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February 2025
- Feb 14, 2025 It’s Presidents Day
- Feb 7, 2025 Digitizing the David N. Dinkins Mayoral Photograph Collection
January 2025
- Jan 31, 2025 Displaced Persons
- Jan 24, 2025 Historical Anniversaries
- Jan 17, 2025 Department of Street Cleaning Photographs
- Jan 8, 2025 New York and President Jimmy Carter
December 2024
- Dec 31, 2024 Happy New Year 2025!
- Dec 24, 2024 Happy Holidays 2024
- Dec 20, 2024 Happy Birthday, Calvert Vaux!
- Dec 13, 2024 Demonstrations, Disturbances, and a Papal Visit
- Dec 6, 2024 Tracts, Farms, and the Great Reindexing Project of 1911-1917
November 2024
- Nov 27, 2024 Happy Thanksgiving
- Nov 22, 2024 Birthday Greetings, Verrazano-Narrows Bridge!
- Nov 15, 2024 Trivia Night at the Archives!
- Nov 8, 2024 A Wikipedia for Street Names
- Nov 1, 2024 Yankees v. Dodgers v. Giants
October 2024
- Oct 25, 2024 Race to the Top
- Oct 18, 2024 Open House New York
- Oct 11, 2024 Documenting Indigenous Peoples
- Oct 4, 2024 Moses v. Tweed
September 2024
- Sep 26, 2024 Civil War Records, Orders for Relief of Soldier’s Families
- Sep 20, 2024 Enjoying and Researching City Parks
- Sep 13, 2024 Herman Melville’s New York
- Sep 6, 2024 WNYC celebrates
August 2024
- Aug 30, 2024 Labor Day, 1968
- Aug 23, 2024 The Handschu Collection
- Aug 16, 2024 Bring the $5M with you. Two Eagles and a Post Office
- Aug 9, 2024 Notes from Eleanor
- Aug 2, 2024 Manhattan Building Plans – Project Update
July 2024
- Jul 26, 2024 Welcoming Home American Olympic Champions in 1924
- Jul 19, 2024 “A True and Perfect Inventory” - The Municipal Archives Collection of 18th and 19th-century Estate Records, Part Two
- Jul 12, 2024 “A True and Perfect Inventory” - The Municipal Archives Collection of 18th and 19th-century Estate Records, Part One
- Jul 4, 2024 Fireworks
June 2024
- Jun 28, 2024 Harmful Content Remediation Project Update
- Jun 21, 2024 Preserving the Union: Military Records from the Town of New Utrecht
- Jun 14, 2024 Flag Day
- Jun 7, 2024 Re-discovering the Old Pennsylvania Station
May 2024
- May 31, 2024 100 Years of WNYC
- May 24, 2024 New York’s First Memorial Day
- May 17, 2024 Looking for Yuri Kochiyama
- May 10, 2024 May Day
- May 3, 2024 WPA Federal Art Project Photographs
April 2024
- Apr 26, 2024 “I Say Its Spinach!” - Robert Moses, Master Letter Writer
- Apr 19, 2024 Find of the Week: Central Park Topographical Maps
- Apr 12, 2024 We Shall All Be There: Dedicating Shea Stadium
- Apr 5, 2024 The Curious Case of the Lighting of the Williamsburg Bridge
March 2024
- Mar 28, 2024 Recovering Women’s Names in DORIS’ Digital Collections
- Mar 22, 2024 The New York City Civil War Draft Riot Claims Collection
- Mar 15, 2024 “Hi-ya Dev!” New York City Welcomes Native Son Eamon de Valera
- Mar 8, 2024 A Woman of Firsts: Constance Baker Motley
- Mar 1, 2024 Finding Bayard Rustin
February 2024
- Feb 23, 2024 The Corporation Tea Room
- Feb 16, 2024 George Washington in New York: The First Presidential Mansion
- Feb 9, 2024 The Phony and the Crackpot at City Hall, by Stanley H. Howe
