Marathon Day: A Grand Bar-Hopping Tour of the 5 Boroughs As Untapped Cities columnist, Luke Kingma, who boldly took us to the depths of Chinatown and to the wildest of NYC parties, moves on to the West Coast, he reminisces on his life in New York City in the best way he knows how–through its food. It is no simple task to summarize 3.5 years spent in a city that has at once asked so much of me and given so much to me. I arrived in December 2010 with a paltry pile of personal items stacked in the corner of an old friend’s Upper East Side apartment. I’ll depart tonight with a similar haul, bound for Los Angeles and the inevitability of a car payment. (Do they still run on gas? As my mind criss-crosses the boroughs in search of a compelling narrative, I can’t help but distill my experience down to the food I’ve eaten during my stay here. (more…)
ART & ARCHITECTURE This Daily What?! and Vintage Photo column comes to us from tour guide Justin Ferate. In an email today, he writes: Automotive Journalist Myles Kornblatt alerted me to the following: In connection with the New York Auto Show, Ford is re-creating a classic moment on the Empire State Building’s observation deck. In 1965 the then-new Mustang was placed on the observations deck of the Empire State Building, and nearly five decades later, Ford will do it again with the all-new 2015 car. (more…) Here’s what the Untapped staff is reading today: Brooklyn Heights was the first-ever New York City neighborhood to be designated a historic district. For over a decade the Brooklyn Heights Association and a coalition of residents rallied against Robert Moses, who proposed routing the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway through the heart of a neighborhood with over 600 pre-civil war structures. Founded in 1900 by the former chancellor of New York University Dr. (more…) Rendering © SHoP Architects
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