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AMAZING Interactive New York City Map with a startling amount of planning information
Learn more about any address in NYC: lots, owners, tax info.. Click on "camera" to view site from 1924 to 2008.
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American Architectural Survey
Great site! Numerous images, drawings, etc. of historic New York and nationally noted buildings
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American Jewish Historical Society
Excellent site. Look at the historic collection of Early American Jewish Portraits!
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American-Irish Historical Society
Historical, Cultural, and Social Organization for the Irish-American community
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Architectural Photographs by Ezra Stoller, Peter Mauss & others
Various grand photographic images of noted architectural statements - a number of which are from New York City (including WTC)
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Architecture of New York City
Great details about major New York City buildings. Good photographs.
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Astor Place Riots
A written and audio description of the Astor Place Riots with Historic Images.
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Audrey Munson: Muse, Model, Forgotten, Remembered
A website devoted to the model who posed for the female figure in many of the great Beaux Arts statues in Manhattan. Fascinating!
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Bridge and Tunnel Club
A fun photographic series of walks throughout all five boroughs of New York City.
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Bridges of New York: Dave Frieder, Photographer
A photographer's website documenting the various bridges of New York City. Niice images.
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BRIDGES OF NEW YORK: Photographer Dave Frieder
Amazing photographs of New York bridges!
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Brill Building
An excellent site about many of the musicians who have worked at this famous Theatre District music-making cen ter.
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Brooklyn Bridge: Wikipedia
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Bryant Park
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Building Photographs: Search Engine for Historic American Buildings Survey
National Archive of Buildings. Excellent for photographs of historic buildings.
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Center for Jewish History
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Central Park Conservancy
walks, maps, pictures and e-cards
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Central Park Zoo
Images and commentary from Joan Scheier's book about the Central Park Zoo,
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Chelsea Art Galleries
A fairly comprehensive listing of galleries in the Chelsea area,
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Children's Museum of Manhattan
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Children's Museum of the Arts
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Chinatown New York City
A blog about all things Chinatown
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Chinatown: A Journey Through Chinatown: Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens
Excellent site about Chinatowns in Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn with maps and photos. Even a chocolate tour! Intelligent commentary about Five Points.
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Chocolate: New York Chocolate
Chocolate shops and sites throughout New York. Even maps!
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| 25. |
Christo and Jean-Claude's Official Website
Extensive website with information about Christo's Gates and numerous other projects.
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Christo Official Website from NYC
Lots of Valuable Information
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Christo's Gates: Diagram and Self-Guided Walking Tour
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| 28. |
Chrysler Building Radiator Cap / Imperial Web Pages
Finally! The answer to the Radator Cap story!
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Chrysler Building / Silver Spire: How Two Men's Dreams Changed the Skyline of New York
Lovingly written information about the Chrysler Building
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Chrysler Building / The Social Construction of the Skyscraper
Remarkable website about the Chrysler Building and its interrelationship with its time. Great historic images.
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Church of the Incarnation
Click on "Tour the Building" for a self-guided walking tour of this magnificent 19th century Murray Hill church.
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City Hall Historic Images
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City Revies
A diverse website on numerous topics about New York. Particularly good for individual histories of buildings.
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Columbus-Amsterdam BID Website
Neighborhood History and Walking Tours are included on website.
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Curbed: An Edgy (or maybe "Quirky") Real Estate "Blog"
Diverse and often intersting articles and web-links about New York neighborhoods
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| 36. |
Deitch Projects Gallery: SoHo and Long Island City, Queens
Deitch Projects is known for producing ambitious projects by contemporary artists.
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Digital Archive of American Architecture
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Downtown Alliance
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Downtown Boathouse
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| 40. |
East Harlem Preservation
History, curent information, famous residents, landmarks with wonderful photos, links, and more.
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East Harlem. COM
History, Community Boards, Photos, Politics, Links, and more.
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Eldridge Street Synagogue
Includes Architectural Tour
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| 43. |
Faded Signs in New York by Artist/Photographer Frank Jump
A delightful website of historic (hence, faded) painted wall advertising in New York City. Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria!!
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Five Points
An excellent description of Five Points.
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| 45. |
Fodor's Travel Virtual Guide
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| 46. |
Forgotten Delights: Public Sculptures and More...
