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New York

Resources in this category:

Central Park: Just for Kids
http://www.centralparknyc.org/jfk-justforkids.html
Central Park is a large recreation park right in the middle of New York City! Learn all about it at this official site for kids.
New York Underground
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/97/nyunderground/
"Go below the streets of New York City and marvel at what it takes to pump life into 'the city that never sleeps.'"
Stately Knowledge - New York
http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/stateknow/ny1.html
Basic facts and links about New York. Check out the Kids Page!
Tale of Three Cities
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/3cities/
"A vivid look at how life has, and hasn't, changed in the past 2,000 years" by comparing three cities from different millennia: Alexandria, Egypt in A.D.1; Cordoba, Spain in A.D. 1000; and New York City in A.D. 2000.
Tenement Museum
http://www.thirteen.org/tenement/
See an actual tenement building from New York's Lower East Side and learn about tenement life from 1864 to 1935.

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