- Brooklyn's History Museum
- Brooklyn
Displays more than 1,000 objects reflecting Brooklyn's exciting history. Permanent exhibit areas cover The Brooklyn Bridge, Coney Island, Brooklynites, The Brooklyn Navy Yard, and The Brooklyn Dodgers.
www.fieldtrip.com/ny/86240890.htm
- KODAK e-Magazine: The Kodak Colorama
- Manhattan
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
- Blackout History Project: 1977 Blackout
Collection of personal accounts, articles, and documents about the 1977 power outage in New York City.
blackout.gmu.edu/archive/a_1977.html
- Catholic Encyclopedia: Archdiocese of New York
- Manhattan
Offers history.
www.newadvent.org/cathen/11020a.htm
- Tale of Three Cities
- Manhattan
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
- Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum
- Bronx
Newly restored three-story Carriage House contains a carriage stable, hay loft, and tack room for a multi-purpose interpretive facility for the museum.
www.fieldtrip.com/ny/88851461.htm
- Floyd Bennett Field@ - Brooklyn
dir.yahoo.com/.../History/Floyd_Bennett_Field
- New York City Subway Historical Maps
- Manhattan
Offers New York City subway maps from 1880 to the present, sorted by decade.
www.nycsubway.org/maps/historical
- NYC Roads: Maps and History
- Manhattan
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
- Governors Island@ - Manhattan
dir.yahoo.com/.../History/Governors_Island
- WTC and Lower Manhattan: Past and Future
- Manhattan
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
- Beach Pneumatic
Illustrated history of New York City's first attempt at rapid transit and its aftermath.
www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beach
- Taxi Dreams: History
- Manhattan
Traces the history of taxis and cabbies in New York City. From PBS.
www.pbs.org/wnet/taxidreams/history
- Luna Park@ - Brooklyn
dir.yahoo.com/.../History/Luna_Park
- American Experience: New York Underground
- Manhattan
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
- Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace
- Manhattan
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 Experience: New York: A Documentary Film
- Manhattan
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
- Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit
- Brooklyn
Provides a history, routing schedule, car roster, annual reports, and photos for the transit service of the 1920s.
www.bmt-lines.com
- City Hall Park, 1899
- Manhattan
History of the Newsboys Strike of 1899, told from the newsies point of view.
welcome.to/City_Hall_Park_1899
- Brooklyn History On Line
- Brooklyn
Ever expanding exploration of the towns that make today's modern Borough of Brooklyn.
www.brooklynonline.com/history
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