New York
City Online Information
Main
Page: www.nycphotography.com
This compilation of New York City online resources was created in 2005 and is meant to be a useful selection of recommended things, places and perspectives. New York City has the kind of historical and cultural depth that’s melded with a state of near constant flux thus making it the one of the most dynamic, sophisticated and intense cities in the world.
For observer or participant the NYC experience
is always enhanced if one remains aware of one’s surroundings and its possibilities.
New
York City’s Current Weather
New
York City’s weather from Yahoo Weather.
http://weather.yahoo.com/forecast/USNY0996_f.html
CNN
New York’s Weather. http://weather.cnn.com/weather/forecast.jsp?locCode=NYC
New York Area’s weather.
http://www.erh.noaa.gov/er/okx/
Official New York City
Websites
NYC.gov
is the official website of the City of New York. Here you can find information
for visitors to New York City, living in New York City, doing business in
New York and the government of New York City. http://home.nyc.gov/portal/index.jsp?front_door=true
NYC & Company
is official New York City tourism promotion organization.
http://www.nycvisit.com/home/index.cfm
The New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/
The New York Observer
is one of the independent voices of New York City newspapers.
The New York Daily
News offers a middle of the road view of New York City news.
The New York Post,
the newspaper with the most striking headlines.
Newsday; the newspaper for the city’s outlying
areas including Queens and Long Island.
The Village Voice
has been a longtime bastion of liberal bohemian thought:
Ask A New Yorker.
Good mix of local insights and listings.
PAPERMAG online.
Reading it could make you feel somewhat hipper. http://www.papermag.com/
Newslink, an online
resource for all the New York region news outlets.
http://newslink.org/nynews.html
New York Newspapers
has online listing on New York State newspapers.
http://www.50states.com/news/newyork.htm
The New York Public
Library system is the city great institution that has provided sanctuary
for millions of seekers of knowledge.
Museum of the City
of New York. http://www.mcny.org/Exhibitions/abbott/abbott.htm
The New York
Times
The world famous New York Times states
its dedication to delivering “All the News That’s Fit to Print” on its masthead.
The New York Times is more than just a city newspaper, it is considered
by many to be the chronicle of New York City life and events. It
includes news and events from other places but in particular it is fixated
on the daily documentation of this city’s complex and fascinating existence.
Most New Yorkers know that any mention
of them in “The Times” (as most New Yorkers call it) means that they are
forever part of the city’s history, at least in print and therefore they
most certainly did exist. “The Times” also delights in recording
the machinations of the city’s numerous holders of power, the big money
institutions, grandstanding “visionaries”, municipal politicos, the entanglements
of power and corruption and the unceasingly sought after self aggrandizing,
glorious, seemingly eternal metropolitan legacy of being considered a noteworthy
New Yorker.
A great deal of the New York Times staff’s
energy seems to be directed at trying to maintain the paramount position
as arbiter of social, political, artistic and financial trends and status
in New York City. This Sisyphean challenge requires that the newspaper’s
relevance to the stratas of power remain beyond reproach. Thus the city’s
chronicler itself needs to fashion its place and legitimacy within the city’s
society and the world itself on a daily basis, just like so many other New
Yorkers.
The fact that there are so many different
sections in the New York Times everyday seems almost ridiculously wasteful.
But there seems to be an enormous audience of millions and millions
who want their “House & Home” section, their “Circuits” section, their
“Science” section, their “Dining Out’” section, their “Styles” section and
so on. And why is that? one might well ask, “Why do they need all these
sections?.” Well the reason is “because they’re there” and secondly because
“their being there” makes anything printed in them “official” meaning whatever
it is in that issue or section has been historically recorded as being legitimate
and noteworthy for the moment and for the sake of posterity. The “City”
section is of particular importance because it illuminates many of the up
and coming trends and personalities in New York City and presents small,
sharp vignettes of the many eccentric existences that somehow thrive within
the teeming somewhat jaded metropolis.
All these special sections coupled with
the epic length and width of the New York Times combines to make it a cumbersome
read on the subway and elsewhere. Hence the need for all New York Times
reading subway readers to learn how to do the “subway fold” so as not to
intrude on the brittle personal space of their fellow subway passengers.
The “subway fold” has not been learnt by most of the city’s internet generation,
tourists and out-of-towner types. Here’s a basic primer on the “subway fold”
to help impress fellow straphangers, strangers and tourists: Fold a New York Times section
in half vertically, then fold back each page as needed and then fold horizontally
to make it quarter size. Unfold, refold half size, quarter-size, repeat
as needed.
By W.T. Zarak, New York City 2005
New
York City Travel, Transportation & Subways, Buses News & Info
Lonely Planet Guide
to New York City. http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/north_america/new_york_city/
Fodor’s Travel Guide
to New York City. http://www.fodors.com/miniguides/mgresults.cfm?destination=new_york_city%40111
New York City Subway
Map. http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/subway/SubwayMap.gif
Metropolitan Transit
Authority’s Manhattan Bus Route Information.
http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/nyct/service/bus/mhtnsch.htm
The official website
of the Metropolitan Transit Authority. Includes subway maps and service
advisories. Click here: http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/
New York City Subway
Resources has a ton of information about the NYC underground.
Click here: http://www.nycsubway.org/index.html
New York Department
of Transportation official site. http://www.dot.state.ny.us/
New York Travel Information.
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/trafficinfo/ny.htm
NYC Alternate Side
Parking Rules Calendar. http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/motorist/scrintro.html
Non-expert travel
advice for NYC visitors.
Click here: http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/how_to/the_nonexpert_when_in_manhattan.php
Everything New York.
Guide for NYC things. http://www.everythingny.com/
New York City Bicycling
Coalition has a ton of useful info for bikers.
Click here: http://www.nybc.net/
Manhattan Carriage
Co. Horse & Carriage rides. http://www.ajnfineart.com/mcc.html
Manhattan Rickshaw.
Pedicabs for hire. http://www.manhattanrickshaw.com/
Transportation Alternatives
site has bicycling maps etc.
Click here : http://www.transalt.org/info/maps.html
New York City Downtown
Boathouse. http://www.downtownboathouse.org/links.html
New York City ferry.
http://www.nywaterway.com/
Newyorkology. NYC
travel tips collection. http://www.newyorkology.com/index.html
Inexpensive Hotels List. http://www.vortexhealing.com/hotels-newyork1.html
Central
Park website with info about events, sporting activities, history and photos.
http://www.centralpark.org/
Empire
State Building website. http://www.esbnyc.com/modules/leasing_popup.cfm
Carnegie
Hall. http://www.carnegiehall.org/jsps/intro.jsp
New
York City Beaches.
http://www.nycvisit.com/content/index.cfm?pagePkey=361
New
York City Ballet. http://www.nycballet.com/programs/reference.html
NYC
Events Guide. Click here: http://new.york.eventguide.com/
Guide
to NYC Argentine Tango Venues. http://www.newyorktango.com/
International
Center for Photography. http://www.icp.org/
New
York Historical Society. http://www.nyhistory.org/store.html
National
Parks Service official website for the Statue of Liberty. http://www.nps.gov/stli/
National
Parks Service list of historic sites including Teddy Roosevelt’s Birthplace.
http://www.nps.gov/masi/
Free
Events & Things to Do in New York City
Even though we live
in one of the most expensive cities in the world. New York City has several
institution and organizations dedicated to making events available to the
public with no admission fee. Below is a listing of many of these surveyed
in 2005, which are of course subject to change.
