Nos Cuidamos is a collaboration between Cities for People, Not for Profit and the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project that has partnered with Bushwick Ayuda Mutua, MayDay Space, Mi Casa Resiste, Comida Pal Pueblo, and Riseboro Bushwick Grows Community Farm to help document experiences and systems of mutual aid that have emerged in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The interviews are available on the Cities for People, Not for Profit site, and can also be heard on the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project’s SoundCloud channel.
Tag Archives: New York City
Portraits of an Epicenter: NYC in Lockdown
This book contains written reflections and photography by LaGuardia Community College (CUNY) students who documented their experiences during New York City’s first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Spring of 2020. Eight students in the Gardiner-Shenker Student Scholars Program had begun the semester with plans to engage with the Wagner and LaGuardia Archives to focus on 1980s New York but had to improvise quickly and ended up setting their sights very much on the current moment. While they used traditional practices of archive development and curating to create their new project, they went beyond collecting physical artifacts and ephemera to include the vulnerable, emotional aspects of their unique experiences as well. The moving portrayal helped the creators to process the present and serves as a valuable document of an unprecedented period that will be archived at the LaGuardia and Wagner Archives and available for researchers and future students.
Food and Covid-19 NYC
This curated collection of materials, photos, personal narratives, menus, media articles and more, began in the spring of 2020 as a NYU food studies graduate seminar class project, and evolved into a space capturing the food experiences of New Yorkers as they navigated the traumas of the COVID-19 pandemic through the end of 2020. Following the ebbs and flows of the pandemic’s intensity, the site captures the landscape of food during this period both topically (food insecurity, restaurants, shopping, and at home) and chronologically. The project also provides links to other collections and related articles.
New York Responds: The First Six Months
New York Responds: The First Six Months looks at the still-unfolding events of 2020 through the eyes of over 100 New Yorkers. This crowd-sourced exhibition presents objects, photographs, videos, and other artworks that document and interpret the COVID pandemic, the racial justice uprisings, and the responses of New Yorkers as they fought to cope, survive, and forge a better future. A jury of a dozen New Yorkers representing many walks of life helped to make the selection from among tens of thousands of submissions received from individual artists and from partner institutions.
Museum of the City of New York, December 18, 2020 through May 9, 2021
New York Responds: A Timeline of Year One
This timeline is part of a larger Museum of the City of New York exhibit, New York Responds. It was curated by Azra Dawood, the Museum’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Post-Doctoral Curatorial Fellow, with data visualization and web design by Sandy Guberti Ng. It is periodically illustrated by footage from Brooklyn-based artist and photojournalist Ian Reid.
History Now: The Pandemic Diaries Project
As the COVID-19 pandemic transforms lives across the city, nation, and world, The New York Public Library seeks to document this pivotal moment in our history—and wants to hear and preserve your story. The Pandemic Diaries project invites submissions, via an online form, audio recordings of yourself or your loved ones telling personal stories about life amid the pandemic. The audio diaries collected as part of this project will document the experiences of people from all walks of life, in their own words. These diaries will be archived in NYPL’s research libraries—the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts—to be preserved and made available to the public, scholars, journalists, and students for decades to come.
College of Staten Island Public History Coronavirus Chronicle
Organized by the History Department at the College of Staten Island (CUNY), this project seeks Staten Islanders from all walks of life to send in anything that will help tell the story of the health emergency in order to archive the what life has been like during the crisis. The project operates through the group’s Facebook page. Those who wish to submit pictures, videos, stories or documents can do so through the Facebook page or via email to: susan.smithpeter@csi.cuny.edu
MISSING THEM: Remembering the New Yorkers Lost to COVID-19
MISSING THEM is a joint project of The City (a nonprofit, nonpartisan, digital news platform reporting on New York City), Columbia Journalism School, and the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York that is building a searchable memorial to remember and honor all New Yorkers who have died of coronavirus. Obituary pages are missing names and stories, especially among members of the city’s black and Latino communities, which have been impacted at disproportionately high rates. To include a New Yorker lost due to the coronavirus:
- Call the hotline: (646) 494-1095
- Text “remember” to 73224
- Email memorial@thecity.nyc
Barnard Zine Library
Barnard Zine Library staff are collecting COVID-19 themed zines made by womxn, nonbinary people, and all members of the Barnard community. They can provide a postal address (the zine librarian’s home) or can print black and white pdfs on 8.5×11 paper. Email zines@barnard.edu to connect with them. As of June 13, there are 80 COVID-19 related zines in the collection, some of them with download links. The collection contains zines from at least nine countries, in four languages.
The Coronavirus Pandemic: Oral History and Archives, Projects and Resources
The Coronavirus Pandemic – Oral History and Archives, Projects and Resources
This resource guide includes links to existing projects and how-to resources for New Yorkers who want to create collecting, oral history, and other community history projects during the Covid-19 crisis. It was compiled by Madison Marlow of the Manhattan Borough President’s office and Robert Snyder, Manhattan Borough Historian, and based on resources shared during meetings of historians and community activists organized by the Borough President’s office.