From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Click the borough name in the "New York's Five Boroughs at a Glance" table at right to read the article on each borough.
The Gotham Center for New York City History is supported by the CUNY Graduate Center and by John Jay College of Criminal Justice as a public center devoted to the history of New York.
'The 15,000 tenant houses that were the despair of the sanitarian in the past generation have swelled into 37,000 and more than twelve hundred thousand persons call them home' --- written by Jacob Riis --- copy digitized and site maintained by the University of Michigan Digital Library
Read about the Manhattan street/lot grid, and then click on the links on the right side of the page to read more interesting NYC history. From the "Old and Sold" online auction site.