- Feb 2, 2024 Langston Hughes, The Writer’s Position in America
January 2024
- Jan 26, 2024 The Condemnation Photographs
- Jan 19, 2024 John Glenn, the First American to Orbit the Earth
- Jan 12, 2024 Stables and Auction Marts - Building Plans with Horses
- Jan 5, 2024 Radio Row and the Fight for Lower Manhattan
December 2023
- Dec 22, 2023 Happy Holidays
- Dec 15, 2023 The Playboy Plot
- Dec 8, 2023 Drives, Rides, and Walks—Horses in Central Park
- Dec 1, 2023 Remembering Rosalynn Carter
November 2023
- Nov 21, 2023 Happy Thanksgiving
- Nov 17, 2023 The National Museum of the American Indian
- Nov 9, 2023 A Spanish-American War Mystery
- Nov 3, 2023 Uniting the Boroughs: The Triborough Bridge
October 2023
- Oct 27, 2023 Preserving the Ghosts of New York City
- Oct 20, 2023 Horsepower: The City and the Horse
- Oct 13, 2023 Marriage Contracts
- Oct 6, 2023 The Closing of Sydenham Hospital
September 2023
- Sep 29, 2023 The Entire Expense Should Be Borne by the Federal Government: A 1913 Report from the Commissioners of Accounts
- Sep 22, 2023 The United Nations in New York City
- Sep 15, 2023 Loew’s Canal Street Theater
- Sep 8, 2023 Community Gardens
- Sep 1, 2023 The First Labor Day, September 5, 1882
August 2023
- Aug 25, 2023 Women’s Equality Day 2023: Embrace Equity
- Aug 18, 2023 The Aerial Views of Robert Moses
- Aug 11, 2023 Perseverence: Gertrude Ederle Swims the English Channel
- Aug 4, 2023 What We're Working on Now: Indexing Felony Indictment Files
July 2023
- Jul 28, 2023 Mop Shaking
- Jul 21, 2023 Find of the Week, Part 2
- Jul 14, 2023 City of Water Day
- Jul 7, 2023 New York City Receptions
June 2023
- Jun 30, 2023 The Battle for Gay Rights, continued
- Jun 23, 2023 The Battle for Gay Rights
- Jun 16, 2023 The 2022 ARB Report
- Jun 9, 2023 NYC Undercover
- Jun 2, 2023 The City Cemetery on Hart Island
May 2023
- May 26, 2023 Soldiers and Sailors Monument
- May 19, 2023 Silent Toasts and Solo Flights: Mayor LaGuardia’s Forgotten Fraternity
- May 12, 2023 Find of the Week: Report of the Jamaica Bay Improvement Commission
- May 5, 2023 The Congressional Records of Mayor Edward I. Koch
April 2023
- Apr 28, 2023 Searching for the Marquis
- Apr 21, 2023 New York’s First Earth Day
- Apr 14, 2023 Find of the Week
- Apr 7, 2023 Theatre Matron Permits
March 2023
- Mar 31, 2023 Honoring Miriam Friedlander
- Mar 24, 2023 Preserving Mali’s Motion Picture Film Heritage
- Mar 17, 2023 Policewomen
- Mar 10, 2023 Anniversary of Wall Street
- Mar 3, 2023 Mayor David N. Dinkins, A Photo Medley
February 2023
- Feb 24, 2023 From Marketfield to the Greenmarket, Part II: The Market Man
- Feb 17, 2023 The Last Muster
- Feb 10, 2023 Neighborhood Stories
- Feb 2, 2023 A Charter for New Amsterdam: February 2, 1653
January 2023
- Jan 27, 2023 The Alien Squad
- Jan 20, 2023 From Marketfield to the Greenmarket, Part I
- Jan 13, 2023 The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in New York City
- Jan 6, 2023 A Day Without and With(out) Art, A Night Without Light
December 2022
- Dec 22, 2022 Greeting Cards
- Dec 16, 2022 The Old Town Records Collection: A Frenchman’s Possessions
- Dec 9, 2022 Birds of America
