What Are Those Tiny Thermometers on NYC Subway Ceilings?
Guerilla art? Buttons? Find out exactly what these tiny thermometers on the NYC subway are used for!
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!
Yesterday, Aaron Asis, our Untapped New York Artist in Residence and founder of Unforgotten Films documented the city’s nearly
In New York City, there are few remnants of the quarantine hospitals that once treated the city’s sick during
1. Bellevue Horse-drawn ambulance at Bellevue Hospital in 1895. Image: Public Domain from Wikimedia Commons Bellevue Hospital, which still exists,
Image from Library of Congress We put out an open call on our Facebook page with the question: “If you
It’s an auspicious day for the opening of Edge, the highest outdoor sky deck in the Western Hemisphere, weather
1. Why is the Synagogue’s Architecture in Moorish Revival Style? To people today, it may seem incongruous that a
The prevailing architecture at Columbia University’s new Manhattanville Campus is one of the starchitects’ imagination. The initial buildings — the
Cathedral of St. John the Divine There is a lot to know about landmarking in New York City. Within New
In February, Central Park Conservancy hosted a month-long series of free tours on Seneca Village in honor of Black History
Queens Boulevard, a predominantly twelve-lane thoroughfare that extends from Queens Plaza off the Queensboro Bridge to Jamaica, may not be
Apart from what is on display in the Noguchi Museum in Long Island City, there are only five other works
The New York Academy of Medicine is bringing to light an incredible collection of over 2000 historic postcards that were
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