Lectures and Discussions
The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson
After a year of celebrating the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s European discovery of New York, 2010 finds us remembering another one of his journeys – his final voyage. In April of 1610, Huds...
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. ...
Other
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
Grand Central Terminal Tour
Join us for an hour-and-a-half tour of the magnificent Beaux-Arts landmark that MAS helped to save. Meet at the information booth, main concourse. Tour takes place every Wednesday. ...
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 - East Village History
East Village Walking Tour: This is a crash course in East Village/Lower East Side history. From the farmlands of the 1600s and the wealthy estates of the 1700s, to immigration, tenements, the "melting...
Lower East Side History Project - Fourth Ward/Two Bridges
The Fourth Ward, today known as the "Two Bridges" neighborhood, was a rough, working-class, waterfront district which neighbored the infamous Five Points in the 19th century. Once one of the poorest a...
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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