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- ADB: MAYOR ABRAHAM D BEAME
- ALMSHOUSE LEDGER COLLECTION
- ART: DESIGN COMMISSION
- BODIES IN TRANSIT REGISTERS
- BOE: BOARD OF EDUCATION
- BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS
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- DND: MAYOR DAVID N DINKINS
- DOB: ARCHITECTURAL PLANS AND DRAWINGS
- DOF: BRONX 1940S TAX PHOTOS
- DOF: BRONX 1980S TAX PHOTOS
- DOF: BROOKLYN 1940S TAX PHOTOS
- DOF: BROOKLYN 1980S TAX PHOTOS
- DOF: MANHATTAN 1940S TAX PHOTOS
- DOF: MANHATTAN 1980S TAX PHOTOS
- DOF: QUEENS 1940S TAX PHOTOS
- DOF: QUEENS 1980S TAX PHOTOS
- DOF: STATEN ISLAND 1940S TAX PHOTOS
- DOF: STATEN ISLAND 1980S TAX PHOTOS
- DOH: MARITIME BIRTH, DEATH AND MARRIAG
- DOS: SANITATION & STREET CLEANING
- DPC: PUBLIC CHARITIES & HOSPITALS
- DPR: PARKS & RECREATION PHOTOGRAPHS
- DPW: DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
- EARLY MAYORS, WILLIAM STRONG, 1895-1897
- EIK: MAYOR EDWARD I KOCH
- FDNY: FIRE DEPARTMENT NEW YORK
- FHL: MAYOR FIORELLO H LAGUARDIA
- HPD: HOUSING PRESERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT
- JVL: MAYOR JOHN V LINDSAY
- MAC: MUNICIPAL ARCHIVES COLLECTION
- MALCOLM X ASSASSINATION CASE FILE RECORDS
- MANHATTAN AND BROOKLYN LIQUOR LICENSES
- MAPS AND ATLASES
- MAYOR ROBERT VAN WYCK
- MAYOR SETH LOW
- MRC: MAYORS RECEPTION COMMITTEE
- NEW AMSTERDAM RECORDS
- NEW YORK COUNTY JURY CENSUS
- NYPD & CRIMINAL PROSECUTION
- NYPD SURVEILLANCE FILMS
- OLD TOWN KINGS COUNTY MICROFILM
- PARKS AND PARKWAYS DRAWINGS AND PLANS
- PAUL MOSS SCRAPBOOK
- PORTS & TERMINALS
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- QUEENS OLD TOWN RECORDS
- RFW: MAYOR ROBERT F WAGNER
- RWG: MAYOR RUDOLPH W GIULIANI
- VRI: MAYOR VINCENT R IMPELLITTERI
- WNYC TV: MOVING IMAGES
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- WOD: MAYOR WILLIAM O'DWYER
- WPA FEDERAL WRITERS PROJECT
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NYC Municipal Archives Collections
Department of Finance 1980s Queens. 313,606 images in gallery. By the early 1980s, the Department of Finance determined that the 1939/40 photographs were too out-dated for property tax appraisal purposes. From 1983 to 1988, using 35mm cameras, they photographed every property in the five boroughs, including vacant lots and tax-exempt buildings. They used color film stock producing over 800,000 photographs in both print and negative formats. Taking advantage of then-new technology ca. 1989, they recorded each print as a single frame on Laser Video Disks (LVDs), using analog video capture. The Archives extracted low-resolution tiffs of each frame from the LVDs for viewing in the gallery. High-resolution scans or prints can be ordered from the original negatives. Contact the Archives if there is not a picture in the gallery of a building that is known to have existed in the 1980s.