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	The Museum of the City of New York
		"The Museum of the City of New York is a private, not-for-profit, educational agency established in 1923 to collect, preserve, and present original materials related to the history of New York City.
		The Museum of the City of New York, one of the most elegant museums in the city, looks like a Colonial American mansion; it is a large red-brick building with white stone columns accenting the entranceway and marble floors and stairways.
		MCNY is a large museum with four or five floors of exhibits.
	www.ny.com /museums/museum.of.the.city.of.new.york.html (339 words)

	NYC 100 -- Museum of Immigration
		Between 1855 (the year New York's official immigration center at Castle Garden opened) to 1880, the largest numbers of immigrants to the United States were from Ireland and Germany.
		Post-war immigration to New York was dominated by newcomers from Puerto Rico and Latin America.
		Between 1880 and 1924, the great waves of immigration to and through New York inspired many photographers and illustrators to depict the arrival of these newcomers and to document their new lives in the metropolis.
	www.nyc.gov /html/nyc100/html/imm_stories/museum/index.html (523 words)

	Give Me Your Tired, Images of Immigration from the Museum of the City of New York
		Between 1855 (the year New York's official immigration center at Castle Garden opened) to 1880, the largest numbers of immigrants to the United States were from Ireland and Germany.
		Between 1880 and 1924, the great waves of immigration to and through New York inspired many photographers and illustrators to depict the arrival of these newcomers and to document their new lives in the metropolis.
		To accommodate the growing number of immigrants to the United States who used New York as their first port of call, an official immigration center was established at Castle Garden in 1855.
	www.ci.nyc.ny.us /html/misc/html/tired.html (1012 words)

	MTA - Transit Museum General Information
		The New York Transit Museum, one of the city's leading cultural institutions is the largest museum in the United States devoted to urban public transportation history, and one of the premier institutions of its kind in the world.
		Museum exhibits complement curricular exploration of the social history of New York City, the engineering sciences, the mathematics and art of subway and station design, the history of immigration in New York City, and the urban landscape.
		New York Transit Museum programs are made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
	www.mta.nyc.ny.us /mta/museum/general.htm (2392 words)

	Virtual NYC Tour: New York City Museums
		One of the most popular museum areas in New York is called the "Museum Mile." The area is located along Fifth Avenue starting from 75th street up to 95th street.
		The Brooklyn Museum is the second largest art museum in the City, and one of the largest in the United States.
		The Museum of the City of New York is an art gallery and history museum founded in 1923 to present the history of New York City and its people.
	www.virtualnyctour.com /guide/museums.php (1395 words)

	Magazine Antiques: New York silver and paintings - Museum of the City of New York, and the PaineWebber Art Gallery, New ...
		The Museum of the City of New York was established in 1923 by a group of citizens concerned with preserving the history of a city that has never ceased changing since it was settled in the seventeenth century.
		New York was known as a center for luxury goods, and firms such as Tiffany and Company became renowned for the innovative and high-quality silverwares they manufactured and retailed.
		Views of New York City's rivers and harbor attest to the importance of the city's role in the economic growth of the country.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1026/is_5_157/ai_62277241 (677 words)

	New York City Fire Museum
		The New York City Fire Museum houses one of the nation's most important collections of fire related art and artifacts from the late 18th century to the present.
		The Museum, in conjunction with the New York City Fire Department, operates a world-class fire safety education program designed to teach participants how to prevent fires within the home and importantly, how to protect themselves and escape should one occur.
		The museum's third floor loft may be rented by individuals, businesses and organizations for birthday parties, meetings, special events and weddings.
	www.nycfiremuseum.org /index.php (262 words)

	New York City Hotels - Huge New York City Hotel Discounts
		New York City is still the business and entertainment capital of the world.
		The city is also renowned for its diverse array of international restaurants, ranging from Ethiopian to local brewpubs.
		New York City - New York City is still the business and entertainment capital of the world.
	www.new-york-hotels-discounts.com (1008 words)

	Art/Museums: Art in the Empire City at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Nevertheless, such was the city's rapid growth and accumulation of wealth over the next thirty-five years, such was its primacy as the commercial center of the nation, that architects naturally gravitated there.
		By 1860, it is fair to say, New York had become the center of architectural activity in America; it was even the seat of the recently founded American Institute of Architects.
		The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the finest museums in the world after all, and not the New York Historical Society or the Museum of the City of New York.
	www.thecityreview.com /empircit.html (3006 words)

