Exhibition – NewYorkScapes https://newyorkscapes.org NewYorkScapes is a research community dedicated to exploring the literary, historical, and social aspects of the city of New York using digital forms of scholarship. Sat, 19 Sep 2020 19:57:34 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 Digital Downtown https://newyorkscapes.org/project/digital-downtown/ Sat, 19 Sep 2020 12:29:20 +0000 https://newyorkscapes.org/?post_type=project&p=1618 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. With a focus on the late twentieth-century underground arts scenes of SoHo and the Lower East Side, the Downtown Collection holds a wealth of unique…

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]]> REPOhistory and the Lower Manhattan Sign Project https://newyorkscapes.org/project/repohistory/ Thu, 25 Oct 2018 02:37:04 +0000 https://newyorkscapes.org/?post_type=project&p=824 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 REPOhistory’s LMSP was to reveal absent or missing historical narratives, which also commented on contemporary social issues…

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