Founded in 1808, The Abyssinian Baptist Church in the City of New York is one of the oldest African-American Baptist churches in the United States. Housed in a landmark Gothic/Tudor building in Harlem, Abyssinian history is rich in worship, spiritual leadership, social activism and community service. Through more than 50 ministries, Abyssinian diligently seeks to fulfill its mission. For more information, click here.

A vibrant cultural center, the Alice Austen House is located in a Victorian Gothic Cottage, once the home of early American photographer Alice Austen. The museum presents changing exhibitions of Austen’s pioneering historic photographs and of contemporary photography, and provides educational and cultural programs. For more information, click here.

Our mission at the Alliance for Downtown New York is to provide service, advocacy, research and information to enhance the quality of life in Lower Manhattan and advance the vibrant neighborhood as a global model of a 21st century Central Business District. We support economic development, public safety, sanitation, transportation and strive to make Lower Manhattan an exciting, clean and safe place to live, work and play. For more information, click here.

The American-Scottish Foundation was established in 1956 as a bridge between Scotland and the United States. ASF seeks to strengthen and support the future of the Scottish American community, its heritage and cultural legacy through social, cultural, educational, and business activities. For more information, click here.

The Art Deco Society of New York is a non-profit organization that advocates for the appreciation, understanding, celebration, documentation, and preservation of Art Deco architecture, design, and culture in New York and around the world. For more information, click here.

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The Atlantic Avenue Business Improvement District (AABID) promotes the long-term economic development of Atlantic Avenue from Fourth Avenue to the Waterfront. We represent over 300 businesses in the thriving neighborhoods of Cobble Hill, Brooklyn Heights and Boerum Hill. For more information, click here.

Bard Graduate Center is devoted to the study of decorative arts, design history, and material culture through research, advanced degrees, exhibitions, publications, and events. The Center’s campus comprises a state-of-the-art academic programs building at 38 West 86th Street, the Gallery at 18 West 86th Street, and a residence hall at 410 West 58th Street. For more information, click here.

Since 2007, the Bowery Alliance of Neighbors has worked to preserve, protect, and celebrate the Bowery’s unique architectural and historical fabric. Our goal is to raise consciousness about the street and effect protections to halt the displacement of its residents, small businesses and historic character. For more information, click here.

The Bowne House was built ca. 1661, when New York was under Dutch rule. Over the course of 300 years, the family left its mark on American culture - starting with John Bowne’s courageous defense of religious freedom in 1662 and continuing with subsequent generations’ participation in the Underground Railroad. The Bowne House Historical Society was founded in 1945 by a group of local Flushing residents to open the house to the public as a museum. For more information, click here.

The British Consulate General in New York maintains and develops relations between the UK and the USA. Our work involves a wide range of political, commercial, cultural, security and economic interests to the UK and our region. For more information, click here.

The Bronx County Historical Society (BCHS), founded in 1955, is a non-profit educational and cultural institution. It is dedicated to the collection, preservation, documentation, and public interpretation of the history of The Bronx and lower Westchester County from its earliest human habitation by indigenous peoples through the present. For more information, click here.

Founded by the Women’s Housing and Economic Development Corporation (WHEDco), the Bronx Music Heritage Center is committed to preserving and promoting Bronx music, cultivating Bronx artists, spurring neighborhood revival, and providing free cultural programs for the community. For more information, click here.

Brooklyn Botanic Garden is an urban botanic garden that connects people to the world of plants, fostering delight and curiosity while inspiring an appreciation and sense of stewardship of the environment. In the Garden, in its community, and well beyond, BBG inspires people of all ages through the conservation, display, and enjoyment of plants; with educational programs that emphasize learning by doing; and with research focused on understanding and conserving regional plants and plant communities. For more information, click here.

The mission of the BHA is to engage the Brooklyn Heights community in maintaining and improving the quality of life in our neighborhood. The BHA is the organized voice of the Heights. We work to preserve our historic buildings, protect the views, and advocate for thoughtful urban planning. For more information, click here.

Brooklyn Public Library is among the borough’s most democratic civic institutions, serving patrons in every neighborhood and from every walk of life. Established in 1896, it is one of the nation’s largest public library systems, with more than 850,000 active cardholders. With a branch library within a half-mile of most of Brooklyn’s 2.7 million residents. BPL is a recognized leader in cultural offerings, literacy, out-of-school-time services, workforce development programs, and digital literacy. For more information, click here.

