Image Collection 1809 Items Subway Construction Photograph Collection. Contract Three. Route 48, 1912-1924 The 1,809 Contract Three, Route 48 photographs show construction by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) of the Brooklyn Branch of the Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line (the 2 train and 3 train) from Park Place in Manhattan to Clark Street and Borough Hall in Brooklyn. The route covers the following sections: Section 1, Park Place under City Hall Park and along Beekman Street to William Street; Section 2, William Street to Hanover Square; and Section 3, Old Slip in Manhattan to Clark Street in Brooklyn, passing under the East River via the Clark Street Tunnel. View Collection
Image Collection 559 Items Subway Construction Photograph Collection. Contract Three. Route 43, 1914-1925 The 559 Contract Three, Route 43 photographs show construction of a new tunnel by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) to connect the first portion of the Lexington Avenue Line (the 4 train, 5 train and 6 train) that ran from City Hall to East 42nd Street to its extension north of 42nd Street along Lexington Avenue. Many of the photographs show views along Park Avenue from East 34th Street to East 42nd Street, including excavation work outside of Grand Central Terminal. View Collection
Image Collection 371 Items Subway Construction Photograph Collection. Contract Three. Route 36 & 37, 1913-1933 The 371 Contract Three, Route 36 & 37 photographs show construction by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) of a portion of the Flushing Line (the 7 train) in Queens from Queensboro Plaza to Alburtis Avenue (now the 103rd Street-Corona Plaza Station), as well as construction along the N line from Queensboro Plaza to Ditmars Boulevard in Astoria. View Collection
Image Collection 418 Items Subway Construction Photograph Collection. Contract Three. Route 35 & 67, 1922-1926 The 418 Route 35 & 67 photographs show the construction by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) of a portion of the Flushing Line (the 7 train) from Grand Central Terminal to Times Square. The photographs follow 42nd Street from Grand Central to Bryant Park and Sixth Avenue, and West 41st Street from Sixth Avenue to Eighth Avenue. There are many views of the New York Public Library, Bryant Park, and theaters on West 41st Street. The series also includes many underground photographs. View Collection
Image Collection 451 Items Subway Construction Photograph Collection. Contract Three. Route 31, 1916-1933 The 451 Contract Three, Route 31 photographs show the construction by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) of the New Lots Line or Livonia Avenue Line (the 3 train) in Brooklyn. The line runs from East 98th Street and Sutter Avenue to Livonia Avenue and New Lots Avenue. Most views are of the Livonia Avenue commercial district between Howard Avenue and Van Siclen Avenue in Brownsville, a Jewish neighborhood with many shop signs written in Yiddish. View Collection
Image Collection 1143 Items Subway Construction Photograph Collection. Contract Three. Route 29, 1914-1921 The 1,143 Contract Three, Route 29 photographs show construction by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) of the Nostrand Avenue Branch of the Brooklyn Line between Crown Heights and Flatbush, Brooklyn (the 2 train and 5 train). The route covers the following sections: Section 1, Nostrand Avenue from Eastern Parkway to Church Avenue; Section 2, Nostrand Avenue from Church Avenue to Flatbush Avenue. Views include the residential and commercial stretches of Nostrand Avenue. There are many storefronts and brownstones, and some wooden row houses and detached wood frame cottages. View Collection
Image Collection 40 Items Subway Construction Photograph Collection. Contract Three. Route 27, 1917-1918 The 40 Contract Three, Route 27 photographs show construction by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) in the vicinity of Mott Avenue Station in the Bronx (the modern 149th Street-Grand Concourse Station on the 2 train and 5 train). There are above ground views along East 149th Street, Mott Avenue, Walton Avenue, and Spencer Place, as well as many underground views, some showing the Mott Avenue Station under construction or completed. View Collection
Image Collection 129 Items Subway Construction Photograph Collection. Contract Three. Route 26, 1914-1925 The 129 Contract Three, Route 26 photographs show the construction by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) of a portion of the Flushing Line from Grand Central in Manhattan to Vernon Boulevard-Jackson Avenue in Long Island City, Queens (the 7 train). Some of the photographs show the construction of the Steinway Tunnel. Other photographs include views in Queens along 4th Street (now 50th Avenue) and Vernon Avenue (Vernon Boulevard), showing the commercial district including the neighborhood theater. View Collection
