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- History of New York City & State
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History of New York City & State
- Bronx on the Web: History
http://www.nypl.org/branch/bronx/index2.cfm?Trg=1&d1=765
Selected material and links from The New York Public Library.
- Brooklyn Daily Eagle
http://brooklynpubliclibrary.org/eagle/
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper was the main source of news in Brooklyn for many years. Now you can read the full text of the paper covering many important historical events from 1841-1902. Provided by the Brooklyn Public Library.
- Brooklyn Expedition
http://www.brooklynexpedition.org/default.htm
The Brooklyn Expedition Web site is a project of the Brooklyn Children's Museum, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Public Library.
- Brooklyn Historical Society
http://www.brooklynhistory.org/
Information and events from the society.
- Brooklyn History
http://www.brooklynonline.com/history/
Brooklyn On Line presents articles on the Battle of Brooklyn, Historical Homes, The USS Monitor, Brooklyn Baseball, and other topics.
- Brooklyn in the Civil War
http://brooklynpubliclibrary.org/civilwar/
An online exhibit on life in Brooklyn during the Civil War. Provided by the Brooklyn Public Library.
- Brooklyn Workers Speak
http://www.worklore.net/credits.html
Learn about how Brooklyn workers have confronted racial bias, women's changing work roles, issues facing immigrants, and unemployment. Presented by the Brooklyn Public Library and the Brooklyn Historical Society.
- Brooklyn: A Walk Around Brooklyn
http://www.thirteen.org/brooklyn/index.html
A companion site to the television program on WNET, channel 13.
- Manhattan on the Web: History
http://www.nypl.org/branch/manhattan/index2.cfm?Trg=1&d1=865
Selected material and links from The New York Public Library.
- Manhattan: A Walk Through Central Park
http://www.thirteen.org/centralpark/
A companion site to the television program on WNET, channel 13.
- Manhattan: A Walk Through Harlem
http://www.thirteen.org/harlem/
A companion site to the television program on WNET, channel 13.
- Manhattan: Lewis Wickes Hine: The Construction of the Empire State Building, 1930-1931
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/hinex/empire/empire.html
Documentation of early high-steel construction and daring vantages depict the rise of the tallest building in New York City, captured by reform and child labor photographer Hine (1874-1940).
- Manhattan: Moving Uptown: Nineteenth-century Views of Manhattan
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/print/exhibits/movingup/opening.htm
19th-century prints celebrating the ever-changing face of a thriving, bustling, confident city trace Manhattan's urban evolution. Provided by The New York Public Library.
- New York City : Go Wild in New York City
http://gowildnyc.org/
Learn about New York City's plants, animals, rocks, weather and more. Companion site to the National Geographic book: Go Wild in New York City.
- New York City: Berenice Abbott: CHANGING NEW YORK 1935-1938
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/photo/abbottex/abbott.html
More than two hundred online images by American photographer Abbott (1898-1991) from her 1935-1938 Federal Art Project documentation of the city's rapidly changing built environment.
- New York City: Hidden New York
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/newyork/hidden/index.html
3-D virtual views of 12 New York City locations in all 5 boroughs.
- New York City: Learning Adventures in Citizenship
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/newyork/laic/index.html
The educational Web companion to the PBS series NEW YORK: A DOCUMENTARY FILM.
- New York City: Mid-Manhattan Picture Collection Online
http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/
The Picture Collection Online is an image resource site for those who seek knowledge and inspiration from visual materials. It is a collection of 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards, mostly created before 1923. Search the collection for New York City images.
- New York City: Museum of the City of New York
http://www.mcny.org/
View the virtual exhibits.
- New York City: New-York Historical Society
http://www.nyhistory.org/
- New York City: Subway History
http://www.nycsubway.org/
- New York City: Urban Neighbors: Images of New York City Wildlife
http://urbanneighbors.nypl.org/
Celebrates the diversity and abundance of New York City wildlife and traces how various artists since the mid-17th century have portrayed the animals that are New York City’s "urban neighbors." Provided by The New York Public Library.