Club Free Time. Listing
of free events around New York City. http://www.clubfreetime.com/new_york.asp
New York Metro Guide
Freebie Events Calendar. http://www.newyorkmetro.com/urban/guides/summerfun/summerfreebies/
The Public Theatre’s
Shakespeare in the Park. http://www.publictheater.org/sicp/home.cfm
New York City Parades
and Annual Events. http://www.carnaval.com/cityguides/newyork/parades.htm#April
NYC Literary Events.
Readings around town. http://www.livejournal.com/community/nyc_lit_events/
Free New York TV
Shows Tickets. http://www.nytix.com/index.html
Bernard College Center
for Research on Women Events Listing.
http://www.barnard.edu/bcrw/events.htm#apr
Chekhov’s Mistress.
Literary events at NYC’s independent bookstores. http://www.chekhovsmistress.com/reading_railroad_events/index.html
New York City Street
Fairs Calendar. Seasonal calendar.
http://www.nycstreetfairs.com/sched.html
Scandinavia House.
All events & exhibitions are free and open to the public. http://www.scandinaviahouse.org/programs.html
Recycling Items Organization.
Wasteth not. http://www.recyclethisnyc.org/
Learning Leaders.
Volunteers helping NYC school students with studies. http://www.learningleaders.org/
Volunteer NYC. The Mayor’s Volunteer Center. http://www.volunteernyc.org/volunteer/
NYC
Maps with full Manhattan and individual neighborhood maps. http://www.cityguidemagazine.com/nycmaps.html
Manhattan
Address Locator. http://www.manhattanaddress.com/
NYC
and Region Map. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/world_cities/new_york_city.jpg
U.S.
Postal Service Zip Code Locator. Just input street address. http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/welcome.jsp
New
York Area Topographic Map. http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/maps1/ny.gif
Interactive
NYC & Region Map.
http://tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapbrowse?lon=-74&lat=40.75&wid=.2&ht=.2
New
York Public Library’s Collection of NYC Map Archives. http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/map/mapping.html
Map
Quest. http://www.mapquest.com/
Digital
Map of New York with sociological categories.
http://130.166.124.2/nypage1.html
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Chinatown |
Chinatown |
Little Italy |
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Upper Westside. http://www.nysite.com/index.html
Upper Eastside. http://www.uppereast.com/newyorklinks.html
Little Italy. http://www.littleitalynyc.com/
East Village. http://www.east-village.com/
Lower Manhattan Cultural
Council http://www.lmcc.net/
Lower Manhattan Info.
http://www.lowermanhattan.info/
Times Square Shopping
etc. http://www.timessquare.com/shopping/
Northern Manhattan
Info. http://www.columbia.edu/~nad7/neighborhood/
Turtle Bay. http://www.turtlebay-nyc.org/places.html
Historic Five Points
Site. http://r2.gsa.gov/fivept/fphome.htm
East Harlem Information and Resources. http://www.east-harlem.com/index.htm
Harlem History. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/iraas/harlem/
New
York, New York, (Song Lyrics)
http://www.brave.com/bo/lyrics/nyny.htm
Inexpensive
New York City Food, Accommodation, etc.
Many
things like food, drink and accommodation are not likely to be absolutely
free in Fun City but less expensive options for these can still be found.
Chinatown remains the premier neighborhood for less expensive dining with
some fine establishments with great deals. It is highly recommended that
the inquiring diner explore beyond Mott Street by going further towards
East Broadway and beyond.
Cheap New York Thrills.
Listings for inexpensive things
to do in NYC. http://www.thelivingweb.net/cheap_ny_thrills.html
Cheapo New York.
Another set of listings for inexpensive living & visiting in NYC. http://www.cheapotravel.com/ny/
Menu Pages for Diners
& Coffee Shops. http://www.menupages.com/restaurants.asp?areaid=0&cuisineid=22
Coffee Shops &
Diners Listing.
http://newyork.citysearch.com/find/results/new_york_ny/coffee_shops_diners/1.html?flavor_id=2
Museums
& Other NYC Places & Events of Interest
The
Frick museum http://www.frick.org/
Film
Forum. Great NYC cinema house. http://www.filmforum.org/
AAF
Contemporary Art Fair. ehttp://www.aafnyc.com/
The
New York Society Library. Founded
in 1754. http://www.nysoclib.org/
Children’s
Museum of Manhattan. http://www.cmom.org/
Children’s
Museum of the Arts. http://www.cmany.org/
Great Art NYU Gallery.
http://www.nyu.edu/greyart/
American Indian Community
House. http://www.aich.org/index2.htm
The New York City
Chinese Cultural Center. http://www.chinesedance.org/
The Municipal Art
Society of New York. http://www.mas.org/Events/tours.cfm
Scandinavia House.
Nordic cultural center in Manhattan. http://www.scandinaviahouse.org/programs.html
The Japan Society.
http://www.japansociety.org/events/
Merchant’s House
Museum. Historically preserved 19th century home in the Village.
http://www.merchantshouse.com/a_calendar.htm
Irish Arts Center.
http://www.irishartscenter.org/
Center for Traditional
Music and Dance. http://www.ctmd.org/pages/mission.html
City Lore. Organization
dedicated to conveying the richness of New York City’s cultural history.
http://www.citylore.org/
Onassis Cultural
Center. http://www.onassisusa.org/onassis.art.alexander_the_great.2004.shtml
Rubin Museum of Art.
http://www.rmanyc.org/
American Craft Museum.
http://www.americancraftmuseum.org/
El Museo Del Barrio.
Caribbean and Latin American Culture. http://www.elmuseo.org/
The Ukrainian Museum.
http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/perm.html
Volunteer Lawyers
for the Arts. http://www.vlany.org/
Art Dealer Association
of America. New York City Galleries.http://www.artdealers.org/exhibitions/newyork.uptown70s.html
The Alternative Museum.
Cyberspace based online museum. http://www.alternativemuseum.org/
Whitney Museum of
American Art. http://www.whitney.org/index.php
Lincoln Center for
the Performing Arts. http://www.lincolncenter.org/default.asp?version=to
Chelsea Art Museum.
http://chelseaartmuseum.org/events/2005/medialiteracy/
Harlem Jazz Photo.
Explore jazz history through one photograph. http://www.harlem.org/
New York River to
River Festival. http://www.rivertorivernyc.com/
Museum of American
Illustration. http://www.societyillustrators.org/info.html
Arts Business Council.
http://www.artsandbusiness.org/home.htm
New York Arts Program.
Support for students in the arts. http://www.newyorkartsprogram.org/about.html
Materials for the
Arts. Provide art supplies for education.
http://www.mfta.org/about_us.php?PHPSESSID=3d69b03cd72a7f564fec8294bc3bbd96
Blue Heron Arts Center
and Theatre. http://www.blueheron-nyc.org/
James Graham and
Sons. Manhattan arts gallery established in 1857. http://www.jamesgrahamandsons.com/
Galapagos Art Space.
Many free arts performance events.
http://www.galapagosartspace.com/events.html
Arts New Online.
Arts Reporting. http://www.artnewsonline.com/index.cfm
Columbia University
Events Calendar. http://calendar.columbia.edu/arts.html
Graduate Center,
City of New York Events Calendar. http://www.gc.cuny.edu/calendar_of_events/
Long Island City
Web page. http://www.licweb.com/
The Elliot Smith
Gallery. http://www.elliot-smith.com/
AXA Art Gallery.