	Museum of the City of New York Shop -- Photographs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Its demolition galvanized New Yorkers outraged at its destruction to make way for Madison Square Garden, and the ensuing movement, New York's historic preservation movement, resulted in the 1965 formation of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission.
		This 8 x 10 inch fiber-based copy of the original in the Museum's collection is framed in an attractive dark charcoal gray wood frame, archivally double matted.
		This 11 x 14 inch fiber-based copy of the original in the Museum's collection is framed in an attractive dark charcoal gray wood frame, archivally double matted.
	www.merchantmanager.com /mcny/storefront.asp?pageno=45 (378 words)

	Berenice Abbott
		Until 1968, when she sold the Atget Collection to the Museum of Modern Art in New York, she had been the best ambassador of the memory of his work.
		The Museum of the City of New York was founded in 1923 and modeled on the Musée Carnavalet in Paris.
		A lack of funds in the midst of the Depression while the museum was about to complete its new building at Fifth Avenue prevented Scholle from financially supporting her idea of documenting the transformation of the city's landmarks which were about to disappear.
	www.cosmopolis.ch /english/cosmo30/berenice_abbott.htm (2776 words)

	:: Exhibitions and Artists - Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Road to Recreation
		Envisioning New York as a “water city,” Moses reclaimed the shorefront for recreation—Orchard Beach and Jacob Riis Park are crowning examples—built monumental, outdoor swimming pools that remain pinnacles of public architecture, and built parkways conceived as “ribbon parks” with extensive landscaping, stone-arched bridges, playgrounds, and bike paths.
		A highlight of the exhibition at the Queens Museum of Art will be the reopening of the Panorama of the City of New York, the world’s largest architectural scale model, made by Moses for the 1964-65 World’s Fair.
		Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Road to Recreation, is made possible with funding provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, Furthermore: a program of the J. Kaplan Fund, and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
	www.queensmuseum.org /exhibitions/moses.htm (890 words)

	Museum of the City of New York Shop -- Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		In early 2000, the bottom dropped out of the life of New Yorker writer David Denby: His wife announced she was leaving him.
		American Sucker is a beautifully written, mesmerizing account of those years of madness and also of slowly recovered sanity and happiness-a classic tale of the bubble related not by a market guru or an investment professional but by a witty, perceptive, and eloquent outsider.
		Featuring nearly 160 urban scene paintings from the Museum's collection of more than 2,000, Painting the Town depicts New York City from the pre-revolutionary period to the present day.
	www.merchantmanager.com /mcny/storefront.asp?pageno=41 (888 words)

	New York Car Rentals and the Museum of the City of New York
		Museum of the City of New York is an art gallery and museum of history founded in 1923 in Manhattan.
		The museum has a large collection of paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs of New York City, as well as decorative objects and furniture, toys, rare books and manuscripts, marine and military collections, police and fire collections, and a theater collection to document the golden age of Broadway.
		The Museum of the City is best-known for its collection of photographs, including works by Jacob Riis and Berenice Abbott, as well as many Depression-era Federal Art Project photographs.
	www.imagerentacar.com /museum-of-the-city-of-new-york.htm (521 words)

	Museum of the City of New YorkEditorial
		The Museum of the City of New York undergoes a major albeit much delayed transformation.
		In 1986 the Museum of the City of New York, the only museum dedicated to the history of the City, announced plans to thoroughly revamp its Harlem NY digs, originally built in 1932.
		Designed by Polshek Partnership Architects of New York, the first phase of the work calls for a 23,000 square foot two-storey glass addition to be built at the rear of the Museum that will house a curatorial center, a new gallery and other amenities.
	www.worldarchitecturenews.com /index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=569 (168 words)

	Party Pictures 2/28/03 - Museum of the City of New York
		Last Tuesday night up at the Museum of the City of New York on Fifth Avenue and 103rd Street, where the Director’s Council hosted their annual Winter Ball with a “Toast to the Dazzling 1920s” with an invitation that called for Black or White Tie, spirits were lifted considerably for a few fabulous hours.
		The Museum of the City of New York was founded in that decade – in 1923.
		It was the first museum in the U.S. dedicated to illustrating the history of a single city.
	www.newyorksocialdiary.com /partypictures/2003/2.28.03/partypictures2.28.03.php (683 words)

	Art in America: NYC Museum planned move on hold - Front Page - Museum of the City of New York may not relocate to Tweed ...
		In December 2000, prompted by then Mayor Giuliani, the Museum of the City of New York announced plans to relocate from Upper Fifth Avenue to the newly renovated Tweed Courthouse in Lower Manhattan.
		Located on Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, the museum's current building is considered lackluster by architecture buffs; funds ran out during its construction in 1930, after the previous year's stock market crash, and its size and finish were scaled back considerably.
		As New York City works to rebuild after Sept. 11, the museum's relocation to Lower Manhattan seems to have broad support.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1248/is_4_90/ai_84669335 (565 words)

