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Above: Riders read their morning newspapers on New York's subway en route to work, on April 1, 1963 after the end of the city's 114-day newspaper strike; Courtesy of AP Photo/Jacob Harris

NYPAP News

Apply for the 2025 Jeffe Fellowship

December 19, 2024

Founded in 1998, the New York Preservation Archive Project is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to documenting, preserving, celebrating, and educating…

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Shelby White & Leon Levy Archival Assistance Initiative Grant Reunion

December 12, 2024

On October 24, 2024, the Archive Project hosted a reunion for recipients of the Shelby White & Leon Levy Archival…

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How El Bohío Became a New York City Landmark

December 12, 2024

By Katie Heiserman “There Is No School Design Like P.S. 64”  Built from 1904 to 1906, the former P.S. 64…

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“A Dog With a Bone:” New Wood Book Reveals Bard’s Secret Passion

December 12, 2024

By Adrian Untermyer, Archive Project Board Member “Bard had the tenacity of a dog with a bone,” concludes Wood. Ugliness…

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Announcing the 2024 Shelby White & Leon Levy Archival Assistance Initiative Grant Awardees

August 1, 2024

By Emily R. Kahn, Executive Director The time has come to announce the third cohort of Shelby White & Leon…

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Board Member Spotlight: Matt Dellinger

May 30, 2024

By Matt Dellinger I joined the board of the New York Preservation Archive Project just over a year ago, after…

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Frances Goldin and the Moses Threat to Cooper Square

May 30, 2024

By Katie Heiserman, Jeffe Fellow “When Robert Moses came to the Lower East Side, we were really ready for him….

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Preservation Spotlight: Historical Society of the New York Courts

May 30, 2024

By Adrian Untermyer, Board Member New York’s courts are in the business of making preservation history. From hosting two “trials…

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The Archive Project Squared: Looking Inwards at Our Institutional Archives

May 30, 2024

By Caroline Williams, Project Archivist My experience with the New York Preservation Archive Project began in my hometown of Baltimore,…

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Application Now Open for 2024 Round of the Shelby White & Leon Levy Archival Assistance Initiative Grants

March 7, 2024
Katie Heiserman, Jeffe Fellow

  The New York Preservation Archive Project is pleased to announce that the application for the 2024 Shelby White & Leon…

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