- New York State Facts
http://www.dos.state.ny.us/kidsroom/nysfacts/factmenu.html
Facts for kids from the New York State Department of State.
- New York State: A Hudson River Portfolio
http://www.nypl.org/research/hudson/
The New York Public Library has created this site to make rare images and texts available to researchers, students and lovers of Hudson River history and art. These resources bring together some of The Library's most celebrated materials from the heyday of the Hudson River in the 19th century.
- New York State: Long Island History
http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/
- NYPL Digital
http://nypl.org/digital/
Thousands of historical photos and illustrations of all five New York City boroughs are available along with many other subjects. Find a picture of your neigborhood!
- Queens Historical Society
http://www.queenshistoricalsociety.org/
Queens information and events.
- Queens Local History Collection
http://www.queenshistory.lagcc.cuny.edu/queenshistory/
View the searchable database of nearly 2,000 online Queens historical photos. Presented by the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives.
- Queens: A Walk Through Queens
http://www.thirteen.org/queens/history.html
A companion site to the television program on WNET, channel 13.
- Queens: Greater Astoria Historical Association
http://www.astorialic.org/
- Queens: Richmond Hill Historical Society
http://www.richmondhillhistory.org/
- Staten Island On the Web: History
http://www.nypl.org/branch/staten/index2.cfm?Trg=1&d1=962
Selected material and links from The New York Public Library.
- Staten Island: Historic Richmond Town
http://historicrichmondtown.org/
Historic Richmond Town is New York City’s living history village and museum complex. Visitors can explore the diversity of the American experience, especially that of Staten Island and its neighboring communities, from the colonial period to the present.
- Staten Island: Staten Island Museum (Institute of Arts and Sciences)
http://statenislandmuseum.org
New York City's only general interest museum, explores the arts, natural science, and local history through permanent and changing exhibitions.
Museums
- Alice Austen House Museum
http://www.aliceausten.org/
- American Folk Art Museum
http://www.folkartmuseum.org/
- American Merchant Marine Museum
http://www.usmma.edu/about/Museum/default.htm
- American Museum of Natural History
http://www.amnh.org/
- American Museum of the Moving Image
http://www.movingimage.us/site/site.php
- Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum
http://www.bartowpellmansionmuseum.org/
- Bronx Museum of the Arts
http://www.bxma.org/
- Bronx River Art Center
http://www.bronxriverart.org/
- Brooklyn Children's Museum
http://www.bchildmus.org/
- Children's Museum of Manhattan
http://www.cmom.org/
- Children's Museum of the Arts
http://www.ny.com/museums/children.museum.of.the.arts.html
- Children's Museum of the Native American
http://www.fieldtrip.com/ny/22831122.htm
- Cloisters
http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/department.asp?dep=7
- Coney Island Museum
http://www.coneyislandusa.com/museum.shtml
- Conference House
http://www.theconferencehouse.org/
- El Museo del Barrio
http://www.elmuseo.org/
- Ellis Island
http://www.nps.gov/elis/
- Fraunces Tavern Museum
http://www.frauncestavernmuseum.org/
- Frick Collection
http://www.frick.org/
- Garibaldi-Meucci Museum
http://www.garibaldimeuccimuseum.org/
- Guggenheim Museum
http://www.guggenheim.org/new_york_index.shtml
- Historic Richmond Town
http://historicrichmondtown.org/
- Hudson River Museum
http://www.hrm.org/
- Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum
http://www.intrepidmuseum.org
- Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art
http://www.tibetanmuseum.com/
- Jewish Museum
http://www.thejewishmuseum.org/
- Liberty Science Center
http://www.lsc.org/
- Little Red Lighthouse
http://www.hudsonlights.com/littlered.htm
- Louis Armstrong House and Archives
http://www.satchmo.net/
- Lower East Side Tenement Museum
http://www.tenement.org/
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://www.metmuseum.org/
