NEW YORK FIELD TRIP 2003
New York Web Sites
 
 
TOURIST GUIDES:  

Lonely Planet  

Rough Guide 
  

GENERAL GUIDES:  

City Central New York  

Discover Manhattan  

Go New York City  

The New York Insider   

New York City Reference  

The Paperless Guide to New York City  

MEDIA:  

New York Post  

New York Times  
  

FACTS AND FIGURES:  

New York City Vital Statistics  

2000 Census Data for New York City 


Social Trends in New York  

LOCAL GOVERNMENT:  

New York City Council  
  

SURVIVING IN NEW YORK:  

NYC Survival Guide (safety tips etc)  

  

HISTORY  

New York History  

MAPS:  

GIS Maps of Ethnic Geography of New York

The Digital Atlas of New York

 

TRANSPORT

Subway Maps  

Metropolitan Transportation Authority  

WEATHER:  

New York Weather Report  

AREAS OF NEW YORK:  

Neighbourhood guide 

Lifestyles of the Elite in the Upper East Side  

MISC:  

Empire State Building  

Statue of Liberty  

Bloomingdale's  

 


  
  
 

WEB SITES LINKED TO FIELDWORK PROJECTS   

ELLIS ISLAND, HERITAGE AND MIGRATION  

Official Ellis Island Web Site

National Park Service

Photographs of Ellis Island

Immigrants' stories

Digital Atlas Ancestry Maps of NY

   

NATURE AND NEW YORK  

History of Central Park  

Central Park Web  

American Museum of Natural History

Metropolitan Museum of Art

  

GENTRIFICATION 

Gentrifying the Lower East Side

Selling the Lower East Side

Lower East Side Business Improvement District

A critical view of the Lower East Side Collective

Jane Weissman's Community Garden Site

The history of the garden demolition

About the significance of casitas

Community gardens debate

Community gardens website (inc map)

The Charas Community Center Eviction


  

GREENWICH VILLAGE

Greenwich Village NYC

Greenwich Village Gazette

Village Alliance

The Village Voice

 

LANDSCAPES OF POWER  

Battery Park City  

Electronic Fieldtrip to the United Nations  

World Financial Center  

A love of monsters: gargoyles and architectural detail in New York  

New York Stock Exchange  

 

 
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