Theresa Colley

TEC 912 Final Course Project

"100 Years of New York City." The New York Times. Feb. 2006 <http://www.nytimes.com/specials/nyc100/contents.html>.

This site is a complitation of New York Times information from the past 100 years, organized by decade. Each decade includes a full time line highlights important events, headline clippings, photographs, and essays by well-known Times writers. The site also has poems about the city and forums for users to interact.

Brennan, Joseph. "Abandoned Stations." 2005. Columbia University. May 2006 <http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/abandoned/>.

As the name suggests, this web site is about the abandoned subway stations in New York City. For each station, Brennan provides the dates it was in use and detailed information about the station's construction, operation and closure, as well as diagrams and photographs. The dates of Brennan's work range from 2001-2005, depending on the station.

"Brooklyn Genealogy Information Page." Brooklyn Genealogy Information Page. 1997. May 2006 <http://www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/>.

This page has a wealth of information about the history of Brooklyn including birth, death, tax, school and court records, as well as information about immigration, firefighers, women, and much more. It includes historical information, newspaper archives and links to other relevant sites. Originally created in 1997, the site is updated daily.

"BrooklynPix.Com." Brooklyn Collectibles. Dec. 2005 <http://brooklynpix.com/catalog5.php?locality_no=1067>.

BrooklynPix.com is an archive of historical pictures from Brooklyn, mostly dating from 1890 to 1965. There are thousands of images of theatres, schools, Coney Island, Ebbets Field, trolleys, railroads, subways, stores, and regular street scenes. The images are organized by neighborhood, which is especially interesting and entertaining for someone who knows the area well.

"Five Points." U.S. General Services Administration Public Buildings Service, New York. Feb. 2006 <http://r2.gsa.gov/fivept/fphome.htm>.

This website provides a history about Five Points, "the neighborhood was known as a center of vice and debauchery throughout the nineteenth century". It highlights the findings and analysis of a 1991 archaeological dig to explain the people of Five Points and how they lived. The site includes drawings of historical Five Points and photographs of the discovered artifacts.

Mortman, Lisa. "PR: NYC History & Heritage." Official NYC Tourism Website. 4 May 2005. NYC & Company. Apr.-May 2006 <http://www.nycvisit.com/content/index.cfm?pagePkey=1514>.

This page is an article about NYC's history It provides an overview from the city's early beginnings in 1524 through the Revolutionary War and the immigration surge of the late 1800s/early 1900s. The article also includes links to important city resources, like the Museum of the City of NY, Ellis Island, and Central Park.

Nelson, Lee W. "History of New York City." INeTours.Com. Nov. 2005 <http://www.inetours.com/New_York/Pages/NYC_History.html>.

This page provides a concise history of New York City from it's discovery by Di Verrazzanno to the present day. It identifies prominent people, places, and events in the city's founding (all of which can be used as search terms for extended research).

"New York City Transit - History and Chronology." MTA: NYC Transit. Mar. 2006 <http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/nyct/facts/ffhist.htm>.

This site provides a history of transportation in New York City. There is a general overview, a timeline of key events from 1953-present, information about early transportation methods, and historic bus, train, and trolley photographs.

Skillings, Pamela. "Grand Central Terminal: New York Historical Landmark." About.Com. May 2006 <http://manhattan.about.com/od/historyandlandmarks/a/grandcentral.htm>.

This page is a great overview of the history of Grand Central Station, one of the most well known landmarks in New York. It chronicles the station's life from construction to the "Glory Days" in the 1940s to the hard times in the late 1900s up to the present day. The page also includes photographs of the station.

Stanton, Jeff. "Coney Island History Web Site." 8 Aug. 2000. Feb. 2006 <http://naid.sppsr.ucla.edu/coneyisland/index.html>.

This source provides a detailed history of Coney Island. The site has 37 illustrated historical articles, an interactive timeline highlighting important dates in Coney Island's history, and historic maps with images of the area. The site also has a list of movies filmed in Coney Island and links to other informative, related sites.

Stanton, Jeff. "New York 1964 World's Fair." 1997.
< http://naid.sppsr.ucla.edu/ny64fair/>.

This site provides information about the 1964 World's Fair, an important event in NYC history. There is a general overview of the fair and it's significance, detailed interactive maps of the fairgrounds and several articles about the event.

"The Picture Collection Online." 2002. The New York Public Library. May 2006 <http://digital.nypl.org/mmpco/>.

This site is an image resource site including 30,000 digitized images from books, magazines and newspapers as well as original photographs, prints and postcards. Most of the images were created before 1923. While not all are specific to my search topic there are almost 200 pictures of historic NYC, including images of the Broadway, City Hall, Coney Island, the Statute of Liberty, and many more.

"Vintage New York Images." New York History.Info. 2003. Nov. 2005 <http://historyimages.com/Vintage-NY/>.

This website chronicles the first 100 years of NYC's history through images of people, event, and landmarks. The images were taken from an exhibit originally created by the New Rochelle Council of the Arts in 1998 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the joining of the 5 boroughs. Each image can be clicked on for more information about the event or person it depicts and the artist.

Waxman, Sarah. "NYC History and Facts." NY.Com. May 2006
< http://www.ny.com/histfacts/>.

The most interesting sections of this source are the neigborhood histories of Central Park, Chinatown, and the Upper West Side. These histories outline the settlement and expansion of each area. The NYC History and Facts page also includes information about the discovery and settlement of the city as a whole, the city's politics and public policy, geographical information, and NYC trivia.

"Why is New York City Called "the Big Apple"?" The Society for New York City History. May 2006 <http://salwen.com/apple.html>.

This page explains the history of NYC's nickname, "The Big Apple". In addition to text, there are also photographs from the early 1900s and a first-hand audio account of the how the city got it's name from Joe Zito, a member of The Society for New York City History and a veteran of the NYC press corps and police department.