Image Collection 1486 Items Subway Construction Photograph Collection. Contract Three. Route 19-22, 1912-1925 The 1,486 Contract Three, Route 19-22 photographs show construction by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) of the Pelham Line (the 6 train) in the Bronx from East 138th Street and Third Avenue to Pelham Bay Park. The route is divided into the following sections: Section 1, East 138th and Third Avenue to East 149th Street and Southern Boulevard; Section 1A, East 149th Street and Southern Boulevard to Whitlock Avenue; Section 2, Whitlock Avenue to Pelham Bay Park along Westchester Avenue; and Section 3, the Westchester Yard near the Westchester Square and Middletown Road stations. View Collection
Image Collection 542 Items Subway Construction Photograph Collection. Contract Three. Route 18, 1913-1925 The 542 Contract Three, Route 18 photographs show construction by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) of the White Plains Road Line (the 4 train and 5 train) in the Bronx from around East 179th Street to Wakefield-East 241st Street. The route covers the following sections: Section 1, from East 179th Street and Boston Road to Burke Avenue and White Plains Road, including the 180th Street Yard; Section 2, White Plains Road from Burke Avenue to East 241st Street, including the 239th Street Yard. View Collection
Image Collection 635 Items Subway Construction Photograph Collection. Contract Three. Route 16, 1913-1925 The 634 Contract Three, Route 16 photographs show construction by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) of the elevated Jerome Avenue Line (the 4 train) from around East 157th Street north to Woodlawn in the Bronx. The route is divided into the following sections: Section 1, River Avenue and East 157th Street to Jerome Avenue and East 182nd Street; Section 2, Jerome Avenue from East 182nd Street to Bainbridge Avenue. View Collection
Image Collection 1594 Items Subway Construction Photograph Collection. Contract Three. Route 12, 1914-1923 The 1,594 Contract Three, Route 12 photographs show construction by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) of the Eastern Parkway Line from Downtown Brooklyn along Flatbush Avenue and Eastern Parkway to Crown Heights (the 2 train, 3 train and 4 train). The route covers the following sections: Section 1, Flatbush Avenue from Atlantic Avenue to St. View Collection
Image Collection 4631 Items Subway Construction Photograph Collection. Contract Three. Route 5, Sections 6-15, 1911-1925 The 4,631 Contract Three, Route 5, Sections 6-15 photographs show the construction by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) of the Lexington Avenue Line (the 4 train, 5 train, and 6 train) from East 26th street to East 132nd street in Manhattan, crossing the Harlem River via the Lexington Avenue Tunnel to East 138th Street and Alexander Avenue (the 6) and East 157th Street and River Avenue (the 4 and 5) in the Bronx. View Collection
Image Collection 3494 Items Subway Construction Photograph Collection. Contract Three. Route 4 & 38, 1914-1921 (bulk 1914-1915) The 3,496 Contract Three, Route 4 & 38 photographs show the construction by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) of the Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line from Times Square to Chambers Street (the 1 train, 2 train, and 3 train) and from Chambers Street to South Ferry in Manhattan (the 1 train). View Collection
Image Collection 175 Items Subway Construction Photograph Collection. Contract Three. 148th Street Yard, 1918-1926 The 175 Contract Three, 148th Street Yard photographs show the expansion by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) of the Lenox Avenue Shops, now known as the Lenox Yard, near West 148th Street and Lenox Avenue in Harlem. View Collection
Image Collection 2872 Items Subway Construction Photograph Collection. Contract Two, 1903-1921 (bulk 1904-1907) The 2,869 Contract Two photographs show the continuation of subway construction by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), connecting City Hall on the Lexington Avenue Line in Manhattan to Atlantic Avenue on the Eastern Parkway Line in Brooklyn via the Joralemon Street Tunnel under the East River (the 4 train and 5 train). There are many photographs of buildings along Joralemon Street in Brooklyn Heights. Other photographs show the subway being constructed beneath the elevated tracks along major arteries such as Flatbush Avenue. View Collection
Image Collection 4749 Items Subway Construction Photograph Collection. Contract One, 1900-1932 (bulk 1900-1904) The 4,744 Contract One photographs show the earliest subway construction by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), including portions of the Lexington Avenue Line (the 4 train, 5 train, and 6 train); the 42nd Street Shuttle; the Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line (the 1 train, 2 train, and 3 train); the Lenox Avenue Line (the 2 train and 3 train); and the West Farms Division of the White Plains Road Line (the 2 train and 5 train). View Collection