- Morris-Jumel Mansion
http://www.morrisjumel.org/
- Museum for African Art
http://www.africanart.org/
- Museum of Chinese in the Americas
http://www.moca-nyc.org/
- Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
http://www.mjhnyc.org/index.htm
- Museum of Modern Art
http://www.moma.org/
- Museum of Television and Radio
http://www.mtr.org/
- Museum of the City of New York
http://www.mcny.org/
- National Lighthouse Museum (under construction)
http://www.lighthousemuseum.org/
- National Museum of the American Indian (New York)
http://www.nmai.si.edu/subpage.cfm?subpage=visitor&second=ny&third=hours
- New Jersey Children's Museum
http://www.njcm.com/
- New York City Fire Museum
http://www.nycfiremuseum.org/
- New York City Police Museum
http://www.nycpolicemuseum.org/
- New York City Transit Museum
http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/mta/museum/general.htm
- New York Hall of Science
http://www.nyhallsci.org/
- New-York Historical Society
http://www.nyhistory.org/
- Scandinavia House
http://www.scandinaviahouse.org/
- Skyscraper Museum
http://www.skyscraper.org/
- Sonywonder Technology Lab
http://www.sonywondertechlab.com/
- South Street Seaport Museum
http://www.southstseaport.org
- Staten Island Children's Museum
http://www.statenislandkids.org
- Staten Island Museum
http://www.statenislandmuseum.org/
- Studio Museum In Harlem
http://www.studiomuseum.org/
- Wave Hill
http://www.wavehill.org/
Places to Go
- Bronx Zoo
http://www.bronxzoo.com/
- Brooklyn Public Library
http://brooklynpubliclibrary.org/index.jsp
- Central Park
http://www.centralpark.org/home.html
- Central Park Zoo
http://nyzoosandaquarium.com/142123
- Coney Island
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/coney/index.html
A History of Coney Island from PBS.
- Ellis Island
http://www.ellisisland.org/
- Empire State Building
http://www.esbnyc.com/kids/index.cfm?CFID=7031181&CFTOKEN=45206751
- Go City Kids
http://www.gocitykids.com/?area=197
A full listing of events for children, like plays, concerts, puppet shows, museum events and more. There are listings in all five boroughs of New York City (and other cities as well).
- I Love New York: NY State Kids Site
http://www.iloveny.com/kids/index.asp
New York State history, travel fun, games, and more.
- Learning Adventures in Citizenship: From New York to Your Town
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/newyork/laic/home.html
This site is intended for grades four through eight. It is based on NEW YORK: A DOCUMENTARY FILM, by award-winning filmmaker Ric Burns. The site uses New York City as an example of how cities and communities across America developed into unique centers of commerce, politics, architecture, culture, and ethnicity.
- New York Aquarium
http://www.nyaquarium.com/
- New York Botanical Garden
http://www.nybg.org
- New York City Bike Paths
http://www.gocitykids.com/browse/subcat.jsp?area=197&category=10
- New York City Inline Skating Guide
http://www.skatecity.com/nyc/
- New York City Parks
http://www.nycgovparks.org/
Find out what's happening at your local park.
- New York Public Library: Bronx Branches
http://www.nypl.org/branch/local/bxmap.html
Click the map to find your local branch.
- New York Public Library: Manhattan Branches
http://www.nypl.org/branch/local/manmap.html
Click the map to find your local branch.
- New York Public Library: Staten Island Branches
http://www.nypl.org/branch/local/simap.html
Click the map to find your local branch.
- NYC Kids Arts Online
http://www.nyckidsarts.org/
Arts activities for children of all ages
- Queens Borough Public Library
http://qbpl.org/
- Radio City Music Hall
http://www.radiocity.com
- Snug Harbor Cultural Center
http://www.snug-harbor.org/
- Staten Island Botanical Garden
http://www.sibg.org/
- Staten Island Ferry
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/masstran/ferries/statfery.html#info
- Staten Island Greenbelt
http://www.sigreenbelt.org/
- Staten Island Zoo
http://www.statenislandzoo.org/
- Statue of Liberty
http://www.nps.gov/stli/
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