Links

Looking Back: The American Dream Through Immigrant Eyes, 1907-1918
Memoir: Lived between 1907-1918 (© 1986), Marie Jastrow, author. Lived on 81st
Street between York and East End Aves.

NEW Green Dougherty Blog (Yorkville Books)

Oldest Footage of New York City Ever

Origins and History of the Village of Yorkville in the City of New York
Second Edition (© 2014): History of Yorkville, Anthony C. Lofaso, author

Immigration

Ancestry Resources

Ellis Island Genealogy

Ellis Island History

Ellis Island Museum

Family Search Learning Center

Heritage Week

Libraries

New York Public Library

New York Public Library Photographic Collection

New-York Historical Society Museum & Library

Neighborhoods/Stories

74th and York: Growing Up Czech in New York City
Memoir: Lived 74th Street and York Ave. in the 1920s and 1930s (© 1988), Olga Leone, author

Digital Atlas of New York

Ephemeral New York

Forgotten New York

Hidden City: Yorkville

I Hate the Dallas Cowboys: Tales of a Scrappy New York Boyhood
Memoir: Living in Yorkville in the 1960s (© 2014), Thomas R. Pryor, author
(lived on York Ave. between 81st and 82nd Streets–he still resides there).

Inventing Gotham and the American Dream

Little Bastards of Yorkville
Memoir: Living in Yorkville in the 1950s (© 2017), Arthur Miller, author.
(lived at 535 E. 81st Street).

One Day as I Stood Lonely: Yorkville
Memoir: Living in Yorkville in the 1940s and1950s (© 2009), Kevin N. Boland (lived on 79th Street near East’End Ave.).

Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood

Neighborhood Preservation Center

Time to Remember: Growing Up in New York Before the Great War, A
Memoir: Life between 1907-1918 (© 1979), Marie Jastrow, author. Lived on 81st
Street between York and East End Aves.

Yorkville: On the Sidewalks of New York (Richard Poelthig, 1925-1945)

Subways and Rail

100 Years of New York City’s Subway Cars (Part 1/3)

100 Years of New York City’s Subway Cars (Part 2/3)

100 Years of New York City’s Subway Cars (Part 3/3)

By the El: Third Avenue and its El at Mid-Century
Second edition (© 2007), Lawrence Stetler, author. Lothar Stetler, photography.

NYC Subways

Old NYC

Rapid Transit

Tenements

Jacob Riis (The Battle with the Slum)

Urban Sculptures (See Tenement History)

History-New York State

New York State Museum

Immigration

Immigration History Research Center
University of Minnesota
311 Andersen Library
222 21st Avenue So.
Minneapolis, MN 55455-4400
(612) 625-4800
ihrc@umn.edu

Indie House Press

Twins

Annual Twins Days Festival
August 4-6, 2017 [Over 3,000 sets of twins/multiples participate.]
This annual event takes place the first full weekend in August.
Twinsburg, OH (a Cleveland, OH suburb)
August 2-4, 2019 is the 44th year of the annual TDF

The International Twins Association

Other Twin Organization Sites

Yorkville Twins

Hilarious Adventures Growing Up In New York City, 1944-1962

Links

“Immigration education matters.” “Connecting with our heritage matters.”

“Promoting intercultural understanding matters.”

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