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!
No trains have stopped at the abandoned Westchester Avenue station in the Bronx since the 1930s. The Gothic-style station designed
The Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi made his way back into the spotlight recently, with the addition of one of his
A new park in Brooklyn, Emily Roebling Plaza, will be dedicated to the woman who completed the construction of the
Art Deco architecture is at the core of New York’s identity and Ralph Walker was a key figure in
In 2015, the Manhattan Municipal Building was renamed the David N. Dinkins Manhattan Municipal Building in honor of New York
The MetLife Building sky bridge just next to Madison Square Park is being demolished. Photographer Klaus-Peter Statz, one of our
In the mid-2000s, the once-treasured Bell Labs building in Holmdel, NJ, appeared to be another real estate white elephant — too
One of the most fascinating things we shared in our recent article on The Roosevelt Hotel is about a secret
Visitors to Brooklyn’s Prospect Park can now see striking original details of one of the park’s oldest structures,
The Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan first welcomed its luxurious suites to guests on September 22, 1924, and has been
The Elizabeth Street Garden in Manhattan’s Little Italy is a community garden filled with an eclectic assemblage of statuary.
Newport, Rhode Island is a place of memory, both collective and individual, where myth and reality intersect in streets and
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