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The following sites proved to be  invaluable resources while I was doing my research;

Carter B. Horsley's long-running treasure trove of his writings about NYC buildings http://www.thecityreview.com/home.html   

Contains a large collection of original photographs of the city, including famous skyscrapers, and the best forum on New York architecture: www.wirednewyork.com  

New York Architecture In Images. Very good photo and info site.
www.greatgridlock.net/NYC_Images/imgentry.html     

Museum of the City of New York: www.mcny.org  

Kevin Walsh's superb long-running and continually getting bigger and better site: http://www.forgotten-ny.com

Daniel's Manhattan Architecture

River Crossings

 

Other good New York Architecture Sites

Amateur enthusiast Amelia Wilson tours us round the wealth of Gothic Revival carving in New York:  www.aardvarkelectric.com/gargoyle  

A virtual Gothic cathedral project, featuring articles, photo galleries of Gothic architectural details:
www.newyorkcarver.com

Non-profit organization lecture, exhibition and program information:
www.archleague.org

An illustrated history by Gerard Fernandez of this Romanesque synagogue built 1927-9:
www.fordham.edu/halsall/medny/fernandez.html

Architecture of New York City:
www.greatbuildings.com/places/new_york_city.html

The AIA New York Chapter is the oldest and largest chapter of the American Institute
of Architects:
www.aiany.org

Architecture Exhibits in the New York City Metropolitan Area. ... Early 20th Century photographs of New York architecture and interiors. ...
www.demel.net/nycarchitecture

LANDMARK WEST! The Committee to Preserve the Upper West Side: http://www.preserve.org/lmwest/index.htm

Storefront for Art and Architecture: www.storefrontnews.org

New York Carver Homepage Stone carving, architecture, art:
www.newyorkcarver.com/geometry/geometry.htm   

19th Century Architecture- some old images:
www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/19_sky.html

New York Historical Society
www.nyhistory.org/library/resarch.html


New York City Architecture: some notes:
www.michael.leland.name/nycmain.htm  

Brooklyn Brownstone blog spot
http://brownstoner.blogspot.com/2005/01/close-up-on-bedford-stuyvesant.html

New York photo sites

Very nice photo site.: http://www.pbase.com/zippythechimp   

Norman McGrath took the excellent and wonderful full-page photos for Eric P. Nash's book "Manhattan Skyscrapers", which was published in 1999. http://normanmcgrath.com/

A weblog with great photos of the city: http://www.rion.nu  

www.geocities.com/nyskyscrapers

http://www.rovingrube.com

New York in the 70s:  http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0402/at_thumbs.html

Photo blog: http://www.urban75.org/photos/newyork/index03.html

Interesting garbage site: www.filthymess.com   

Walking Tours:

Big City Walks. Conducted by someone who truly loves New York.

Big Onion Walking Tours

Jim Dykes' A Buzz Around New York. Personalized tours, with a special focus on New York celebrities

Joyce Gold History Tours of New York

Location Tours, Inc. New York in movies and on TV.

New York City Cultural Walking Tours

Radical Walking Tours of New York. A big inspiration to me.

Watson Adventures Scavenger Hunts. Walking tours in the form of scavenger hunts--a terrific idea.

Criminal History of the East Village. From Andrew Roth's Infamous Manhattan.

Walking Tour of the Village. A virtual walking tour; informative with lots of nice pictures.

