Projects

Queensbound

QUEENSBOUND is a collaborative audio project founded by KC Trommer and begun in 2018 with a New Work grant from the Queens Council on the Arts.

Visualizing the Old Croton Aqueduct through Text and Augmented Reality

This project will contemporize Theophilus Schramke’s Description of the New-York Croton Aqueduct: In English, German and French and create a geographically relevant immersive experience.

Digital Downtown serves as a complement to the main library website for the Downtown Collection, the largest archival collecting endeavor at Fales Library & Special Collections, NYU’s main repository for archival materials in the arts and humanities.

Unmapping the Caribbean: Sanctuary and Sound

What would a map of sanctuary look like? This digital cartography project "Unmapping the Caribbean: Sanctuary and Sound" employs Esri Story Maps to examine fugitivity in the region through the lenses of marronage and indigeneity, depicting five geographies: New York

REPOhistory and the Lower Manhattan Sign Project

This project explores the collective REPOhistory’s inaugural project, the Lower Manhattan Sign Project (LMSP). The LMSP was a public installation of temporary, site-specific historical markers consisting of 39 signs in 36 locations by 49 members in 1992. The intent of

Downtown Archæologies

A class project for the Spring 2018 "Media History of New York" Media, Culture, and Communication class taught by Moacir P. de Sá Pereira

Documenting New York City’s House of the Good Shepherd

This project recovers the history of New York City’s House of the Good Shepherd, the largest Magdalen asylum operating in Manhattan during the 19th century.

House of Genius Project

The House of Genius Project is part of a group digital project on Washington Square and Greenwich Village conducted by librarians in the Humanities and Social Sciences department of NYU's Bobst Library.

The Crane-Rychtarik Correspondence

This website represents a prototype for a digital edition of the Crane-Rychtarik correspondence held by Fales Library and Special Collections. It features high-resolution facsimiles of the letters exchanged between the modernist poet and set designer, as well as transcriptions, metadata,

Irish Speakers and the Empire City

Irish Speakers & the Empire City is a collaborative endeavor to try to identify and record the household information of residents of New York City born in Ireland who claimed Irish (Gaelic) as their mother tongue on the 1910 census.