4/2011. All remaining content was loaded into the system and made available to the public. This included brochures from the Bronx, Queens, Staten Island and other areas outside NYC. This completes this phase of the New York Real Estate Brochures project.
6/2010. Material from the Borough of Manhattan was loaded in and brought online. See press release.
5/2010. The received the Worldwide Books Award for
Electronic Resources at the 38th annual meeting of Art Libraries Society of North
America (ARLIS/NA). See press release.
10/14/2009. The Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library and the Libraries Digital Program Division (LDPD) launched the first phase of the New York Real Estate Brochures online collection: http://nyre.cul.columbia.edu/
The New York Real Estate Brochure Collection was donated to Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library by Yale Robbins, Henry Robbins, and David Magier in 1986. The collection consists of over 9,200 advertising brochures, floor plans, price lists, and related materials that document residential and commercial real estate development in the five boroughs of New York and outlying vicinities from the 1920s to the 1970s.
This current release includes 3,000 items from Brooklyn and is browsable by architect, owner/agent, building name/address, or neighborhood. All buildings have been geo-coded and plotted to Google maps. Materials related to other New York boroughs will be released incrementally throughout the year; the collection will eventually include more than 9,200 items and 27,000 images.
This project is made possible by the commitment of time, expertise, effort and talents from across the Libraries’ units. Many thanks to all the contributing units and personnel (past and present) who made this project possible:
- Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library: Gerald Beasley, Kitty Chibnik, Carole Ann Fabian, Claudia Funke, Erin Schreiner
- Electronic Data Service: Jeremiah Trinidad-Christensen
- Libraries Digital Program Division: Stephen Davis, Roberta Blitz, Joanna DiPasquale, Stuart Marquis
- Libraries Preservation and Digital Conversion Division: Lindsay Anderberg, Emily Holmes, David Ortiz
- Consultants & student assistants: Danielle F. D'Onfro, Nicolas Favaro, Veronica Montvalvo, Dwight Primiano, Jared Spencer
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