Thomas M c Kean fell in love with the MetroCard over twenty-five years ago and never looked back. In this live, virtual talk ...

At the peak of Horn & Hardart's automat empire, there were more than 40 locations throughout New York City. You won't find ...

In the latest Untapped New York Podcast episode, our founder Michelle Young, who also has a master’s degree in Urban Planning from Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and ...

“As a studio we often need to understand the complex ways that New York’s curbs are used and regulated,” says Mario Giampieri, the WXY Associate who led the parking regulation map project, “We ...

Every few decades, New Yorkers bid farewell to old subway cars as a new fleet is released onto the city’s 665 miles of track. Although most New Yorkers concur that the city’s transit system needs ...

The Bowery, New York City’s oldest thoroughfare, was the epicenter of working-class entertainment in the mid-19th century. After long hard days of work, men and women would flock to theaters and ...

In the 1920s and 30s, it wasn’t uncommon to catch a glimpse of the giant Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons floating in the air days after the parade ended. It seems like a crazy idea now (and ...

In 1940, P.A.B. Widener II opined that “the days of America’s privately owned treasure houses are over.” Writing in his autobiography, Without drums, Widener referred to his own family’s 110-room ...

Fifth Avenue had a major glow-up in the Gilded Age when it transformed from a pathway called Middle Road to a coveted address nicknamed Millionaire’s Row. A long stretch of the famous thoroughfare, ...

Driving, cycling, and walking are the only ways to get across the Brooklyn Bridge today, but for over half a century, trolley lines and elevated rail cars ran across the bridge. In the early 1900s, as ...

Last year, the Elmhurst community banded together to celebrate a milestone: the designation of “Little Thailand” as an official ethnic enclave. The neighborhood boasts signs of “Little Thailand Way” ...

To celebrate the 90th anniversary of MTA Bridges and Tunnels, the Metropolitan Transit Authority has released a series of vintage photographs from its historical archives that show some NYC bridges ...