Your Week Untapped: Best Events for December 17-23
Photo courtesy of Brooklyn Bazaar Our curated events list for this week: Ugly Holiday Sweater Party at Bryant Park, spontaneous Bach on the G train, Brooklyn Night Bazaar & more. MONDAY, DECEMBER...
View ArticleYour Week Untapped: Best Events for January 7-13
Our curated picks for New York events this week: Upstairs/Downstairs at Downtown Abbey Dinner, Equus Projects & Chef Patricia Clark’s movement installation/cocktail party, MAS Conference on...
View ArticleNo Longer Empty’s Final Death Match: “Arts Funding: Follow the $$$$”
Untapped Cities is a proud media sponsor of No Longer Empty’s latest exhibition “How Much Do I Owe You?” at the abandoned Bank of Manhattan in Long Island City. For exclusive Untapped Cities/No Longer...
View ArticleNo Longer Empty Asks: What Would You Do If You Were A Dictator?
Untapped Cities is a proud media sponsor of No Longer Empty’s latest exhibition “How Much Do I Owe You?” at the abandoned Bank of Manhattan in Long Island City. Are you a ‘giver’ or a ‘taker’? Pablo...
View ArticleNo Longer Empty: Interview with Shaun Leonardo, Tiki Tiki Club Creator
Untapped Cities is a proud media sponsor of No Longer Empty’s latest exhibition “How Much Do I Owe You?” at the abandoned Bank of Manhattan in Long Island City. We are so excited about this week’s...
View ArticleNo Longer Empty turns the abandoned Bank of Manhattan into a Tiki Tiki Club
Untapped Cities is a proud media sponsor of No Longer Empty’s latest exhibition “How Much Do I Owe You?” at the abandoned Bank of Manhattan in Long Island City. Artist Shaun Leonardo‘s clever and...
View ArticleYour Week Untapped: Best Events for February 25-March 3
The Woolworth Building via Dorothy Anne Wise Whitworth MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25: Tonight is the last evening of the Citi Pond Winter Film Festival at Bryant Park. Tonight Grease will be shown on a screen...
View ArticleNo Longer Empty: Interview with Jennifer Dalton, the artist behind ‘Reckoning’
Untapped Cities is a proud media sponsor of No Longer Empty’s latest exhibition “How Much Do I Owe You?” at the abandoned Bank of Manhattan in Long Island City. Jennifer Dalton‘s piece ‘Reckoning’ asks...
View ArticleUntapped Event: Dinner & Cocktails in the Abandoned Bank of Manhattan (No...
This Saturday, March 16: Join Untapped Cities and No Longer Empty for an evening of food and entertainment celebrating the closing of “How Much Do I Owe You?”, a site-specific art installation housed...
View ArticleYour Week Untapped: Best Events for March 11-17
Our curated events picks for this week: E.L. Doctorow reading at MCNY, No Longer Empty + Local Roots 5 course fundraising dinner, Chinatown Restaurant Week. MONDAY, MARCH 11: “We stood in the shadow...
View ArticleA Tour of 5Pointz Aerosol Art Center
5Pointz Aerosol Art Center This weekend I had the opportunity to take a SideTour experience of 5Pointz Art Center, an outdoor art exhibit space in Long Island City, Queens where artists from around the...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Elevator Museums
Would you consider the ubiquitous elevator worthy of a shrine? Apparently this humble-seeming mode of transportation has more devotees in New York City than you’d think. There are two different...
View ArticleNo Longer Empty Dinner in the Abandoned Bank of Manhattan Clocktower
This past Saturday evening, Untapped Cities, Local Roots NYC and No Longer Empty produced a dinner in the Clocktower in Long Island City, the abandoned Bank of Manhattan. The 5-course meal by Chef...
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Untapped Cities Staff Picks: The Fate of 5Pointz and a Park Modelled After a...
Photo Source: woodenddesigner The round-up of our favorite links this week curated by the Untapped Cities’ staff includes the fate of 5Pointz in Long Island City and a park modeled after a city. NEW...
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Daily What?! East Side Access Construction Photo
Today’s Daily What?! is this view of the East Side Access construction snapped from atop the Long Island City Clocktower. Underground, massive tunnels have been constructed that connect Sunnyside...
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Untapped Staff Picks: Long Island City’s Court Square, Lost Galleries, States...
Marine Museum in Minnesota (via Hyperallergic ) New York City In his recent photo essay on Long Island City’s Court Square, Curbed’s Nathan Kensinger, documents how older industrial warehouses and...
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A Look at Hunters Point, Long Island City: A Modern Industrial Corridor
Hunters Point, Long Island City is a rapidly changing neighborhood flanking the East River on its eastern bank. Neighborhood history is reflected the design of the neighborhood’s architecture, ranging...
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Architectural Sites and Vintage Signage Along NYC’s East River
Earlier this week, we published a photo essay about notable spots along the Hudson River in “Thirteen of NYC’s Most Important Architectural Sites on the Hudson River.” The East River, in contrast, is...
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5Pointz, Long Island City’s Street Art Mecca, Faces Demolition
For two decades, the 5pointz Aerosol Art Centre, a cluster of abandoned factory warehouses in Long Island City, has served as an internationally-renowned graffiti Mecca, attracting artists from all...
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The History and Renewal of Long Island City and Dutch Kills, Queens
Photographs by Kris Graves We recently explored Hunters Point, Long Island City, showcasing the modern corridor amidst its industrial roots. Long Island City (historically called Dutch Kills) is...
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