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North Brother Island, in NYC's East River, was the home of the hospital housing patients with tuberculosis and other highly contagious diseases where, in 1904, the double paddle-wheel cruise ship General Slocum ran aground while on fire, killing hiundreds, many of them children. This was the most fatal fire in NYC until the collapse of the World Trade Center in 2001.

Companion website to a National Geographic special that explored subterranean NYC. Interesting, particularly in light of the current construction of the 2nd Ave. subway.

These are a set of out-of-print guides made by the NYC Board of Education in 1993-1994. They are full of primary sources, short text selections and activities which many teachers have found very useful. Although designed for 7th and 8th grade they can be modified for high school and elementary school. Many teachers have used these over the last 17 years to help them develop their lessons. They are large files so they will take a few minutes to open. Note that both sets follow the same format but the 8th grade guides were done with a modern text style and therefore "looks" much better.

Aerial & Panoramic Views Mayors Bridges Parades Celebrities Sports City Departments Street Scenes Education Times Square, Grand Central & Penn Station Civic Center Transportation Crime & Criminals Waterfront Hospitals & Public Charities WPA Housing Working Landmarks

Archive of pictures, maps and other multimedia from New York City.

Great documents...even includes recipes from the war!!! Could be fun to make some with the substitutes suggested during war to save Sugar and discuss rationing!

Click on any of the neighborhoods and you go to a page of very good photographs of the area, some of them with historic value.

Photos of New York City from the Life Magazine collection

This is a map of the labor history of New York City, one of the most unionized cities in the world.

Color photographs of various scenes in Manhattan during the 1940s.