A national and NYC landmark, Carnegie Hall first opened its doors in 1891. Its mission is to present extraordinary music and musicians on the three stages of this legendary hall, to bring the transformative power of music to the widest possible audience, to provide visionary education programs, and to foster the future of music through the cultivation of new works, artists, and audiences. Carnegie Hall also supports educational activities throughout the city and beyond through its Weill Music Institute. For more information, click here.

For more than 50 years, Carnegie Hill Neighbors has worked to preserve the residential character and architectural heritage of Carnegie Hill. We endeavor to enhance the neighborhood with quality of life programs addressing beautification and security; to educate residents about topics ranging from environmental issues to the architectural styles in the neighborhood; and to address challenges to the community. For more information, click here.

The Center for Jewish History in New York City provides a collaborative home for five partner organizations: American Jewish Historical Society, American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, Yeshiva University Museum, and YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. The partners’ archives comprise the world’s largest and most comprehensive archive of the modern Jewish experience outside of Israel. Its contents span five thousand years, with more than five miles of archival documents, more than 500,000 volumes, and thousands of artworks, artifacts, and recordings. For more information, click here.

Christodora has served under-resourced communities across New York City for over a hundred years. Founded in 1897 as a pioneering nonsectarian settlement house, Christodora’s modest beginnings are credited for launching the career of social reformer Harry L. Hopkins, adviser to Franklin D. Roosevelt and architect of the New Deal programs, hosting George Gershwin’s first public concert in 1914 and helping countless Americans adjust to life in a new country. For more information, click here.

Founded in 1981, the mission of CIVITAS is to foster, mobilize, and coordinate civic concern in the waterfront communities of Manhattan’s Upper East Side and East Harlem. To that end, CIVITAS seeks to promote, preserve and protect existing residential neighborhoods that are lively and livable. For more information, click here.

Led by Maestro Steven Fox, and composed of the Clarion Choir, one of the country’s leading professional vocal ensembles, and the Clarion Orchestra, Clarion Music Society has performed on some of the great stages of North America and Europe. The Clarion Orchestra was founded in 1957 by conductor and musicologist Newell Jenkins. Clarion was one of the first period ensembles with a concert series in the United States. For more information, click here.

Since 1958, the Cobble Hill Association (CHA) has been a non-profit, volunteer-run organization dedicated to preserving, protecting, and enhancing the quality of life in this unique urban neighborhood. CHA sponsors social and cultural events, including concerts in the park and the Halloween parade, and serves as a vigorous advocate for Cobble Hill with elected officials, city agencies, real estate developers, public and private institutions, and others. It has overseen the designation of Cobble Hill as a NYC Historic District; and developed the Cobble Hill park. For more information, click here.

Crown Heights North Association is a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the Crown Heights North Historic District, designated in 2007. The district includes approximately 470 buildings that were constructed between the 1850s and the 1930s; many were designed by prominent Brooklyn architects in styles ranging from the Romanesque Revival and Queen Anne to Georgian and Renaissance Revival. For more information, click here.

CUNY TV is the City University of New York’s 24-hour television station and is New York’s leading public educational channel. Established in 1985, CUNY TV is committed to extending CUNY’s academic mission to connect and uplift the diverse experiences of New York communities through relevant and meaningful stories, and to offer lifelong learning opportunities to all New Yorkers. CUNY TV is overseen by Interim Executive Director Chiqui Cartagena a 30-year veteran of media, marketing and commercial television production. For more information, click here.

With more than 800 public monuments in our permanent collection, and dozens of works of outdoor temporary works of public art exhibited every year, New York City’s parks are New York City’s greatest public gallery. For more information on our public art, monuments and conservation, and the Arsenal Gallery, click here.

The Dorrance Brooks Property Owners and Residents Association (DBPORA) was formed as a nonprofit, Harlem-based community organization. DBPORA is dedicated to preserving the neighborhood’s rich cultural history and its unique architectural structures. The organization partners with community organizations, local elected officials and agencies, law enforcement, and educational institutions to achieve shared goals. For more information, click here.

The mission of the Douglaston and Little Neck Historical Society, Inc. is to publicize, preserve, and protect the historical significance of Douglaston and Little Neck, adjacent nature preserves, and those other sections or buildings of the two neighborhoods worthy of preservation. Formed in January, 1989, DLNHS led the effort to have the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission create the Douglaston Historic District (designated in 1997), and the Douglaston Hill Historic District (designated in 2004). For more information, click here.

