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There's a lot of information in the NYC archives. It's not well organized, but given the depth and breadth of the collection, it's worth the effort to search. Includes a collection of 720,000 photos taking in the 1940s and the 1980s to document every building in the city.
The West Chelsea Historic District is a portion of the neighborhood of Chelsea in Manhattan, New York City.It was designated as the city's 92nd historic district in July 2008 by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.
The New York Times Archival Library, also known as "the morgue", [1] is the collected clippings and photo archives of the New York Times (NYT) newspaper. It is located in a separate building from the main Times offices, in the basement of the former New York Herald Tribune on West 41st Street.
It shows what the US, from California to Ohio to New York, looked like from 1971 to 1977. Of the 81,000 images the photographers took, more than 20,000 photos were archived, and at least 15,000 ...
Five Points (or The Five Points) was a 19th-century neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City.The neighborhood, partly built on low-lying land which had filled in the freshwater lake known as the Collect Pond, was generally defined as being bound by Centre Street to the west, the Bowery to the east, Canal Street to the north, and Park Row to the south.
The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission was created following the preservation fight and subsequent demolition of Pennsylvania Station. New York City's right to limit owners' ability to convert landmarked buildings was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1978.
The New York City Municipal Archives preserves and makes available more than 10 million historical vital records (birth, marriage and death certificates) for all five boroughs (Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens and Staten Island). Researchers have open access to the indexes, and both microfilmed and digital copies of vital records on-site ...
The Wall Street Historic District in New York City includes part of Wall Street and parts of nearby streets in the Financial District in Lower Manhattan.It includes 65 contributing buildings and one contributing structure over a 63-acre (25 ha) listed area.