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What to Do When Rats Move Into Your Car
It's a problem you hope never to have, but here are our tips if get some rodent visitors!
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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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There’s a Wall of Fame of Groundbreaking Shovels from NYC EDC’s Projects
We discovered this fun find at a recent meeting in the office of NYC’s Economic Development Corporation (EDC). They
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Cities 101: Red Fire Alarm Boxes in NYC, Do They Even Work?
Throughout New York City, you may be familiar with these red fire alarm boxes that are supposed to summon the
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8 Architectural Gems along the Bronx’s Grand Concourse: County Courthouse, Post Office, Loew’s Paradise Theater, Poe Cottage
Photo by Lynn Lieberman/AFineLyne The Grand Concourse has been compared with grand boulevards from the Champs Élysées in Paris
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Daily What?! An Original French-Inspired Façade of Bloomingdale’s Department Store in NYC
Smack in the middle of Bloomingdale’s, along 60th Street, is this remnant of the former urban fabric, built in
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Abandoned NYC: The Staten Island Farm Colony’s Disturbing Secrets
Abandoned for over 40 years, the Staten Island Farm Colony today is a creepy memento of its dark and troubled
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10 of Downtown Los Angeles’s Most Important Architectural Sites
Los Angeles is a vast, sprawling city, and neighborhoods on the coast, like Santa Monica, Venice Beach and Malibu, have
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Significant NYC Colonial Site May Be Demolished on the Bowery: Bull’s Head Tavern & Atlantic Gardens
An anonymous tipster sent around this photo, purportedly from the cellar of what was once Bull’s Head Tavern, in
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Daily What?! Seneca, the Middle Class Village Inside Central Park
Here’s another gem from the book Secret New York: An Unusual Guide: there was once a thriving village called
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13 Historic Houses Converted into Museums in Manhattan
New York City is home to numerous world-famous museums but if you need a break from classics like the Metropolitan
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Vintage Photos: Horn & Hardart’s 57th Street Automat Now a NYC Hilton Vacation Club
Located in one of the most metropolitan areas of Manhattan, the Hilton Vacation Club at 6th Avenue and 57th Street
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Interactive Doc, “A Short History of the Highrise” on The New York Times: Part IV, “Home”
Untapped Cities has followed New York Times’ documentary collaboration with the Highrise project through three of its four parts: “Mud,
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Contributor Profile: Alex Wallach
This week, we profile Untapped Cities contributor Alex Wallach, an urban planner with a family history in Coney Island. He
