Useful Links!

 

<In case you would like to explore more about NYC…>

  • Museum of the City of New York is truly for anyone who is interested in cities, people, cityscape, architecture… https://www.mcny.org/
  • The Tenement Museum also provides walking tours which are really fun, and you get to learn each street’s history as if you are time traveling in 19th and 20th century New York… https://www.tenement.org/
Original image by Andrea Mohin, NYT
Lower East Side Tenement Museum

<Resources to trace NYC’s history>

  • http://spacetime.nypl.org
  • http://urbanarchive.nyc/
  • https://www.nypl.org/locations/divisions/map-division
  • http://www.nytransitmuseum.org/exhibits-collections/collections/
  • https://www.oldnyc.org/
  • http://www.mcny.org/

 

<If you like maps, and would like to make cool maps on your own, here is a great stat:>

  • http://c4sr.columbia.edu/tutorials
  • https://carto.com/
  • https://qgis.org/en/site/
  • https://mapzen.com/
  • https://data2.nhgis.org/main