Greenwich Village – 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. Wed, 06 Jun 2018 14:08:10 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 Downtown Archæologies https://newyorkscapes.org/project/downtown-archaeologies/ Wed, 06 Jun 2018 14:07:48 +0000 https://newyorkscapes.org/?post_type=project&p=796 A class project for the Spring 2018 “Media History of New York” Media, Culture, and Communication class taught by Moacir P. de Sá Pereira, _Downtown Archæologies_ makes use of the Fales Downtown Collection to try to generate a media archaeology of Downtown New York. Students were to find an artifact at the Downtown Collection or the Centro des Estudios Puertorriqueños at Hunter College and write…

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]]> House of Genius Project https://newyorkscapes.org/project/house-of-genius-project/ Thu, 30 Mar 2017 15:59:29 +0000 http://newyorkscapes.org/project/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. Amanda Watson, Arthur Tannenbaum, and Andrew H. Lee are exploring the history of the building known as the House of Genius that used to stand at 61 Washington Square South.

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