List of museums and cultural institutions in New York City
Museums -- Region and tradition
Table:
Name

Neighborhood

Borough

Type

Summary

Weeksville Heritage Center
Bedford–Stuyvesant
Brooklyn
Living
Historic homes of 19th-century free African Americans in the urban North

Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts
Fort Greene
Brooklyn
Art
Art focusing on social and political issues facing the African Diaspora

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Harlem
Manhattan
African American
Branch of the New York Public Library; exhibits of African American history and culture

Studio Museum in Harlem
Harlem
Manhattan
Art
Art of African-Americans, specializing in 19th- and 20th-century work as well as exhibits of Caribbean and African art

The Africa Center
Museum Mile
Manhattan
Art
African art and culture, building new facility on Museum Mile

African Burial Ground National Monument

TriBeCa

Monument

Visitors' center and memorial to an 18th-century African-American slave burial ground

Lewis H. Latimer House

Flushing

Queens

Historic house

Home of African American inventor Lewis H. Latimer

Sandy Ground Historical Museum
South Shore
Staten Island
Local history
website

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The Weeksville Heritage Center is a historic site on Buffalo Avenue between St. Marks Avenue and Bergen Street in Crown Heights , Brooklyn , New York City . It is dedicated to the preservation of Weeksville , one of America 's first free black communities during the 19th century . Within this community , the residents established schools , churches and benevolent associations and were active in the abolitionist movement . Weeksville is a historic settlement of national significance and one of the few remaining historical sites of pre-Civil War African-American communities . Founding members of the preservation group were James Hurley , Dewey Harley , Dolores McCullough , Joan Maynard , and Patricia Johnson . It was founded as the Society for the Preservation of Weeksville and Bedford Stuyvesant in 1970 , and then the Weeksville Heritage Center . The Heritage Center focuses on tours , arts and crafts , literacy and historical preservation programs for public-school students . The site is managed by the Weeksville Society , a historical society that maintains the 12,400-square-foot ( 1,150 m2 ) site comprising the historic Hunterfly Houses and an open grassy area .
Bedford-Stuyvesant ( /ˈbɛdfərdˈstaɪvəsənt/ ) , colloquially known as Bed-Stuy , is a neighborhood in the north-central portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn . Bedford-Stuyvesant is bordered by Flushing Avenue to the north ( bordering Williamsburg ) , Classon Avenue to the west ( bordering Clinton Hill ) , Broadway to the east ( bordering Bushwick and East New York ) , and Atlantic Avenue to the south ( bordering Crown Heights and Brownsville ) . The main shopping street , Fulton Street runs east-west the length of the neighborhood and intersects high-traffic north-south streets including Bedford Avenue , Nostrand Avenue , and Stuyvesant Avenue . Bedford-Stuyvesant contains four smaller neighborhoods : Bedford , Stuyvesant Heights , Ocean Hill , and Weeksville ( also part of Crown Heights ) . Part of Clinton Hill was once considered part of Bedford-Stuyvesant . Bedford-Stuyvesant has the largest collection of intact and largely untouched Victorian architecture in the country , with roughly 8,800 buildings built before 1900 . Its building stock includes many historic brownstones . These homes were developed for the expanding middle- to upper-middle class from the 1890s to the late 1910s . These homes contain highly ornamental detailing throughout their interiors and have classical architectural elements , such as brackets , quoins , fluting , finials , and elaborate frieze and cornice banding . Since the late 1930s the neighborhood has been a major cultural center for Brooklyn 's African American population . Following the construction of the Fulton Street subway line ( A and ​C trains ) in 1936 , African Americans left an overcrowded Harlem for greater housing availability in Bedford-Stuyvesant . From Bedford-Stuyvesant , African Americans have since moved into the surrounding areas of Brooklyn , such as East New York , Crown Heights , Brownsville , and Fort Greene .
Brooklyn ( /ˈbrʊklɪn/ ) is a borough of New York City , coterminous with Kings County , located in the U.S. state of New York , the most populous county in the state , and the second-most densely populated county in the United States . It is New York City 's most populous borough , with an estimated 2,504,700 residents in 2010 . Named after the Dutch village of Breukelen , it shares a land border with the borough of Queens at the western end of Long Island . Brooklyn has several bridge and tunnel connections to the borough of Manhattan across the East River , and the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge connects it with Staten Island . With a land area of 70.82 square miles ( 183.4 km2 ) and water area of 26 square miles ( 67 km2 ) , Kings County is New York state 's fourth-smallest