New York Neighborhoods Wiki
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Ken Jackson Department of History Access: Private Released: December 2007 |
The New York Neighborhoods Wiki is an online compilation of student-produced research on New York neighborhoods for Professor Ken Jackson’s “History of New York” lecture course. Students developed walking tours of neighborhoods based on their original research.
The Web site contains Google mapping technologies that allow students to mark their tours and points of interest along the walking tour, as well as precise directions to the neighborhood via public transportation; exact addresses of the places discussed; a general history of the area; individual histories of important structures; interviews with people in neighborhood institutions, and over a dozen historical and contemporary images for each neighborhood.
The wiki forms a growing repository of original research about local New York City history.
Related categories: Collaborative Sites | History
