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Great thanks to
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. Museum of the City of New York:
www.mcny.org
Kevin Walsh's superb long-running and
continually getting bigger and better site: Daniel's Manhattan Architecture
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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: Non-profit organization lecture, exhibition
and program information:
An illustrated history by Gerard Fernandez of this Romanesque synagogue
built 1927-9:
Architecture
of New
York
City:
The AIA New York Chapter is the oldest and largest chapter of the
American Institute
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:
19th Century Architecture-
some old images:
New York Historical Society
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
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. 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 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. 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
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 "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
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://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
General Architecture Sites
Threatened Victorians in DC:.
www.victoriansecrets.net
Freelance photographer Larry O. Gay's sites:
www.churchcrawler.co.uk
British and international church architecture site with good section on
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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
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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 InstitutionsNote: 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
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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
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
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 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 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
W Roberta
Washington -
http://www.robertawashington.com
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