Nestled amongst the hustle and bustle of Wall Street’s financial towers and office buildings there is a rather unassuming bank with a spectacular secret inside. Through the gold revolving doors at the ...

At a nondescript building on Liberty Street, Tesla invented a ground breaking machine. But does anyone remember?

Dive into a new novel about the real woman whose likeness appears on more than a dozen iconic statues around NYC!

Discover the many ways adaptive reuse has saved historic synagogues across the five boroughs, as shown in Ellen Levitt's new ...

Around the time 55 Water Street was in development, Richard was on the board of the private non-profit Fund for Better Subway ...

Untapped New York's team curates the most interesting, surprising and exciting things to do in NYC! Like when when we organized a private boat ride for our members ...

The Chrysler Building is one of the most beloved of New York City’s skyscrapers, an architectural manifestation of both the Art Deco era and the automobile age. Famous as it may be, the Chrysler ...

Become a paid member to listen to this article The Cornelius Vanderbilt II Mansion on 57th Street and 5th Avenue, now demolished. Photo from Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Detroit ...

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 ...

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 ...

Image in the public domain from New York Illustrated (published 1877 but appears to be early 1850s). Once located at 280 Broadway between Chambers and Reade Streets in Tribeca was one of the nation’s ...

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 ...