This year from the summer of 2021 – summer 2022 is all about the 125th Anniversary, so we have been deep in our library history and our top story and images on UA reflect that! Gotham Center's story about the photographs of Percy Loomis Sperr – was a favorite & it also qualifies as a “fun fact” learned about on UA Aimai Reporter, Queens Public Library

The Nathan’s Famous: An American Institution story is very fun and unique. Nathan’s is such an essential part of New York City history, but you don’t always think about the beginnings/history of the company! I also really I enjoyed the Haunted Histories of NYC story from the New-York Historical Society -Genevieve Wagner, Municipal Arts Society

A favorite story that we created was The Booker T. Washington Bust by Richmond Barthé, but I also have to pick the Museum of the City of New York's The Bronx Food Walk (Spread the love!) -Cynthia Tobar, Bronx Community College

I love - 147 Varick Street - - for being a focused and tidy nugget that also touches on several elements of our collection, and incorporates a photo from another collection (collab!). Plus it has nostalgia and recognition value for anyone who’s been to City Winery there. Otherwise, my declared fave from the moment I received your email - A Night with the Missus: H.P. Lovecraft in Greenwich Village, by David Goodwin - Sarah Acheson, Department of Environmental Protection

This story about Mr. Katz, our last Yiddish typesetter, is a favorite Forward story on UA . Louis Katz donated the image to our archive as he prepared to retire, after half a century of service to the news organization. Peering at the photo brought memories of working alongside him, sure, but also of the changing face of the news industry as having to do with metal type and ink, of trying to be heard above the mechanical press noises and of the deadline panic when text was a lot harder to swap. But of equal relevance to me is Katz's refugee immigrant story, whose early days in the city were spent mapping out a life as a union member, a Holocaust survivor and a Yiddish speaker with community-all those points in his life and history were available to be geo-tagged thanks to UA. And now, we can literally walk in those footsteps, something I find just spellbinding. Chana Pollack, The Forward

Of our stories, it would be Essential Open Space, which strikes an especially meaningful message during times of COVID-19. If I had to pick just one outside story though, it would be the Steinway Walking Tour from Bronx Community College, which I followed along with in-person since I'm local to Astoria. It was fun learning about the influence of the Steinway family on Astoria history." - Ianna Angelo, Municipal Art Society

"I have to say our extensive Back to School: Exploring Historic Schools in East Harlem story was a lot of fun to create and I loved being able to utilize old photos of the schools from other UA contributors. My "outside favorite" was The Oyster Capital of the World, specifically, the history of the Lenape's sustainable cultivation of oysters and that they used to be so much bigger centuries ago!  - Matthias Helfen, Landmark East Harlem

For our own favorite story: WE SHALL NOT BE MOVED: New York and Civil Rights 1945-1964 stood out. As Broadway reopens, this one from New York Landmarks Conservancy comes to mind Bright Lights: Theaters in the City -Tara Dawson, Museum of the City of New York

Our favorite that we posted this year was The History of Jews in New York by Neighborhood. But our favorite fun fact we learned from a story was that Emma Lazarus's poem "A New Colossus" was written for an exhibition catalog meant to fundraise for the eventual installation of the Statue of Liberty - and it was only after Lazarus's death that a plaque was installed at the statue bearing the poem and forever uniting the two. -Chelsea Dowell, Museum at Eldridge Street