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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!
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New Plans Unveiled for MoMA Expansion, Folk Art Museum To Be Demolished
In May 2013, architects and critics had a glimmer of hope regarding the fate of The Folk Art Museum building,
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New Visions for the Abandoned Gowanus Batcave by Syracuse University Architecture Students
In 2012, Untapped contributor Will Ellis (of Abandoned NYC) took us inside the Gowanus Batcave, an abandoned MTA powerhouse turned
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Fun Maps: The Cast Iron Buildings of NYC
Cast iron buildings are normally associated with Soho in New York City, and we recently learned to decode the signs
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Judge Rules City Illegally Gave Away Public Parkland for NYU Expansion Plan
If you’ve been following the debate over NYU’s expansion plans in Greenwich Village, you’d know that the
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TDR, IBZ, WTF?! The Center for Urban Pedagogy Spells Out Zoning Basics for the Uninitiated
Zoning is a city planning instrument that few of us know much about or care to pay attention to. But
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Abandoned Hart Island in NYC May Be Turned Into a Park
Our story on the abandoned Hart Island in New York City, the largest tax-funded cemetery in the world, was our
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Daily What?! FDR Drive is Made of Rubble from WWII Blitz
A new book Rubble: Unearthing the History of Demolition reveals that a large portion of the landfill on top of
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Fresh Pond Crematory, Boardwalk Empire Film Location and the First Crematorium in NY
Middle Village, Queens is not known for tourist attractions, but if you make it to the Metropolitan Avenue stop on
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Inside the Abandoned Amato Opera House on the Bowery in the Lower East Side
All photos by Allison Siegel Allison Siegel is the Resident Historian for BoweryBoogie.com, for which she earned the moniker
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Daily What?! A Former Shoe Store Hidden in Times Square Revealed
The building at the northeast corner of Broadway and 46th Street is one of those hidden gems that even most
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Daily What?! Meet the Falcons that Live Atop NYC’s Bridges
All photos from the MTA Photos Flickr, for the full album see here. If you thought New York was ruled
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Where in the World is Untapped Cities Today?
Take a guess where we shot this photograph from today? This skyline, which may be reminiscent of London perhaps or