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The Greater Astoria Historical Society is the repository for the broader Long Island City’s documents and has continued to expand our services to its neighborhood community. More than 50,000 newspapers, maps, documents, and artifacts, as well as 150,000 photographs, are housed and preserved in our collection.
Greater Astoria Historical Society has one of the largest collection of historic photos of Queens and New York City postcards in the world. Browse our collection and take trip back in time – who knows what you might find?
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AQ Spectra makes available NYC’s urban fabric to the arts — its people, its neighborhoods, its stories. Novelists, movie and theatrical producers, graphic artists – for the entire range of creative activity we open the door for you to access the real New York.
Forgotten NY chronicles unnoticed aspects of the City the tourists never see: painted building ads, abandoned subway stations, out-of-the-way neighborhoods and more. Forgotten NY has been named one of Forbes’ Best City Blogs sites, and has been profiled in all of NYC’s daily newspapers.