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Four ways into the same archive. Pick a house and see who lived there. Pick a surname and see what the papers said. Pick a person and see every mention. Or watch the whole block change, decade by decade.

1940 NYC Municipal Archives tax photo of a Windsor Place house

62 addresses

Houses

Every house on the block. Click any number to see the deed chain, oral history, and digital archive items tied to that address.

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202 surnames

Families

Surnames documented in the newspaper archive, color-coded by ethnic origin (Irish, Italian, German, Dutch, Jewish, English).

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3,179 people indexed

People

Every individual named across newspapers, deeds, oral history, and curated archive records. Search by name.

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1860s — 1960s

Decade by decade

Eleven decades, each with families, neighborhood newspapers, and archive images for that era.

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