A quest to find his grandmother's birthplace led Richard Marc Sakols on a mission to capture his changing neighborhood on film.
Meet photographer Emon Hassan and explore the photographs in his pop-up exhibit for "I Dream of the Heights"!
Go inside the home of a jazz legend, learn how to make a subway map, spend an evening in a private art collection, and more!
Photo via Groundswell The Rose M. Singer Center at Rikers Island is the women’s barracks of Rikers Island, opened
We all love our iconic, innovative, and picturesque bridges (insert photos of the Brookly, Manhattan, and Queensboro Bridges here), but
The Rikers Island GreenHouse garden, run as a collaboration between The Horticulture Society and the NYC Department of Correction, provides
While researching the WPA-style wastewater treatment plant in Astoria, we came across this proposal to extend LaGuardia Airport’s runways.
August 2013 NYC Subway Map by the MTA with Rikers Island Over the years, the MTA and earlier transit agencies
Last week we uncovered some of New York City’s former cemeteries that are now populated with park-goers and hotel
Bentham’s Panopticon. Image via Wikimedia Commons. Those that (still) watch True Blood, HBO’s vampire drama will be familiar
Each week, we’ll feature one of our popular lists on Foursquare (or exciting additions to them). Check out our
This week in the Untapped Cities mailbag, an Untapped reader caught this flub by NBC News, which claims that the
Untapped New York is a proud to be a partner of Let’s Go, with our shared vision for off-the-beaten
Over the past six weeks, I have been teaching the Bill of Rights to 16-18 year old incarcerated juveniles in
One of the most popular Untapped New York articles has been about the prisons of New York City. This fall,
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