county by land area and third-smallest by total area , though it is the second-largest among the city 's five boroughs . If each borough were ranked as a city , Brooklyn would rank as the third-most populous in the U.S. , after Los Angeles and Chicago . Brooklyn was an independent incorporated city ( and previously an authorized village and town within the provisions of the New York State Constitution ) until January 1 , 1898 , when , after a long political campaign and public relations battle during the 1890s , according to the new Municipal Charter of Greater New York , Brooklyn was consolidated with the other cities , boroughs , and counties to form the modern City of New York , surrounding the Upper New York Bay with five constituent boroughs . The borough continues , however , to maintain a distinct culture . Many Brooklyn neighborhoods are ethnic enclaves . Brooklyn 's official motto , displayed on the Borough seal and flag , is Eendraght Maeckt Maght , which translates from early modern Dutch as Unity makes strength . In the first decades of the 21st century , Brooklyn has experienced a renaissance as an avant-garde destination for hipsters , with concomitant gentrification , dramatic house price increases and a decrease in housing affordability . Since the 2010s , Brooklyn has evolved into a thriving hub of entrepreneurship , high technology startup firms , postmodern art and design .
MoCADA , or the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts , is a museum of contemporary art located at 80 Hanson Place in Fort Greene , Brooklyn , New York City . It is the first museum of its kind to be opened in New York . MoCADA 's mission is to rediscover valuable African cultural traditions that were lost through colonization and the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade and to foster a dynamic space for the creation of the continuous evolution of culture . MoCADA believes that the concept of the museum exists within its people and it is the museum 's goal to serve as a conduit for African Diaspora forms of expression ranging from the visual and performing arts to film and television with the goal of repositioning the continent of Africa and its people in both a foundational and central role in world development . Since the museum 's inception , MoCADA has placed primary emphasis on reaching underserved communities through on-site as well as out-of-doors programming .
Fort Greene is a neighborhood in the northwestern part of the New York City borough of Brooklyn . The neighborhood is bounded by Flushing Avenue and the Brooklyn Navy Yard to the north , Flatbush Avenue Extension and Downtown Brooklyn to the west , Atlantic Avenue and Prospect Heights to the south , and Vanderbilt Avenue and Clinton Hill to the east . The Fort Greene Historic District is listed on the New York State Registry and on the National Register of Historic Places , and is a New York City designated historic district . The neighborhood is named after an American Revolutionary War era fort that was built in 1776 under the supervision of General Nathanael Greene of Rhode Island . General Greene aided General George Washington during the Battle of Long Island in 1776 . Fort Greene Park , originally called Washington Park and Brooklyn 's first , is also derived from General Greene 's name and from the neighborhood . In 1864 , Fort Greene Park was redesigned by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux ; the park notably includes the Prison Ship Martyrs ' Monument and crypt , which honors some 11,500 patriots who died aboard British prison ships during the American Revolution . Fort Greene contains many examples of mid-19th century Italianate and Eastlake architecture , most of which is well preserved . It is known for its many tree-lined streets and elegant low-rise housing . Fort Greene is also home to the Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower , which , for over 80 years , was the tallest building in Brooklyn . The neighborhood is close to the Atlantic Terminal station of the Long Island Rail Road and has access to many New York City Subway services . Fort Greene is part of Brooklyn Community District 2 and its primary ZIP Codes are 11201 , 11205 , 11217 , and 11238 .
The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is a research library of the New York Public Library ( NYPL ) and an archive repository for information on people of African descent worldwide . Located at 515 Malcolm X Boulevard ( Lenox Avenue ) between West 135th and 136th Streets in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan , New York City , it has , almost from its inception , been an integral part of the Harlem community . It is named for Afro-Puerto Rican scholar Arturo Alfonso Schomburg . The resources of the Center are broken up into five divisions , the Art and Artifacts Division , the Jean Blackwell Hutson General Research and Reference Division , the Manuscripts , Archives and Rare Books Division , the Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division , and the Photographs and Prints Division . In addition to research services , the center hosts readings , discussions , art exhibitions , and theatrical events . It is open to the general public .
