On October 4th, The Warner Bros. movie Joker will bring Gotham back to life again, starring Joaquin Phoenix in a dark turn for which he is already getting rave reviews. While the usual cast of DC Comics characters return for this oft-explored story, Joker is at its core, as described by Warner Bros. a “gritty, …
MoreIs it possible to have an architecturally significant airport terminal, literally hidden in plain sight? It is, if it’s been picked up and moved a half mile, its original entrance tucked into an internal courtyard, and is forgotten by the public. Such is the understatedly epic story of Building 1, an Art Deco beauty built …
MoreSee images and a time lapse video of the abandoned Ironbound Stadium, a former 4,500-seat concrete bleacher stadium that is currently undergoing restoration.
MoreThanks to a tip from an Untapped Cities tour guest, we discovered new Penn Station remnants, including a missing clock sculpture, in a parking lot in Newark, NJ.
MoreThe last thing you might expect in the bustling Port Newark is a church, but the Seamen’s Church Institute has been hidden inside since 1961.
MoreIn NYC and New Jersey, before they were grand movie palaces, many of the theaters were vaudeville houses. Take a look inside 10 that have since been abandoned.
MoreMatthew Christopher of Abandoned America takes us inside the deserted grounds of the former Essex County Jail Annex, once the largest prison in the Newark area
MoreKilly Killford is the artist behind Happy Street Signs and “Love Up Guns Down,” street art campaigns in NYC and Newark putting a twist on the metal street sign
MoreThere are 3700 post offices that may be sold by the USPS. Many of the post offices are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
MoreThis week in the Untapped Cities mailbag, an Untapped reader caught this flub by NBC News, which claims that the oldest private residence in the New York area is the 1712 Seydenham House. The Lent-Riker-Smith homestead was built almost 60 years earlier in 1665. The Lent-Riker-Smith homestead is the only remaining Riker house on the …
MoreWhile most attention is paid to the abandoned theaters in New York City, the abandoned theaters of New Jersey in Newark, and Passaic are worth a look.
MoreInventor and sculptor Daniel Henderson decides to sculpt iconic products into stone, on view at NJIT.
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