Gotham Center Blogs and Podcasts Now on Urban Archive

The Gotham Center is pleased to announce that its award-nominated podcast series Sites and Sounds, and select material from its well-recognized digital semiweekly, Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City History, will now be available on Urban Archive.

The non-profit, a web- and iOS-based platform, began in 2016 as an experiment with the Museum of the City of New York, Brooklyn Historical Society, and New York Public Library, designed to breath new life into archives by using digital technology to engage users in the history of their surroundings. Since then, the organization has mapped almost 100,000 photographs at nearly 35,000 locations, throughout New York City, in collaboration with more than fifty organizations.

The Gotham Center will be uploading more than thirty-five podcasts from Sites and Sounds, its yearly series for Open House New York Weekend, and select material from the roughly 400 articles it has published on Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City History, to the Urban Archive platforms.

Users will be given excerpts about the locations they are investigating, with links to the full articles, providing greater background and references. “The result, we hope, will be a powerful tool for public education, helping us get our scholars’ work — already read by thousands every week — into the hands of new, larger audiences,” said Peter-Christian Aigner, The Gotham Center’s Director. “We’re delighted to be partnering with this wonderful organization.”