Non-historical Sites

• City.net - New York - a commercial guide to the city
• Metrobeat NY - another commercial guide
• Metroscope: New York - and another commercial guide - New York Culture, etc.
• New York City CitySearch
• New York City Culture Guide & Calendar - an excellent resource for cultural institutions from the Alliance for the Arts.
• New York City Francophone - information on the Francophone community of New York - schools, institutions, cultural resources
• New York City Reference: "The Complete Reference for URLs In or About New York City" - there is a great deal of information here, courtesy of Clay Irving.
• New York Now - and another commericial guide.
• NEWYORK.SIDEWALK - care of Microsoft.
• NYC Blue - everything from the census to the local papers and the stock exchanges.
• NYC Link - the City's Home Page
• Virtual New York - a mapping resource & much more.

The U.S. Census for New York City

The 1990 census numbers from the U.S. Bureau of the Census. For further information on the U.S. Census, see Guide to Using 1990 United States Census Data at EDS from Columbia University's Electronic Data Service

• New York
• Bronx
• Brooklyn
• Manhattan
• Queens
• Staten Is

The City's Neighborhoods

• 1010 President Street: A Brooklyn Home Page - Links to a range of Brooklyn sites
  
  
• Bayridge.com - News, coming events, local business information and more on this Brooklyn neighborhood
  
  
• Brooklyn On Line - A site devoted to Brooklyn on every level
  
  
• Hell's Kitchen Online - Commercial and other information on this Manhattan neighborhood west of 8th Avenue between 14th and 52nd Streets
  
  
• The Morningside Heights Residents Association - information on the Association and its activities along with historic photos of Columbia's own New York neighborhood.
  
  
• NYSite West Side - A Guide to the Upper West Side of Manhattan with a useful block guide map

Internet Resources for the City's History

• Brooklyn Stories
  
  
• Central Park History - a part of the Central Park Web Site.
  
  
• Coney Island History - a wonderful site with historical articles and maps of New York's most famous amusement center.
  
  
• Discovering the Bronx: Social Problems and Achievements in a Major Urban Area - from The Bronx Data Center at Lehman College - statistics, maps et al.
  
  
• Ellis Island: Through America's Gateway
  
  
• The Gottscho-Schleisner Collection - from the Library of Congress - over 29,000 images, primarily of architectural subjects, many from the New York Area - the New York World's Fair of 1939-40 is featured.
  
  
• Gracie Mansion - the Mayor's House
  
  
• History of Jazz in New York City
  
  
• History of Radio City Music Hall
  
  
• History of the Lake, Central Park
  
  
• How the Other Half Lives - courtesy of TenantNet, this is an html version of Jacob Riis's classic work.
  
  
• Images from New York Album published by Wittemann Bros. in 1883
  
  
• Joseph Brennan's "Rails and Transit" - an amazing array of information about the history, technology and operations of New York City transit.
  
  
• New York: A Documentary Film - the Web Site of the PBS documentary.
  
  
• New York City Motion Pictures Home Page: the collection contains forty-five films dating from 1898 to 1906 from the Paper Print Collection of the Library of Congress. There is a search option as well as a selected bibliography.
  
  
• New York City Subway Resources - the History and Operations of the Subways
  
  
• New York State Newspaper Project - a project to catalog and preserve New York State's newspapers coordinated by the New York State Library.
  
  
• The New York 1964 World's Fair - articles and maps on the city's last internations fair.
  
  
• On the Lower East Side: Observations of Life in Lower Manhattan at the Turn of the Century - an html version edited by Wes Miller and Chad Massey of this collection of articles, documentary sources, and study guides was compiled to accompany the course, An Urban Experience: New York City's Lower East Side, 1880-1920.
  
  
• The Post-World War II Civil Rights Struggles: An Introduction to Web Resources - A demonstration resource page created at the Institute for Learning Technologies, Columbia University. It is a veritable text book together with speeches, writings, and a photo collection.
  
  
• Preserve & Protect, Inc. - A New York not-for-profit corporation dedicated to providing space on the World Wide Web for Historic Preservation and Environmental Protection Organizations - includes the Historic Districs Council & the New York Landmarks Conservancy.
  
  
• The Seneca Village Website - cooperative project of the New-York Historical Society, the New York Public Library, the Office of Young Adult Services and Columbia University's Institute for Learning Technologies - a wonderful collection of materials on the history of Central Park and the African American community that pre-dated the park
  
  
• The Society for New York City History - established in 1983 as a forum for discussion of current research in New York City History
  
  
• The Tenant Movement in New York City, 1904-1984 - Edited by Ronald Lawson with the assistance of Mark Naison, this html version of the Rutgers University Press monograph comes courtesy of the TenantNet

Libraries, Museums & Other New York City Cultural Institutions

Note: For basic information about a whole host of New York City cultural institutions, link to: New York City Culture Guide & Calendar

• The American Museum of Natural History
  
  
• The Brooklyn Historical Society
  
  
• The Brooklyn Museum
  
  
• Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
  
  
• Lower East Side Tenement Museum
  
  
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  
  
• The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology
  
  
• The Museum of American Financial History
  
  
• The Museum of the City of New York
  
  
• The New York State Historical Association in Cooperstown
  
  
• The New York Public Library
  
  
• The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
  
  
• The New York Public Library Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
  
  
• The New York Public Library Science, Industry and Business Library
  
  
• Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian
  
  
• The South Street Seaport Museum

Histories of New York Institutions

• A Brief History of the FDNY
  
  
• History of the Second New York Regiment
  
  
• The New York City Ballet - its History
  
  
• New York City Council History
  
  
• New York City Subway Resources: History and Operations
  
  
• New York City Transit History - key events since the Transit Authority's creation in 1953
  
  
• The New York Eye & Ear Infirmary
  
  
• Temple Emanu-El - Its History
  
  
• Trinity Church - Its History