See icons of the Broadway stage, beloved animated characters, and events from 2024 recreated with canned foods!
Travel back to Fifth Ave's opening day, November 1, 1824, and learn about the birth of the Gilded Age!
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!
Our exclusive Untapped Cities Woolworth tour has been so popular, we’re offering more chances to check out the off-limits
With the seemingly countless proposed changes along the 125th Street corridor in Harlem, including the approved city rezoning plan, we
Not surprisingly, a lot has changed since the 70s — it’s hard to believe that “back in the day” there
Image via The Library of Congress When New Yorkers think “Holland Tunnel”, they picture bumper-to-bumper traffic and expensive tolls. However,
Old-fashioned windmills, medieval half-timber architecture, horse-drawn trolleys, and sticky-sweet Nordic shops aren’t your typical Southern Californian fare. But in
The Urban Reviewer is an interactive map of NYC “master plans” (aka, urban renewal plans), where tenants were re-located in
At the foot of the Sierra Nevada in the environs of Yosemite National Park rests the small city of Sonora,
Dakota Apartments, 1890. Image via The Library of Congress It is difficult to imagine a desolate Central Park West without
You see tile everywhere around you — from the walls of your subway station to the floor of your bathroom. But
The Central Park Arsenal, at 64th Street and Fifth Avenue, is one of the two buildings (the other being the
The Blockhouse was one of many fortifications built in New York City during the War of 1812 to protect against
Once upon a time the independent city of Brooklyn considered its own fate as it faced both bankruptcy and drought
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