Anti-graffiti ads from the Koch administration featuring celebrities, part of NYC’s 1980s campaign to discourage graffiti.
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Experience New York City’s first Earth Day celebration in 1970, as diverse crowds gathered in Union Square for teach-ins, art, music, and park clean-up efforts.
Images from NYC’s 1967 Vietnam War protest, which included speeches by Martin Luther King Jr. and Stokely Carmichael at the United Nations.
Photographic record of South Bronx rebuilding efforts from the NYC Department of Housing, Preservation and Development Collection.
Early 1900s open-air motorized buses carried tourists through New York City landmarks with live guides
1975 “Welcome to Fear City” pamphlet distributed to tourists by law enforcement after city budget cuts.
Photograph of Coenties Slip showing docked ships with the Brooklyn Bridge visible in the background.
Handwritten 1835 license document granting authorization for operation of the Staten Island Ferry.
1937 P.S. 42 record card listing students’ national origins based on fathers’ birthplaces from a Board of Education survey.
Historic photographs showing the exterior and ornate interior of the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem.
1953 “Nueva York y Usted” guidebook for Puerto Rican residents, offering resources on jobs, housing, community groups, and city services.
1917 voter registration book from New York listing women’s names following the state’s adoption of women’s suffrage.