The New York Public Library's Community Oral History Project is an initiative taking place at NYPL branches that aims to document, preserve, and celebrate the rich history of the city's unique neighborhoods by collecting the stories of people who have experienced it firsthand.
During the 1930s, students from the Bronx's DeWitt Clinton High School documented their life and times. Includes 193 poems, articles, and short stories.
"Research materials and archival documents includes maps, historic Brooklyn photographs, ephemera, prints and the full run of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle."
"Consists of 245 late 19th and early 20th century illustrated trade cards, all emanating from businesses in Brooklyn's historic commercial thoroughfare."
"Brooklyn’s largest African-American cultural institution, is dedicated to preserving the history of the 19th century African American community of Weeksville, Brooklyn - one of America’s first free black communities."
ArtsEdge at The Kennedy Center. "A Web-based resource that explores the themes and works that emerged when creative and intellectual voices intersected during the Harlem Renaissance."
"African-American expressions of writing, music, and art during the 1920s and 1930s are well represented in the vast collections of the Library of Congress."
Columbia University. "Harlem History presents a wealth of archival treasures and scholarship from Columbia about the history of one of the world's most famous and influential neighborhoods."
New York Public Library. "A neighborhood oral history project that works to both preserve and document Harlem history through the stories of people who have experienced it."
"From about the 1690s until 1794, both free and enslaved Africans were buried in a 6.6-acre burial ground in Lower Manhattan, outside the boundaries of the settlement of New Amsterdam, later known as New York."
"The Battery is one of New York City’s oldest public parks. Located at the southern tip of Manhattan overlooking New York Harbor, The Battery hosted Dutch settlers when they established New Amsterdam."
"Educational outreach in the form of public lectures, tours, exhibitions, and publications; a school program that teaches children about Greenwich Village history and architecture."
"Harlem One Stop is a cultural tourism initiative of the Hamilton Heights West Harlem Community Preservation Organization (CPO) which seeks to establish a one stop network for Upper Manhattan-Harlem-based tourism through alliances and strategic partnerships."
"Between 1880 and 1924, two and a half million East European Jews came to the United States. Close to 85 percent of them came to New York City, and approximately 75 percent of those settled initially on the Lower East Side."
FROM THE NYPL "With this public domain remix, you can compare the photos from the 1911 Fifth Avenue from Start to Finish collection with 2015's Google Street View."
Washington Heights, Inwood and Harlem are undergoing a rebirth that Led Black has dubbed the Uptown Renaissance. The Uptown Collective’s mission is to document that verve, energy and dynamism in real time as well as to help shape it’s trajectory.
"Bowne House, the oldest house in Queens, NY, is recognized as a city and national landmark and is on the New York State Register of Historic Places as a Site of National Significance."
