Food Atlas of New York

Submit an Article

Use this page to submit an article to the Atlas. Articles should be approximately 1500–2000 words long. Because they may cover multiple locations (or no specific location at all), they will not surface on our map. Instead, they are aggregated on our Articles page.

Your article should be reviewed and approved by your instructor before submitting it to this site. Please do not upload drafts here.

Any video or audio content that you wish to submit to the Atlas should be uploaded to YouTube or SoundCloud before filling out this form.

At this time, submissions are only open to students in the Macaulay Honors College’s seminar course, The People of New York. If you are not a Macaulay student, please do not submit an article.

Please provide an email address so we can contact you if we have questions about your submission. If you worked with a group, just provide the email address of one of your group members.
If you worked in a group, please include all members’ names.
Teaser text is the hook that you use to encourage readers to click on your entry. It should be concise and engaging. Here’s an example from the Atlas Obscura website for the entry on the Kankoji Temple: “Take a lick of the legendary homemade miso paste that protected this Buddhist temple’s scrolls from a fire centuries ago.” Your teaser text should be 50 words maximum.
Your article should be between 1,500–2,000 words long. Because articles are rather long, the text should be broken up by suheadings. You can indicate these by putting the headings on a line on their own.

You should use endnotes to cite direct quotes and specific information taken from a primary or secondary source. Endnotes should be formatted using the Chicago style (online guide to Chicago style here), and indicated in the text within [square brackets]. Here’s an example of a properly formatted endnote for citation from a specific page of a book:
[Insert endnote 1: Tyler Anbinder, City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York (HarperCollins, 2016), 22.]

If you are including images, videos, or other documents in your entry, include instructions in [square brackets]. For example, you might write [insert ‘image-1-joes-restaurant.jpg’ here]. Make sure these callouts match the file names for the images or other materials that you upload.
Include a list of references to works that you consulted in your research. References should be formatted using the Chicago style for bibliographies. Here’s an example:
Anbinder, Tyler. City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York. HarperCollins, 2016.
This is the main image used for the article. Image should be in the public domain or taken by you.
Accepted file types: jpg, jpeg, gif, png, heic, Max. file size: 100 MB.
Include a brief caption of the image. At the end, include attribution, e.g. “Image is in the public domain. Courtesy: Library of Congress” or “Photo: Joseph Pentangelo.”
Optional. Upload up to eight additional images here, either in the public domain or taken by you. Please title images in the following way: “Image 1, [name of your entry],” “Image 2, [name of your entry],” etc. If you are using a photo which features specific people (like a street vendor, etc.), you should ask their permission before you post it.
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Accepted file types: jpg, jpeg, png, gif, heic, Max. file size: 100 MB, Max. files: 8.
    You must submit a short caption for every image you include with your entry. At the end of each caption, include attribution, e.g. “Image is in the public domain. Courtesy: Library of Congress” or “Photo: Joseph Pentangelo.”

    Please title captions in the following way: “Caption for Image 1, [name of entry],” “Caption for Image 2, [name of entry],” etc.

    Make it clear which captions go with which pictures by including the names of the files you uploaded, e.g. “Caption for Image 1, Joe’s Restaurant – This photo was taken in 1956 and shows Joe’s Restaurant’s original location in Little Italy. Image is in the public domain. Courtesy: NYPL.”

    You are encouraged to include video and audio clips as part of your entry if you recorded an interview with someone or if you found related audio or video materials online. You should ask permission of interviewees before you post any audio or video clips that feature them online.

    Optional. Any video clips should be uploaded to YouTube using your Macaulay YouTube account. Set the video’s privacy setting to either “Public” or “Unlisted,” then share the link here.
    Optional. Any audio should be uploaded to SoundCloud and linked here.
    If you have more than one audio or visual link, paste them here.
    Optional.
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    Accepted file types: pdf, jpg, jpeg, gif, png, heic, Max. file size: 100 MB, Max. files: 5.
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