For your viewing pleasure, two sites that make the city their muse:

Point and Guess
You think you know this city? Then test your knowledge on Guess Where NYC, an ongoing Flickr guessing-game. Members post photos taken in any of the five boroughs — like this one by yours truly — tag them appropriately, then wait for others to pinpoint the location in the comments below. Anyone with a Flickr account can play along, and once you nail it, the photographer tags it with your name.

It sounds easy, but you’d be surprised how many end up in the “GWNYC Dungeon,” a collection of unguessed pics — such as this spiral staircase, taken who-knows-where in 2005. (The forlorn photo pool, all tagged with “nycunguessed,” is here>>)

The group is one of the few on Flickr that meets offline, too, via photo walks. Rather than historical tours à la Forgotten NY, the neighborhood jaunts tend to be social photo hikes, usually concluding at a nearby restaurant or coffee shop. So far, all three have occurred on Brooklyn turf, in and around Sunset Park and Bay Ridge, Wallabout, and East Williamsburg. But plans for a Bronx trip are currently in the works. –Alicia Kachmar

8 Million Memories
In Howard Beach, Dr. D, the president of the Federation of Black Cowboys, shares his mission to teach inner city kids about rodeos and the real history of the Black West. In Dumbo, Gleason’s Gym’s oldest boxer, Tony Pellegrino, talks about boxing as a means of getting by during the Great Depression. Between them are dozens of New York stories, dotted across a map of the five boroughs at City of Memory.

This multimedia repository of Gotham stories was officially launched last month by the cultural heritage organization, City Lore. They supply some of the content, often in partnership with radio documentarians like Sound Portraits; the rest is user-generated, and what appears at each dot varies widely in production and scope, from an excerpt of the Academy-nominated film “Ferry Tales,” about the makeup room in the Staten Island Ferry, to a written account of young boys begging for samples from Long Island City’s old Silvercup Bakery, home now of the same-named movie studios, just for the thrill of watching fresh bread “pop” when thrown under the wheels of a passing car.

Any written memories, photos, images, sounds and footage pertaining to NYC history may be uploaded for free at the site, and will remain there in perpetuity. The more stories offered, the better the site gets. –Rachael Rakes