Seventh Avenue and 51st Street. http://www.axa-art.com/gallery/2004-12/
Feast of San Gennaro
Street Fair in Little Italy. http://www.sangennaro.org/event.htm
New York City Badminton
Club. http://www.nycbadminton.com/
The Mark Twain Circle
of New York. http://salwen.com/mtahome.html
New School Lecture
& Events Calendar. http://www.nsu.newschool.edu/02_special.htm
New York Academy
of the Sciences. Many interesting events. http://www.nyas.org/about/newsDetails.asp?newsID=146&year=2004
Doll and Toy Museum
of New York. http://www.dollandtoymuseumofnyc.org/
Aesthetic Realism
Foundation of New York. http://www.aestheticrealism.org/events2.htm
Lonely Planet Guide
to New York City.
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/north_america/new_york_city/printable.htm
New
York Arm Wrestling Events. http://www.nycarms.com/Images/03_19_05_AppleGrapple/031905_Details.htm
New York City
Art Galleries, Cultural Organizations
Agora Gallery in Soho & Chelsea. http://www.agora-gallery.com/
New
York Art World. http://www.newyorkartworld.com/
Online
Art Gallery. http://www.webgallerynyc.com/
The
Kitchen; Music, Dance, Video, Film, Literature, etc. http://www.thekitchen.org/
Dia
Arts Foundation. http://www.diacenter.org/
Great
Art Gallery NYU. http://www.nyu.edu/greyart/
Municipal
Art Society. Lots of interesting ongoing NYC cultural history. http://www.mas.org/
Contemporary
African Art Gallery. http://www.contempafricanart.com/
Ronin
Gallery; Largest U.S. Collection of Woodblock Prints. http://www.japancollection.com/
White
Columns Gallery. http://www.whitecolumns.org/
American
Indian Community House Gallery. http://www.aich.org/gallery/exhibiti.htm
Asian
Art.Com. Nice summary of current Asian art goings on. http://www.asianart.com/exhibitions/aany2004/
Art
Daily.Com; Nicely produced online art news, a great resource. http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp
Paul
Rogers 9W Gallery. http://www.paulrodgers9w.com/
Adelson
Galleries. Period to Modern American Impressionism and Realism. http://www.adelsongalleries.com/
Museum
of Comic & Cartoon Art. http://www.moccany.org/index.html
Dollhaus Art Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
http://www.dollhaus.org/
Eyewash
Gallery. A migratory gallery with exhibits throughout NYC. http://www.home.earthlink.net/~larryeyewash/
C
R G Gallery. http://www.crggallery.com/
Lehmann
Maupin Gallery. http://www.lehmannmaupin.com/home.html
Pace
Wildenstein Gallery. http://www.pacewildenstein.com/
Brent
Sikkema Gallery. http://www.brentsikkema.com/
Sperone
Westwater Gallery. http://www.speronewestwater.com/cgi-bin/iowa/index.html
David
Zwirner Gallery. http://www.davidzwirner.com/
Caren Golden Gallery. http://www.carengoldenfineart.com/
Throck
Morton gallery http://www.throckmorton-nyc.com/
Neue
Galerie, Museum for German & Austrian Art. http://www.neuegalerie.org/neue.html
Tibet
House. http://www.tibethouse.org/
E
& J Frankel, Antique Asian and Chinese Art. Click here: http://www.ejfrankel.com/
Louder
Arts Project. Poetry Slams etc. http://www.louderarts.com/
Manhattan
Theatre Source. A Non-profit Organization for Off-Broadway Theatre. http://www.theatresource.org/
Society
of Illustrators. Founded in
February 1, 1901. http://www.societyillustrators.org/
Chisolm
Larsson Gallery. Vintage posters. http://www.chisholm-poster.com/
Jane
Kahan Gallery. Olde masters. http://janekahan.com/
Allen
Koltz Gallery. Fine black & white photography. http://photocollect.com/
OK
Hariss Gallery in Soho. http://www.okharris.com/
Aerial
Myerowitza Gallery. Photography exhibitions. http://www.arielmeyerowitzgallery.com/main.html
Bonnie
Berubi Gallery. Photography exhibitions. http://www.bonnibenrubi.com/
Bruce
Silverstein Gallery. Wide range of photographers. http://www.brucesilverstein.com/
Daniel
Cooney Fine Art Gallery. http://www.danielcooneyfineart.com/
Edwynn
Houk Gallery. http://www.houkgallery.com/
E3
Gallery with Mary Fahey. Photography
and paintings. http://www.e3gallery.com/
Foley
Gallery. http://foleygallery.com/
Gitterman
Gallery. http://gittermangallery.com/html/home.asp
Howard
Schickler Fine Art. Photography collections. http://www.schicklerart.com/
Hunter
Fox Fine Art Photography. http://64.23.103.76/
In
Camera Gallery. Photography exhibitions. http://www.incameragallery.com/
John
Stevenson Gallery. Photo Gallery. http://www.johnstevenson-gallery.com/
Julie
Saul Gallery. Photography and misc. art. http://www.saulgallery.com/
Keith
de Lellis Gallery. http://www.keithdelellisgallery.com/indexHomeFrame.html
Kent
Gallery. http://www.kentgallery.com/
Lawrence
Miller Gallery. Fine art and contemporary photography. http://www.laurencemillergallery.com/
Leica
Gallery. Fine photography. http://www.leica-camera.com/kultur/galerie/nyc/index_e.html
Ricco
Maresca Gallery. http://www.riccomaresca.com/
Robert
Mann Gallery. http://www.robertmann.com/
Robin
Rice Gallery. Fine photography. http://www.robinricegallery.com/
Sarah
Morthland Gallery. Photography exhibitions. http://www.sarahmorthlandgallery.com/
SEPIA.
The Alkazi Collection. Specializing in Asia photography. http://www.sepia.org/
Soho
Photo. Photography specialists. http://www.sohophoto.com/
Yossi
Milo Gallery. Photography exhibitions. http://www.yossimilogallery.com/
Creative
Time. Hip….cool art. http://www.creativetime.org/programs/index.html
Forgotten New York’s
website documents arcane historical relics of New York including the city’s
oldest bars. Click here: http://www.forgotten-ny.com/
Abandoned Bicycles
Photo Gallery. Mangled remnants of two wheeled beasts of burden.
Click here: http://jschumacher.typepad.com/photos/abandoned_bikes/
Laura’s NYC Tales.
Young lady’s guide to dating in NYC.
Click here: http://www.laurasnyctales.com/
NYC Newcomers Guide.
Advice to help the just arrived. http://www.nynewcomer.net/
Jason’s Rules for
the NYC Subway. http://www.kottke.org/03/05/jason-rules-nyc-subway
Charlie Susman’s
Manhattan Users Guide. http://www.manhattanusersguide.com/todays.php
New York City Signs
and Old Ads of Buildings. Click here: http://www.14to42.net/
Randall's New York
City http://www.lostnewyorkcity.com/
All About 23rd
Street. Click here: http://home.nyc.rr.com/jkn/nysonglines/23st.htm
Upper Westside Chinese
Restaurant Name Generator. You too can name a Chinese restaurant with this
how to guide.
