#untappedny — Public Fediverse posts

Since the original Penn Station was demolished in the 1960s, architects and planners have proposed a range of replacements. Untapped Cities collects five that never came to be: recreation of original Beaux-Arts design, a glass atrium built around the existing skeleton of MSG, a SOM proposal that would have created a circular park, and a Columbia University concept turning the site into a futuristic burial ground. #NYCHistory #PennStation #UntappedNY #Architecture https://www.untappedcities.com/never-built-penn-station-in-nyc/

New York City banned pinball on January 21, 1942. Mayor LaGuardia called the machines "larceny machines" and had police confiscate them. The ban lasted until 1976, when a journalist named Roger Sharpe walked into City Hall and proved, in a live demonstration channeling Babe Ruth, that pinball required skill and was not gambling. Untapped Cities tells the full story. #NYCHistory #UntappedNY #Pinball #NYC https://www.untappedcities.com/pinball-ban-illegal-nyc/

While serving as a young colonel during the Seven Years War, George Washington jotted down a recipe for small beer in a notebook he kept for military correspondence. That notebook is now in the New York Public Library's archives. In honor of America250, the Library partnered with local brewery Talea to recreate the recipe, and Untapped Cities reports the result tastes like a richly spiced holiday beverage. #AmericanHistory #UntappedNY #NYC #Beer #America250 https://www.untappedcities.com/george-washington-1757-beer/

The story of the ice cream cone being invented at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair has largely been debunked. Untapped Cities dug into the archives of the Hoboken Historical Museum and found that an Italian immigrant named Italo Marchiony had been selling ice cream in edible waffle cups on Wall Street since 1896, patented a mold in 1903, and was manufacturing from a factory on Grand Street in Hoboken before the fair even opened. #FoodHistory #UntappedNY #IceCream #Hoboken https://www.untappedcities.com/ice-cream-cone-invented-st-louis-new-jersey/

People know Madison Square Garden as the world's most famous arena, but few know that the current building is its fourth incarnation, that ice is stored beneath its basketball floor, that its ceiling is the only concave stadium ceiling in the world, or that John Lennon's last concert appearance took place there in 1974. Untapped Cities covers 10 secrets of the Garden. #NYC #MSG #UntappedNY #MadisonSquareGarden #NYCHistory https://www.untappedcities.com/secrets-madison-square-garden-nyc/

The lobby of the Woolworth Building is one of only a handful of interior spaces in New York City to hold landmark status. Untapped Cities looks at its three ceiling sections: a vaulted mosaic arcade in Byzantine style, a stained-glass skylight ringed with the names of great commercial nations and coded "W's" for Woolworth, and coffered plaster ceilings made to look like wood specifically to prevent fire. #NYCHistory #Architecture #UntappedNY #WoolworthBuilding https://www.untappedcities.com/hidden-symbols-in-the-gorgeous-ceilings-of-the-woolworth-building-in-nyc/

In the mid-1880s, Nikola Tesla rented a room on the second floor of 89 Liberty Street in Lower Manhattan, where he invented and patented the alternating current motor, later declared by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers to be the most significant invention of the electrical age. The building is long gone, replaced by One Liberty Plaza, and there is no plaque or marker of any kind.. #NYCHistory #NikolaTesla #UntappedNY #NYC https://www.untappedcities.com/nikola-teslas-lost-laboratory-manhattan/

Most people walk past Federal Hall. Untapped Cities makes a case for stopping. The building is where George Washington was inaugurated, where Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr once worked the same murder trial together, where the Peter Zenger case laid the groundwork for freedom of the press, and where parts of the structure were literally suspended in air before a $16 million renovation. Ten secrets, all worth reading. #NYCHistory #FederalHall #UntappedNY #WallStreet https://www.untappedcities.com/the-top-11-secrets-of-nycs-federal-hall/

On November 1, 1939, John D. Rockefeller Jr. wielded a 60-pound pneumatic hammer and drove the final rivet into Rockefeller Center, completing 14 buildings that were built straight through the Depression. That silver alloy rivet, bearing his engraved signature, still sits inside a column in the lobby of 1230 Avenue of the Americas. Untapped Cities tells the story and explains exactly how to see it. #NYCHistory #RockefellerCenter #UntappedNY #NYC https://www.untappedcities.com/how-to-see-the-last-rivet-hammered-into-rockefeller-center/

In June 1939, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth made history as the first reigning British monarchs to visit the United States, guests of President Roosevelt. After Washington D.C. and Hyde Park, they came to New York City for the World's Fair in Flushing Meadows, greeted by Mayor LaGuardia and Governor Lehman. Their souvenir was a custom Cartier model of the fair's iconic Trylon and Perisphere. #NYCHistory #WorldsFair #UntappedNY #BritishRoyals https://www.untappedcities.com/when-the-king-and-queen-of-england-came-to-the-worlds-fair-in-queens/