Very nice selection of representational scultpures in Manhattan
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| 47. |
Forgotten New York: New York Neighborhoods
Illustrated tours of New York neighborhoods. Great websites!
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Forgotten NY
Fantastic series of websites with historic street scenes, neighborhoods, buildings, and oddities. You'll spend hours touring on these sites!
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Former Street Names in Manhattan
Old roads, lanes, alleys, courts, terraces, parks, squares, wharves, piers, slips, markets and other named urban features that have been demapped, obliterated, or renamed.
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Fraunces Tavern Museum
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Fraunces Tavern Museum - New York Freedom Trail
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Frederic Schwartz Architects
A range of projects are posted on site including a number in NYC: Harlem, Gramercy Park, WTC Site, Chelsea, SoHo, etc.
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Friends of Terra Cotta
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Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts
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General Slocum Disaster
A basic site about this tremendous ship blaze
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General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen
Great library
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Gotham Center for New York City History at CUNY
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Gracie Mansion
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GRAND CENTRAL PARTNERSHIP
Business Improvement District in Grand Central Neighborhood for whom I conduct a neighborhood tour every Friday.
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GRAND CENTRAL PARTNERSHIP MIDTOWN TOUR
Tour of Neighborhood of Grand Central Terminal sponsored by Grand Central Partnership.
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Grand Central Terminal 360 Degrees
360 Degree visual images of Grand Central
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| 62. |
Great Gridlock
New York Skyscrapers; Development of Square-Rigged Ship
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Great Images along the Sixth Avenue Elevated (Demolished in 1938)
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Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation
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| 65. |
Harlem's 133rd Street Revisited
A delightful revisitation of one of America's greatest musical streets. Well done!
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Historic House Trust
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Historic Photos of Early 20th Century Manhattan
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HOP STOP: Your New York City Transit Guide
Plots easy routes for going to a desination by using subways, buses, or both. Easy to use.
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How The Other Half Lives
A web version of Jacob Riis' classic text about the poor of 19th century New York. A treasure!
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How The Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis
The complete text, including many of the original illustrations.
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Hudson View Gardens
Learn about this remarkable 1920s Tudor-style Garden Apartment Complex overlooking the Hudson River.
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Irish Pubs in New York
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James Maher New York Photographs - New and Old
A great series of web articles interspersing historic and new images of major NYC landmarks. Wow!
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Jewish Harlem, Old Broadway Synagogue
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Jewish Museum
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Jewish People and History
A personal website with a wonderful and very personal array of Jewish-related photographs.
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JOE ZITO: NYC Architecture & Musings by Joe Zito
Delightful articles about all sorts of New York topics! Very enlightening!
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Landmarks Preservation Commission
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Laura's List: A Weekly Guide to NYC Happenings
A Weekly Guide to NYC Happenings
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Lewis Hine: Construction of Empire State Building
Classic photographs of the building of the Empire State Building.
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Library of Congress Gottscho-Schleisner Collection of Archtectural Images
Great Images of Works of Various Architects and Designers
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Lower East Side Conservancy
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Lower Manhattan Street Names and the Stories They Tell
Excellent listing of Lower Manhattan street names and how they camed to be named. Takes time to download, but is worth the wait.
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Lower Manhattan Walking Tour: National Geographic
SoHo, NoLIta, Lower East Side Interactive Map
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Manhattan & Bronx Art Deco
A Berkley, California Real Estate website, by someone who really loves New York!
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Manhattan and New York City History
A nice collection of articles pertaining to Manhattan and New York City history - some of which date back to 1930.
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Manhattan Photographs: Historic American Buildings Survey
National surveyn with exellent historic photographs.
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Manhattan Timeformations
Interactive skyscraper modeling
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Mansions of Manhattan: Historic Photographs
Great photographs of some of the elite mansions of old Manhattan.
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MAPPING THE AFRICAN AMERICAN PAST [MANHATTAN]
This Columbia University project has created a very informative site, mapping the locations and discussing the histories of numerous historic sites in African American history.
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Marble Cemetery (Second Ave. Cemetery)
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Mark Lentz: Roving Rube Galleries
A nice photographic website with lots of great New York Images!!!