- Dec 2, 2022 New Utrecht: A Library Catalogue, circa 1796
November 2022
- Nov 23, 2022 Auctions
- Nov 18, 2022 The Municipal Record Keepers: Eugene J. Bockman
- Nov 10, 2022 Surrogate’s Court/Hall of Records: A Public Treasure
- Nov 4, 2022 Charters in the Municipal Library
October 2022
- Oct 28, 2022 Manhattan Buildings Plans Update—the Financial and Seaport Districts
- Oct 21, 2022 Ripples in the Broadcast Waves of History from WNYC-TV
- Oct 14, 2022 The Problem of Books
- Oct 7, 2022 Brooklyn’s 370-Year Heritage of Stray Goats
September 2022
- Sep 30, 2022 Conditions in Harlem Revisited: From the 1936 Mayor’s Commission Report to Today
- Sep 23, 2022 Mayor LaGuardia's Latin American Scholarship Program
- Sep 16, 2022 Drag Racing - 1668-Style
- Sep 9, 2022 The Queen and the City
- Sep 2, 2022 “See You in New York Over the Weekend”
August 2022
- Aug 26, 2022 Save America’s Treasures, the Brooklyn Bridge Drawings Collection
- Aug 19, 2022 Valentine's Manuals
- Aug 12, 2022 Schooling in Midwout, Brooklyn in 1666
- Aug 5, 2022 The People vs Mary Jones: Rethinking Race, Sex and Gender through 19th-Century Court Records
July 2022
- Jul 29, 2022 Disabilities Awareness Month
- Jul 22, 2022 Oyster Boards in the Old Town records
- Jul 15, 2022 Mount St. Vincent, Central Park
- Jul 8, 2022 The Genealogical Possibilities of Manumissions in the Old Town Records
- Jul 1, 2022 Grog, Punch and Wine: New Yorkers Celebrate Independence Day
June 2022
- Jun 24, 2022 New York City Celebrates Pride
- Jun 17, 2022 LGBTQ+ Teachers, Parents and Children
- Jun 10, 2022 The Puerto Rican Study
- Jun 3, 2022 The Blue Riband: New York City and the Superliners
May 2022
- May 27, 2022 Dog Licenses in the Old Town Records
- May 20, 2022 Deinstitutionalization of Mental Healthcare in New York
- May 13, 2022 Researching the Topic Abortion in the Health Commissioners Collection
- May 6, 2022 Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month
April 2022
- Apr 29, 2022 Vinyl Rhyme and Lacquered Verse: Celebrating National Poetry Month
- Apr 22, 2022 The World of Tomorrow: Documenting the 1939 New York World’s Fair
- Apr 15, 2022 Parks to the People: Gateway National Recreation Area
- Apr 8, 2022 The Greensward
- Apr 1, 2022 Fay Kellogg, Architect
March 2022
- Mar 25, 2022 Honoring Women’s History Day, Week and Month
- Mar 18, 2022 The Historical Vital Records of NYC
- Mar 11, 2022 The “Remembered Way of Doing Things,” Minutes of the Court of General Sessions, 1683-1962
- Mar 4, 2022 If Not Perfectly Clear, Postponed One Week: Invitations of the Gilded Age
February 2022
- Feb 25, 2022 Searching for Marsha P. Johnson
- Feb 18, 2022 Sabbath Studies, the Arnold Eagle Interview
- Feb 11, 2022 Ralph De Sola, WPA Photographer
- Feb 4, 2022 WNYC-TV Presents Poetry Spots
January 2022
- Jan 28, 2022 The 2021 ARB Report
- Jan 21, 2022 “Because He Had a Camera,” the Clifford Sutcliffe WPA Interview
- Jan 14, 2022 Searching for Nancy
- Jan 7, 2022 Department of Buildings - Manhattan Block and Lot Collection, 1866-1977
December 2021
- Dec 30, 2021 Honoring Duke Ellington
- Dec 23, 2021 Happy Holidays!
