Join photographer John Lazzaro for a sneak peek at his new photo book of former tuberculosis hospitals in the United States!
Just prior to New York State going on PAUSE for coronavirus, we went to visit Roosevelt Island‘s amazing pneumatic tube trash system. Below the streets, residential garbage is whisked underground and ...
“Man’s Achievement on a Shrinking Globe in an Expanding Universe” was the theme of the 1964 World’s Fair and the New York State Pavilion embodied that theme in the modern design of its buildings. One ...
With the exception of the New York City Police Academy, there are no colleges in College Point — and there hasn’t been a college there in decades. This begs the question, why is the neighborhood ...
Strategically placed along the waterways surrounding New York City to warn of aquatic hazards, a collection of lighthouses ushers ships into New York Harbor, lighting the way for a safe passage into ...
Maspeth is a residential community in Queens that few people outside of Queens or Brooklyn know about. Bordered by communities like Woodside, Sunnyside, Ridgewood, and Greenpoint, Maspeth is a rather ...
Become a paid member to listen to this article Abandoned rail line Montauk Cutoff in the shadow of the city. Across New York City, there are plenty of remnants of abandoned and lost rail lines, some ...
In our adventures around the five boroughs, the Untapped New York team has often found that our city’s storefronts and facades aren’t always what they seem. We have found a pinball arcade behind a ...
In the 1920s and 1930s, Harlem was buzzing with the roaring sounds of jazz, the chatter of new ideas, and new rhythms of poetry. The Upper Manhattan neighborhood was the birthplace and namesake of the ...
Bay Ridge, Brooklyn sits in southwestern Brooklyn alongside the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge and the Belt Parkway. Currently home to about 85,000 people, the neighborhood gives a suburban feel to those ...
When the original McKim, Mead and White designed Penn Station was demolished in 1963, not all of it was lost. There are many remnants from the 1910 building within the station itself and there is an ...
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