A Love of Monsters. "Gargoyles and Architectural Details in New York City"; includes several illustrated walking tours

Gansevoort Market: A Walking Tour

New York City Media

Gawker
Gothamist
Morning News
Tale of Two Cities
The Politicker
MemeFirst
DailyCandy
Manhattan User's Guide

Real Estate Blogs & Media

Brownstoner
Triple Mint
Property Grunt
The Boxtank
The Real Deal
Inman News
HotelChatter
NYTimes Real Estate
NYPost Real Estate
Manhattan Transfers
The Cooperator
Habitat Magazine
Slatin Report

Real Estate Resources

ACRIS
Property Shark
RealtyBaron
RadCribs
Village Voice Listings
Craigslist
PostYourProperty

NYC Real Estate Agents

Brown Harris Stevens
CBHK
Corcoran
Douglas Elliman
DwellingQuest
Halstead
Peter Ashe
Stribling
Sotheby's
Warburg
William B. May

Architecture & Urbanity

Archinect
Wired New York
eOculus
Archpaper
Arch Week
Arch Record
Regional Plan Assoc
Planetizen
Veritas & Venustas
City Comforts
Daily Dose

Design & Shelter

Metropolis
Apartment Therapy
MoCo Loco
Reluct
Cool Hunting
Treehugger
WorldChanging
Sensory Impact
Unbeige
Funfurde
DesignSponge
GNR8
Land & Living
Hamptons C&G

Food & Drink Utility

Citysearch
Menupages
Dodgeball
Add Your Own
NYMetro Food
AOL CityGuide
OpenTable
Sushi NYC

Food & Drink Opinion

She Loves NY
The Food Section
eGullet
Chowhound
Slice
A Full Belly
Bourrez Votre Visage
Frost Street
VittleVamp
The Corner Table
Gastropoda
Strong Buzz
NYCBartenders
Mouthfuls NYC
Waiter Rant
ShamelessRestaurants

Community Media

Village Voice
NYPress
Gotham Gazette
The Villager
Downtown Express
Resident
Hell's Kitchen Online
Tribeca Trib
Volume NYC
L Magazine
Brooklyn Papers

Big Media

NYTimes
NYPost
NYDailyNews
New York Mag
NYObserver
Newsday
Crain's

Tourist Info:

www.nyctourist.com Official Guide to New York City Hotels & Tourism

NYC & Company. The official website.

Virtual Tourist: Tamirros' New York City Travel Page.

The NYC Insider.

Guy Brighton's New York City Guide. A transplanted Londoner's guide to the city.

Stock Photo sites

High resolution stock images and framed photo prints by Andrew Prokos http://www.andrewprokos.com/new_york_photos.html 

Stock Photos
www.photovault.com/Link/Cities/New/YorkCity/CNYVolume01.html    

New York Neighbourhood sites

A similar site, but only about northern Manhattan: http://www.columbia.edu/~nad7/neighborhood/index.html 

Nice Site: Greenwich Village:  http://www.gvshp.org/south_villagevirtualtour.htm

Kew Gardens history: www.oldkewgardens.com

General New York Sites

http://www.michaelminn.com/newyork/index.html?home.html  

Postcards HQ Resource Directory at 
http://www.postcardshq.com/postcardsnewyork 

"The Ultimate NYC Web Directory": http://www.notfortourists.com/web.html 

Party forum: www.whatsupnyc.net

The Web reference for NYC transit: www.nycsubway.org 

NYC Transit surface transportation http://www.bustalk.net/forum/

Useful for locating galleries and local events: New York CitySearch

New York Today  Events listing sponsored by the New York Times.  

noirbox; photos of New York buildings in various stages of demolition.

superfuture newyork. Annotated maps of the cool places in Manhattan--also Tokyo and Sydney.

Small Town Brooklyn. -but for Brooklyn.

Virtual New York. Linked photographs of the streets of New York--a fun way to stroll around Manhattan via cyberspace.

NYC in Pictures. A photographic archive of the avenues and main cross streets of Manhattan.

Sampling Broadway: Intersections of Time and Place

Manhattan Timeformations. "Mapping Manhattan's skyscraper districts through time"--pretty cool.

1001 Nights in Manhattan. An interactive map of the island's sexual history, courtesy of the Museum of Se[x].

Mr. Beller's Neighborhood. An aerial map of Manhattan hyperlinked to stories set in specific places. Add your own story!

Place Matters. Compiling a census of places that matter to New Yorkers.

Strange New York. A map of some strange things in New York.

