Announcements

March 27, 2024
In Manhattan, 400 years later, the Dutch unveil plans for marking NY's start - Gothamist


March 15, 2024
City honors 19 public servants with award for innovative city government projects - AmNewYork


November 1, 2023
Uniting the Boroughs: The Triborough Bridge - MTA Away


October 24, 2023
Uniting the Boroughs: The Triborough Bridge - Queens Borough President


August 23, 2023
New York City Seeks Inspiring Women's Stories From Harlem For Women's Archive - Harlem World Magazine


August 18, 2023
Local Law 104 of 2023 Designation


June 8, 2023
Notice of Public Hearing and Opportunity to Comment on Proposed Contract


May 3, 2022
Peek Inside NYC’s Surrogate’s Courthouse, A Beaux-Arts Masterpiece - Untapped New York


April 7, 2022
Her 75th Birthday Gift for Dad Unraveled Amazing Link to NYC Past - NBC New York


March 19, 2022
The past is present: The good and bad in saving city records - NY Daily News


March 18, 2022
Discover Your NYC Ancestors with This New Historical Records Database - Thrillist


March 18, 2022
You can now search through 9.3 million historical NYC records for free - TimeOut


March 16, 2022
NYC releases 9.3M historical birth, death, marriage records; here’s what you can learn about your family history - Silive


March 16, 2022
NYC launches online platform with free access to 9.3 million historical birth, death, and marriage records - 6sqft


October 26, 2021
New municipal archives facility, one of largest official repositories in North America, opens at industry city - Brooklyn Daily Eagle  


August 11, 2021
NOTICE: Mailing List for Future Concessions 


July 23, 2021
‘Neighborhood Stories’: Keeping history alive in NYC communities - PIX11


May 2, 2021
A trip down memory lane with a purpose: The Neighborhood Stories Project wants to hear from you - NY Daily News


April 20, 2021
Help New York City Records Tell Your Harlem Neighborhood Story - Harlem World Magazine


December 19, 2020
Waxing romantic on the Bridges of Newtown Creek: Our Neighborhood, The Way it Was - QNS


December 3, 2020
The best NYC-themed gifts for everyone on your list - 6Sqft


September 11, 2020
NOTICE: Solicitation of Vendors to Document the 9/11 Risers


September 2, 2020
What Did Every Building in NYC Look Like in the 1940s? New Website Puts Over 700K Old Tax Photos on the Map - Inside Edition


August 18, 2020
Park Sloper Maps Old Tax Photos on "1940s Street View" Website - Brooklynpaper


July 18, 2020
Brief lesson on the rise of a Long Island City art mecca: Our Neighborhood, The Way it Was - QNS


June 20, 2020
Eight great photos of Queens from long ago our neighborhood the way it was - QNS


June 17, 2020
Julia Weist transforms New York City's archival records into artworks that live in digital public space - Artnews


May 22, 2020
'Victimised and rejected': new work explores the history of artists working in New York and the need for public art - The Art Newspaper


May 21, 2020
Julia Weist’s ‘Public Record’ reveals the long history between New York City and its artists - Document Journal


May 5, 2020
Find out what your NYC building looked like in the 1940s - Time Out New York


April 26, 2020
NYC archive paying tribute to thousands of famous and everyday women - New York Daily News


April 23, 2020
The best Zoom backgrounds for New York City fanatics - Curbed


April 2, 2020
What New York Looked Like During the 1918 Flu Pandemic - NYTimes


March 4, 2020
Ebb & Flow: Tapping into the History of Water Supply - Yahoo Finance


January 31, 2020
Panel Featuring Immigrant Voices in Fashion Industry - ITV Gold


December 10, 2019
2019 holiday gift guide: 20 gifts for the New Yorker who has it all - 6Sqft


December 09, 2019
Here's Where New York Keeps All its Information About the City - VOA


December 3, 2019
'These Videos Shouldn't Exist': Hours Of Old NYPD Surveillance Films Of Protests Have Been Digitized - Gothamist


November 12, 2019
41 of the Year’s Most Giftable Coffee-Table Books – New York Mag


October 29, 2019
See Rare Documents from the Planning of Central Park at an Illustrated Book Talk – Untapped New York


October 16, 2019
The Green Jewel – The Magazine Antiques


October 14, 2019
15 must-follow Instagram accounts for NYC history lovers - CurbedNY


October 9, 2019
15 Must-Visit Open Access Sites for Open House New York 2019 – Untapped New York


June 10, 2019
Municipal Archives offer a glimpse into New York City’s history – AmNewYork


April 30, 2019
Uncovering Central Park: Looking back at the original designs for ‘New York’s greatest treasure’ – 6Sqft


April 25, 2019
The Lower East Side’s forgotten Lung Block: The Italian community lost to ‘slum clearance’ – 6Sqft 


April 20, 2019
Central Park’s design, history illustrated in Municipal Archives’ drawings - AmNewYork


April 19, 2019
Every Building on Every Block: New York in the 1980s – New York Times 


January 29, 2019
New York’s Depression Era Foodways – New York Times


December 28, 2018
Every Building on Every Block: A Time Capsule of 1930s New York – New York Times 


November 7, 2018
Get a glimpse at what NYC homes looked like in the 1940s - CurbedNY


November 7, 2018
See what NYC looked like in the 1940s through 720,000 digitized photos – Pix11


Februray 6, 2018
The NYPD spent decades spying on New Yorkers — now you can see what they collected – Business Insider


December 17, 2017
Unlikely Historians: Materials Collected by NYPD Surveillance Teams, 1960-1975 - GothamToGo


October 25, 2017
LinkNYC Kiosks Will Now Display Historic Photos of NYC Neighborhoods - CurbedNY


October 9, 2017
How Police Surveillance Units Became Unlikely Historians - New York Times


September 27, 2017
Le Carte Antiche Chesvelano New York – La Repubblica (Italia)


September 11, 2017
Seeing the 1960s and '70s through the Lens of the NYPD - Artsy 


September 1, 2017
City's Radical Past Revealed in NYPD Spy Pics - New York Post


March 2, 2017
New York Today: Treasures of Chambers Street – New York Times


April 23, 2016
NYC Instagram accounts to follow - AmNewYork


March 2, 2016
New York Today: Treasures of Chambers Street – New York Times