Jonathan Soffer, Professor of History, NYU Tandon School of Engineering Project Director


NYU Tandon School of Engineering

The City Record Project, which currently hosts the New York City Record from its first volume in 1873 to 1949 is a research project of the Department of Technology, Culture & Society, Professors Jonathan Soffer, Luke DuBois, Dana Karwas, and Professor Donald Davis, Ragnar Nurkse Professor of Economics at Columbia University. We have received our initial support from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and cooperation, data, and in kind support from Capalino + Company, New York University, Columbia University, the New York City Department of Records and Information Services, Pauline Toole, Commissioner, and the New York Public Library, which is serving as the repository of the original .tiff files.

We are looking for funding to complete the collection.

In addition we would like to thank:

Elton Kwok

Sun Kyung Lee

Nancy Friedland

Srishti Kush