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!
Discover the hidden side of famous buildings and places, or delve into off-limits spots, and gain a deeper perspective of the city's rich urban fabric. (That's the Untapped New York team with friends inside the M42 basement... deep below Grand Central 🤫)
Find out everything you ever wanted to know about scaffolding and sidewalk sheds! Why are they green? Why are they up so long? How can we get them down!?
New subway mosaics, a giant pool party, and previously off-limits spaces now filled with art are all part of the public art scene in NYC!
See what it takes to prepare the nation’s largest fireworks display, Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks, launching from the Hudson River!
The Red Room, a floor to ceiling mosaic room exists inside One Wall Street in Lower Manhattan, but has been closed off for decades.
Gas street lamps are a rare sight in New York City! Discover the story behind these 13 posts in Brooklyn Heights.
A giant dragon isn’t the only crazy thing to appear atop the Empire State Building! Discover more outrageous stunts from the past 90 years!
Check out photos from our visit to High Valley Books, a not-so-secret hidden bookstore in the basement of a Greenpoint home!
Visit New York City’s emerging media playground and learn all about the latest technologies!
From its days as a freight railway and abandoned wasteland to its current state as a beloved park, uncover secrets of the High Line in NYC!
Uncover the debaucherous behavior that took place inside New York City’s Gilded Age concert saloons in lower Manhattan!
A new exhibit at the New-York Historical Society resurrects lost landmarks, vistas, and communities of a bygone New York City!
See how Flushing Meadows-Corona Park has changed over 60 years by checking out side-by-side photos from the 1964 World’s Fair and today!
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