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The Bowery (LINA)
- See Little Italy Neighbors Association (LINA)
(1 Aug 2002)
- Bronx County Historical Society
http://www.bronxhistoricalsociety.org
- The site contains a list of archival holdings, a newsletter, and educational resources.
(8 Nov 2002)
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The Bronx on the Web
http://www.nypl.org/branch/bronx/index.cfm
- Hosted by the New York Public Library, this site "a compilation of documents and links relating to Bronx history," including photographs.
(28 May 2004)
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Brooklyn Daily Eagle
http://eagle.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/
- It's only in beta testing now, but even the preliminary results of the Brooklyn Public Library's digitization of the 1841-1902 issues of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle are intriguing and informative. According to the site, this newspaper "provides the single most important information source on Brooklyn’s history in the twentieth century." The site is expected to be fully functional by summer 2003 and it is implied that later phases will include the remaining published issues from 1903-1955 and 1960-1963. At the moment, the site can only be viewed with Microsoft Internet Explorer. Access to 1841-1902 issues can be gained either by date of issue or by keyword searching.
(22 Mar2003)
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City Sites: Multimedia Essays On New York And Chicago, 1870s-1930s
http://artsweb.bham.ac.uk/citysites/
- City Sites is an electronic book edited by Maria Balshaw, Liam Kennedy, Anna Notaro, and Douglas Tallack. It is an inter- and multi-disciplinary study of the iconography, spatial forms and visual and literary cultures of New York and Chicago in the period 1870-1939 with 10 essays including extensive online resources, map pages, bibliography, moving and still images and sound. City Sites is the result of collaborative research by scholars from Europe and the USA in the 3 Cities Project.
(updated 17 Nov 2004; 28 Jul 2001)
See Review of this site done for H-Urban on March 17, 2001, by Peter C. Baldwin, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
See Review of this site done for H-Amstdy on May 17, 2001, by William J. Maxwell, Associate Professor of English and Afro-American Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA.
See Review of this site done for H-Amstdy on May 19, 2001, by Deborah L. Parsons, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom.
See Review of this site done for H-Amstdy on May 18, 2001, by Stephen Shapiro, Lecturer, English & Comparative Studies, University of Warwick, United Kingdom.
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The Civic Alliance: To Rebuild Downtown New York
http://www.rpa.org/civicalliance/
- Website of the rebuilding efforts convened by the Regional Plan Association as the Civic Alliance.
(16 Oct 2002; 17 Nov 2004)
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Digital Library Collection, New York Public Library
http://digital.nypl.org/photo.htm
- Thousands of photos including these special collections: Small-Town America Stereoscopic views from the Robert Dennis Collection; Images of African Americans from the 19th Century; Berenice Abbott: Changing New York, 1935-1938; Lewis Wickes Hine: Construction of the Empire State Building, 1930 - 1931; Lewis Wickes Hine: Work Portraits, 1920 - 1939; Performing Arts in America, 1875-1923; and A Hudson River Portfolio.
(28 Jul 2001; updated 8 Aug 2002)
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The Five Points Site
http://R2.gsa.gov/fivept/fphome.htm
- Archaeologists and historians rediscover a famous nineteenth-century New York neighborhood. Also see:
Observations of Life in Lower Manhattan at the Turn of the Century
http://tenant.net/Community/LES/contents.html
Contains visitors’ accounts of the famous neighborhood.
How the Other Half Lives
http://www.cis.yale.edu/amstud/inforev/riis/title.html
Contains complete text of Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives.
(28 Jul 2001; updated 8 Aug 2002)
Review
of The Five Points Site (H-Urban: September, 1997) by Tyler Anbinder, George Washington University, USA.
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- Gotham Center for New York City History
http://www.gothamcenter.org/
- A feature of the Institute of the City University of New York, the site contains up-to-the-minute historical news, interesting public e-forums, a large set of links, and a K-12 curriculum. Mike Wallace, the distinguished author, directs the Center.
(30 Jul 2002)
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H-Museum: September 11
http://www.h-net.org/~museum/september11.html
- The H-Net list H-Museum has posted a collection of September 11 materials on the web, including: on-line exhibits; archival material; articles from print, radio and on-line media; and private memorial pages.
(10 Nov 2002)
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Harlem, 1900-1940: An African-American Community
http://www.si.umich.edu/CHICO/Harlem/index.html
- The Cultural Heritage Initiatives for Community Outreach (CHICO) at the School of Information, University of Michigan, developed this site, based on a book of the same name. The book was published by New York's Schomburg Center, probably the leading library for the study of African-American Culture in the U.S. This invaluable website, is mostly focused on the Harlem Renaissance. It includes a time line, bibliography, and a searchable database on "Writers, Artists and Musicians," which has brief biographies, oral histories and even audios of musical works.
(16 Jun 2001)
- Historic Richmond Town [Staten Island, New York]
http://www.historicrichmondtown.org/index.html
- This site has some history and photos of Richmond Town, Staten Island, New York, which is now a living history village and museum complex.
