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.
open weekdays 9 AM - 12 PM & 1 PM - 4 PM
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.
1937 P.S. 42 record card listing students’ national origins based on fathers’ birthplaces from a Board of Education survey.
Red address book carried by Malcolm X at the time of his assassination in 1965. It contains handwritten contacts of friends and civil rights associates.
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.
Black and white photograph of Mayor Ed Koch signing the 1986 gay rights bill at his desk in New York City.
Photograph of vendors and shoppers at a bustling sidewalk pushcart market on First Avenue.
1911 legal indictment cover page related to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire case.
1980s New York City Department of Health poster illustrating AIDS transmission through unprotected sex and needle sharing.