Michelle Young
Founder and Publisher at Untapped Cities
Architecture Columnist at Kill Screen
Freelance Writer at Freelance
Author, journalist, entrepreneur. Books: THE ART SPY forthcoming @HarperOneBooks, SECRET BROOKLYN. Founder @UntappedNY Professor @ColumbiaGSAPP @newmarkjschool
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hyperallergic.com | Michelle Young
We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value our coverage and want to support more of it, please join us as a member. “They’ve been had! The Monuments Men were had!” exclaims Emmanuelle Polack, the art historian in charge of World War II provenance inquiries at the Louvre, in Plunderer: The Life and Times of a Nazi Art Thief.
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untappedcities.com | Michelle Young
Become a paid member to listen to this article In 1965, trial runs on a rooftop helipad atop the Pan Am Building (now MetLife) began using a Chinook helicopter. The helipad would prove a short-lived project, but it represented an aspirational vision of New York City. In many ways, the helipad brought to fruition a long-standing urbanist dream of a multi-modal, multi-level city first popularized by Moses King’s Kings Dream of New York in 1908.
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untappedcities.com | Michelle Young
Become a paid member to listen to this article Zero Day is a limited series thriller on Netflix about the aftermath of a massive cyberattack that wipes out communications for a whole minute. Former U.S. President George Mullen (Robert de Niro) is brought in to run a Congressional committee to investigate the attack and identify the perpetrators. De Niro leads an all-star cast that includes Angela Bassett, Connie Britton, Jesse Plemons, Joan Allen, and Lizzy Caplan.
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untappedcities.com | Michelle Young
Become a paid member to listen to this article North Brother Island is most famous today for the beautiful photographs of its crumbling state, but its history and secrets are what give the place its mythical status in New York City. In 2015, there was a study that explored opening North Brother Island to public access, but access to the island is still forbidden.
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untappedcities.com | Michelle Young |Nicole Saraniero
Architecture Become a paid member to listen to this article For more than a decade, Untapped New York has guided intrepid New Yorkers and tourists on expeditions to hunt for architectural remnants of the original Pennsylvania Station still visible inside and around the current transit hub. Few people contest the tragedy of the demolition of the first New York Penn Station, which began on October 28, 1963.
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Honored to represent the place I was born, Long Island, at this year's Gold Coast Book Fair at a panel talk on Saturday March 17 at LIU Post. Tix here: https://t.co/1M6fZ2RxrR https://t.co/N3yuFkyLtV