Rearview of Sally Davies' apartment on East 5th Street at night with illuminated windows.
Map describing languages spoken in NYC.
Skyline of New York City
Photograph of artists from the exhibition, Women of Sweetgrass, Cedar and Sage, friends and community members outside the American Indian Community House Gallery taken in 1985.

Collecting New York's Stories

Stuyvesant to Sid Vicious

Who We Are

Visualizing NYC by the Numbers

Cultivating Culture: 34 Institutions That Changed New York

Urban Indian: Native New York Now

Examines the shared meaning of being a Native person living in New York today

1220 Fifth Ave at 103rd St., Open Daily 10am–6pm
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Map of New York City, including outer boroughs. Colored sections mark different languages spoken in each location.
Through July 19, 2020

Who We Are

Visualizing NYC by the Numbers
Ongoing

New York at Its Core

What made New York New York? Follow the story of the city’s rise from a striving Dutch village to today’s “Capital of the World,” and consider its future in our changing world.
Visitors watching the Timescapes film in a theater at the Museum of the City of New York
Ongoing

Timescapes

Watch the history of New York City unfold in this 28-minute film.
View of the Starlight installation at the Museum of the City of New York
Ongoing

Starlight

This brilliant light installation suspended above the Rotunda is one of the Museum’s most photographed features.
View from above a basketball hoop without a net, where a player is seen about to dunk a basketball through the hoop
Opens February 14, 2020

City/Game

Basketball in New York
Members of the Park Slope community on the street playing with bubbles.
Opens March 11, 2020

The City Within

Brooklyn Photographs by Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb

A group of marchers hold signs protesting the demolition and renovation of Penn Station
Ongoing

Activist New York Online

Connect with issues of activism in the city today, discover a wealth of educational resources and more.
Planning map for the New York City grid system. The map shows all of Manhattan, with the streets and parks labeled.
Ongoing

The Greatest Grid

Explore the history of Manhattan’s famous grid of numbered streets and avenues—the largest feat of urban planning in the city's history.
Mayor John Lindsay is cheered by crowds at Flatlands
Ongoing

America's Mayor

Learn about the controversial tenure (1966–1973) and dramatic times of New York's 103rd mayor, John V. Lindsay.
Women window shopping
Ongoing

Reginald Marsh

Reginald Marsh (1898-1954) is well-known as an American realist painter and printmaker who was based in New York City.

A group of children and teenagers hold hands in a circle as they run around a playground sprinkler
Traveling

A City Seen

Todd Webb's Postwar New York, 1945-1960

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