DUMBO Neighborhood Alliance, founded in 1997, is a volunteer, not-for-profit organization. DNA is DUMBO’s advocate for historic preservation and the NYC Loft Law in DUMBO. Our mission is to ensure the preservation of our significant historic waterfront neighborhood, buildings, and public spaces. We work as an advocate for thoughtful urban planning, and help to promote safety and security on our streets. For more information, click here.

The last farmhouse in Manhattan, this Dutch Colonial style structure was built c. 1784. Home to the Dyckman family for almost a century, it opened as a museum in 1916 and continues to serve the community in a half-acre park. It is an extraordinary reminder of early Manhattan and an important part of its diverse Inwood neighborhood. The mission of DFMA is to support the preservation of the historic site, to be a catalyst for engaging, adventuresome programming, and to be a good neighbor and a dynamic resource for the community. For more information, click here.

The 300 East 25th St block, often referred to as the "Greenest Block", serves as a beacon of tranquility in the East Flatbush community. The proposed historic district includes a total of 56 Neo-Renaissance limestone and brownstone row-houses on East 25th St between Clarendon Road and Avenue D. This block has remained intact with century old facades and creative front gardens, which provides a strong “sense of place”. For more information, click here.

The Fiske Terrace Association is one of the oldest and most active groups in Brooklyn dedicated to the preservation of the neighborhood. Located between the old Long Island Railroad tracks and the BMT subway line, the tranquil Fiske Terrace neighborhood is an oasis within New York City. Hundreds of trees and flowering shrubs still grace well-maintained malls along Glenwood Road and East 17th Street. For more information, click here.

In 1983, internationally renowned flamenco and Spanish dance artist and educator Carlota Santana co-founded Flamenco Vivo with Roberto Lorca. Following his death from AIDS in 1987, and in the decades since, she has led Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana’s growth as one of this country’s most successful flamenco companies, with a mission to promote flamenco as a living art form and a vital part of Hispanic heritage. For more information, click here.

The mission of Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts (FCCA) is to present multi-disciplinary global arts that engage and educate the global communities of Queens, New York and New York City. As advocates of arts equity since 1979, we support local, immigrant, national, and international artists, developing partnerships and collaborations that enhance our efforts. We also serve as stewards of Flushing Town Hall, restoring, managing and programming the historic 1862 landmark on behalf of the City of New York. For more information, click here.

Four Freedoms Park Conservancy programs Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park to the highest standard. As founder of this extraordinary civic space designed by Louis I. Kahn, the Conservancy advances President Roosevelt’s legacy and inspires, educates, and engages the public in the ideals of the Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. For more information, click here.

Internationally recognized as a premier museum and research center, the Frick is known for its distinguished Old Master paintings and outstanding examples of European sculpture and decorative arts. Its mission is to preserve and display for the public the Frick Collection. For more information, click here.

The Friends of Terra Cotta, Inc., a national, non-profit organization, was founded to promote education and research in the preservation of architectural terra cotta and related ceramic materials. The organization seeks to educate the general public and construction industry professionals about architectural terra cotta's value and history as a building material. For more information, click here.

The Fulton Ferry Landing Association was formed in 1988. A volunteer-run community organization, our mission is to preserve the historic character and architecture of Fulton Ferry Landing; maintain and improve the quality of life for those who live and work in the area, and promote comprehensive contextual planning in the continued development of this unique area and adjacent historic communities. For more information, click here.

Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts, founded in 1982, is an independent, not-for-profit membership organization dedicated to preserving and celebrating the architectural legacy, livability, and sense of place of the Upper East Side. For more information, click here.

The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York (GSMT) provides for the education of those in the crafts and building trades, disseminates literary and scientific knowledge through lectures, maintains a cultural and educational resource center for those in manual, technical, craft and creative occupations, and provides operating space for similar non-profit organizations whose goals are to preserve and promote the arts, culture, and history. In addition, the Society preserves and maintains its landmarked building, now on the National Register of Historic Places. For more information, click here.

Greater Astoria Historical Society, founded in 1985, is the place to learn and celebrate Long Island City and its neighborhoods. Through education programs, exhibitions, the research library, our historic sites, and special events, GAHS offers New Yorkers and visitors to Queens a chance to connect with the heritage of the borough of Queens. For more information, click here.

