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New York City Places and Spaces

Collected by: Columbia University Libraries

Archived since: Jan, 2010

Description:

A growing collection of websites selected by the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library staff for web archiving preservation by the Columbia University Libraries' Web Resources Collection Program. Website captures began in 2010 and are ongoing; in 2020, to reflect the collection's evolving subject focus, the collection title was changed to 'New York City Places and Spaces' (from the original 'Avery Library Historic Preservation and Urban Planning'). The collection's principal thematic focus is documenting the evolution of the built environment and public spaces in and around New York City through the interaction of historic preservation efforts and new development projects within urban planning debates. Selected websites are mostly published by non-profit groups or individuals based in the New York City area, including historic preservation groups, neighborhood associations, community development groups, public policy organizations, parks and open space conservancies, and both sponsors and critics of ongoing development projects.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities Government - Cities Society & Culture Community development Public spaces Parks City planning Historic preservation Architecture

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Title: New York Marble Cemetery

URL: http://marblecemetery.org/

Description: "The cemetery, incorporated in 1831, was the first non-sectarian burial place in New York City open to the public. The organizer was Perkins Nichols, with Anthony Dey and George W. Strong handling the conveyances. Its popularity was so great that another one--the New York City Marble Cemetery--was soon built just around the corner. Although there are many similarities between the two, they have always been independent of each other."

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Subject:   Cemeteries

Title: Olde Towne of Flushing Burial Ground Conservancy

URL: http://otfbgconservancy.org/

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Subject:   Cemeteries ,  African American cemeteries

Title: St. Michael's Cemetery

URL: http://stmichaelscemetery.com/

Description: "St. Michael’s Cemetery is situated in the borough of Queens in New York City. Established in 1852, St. Michael’s is one of the oldest religious, nonprofit cemeteries in the New York City metropolitan area which is open to people of all faiths. It is owned and operated by St. Michael’s Church, an Episcopal congregation located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan."

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Subject:   Cemeteries

Title: Green-Wood : National Historic Landmark in Brooklyn, New York, Green-Wood Cemetery

URL: http://www.green-wood.com/

Description: "Founded in 1838 and now a National Historic Landmark, Green-Wood was one of the first rural cemeteries in America. By the early 1860s, it had earned an international reputation for its magnificent beauty and became the prestigious place to be buried, attracting 500,000 visitors a year, second only to Niagara Falls as the nation's greatest tourist attraction."

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Subject:   Green-Wood Cemetery (New York, N.Y.),  Cemeteries

Title: Ocean View Cemetery

URL: http://www.oceanviewcemetery.net/

Description: "Ocean View Cemetery is a non-sectarian cemetery serving the needs of people of all religions and nationalities. We have been serving these needs for over 100 years and our cemetery is the resting place for over 50,000 loved ones."

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Subject:   Cemeteries

Title: Frequently asked questions about Bayside Cemetery

URL: http://www.sznyc.org/frequently-asked-questions-bayside-cemetery/

Description: "Congregation Shaare Zedek was founded on Manhattan’s Lower East Side in 1837. In the middle of the 19th century, Shaare Zedek acquired land in Ozone Park, Queens where it established Bayside Cemetery. Over the ensuing decades, and particularly during the massive waves of Jewish immigration into New York around the turn of the 20th century, Shaare Zedek sold the exclusive burial rights in the overwhelming majority of the cemetery’s land to approximately a hundred different burial societies, fraternal organizations, synagogues and other communal groups, with the purchasing organization undertaking a contractual obligation to maintain its area."

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Subject:   Cemeteries ,  Bayside Cemetery (Bayside, New York, N.Y.)

Title: All Faiths Cemetery

URL: https://allfaithscemetery.org/

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Subject:   Cemeteries

Title: Calvary & Allied Cemeteries

URL: https://calvaryandalliedcemeteries.com/

Description: Official site maintained by Trustees of St. Patrick's Cathedral for six Catholic cemeteries in and around the New York City area: Ascension Cemetery (Airmont, NY); Calvary Cemetery (Woodside, NY); Gate of Heaven Cemetery (Hawthorne, NY); Resurrection Cemetery (Staten Island, NY); St. Ann's Cemetery (Kingston, NY); St. Mary's Cemetery (Rye Brook, NY).

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Subject:   Ascension Cemetery (Airmont, N.Y.) Calvary Cemetery (New York, N.Y.) Gate of Heaven Cemetery (Hawthorne, N.Y.) Resurrection Cemetery (New York, N.Y.) St. Ann's Cemetery (Kingston, N.Y.) St. Mary's Cemetery (Rye Brook, N.Y),  Cemeteries

Title: Green-Wood Glossary – a wording expedition

URL: https://greenwoodglossary.com/

Description: "Green-Wood Glossary is a collection of photos of surnames displayed on Green-Wood Cemetery gravestones that happen to be English words."

