City's National Archives gets new home
Photo credit: Nancy Borowick | Dorothy Dougherty, of Huntington, is the Public Programs director at the National Archives in Manhattan and stands in the new exhibit, The World's Port, at the Custom House in lower Manhattan where her office is in the process of moving to. (Oct. 2, 2012)
The National Archives at New York City has always been off the beaten path, hidden in an obscure, cramped lower Manhattan office with no sign to publicize its reams of historical documents.
Starting later this month, its records -- which bring history to a personal level -- will be available in a large public space in the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House built in the early 1900s on Bowling...