\http://www.novia.net/~matt/chinese/restaurant.html
The Social Climbers
Guide to New York City. http://models.com/night/rip/rip1.html
Gawker.com. Hawking
glib tidbits for the inquiring minds of today. http://www.gawker.com/
Odd Names. Some interesting
New York City names. http://f2.org/humour/language/oddnames.html
Things I See on the
Streets of New York City. http://www.markallencam.com/thingsiseeonthestreet.html
New York City Cell
Phone Reception Survey by Areas. http://www.cellreception.com/newyork/page1.html
New York City Blogs
List. http://www.nycbloggers.com/
Social
Services NYC
New
York Public Library’s Listing of NYC Social Services. http://www.nypl.org/links/index.cfm?Trg=1&d1=1647&d3=Social%20Services
New
York City Council. http://www.nyccouncil.info/tools/useful_links.cfm
New
York Lawyers for the Public Interest. Free legal assistance. http://www.nylpi.org/
Social
Services Listing. http://ccnyc.neighborhoodlink.com/ccnyc/resource.html?n_cat_level1_id=300
Social
Services Listing #2. http://www.gothamgazette.com/resource/socialservices/beginners/15
Department for the Ageing. http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/dfta/
Artist Health Insurance Information. http://www.actorsfund.org/ahirc/
Red Cross Listing for NYC Social Services. http://www.nyredcross.org/helpcenter/hc_homeless_faq.htm
Lawyers & Legal Resources Listings. http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/nycodes/
Food Bank for New York City. Food resources for the needy.
http://www.foodforsurvival.org/
New York City Coalition
Against Hunger. http://www.nyccah.org/assistance/benefits/services.html
NYC Commission on Human Rights. http://www.nyc.gov/html/cchr/html/history.html
NYC
Articles & Interesting Websites
Old
NYC Places and Byways. Virtual tours of some of the lesser known NYC areas.
http://www.oldnyc.com/
Subways
& Semiotics http://www.sporkworld.org/subway/semiotics.html
New
York First Subway. http://www.capsu.org/library/documents/0029.html
Savory
Sojourns. Highlighting different NYC neighborhoods. http://www.savorysojourns.com/neighborhoods.htm
42nd
Street’s Individual Buildings in Literary References. http://home.earthlink.net/~pbookhout/west42.html
New
York City Art Deco Society. http://www.artdeco.org/
Leon
Dolice’s New York City Etchings. http://www.dolice.com/page4.html
Tucker
Gurl’s Blog. Diverse views from NYC, Brooklyn. http://tuckergurl.typepad.com/tuckergurl/
New
York City’s Rich Maritime Heritage Lower Manhattan Walking Tour. http://www.worldshipny.com/lwrmantr.htm
Friends
of the Upper Eastside’s Historic Buildings. http://www.friends-ues.org/research.htm
New
York City Skyscrapers. http://www.petergof.com/nyc/skyscrapers.htm
New
York City’s African Burial Ground. http://www.slaveryinamerica.org/history/hs_es_burial_ground.htm
The
Tombs Prison System of New York City. http://www.correctionhistory.org/html/chronicl/nycdoc/html/histry3a.html
Hip Hop Excursion in New York City. http://www.b-boys.com/nychiphop.html
Joe’s NYC. Nice award winnning photoblog. http://www.joesnyc.streetnine.com/
Vintage Quotes About New York City. http://www.newroticnewyorkcitytours.com/New-York-City-Quotations.html
More Quotes About New York City. http://www.worldofquotes.com/topic/New-York/1/
Why is New York City called the Big Apple? http://salwen.com/apple.html
Tesla Memorial Society of New York. http://www.teslasociety.com/
New York City Area Railroad Tugboats. http://www2pb.ip-soft.net/railinfo/car-floats/nyc-rail-tugs.html
Daguerriean
Society.
Dedicated to the history, science, and art of the daguerreotype. http://www.daguerre.org/gallindex.php
Origami
USA. Based in NYC. http://www.origami-usa.org/
Free
Williamsburg. Brooklyn based culture guide. http://www.freewilliamsburg.com/
NYC
Central Park UFO. http://www.rense.com/general62/newy.htm
Lost
in America. Excellent photography links collection. http://www.lostamerica.com/links.html
Yuppies
Can’t Go Home. http://www.notbored.org/yuppie.html
The
Misanthrope’s Guide to New York City.
http://www.snakegirl.net/Misanthrope%20NYC.htm
Capital
of Capital. About yuppie views of NYC. http://www.newint.org/issue178/capital.htm
Jeremiah’s
Acting Tips. http://www.jeremiahmurphy.net/actingtips/Actingtips.html
New
York City Belly Dance Collective. http://www.nybellydance.com/page/page/1206530.htm
Andy
Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. http://www.warholfoundation.org/
Traffic
Life. Writer’s collective. http://www.trafficlife.com/page7.html
Curbed.
NYC Lower East Side News. http://www.curbed.com/archives/categories/neighborhood_lower_east_side.php?page=2
Girlhattan.
NYC blog. http://girlhattan.blogspot.com/
The
Soundscape of New York City in the 1930’s. http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/wfae/readings/vanallen.html
New
York City Subway & Street Etiquette
Etiquette is an altogether too dainty a word to use when speaking of a recommended code of behavior in New York City. The hard truth is that New York City has probably the biggest mix of ethnicities and visitors from around the world who have had to adapt to each other’s differences in order to get through the day relatively unscathed. Although it would be rightly considered unreasonable to expect that freshly arrived tourists can understand the unwritten rules of conduct here, it is hoped that they can pick up on some of the subtle cues that might ensure a pleasant New York City experience for all. The following is a far from complete gathering of suggestions and observations regarding suggested conduct for people visiting New York City. In the old days (back in 1970’s-80’s) it was suggested by the British Tourism Board that British tourists studiously avoid making direct eye contact with the denizens of New York City for the sake of their own personal safety.
Well since then although the crime situation
and the general sense of menace in this town have decreased a great deal,
it is still recommended that visitors and others avoid more than one simple
glance at one of the many interesting New Yorkers that intrigues them. People
who have lived in New York City for a long time usually detect the gaze
of a stranger within milliseconds or less. After they realize that they
are being watched the average New York citizen will size up the spectator
using their finely honed peripheral vision and indirect methods of threat
evaluation. Generally the New Yorker will then wait and see if the tourist
is going in for a second gander and it is at that moment that the tourist
will be met with a withering look conveying a universally understood expression
that says “Where the #@!!**;!!” are you from Timothy?” or something to that
effect. After a moment of mutual reflection the New Yorker will check to
see if the message has been clearly understood by the transgressor. The
curious visitor must understand that what has transpired was just an ancient
ritual of a New Yorker checking their survival instincts and was not meant
to offend our out of town guests. This rule has become more relaxed in recent
years but still applies on subway trains headed out of midtown especially
after dark and in the outer boroughs.
New Yorkers have been clocked by urban
studies experts as being the fastest pedestrians in the world. That means
the rest of this planet’s city dwellers are strollers and boulevardiers
in comparison. New York City pedestrians are not only the quickest at traversing
their city’s tightly packed stretches of pavement but they can also navigate
them with extremely skillful footwork worthy of the Bolshoi Ballet Company.
Seasoned New Yorkers can track an oncoming pedestrian without ever seeming
to cast so much as a glance at them, but they can to do much more than that,
they can track a whole group of incoming bodies without ever gazing at them
directly. Within seconds the New York native can size up the approaching
body of humanity and determine their speed, body weight (within 10 12
pounds), their general attitude and level of agility. When they spot the
“tourist bogey” at 12 o’clock along with their dazed loved ones walking
three abreast like on an outing at the Minneapolis Mall, they take up defensive
postures and ready themselves for evasive maneuvers and possible hard contact.
