Neighborhood News
- Everyblock NYC Combines news stories, civic information (building permits, restaurant closings, complaints, etc), and web content (photos from flickr) by location. Search for your neighborhood to see what’s going on.
Dept of City Planning
The NYC Department of City Planning provides a wealth of statistics and information online. Check out the Reference section and the Projects and Proposals sections.
Shape of New York Honors Seminar
Selected resources described in library workshop for Professor Ballon's freshman honors seminar:
- America: History and Life Covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present. The database indexes 1,700 journals from 1964 to present.
- Archives of Americana
- NYU Libraries' History Librarian's Suggestions
- Chronicling America Library of Congress project; view NYC newspapers from 1880-1922
- AP Images
Community Boards
NYC is divided into 59 community districts. Each district has a community board. It's useful to know your district because statistics are often presented on a district-level.
- Find Your Community Board A list with contact and web address information for local community boards in all 5 boroughs. Community Board websites typically contain demographic and statistical data, in addition to constituent services. (Not all community boards have websites.)
- City of Neighborhoods Interactive map of NYC which shows the 59 community districts.
Community Characteristics
- Community District Profiles From the Department of City Planning, each profile contains land-use and demographic info for that district.
- My Neighborhood Statistics From NYC.gov, this site allows you to visualize land-use by searching a specific address.
- Check out the neighborhood branch of the public library Click on the Map on the left sidebar to find branches in your neighborhood. Branch libraries often have information about the neighborhood they serve.
Neighborhood Planning
- PlanNYC Portal See what projects are planned for your neighborhood.
- Furman Center for Real Estate and Policy
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