Millionaire's Row, Fifth Avenue between 59th and 78th Streets was lined with some of the most extravagant private residences ever built in New York City. Untapped Cities looks at 8 that no longer exist, including a Vanderbilt mansion , a 121-room copper baron's folly that cost $6 million and stood for barely two years, and a mansion whose destruction helped strengthen New York City's landmark laws. #NYCHistory #GildedAge #UntappedNY #FifthAvenue https://www.untappedcities.com/lost-mansions-5th-ave-nyc/

If you are looking for cherry blossoms in New York City, Untapped Cities has put together a guide covering spots from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and Green-Wood Cemetery to Sakura Park in Manhattan, Hunter's Point South in Queens, and on Staten Island at Snug Harbor and Silver Lake Park. Some of the trees trace back to Japan's original 1912 gift to the United States. A beautiful and practical read for spring. #CherryBlossoms #NYC #StatenIsland #UntappedNY #Spring https://www.untappedcities.com/cherry-blossom-trees-in-nyc-2/

Before skyscrapers, before New Amsterdam, before the Lenape, mastodons roamed what is now New York City. In 1925, construction workers digging a foundation in Inwood uncovered the jaw and teeth of a young mastodon. By the time a Museum of Natural History curator arrived to collect them, locals had taken most of the bones. Untapped Cities has the full story. #NYCHistory #UntappedNY #Mastodon #Manhattan https://www.untappedcities.com/the-inwood-mastodon-in-nyc/

New York City was the Titanic's intended destination, and more than 700 survivors eventually made it there. Untapped Cities identifies 6 sites across the city still connected to the 1912 disaster, including the pier where Carpathia docked, the hotel that sheltered surviving crewmembers, a landlocked memorial lighthouse designed by the architects of Grand Central Terminal, and memorials. A moving piece of city history. #NYCHistory #Titanic #UntappedNY https://www.untappedcities.com/titanic-sites-nyc/

Did you know the Oreo was invented at Chelsea Market? That the remote control was first demonstrated at Madison Square Garden by Nikola Tesla in 1898? That the tuxedo got its name from a Hudson Valley enclave for New York's wealthiest elite? Untapped Cities rounds up 11 inventions that trace their origins to New York City, and the list covers everything from air conditioning to the way Americans celebrate Christmas. #NYCHistory #UntappedNY #NewYorkCity #Trivia https://www.untappedcities.com/10-things-you-didnt-know-were-invented-in-nyc/

Beneath the sidewalk at 85 Broad Street in Lower Manhattan, the original foundation walls of the 17th-century Lovelace Tavern are visible through a glass window. The tavern operated 1670 to 1706,served as a second city hall of colonial New York, and was uncovered in one of the most expensive urban archaeological digs in American history. Untapped Cities has the full story, a fascinating piece of early New York history. #NYCHistory #DutchNYC #UntappedNY #NewAmsterdam https://www.untappedcities.com/the-remains-of-the-lovelace-tavern-a-17th-century-artifact-found-in-the-financial-district/

Untapped Cities looks at Tim English's book "The Kennedys' New York," which traces the family's deep and often surprising connections to the city. The article highlights three locations, including the Upper East Side townhouse where the only known photo of Monroe and JFK together was taken, the Carlyle Hotel duplex that served as the family's presidential base, and the Stork Club where a chance meeting made JFK a national hero. #NYCHistory #Kennedys #UntappedNY #NYC https://www.untappedcities.com/guide-kennedys-new-york/

Nicole Saraniero's guide to "10 Remnants of Colonial NYC You Can Touch" is fascinating - so much tangible history scattered throughout the city that most people walk past without noticing. The idea that you can actually put your hands on 300-year-old stones and structures in modern Manhattan is incredible. Perfect for anyone who loves urban exploration and connecting with the city's deep roots. #NYC #history #colonial #newyorkcity #hiddengems #untappedny https://www.untappedcities.com/colonial-nyc-remnants/?ref=daily-newsletter

Stephanie Geier's guide to famous writers' NYC homes is a treasure for literature lovers. From Truman Capote to Edith Wharton, these addresses reveal how the city shaped and inspired some of America's greatest literary voices. There's something magical about standing where your favorite authors lived and wrote. Perfect for a literary walking tour through the city's creative history. #NYC #writers #literature #TrumanCapote #EdithWharton #literaryhistory #books #untappedny https://www.untappedcities.com/8-nyc-homes-of-famous-writers-from-truman-capote-to-edith-wharton/?ref=daily-newsletter

Noah Sheidlower's piece about NYC's first subway is fascinating - a pneumatic tunnel below Broadway that used air pressure to transport passengers in the 1870s. New York experimented with this technology decades before the current subway system.. Amazing to imagine passengers being whooshed through a tunnel by compressed air. #NYC #subway #history #transportation #pneumatic #innovation #broadway #untappedny https://www.untappedcities.com/nycs-first-subway-a-one-block-pneumatic-tunnel-below-broadway/?ref=daily-newsletter