The mall strolling tourists usually don’t pick up on the fact that they
have planted themselves squarely in the path of a destination minded New
Yorker who is invariably running late. By this time some level of mild collision
is inevitable but the mall strollers sense this too late and feel the after
effects of a fast moving tractor trailer going through them, all hard shoulders
and sharp elbows, who mumbles something like, “Escccuuuoooozemeeeeeee….!!!”
as they leave the reeling tourist in their wake. Incidents like this
need not happen. Tourists and newcomers should take heed that walking
three abreast at a snail’s pace on New York City’s densely packed sidewalks
during office hours is thought of as inconsiderate and thoughtless behavior.
This is standard operating procedure in midtown during office hours and
suspended on weekends altogether.
Being overly jolly in the New York City’s
subway system is generally frowned upon by New York City subway riders.
Okay, we know you’re on vacation or holiday as you like to say. We’re happy
for you, really we are. Now sober up and settle down Betty, Bob and Billy
because most New York subway riders are in a deep trance like state at the
moment. This subway trance state or stupor, combines world weariness, profound
awareness of one’s ethnically diverse fellow New Yorker’s potential for
spontaneous critical expression, studious respect for everyone’s personal
space, and quiet acknowledgement of the unsaid social compact which states
that we will all maintain a stoic behavioral equilibrium for the other’s
sake. This means that any overt displays of gleeful joy, euphoric gushing
and romantic effusiveness in the New York City subway system are perceived
of as being annoying, unfeeling and disturbing to the ritual communal sharing
of urban angst and silent rumination.
By W.T. Zarak, New
York City 2005
New
York City Etiquette & Safety Advice
Teaching New Yorkers Manners. http://www.jondube.com/resume/columbia/manners/story.html
Surly Etiquette. http://www.sheilaomalley.com/archives/003455.html
Jim Gaffigan, Midwestern Transplant to NYC. http://www.jimgaffigan.com/qagaffigan.html
Jason’s Rules for the NYC Subway. http://www.kottke.org/03/05/jason-rules-nyc-subway
Seinfeldian Etiquette. http://members.aol.com/Seinfeld10/GMindex.html
NYC Insider. Streetwise strategies for survival in the
Big Apple. http://www.theinsider.com/nyc/survive/012crim2.htm
NYC Safety Tips. http://www.ny.com/survival/
NYC Newcomers Guide.
Advice to help the just arrived. http://www.nynewcomer.net/
Survival Guide for
NYC Performing Artists. http://www.yourtype.com/survive/living_in_nyc.htm
New Yorker
or Manhattanite?
According to etymological research on the
origins of the word “Manhattan” there is general consensus that the word
is probably derived from the native Lenape tribe’s name for this place,
“manah” meaning "island" and “atin” meaning "hill" in the Northern Algonquin language.
The distinction between being considered
a “New Yorker” or a “Manhattanite” is an important one. To call oneself
a Manhattanite implies maintaining an exclusively limited territorial and
cultural range within the geographical boundaries of Manhattan Island. It can also mean that such a person does
not maintain friendships or professional relationships with those who do
not reside in Manhattan. Such a person could also be termed “provincial”
because of their limited range though being thought of as provincial usually
connotes a less sophisticated and rustic individual. For many who term themselves
or others Manhattanites it is a reference imbued with coded inferences for
having the means to afford living between 96th Street and South
Ferry, for viewing the rest of New York City as déclassé and for not needing,
missing or being interested in anything that exists in the city’s outer
boroughs. It is interesting to note that people who live in Chinatown, Harlem
or Washington Heights in Manhattan don’t call themselves Manhattanites.
Another noteworthy rule is that there
is never a reference to anyone in New York City as being a “beloved Manhattanite”.
There is only the gracious phrase “beloved New Yorker”. The implication
of this long lasting rule is that someone who wants to classify themselves
as being solely a Manhattanite will probably never rise to the glorious
status of being proclaimed a beloved New Yorker. Beloved New Yorkers include,
Tony Randall, Fiorello LaGuardia, and Jackie Kennedy. That means that they
were beloved by many of the eight million or so New Yorkers including people
from Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island.
By W.T. Zarak, New York City
2005 ã
New
York History Net is an excellent online resource for a compilation of New
York historical information. Click here: http://www.nyhistory.com/
New
York City History Resources. Great selection of NYC online resources.
Click
here: http://www.vny.cuny.edu/resources.html
Changing
New York has an illuminating photographic gallery of side by side comparative
images of period and present day images of New York buildings.
Click here: http://www.newyorkchanging.com/nychanging/imagelist.html
The
Contract Document for the Purchase of Manhattan in 1626. http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/thumbnail2.html
Timeline
of the Iroquois Wars, 1533 -1650. http://www.evolpub.com/ACNA/ACNAChronology.html
1639
Map of Manhattan Island. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm068.html
The
Battle of Harlem Heights, 1776. http://www.britishbattles.com/harlem.htm
The
Battle of Brooklyn, 1776. http://darter.ocps.net/classroom/revolution/brooklyn.htm
New
York State Historical Maps. Click here: http://www.sunysb.edu/libmap/nymaps.htm
Medieval
New York website by Fordham University students illuminate medieval elements
in New York City. Click here: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/med/medny.html
East
& West Village History Summary.
http://www.artsandmusicpa.com/NYC/village1.htm
Morningside
Heights History Summary. http://www.morningside-heights.net/history.htm
Roosevelt
Island History. http://www.rioc.com/history.html
New
York Info has a solid compilation of New York history online. http://www.newyorkhistory.info/
New
York Times Collection of 100 Years of NYC Photos. http://www.nytimes.com/specials/nyc100/contents.html
New
York City Timeline from the 1500’s till recent times. http://www.worldhistory.com/newyork_timeline.htm
The
MET’s “Art and the Empire City: New York 1825-1861”. http://www.tfaoi.com/aa/2aa/2aa253.htm
Great
Depression Art Gallery. Many NYC themed images. http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/depression/artgallery.htm
Gotham
Center for New York History. Good variety of NYC historical and cultural
topics. http://www.gothamcenter.org/
New
York Genealogy website has a broad range of useful information based on
historical records. http://www.newyorkgenealogy.org/
New
Amsterdam and Early New York http://campus.houghton.edu/webs/employees/jvanwicklin/Home%20page/Genealogy/newamslinks.htm
Coney
Island the Early Years 1609
-1880 http://naid.sppsr.ucla.edu/coneyisland/articles/earlyhistory.htm
A
Day in Bohemia. Snippets of vintage bohemian New York City. http://home.swbell.net/worchel/reed/day.htm
Lower
Eastside Turn of the Century Memoirs. http://tenant.net/Community/LES/contents.html
The
First Play Acted in New York City. http://www.theatrehistory.com/american/hornblow02.html
The
New York 1964 World’s Fair. http://naid.sppsr.ucla.edu/ny64fair/
NYC
in the 1960’s. http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/sixties/ny.html
Race
Relations in NYC. http://shs.westport.k12.ct.us/jwb/Collab/CivRts/NYCrace.htm
The
History of the Bagel. http://www.haruth.com/bagel.html
History of Punk Music in New York City. http://www.fastnbulbous.com/punk.htm
New
York City Crime Rates 1960-2000. Grim facts. http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/nycrime.htm
Origins of Rap, New York City. http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1993/4/93.04.04.x.html
Kurtis Blow’s History of Rap in the 80’s. http://www.rhino.com/Features/liners/72853lin.lasso
History of Hip Hop Dance. http://www.daveyd.com/historyphysicalgrafittifabel.html
Papaya King History. http://www.papayaking.com/html/history.htm
NYC Theatrical History 1960’s Timeline. http://www.actorsequity.org/AboutEquity/timeline/timeline_1960.html
Mayors of New York City. http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NY/ofc/newyorkcity.html
New
York City & Long Island Directory of Diners. http://www.dinercity.com/nyDiner/nycDiners.html
NYC's
Classic Diners http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/diners/diners.html
Diner
NYC. Recent Photo Survey. http://www.agilitynut.com/diners6a.html
Quotes About New York
City
“People who want
to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle
and more time on the buses and in the subway.” - Simeon
Strunsky, No Mean City (1944)
“I’ve gone into hundreds
of [fortune-teller’s parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but
nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.” - New York City Detective. http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/New_York_City_detective
“In New York City,
everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.” - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“As only New Yorkers
know, if you can get through the twilight, you’ll live through the night.” - Dorothy Parker
“The siren south
is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is a hoyden we
would not care to miss-a drafty wench, her temperature up and down, full
of bold promises and dust in the eye.”
