Visit the Map Room in Manhattan's Municipal Building
Explore rare maps of NYC housed in the Map Room of Manhattan's Municipal Building with Manhattan's official topographer, Hector Rivera!
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!
In the Bronx, no building surpassed the height of Immaculate Conception Church’s spire for eighty years. Measuring 227-feet tall,
Doug Emhoff is the husband of United States Vice President Kamala Harris with an official title as “The Second Gentleman.
When the original McKim, Mead and White designed Penn Station was demolished in 1963, not all of it was lost.
The second episode of our The Untapped New York Podcast is all about the New York City water tower! In
I’m often asked what my favorite weird/obscure fact about New York City was. Ironically, as the founder of
Today at Untapped New York, we’re super excited to announce the launch of our podcast, The Untapped New York
Pretend It’s a City! is a new multi-episode documentary on Netflix directed by Martin Scorsese where he follows his
Here at Untapped New York, the secrets of New York City are our specialty. Over the last twelve years, we’
New York City streets are proverbially paved with gold, but in reality, they have been paved with everything from dirt
The recently opened Moynihan Train Hall will get an additional access point, through an extension of the High Line. Governor
Standing proudly at Brooklyn’s Grand Army Plaza, the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Arch acts as both a monumental entrance
It’s obvious that urbanists have a fascination with the subterranean, whether of the macabre nature like the catacombs of
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