(28 May 2004)
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History of Coney Island
http://naid.sppsr.ucla.edu/coneyisland/
- Independent historian Jeffrey Stanton put together this site on Coney Island in New York City. The site contains a narrative history, photos, time-line, maps and useful links, including similar sites by the author on the 1964 World's Fair in New York and the 1967 Expo in Montreal. It has not been updated since 2000.
(16 Jun 2001; 17 Nov 2004)
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Imagine New York: The People's Visions: Summary Report
http://imagineny.org/resources/inysummaryreport.html
- A compilation of ideas for rebuilding post-September 11 produced by the Municipal Art Society project "Imagine NY".
(16 Oct 2002)
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Independence and its Enemies in New York
http://independence.nyhistory.org/index.php
- This online version of the exhibition "Independence and Its Enemies in New York" which ran at the New-York Historical Society in 2001, is beautifully rendered with a time-line and primary documents including maps, letters, broadsides, objects, paintings, diaries, and legal documents related to the American Revolution in New York City. Created with federal, state and private investment dollars to commemorate the 225th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the site reveals the lives of diverse groups of eighteenth-century New Yorkers and has sections on resistence and dissent, the near abandonment of the city, and its reconstruction.
(10 Sep 2002)
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LaGuardia and Wagner Archives
http://www.laguardiawagnerarchive.lagcc.cuny.edu/defaulta.htm
- This website contains numerous and well-indexed photos, finding aids to the archival collection and oral histories not only for New York City mayors LaGuardia and Wagner, but also their successors Abraham Beame and Edward Koch. The archive also contains the records of the New York City Council and the Housing Authority (not yet added to the website). The archive is physically located at LaGuardia Community College in Queens, but the website does not indicate who designed the site, nor who the director of the archive is.
(6 Jun 2001)
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The Life of a City: Early Films of New York City, 1898-1906
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/papr/nychome.html
- A collection of early films at the Library of Congress.
(28 Jul 2001)
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Little Italy Neighbors Association (LINA)
http://www.thing.net/~lina/index.html
- A community group for this Lower Manhattan neighborhood prepared this site, which includes lots of historical information. It is easier to access the historical portions of the site directly, including those listed below.
(1 Aug 2002)
The
Bowery (LINA)
http://www.thing.net/~lina/bowery.html
A well-illustrated history of the Bowery, the tawdry entertainment street that bordered the neighborhood, a street that Theodore Roosevelt once described: "What infinite use Dante would have made of the Bowery! . . . The Bowery is one of the great highways of humanity, a highway of seething life, of varied interest, of fun, of work, of sordid and terrible tragedy; and it is haunted by demons as evil as any that stalk through the pages of the Inferno."
(1 Aug 2002)
Little
Italy (LINA)
http://www.thing.net/~lina/littleitaly.html
A narrative of the Italian immigrants and the life they made.
(1 Aug 2002)
Tenements
(LINA)
http://www.thing.net/~lina/tenement.html
A briefer study of the tenement housing that still dominates the neighborhood with good links to primary sources on the subject.
(1 Aug 2002)
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The Living City/NYC
http://156.145.78.54/htm/home.htm
- David Rosner and Amy Fairchild of Columbia University's new Program of the History Public Health and Medicine put together this major new website on the history of public health in New York City from 1865 to 1920. The site is still a work-in-progress, but it is useful now and likely to be of extraordinary value when complete. Scholars will find the documentary section important. The site digitizes the Annual Reports of the New York City Board of Health for most of the period indicated, as well as some major reports from outside that agency. When searched, the documents automatically
download as Adobe Acrobat PDF documents. The site is also visually rich with over a thousand images downloaded from popular periodicals. All the documents and images are searchable by title and subject.
For pedagogical purposes, a timeline of major events, two online slide shows, and the introductory essays by Rosner, Gretchen Condran, and Elizabeth Blackmar are very useful.
(28 Jul 2001)
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Lower East Side Tenement Museum
http://www.tenement.org
- An interesting virtual tour of this New York museum.
(28 Jul 2001)
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Lower Manhatten Development Corp. (LMDC): Remember, Rebuild, Renew
http://www.renewnyc.org/index.shtml
- The illustrated concept plans for rebuilding New York City after the September 11th attacks are located here, as well as informational news releases.
(16 Oct 2002)
- Manhattan Timeformations (Skyscraper Museum)
- See New York City,
New York. (17 Nov 2001)
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The Museum of Sex in New York City
http://nycsex.museumofsex.com/
- It has a brief on-line exhibit, "How New York City Transformed Sex in America," (the companion book can be
ordered on the site) with an interactive map, "1001 Nights in Manhattan." The site is still under construction (while its shop is not yet open, it is possible to buy tickets for the walking tour "Commercial Sex in the Tenderloin").
(18 Nov 2002)
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Museum of the City of New York
http://www.mcny.org
- Some nice virtual exhibits including a fair number of Berenice Abbot photos and an excellent exhibit on September 11.