Hamilton Grange National Memorial, maintained by the National Park Service, preserves the home of Alexander Hamilton, completed in 1802. While New York City changed drastically around the home, it preserves the legacy of Alexander Hamilton and his role in founding the United States. The restored home is now open for visits and lies on a three-acre plot of land within St. Nicholas Park. Visitors may access its outdoor grounds, or the interior of the home. For more information, click here.

Henry Street Settlement’s mission is to open doors of opportunity for Lower East Side residents and other New Yorkers through social services, arts, and health care programs. To meet our neighbors’ needs, we offer more than 50 programs to people of all ages through our Abrons Arts Center/Visual and Performing Arts, Employment, Education, Sports & Recreation, Senior Services, Health & Wellness, and Transitional & Supportive Housing divisions. We encourage you to visit our program pages to learn more. For information, click here.

Built on a historic, elevated rail line, and once slated for demolition, the High Line is both a nonprofit organization and a public park on the West Side of Manhattan. Through our work with communities on and off the High Line, we are devoted to reimagining the role public spaces have in creating connected, healthy neighborhoods and cities. It is a global inspiration for cities to transform unused industrial zones into dynamic public spaces. For more information, click here.

The Hispanic Society Museum & Library was founded in 1904 with the mission to collect, preserve, study, exhibit, stimulate appreciation for, and advance knowledge of, works directly related to the arts, literature, and history of Spanish and Portuguese-speaking world. The collections address nearly every aspect of culture in these areas from antiquity through the 21th century. The Hispanic Society is committed to engaging diverse audiences with programs serving the public interest. For more information, click here.

The Historic Districts Council (HDC) is the advocate for all of New York City’s historic neighborhoods. Our mission is to ensure the preservation of significant historic neighborhoods, buildings and public spaces in New York City, uphold the integrity of New York City’s Landmarks Law, and further the preservation ethic. We work directly with people who care about our city’s historic neighborhoods and buildings, and represent a constituency of over 500 local community organizations across all five boroughs. For more information, click here.

On June 19, 1989, the Historic House Trust of New York City was established. Today, HHT’s collection has grown to 23 historic sites across the five boroughs, ranging from modest cottages to grand manor houses. The sites now thrive as cultural institutions that represent New York City’s colorful history and attract hundreds of thousands of visitors annually, many of whom are local schoolchildren. Located on city parkland, these sites are publicly owned and open to all, and are instrumental in creating a distinct sense of place for their surrounding neighborhoods. For more information, click here.

Historic Richmond Town interprets and restores a living history village, operates a historical museum, and collects and preserves material culture to inspire engagement with and understanding of the diverse histories of Staten Island. As Staten Island's largest and oldest cultural institution, Historic Richmond Town possesses some of the most celebrated and storied historical items of American history. There are more than 100,000 artifacts, photographs, and archival collections from different time periods, and the total number of individual objects in our care is close to a million! Housing our collections are original historic structures dating back as far as the 1660s. For more information, click here.

Ever since our first downbeat as a summer concert series in 1987, Jazz at Lincoln Center has shared America’s music with an ever-growing audience of jazz fans from around the world. We seek to represent the totality of jazz music—educationally, curatorially, archivally, and ceremonially. Led by Wynton Marsalis, Managing and Artistic Director, and Greg Scholl, Executive Director, the mission of Jazz at Lincoln Center is to entertain, enrich and expand a global community for jazz through performance, education, and advocacy. For more information, click here.

For more than a century, the Jewish Museum has illuminated art and Jewish culture from ancient times to the present, offering intellectually engaging and educational exhibitions and programs for people of all ages and backgrounds. Designed in the French Gothic chateau-style by architect Charles P.H. Gilbert, the original building (designated an individual NYC landmark in 1981) was completed in 1908, and has been the home of the Museum since 1947. For more information, click here.

In 2009, the Lamartine Place Historic District, located in Chelsea, was designated thanks to the advocacy of local citizens. These row houses have a distinctive and remarkable history, and are connected with important events in the 1850s and 1860s. One house in the district, 339 West 29th Street, was a documented “safe house” on the Underground Railroad, where noted Quaker abolitionists Abigail Hopper Gibbons and her husband, James Sloan Gibbons lived. Runaway slaves found sanctuary in the Gibbons’ home on their escape route to Canada. For more information, click here.