- Dec 17, 2021 Processing the Old Town Records Collection
- Dec 10, 2021 Gifts from the Archives
- Dec 3, 2021 The Manhattan Department of Buildings Docket Book Collection, 1866-1959
November 2021
- Nov 24, 2021 Happy Thanksgiving!
- Nov 19, 2021 “Chinese Buildings” in Chinatown
- Nov 12, 2021 Launching ArchivesSpace
- Nov 5, 2021 Municipal Archives Opens New Facility in Industry City, Brooklyn
October 2021
- Oct 29, 2021 Richard Nixon’s 1968 Halloween Rally at Madison Square Garden
- Oct 22, 2021 Gathering Government Information From Cities Before the Internet
- Oct 15, 2021 The New York City Hall of Records
- Oct 8, 2021 Locating Building Residents using the Municipal Archives
- Oct 1, 2021 How to Use Tax Assessment Records to Date Construction of a Building
September 2021
- Sep 24, 2021 NYPD Surveillance of Organized Labor
- Sep 17, 2021 Enjoy the weekend
- Sep 10, 2021 Transcribing the Messages Written on September 11 Memorial Supports
- Sep 3, 2021 The 1968 Labor Day Parade
August 2021
- Aug 27, 2021 Remembering Althea Gibson
- Aug 20, 2021 The De Gregario Lantern Slide Collection
- Aug 13, 2021 The Mayor is Cordially Invited...
- Aug 6, 2021 Aunty J. Walker
July 2021
- Jul 30, 2021 The Belvedere Castle in Central Park
- Jul 23, 2021 Neighborhood Health
- Jul 16, 2021 The WPA Federal Writers' Project Book - American Wild Life Illustrated
- Jul 9, 2021 The Thank You Parades
- Jul 2, 2021 Harbor Festival '85
June 2021
- Jun 25, 2021 Beyond the Basics
- Jun 18, 2021 HIV - AIDS Drug Development
- Jun 11, 2021 This Day in History
- Jun 4, 2021 The Fulton Fish Market: An unpublished Works Progress Administration (WPA) manuscript
May 2021
- May 28, 2021 Memorial Day
- May 21, 2021 How to Research the Vital Records Collection
- May 14, 2021 Documenting the New Deal
- May 7, 2021 The Eastern District of Brooklyn
- May 5, 2021 Building Histories, part 2
April 2021
- Apr 27, 2021 Hudson River Sloop Clearwater as Covered by WNYC-TV
- Apr 16, 2021 Building Histories, The Bellevue Psychopathic Hospital and the Rivington Street Bath
- Apr 9, 2021 Inside the Manhattan Building Plan Collection
- Apr 2, 2021 Victory Gardens
March 2021
- Mar 26, 2021 The Estate Inventory Collection
- Mar 19, 2021 The Inspiring Women Archive
- Mar 12, 2021 Historic District Attorney Records Capture Policewomen’s Undercover Exploits
- Mar 5, 2021 WNYC-TV Archives: A Public Broadcaster for the Public Good
February 2021
- Feb 26, 2021 The slow end of slavery in New York reflected in Brooklyn’s Old Town records
- Feb 19, 2021 Moving the Archives, part III
- Feb 12, 2021 Job Well Done: The 2020 ARB Report
- Feb 5, 2021 Mayor James J. Walker
January 2021
- Jan 29, 2021 Be back soon...
