GUIDEBOOKS
BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND REFERENCE
Gotham Center – resource directory
NYU Guide to New York City Resources
Stokes: Iconography of Manhattan Island
Stiles: City of Brooklyn
On-line book search
On-line books at U Penn
Internet Archive
City Hall Library/Municipal Reference Library
GENERAL RESEARCH RESOURCES INCLUDING PHOTO RESEARCH
Municipal Art Society
M.A.S. Archives/Library (index)
New York Public Library
Main page
Local history and genealogy room
Art and Architecture Collection
Blog entry on conveyances
NOTE: as of March 2015, the below were incorporated into a unified digital collections site, but still operative as individual links.
NYC historic photos
Berenice Abbot’s “Changing New York” photos
Fairchaild Aerial photos
Apartment Houses of the Metropolis
World’s Loose-leaf Album of Apartment Houses
OldNYC (mapping historical photos from the NYPL)
Maps (American maps from 1800) (and here’s an article about the high-resolution map project)
New-York Historical Society
Main page
Library
Finding aids
Print room
Museum of the City of New York
Main page
Byron photo collection
General photo collections – explore
Municipal Archives – tax photos
1939 Finance Department photos
Gottscho-Shleisner photo collection is divided among three repositories
1) Library of Congress
2) Museum of the City of New York
3) Avery Library (Columbia)
Avery Library, Columbia University
Home page
Molitor Collection
Columbia University Library search engine: CLIO
Old York Library (ongoing digitization project)
Other
New York City maps (it has historic and current aerial photos – click on “Map Type” and then year desired (or return to “street map”)
New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
Mannahatta Project
Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation digital photo archive
Urban Layers
New York Transit Museum online digital resources
BOROUGHS
Bronx
Bronx Historical Society
Huntington Free Library
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Historical Society
Brooklyn Library – Brooklyn Collection
Queens
Archive at Queens Borough Public Library
Staten Island
Staten Island Museum
Staten Island Historical Society
Alice Austin House
MISCELLANEOUS
David Rumsey Map Collection
Oasis NYC
Sanborn Maps
US Census Bureau home page
Forgotten New York
Bowery Boys
Untapped Cities
Associated Press image site (not free, of course, but huge resource for photo research)
Article about Wikipedia’s map showing National Register properties
Browse the New York Transit Museum’s collections (including photos)
Urban Archive (also an app)
EXTRA LINKS YOU MIGHT ENJOY
Guide to former Manhattan street names
New York streets – honorifics (renamed for the famous)