The "Marking Places that Matter" competition and exhibition were made possible by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Lily Auchincloss Foundation. Place Matters also thanks New York Community Trust, Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, E.H.A. Foundation, Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York Foundation, The Scherman Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Printing made possible by The Hewlett-Packard Company. Place Matters thanks the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and the Lower East Side Community Preservation Project for their participation; and the following for advice, research assistance and planning support: Hilary Angelo, Lauren Arana, Tomie Arai, Penny Balkin Balch and the Fairmount Park Art Association, Meryl Block, Todd Bressi, Martha Cooper, Ray Gastil, Donna Graves, Ilana Harlow, Elena Martínez, Chris Neville, Phoebe Nobles, Andy Schwartz, and Rosten Woo. We also thank the hundreds of New Yorkers who have submitted nominations to the Census of Places that Matter. We would like to thank Hilly Kristal, Lisa J. Kristal and Irene Ledwith for their guidance and help on this Place Matters project.