Mapping Hell's Kitchen. A photo tour of a neighborhood threatened by development.

New York City Signs: 14th Street to 42nd Street. I identify both with the geographic organization and the obsessive collection of trivia.

The Brick Apple: New York City in LEGO. I have to admit that this insane person belongs in this category.

Choose Your Own Adventure: Welcome to New York!. This is pretty funny.

Below 14th; a website about eating and drinking in downtown (mostly Lower East Side) New York.

Everything NY. Kind of a meta-blog. Or is that redundant?

New York History Sites

Very good old map site: http://www.brorson.com/neighborhood/NeighborhoodTourNew.html

NEW YORK CITY SIGNS -- 14TH TO 42ND STREET 
http://www.14to42.net/ 

Bronx sites

http://members.tripod.com/~IrmaML/index-5.html  

http://www.davebeckerman.com/1636/index.html  

http://www.columbia.edu/imaging/html/browsers/camilo/camilo-browser.html  

http://www.pbase.com/zippythechimp/the_bronx  

http://www.brorson.com/BronxWeb/GrandConcourse1.html  

http://www.bronxview.com  

http://bronxblotter.home.mindspring.com  

http://kraybill.home.mindspring.com  

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bronxpictures  

http://bronxart.lehman.cuny.edu/pa  

http://www2.nypl.org/home/branch/bronx/index.cfm  

http://www.lehman.cuny.edu/depts/polisci/discover/bxtext.htm  

http://www.news12.com/BX

General Architecture Sites

Threatened Victorians in DC:. www.victoriansecrets.net  

Freelance photographer Larry O. Gay's sites:
Architecture in Birmingham, Alabama  http://larryogayartist.oceansfree.com 
My Journey through Birmingham Alabama http://larryotto.teach-nology.com 

www.churchcrawler.co.uk  British and international church architecture site with good section on New York.

 



Skyscraper Museum, inside Battery Park City (home of Ritz-Carlton), 39 Battery Place. (212) 968-1961; www.skyscraper.org . Noon-6 p.m. Wednesday- Sunday. $5 adults, $2.50 students and seniors. 

Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place (Greenwich Village). (212) 683-0023; www.aiany.org . Gallery open 9 a.m. -8 p.m. weekdays,11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday. 

Grand Central Station, 42nd Street and Park Avenue. For information on tours and special events, visit www.grandcentralterminal.com

Lever House, Park Avenue and 53rd Street. The Lever House Restaurant (390 Park Ave., but enter on 53rd; 212-888-2700, www.leverhouse.com ) serves lunch weekdays and dinner nightly. Dinner entrees $29-$76 (average $30-$45). 

LVMH tower, 21 E. 57th St. (between Madison and Fifth avenues). Home of the Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy headquarters. 

American Folk Art Museum, 45 W. 53rd St., New York. (212) 265-1040, www.folkartmuseum.org . 10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday (till 7:30 Friday); closed Monday. $9 adults, $7 students and seniors, free for children under 12. 

Municipal Art Society, (212) 935-3960, www.mas.org . A 111-year-old civic organization in the historic Villard Houses at 457 Madison Ave. Besides exhibit space, it has the excellent Urban Center Books ( www.urbancenterbooks.com   ), a store jammed with everything from thin guidebooks to fat academic treatises.

Where to stay 

The Maritime Hotel, 363 W. 16th St. (212) 242-4300, www.themaritimehotel.com . The coolest address in the red-hot Meatpacking district was built in 1966 as the headquarters of the Maritime Union; it's clad in white ceramic tiles with porthole windows; rooms have a kitschy mock-nautical decor. Doubles from $235. 

70 Park Avenue Hotel, (212) 973-2400, www.70parkavenuehotel.com . San Francisco's Kimpton chain has opened its first New York property on a quiet stretch of the storied avenue. Demure rooms and a stylish restaurant, the Silverleaf Tavern. Doubles from $275. 

