Place Matters draws its staff from its two sponsoring organizations: City Lore and The Municipal Art Society. In addition to the individuals listed here, Place Matters calls on other staff members from both organizations for their particular areas of expertise, and works with consultants on special projects. Thanks to City Lore Executive Director Steve Zeitlin, MAS President Kent Barwick, and Senior Vice President Frank Sanchis III.

We also would like to acknowledge Laura Hansen and Ned Kaufman, who were co-founders and co-directors of Place Matters.

Director, Marci Reaven
Marci is Managing Director of City Lore, where, among other things, she helped to found and now directs the Place Matters project. She also runs other history-related programs for City Lore in both school and public settings. Marci is a public historian with over 20 years experience in creating history programs for the public -- including films, exhibits, educational curricula, and adult discussion guides. She is completing a dissertation in US history at New York University. (mreaven@citylore.org)

Documentarian, Elena Martinez
Elena is responsible for fieldwork and production on a number of City Lore projects. For Place Matters she helps to collect and research nominations to the Census of Places that Matter, and conducts special initiatives such as the Mambo to Hip Hopdocumentation project in theSouth Bronx. Elena has an MA in Folklore and Anthropology. (emartinez@citylore.org)

Photographer, Martha Cooper
Martha's long association with City Lore has included participation in many exhibits and publications, including a 2002 exhibit about the spontaneous memorials of September 11th called Missing: Streetscape of a City in Mourning. For Place Matters she shoots many of the places nominated to the Census and her work can be seen throughout this website. (kodakgirl@rcn.com).

Consultant, Rosten Woo
Rosten conducts research for Place Matters and works on other special projects such as the forthcoming Place Matters Toolkit. Rosten is a principal in the non-profit organization Center for Urban Pedagogy, and teaches about the urban environment in high schools around the city. (rostenwoo@hotmail.com)

The Place Matters website (2004) was produced by:

Historicus, Inc. (Producers)
Charles Forcey, Jr, Producer
Alicia Davis, Assistant Producer

James Levy, Information Architect

Neon Sky Interactive (Designers)
Jayson Singe, Design Director

Rumbletree and Olive Development (Content Management)
Denise Dixon, Director
Chip Pappas, ASP and Database Engineer
Brian Beaulieu, Designer

The Place Matters website (2005) ongoing:
B. Higgins Design (Designer/Developer, Special Features Design)
Beth Higgins, Director

Acknowledgements:

Place Matters deeply appreciates the efforts of hundreds of individuals and organizations that have contributed to and helped make possible our many projects. In particular we would like to acknowledge the following:

Interns and Volunteer Census Researchers: Hillary Angelo, Sara Bayles, Meryl Block, Natasha Degen, Kwali Farbes, Amanda Huber, Denise Lynn, Tanya March, Adrienn Mendonca, Jennifer Most, Indra Rios Moore, Virginia Parkhouse, Jessica Radow, Nathan Riddle, Naomi Schegloff, Liz Sprague, Meng Yu.

Writers: Ilana Harlow, Jane McNamara, Phoebe Nobles, Tom Klem.

Advisors: Lauren Arana, Peter Buckley, Todd Bressi, Cheryl Cohen-Effron, Andrew Dolkart, Juan Flores, Deborah Gardner, Ray Gastil, Eva Handardt, Jeanne Houck, Randall Mason, Dorothy Miner, Chris Neville, Virginia Sanchez-Korrol, John Reddick, Joe Sciorra, Robert Snyder, John Kuo Wei Tchen, Kay Turner, Vicki Weiner, Anthony Wood.

Place Matters Landmarks Committee - 2002-03: Tina Chiu, William Davis, Andrew Dolkart (chair), Franny Eberhart, Maria Garcia, David Goldfarb, Bill Higgins, Holly Leicht, Otis Pearsall, John Reddick, Vicki Weiner.

National Endowment for the Humanities Committee - 2001-03: Keith Basso, Rina Benmayor, Daniel Bluestone, Paul Groth, Dolores Hayden, James Horton, Mary Hufford, Madhulika Khandelwal, Richard Rabinowitz, Craig Wilder, Marc Weiss.

Collaborating organizations: Bronx Tourism Council, Brooklyn Children's Museum, East Harlem Historical Society, 4W Circle of Enterprise, First Hand NY Walks, Historic Fort Greene Association, Historic Districts Council, Langston Hughes Library and Community Cultural Center, Labor History Association, Lower East Side Tenement Museum and the Lower East Side Community Preservation Project, Magnolia Tree Earth Center, Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities, Neighborhood Preservation Center, and The Point Community Development Corporation.

Place Matters would also like to thank Kathy Howe, New York State Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation; Beth Savage, National Park Service; and Peter Brink, National Trust for Historic Preservation.