Beer Gardens, Bookstores, and Ballrooms: Finding the Places that

Beer Gardens, Bookstores, and Ballrooms: Finding the Places that Make a City Thrive

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A project of City Lore and the Municipal Art Society, Place Matters has spent the past ten years tracking, documenting, and promoting the places that connect New Yorkers to the past, host community and cultural traditions, and keep the city distinctive. The work of Place Matters is based on nominations of places submitted by the public and can be adapted to any location. Place Matters co-founder and director Marci Reaven discusses the kinds of places people care about and strategies for promotion and protection.

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