LANDMARK WEST! is dedicated to building an inclusive community and championing a positive neighborhood quality of life for the Upper West Side of Manhattan. We are an architecture, arts, and culture non-profit that has achieved landmark status for individual buildings and historic districts since 1985. We engage in extensive education outreach, diverse programming and wide-ranging research and preservation advocacy to continue to protect and celebrate our unique historic environment. For more information, click here.

Founded in 1988 by historian Ruth Abram and social activist Anita Jacobson, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum explores the uniquely American story of immigration and the rich, diverse landscape it continues to create. We explore stories of tenement dwellers through guided tours of two historic buildings, 97 and 103 Orchard Street, and their Lower East Side neighborhood. These immersive trips back in time offer a chance to explore identity, public policy, urban development, architecture, and other themes from the perspective of the ordinary families who lived in these iconic buildings and the people in the neighborhood. For more information, click here.

Through public education programs and exhibitions, restoration of its 1832 landmark building, and conservation of its original collections, the Museum tells the story of the domestic life of a wealthy merchant family and their four Irish servants, from 1835 to 1865, when the mercantile seaport of New York City emerged as a growing metropolis and the commercial emporium of America. Considered one of the finest surviving examples of domestic architecture from the period, the 1832 late-Federal and Greek Revival Merchant’s House is a designated landmark on the federal, state, and city level. In New York City, it was the first building designated in the borough of Manhattan following the passing of the Landmarks Preservation law in April 1965. For more information, click here.

The mission of The Morgan Library & Museum is to preserve, build, study, present, and interpret a collection of extraordinary quality, in order to stimulate enjoyment, excite the imagination, advance learning, and nurture creativity. A global institution focused on the European and American traditions, the Morgan houses one of the world's foremost collections of manuscripts, rare books, music, drawings, and ancient and other works of art. These holdings, which represent the legacy of Pierpont Morgan and numerous later benefactors, comprise a unique and dynamic record of civilization, as well as an incomparable repository of ideas and of the creative process. For more information, click here.

MHCC is committed to protecting and improving our neighborhood. We want to limit real estate overdevelopment, expand opportunities for affordable housing, and keep our neighborhood real and vibrant. We enthusiastically invite participation by community members and seek active partnerships locally. To learn more about the issues in which we engage and get involved, click here.

As Manhattan’s oldest surviving residence, the Morris-Jumel Mansion, built in 1765, preserves, collects, and interprets history, culture, and the arts to explore inclusive narratives that engage and inspire diverse audiences. One of the nation’s foremost historic house museums, Morris-Jumel Mansion, located in Upper Manhattan, empowers audiences to create relevant contemporary connections to the histories of the Mansion, its collections, the land, and its people, past and present. For more information, click here.

Mott Haven Historic Districts Association advocates for three historic districts: Mott Haven, Mott Haven East and the Bertine Block, all of which boast beautiful and intact rowhouses, as well as historic houses of worship. For more information, click here.

The Mount Morris Park Community Improvement Association, founded in 1981, is dedicated to preserving and revitalizing our Historic District and beyond, fostering an environment of open and active opportunities, and reflecting the spectrum of voices, ideas and opinions of those who share the neighborhood. MMPCIA accomplishes this mission by collaborating with individuals and organizations who have the resources to help the Association implement research, development and training programs in such areas as housing preservation and rehabilitation, business and employment, safety and security, recreation and culture, youth development, education and municipal service delivery. For more information, click here.

The Municipal Art Society (MAS) was established in 1893, by Richard Morris Hunt and other civic activists, with a founding mission to beautify New York with public art. Throughout its first century, the organization expanded its mission to include the city’s buildings, streetscapes, and public spaces, with the aim of bringing the voice of the public into the debates that impact the lives of New Yorkers. For 125 years, MAS has worked to educate and inspire New Yorkers to engage in the betterment of our city. For more information, click here.

The Murray Hill Neighborhood Association is dedicated to preserving, beautifying and improving Manhattan’s historic Murray Hill neighborhood. While there is no formal boundary for the neighborhood, the area served by The Murray Hill Neighborhood Association and its sister organization the Manhattan East Community Association (MECA) extends from Fifth Avenue eastward to the East River and from 42nd Street down to 26th Street (encompassing the 10016 postal code). The Landmarks Preservation Commission has designated several blocks between 38th Street and 35th Street as a historic district, and many buildings are designated as individual landmarks. A large portion of Murray Hill has also been recognized by the The National Register of Historic Places. For more information, click here.

