The Central Park: Original Designs for New York’s Greatest Treasure by Cynthia Brenwell – a conservator at the Archives - features hundreds of color photographs illustrations and plans, including the original winning entry for the park’s design by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calbert Vaux.
More than 720,000 newly digitized historical photographs of every house and building in the 5 boroughs can be searched and viewed in the gallery.
Open on Saturdays
You can access the collections of the New York City Municipal Archives and Library on (the second and fourth) Saturdays between the hours of 9:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.
Or visit our new exhibit, The Lung Block: A New York City Slum & Its Forgotten Italian Immigrant Community
From historical introductions to a sample of our archival and library holdings to curated digital galleries of our exhibitions, Archives.NYC offers dynamic content and spotlights the current projects and events at the Municipal Library and Archives.
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