Harlem is a neighborhood in the northern section of the New York City borough of Manhattan . It is bounded roughly by Frederick Douglass Boulevard , St. Nicholas Avenue , and Morningside Park on the west ; the Harlem River and 155th Street on the north ; Fifth Avenue on the east ; and Central Park North on the south . The greater Harlem area encompasses several other neighborhoods and extends west to the Hudson River , north to 155th Street , east to the East River , and south to 96th Street . Originally a Dutch village , formally organized in 1658 , it is named after the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands . Harlem 's history has been defined by a series of economic boom-and-bust cycles , with significant population shifts accompanying each cycle . Harlem was predominantly occupied by Jewish and Italian Americans in the 19th century , but African-American residents began to arrive in large numbers during the Great Migration in the 20th century . In the 1920s and 1930s , Central and West Harlem were the focus of the Harlem Renaissance , a major African-American cultural movement . With job losses during the Great Depression of the 1930s and the deindustrialization of New York City after World War II , rates of crime and poverty increased significantly . In the 21st century , crime rates decreased significantly , and Harlem started to gentrify . Harlem is part of Manhattan Community District 10 . It is patrolled by the 28th and 32nd Precincts of the New York City Police Department . The greater Harlem area also includes Manhattan Community Districts 9 and 11 , and several additional police precincts .
The Studio Museum in Harlem is an American art museum devoted to the work of artists of African descent . The Museums galleries are currently closed in preparation for a building project that will replace the current building , located at 144 West 125th Street between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and Lenox Avenue in Harlem , Manhattan , New York City , with a new one on the same site . Founded in 1968 , the museum collects , preserves and interprets art created by African Americans , members of the African diaspora , and artists from the African continent . Its scope includes exhibitions , artists-in-residence programs , educational and public programming , and a permanent collection . Since opening in a rented loft at Fifth Avenue and 125th Street , the Studio Museum has earned recognition for its role in promoting the works of artists of African descent . The Museum 's Artist-in-Residence program has supported over one hundred graduates who have gone on to highly regarded careers . A wide variety of educational and public programs include lectures , dialogues , panel discussions and performances , as well as interpretive programs , both on- and off-site , for students and teachers . The exhibitions program has also expanded the scope of art historical literature through the production of scholarly catalogues , brochures , and pamphlets .
The Africa Center , formerly known as Museum for African Art , is a museum located at Fifth Avenue and 110th Street in East Harlem , Manhattan , New York City , near the northern end of Fifth Avenue 's Museum Mile . Founded in 1984 , the museum is dedicated to increasing public understanding and appreciation of African art and culture . The Museum is also well known for its public education programs that help raise awareness of African culture , and also operates a unique store selling authentic handmade African crafts . The Museum has organized nearly 60 critically acclaimed exhibitions and traveled these to almost 140 venues nationally and internationally , including 15 other countries . Forty of these exhibitions are accompanied by scholarly catalogues .
Fifth Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the borough of Manhattan in New York City . It stretches north from Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village to West 143rd Street in Harlem . It is considered one of the most expensive and elegant streets in the world .
African Burial Ground National Monument is a monument at Duane Street and African Burial Ground Way ( Elk Street ) in the Civic Center section of Lower Manhattan , New York City . Its main building is the Ted Weiss Federal Building at 290 Broadway . The site contains the remains of more than 419 Africans buried during the late 17th and 18th centuries in a portion of what was the largest colonial-era cemetery for people of African descent , some free , most enslaved . Historians estimate there may have been as many as 10,000-20,000 burials in what was called the Negroes Burial Ground in the 1700s . The five to six acre site 's excavation and study was called the most important historic urban archaeological project in the United States . The Burial Ground site is New York 's earliest known African-American cemetery ; studies show an estimated 15,000 African American people were buried here . The discovery highlighted the forgotten history of enslaved Africans in colonial and federal New York City , who were integral to its development . By the American Revolutionary War , they constituted nearly a quarter of the population in the city . New York had the second-largest number of enslaved Africans in the nation after Charleston , South Carolina . Scholars and African-American civic activists joined to publicize the importance of the site and lobby for its preservation . The site was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1993 and a National Monument in 2006 by President George W. Bush . In 2003 Congress appropriated funds for a memorial at the site and directed redesign of the federal courthouse to allow for this .