The mission of the Museum at Eldridge Street is to restore and preserve the National Historic Landmark 1887 Eldridge Street Synagogue and to provide cultural and educational programs that serve a broad public. Today the Museum at Eldridge Street welcomes visitors from around the world. Tours, school programs, concerts, talks, festivals, and other cultural events reinforce the building’s original purpose as a sanctuary and community center. The Museum’s one-of-a-kind historic building is a time capsule, a portal, and a lens through which contemporary visitors can experience history. For more information, click here.

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The Museum of the City of New York fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world’s most influential metropolis. It engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city’s past, present, and future. Today the Museum’s collection contains approximately 750,000 objects, including prints, photographs, decorative arts, costumes, paintings, sculpture, toys, and theatrical memorabilia. For more information, click here.

Established in 1891, the New York Botanical Garden is an advocate for the plant world. The Garden pursues its mission through its role as a museum of living plant collections arranged in gardens and landscapes across its National Historic Landmark site; through its comprehensive education programs in horticulture and plant science; and through the wide-ranging research programs of the International Plant Science Center. For more information, click here.

New York City Tourism + Conventions is the official destination marketing organization (DMO) and convention and visitors bureau (CVB) for the five boroughs of NYC. Our mission is to invite the world and energize the City, building equitable, sustainable economic prosperity and community through tourism for the mutual benefit of residents, businesses and visitors. For more information, click here.

New York School of Interior Design is a private, not-for-profit college devoted to the design of the interior environment. Our guiding principle is that the successful design of an interior space improves human welfare, and that the interior design profession assumes an important role in ensuring that spaces are beautiful, functional, healthy, safe, and built in a socially and environmentally conscientious way. For more information, click here.

The New York State Tourism Industry Association (NYSTIA) assists our members in advancing responsible economic growth, creating jobs, revitalizing communities, supporting small business success, and increasing state and local tax revenues in order to improve the standard of living, quality of life and pride of place for New York State communities and residents. We achieve these goals by facilitating the success of our members in realizing the economic potential of New York State's tourism industry as a catalyst for collaborative initiatives, exceptional marketing programs, industry research, and legislative awareness. For more information, click here.

Founded in 1979, Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater (aka Pregones/PRTT) is a multigenerational performing ensemble, multidiscipline arts presenter, and owner/steward of bilingual arts facilities in The Bronx and Manhattan. Our mission is to champion a Puerto Rican/Latinx cultural legacy of universal value through creation and performance of original plays and musicals, exchange and partnership with other artists of merit, and engagement of diverse audiences. For more information, click here.

Prospect Park Alliance is the non-profit organization that sustains “Brooklyn’s Backyard,” working in partnership with the City of New York. The Alliance was founded in 1987 to help restore the Park after a long period of deterioration and decline. Today, the Alliance provides critical staff and resources that keep the Park green and vibrant for the diverse communities that call Brooklyn home. The Alliance cares for the woodlands and natural areas, restores the Park’s buildings and landscapes, creates innovative Park destinations, and provides free or low-cost volunteer, education and recreation programs. For more information, click here.

The Public continues the work of its visionary founder Joe Papp as a civic institution engaging, both on-stage and off, with some of the most important ideas and social issues of today. Conceived over 60 years ago as one of the nation’s first nonprofit theaters, The Public has long operated on the principles that theater is an essential cultural force and that art and culture belong to everyone. The Public’s wide breadth of programming includes an annual season of new work at its landmark home at Astor Place, Free Shakespeare in the Park at The Delacorte Theater in Central Park, the Mobile Unit touring throughout New York City’s five boroughs, Public Works, Public Shakespeare Initiative, and Joe’s Pub. For more information, click here.

Queens County Farm Museum dates back to 1697 and occupies New York City’s largest remaining tract of undisturbed farmland. The farm is one of the longest continuously farmed sites in New York State. Queens County Farm connects visitors to agriculture and the environment through the lens of its 47-acre historic site, providing learning opportunities and creating conversations about biodiversity, nutrition, health and wellness, climate change and preserving local history. It is a vital and rare resource in an ever-changing, continually developing city, and beyond. For more information, click here.

