CULTURAL SPACES OF YORKVILLE: PRESENT AND PAST is a project that highlights the history of Yorkville by exploring the businesses and cultural centers that have had lasting impact on Yorkville. Whether if its a new or reminisce of its ghost, these businesses have made Yorkville a mix of cultural spaces of all people to enjoy.

We will begin with the past, these institutions were once prominent when Yorkville was a mix of immigrants from the Czechoslovakia, Germany and Hungary. Some of these institutes are still here with us, others have been erased from its spot or at risk of being erased. But not everything was a building. Yorkville was a working class neighborhood, many people commuted to get to different parts of the city the most popular being the ferry.

As we stream on by these institutions, it will bring us to modern day. Where new businesses have popped up and bringing to light the old immigrant Yorkville to modern day.

Please follow along the map and discover what made and still makes Yorkville today.