York City strike a more iconic
Our acclaimed Untapped Cities behind-the-scenes tour of New York City’s Woolworth Building is returning for the fall on September
This weekend, the city’s art aficionados were treated to an unexpected visit from the past. The original facade of
For July 4th, we shared out Top 10 Secrets of the Statue of Liberty but there are so many fun
Recently we profiled ten pre-war apartment houses in Washington Heights. Now, we cross the Harlem River to the South Bronx
Photo by Steven Wu Photography Last night, 20,000 lumen projectors illuminated the south side of the Empire State Building
Churches all around the world bear the name ‘Trinity Church.’ The most unusual by far happens to be a small
Monasteries may not be an institution synonymous with New York City, but as we’ve shown, they are certainly a
Just days after the New York Daily News proclaimed that “Staten Island wants to be the new Brooklyn,” 20 intrepid
South Ferry, Liberty Island, Brooklyn, and Staten Island, and Jersey City on a Soviet-era map dating back to 1982. Image
The National Lighthouse Museum, just a few minutes walk from the St. George Ferry Terminal on Staten Island will have
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