Founded in 1972, the Queens Museum is located in the nation’s most culturally diverse county, on the grounds of the 1939-40 and 1964-65 New York World’s Fairs, and in a building that formerly housed the United Nations from 1946 to 1950. The Queens Museum is dedicated to presenting high quality arts and educational programming for the people of New York, and particularly the residents of Queens. The Museum’s work honors the history of our site and the diversity of our communities through a wide ranging and integrated program of exhibitions, educational initiatives, and public events. For more information, click here.

The Richmond Hill Historical Society was established in 1997 as an independent, not-for-profit community based organization to preserve the past and promote the future of Richmond Hill. Richmond Hill was founded in 1868 as a planned community by wealthy attorney Albon Platt Man who purchased 400 acres of farmland and plots and had the streets laid out by landscape architect Edward Richmond. In 2019, through our efforts, part of North Richmond Hill was designated a Historic District by the State & National Register of Historic Places. For more information, click here.

St. Bartholomew’s Conservancy was established for the purpose of helping fund the restoration and preservation of the architecturally and historically significant site that is St. Bartholomew’s Church and Community House -- a celebrated New York City landmark and cherished destination for visitors from across the country and around the world.

The Conservancy is dedicated to raising public and private funds for the site’s much-needed restoration and preservation. By helping bring these remarkable architectural features back to life, the Conservancy also seeks to heighten public awareness of the importance of preserving historic buildings and open space in densely populated urban areas. For more information, click here.

Sandy Ground is the oldest free black settlement in the nation with descendants of the founding settlers still living, and was a stop on the Underground Railroad. The Sandy Ground Historical Society Museum conducts ongoing research and preserves the history of the Sandy Ground community and African American history. For more information, click here.

Save Harlem Now! is dedicated to protecting, preserving, and celebrating Harlem’s irreplaceable heritage. Save Harlem Now! advocates for the designation of individual landmarks and historic districts in Harlem, for contextual zoning in Harlem, and educates the public about Harlem’s built heritage, history, and culture. For more information, click here.

The Skyscraper Museum celebrates the City's rich architectural heritage and examines the historical forces and individuals that have shaped its successive skylines. Through exhibitions, programs, and publications, the Museum explores tall buildings as objects of design, products of technology, sites of construction, investments in real estate, and places of work and residence. The facility contains two main galleries: one for the core exhibit Skyscraper/City on the evolution of New York's commercial skyline, another for changing shows. The Museum has also begun the process of collecting and preserving important artifacts of high-rise history, organizing an active education program, and celebrating New York's rich architectural heritage. For more information, click here.

Founded in 1901, the Society of Illustrators is the oldest nonprofit organization dedicated to the art of illustration in America. The many notable Society members include N.C. Wyeth, Rube Goldberg, and Norman Rockwell. Our Museum of Illustration was established in 1981. We offer year-round themed exhibits, art education programs and annual juried competitions. Our Permanent Collection houses 2,500 pieces that are cataloged for scholarly use and displayed periodically. In 2012, we created the MoCCA Gallery with a focus on curated exhibits of comic and cartoon art. For more information, click here.

Founded in 1881, the Staten Island Museum engages visitors with interdisciplinary exhibitions, public programs, and educational activities for all ages. It is the mission of the Staten Island Museum to spark curiosity and generate meaningful shared experiences through natural science, art, and history to deepen understanding of our environment, ourselves, and each other. For more information, click here.

The Studio Museum in Harlem is the nexus for artists of African descent locally, nationally, and internationally, and for work that has been inspired and influenced by Black culture. Born out of urgent need amid the political, social, and cultural ferment of the late 1960s, the Studio Museum in Harlem was founded by a diverse group of artists, community activists, and philanthropists who came together to address the near-complete exclusion of artists of African descent from mainstream museums, commercial art galleries, academic institutions, and scholarly publications. For more information, click here.

Stuyvesant Square Park, uniquely bisected by Second Avenue between East 15th and East 17th Streets in Manhattan, is the center of one of the most handsome and historic neighborhoods in New York City. SPNA was formed to maintain, develop, preserve and improve the park, playground and similar recreational facilities, and to maintain and preserve the residential character of the neighborhood through community improvement programs. For more information, click here.

