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1. Astor Place Riots    A description of the Astor Place Riots with Historic Images.
2. Bridge and Tunnel Club    A fun photographic series of walks throughout all five boroughs of New York City.
3. Curbed: An Edgy (or maybe "Quirky") Real Estate "Blog"    Diverse and often intersting articles and web-links about New York neighborhoods
4. East-Village History Project    History site for the East Village
5. eRuv    An examination with images of why the Third Avenuen El was important to the Hassidic Jewish community of the Lower East Side.
6. Five Points    An excellent description of Five Points.
7. Forgotten New York: New York Neighborhoods    Illustrated tours of New York neighborhoods. Great websites!
8. Forgotten NY    Fantastic series of websites with historic street scenes, neighborhoods, buildings, and oddities. You'll spend hours touring on these sites!
9. Former Street Names in Manhattan    Old roads, lanes, alleys, courts, terraces, parks, squares, wharves, piers, slips, markets and other named urban features that have been demapped, obliterated, or renamed.
10. General Slocum Disaster    A basic site about this tremendous ship blaze
11. Historic Districts Council Image Collection    Great photographs of buildings in historic districts throughout New York City.
12. How The Other Half Lives    A web version of Jacob Riis' classic text about the poor of 19th century New York. A treasure!
13. How The Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis    The complete text, including many of the original illustrations.
14. Jewish Heritage Walking Tour of the Lower East Side on the Web by Joyce Mendelsohn    Four Self-Guided Walking Tours by the noted Lower East Side historian, Joyce Mendelsohn
15. Lower East Side (Manhattan) Virtual Tour    
16. Lower East Side Conservancy    
17. Marble Cemetery (Second Ave. Cemetery)    
18. Masters of Photograpy: Jacob Riis    Remarkable collection of images by reformer/photographer Jacob Riis.
19. New York City Building Department    A good source of information about individual buildings in all five boroughs. Click on "Certificates of Occupancy" for PDFs of original documents.
20. New York City Walk    New Yorker, Caleb Smith's photographic walks through Manhattan. "Chock Full of Nuts" graphics and often captivating photographs.
21. New York City Walk (With photographs)    Between May 2002 and December 2004, I walked every street on the island of Manhattan. Every darn street.
22. New York Heritage Digital Library Collections    More than 160 digital collections from New York State, via libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions.
23. New York Songlines: A Virtual Walking Tour of Manhattan neighborhoods    A site-map and virtual walking tour guide of Manhattan south of 48th Street
24. Photographic Walking Tours of Manhattan Neighborhoods    A wide range of photographic walks throughout Manhattan
25. Place Matters Listings    Places of social and cultural importance in New York City. Not your usual landmarks. Click on "Tours" or "Featured Place of the Week."
26. Property Shark    A web resource that includes an amazing amount of building information. Try free trial to see if you are satisfied.
27. Slavic Alphabet City: A Walking Tour    
28. South Street Seaport Museum    
29. Street Easy    A street finder and real estate tool. Can prove useful for address and location finding.
30. Streets That Bend: New York City streets built before the "Grid Plan"    A fun photographic sightseeing tour of streets that bend in Manhattan
31. Sunshine Theater: A History    From church, to immigrant meeting hall, to boxing venue, to nickelodeon, Yiddish theater, to hardware shop, to graffiti showcase, and an indie-rock playroom to hip movie theater.
32. Tenement Life and Tenement Photographs    An excellent list of web-links about life in the tenements. Includes vintage photographs, articles, and even the text of Maggie, Girl of the Streets
33. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire 1    
34. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire 2    
35. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire 3    
36. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: A Chronology of Events    
37. Weegee's World of Photographs: Life, Death, and Human Drama    

Frequently I am asked for a list of my favorite New York web-sites.

Presented here are varied sites, broken up into categories ranging from exceptionally informative to somewhat esoteric (perhaps even eccentric).

Choose a category that interests you and enjoy!
- Justin
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