- Jan 22, 2021 Municipal Archives – the Institutional History
- Jan 15, 2021 Saluting Shirley Chisholm
- Jan 9, 2021 The Mayors of the Greater City of New York
December 2020
- Dec 31, 2020 Happy New Year
- Dec 24, 2020 Holiday Greetings
- Dec 18, 2020 Documenting the WTC Memorial Risers
- Dec 10, 2020 Adopt New York’s Past
- Dec 4, 2020 Early Mayors Papers – The Letter Press Volumes
November 2020
- Nov 25, 2020 How to Cook a Thanksgiving Turkey
- Nov 20, 2020 New York City’s Earliest Mayors
- Nov 13, 2020 The Eternal Light Flagstaff in Madison Square Park
- Nov 6, 2020 Brooklyn Bridge Architectural Drawings: Material Matters
October 2020
- Oct 30, 2020 Rochdale Village Protests
- Oct 23, 2020 Elections in NYC
- Oct 16, 2020 The Transcription Project, Early Mayors' Collection II
- Oct 9, 2020 Unemployment in the Great Depression
- Oct 2, 2020 Mayor Gaynor and Children in the City
September 2020
- Sep 25, 2020 Moving the Archives, part II
- Sep 18, 2020 The Transcription Project, Early Mayors’ Collection
- Sep 11, 2020 A False Police Report on a Boy’s Arrest
- Sep 4, 2020 Thank you, Mayor Dinkins
August 2020
- Aug 28, 2020 Remarks of Mayor LaGuardia at the Annual Meeting of the Welfare Council of New York City
- Aug 21, 2020 The Transcription Project, Condemnation Proceeding Photograph Collection
- Aug 14, 2020 The Transcription Project, Brooklyn Grade Crossing Photographs
- Aug 7, 2020 The Pleasures and Profits of Walking
July 2020
- Jul 31, 2020 The Design for the Seal of the City of New York
- Jul 24, 2020 New York's Working Waterfront
- Jul 17, 2020 Inspiring Women – The Women’s Activism Story – Writing Contest
- Jul 10, 2020 The Battle for Gay Civil Rights
- Jul 3, 2020 Happy Independence Day
June 2020
- Jun 26, 2020 Building Coney Island’s Centerpiece – The Boardwalk
- Jun 19, 2020 San Juan Fiesta, 1979
- Jun 12, 2020 Treating the Brooklyn Bridge Drawings, Phase One
- Jun 5, 2020 Those Boys of Summer Are Gone Again
May 2020
- May 29, 2020 From Health Officer of the Port to Disease Detectives: Public Health Workers in New York City
- May 22, 2020 Orchard Beach
- May 15, 2020 We’ll Be Back!
- May 8, 2020 The Hard Hat Riots, May 8, 1970
- May 1, 2020 Spotlight on Preservation Week: Emergency Preparedness in a New Era
April 2020
- Apr 24, 2020 The Smelly History of Barren Island, a Piece of the Lost New York
- Apr 17, 2020 In the Details
- Apr 10, 2020 PPE in NYC
- Apr 3, 2020 Vinegar Syndrome Testing and the WNYC-TV Film Collection
March 2020
- Mar 27, 2020 The Occupation of Sydenham Hospital
- Mar 20, 2020 Spring 2020
- Mar 15, 2020 The City and the Census
- Mar 6, 2020 Dirty Water
February 2020
- Feb 28, 2020 Honoring Black History Month, 1990
- Feb 21, 2020 Incorrigibles — Bearing Witness to the Incarcerated Girls of New York
- Feb 13, 2020 “The Heart of Chinatown,” 70 Mulberry Street
- Feb 7, 2020 New York City Hurricane Relief for Puerto Rico: 1899
- Feb 1, 2020 Artist in Residence
January 2020
- Jan 24, 2020 Moving the Archives
- Jan 17, 2020 Conserving Central Park and Brooklyn Bridge Plans
- Jan 10, 2020 Indexing the Dutch Records of Kings County
- Jan 3, 2020 Official Mayoral Photographs
December 2019
- Dec 27, 2019 It’s Christmas in the City
- Dec 20, 2019 The Seer of Bayside
- Dec 12, 2019 Death From the Skies Over Brooklyn
- Dec 6, 2019 Coffee
November 2019