Image Collection 20 Items New-York Historical Society, Executive Committee minutes, 1843-1938 The Executive Committee Meeting Minutes series includes the twenty bound volumes of minutes recorded at the meetings of the committee from April 1843 to the last of its meetings in 1937. The series also includes the 1938 minutes of the committee's successor governing body, the Board of Trustees; the 1938 minutes are bound in the same volume as the 1936-1937 committee minutes. View Collection
Image Collection 13 Items Ladies' Christian Union records, 1850-2001 (bulk 1858-1960) The records of the Ladies' Christian Union include annual reports, minutes, financial and real estate records, correspondence, photographs, biographical writings, membership lists, ephemera, printed brochures, articles, and manuals. The Ladies Christian Union was founded in New York City in 1858 with the aim of creating and maintaining safe, affordable housing for young, unmarried Christian women employed in the New York area. Between the years 1860-1922, the organization owned and operated a total of eight buildings in Manhattan. View Collection
Image Collection 21 Items Association for the Benefit of Colored Orphans records, 1836-1972 (bulk 1850-1936) The Association for the Benefit of Colored Orphans was founded in 1836 and was originally located on Fifth Avenue between 43rd and 44th Streets in Manhattan. The Colored Orphan Asylum was among the earliest organizations in the country to provide housing, training, and employment specifically for African American orphans. During the Draft Riots of July 14, 1863, the Colored Orphan Asylum was attacked by a mob. At that time, it housed some 600 to 800 homeless children in a large four story building surrounded by grounds and gardens. View Collection
Image Collection 396 Items Boys' Club of New York photographic negatives, 1920-1980 The collection contains 403 photographic negatives produced circa 1920-1980 (bulk 1920-1950) by commercial photographers on behalf of The Boys' Club of New York ("BCNY"). The majority depict young BCNY members engaged in a variety of activities, either at the club's Tompkins Square Building (later renamed Harriman Clubhouse) or at the William Carey Camp in Jamesport, New York. Many of the photographs were published in annual reports, where they served to promote the organization's work. View Collection
Image Collection 3 Items Alexander Jackson Davis collection, 1837-1888 Correspondence, drafts of essays and speeches, drawings, and autobiographical writings of Alexander Jackson Davis, a successful New York City architect. Includes letters to Davis and miscellaneous papers, 1835-1859, chiefly about building residences. The correspondents include Francis H. Smith of the Virginia Military Institute, Joel Rathbone, W.J. Rotch, and H.K. Harral. The collection also includes numerous examples of autobiographical writing, and notes and essays on the philosophy of architecture, all in draft form, many scribbled in pencil on the backs of advertisements or old letters. View Collection
Name 137243-Service File File 137243-original-file.jp2 (13.11 MB) MIME type image/jp2 Media Use Service File Media of Map showing over-crowding of the buildings on the lots and the consequent lack of light and air space also strong-holds of poverty and agencies for betterment in the tenement house district bounded by 3rd Ave., East River, 28th, 22nd Streets / prepared fo File size 13743883 Collection 2 Items Charity Organization Society of the City of New York, Tenement House Committee Strong-holds of poverty and Prevalence of disease maps, 1899 These 89 maps, hand-drawn and hand-colored, were created in 1899: under the leadership of Lawrence Veiller in conjunction with the Charity Organization Society of New York for display at the Tenement House Exhibition, held in Manhattan in February 1900. They depict neighborhoods throughout Manhattan, from the Battery to Harlem, in two series: "Strong-holds of poverty" and "Prevalence of disease." Colored dots on the first series indicate the number of families requesting charitable assistance. View Collection
Name 137243-Service File File 137243-original-file.jp2 (13.11 MB) MIME type image/jp2 Media Use Service File Media of Map showing over-crowding of the buildings on the lots and the consequent lack of light and air space also strong-holds of poverty and agencies for betterment in the tenement house district bounded by 3rd Ave., East River, 28th, 22nd Streets / prepared fo File size 13743883
Image Collection 403 Items Occupy Wall Street signs and posters, 2011 The collection consists of over 400 hand-drawn and hand-printed signs and posters made for the Occupy Wall Street protest of September 2011 at Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan. They were collected in late 2011 by Grace Davie, who donated them to the New-York Historical Society in August 2019. View Collection