Beginning in May 2021, members of WikiProject New York City and Wikimedia New York City began a monthly collaboration project whereby one or a thematic group of articles are selected for improvement.

Ongoing: January-November 2023: Draft:Toilets in New York City

• January/February 2023: Anthony Janszoon van Salee
• November/December 2022: Draft:Toilets in New York City
• September/October 2022: Bodega (store)
• August 2022: Panorama of the City of New York, Wikipedia:Wiki World's Fair
• June 2022: The Bronx: Wikipedia:WikiProject New York City/Environment Task Force/Bronx
• May 2022: Timeline of labor in New York City
• April 2022: Environment of New York City
  • New articles: Mannahatta Project, Environment of New York City
  • New categories: W:Category:Urban farmers, W:Category:African-American environmentalists
  • New wikidata items: Urban farmer, Magnolia Tree Earth Center of Bed Stuy
  • Added images to WikiCommons category: Commons:Category:Clean-up
• March 2022: Pelham Park and City Island Railway
  • also added photos and created article for Bartow station
• February 2022: Seneca Village - (synched with Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/MetAfrofuturist)

• January 2022: Lower Manhattan expansion<

• November/December - Year in review - revisiting monthly collaboration topics from 2021:
  • {{ Public art in Manhattan}}
  • Grand Prospect Hall
  • Pizza of New York City
  • Coney Island articles
  • Trees of New York City
  • Stuyvesant Farm

• October 2021: {{ Public art in Manhattan}} (stubs)
  • link to commons cat Outdoor sculptures in Manhattan, New York City

• September 2021: Grand Prospect Hall
  • Improved the existing article from this version at the beginning of the month to this version at the end
  • Promoted to Good Article in January 2022
  • DYK on 10/19

• August 2021: Pizza of New York City
  • New categories: Category:Pizza in New York City, commons:Category:Pizza of New York City
  • Scarr's Pizza
  • Lucali expanded, found a picture, took a picture
  • Lenny's Pizza
  • Rizzo's Fine Pizza
  • category of uploaded photos
    • Includes one Quality Image and three Valued Images

• July 2021: Coney Island articles
  • Coney Island Beautification Project - started this article, feel free jump in and help flush it out.
  • The Boardwalk at Coney Island - added hatnote here
  • Kaiser Park - working to flush out an article on Kaiser Park
  • Horace Bullard - started article on entrepreneur who had a 1985 proposal to revive Steeplechase Park
  • E. J. Perry - started article on Luna Park silhouette artist
  • Anthony Janszoon van Salee - added more about his Dutch and Moorish family
  • George C. Tilyou - started stub on founder of Steeplechase Park
  • Coney Island Creek Park - started stub on small park in Coney Island, who wants to visit and take a picture?
  • Steeplechase Face - started article on historic symbol of the neighborhood
  • Clarified A Trip to the Moon (attraction) as replacement on the old site of the Elephantine Colossus
  • Dreamland (Coney Island, 1904), added map
  • Luna Park (Coney Island, 1903), added map
  • Steeplechase Park, added map
  • category of uploaded photos
    • Includes four Quality Images and three Valued Images

• June 2021: Trees of New York City
  • Diff of improvements to the article. A list was also spun out to create List of tree species in New York City

• May 2021: Stuyvesant Farm
  • The article was created this month and improved to this version
  • Promoted to GA in September 2021
  • DYK on 9/22/21: [Did you know] that when England moved to take over the Dutch colony of New Netherland in 1664, a delegation met at Stuyvesant Farm to negotiate the Articles of Surrender?

Feel free to add to this list!

City wide

• Street signs in New York City
• Oysters in New York City
• Houseboats in New York City
• Dining shed
• New Amsterdam
• List of carousels in New York City - past & present
• List of ferris wheels in New York City - past & present
• Bookstores in New York City
• Beaches of New York City
• Cuisine of New York City
• Racism in New York City
• Labor history of New York City
• Housing in New York City
• Urban planning in New York City
• Homelessness in New York City
• Zoning in New York City
• Subsidized housing in New York City
• New York City Housing Development Corporation
• New York City Housing Authority
• Lenapehoking (particularly #Lenape place names in NYC)
• Asian Americans in New York City
• New York City waterfront
• List of smaller islands in New York City - it's nice to work with a fixed list, to be able to add some prose and citations, etc.
• Wildlife of New York City - see: 2018 Central Park Squirrel Census
• Template:Wildlife of New York City - see: Template:Wildlife of Pakistan
• New York sea shells, and who used to live in them / Marine life of New York–New Jersey Harbor Estuary
• List of museums and cultural institutions in New York City
  • We also have List of museums in New York City that could be spiffed up (what's the difference between the two? I think cultural institutions include McSorley's Old Ale House)
• List of New York City history organizations and projects
• Bakeries of New York City
• Laborers Local Union 108
• Mental health care in New York City
• Involuntary hospitalization in New York City
• Micromobility in New York City
• Jewish deli
• List of New York City newspapers and magazines
• Category:New York City-related lists

Bronx

• The Bronx
• Small parks of the Bronx. We've got articles for the really big parks, but there's hundreds of smaller ones. Astonishingly, we don't even have Claremont Park, except as a redirect to someplace in one of those non-mainland boroughs. We do now.
• User:RoySmith/drafts/1201 Findlay Ave
• User:RoySmith/drafts/Architecture in The Bronx
• User:RoySmith/drafts/Bronx River Greenway
• User:RoySmith/drafts/Bronx street grid renaming
• Givans Creek Woods
• User:RoySmith/drafts/List of parks in The Bronx
• User:RoySmith/drafts/Mosholu-Pelham Greenway
• User:RoySmith/drafts/New York, Westchester and Boston Railroad Administration Building
• User:RoySmith/drafts/Southern Boulevard Railroad Company
• User:RoySmith/drafts/Shoelace Park
• West Farms Soldiers Cemetery [1]
• American Female Guardian Society which may or may not be the same entity as New York Female Moral Reform Society (the sources are confusing, with lots of variations on the names and dates). The building at 936 Woodycrest Avenue is a redlink on List of New York City Designated Landmarks in the Bronx.
• Wendell Foster - stub article on Bronx politician and reverend, first black elected official in the Bronx

Brooklyn

• Canarsie Park (Brooklyn)
• Fort Greene Park
• Commodore Barry Park
• stubs at Template:Public art in Brooklyn
• Flatbush Junction

Manhattan

• Hamilton Square (Manhattan) - former park in the Upper East Side Wikidata:Q34833154 ^[1]
• Jewish Lower East Side
• Central Park Squirrel Census (or an article about squirrels in New York City ( NY Mag for example)
• Carl Schurz Park
• Fly Market
• Seneca Village

Queens

• Queens County Farm Museum
• Louis Armstrong House
• Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning
• Queens Historical Society

Staten Island

• Olmsted–Beil House

Useful lists/data

These tools/links might be useful for identifying future collaborations.

• Petscan - enter a NYC-related category and set various settings. For example, find everything in Category:Parks in New York City with page size under 5000 bytes.