- Nov 27, 2019 Recipes from the WPA Federal Writers' Project
- Nov 22, 2019 Turkeys
- Nov 15, 2019 Meatless Tuesdays
- Nov 8, 2019 When Johnny Came Marching Home to Cheers
- Nov 1, 2019 NYPD Surveillance Films
October 2019
- Oct 25, 2019 Mayor LaGuardia Speaks on Baseball
- Oct 18, 2019 The Empire State Plane Crash, July 28, 1945
- Oct 11, 2019 Columbus Day 1944: Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia’s broadcasts to Italy during World War II
- Oct 4, 2019 The Colonial Old Town Ledgers Digitization Project
September 2019
- Sep 27, 2019 The Brooklyn Battery Bridge
- Sep 20, 2019 The Queens Borough President Panoramic Photographs, part 2
- Sep 13, 2019 Immigration Acts and Fiorello LaGuardia
- Sep 6, 2019 Prostitution in New York-Part 2, From Lucky Luciano to the Bad Old Days of Times Square
August 2019
- Aug 30, 2019 A History of Prostitution in New York City from the American Revolution to the Bad Old Days of the 1970s and 1980s
- Aug 23, 2019 The Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of the New York City Municipal Ferry System
- Aug 16, 2019 The Queens Borough President Panoramic Photographs
- Aug 8, 2019 The Apollo 11 Ticker Tape Parade: August 13, 1969
- Aug 2, 2019 The Electric Grid
July 2019
- Jul 26, 2019 Covering Wars Before Before the Advent of “Fake News” and the 24-Hour News Cycle
- Jul 19, 2019 Unbuilt New York: Brooklyn’s Eighth Ward Market
- Jul 12, 2019 Where Bad Boys are Made Good
- Jul 3, 2019 The “Missing” Common Council Records of the Revolutionary War
June 2019
- Jun 28, 2019 The Mayors and the Gay Pride Parade
- Jun 21, 2019 NYPD Surveillance of Lesbian and Gay Power
- Jun 14, 2019 Central Park: A Musical Destination for all New Yorkers
- Jun 7, 2019 Form 51
May 2019
- May 31, 2019 Coney Island, from rabbits, to hucksters to ‘The World’s Largest Playground’
- May 24, 2019 “People here are very open, and very nice to us” — Fleet Week in NYC
- May 17, 2019 THE EARLY TENEMENTS OF NEW YORK—DARK, DANK, AND DANGEROUS
- May 10, 2019 Greenwich Village and the Square
- May 3, 2019 A Flashback to the 1980s Tax Photographs
April 2019
- Apr 26, 2019 The Lung Block: A New York City Slum & Its Forgotten Italian Immigrant Community
- Apr 19, 2019 Riots, Rebellion and the City’s Second Attempt to “Sink” Rikers Island
- Apr 12, 2019 The Central Park: Original Designs for New York’s Greatest Treasure, a conversation with author Cynthia Brenwall
- Apr 5, 2019 Remembering Neighborhood Voices, Part I
March 2019
- Mar 29, 2019 Iron Gall Ink
- Mar 22, 2019 The Birth, Life and—Maybe—Death of Rikers Island
- Mar 15, 2019 Jury Census Records Digitized
- Mar 8, 2019 Prohibition
- Mar 1, 2019 The Mayor’s Commission on Conditions in Harlem – 1935
February 2019
- Feb 22, 2019 The Public Advocate Election
- Feb 15, 2019 From the Dank Recesses—the Department of Parks General Files
- Feb 8, 2019 I Lift My Lamp Beside the Golden Door
- Feb 1, 2019 One banana, two banana, three banana, four…
January 2019
- Jan 25, 2019 Outtakes: Behind the Scenes with the Tax Photo Photographers
- Jan 18, 2019 Skating in Central Park
- Jan 11, 2019 Glue, Time, Humidity and Heat: Mastering the Elements of Tape Preservation
- Jan 4, 2019 Andy Warhol in the City
December 2018
- Dec 28, 2018 A New Year Is Coming
- Dec 21, 2018 The Surrogate’s Court Rotunda, Restored
- Dec 14, 2018 The Food Problem: 1918