- E.B. White
“I moved to New York
City for my health. I’m paranoid and New York was the only place where my
fears were justified.” - Anita
Weiss
New
York City Educational Resources
Online Education
Programs. http://www.online-education.net/newyork_schools.html
Baruch College. Continuing
education. http://caps.baruch.cuny.edu/programs/facbios.htm
New York City Department
of Education. http://www.nycenet.edu/default.aspx
The City College
of New York. http://www2.ccny.cuny.edu/
Fordham University.
http://www.fordham.edu/
The Metropolitan
Museum of Art Educational Resources. http://www.metmuseum.org/education/er_internship.asp
Brooklyn College.
http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/
The Art Student’s
League. http://www.theartstudentsleague.org/Navigation/Home/HP-FRAME.html
Regional Alliance for Small Contractors. http://www.regional-alliance.org/
Jobs & Careers Listings. http://www.actionforchange.org/getalife/jobs.html
Project Enterprise. Assistance for small businesses.
http://www.projectenterprise.org/
Starting a Business in New York State. http://www.gorr.state.ny.us/gorr/Startbus.html
New York City skyscrapers,
one hundred years of the quintessential New York architectural venacular.
Click here: http://www.greatgridlock.net/NYC/nyc.html
Architecture of New
York has a compilation of NYC’s great buildings.
Click here: http://www.greatbuildings.com/places/new_york_city.html
Gothic New York architectural
website with great images of gargoyles & things in New York and elsewhere.
Click here: http://www.newyorkcarver.com/
Transparent New York.
Fantastic animated images of New York City.
Click here: http://www.skyscraper.org/timeformations/transparent.html
Daniels Manhattan
Architecture. http://users.commkey.net/daniel/arcindex.htm
The Two New Yorks.
http://www.manhattan-institute.org/cfml/printable.cfm?id=1494
Emery Roth, Architect
of Grand New York City Apartments. http://www.sk-szeged.hu/szolgaltatas/vasvary/newsletter/04dec/roth.html
New York City Wildlife
The
Hudson River. http://www.clearwater.org/hudson.html
New
York City’s Old Giant Trees. http://www.arborist.de/new_york_tree_story.htm
Pale
Male, NYC Peregrine Falcon Information.
http://palemale.audubon.org/
Rock Climbing in and around New York City. http://www.climbnyc.com/
New York Aquarium.
http://www.nyaquarium.com/
New York Dogs Magazine.
http://www.thenydog.com/
Manhattan Island
Foundation. For those interested in swimming in NYC’s rivers. http://www.swimnyc.org/
New York City Area
Bird Watching. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/destinations/New_York_City/New_York_City_Area_Bird_watching.html
New York City Wildlife
Organization for Local Wildlife. http://www.nycwildlife.org/
New York City Beaches.
http://www.nycvisit.com/content/index.cfm?pagePkey=361
Mayor’s Alliance
for NYC Animals. http://www.animalalliancenyc.org/events/offsite.htm
The
Harlem Yacht Club. http://www.google.com/search?q=harlem&hl=en&lr=&start=70&sa=N
South Street Seaport.
Old sailing ships moored on the East River. http://www.southstseaport.org/
Trees New York. Volunteer
care taking of trees in NYC. http://www.treesny.com/
New York City Bike
Messengers Association. http://www.nybma.com/
Table of Smaller Unusual
Fish of New York. http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/dfwmr/fish/fishspecs/unfsh2tb.html
New York City Marketplace
The Better Business
Bureau of New York. Click here:
http://www.newyork.bbb.org/
Craigslist.org is
one of the best places to find almost anything to buy, purchase, rent, barter
etc. http://newyork.craigslist.org/
Vegetarian & Health Food Stores Listing. Calling
all NYC vegans. http://www.vegetarianusa.com/city/NewYorkCity.html
New York Nightlife
Spots. Click here: http://newyork.citysearch.com/section/bars_nightlife
Art Book Stores Listings.
http://www.artbook.com/newyorkstores.html
Strand Books. http://www.strandbooks.com/home/
Manhattan Bonsai
Co. Bonsai news & Bonsai of the Month photos. http://www.manhattanbonsai.com/bonsaimonth.html
A La Veille Russie.
Exotic Russian antique jewelry. Click
here: http://www.alvr.com/
Manhattan Train &
Hobby. Model railroading. http://www.manhattantrains.com/
Freshness NYC Sneakers
Shopping Guide. Click here: http://www.freshnessmag.com/content/shopguide/sneakers.php
Bloomingdale’s. http://www.bloomingdales.com/?bhcp=1
Strange Items for
Sale. http://www.stupid.com/stat/SHDY.html
Wildman Steve Brills
Eating Plants in NYC Tours. http://www.econetwork.net/~wildmansteve/
NYC
Music
Jazz Clubs Listing.
http://www.gothamjazz.com/venues/
New York Blues and
Jazz Society. http://www.nybluesandjazz.org/
Planet Salsa. Salsa
Concerts & Events in NYC. http://www.planetsalsa.com/quepasa/eventsnynjla.htm#ny_events
Acoustic Music Around
NYC. http://www.acousticlive.com/
The Stereo Society.
http://www.stereosociety.com/body_index.html
New York City Classical
Guitar Society Events Calendar. http://www.nyccgs.com/events/details.php
New
York City Webcams. See Live Images around New York City in real time.
Webcam with live
images from lively Times Square.
Click here: http://www.earthcam.com/usa/newyork/timessquare/
New Jersey Piercam.
Looking at the city’s skyline from the lovely New Jersey shoreline. http://www.erikthered.com/cam/
New
York Area Cricket Information. Cricket with bats and wickets. http://www.nycricketregion.com/
Chelsea
Piers. Very large sporting complex on the Hudson River. http://www.chelseapiers.com/index.html
Manhattan Kayak Company.
http://www.manhattankayak.com/
NYC Fishing. http://www.nycfishing.com/links.html
New York City Writers
Herman Melville in
Manhattan and on Manhattan.
http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft9710/articles/bottum.html
James Thurber. http://www.williams.edu/English/faculty/rbell/HersheysThurber.html
Here is New York.