Tribeca /traɪˈbɛkə/ , originally written as TriBeCa , is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan , New York City . Its name is a syllabic abbreviation of Triangle Below Canal Street . The triangle , or more accurately , a trapezoid , is bounded by Canal Street , West Street , Broadway , and Chambers Street . More recently , a common marketing tactic has been to extend Tribeca 's southern boundary to either Vesey or Murray Streets to increase the appeal of property listings . The neighborhood began as farmland , became residential in the early 19th century , then transitioned into a mercantile one centered on produce , dry goods , and textiles , before being colonized by artists and then actors , models , entrepreneurs and other celebrities . The neighborhood is home to the Tribeca Film Festival , which was created in response to the September 11 attacks , to reinvigorate the neighborhood and downtown after the destruction caused by the terrorist attacks . Tribeca is part of Manhattan Community District 1 and its primary ZIP Codes are 10007 and 10013 . It is patrolled by the 1st Precinct of the New York City Police Department .
The Lewis H. Latimer House , also called the Latimer House or the Lewis Latimer House , is a historic house located at 34-41 137th Street in Flushing , Queens , New York City . It was constructed in the Queen Anne style of architecture between 1887 and 1889 by the Sexton family . It served as the home of the African-American inventor Lewis Howard Latimer from 1903 to 1928 , and is now operated as a museum dedicated to the inventor 's work . In addition , this museum-house also illuminated the life and achievements of other black scientists . The house remained property of the Latimer family until 1963 . Currently , the Lewis H. Latimer House is owned by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation , operated by the Lewis H. Latimer Fund , Inc. , and is a member of the Historic House Trust .
Flushing is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens in the United States . Located in the north-central portion of Queens , the neighborhood is the fourth largest central business district in New York City . Flushing was established as a settlement of New Netherland on October 10 , 1645 , on the eastern bank of Flushing Creek . It was named Vlissingen , after the Dutch city of Vlissingen . The English took control of New Amsterdam in 1664 , and when Queens County was established in 1683 , the Town of Flushing was one of the original five towns of Queens . In 1898 , Flushing was consolidated into the City of New York . Development came in the early 20th century with the construction of bridges and public transportation . An immigrant population , composed mostly of Chinese and Koreans , settled in Flushing in the late 20th century . Flushing contains numerous residential subsections , and its diversity is reflected by the numerous ethnic groups that reside there . Flushing is served by several stations on the Long Island Rail Road 's Port Washington Branch , as well as the New York City Subway 's IRT Flushing Line ( 7 and < 7 > ​ trains ) , which has its terminus at Main Street . The intersection of Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue , a major commercial and retail area , is the third busiest intersection in New York City , behind Times and Herald Squares . Flushing is located in Queens Community District 7 and its ZIP Codes are 11354 , 11355 , and 11358 .
Queens is a borough of New York City , coterminous with Queens County , in the U.S. state of New York . It is the largest borough geographically and is adjacent to the borough of Brooklyn , at the western end of Long Island . To its east is Nassau County . Queens also shares water borders with the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx . The borough of Queens is the second-largest in population , the first being Brooklyn ; with an estimated population of 2,278,906 residents in 2018 , approximately 47.5 percent of them foreign-born . Queens County also is the second most populous county in the U.S. state of New York , behind Brooklyn , which is coterminous with Kings County . Queens is the fourth most densely populated county among New York City 's boroughs , as well as in the United States . If each of New York City 's boroughs were an independent city , Queens would be the nation 's fourth most populous , after Los Angeles , Chicago , and Brooklyn . Queens is one of the most ethnically diverse counties in the United States , as well as the most diverse among highly populated counties and the most linguistically diverse place on Earth . Queens was established in 1683 as one of the original 12 counties of New York . The settlement was presumably named for the English queen Catherine of Braganza ( 1638-1705 ) . From 1683 until 1899 , the County of Queens included what is now Nassau County .