- Dec 7, 2018 Preserving the Collections
November 2018
- Nov 30, 2018 Basketball Comes to New York
- Nov 20, 2018 Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloons
- Nov 16, 2018 Returning Home, New Yorkers and World War I
- Nov 9, 2018 Kristallnacht
- Nov 2, 2018 The 1940 Tax Photos—A Well-Traveled Collection
October 2018
- Oct 26, 2018 New Yorkers' Voice Their Dodgers Views: Missives to Mayor Wagner
- Oct 19, 2018 Manhattan’s Civic Center Plan, 1964
- Oct 12, 2018 Mission Possible: Engaging Communities around Preserving Their History
- Oct 5, 2018 Fish Strike
September 2018
- Sep 28, 2018 Legacy Cataloging at the NYC Municipal Archives
- Sep 21, 2018 “Good Morning Housewives” - Milk
- Sep 14, 2018 NYC: WORK AND WORKING - WPA PHOTOGRAPHS at PHOTOVILLE
August 2018
- Aug 24, 2018 New Accession: Department of Sanitation Photographs
- Aug 19, 2018 Find of the Week
- Aug 13, 2018 Find of the Week
- Aug 3, 2018 Summer in the City
- Aug 3, 2018 Building Escapes
July 2018
- Jul 27, 2018 Mystery Ledgers
- Jul 20, 2018 For Lo, These Many Years: Forgotten Cemeteries of Queens
- Jul 13, 2018 Preserving WNYC-TV
- Jul 5, 2018 The Manhattan Building Plans Project, 1977-2018
June 2018
- Jun 22, 2018 SUMMER IN THE CITY: RECREATION
- Jun 15, 2018 Bodies in Transit
- Jun 7, 2018 Department of Public Welfare of the City of New York
- Jun 1, 2018 Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited
May 2018
- May 24, 2018 Mass Inoculation or: How New York Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Polio Vaccine
- May 18, 2018 Omnibuses and Horse Cars or What I Have Learned from Assisting Researchers
- May 11, 2018 Take Me Out To the Ballpark
April 2018
- Apr 27, 2018 From the Ground Up: A Survey of the Map Collections of the Municipal Archives
- Apr 20, 2018 How Can We Help?
- Apr 13, 2018 Digitizing Historical Photographs
- Apr 6, 2018 Honoring and Welcoming Idilio Gracia Peña, April 6, 2018
March 2018
- Mar 30, 2018 Rebecca Rankin
- Mar 23, 2018 Equal Pay and Equal Employment
- Mar 16, 2018 Women in Civil Society
- Mar 1, 2018 The Flu Epidemic of 1918
February 2018
- Feb 23, 2018 Bankrupt! The New York County Supreme Court Insolvency Assignments Records
- Feb 16, 2018 NYC Celebrates Olympic Athletes
- Feb 8, 2018 Got Milk (Regulations)?
January 2018
- Jan 25, 2018 The Grammys Return to the Big Apple
- Jan 18, 2018 A Conversation between Barbara Hibbert, Reference Room Director and Ken Cobb, Assistant Commissioner, January 17, 2018
- Jan 12, 2018 Farewell to Tweed
- Jan 5, 2018 Mapping the Waterfront
December 2017
- Dec 29, 2017 Inauguration Day
- Dec 21, 2017 Digitizing the Greensward
- Dec 15, 2017 New York Holds a Soft Spot for the Holidays
- Dec 7, 2017 Winter In New York
November 2017
- Nov 30, 2017 Milk, Midwives and Medical Quackery: Records of the Commissioners of the New York City Health Department
- Nov 22, 2017 Burning Bushwick
- Nov 16, 2017 This Is No Clam Bake: Mayor La Guardia and the Office of Civilian Defense
- Nov 3, 2017 Celebrate the anniversary of Women’s Suffrage by expanding access to the ballot in New York State
October 2017
- Oct 26, 2017 NEIGHBORHOOD STORIES: A community history pilot project by Sunset Park High School and the NYC Municipal Archives
- Oct 12, 2017 Haunted Buildings of New York
- Oct 5, 2017 DISPATCHES FROM THE URBAN HEARTLAND, Part 6: I’ve Often Wondered...
