Archives

The Public Housing Community Fund (PHCF) today announced a $493,000 grant made possible by the Leon Levy Foundation to preserve the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) archival collection in partnership with LaGuardia Community College and the LaGuardia Wagner Archives, ensuring that critical chapters of New York City’s history are accessible for perpetuity to a broader...

The New York Times - A new Anne Frank exhibition will open at the Center for Jewish History in New York today, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and will remain there for three months before moving on to other cities. “Anne Frank the Exhibition” is a full-scale re-creation of the annex where Anne and her...

The New York Times - Created by the Anne Frank House and presented in partnership with the Center for Jewish History, “Anne Frank the Exhibition” aims to examine Anne Frank’s life — and death — with a scope not often found in other treatments of this chapter in history. Following a chronological path,...

The gala will celebrate WNYC’s century of service, spanning from its origins as New York’s first City-run radio station to its transformation into an independent public radio station and global leader in audio storytelling. The evening will honor the Leon Levy Foundation, whose $2.5M contribution has enabled the digitization of NYPR’s archives.

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Library and Archives, based at the Bronx Zoo, is proud to announce the completion of its Shelby White and Leon Levy Film Initiative.  Sponsored by the Leon Levy Foundation, this monumental project allowed WCS to assess and inventory more than 1,600 historical film reels. With the digitization of nearly...

The 50-foot media wall, featuring the Shelby White and Leon Levy Digital Archives Media Collections, has launched with an exciting collaboration: an exhibit on Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with Jane Gottlieb and the Juilliard Library. Included in Juilliard’s collection is the copyist’s manuscript to the Ninth, likely used at the world premiere in Vienna, 1824, with...

Flushing’s Bowne House Historical Society is set to receive a major grant from the New York Preservation Archive Project to digitize its important and extensive collection of documents, letters, maps, deeds, photographs and daguerreotypes, books, objects, and ephemera spanning three centuries - a collection that helps to tell the story of the...

Dating from the 1920s through the 1980s, the unique contents of this collection document the history of the Wildlife Conservation Society, including early activities at its Bronx Zoo and New York Aquarium, as well as the progression of its field conservation program over the course of the twentieth century.  Further still, these historical films portray...

The New York Preservation Archive Project originally established the Archival Assistance Initiative in 2013 to assist historic preservation-related not-for-profit organizations in identifying and maintaining their archival resources. Now, with the generous assistance of the Leon Levy Foundation, the Initiative is being revitalized with a new round of small grants in 2022. Applicants must demonstrate their project or...