A historic house museum is a house that has been transformed into a museum . Historic furnishings may be displayed in a way that reflects their original placement and usage in a home . Historic house museums are held to a variety of standards , including those of the International Council of Museums . The International Council of Museums defines a museum as : A museum as a non profit-making , permanent institution in the service of society and of its development , open to the public , which acquires , conserves , researches , communicates and exhibits , for purpose of study , education and enjoyment , the tangible and intangible evidence of people and their environment . Houses are transformed into museums for a number of different reasons . For example , the homes of famous writers are frequently turned into writer 's home museums to support literary tourism .
Lewis Howard Latimer ( September 4 , 1848 - December 11 , 1928 ) was an American inventor and patent draftsman for the lightbulb and telephone .
The Sandy Ground Historical Museum , located within the Sandy Ground community of Rossville in the borough of Staten Island , is dedicated to the oldest continuously inhabited free black settlement in the United States . The museum is home to the largest documentary collection of Staten Island 's African-American culture and history and it may also be home to the only intact 18th -century African cemetery in America . The museum is operated by the Sandy Ground Historical Society and its annual festival is a celebration of black history , culture and freedom . The museum is also chartered by the New York State Department of Education to bring education and awareness of Sandy Ground to adults and children alike through guided tours , exhibits , interactive activities including arts and crafts , and lectures . Sandy Ground reaches about 10,000 people a year in these education initiatives ( about 4,000 children and about 6,000 adults . ) The museum also preserves artifacts from the early years of the town such as art , quilts , letters , photographs , film and rare books .
The South Shore is a geographical term applied to the area in the New York City borough of Staten Island , south and east of the island 's ridge of hills ( and Richmond Creek and Fresh Kills south of Historic Richmond Town ) along the waterfront and adjacent areas from the Narrows to the mouth of the Arthur Kill . Many observers prefer to restrict its scope to the neighborhoods located between the shoreline of Raritan Bay on one side and Richmond Creek and Fresh Kills on the other , thus encompassing the neighborhoods of Great Kills to Tottenville only . Those who use this narrower definition of the South Shore prefer the term East Shore for the communities that lie along Lower New York Bay , and inland for approximately 2 to 2½ miles , from Bay Terrace and Richmondtown to as far north as Grasmere and Concord . The South Shore ( under the narrower definition ) is represented in the New York City Council by Joe Borelli .
Staten Island ( /ˌstætən ˈaɪlənd/ ) is a borough of New York City , coterminous with Richmond County , in the U.S. state of New York . Located in the southwest portion of the city , the borough is separated from New Jersey by the Arthur Kill and the Kill Van Kull and from the rest of New York by New York Bay . With an estimated population of 476,179 in 2018 , Staten Island is the least populated of the boroughs but is the third-largest in land area at 58.5 sq mi ( 152 km2 ) . The borough also contains the southern-most point in the state , South Point . If each borough were ranked as a city , Staten Island would rank as the 39th most populous in the U.S. Staten Island joined New York City in 1898 , and was referred to as the Borough of Richmond until 1975 . Staten Island has sometimes been called the forgotten borough by inhabitants who feel neglected by the city government . The North Shore - especially the neighborhoods of St. George , Tompkinsville , Clifton and Stapleton - is the most urban part of the island ; it contains the designated St. George Historic District and the St. Paul 's Avenue-Stapleton Heights Historic District , which feature large Victorian houses . The East Shore is home to the 2.5-mile ( 4 km ) F.D.R . Boardwalk , the fourth-longest boardwalk in the world . The South Shore , site of the 17th-century Dutch and French Huguenot settlement , developed rapidly beginning in the 1960s and 1970s and is now mostly suburban in character . The West Shore is the least populated and most industrial part of the island . Motor traffic can reach the borough from Brooklyn via the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge and from New Jersey via the Outerbridge Crossing , Goethals Bridge and Bayonne Bridge .