September 2017
- Sep 29, 2017 New York City and the Attica State Prison Riot
- Sep 21, 2017 Living in the City: An Inside Look at Four Decades of Changing Housing in New York City
- Sep 7, 2017 A Look into the Life and Death of the Opulent Loews Theaters in New York City
August 2017
- Aug 31, 2017 Stumbled Upon in the Archives: The Great Tulip Tree
- Aug 24, 2017 Dispatches from the Urban Heartland, Part 5: Vibing in the Urban Heartland with Ms. Clara & Ms. Catherine
- Aug 10, 2017 Tax Records and Time Machines: The Property Cards of the Municipal Archives
- Aug 3, 2017 Stumbled Upon in the Archives
July 2017
- Jul 27, 2017 Dispatches from the Urban Heartland, Part 4: District Street, Brooklyn and the Route to Modernity
- Jul 20, 2017 Freedom Tour: Nelson Mandela in NYC
- Jul 13, 2017 Make Your Mark
- Jul 6, 2017 Childrens' Books
June 2017
- Jun 29, 2017 The History of NYC's History: Origins of the Municipal Archives
- Jun 22, 2017 Dispatches from the Urban Heartland, Part 3: Nostrand Avenue, From Myrtle to Montgomery
- Jun 15, 2017 Contributions and Controversies: The Complex History of Mayor Koch and the LGBT Community
- Jun 8, 2017 Behold the Baby Artichoke, or, Power to the Punies
- Jun 1, 2017 The Dutch & the English Part 5: The Return of the Dutch and What Became of the Wall
May 2017
- May 25, 2017 The Last County: The Bronx
- May 18, 2017 The Objective Eye
- May 11, 2017 Behind the Scenes: Book Conservation
- May 4, 2017 The Dutch & the English Part 4: Invasion?
April 2017
- Apr 27, 2017 Dispatches from the Urban Heartland, Part 2: Rebooting Crow Hill, Brooklyn
- Apr 20, 2017 The Brightest Days of the Marshall
- Apr 13, 2017 The Chewing Gum War of 1939
- Apr 6, 2017 A Tale of Two Collections
March 2017
- Mar 30, 2017 Dispatches from the Urban Heartland, Part 1: Welcome
- Mar 23, 2017 Doomed Guests: Faisal II, The “Boy King” Of Iraq
- Mar 16, 2017 The Surprises Waiting in 40,000 Vacant Lots
- Mar 9, 2017 The Dutch & the English, Part 3: Construction of the Wall (1653-1663)
- Mar 2, 2017 Sunset Park: The Blue-Sky Line
February 2017
- Feb 23, 2017 The Dutch & the English, Part 2: A Wall by Any Other Name
- Feb 16, 2017 Sunset Park: On the Avenue, 5th Avenue…
- Feb 9, 2017 The Dutch & the English, Part 1: Good Fences, a History of Wall Street
- Feb 2, 2017 Sunset Park: Here Were...
January 2017
- Jan 26, 2017 Hall of Records: Where Brilliancy Is Necessary
- Jan 19, 2017 Sunset Park: Sea Cruise
- Jan 12, 2017 Fun with Letterheads
- Jan 5, 2017 Sunset Park: Irving's Place
December 2016
- Dec 29, 2016 Building History: The Hall of Records
- Dec 23, 2016 Sunset Park: A View From The Ridge
- Dec 23, 2016 Welcome

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