Museum Events/Exhibitions
LAST DAY OF THE MYRTLE AVENUE EL: PHOTOGRAPHS BY THERESA KING
Opening in 1888, the Myrtle Avenue el ran from downtown Brooklyn to Queens, passing through Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Bushwick, Ridgewood, and Middle Village. After eighty years, ...
Light on New Netherland
New Netherland - the Dutch province that stretched from today's New York State to parts of Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut - existed for 55 years and its legacy lives on. Just two ...
Lincoln and New York
Abraham Lincoln—the quintessential westerner—owed much of his national political success to his impact on the eastern state of New York—and, in turn, New York's impact on him. This exhibition of...
NATURE AND THE AMERICAN VISION: THE HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL AT THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY
The New-York Historical Society continues to showcase together more than 100 famous paintings by artists of the Hudson River School, including Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, John F. Kensett, Jasper F. ...
Opening Reception for Glitch Generation
CURATORS: Michele Jaslow and Spring Hofeldt
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: Brianelectro, Jude Broughan, Loren Erdrich, Scott Fitzgerald, Charles Gute, Valerie Hallier, Shannan Hayes, Nora Herting, Kennedy Ja...
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PETER STUYVESANT TELEPHONE TOUR
PETER STUYVESANT'S GHOST TELEPHONE TOUR linked pay telephones throughout the footprint of Peter Stuyvesant's original farm with a central telephone server, which hosted 'messages' of up to 1 minute cr...
Walking Tours
Lower East Side History Project - Beat Writers & Poets
Post WWII America brought a new wave of artists, students, intellectuals and freethinkers to the Lower East Side. The radical and countercultural spirit of the predominantly immigrant, working-class n...
Lower East Side History Project - Chinatown/Five Points
Chinatown/Five Points Walking Tour: New York's legendary slum, a story of Irish, Italians, Africans, Germans, Jews and Chinese, their struggles, their cultures; gangs of New York to the tongs of China...
Lower East Side History Project - Creating Bohemia
Explore the lives, studios, residencies and haunts of the pioneering Downtown artists who helped defined NYC for over a century; From the Ashcan, New York and Neo Expressionists Schools of art to "lof...
New York TV & Movie Tour
The New York TV & Movie Tour takes you through the history of the most filmed city in the world. Go On Location to sites from your favorite movies and tv shows, from the classics to today....
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