Manhattan has many great qualities, but trash isn’t one of them. Since the island has no space for alleys, trash is piled onto the streets for early-morning pickups by loud garbage trucks making their ...

Pneumatic tubes were supposed to revolutionize the world but have fallen by the wayside. Except in hospitals. Pneumatic tubes were touted as something that would revolutionize the world. In science ...

Powerful tubes will suck up trash and recycling debris at 60 miles per hour in a new $32 million garbage system being built at the New York City Housing Authority’s Polo Grounds in Harlem. The ...

I’m often asked what my favorite weird/obscure fact about New York City was. Ironically, as the founder of Untapped New York, this question frequently proves difficult because there are just so many ...

Powered by compressed air, the system transported millions of letters between 1897 and 1953 Vanessa Armstrong | History Correspondent A pneumatic mail tube at the main Post Office Department branch in ...