The Cosmopolitan Hotel, 95 W. Broadway. (888) 895-9400, www.cosmohotel.com . Stylish it isn't, but for cleanliness and location, this small inn can't be beat. A subway stop is outside the front door; Tribeca is on the north, and the former World Trade Center is to the south. Doubles from $129. 

Some Columbia Sites

Non-historical Sites

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

The City's Neighborhoods

Internet Resources for the City's History

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

Histories of New York Institutions

Contemporary architects relevant to new York

A

arquitectonica  www.arquitectonica.com

Alsop Architects  www.alsoparchitects.com

Anderson Associates: http://www.anderassoc.com  

B

Bricolage Designs http://www.bricolagedesigns.com   

C

Costas Kondylis & Part. - www.kondylis.com 

Santiago Calatrava - http://www.calatrava.com/  

coop-himmelblau  www.coop-himmelblau.at   

D

Davis Brody Bond - www.davisbrody.com  

E

Eli Attia - www.eliattia.com

Eisenman - http://www.eisenmanarchitects.com/   

www.ericowenmoss.com

F

Fox&Fowle - www.foxfowle.com

Foster and Partners - http://www.fosterandpartners.com/  

Future systems  www.future-systems.com

www.fuksas.it

Karl Fischer Architecte - http://www.kfarchitect.com  

G

Michael Graves - http://www.michaelgraves.com/  

Gwathmey Siegel & Associates - http://www.gwathmeysiegel.com/  

Nicholas Grimshaw www.grimshaw-architects.com  

 www.glform.com

H

Steven Holl - http://www.stevenholl.com/  

Zaha Hadid www.zaha-hadid.com   

Henning Larsens Tegnestue A/S  www.hlt.dk

Gary handel http://www.garyhandel.com/

J

Philip Johnson & Alan Ritchie - www.pjar.com  

K

Kohn Pedersen Fox - www.kpf.com 

Rem Koolhaas/OMA  www.oma.nl  

Costas kondylis  http://www.kondylis.com/

Elena Kalman - http://www.kalmandesign.com

L

Ismael Leyva - www.ilarch.com  

Studio Libeskind - http://www.daniel-libeskind.com/

Lee Harris Pomeroy Associates - http://www.lhparch.com  

M

Richard Meier - http://www.richardmeier.com/  

morphosis - http://www.morphosis.net/morph.html  

MVRDV  www.mvrdv.archined.nl

Murphyjahn   www.murphyjahn.com  

N

http://www.jeannouvel.fr/

NBBJ  www.nbbj.com  

O

Thomas O'Hara - www.hto-architect.com

P

Cesar Pelli & Assoc. - www.cesar-pelli.com 

Perkins Eastman PC - www.peapc.com  

Renzo Piano - http://www.rpwf.org/  

Polshek Partnership - http://www.polshek.com/  

Antoine Predock  www.predock.com  

Paul andreu   www.paul-andreu.com   

Dominic Perrault www.perraultarchitecte.com  

Chris de portzamparc www.chdeportzamparc.com  

Platt Byard Dovell White: http://www.pbdw.com  

R

www.richardrogers.co.uk   

Rogers Marvel Architects: http://www.rogersmarvel.com

S

SOM - www.som.com 

SHoP - www.shoparc.com  

Swanke Hayden Connell- www.shca.com

Frederic Schwartz - http://www.schwartzarch.com/index.htm  

Moshe Safdie http://www.msafdie.com/

Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects  www.smharch.com

Robert A.M. Stern: www.ramsa.com  

T

Bernard Tschumi www.tschumi.com  

U

Unstudio   www.unstudio.com  

V

Venturi Scott Brown & Associates- http://www.vsba.com/  

Rafael Vinoly - http://www.rvapc.com/flashindex.html

Michael Van Valkenberg: (landscape)  www.mvvainc.com

www.viguier.com  

W

www.wilkinsoneyre.com  

Roberta Washington - http://www.robertawashington.com  


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