“She wouldn’t want to sleep so she would just sk for more milk and then spi tit up, and it was so painful, like, ‘No, not my expensive milk!’” says Young, a 41-year-old author

Three of Hyperallergic’s writers talk about the journeys that took them from writing blog posts to publishing full-length books on the politics of memes, the battles over America’s monuments, and forgotten World War II heroes.

The second edition released last year is honored in the travel book category

Michelle is interviewed by Jon Leiberman on “A Hard Look,” a Howard Stern radio show, about the history of Erasmus Hall in Brooklyn, where Barbra Streisand attended.

This event will explore why Rose Valland, one of the most decorated women of World War II and one of the greatest spies in the Resistance against Nazi art looting, has been mostly forgotten.

Michelle is interviewed by France24’s Gavin Lee about The Art Spy & Rose Valland

On her first date with Augustin Pasquet, Michelle Young found herself weaving through the streets of Paris on the back of his moped…

“The remnants here have drawn transit and history buffs, like Michelle Young, the founder of Untapped New York, an online magazine that has taken thousands of people on tours through Penn Station. ‘I see them as portals to the past,” she told me.’”

Joining such esteemed writers as Robert Caro, Michelle has been selected to be a scholar in the NYPL’s Frederick Lewis Allen Memorial Room, established by the Ford Foundation in 1958.

On October 27 6-7PM at Harvard’s History of Art & Architecture department, Michelle will be on the panel discussion HAA Futures; Undergraduate Alumni Conversations with Akili Tommasino, assistant curator of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Paige Newell, General Surgeon at Brigham and Women’s

Founder of Untapped New York Michelle Young’s THE ART SPY, spotlighting French Resistance spy Rose Valland, the often-overlooked female member of the famous "Monuments Men" who secretly tracked and saved art looted by Nazis from right under the nose of Hitler’s right-hand man Hermann Goering, to Elizabeth Mitchell at Harper One, in a major deal, in a pre-empt, by Peter Steinberg at Fletcher & Company (NA).

“In a deal rumored to be in the high six figures, Peter Steinberg of Fletcher & Company sold North American rights to The Art Spy: The Untold Story of World War II Resistance Spy Rose Valland to Elizabeth Mitchell at HarperOne.”

Get to know your bushy-tailed (and sometimes not so bushy) neighbors who live interesting hidden lives right out in the open. Michelle gets quoted for her knowledge of the mysterious black squirrels of New York City.

“Michelle Young, an adjunct professor of architecture at Columbia, is the founder of Untapped New York, a website dedicated to the secret corners and hidden gems of America’s biggest city. So it’s no surprise that her guide to Brooklyn is equally full of treasures “

“Michelle Young, founder of Untapped New York, writes that she ended up unfollowing or leaving all her Facebook groups, and unfriending people she didn’t know in real life.”

“Some of that crazy is also what makes living here, especially in NYC, exciting, unpredictable and inspiring. When it’s harnessed for good, nobody does it better than us. I have faith that New York City is going to come back from this - history shows that it will.”

“Today the mews provide a nice break from the street grid,” said Michelle Young, a professor of architecture at Columbia University and the founder-editor of Untapped New York. “It’s a quaint surprise to happen upon a mews, especially with the high skyscrapers that surround them.”

“Brooklyn also has the population size for conscripting an army.”

“Although Warren Place is described as mews — which traditionally refer to homes that were once horse stables — the properties there never housed horses, Michelle Young, founder of Untapped New York, told Insider”

“I fought hard to turn my passion into a sustainable business and I’m really thankful I was able to do so…I felt really inspired to create a website that could bridge the gap between the academic discussion of architecture and cities, and the popular consumption of this kind of content.”

“I’ve never seen it on a TV show before,” she said. “Usually they use recognizable New York City locations, and you tend to see the same places often. But these felt like neighborhood spots. They seemed to reflect the places where Aziz himself hangs out.”

After the gay pride march, she picked up a Citi Bike on Washington Street and “weaved through the drunk crowds” to get uptown. A cab would have cost about $10, and she estimates that she has more than recouped the bike-share membership fee by forgoing taxis and MetroCards. “It’s cheaper and healthier,” Ms. Young said. “And it’s definitely more pleasant than heading underground in the heat.”

“...mail used to be sent underground in New York, by pneumatic tubes...I thought, ‘Wow, if I didn’t know about that in New York, what else don’t I know about?’”

“What I do…is absolutely a combination of my education and professional experience. At Harvard, I studied the History of Art and Architecture, and after college I went to work in the corporate offices of fashion companies like Abercrombie & Fitch, J. Crew, and Calvin Klein. After five years in fashion, I decided to go back to architecture and studied urban planning and design…”

After several failed attempts, Kowloon Walled City was finally demolished 20 years ago, leaving behind a legacy of fascination that continues to grow, fueled in part by the extraordinary communities many urban legends.

“I wanted to showcase a side of the city that wasn’t about lamenting what was lost, but celebrating what makes the city so vibrant. Uncovering the secret layers of urban life shows people a side they might miss in their everyday environment.”

“Michelle Young, the founder of the online travel guide Untapped New York, reached out to Ms. Kim to tell her about an undisclosed start-up that bought ad space from her company — but then stopped paying. Ms. Young was eventually offered $40,000 in guaranteed business by the start-up if she agreed to a nondisparagement clause. She did not sign”

“There’s a historic lighthouse from 1823 at this peninsula on the North Shore of Long Island. Go past it through the brush to a rocky crescent-shaped beach with water on both sides. It goes for 11 miles, and it’s usually empty except for some fishermen. We’ll explore, collect shells, have a picnic.”

“I love that every day, my job is to find the most inspiring architectural finds and hidden places and share them with our readers–helping them rediscover their own cities in a new way, whether they’re long time residents or new transplants. Reading excited emails from residents who also want to contribute to Untapped New York is just about the best thing to land in my inbox every day. “

What would you do as Mayor of NYC? “Push for more daring architecture, encourage and keep small businesses running, focus on neighborhoods and communities, and retain diversity and artists.”

“All in all, I think performing arts and creative backgrounds make for resilient entrepreneurs because we are used to putting in long hours of work, we strive for perfection, and we are used to both successes and even more so — failures.”

““I see my work as one continuous project — to inspire urban discovery —with many spokes.”

Share with us a childhood nature memory? “Walking up through a river in Vermont with camp friends, none of us having a map but perfectly content at having no particular destination. At the end, it turned out to be a gorgeous waterfall and big swimming hole.”

“ I give a lot of credit to my parents. Maybe being Taiwanese made them a little more renegade. Even though I had to do the typical Asian things— learn piano, perform cello at Carnegie Hall, get straight A+’s in school, go to Harvard—they also let me paint, run track, play basketball, even drink alcohol! And most importantly, they took me traveling everywhere. “

One place you would go back to again and again: “Bolivia. The first time I went, Abercrombie & Fitch sent me to monitor factory production and I fell absolutely in love with the chaos of La Paz and the austere, natural beauty of the land. I made it my goal to go back and on that trip I met the guy who is now my husband.”