	Museum of the City of New York Hosts Saul Steinberg Exhibition \| Art Knowledge News
		New York City - More than forty drawings by artist Saul Steinberg (1914-1999), showing the range and originality of his vision of New York City, will be on view at the Museum of the City of New York from November 30, 2006 through March 25, 2007.
		A City on Paper: Saul Steinberg's New York is co-curated by Thomas Mellins, the Museum of the City of New York Curator of Special Projects, and Joel Smith, Curator of Photographs at the Princeton University Art Museum.
		Funding for A City on Paper: Saul Steinberg's New York is provided by the Charles River Fund on behalf of Richard Menschel, Melvin R. Seiden in honor of Ronay and Richard Menschel and Rowan Richard Drant, PaceWildenstein, and CDS Gallery.
	www.artknowledgenews.com /Saul_Steinberg.html (723 words)

	Plots & Plans: Enrique Norten exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York
		The architectural scene in New York City is becoming increasingly international and one of the brightest "new" stars is Enrique Norten, who is based in Mexico City.
		The most important of these New York projects is Harlem Park, a 34-story structure now under construction on 125th Street at Park Avenue, which is certain to become Harlem's most important landmark.
	www.thecityreview.com /norten.html (638 words)

	Lost New York in Old Postcards - Museum of the City of New York - Absolutearts.com
		On August 11, 2001, the Museum of the City of New York will present Lost New York in Old Postcards, an exhibition of over 170 post-cards documenting life in the City from the turn of the century to the mid-1950s, the years in which hand-colored postcards were produced.
		Divided into eight cat-egories, the postcards on display in Lost New York are from the col-lection of Rod Kennedy, Jr., and the perma-nent collection of the Museum of the City of New York.
		From the famed Copacabana nightclub to the Trylon and Perisphere of the 1939 World’s Fair, these postcards are both a record of life in the City in the past and an amus-ing and often exaggerated depiction of New York City icons and attractions.
	www.absolutearts.com /cgi-bin/news/arts-news-elaborate.cgi?output_number=20&find=3546 (653 words)

	New York Apartments
		NYC isn't technically the state capital of New York, but it is without a doubt one of the most important cities in the state, in the country and in the world.
		Living in the city isn't right for everybody, because of its relentless noise, expensive apartments for rent and colorful local characters, but locals will tell you that there's nowhere else like it on earth.
		New York City is famous for its ethnic diversity, which is illustrated in its many international neighborhoods, such as Little Italy, China Town, Harlem and Spanish Harlem.
	www.rent.com /rentals/new-york/new-york-city/new-york (654 words)

	History -- Museum of the City of New York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		This museum was America's first to be dedicated to the history of a city, and today provides an opportunity for people of all ages to appreciate New York's unique and important history.
		The Museum's galleries feature three centuries of paintings, prints, photographs, silver, furniture, costumes, doll houses, fire engines, and theatre memorabilia, combining to tell the story of New York and New Yorkers from the time the City was a small Dutch trading post to today's towering urban center.
		In addition, the Museum offers a variety of Teacher Workshops, including one to help teachers prepare their students for participation in the New York City History Fair.
	www.fieldtrip.com /ny/25341672.htm (355 words)

	The Museum of the City of New York - Museums - Visitors Guide - New York
		Touting itself as the city’s “family album,” the Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) houses permanent and special exhibitions exclusively related to the five boroughs, from their Dutch origins to the present day.
		The thematic permanent galleries are devoted to early fire-fighting techniques and their evolution; trade and the city’s strategic role as the port of the New World; Broadway history and theater memorabilia; plus, historic children’s toys and period rooms.
		Gracie Mansion housed the museum from its 1923 founding until 1932, when its current home was completed.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /pages/venues/514.htm (498 words)

	Museum
		This mission is accomplished through quality professional exhibits of new and antique quilts and related archival materials; through workshops, conferences, and publications; through educational activities; and through the development and exhibit of the museum's own collection.
		The Museum receives general operating support from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and is a founding member of the Museums of Lower Manhattan.
		Museum admission is $6 for adults and $3 for juniors (ages 6-12) and seniors (62 and older).
	www.lycos.com /info/museum--new-york.html (324 words)

	The Museum of the City of New York - Museums - New York Magazine
		Touting itself as the city's "family album," the Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) houses permanent and special exhibitions exclusively related to the five boroughs, from their Dutch origins to the present day.
		The thematic permanent galleries are devoted to early fire-fighting techniques and their evolution; trade and the city's strategic role as the port of the New World; Broadway history and theater memorabilia; plus, historic children's toys and period rooms.
		Gracie Mansion housed the museum from its 1923 founding until 1932, when its current home was completed.
	nymag.com /listings/attraction/museum-of-the-city-of-new-york (423 words)

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