Symphony Space is a multi-disciplinary performing arts center where bold programming, presented in a uniquely warm and welcoming environment, forges indelible relationships between artists and audiences. Our fundamental mission is to connect art, ideas, and community through our programs and our commitment to literacy and education through the arts. On our New York City stages, through our national broadcasts, and in the classrooms and communities we serve throughout the country, we foster access to the arts through all the disciplines. For more information, click here.

Located along New York’s storied Fifth Avenue, Temple Emanu-El stands as one of the city’s preeminent architectural, cultural and religious landmarks. Emanu-El’s history dates back to the founding of the congregation in 1845 by a small group of German-Jewish immigrants who settled in the Lower East Side of New York City. As the congregation increased in size and affluence, its leadership opted to move worship services to larger and grander sites further uptown. In the mid-1920s, Emanu-El Congregation consolidated with Temple Beth-El, and construction of the magnificent site at Fifth Avenue and 65th Street was begun in 1927. Work was completed two years later. For more information, click here.

The Point Community Development Corporation is dedicated to youth development and the cultural and economic revitalization of the Hunts Point section of the South Bronx. Celebrating over 25 years of service, The Point offers a multi-faceted approach to asset-based community development. Its programming falls within three main headings all aimed at the comprehensive revitalization of the Hunts Point community: Youth Development, Arts and Culture, and Community Development. For more information, click here.

The Tin Pan Alley American Popular Music Project commemorates and invigorates a living legacy: the birthplace of American Popular Music and the modern music industry on West 28th Street in New York City. In 2019, Tin Pan Alley became an official New York City landmark with the designation of 47-55 West 28th Street by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, following years of advocacy by the Tin Pan Alley Project and others. By telling the stories of those who created a new sound and industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, we connect people with the power of music and diversity as essential elements of the culture of New York City and America. For more information, click here.

The mission of the Treadwell Farm Historic District Association is to preserve and promote the residential character, architectural integrity, and historical beauty of this landmarked designated district in New York City. We work together as neighbors, with help from local city and state officials and other community groups, to maintain the safety and beauty of our neighborhood and to prevent or correct any violations, should they occur. We seek to benefit all members of the Association, and to maintain a safe and beautiful environment for all. For more information, click here.

The Ukrainian Institute of America, Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the art, music and literature of Ukraine and the Ukrainian diaspora. It serves both as a center for the Ukrainian-American community and as America’s “Window on Ukraine,” hosting art exhibits, concerts, film screenings, poetry readings, literary evenings, children’s programs, lectures, symposia, and full educational programs, all open to the public. For more information, click here.

Villa Albertine, a new French institution for arts and ideas in the United States, builds on the bold and innovative programs that have been the hallmark of the French cultural network abroad for more than a century. Created by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, and supported by the French Ministry of Culture, Villa Albertine offers a novel artists’ residency model in which residents choose the location best suited to their work within the host country. For more information, click here.

Founded in 1980, Village Preservation works to document, celebrate, and preserve the special architectural and cultural heritage of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo. Village Preservation has successfully advocated for the landmark designation of more than 1,250 buildings in our neighborhoods, and has helped secure zoning protections for nearly 100 blocks. Each day we monitor more than 6,500 building lots and the more than 3,000 landmarked properties in our neighborhood, for demolition, alteration, or new construction permits. We also report and advocate for appropriate resolution of landmarks and zoning violations, to help protect these special built environments and their character. For more information, click here.

Since its founding as a public garden in 1965, Wave Hill has evolved as a unique urban oasis, world-class garden, and vital resource. Its mission is to celebrate the artistry and legacy of its gardens and landscapes, to preserve its magnificent views, and to explore human connections to the natural world through programs in horticulture, education and the arts. For more information, click here.

Weeksville Heritage Center is an historic site and cultural center in Central Brooklyn that uses education, arts and a social justice lens to preserve, document and inspire engagement with the history of Weeksville, and the Historic Hunterfly Road Houses. Our vision is to research, explore and disseminate the history of Weeksville, one of the largest free Black communities in pre-Civil War America, and other 19th-and early-20th century free Black communities, and to support the modern-day artistic, intellectual and social justice imperatives they exemplify and inspire. For more information, click here.

The non-profit Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, aka WAH Center, is a multifaceted, multicultural art center whose mission is to coalesce the diverse artistic community of Williamsburg and beyond, and create a global bridge between local, national and international artists, emerging, mid-career and established artists, and artists of all disciplines. For more information, click here.