God's Country

New York resources include:

1. a decent basic guide to the City from Columbia University, a Guide to New York Resources

2. Several additional guides can be treated as "supplements" to Columbia's, among them:
   • ALLNY.com
   • NY1
   • NYC.gov
   • Total New York
   • Echo: The Virtual Salon of New York
   • Manhattan--Explore New York
   • New York City Reference
   • The Paperless Guide to New York City
   • NYW (New York Web)
   • City Search
   • The New York City Insider
   • newyork.sidewalk (from Microsoft)
   • Time Out (requires registration for use)
   • Where
   • Yahoo's New York Guide
   • New York Now

3. Then there are the newspapers:
   • The New York Times Online
   • The New York Observer
   • Most New York (The Daily News site)
   • The Village Voice (formerly Guide to Los Angeles and New York at Night)

4. And the magazines . . .
   New York
   • The New Yorker
   • Time Out New York

5. The November 1999 PBS broadcast of Ric Burns and Lisa Ades' New York: A Documentary Film has a website.

   
   

   

   
   

6. Gotham at 100 is the Winter 1998 (vol. 6, no. 3) issue of culturefront online, with a number of articles relevant to New Yorkophiles

7. City Sites: New York / Chicago ("Multimedia essays on New York and Chicago, 1870s-1930s") is well worth a visit (the site is a subset of Three Cities: New York / Chicago / Los Angeles ("Literary and visual representations of three American cities, 1870s-1930s"), a project based in the UK at the Universities of Nottingham and Birmingham

8. More specialized guides to New York include:

   • For the subways (and other mass transit), see both the unofficial New York City Subway Resources site and the official Metropolitan Transportation Authority site

   • Manhattan address locator

   • New York Skyscrapers

   • The Skyscraper Museum

   • New York City Signs -- 14th to 42nd Street

   • The Bronx website

   • Here is the general site for Columbia University and the specific site for Columbia's Department of English

   • Here are the general sites for CUNY and another for the CUNY Graduate School Website, as well as the specific sites for CUNY's graduate Department of English and its Renaissance Studies Certificate Program.

   • Here is the general site for New York University and the specific site for NYU's Department of English

   • The New York Public Library

   • For food, see the:
     • DineNet New York City restaurants
     • Zagat DINE's New York pages
     • Food and Restaurants near New York, New York County, NY
     • New York Exotic Dining Restaurant Guide
     • 4Dining

   • For theater, see the:
     • Broadway New York site
     • ALLNY.com's theater listings
     • Deptford Players
     • Musicals Tonight!
     • NYTheatre.com
     • New York City Playbill online
     • Brooklyn Academy of Music

   • Strandbooks.com (the website for New York City's Strand Book Store, Broadway at 12th Street)

   • Labyrinth Books (536 West 112th Street, NY, NY 10025) -- the best scholarly bookstore Traister has seen in New York City

   • Art sites include:
     • The Metropolitan Museum of Art
     • The Brooklyn Museum
     • The Museum of Modern Art
     • Whitney Museum of American Art
     • Guggenheim Museum
     • New York City Reference: Art

   • Among museums are:
     • The American Museum of Natural History
     • Museum of the City of New York

   • Music-related sites include:
     • New York Philharmonic
     • Carnegie Hall
     • The Metropolitan Opera
     • New York City Opera
     • The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
     • 92nd Street YM/WHA (which does other things besides concerts, among them, for example, poetry readings)
     • Brooklyn Academy of Music

   • New York City Ballet

   • WCBS, an all-news AM (880) radio station
     See also http://www.cbsnews.com/, the "parent" organization

   • WNYC, public broadcasting in New York City

   • The New York Yankees (someday the Unprincipled Owner will be returned [f.o.b.] to Cleveland; meanwhile, they are going to repeat as 2001 World Champions)

Among additional New York-related sites, Traister finds these of interest:

• The City Review
• Weegee's World
• Berenice Abbott, Changing New York, 1935-1938 (The New York Public Library)
• Louis Menand, "New York State of Mind" (Slate)
• Harlem: Mecca of the New Negro
• The Thomas Nast Homepage

In closing:

• "Special tastes," as we used to call them, may find something of grim interest in this site, which describes the impact of a 150 kiloton nuclear device detonated at ground level at the foot of the Empire State Building.

• See also Traister's links for art, film, music, and theater.