Upcoming Free Zoom Presentation
Wednesday, September 22, 2021 at 630pm "The 97th Street Greenmarket: Changes and Challenges" The first day of autumn is when the early fall harvest is at its height, when pumpkins and squashes and apples begin to show up at the city’s greenmarkets. We figured this was the perfect time for a program about the greenmarket movement. The program that the BNHG has organized begins with an overview of the movement, how it began and how it keeps growing and adapting to changing times. To give you an understanding of the upper west side’s place in the farmers market movement, we’ve invited Margaret Hoffman, Greenmarket regional coordinator, to tell the story of the West 97th Street market, one of the most popular and longest- running greenmarkets in the city. A free Zoom link will appear on this site shortly before the event. More information at UPCOMING EVENTS. Upcoming Free Zoom Presention
Save the Date: Monday, October 18 at 630pm 
Join us via Zoom for a talk on New York place names by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro. He is the author of Names of New York: Discovering the City’s Past, Present and Future Through Its Place-Names. Focusing on the Upper West Side, he will recount the fascinating history behind the naming of our streets, neighborhoods, parks and water bodies. More information to follow.
Upcoming Free Zoom Presention
Save the Date: Wednesday, December 1 at 630pm 
Join us via Zoom for a talk by Louis L. Picone, author of Grant’s Tomb: The Epic Death of Ulysses S. Grant and the Making of An American Pantheon. Learn about the General’s final years and the fascinating story of the creation of Grant’s Tomb right in our neighborhood. More information to follow.
 Jim Mackin
Free Walking Tours of Historic Bloomingdale
Sunday, October 3rd at 2pm from Straus Park. W.106th Street and Broadway Explore the history of the Upper West Side between W. 96th and W. 110th Streets Led by renowned local historian, Jim Mackin More Information at our UPCOMING EVENTS page To receive email notification of upcoming monthly presentations please share your email at our CONTACT US page where you can also sign up for our seasonal newsletter. Of course, we will not give your information to others.
Bloomingdale Bulletin,
Summer 2021 Here is the latest issue of our newsletter, which describes our ongoing work to highlight local history and culture. Click on the image below or click on our BULLETINS page. Happy reading! 
Revised BNHG Building Database Now Available The table is the product of more than two years of research and field work by BNHG members, led by Gilbert Tauber. The table lists all of the 1,056 buildings in the area from the north side of 96th Street to the south side of 110th Street between Central Park West and Riverside Drive. The latest revision adds the Department of Buildings’ Building Identification Number (BIN) for each building. This will make it easier to coordinate our information with databases maintained by the Department of Buildings and other agencies. The BIN also makes it possible to distinguish individual buildings in situations where there are multiple buildings on the same tax lot, as in the case of Frederick Douglass Houses. There is also a new column for the Department of Finance building classification, which helpfully states whether a non-condo apartment building has an elevator or is a walk-up. Explore this revised database at the BUILDING DATABASE page of our RESOURCES section. For information on how the database was compiled, see BNHG’s new digital brochure How To Research the History of Buildings in Manhattan at our Resources section |
Reopening of the Bloomingdale Branch Library
and availability of the BNHG Library Collection! 
We're happy to say that our public archive of documents related to the history of the neighborhood is back at the Bloomingdale branch of the New York Public Library, on West 100th Street between Amsterdam and Columbus Avenues. The files are easy to find now, near the circulation desk, and they are chock full of interesting material. Whether you are researching a specific topic or just browsing, you're welcome to copy pages in the library or to take a folder to one of the tables to read through it in comfort. On top of the filing cabinets you'll find an eclectic selection of books about NYC history donated by historian Peter Salwen, which are also for reading and reference use in the library. The Bloomingdale Library's own webpage is here, and a few highlights of our collection are posted digitally here.
DIGITAL COLLECTIONS OF THE BLOOMINGDALE NEIGHBORHOOD HISTORY GROUP
Select items from the BNHG Library Collection have been digitized https://bnhgdigitalcollections.omeka.net/ for more information about the library collection visit our BNHG LIBRARY COLLECTION page. The Latest Blog
Post #7 Bloomingdale Goes to School 1790s and early 1800s This is the seventh and last (for a while) in this series exploring colonial and post-Revolution Bloomingdale written by Pam Tice, Bloomingdale Neighborhood History Group Planning Committee member. 
Read the entire blog:
Post #7 Bloomingdale Goes to School 1790s and early 1800s See a complete list with links to all 47 BNHG Blogs at BNHG BLOGS The 2020 Project of the BNHG
The BNHG collected photos and stories of this memorable past year. The latest additions to this project were 62 black and white photos of the neighborhood by Paul Margolis. View the entire project at the 2020 Project page The content of this website is offered for educational purposes; You may not reproduce, distribute, copy, sell or otherwise use any portion of this website for political or commercial purposes. If you know the identity of people depicted in historical photographs reproduced here, we’d love to hear from you.
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