E.B. White. http://mbhs.bergtraum.k12.ny.us/cybereng/shorts/white.html
Mark Twain, the New
Yorker. http://salwen.com/mtbelle.html
Edgar Allen Poe.
http://www.eapoe.org/
Langston Hughes.
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/hughes/hughes.htm
W.H. Auden. http://www.audensociety.org/news.html
Dylan Thomas. http://www.bigeye.com/dylan.htm
F. Scott Fitzgerald.
http://www.sc.edu/fitzgerald/
Hart Crane. http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/crane/crane.htm
Edith Wharton. http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/wharton/whar3.htm
Henry James. http://www2.newpaltz.edu/~hathaway/
Dorothy
Rothschild Parker. One of New York City’s famous writers. http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/386/dparker.html
Biography of J.D.
Salinger. http://www.morrill.org/books/salbio.shtml
Countee Cullen. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ccullen.htm
The Gigantic Question
in Washington Irving’s History of New York. http://www.lehigh.edu/~ejg1/irving/irvingintropg.htm
Eugene O’Neil. http://www.eoneill.com/biography.htm
James Baldwin. http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/baldwin.htm
Ralph Elison. http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/1914-/lit/ellison.htm
W.E.B. DuBois. http://www.virginia.edu/history/courses/fall.97/hius323/dubois.html
The New York City
Beats. http://www.lib.virginia.edu/small/exhibits/sixties/beatsny.html
The Walt Whitman
Archive. http://www.whitmanarchive.org/
Jack Kerouac. http://www.beatmuseum.org/kerouac/jackkerouac.html
Richard Wright. http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/r_wright/r_wright.htm
Arthur Miller. http://www.ibiblio.org/miller/
Henry Miller. http://www.mchsmuseum.com/miller.html
Norman Mailer. http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/mailer.html
Joseph Heller. http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/amlit/heller2.html
Isaac Bashevis Singer.
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/research/fa/singer.bio.html
Truman Capote. http://www.louisville.edu/a-s/english/subcultures/ideas/buzzpounds/pouncapote.html
Saul Bellow. http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap10/bellow.html
Neil Simon. http://www.msu.edu/~pelowsk1/neilsimon/
Piri Thomas. http://www.cheverote.com/bio.html
E.L. Doctorow. http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/doctorow.html
Henry Roth. http://www2.let.uu.nl/solis/ams/xroads/roth.htm
New York Review of
Books. My Lost City. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/16737
New York Writers
by Neighborhoods. http://gatornet.chapin.edu/~english9/nywriters.html
New
York City Geography
New
York State Geography website.
http://www.netstate.com/states/geography/ny_geography.htm
Geographic
Resources for New York City. http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/maps/area_guides/nyc/
New
York City Society
New York Social Diary. The social elite’s recreational events.
http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/
New York City“High
Society” Social and Fundraising Events.
http://www.manhattansociety.com/events.html
Manhattan Society
Diary. http://manhattansociety.typepad.com/chris_londons_manhattan_s/
New York City’s
Upper Eastside Wealthy Society Lifestyle. http://www.soc.qc.edu/Maps/footnote.html
Social Trends in New York City circa 1996. http://www.soc.qc.edu/Maps/bevie.html
Beekman
family coach. History and photos of a period luxury coach. http://www.nyhistory.org/arriving/
A Socialite’s Life. Gossipy news blog. http://www.socialitelife.com/
Brooklyn
Queens The Bronx Staten Island
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Brooklyn Heights
There is a lot more to New York City than the island of Manhattan. New York’s other boroughs have fascinating neighborhoods with strong, unique personalities, tons of history and lots of flavor.
Brooklyn
Facts. It is the 4th largest city in the U.S. 96.9 sq. miles
area. Kings County named after
King Charles II.
Brooklyn’s cultural influence can be said to have had an almost global
cultural influence. Brooklyn has left its powerful imprint in literature,
art, Hollywood, television, Broadway, politics, business and influenced
generations through its many larger then life Brooklyn personalities that
have cut a broad swath throughout the world. Brooklyn gave birth to the
powerfully contemplative poetry of W.H. Auden, the raciness of Mae West,
the beauty of Rita Hayworth, the visionary gangsters Al Capone and Bugsy
Seigal, the seminal works of Norman Mailer, Arthur Miller and Joseph Heller,
the humor of Henny Youngman, Buddy Hackett, Phil Silvers, Jimmy Durante
and others. Musical maestros from Brooklyn include
George & Ira Gershwin, Tupac Shakur, Carole King, Lena Horne, and Clive
Davis. Brooklyn natives have
traveled far and wide bringing with them a passion and a depth of feeling
for interaction with the world around them. Brooklynites are sophisticated
observers and very able doers.
Those that were born in or lived
in Brooklyn include Mae West, Woody Allen, Barbara Streisand, Al Capone,
Vince Lombardi, Moe Howard of The Three Stooges, Jackie Gleason, Rita Hayworth,
Barbara Stanwyck, Mickey Rooney, Carole King, Lena Horne, Ruth Bader Ginsburg,
Carl Sagan, Michael Jordan, Jerry Seinfeld, George & Ira Gershwin, Zero
Mostel, Vanessa Williams, Ken Burns, Wolfman Jack, Mel Brooks, Eddie Murphy,
Harry Nilsson, Eli Wallach, Tupac Shakur, Buddy Rich, Harvey Fierstein,
Lenny Kravitz, Mary Tyler Moore, Jack Lord, Richard Dreyfuss, David Geffen,
Tony Danza, Neil Diamond, Joe Torre, Joan Rivers, Gabe Kaplan, Rudolph Giuliani, Bugsy Seigel, Bobby Fischer, Lil Kim,
Aaron Copland, Lou Reed, Steve Rubell, Mike Tyson, Jay-Z, Larry King, Will
Eisner, Jimmy Durante, Adelaide Hall, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lauen Bacall,
Harry Chapin, Clive Davis, Alan Dershowitz, Harry Houdini, Harvey Keitel,
Spike Lee, Norman Mailer, Peter Max, Arthur Miller, “Cousin” Bruce Morrow,
Floyd Patterson, Max Roach, John Saxon, Beverly Sills, Mickey Spillane,
Gene Tierney, Randy Weston, Brenda Vaccaro, Shelly Winters, Henny Youngman,
Buddy Hackett, Phil Silvers, Vitas Gerulaitis, Priscilla Presley, Erich
Segal, Pete Hamill, Susan Brownmiller, Shirley Chisholm
Joseph Papp, Allen Funt, Danny Kaye, “Professor” Irwin Corey, Clara Bow, Marion Davies, Bernard Malamud,
Walt Whitman, Joseph Heller, Sandy Koufax, Notorious B.I.G., W.H. Auden,
Man Ray, andThomas Wolfe, to name a few.
Brooklyn has always had a hard to
pin down special quality that has allowed for many kinds of creations and
creators to be nurtured here. The bridges that span New York City’s harbor
speak of the period when Manhattan became more solidly connected with Brooklyn,
its very independent neighbor. The busy harbor where the Hudson and the
East River mingle, teems with vessels of all kinds both local and foreign;
reminding one of the water’s link with a world beyond these restless city
streets. From the privileged view of the Brooklyn Heights promenade through
the river’s bend at Red Hook along the pathways under the Verrazano Bridge
through the beaches of Coney Island; the rivers and Atlantic Ocean anchor
Brooklyn’s borders barely containing it’s energies at the water’s edge.
