In Inwood, a curious 30,000 square foot, 30-foot tall outcropping of bedrock in Inwood is currently for sale for $2.99 million. It gets even more complicated — the rock actually has two owners.
Hart Island is one of the city's most beautiful and mysterious places. A new video from Unforgotten Films takes you into this normally off-limits island off the Bronx.
Central Park's North End will be getting a much-needed $150 million restoration and reconstruction, and the Lasker Rink & Pool will be demolished and completely rebuilt in a more naturalistic setting.
If you’ve been to the Metropolitan Opera, you know there is often a lot of fighting happening on stasge. In the back of the house, there is an armory filled floor to ceiling with weapons of different types and eras.
On Roosevelt Island, Catalan architect and urban planner Josep Lluis Sert received one of the largest canvases on the island to create his ideal multi-family utopia. Join a free tour during Archtober to learn more about what came of the plan.
In 1982, the artist Agnes Denes planted two acres of wheat on the Battery Park landfill, a new outcropping on the Manhattan waterfront created as a result of excavation for the World Trade Center in the 1970s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAGVQLHvwOY On October 4th, The Warner Bros. movie Joker will bring Gotham back to life again, starring Joaquin Phoenix in
The beloved book Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem is coming out as a feature film with Edward Norton and Alec Baldwin as Robert Moses, with many great locations that create the film noir mid-century aesthetic of the book (including old Penn Station!)
Meet Elyse Marks, a restoration architect working on NYC's most historic buildings who is certified as a rope access technician, performing gravity-defying inspections!
A new video series by artist Aaron Asis, who is also our new Artist in Residence at Untapped Cities, goes into the forgotten and abandoned places in NYC. In the latest, we go into the off-limits New York State Pavilion, a remnant of the 1964 World's Fair in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.