NewYorkScapes is a research community exploring the application of digital concepts, tools, and resources to the study of the history of urban cultures and landscapes. Founded in 2013, the initiative comprises a number of activities and faculty workshop dedicated to integrating teaching built around long-term digital projects into the larger collective research community. NewYorkScapes also seeks to make discoverable historic data related to the city of New York in both its non-digital and digital forms, and to collaboratively build that data for research purposes where it is not yet existent.