- Lower East Side Tenement Museum
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Preserved tenement building designated as a National Historic Site.
www.thirteen.org/tenement
- KODAK e-Magazine: The Kodak Colorama
Described as "the world's largest photograph," this showcases the 18 x 60 foot projected images that graced the east balcony of New York's Grand Central Station for 40 years.
www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/features/coloramas/colorama.html
- American Experience: New York: A Documentary Film
Features an extensive introduction to the making of the six-part film, a 3D virtual trip around New York City using QTVR panoramas, a multimedia quiz game on New York history, and more.
www.pbs.org/wnet/newyork
- Catholic Encyclopedia: Archdiocese of New York
Offers history.
www.newadvent.org/cathen/11020a.htm
- Tale of Three Cities
National Geographic project explores two millennia of urban life in pictures and text: focusing on Alexandria, Egypt in 1 A.D.; Cordoba, Spain in 1000 A.D., and New York City in the year 2000.
www.nationalgeographic.com/3cities
- Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace
Today the period rooms of the house are restored to reflect their appearance between 1865 and 1872, with 40 percent of the furnishings from the original house.
www.fieldtrip.com/ny/22601616.htm
- American Treasures of the Library of Congress: Map of Manhattan
Features a 1639 map which is the earliest portrayal of Manhattan and its environs.
www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm068.html
- The Mannahatta Project
Explore Manhattan Island and its native wildlife in 1609. From the Worldlife Conservation Society.
www.themannahattaproject.org
- City Hall Park, 1899
History of the Newsboys Strike of 1899, told from the newsies point of view.
welcome.to/City_Hall_Park_1899
- New York City Subway Historical Maps
Offers New York City subway maps from 1880 to the present, sorted by decade.
www.nycsubway.org/maps/historical
- Seneca Village
Existed from 1825 through 1857 and was Manhattan's first significant community of African American property owners. Presently, this area is part of Central Park.
www.nyhistory.org/seneca/toc.html
- NYC Roads: Maps and History
Historical maps of the New York metro's roads and highways. From 1928, through the many changes of the 1960s, to the 1990s.
www.nycroads.com/history
- Myths of the Underground
Have any alligators ever been found in the sewars of NY? This is the place to find out.
www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/nyunderground/docs/myth000.html
- Governors Island (1)
dir.yahoo.com/.../History/Governors_Island
- WTC and Lower Manhattan: Past and Future
From The Lewis Mumford Center at the University of Albany. Presents a history of the construction, use, and destruction of the World Trade Center in New York.
www.albany.edu/mumford/wtc
- Birth of New York, The
Considers the origins of New York City. Includes such people as Willem Usselinx, Henri Hudson, and Jessé de Forest.
users.skynet.be/newyorkfoundation
- Taxi Dreams: History
Traces the history of taxis and cabbies in New York City. From PBS.
www.pbs.org/wnet/taxidreams/history
- American Experience: New York Underground
Interactive Web companion to the WGBH/PBS series program on the construction of the New York City subway.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/amex/technology/nyunderground/index.html
- Harlem (13)
Explore Harlem, the African American neighborhood of Manhattan which grew into a cultural and business center, through sites with exhibits and article about the community's revival. Also find sites for Harlem Renaissance and the Collyer brothers' deaths.
dir.yahoo.com/.../History/Harlem
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