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Subject:   Green-Wood Cemetery (New York, N.Y.) Gravestones,  Cemeteries ,  Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--History English language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. Pictures

Title: Linden Hill United Methodist Cemetery

URL: https://lindenhillumcemeteryny.com/

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Subject:   Cemeteries

Title: Maple Grove Cemetery

URL: https://maplegrovecenter.org/

Description: "Referred to as a haven of peace and beauty within a park-like setting, Maple Grove Cemetery is a gracious, historic 65-acre rural cemetery. It is conveniently located off Queens Boulevard and the Van Wyck Expressway in Kew Gardens, an urban village-like neighborhood in the borough of Queens, New York City. It is an active, non-sectarian progressive cemetery with an enduring reputation for providing caring, sensitive services and thoughtful options to honor loved ones."

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Subject:   Cemeteries

Title: New York City Cemetery Project

URL: https://nycemetery.wordpress.com/

Description: "This project, and this site, is the work of Mary French, an anthropologist and museum & archives professional who has been exploring and researching the city’s cemeteries since moving to NYC in 2006. The project has collected information for about 350 cemeteries that is gradually added to this site, intended as a resource for researchers, genealogists, urban explorers, and other curious-minded folk."

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Subject:   Cemeteries

Title: New York Quarterly Meeting Cemetery

URL: https://nycquakers.org/resources/cemetery/

Description: "Situated on one of the highest points in Brooklyn, the Quaker Burial Ground began in 1849 (before Prospect Park was created) when nine acres of undeveloped farmland were purchased from four non-Quaker landowners."

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Subject:   Cemeteries

Title: Woodland Cemetery

URL: https://woodlandcemeterysi.com/

Description: "Established in 1854, The Woodland Cemetery is located at the intersection of Victory Boulevard and Highland Avenue, and is one of the oldest cemeteries on Staten Island"

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Subject:   Cemeteries

Title: Canarsie Cemetery

URL: https://www.canarsiecemetery.com/

Description: "Canarsie Cemetery dates back to 1843 when John Remsen sold an acre of land surrounding what was then known as the Methodist Protestant Church of Canarsie, to the Town of Flatlands about 500 feet away from the gates of Canarsie Cemetery."

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Subject:   Cemeteries

Title: Cypress Hill Cemetery

URL: https://www.cypresshillscemetery.org/

Description: "Cypress Hills Cemetery was founded on November 21, 1848. It is chartered by New York State as a non-profit, non-sectarian, membership corporation. Under construction for near three years, it officially opened in 1851."

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Subject:   Cemeteries

Title: Flushing Cemetery

URL: https://www.flushingcemetery.com/

Description: "Flushing Cemetery is a non-sectarian cemetery conveniently located in Queens, NY and is easily accessible by all major arteries. With over 75 countryside acres, this picturesque cemetery can accommodate burials and interment of cremains in traditional plots, chapel niches, or outside niche locations in our Memorial Garden."

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Subject:   Cemeteries

Title: Hart Island Project

URL: https://www.hartisland.net/

Description: "New York's City Cemetery on Hart Island occupies 101 acres in the Long Island Sound on the eastern edge of the Bronx. Since 1869, prison labor is used to bury unclaimed and unidentified New Yorkers in mass graves that are inaccessible to the public. On March 12, 2014, the New York City Council introduced legislation to create a public park where citizens could visit graves. In preparation, the Hart Island Project acquired new maps and added GPS data to our on-line database of burials. This information now accompanies tools for submitting stories and images of the buried. The collection is known as the Traveling Cloud Museum."

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Subject:   Hart Island (N.Y.) Anonymous persons Mass burials,  Cemeteries

Title: New York City Marble Cemetery

URL: https://www.nycmc.org/

Description: "The New York City Marble Cemetery was begun in 1831 and was the second non-sectarian burial ground in the City opened to the public. It was organized by Evert Bancker, Samuel Whittemore, Henry Booraem, Garret Storm and Thomas Addis Emmet. The cemetery was started shortly after the New York Marble Cemetery, one block away, had begun. It was laid out on some land belonging to Samuel Cowdrey, a vault owner in the other cemetery. Once again, Perkins Nichols contracted for the construction of the vaults of Tuckahoe marble. The first vaults were ready by the summer of 1831. The new organization received its own act of incorporation on April 26, 1832. Over the next three years the corporation acquired first the land in which the vaults were situated, and then adjoining lots, until it reached its present limits in 1835. The grounds now contain 258 vaults."

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Subject:   Cemeteries

Title: Cedar Grove Cemetery

URL: https://www.thecedargrovecemetery.com/

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Subject:   Cemeteries

Title: Woodlawn Cemetery

URL: https://www.woodlawn.org/

Description: "Established in 1863, Woodlawn is an active, 400-acre non-sectarian cemetery — an oasis in an urban setting. More than 310,000 individuals are interred on its grounds and it attracts over 100,000 visitors from around the world each year."

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Subject:   Woodlawn Cemetery (New York, N.Y.),  Cemeteries

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