Each Brooklyn neighborhood has certain
distinct qualities that come through as one walks through them block by
block. In South Brooklyn and Red Hook a remnant of the rugged nautical atmosphere
still hangs in the air close to the old docks. The infamous Gowanus Canal
now somewhat cleaner is undergoing transformation from being a keeper of
morbid secrets to an arts colony. Sunset Park has given birth to one of
the newest enclaves of Chinese immigrants and with it a second Chinatown,
though a little roomier than its city cousin. The Ocean Parkway area and
Borough Park have one of the largest populations of Jewish orthodox and
Jewish people from Russia. East New York, once one of the “hardest” neighborhoods
on the planet is changing too with new homeowners planting roots. Park Slope
that bastion of enlightened yuppies is mobbed with baby strollers and the
politically correct hipsters. Crown Heights, Flatbush, Bay Ridge, Canarsie,
Flatlands, Gravesend, Sheepshead Bay, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Midwood, Ditmas
Park, Rockaway, Cobble Hill, Vinegar Hill, all have an atmosphere that is
uniquely their very own.
Brooklyn is deep. Brooklyn keeps changing.
It would take several lifetimes and a great deal of wherewithal to get to
know all of Brooklyn, there are not many that do.
By
A.Q. Zarak, New York City, 2005ã
Brooklyn
Attractions, Information & History
Coney Island Museum
and Events. On the world famous Boardwalk. http://www.coneyisland.com/
Prospect Park. http://www.prospectpark.org/
Prospect Park Zoo.
http://nyzoosandaquarium.com/5719118
Hogar Collection
Art Gallery. In artsy Williamsburg. http://www.hogarcollection.com/
Jacques Torres Chocolate.
Just below the Brooklyn Bridge. http://mrchocolate.com/
The Wykoff House
Association. The oldest house in Brooklyn, built in 1652. http://www.wyckoffassociation.org/
The Waterfront Museum
in Red Hook. http://www.waterfrontmuseum.org/
The New York Transit
Museum. http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/mta/museum/general.htm
Leffert Homestead
in Prospect Park. One of Brooklyn’s oldest Dutch Houses. http://www.historichousetrust.org/museum.php?msmid=6
DUMBO; Down Under
the Manhattan Bridge Overpass. http://www.southbrooklyn.net/dumbo.html
Gowanus Dredgers
Canal Canoe Club. Like Venice without the tourists. http://www.gowanuscanal.org/
Brooklyn Botanic
Gardens. http://www.bbg.org/
Pacific Island Travel
Brooklyn Webpage.
Click here: http://www.pacificislandtravel.com/north_america/eastern_usa/newyork/nyc_brooklyn.html
Brooklyn Stories.
Tour of Brooklyn landmarks. http://www.brooklyn.net/bklyn_stories_01.html
The Brooklyn Cyclones
Baseball Team. Information and season schedule. http://www.brooklyncyclones.com/
Astroland. NYC’s
largest amusement park. http://www.astroland.com/
Brooklyn Public Library
Information Resources. http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/index.jsp
Go Brooklyn. Brooklyn
Paper’s guide to Brooklyn. http://www.go-brooklyn.com/
The Brooklyn Rail.
News about Brooklyn Arts, politics and culture. http://www.thebrooklynrail.org/
Greenpoint Trivia.
http://www.greenpt.com/gptrivan.htm
Brooklyn Heights
Residents by Name & Occupation in the 1800’s.
http://www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com/Directory/Bk.Hgts.Dir.html
Saint Francis College.
http://www.stfranciscollege.edu/
Brooklyn Information
and Culture. Good general Brooklyn information. http://www.briconline.org/default.asp
Brooklyn.net, a flavorful
take on the borough. http://www.brooklyn.net/index.html
Brooklyn .01. Brooklyn
photographer. http://www.subterrain.com/brook01.html
Metaphor Contemporary
Art Gallery. On Atlantic Avenue. http://www.metaphorcontemporaryart.com/
Lunarbase Art Gallery.
In Williamsburg. http://www.lunarbaseart.com/map_direction.htm
D.U.M.B.O. Arts Center.
Under the bridges. http://www.dumboartscenter.org/
Ch’i Art Gallery. In Williamsburg. http://www.qianartspace.com/About%20Ch'i.htm
Figureworks Art Gallery.
In Williamsburg. http://www.figureworks.com/
The Brooklyn Board.
Brooklyn nostalgia group. http://brooklynboard.com/home.html
Lost Brooklyn. Blog
about interesting Brooklyn places. http://www.disassociate.com/lost_wholeframe_photos.html
Queens-New York website
features cultural attractions of Queens. http://www.queensnewyork.com/
Godwin-Ternbach Museum.
Click here: http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/art/gtmus.html
Jamaica
Arts Center. http://www.queensnewyork.com/cultural/jamaica/arts.html
Queens
Museum of Art. http://www.queensmuseum.org/
Socrates
Sculpture Park in Long Island City Overlook the East River. http://www.socratessculpturepark.org/
Greater
Astoria Historical Society. http://www.astorialic.org/topics/parks/fagan.shtm
Astoria
History. http://www.myastoria.com/history/
Picture
History of Kew Gardens. http://www.oldkewgardens.com/guestbook-0307.html
Oratario
Society of Queens. http://www.queensoratorio.org/Oratorio_site/friends.htm
The Official I Love the
Bronx Website. Include events and attractions. http://www.ilovethebronx.com/
The Bronx Zoo. Thousand
of animals waiting for you. http://www.bronxzoo.com/
The New York Botanical
Garden in the Bronx. http://www.nybg.org/
The Bronx Museum of the
Arts. http://www.bronxview.com/museum/
Bronx Council on the
Arts. http://www.bronxarts.org/
The
Massacre of the Bronx Stockbridge Indians, August 1778. http://www.americanrevolution.org/ind3.html
Edgar Allen Poe’s House
in the Bronx. http://www.comnet.ca/~forrest/cottage.html
Yankee Stadium history
and photos. http://www.bronxbaseballpark.com/
The Bronx on the Web.
Collection of Bronx online resources. http://www.nypl.org/branch/bronx/
The Bronx River Alliance.
Paddle or sail on the Bronx River. http://www.bronxriver.org/index.cfm
The
Bronx River Soundshore Audubon Society. Wildlife field trips along the Bronx
River.
Click here: http://www.brssaudubon.org/
The Bronx River Art Center.
Bronx River Gallery with ongoing exhibitions. http://www.bronxriverart.org/
The Bronx Cheer and how
to do it. http://www.exploratorium.edu/exhibits/bronx_cheer/Bronx_Cheer.html
The Amazing Bronx. History,
links, photos. http://www.theamazingbronx.com/index.html
Bronx History Brief Summary.
http://www.stbarnabasschool.org/organization/Bronx_History.htm
Old Bronx Movie Houses.
http://kraybill.home.mindspring.com/46/46theatres.html
Staten
Island
Staten
Island Weather. http://www.wxusa.com/NY/Staten_Island/
Snug
Harbor Cultural Center. A thriving arts & culture center. http://www.snug-harbor.org/
Staten Island Historical
Island. http://www.historicrichmondtown.org/
Main
Page: www.NYCPhotography.com