(28 Jul 2001; updated 23 Jul 2002)
- New York City Subway Historical Maps
http://www.nycsubway.org/maps/historical/index.html
- Maps from 1888 to the present.
(9 Feb 2004)
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New York City Historical Society
http://www.nyhistory.org/
- Has many current and past exhibits on New York City. Recent exhibits available in the site's archive are: Urban Oasis: The Greening of Early New York (July 22 - November 23, 2003), and
Petropolis: A Social History of Urban Animal Companions
July 15 - November 2, 2003
(10 Sep 2002)
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On the Lower East Side: Observations of Life in Lower Manhattan at the Turn of the Century
http://140.190.128.190/History/contents.html
- William L. Crozier, University Archivist at Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, headed the Lower Manhattan Project that created this site of documents. According to Crozier, "This collection of articles, documentary sources, and study guides was compiled to accompany the course, 'An Urban Experience: New York City's Lower East Side, 1880-1920'."
(9 Oct 2002)
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Queens Borough Public Library: Long Island Division, Local History Collectiion
http://www.queenslibrary.org/central/longisland/index.asp
- Description of extensive holdings with an interesting online exhibit with photos and historical background from a New York City public library. Site accessible in English, Spanish, and Russian.
(15 Feb 2003)
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Queens Local History Collection
http://www.queenshistory.lagcc.cuny.edu/queenshistory/
- This local history collection houses 2000 photo images and a hundred oral histories, in addition to providing finding aids for documents relating to the political, social and industrial history of Queens.
(6 Jun 2001)
- Skyscraper
Museum
http://www.skyscraper.org
- This site, a first rate history of the skyscraper, has been much modified since the events of September 11. Contains excellent visuals of the New York skyline, excellent virtual exhibits, and some archival materials.
(23 Sep 2000; updated 23 July 2002)
Manhattan Timeformations (Skyscraper Museum)
http://www.skyscraper.org/timeformations/animation.html
Brian McGrath at Columbia University put together this technically extraordinary virtual exhibit at the Skycraper Museum, probably the best on-line example of urban representation on the Web. It allows viewers to trace the evolution of lower Manhattan. Maps can be flipped and rotated. There are a series of temporal maps to which features can be added or deleted (so for example its possible to get just a map of just the subways for six different periods. There's also a timetable. Because of its technical complexity, the site loads slowly and decoding it can take a while because of its uniqueness,
but the effort is well worth it.
(17 Nov 2001)
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Social Explorer
http://www.socialexplorer.com
- Andrew Beveridge, CUNY-Queens College, heads the team that put together this site of dynamic and static demographic maps drawn from census data. The focus is on Queens neighborhoods and population changes in New York City since 1910.
(15 Feb 2003)
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Sonic Memorial Project
http://sonicmemorial.org/public/index.html
- This site, organized by National Public Radio, is a national collaboration of NPR with WNYC, KQED, Picture Projects, dotsperinch, the September 11 Digital Archive Project, the Museum of Television and Radio, ABC News, transom.org, Creative Time, and more than 50 radio producers to solicit and make available in audio form recollections of September 11, 2001. The site is an access to the oral history NPR has accumulated, but it requires RealOne Player and Flash 6 software (available as free downloads) to hear or best view the full site.
(10 Sep 2002)
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Survey Graphic Special Issue on Harlem (1925)
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/harlem/
- Alain Locke put together this famous issue of Paul Kellogg's magazine, which includes essays about the famous African-American New York neighborhood by Countee Cullen, W.E.B. Dubois, Melville Herkovits, Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Arthur Schomburg and Walter White. The University of Virginia's electronic text center put this very important source on-line.
(28 Jul 2001)
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Tenements (LINA)
- See Little Italy Neighbors Association (LINA)
(1 Aug 2002)
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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/
- Hope Nisly and Patrizia Sione edited this history of New York’s most notorious fire with lots of primary sources and photos. It is set up for use as a classroom project.
(28 Jul 2001)
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Why the Towers Fell
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wtc/
- A companion to a PBS video by that name of the World Trade Center, this online exhibit contains videos, animations, interviews, reports, stunning photographs and illustratations, and a bibliography. Video clips and animations require special programs that are available for free.
(16 Oct 2002)
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Williamsburg Bridge
http://www.nycroads.com/crossings/williamsburg/
- Historic and recent photographs of the Williamsburg Bridge in New York City, New York, as well as the details of its history.
(19 Nov 2001)
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WTC Monument
http://www.skyscraper.org/exhibitions/wtc/
- This online monument began as a cooperative gallery and online exhibit between the Skyscraper Museum and the New York Histocial Society (http://www.nyhistory.org/). Curated by Carol Willis of the Skyscraper Museum, this site of many images with text is a "tribute to the Twin Towers, examining the history of the complex in its conception, design, and construction from the 1960s through the mid-1970s -- and their destruction on the morning of 9/11."
(16 Oct 2002)
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