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!
Glen Cove Mansion New York City officially reopens today, but Nassau and Suffolk counties reopened for phase 1 on May
Many New Yorkers have been riveted by Governor Andrew Cuomo’s daily press briefings since the onset of the coronavirus
Do you know the muffin man? To many, this is a nursery rhyme rather than a real question, calling to
The High Line is an open air promenade in Manhattan riddled with secrets, little known facts, and beautiful sites. Tomorrow
Over the last two nights, demonstrators in New York City have taken to not only the streets but also to
Hidden amidst the slopes of the Park Hill neighborhood of Yonkers, New York are two houses that together serve as
Historically, Union Square has been the site of many meetings, demonstrations and speeches, including rallies for the Union during the
Background photograph from Library of Congress. Book cover photographed by Untapped New York. The Power Broker, a 1,246 page
In urban planner and architecture speak, you often hear of the term “contextual development” or “contextual design.” This means that
Today at noon, explore where New York began in a virtual talk on the remnants of Dutch New Amsterdam. The
At 2,200 acres, Freshkills Park is almost three times the size of Central Park and the largest park to
When the weather warmed up in New York City, photographs of the dense crowds in two parks went viral: Hudson
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