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Masters of Photograpy: Jacob Riis
Remarkable collection of images by reformer/photographer Jacob Riis.
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Medieval New York
A wonderful student site that consists of a range of artices about numerous churches, plus Temple Emanu-El, the Woolworth Tower, the Kingsbridge Armory, and many others.
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Merchant's House Museum
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Metronome Clock at Union Square
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Metropolitan Historic Structures Association
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Morningside Heights Historic District Committee
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Morris-Jumel Mansion
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Mt. Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden
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Museum of Chinese in the Americas
Celebrates the history, heritage, culture, and diverse experiences of people of Chinese descent in the US.
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Museum of the City of New York
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National Academy of Design
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National Arts Club
Includes Interior Tour
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New Netherland and Beyond
A remarkable site with numerous maps, articles, and even maps of where individual families lived. Great Upper West Side maps!
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New York Architecture Images
Images new and historic of buildings throughout Manhattan plus good commentaries. Also section on no-longer-extant buildings.
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New York City Building Department
A good source of information about individual buildings in all five boroughs. Click on "Certificates of Occupancy" for PDFs of original documents.
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New York City in Black & White Photos: From 1890 on....
Magnificent photographs of old New York
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New York City Reference
A Nice Compilation of New York Websites
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New York City Signs from 14th Street to 42nd Street
What a fascinating site! What a remarkable treasure!
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New York City Subway Art Guide
Great photographic selection of the Arts for Transit projects in the New York City subway system.
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New York City Tax Photographs of Buildings
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New York City Walk
New Yorker, Caleb Smith's photographic walks through Manhattan. "Chock Full of Nuts" graphics and often captivating photographs.
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New York City Walk (With photographs)
Between May 2002 and December 2004, I walked every street on the island of Manhattan. Every darn street.
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New York City Website
Research NYC Building Finances (click "Property History"), learn buildings "Block and Lot," or tour Gracie Mansion...It's all here!
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New York Dynamic: New York History / Baseball History
The website of Tour Guide and Lecturer, Peter Laskowich, who LOVES baseball. For baseball aficionados, please visit this site.
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New York Heritage Digital Library Collections
More than 160 digital collections from New York State, via libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions.
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New York Images
New York related art works by a range of artists, both well-known and lesser-known
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New York Post Cards from the Past
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New York Public Library: Catalog of Free Digital Images
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New York Songlines: A Virtual Walking Tour of Manhattan neighborhoods
A site-map and virtual walking tour guide of Manhattan south of 48th Street
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New Yorkled: A Web Events Magazine
New York City 's Parks, Museums, Bridges, Sights, Events and more. Good for NYC Visitors and Residents.
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New-York Historical Society
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Nineteenth-century Views of Manhattan
Uptown Views
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NoshWalks: Culinary Walking Tours with Myra Alperson
Excellent food tours that focus on ethnic neighborhoods in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island.
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Noticing New York Blog Page
A blog page, by a Brooklyn-based Urban Planner, that addresses many New York topics.
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NYC Atelier
An incredible printable interactive map series of Greenwich Village and SoHo with art, architecture, restaurants and more.
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NYC Municipal Archives
Nice on-line photo gallery in various areas. Great research institution.
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NYC Visitor Discounts
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NYCplayground
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nylocations.com - Panoramic Views of New York sites
A remarkable array of 360-degree panoramic images of unusual New York City sites.
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NYU: Architecture in NY/Self-guided Walking Tours
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Old Streets: A Guide to Former Street Names in Manhattan
A fascinating site that also includes such topics as Gardens, Canals, Ropewalks, and such communities as Harlem, Five Points, Trinity Church Farm, and the Warren Estate.
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Old York Library
A wewb version of developer Seymour Durst's New York collection, now located at CUNY Graduate Center. Great e-mailable post cards!
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Olde Yorkville
A Web-Log about old Yorkville with some useful links. A work in progress, so drop by and visit!
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Our Lady of Mount Carmel
History of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in New York City
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Penny Postcards from New York
An excellent site with historic images of New York State and New York City sites.
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Peter Cooper and the Cooper Union
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Photo Tour of Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island
This site is in German, but is very nicely done with a range of images. SCROLL DOWN FOR ALL FIVE BOROUGHS!
