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!
Tomorrow at noon, join us for a virtual talk on the secrets of the Brooklyn Bridge. Beyond the Brooklyn Bridge’
We have a YouTube channel! We haven’t talked about it much but we have videos there going back nine
Explore the history and evolution of one of New York City’s largest and most ambitious housing initiatives, Stuyesant Town.
Today, the Hunts Point peninsula in the Bronx is better known as one of New York City’s industrial hubs,
Tomorrow at noon, Untapped New York tour guide Bill Shaffer will take us on a live virtual tour of Riverside
Today at noon, we will be hosting our next virtual talk, “The Once and Future Penn Station.” When first built,
The architectural tributes are flowing fast in the coronavirus battle — landmarks lit up in blue, Rockefeller ice skating rink showing
Before New York City’s modern subway system was established with the Interborough Rapid Transit Subway in 1904, there were
Photo courtesy Tishman Speyer Following last week’s inaugural #LightItBlue event, where landmarks all around the country were lit up
Last fall, I was invited to join the board of Brooklyn Greenway Initiative (BGI), the nearly twenty-year-old organization that has
In Flatbush, a landmarked Sears, Roebuck store that was still operating before the onset of the COVID-19 crisis has been
At the end of March, the Javits Center was transformed into a 3,000-bed temporary hospital for COVID-19 and other
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