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Photographic Walking Tours of Manhattan Neighborhoods
A wide range of photographic walks throughout Manhattan
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Photographs of New York Art, Architecture, Holiday Windows, and more
A wonderful website by New Yorker Mark Lentz
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Piccirilli Brothers Studio
Fantastic website with great images of the works of the Piccirilli Brothers of the Bronx.
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Place Matters
Places of social and cultural importance in New York City. Not your usual landmarks. Click on "Tours" or "Featured Place of the Week."
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Port of New York: WORLD SHIP SOCIETY
Waterfront histories and images of the New York Port
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Postcards of the Past from Old New York
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Property Shark
A web resource that includes an amazing amount of building information. Try free trial to see if you are satisfied.
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Pushcart NYC
A great Food Review site for the pushcarts of Manhattan and Queens. May the writers expand their search to the other boroughs, as well!
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Republican Walking Tour of Manhattan
A New York Magazine Walk prepared for the National Republican Convention 2004
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Restaurants from the New York Times: Greenwich Village
Various restaurant options in Greenwich Village
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Restaurants: Manhattan
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Roosevelt Island
Includes History & Historic Sites
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Roosevelt Island Historical Society
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Roundabout New York
An interesting blog site that is devoted to New York neighborhoods.
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Sailor's Snug Harbor
This is an excellent book preview of a history of Sailor's Snug Harbor in Staten Island
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
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Secret New York
Yellow arrows point the way to secrets of the city. This 2005 art project created a repository of unusual places in all five boroughs.
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Skyscraper Museum
Includes Downtown New York Webwalk
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Skyscraper Walking Tour of Lower Manhattan
Four nIce "download-able" descriptions and self-guided walking tours of some of the world's great skyscrapers.
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Slavic Alphabet City: A Walking Tour
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South Street Seaport Museum
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Starbuck's in New York City: For the Politically Incorrect
A Description and phot-listing of the various Starbuck's coffee shops in New York City
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Street Easy
A street finder and real estate tool. Can prove useful for address and location finding.
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Streets That Bend: New York City streets built before the "Grid Plan"
A fun photographic sightseeing tour of streets that bend in Manhattan
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Stuyvesant Park Neighborhood Association
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Sunshine Theater: A History
From church, to immigrant meeting hall, to boxing venue, to nickelodeon, Yiddish theater, to hardware shop, to graffiti showcase, and an indie-rock playroom to hip movie theater.
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Take a Walk, New York!
A component of the New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygienes "Listen to Your Heart" Campaign
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Tenement Life and Tenement Photographs
An excellent list of web-links about life in the tenements. Includes vintage photographs, articles, and even the text of Maggie, Girl of the Streets
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The Chrysler Building: Wikipedia
A remarkably detailed, yet brief, description of the Chrysler Building. Includes some interesting Chrysler web-links.
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The City Concealed: an online video series exploring the unseen corners of New York City.
An online video series exploring the unseen corners of New York City.
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The Schubert Archive
An impressive website sponsored by this remarkable Theatre collection and research library.
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Theodore Roosevelt Association
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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire 1
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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire 2
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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire 3
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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: A Chronology of Events
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Tudor City History
A delightful site in the making. The note card images of Tudor City are wonderful!
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Undercity
Photographs and Commentary with wide-ranging topics from the World's Fair Site to Fort Totten, to the Croton Aqueduct and numerous other topics.
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URBAN TOURISM: Tour of Fifth Avenue in 1909
A delightful tour of turn-of-the-20th-century Fifth Avenue.
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Vintage Diners in Miniature
A varied and wonderful selection!
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Walking Tours of Manhattan: Self-Guided
An interesting array of self-guided Manhattan walks with Google Maps and photographs and sometimes explanatory text.
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Washington Heights
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Waterfront Alliance
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Weegee's World of Photographs: International Center for Photography
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Welcome to TriBeCa
History, Architecture, Maps, and more...
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World Trade Center Photo Tour
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World Trade Center Virtual Reality Photo Tour
The company has various Virtual Reality Tours on its website - many focusing on the WTC site
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Yiddish Theatre: The Folksbiene
The Official Folksbiene website
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