Lectures and Discussions
Beyond Weeksville: A History of African-Americans in Brooklyn
Genealogist Wilhelmina Kelly explores the early history of Black Brooklyn through its burial grounds, organizations, and neighborhoods. She will also show participants how to research their own New Yo...
Museum Events/Exhibitions
Frank Oscar Larson: 1950s New York Street Stories
New York City street photographer Frank Oscar Larson documented daily life in the bustling metropolis during the ’50s. The Queens Museum of Art will be exhibiting Larson’s compelling black and whi...
Walking Tours
Architecture of New York
This three-hour walking tour traverses one of the world's greatest thoroughfares, 42nd Street, to discuss architecture in New York City. Stretching from the East River to the Hudson River and cutting ...
Immigrant Soles
Take a neighborhood walking tour and learn what you might have seen and experienced negotiating the streets of the Lower East Side a hundred years ago. Explore the day-to-day challenges and opportunit...
Next Steps
This neighborhood walking tour explores Lower East Side life from 1935 to the present. The tour focuses on residential, business, social, and religious life during the time period, asking visitors to ...
SoHo and the Cast Iron District
Since the 19th century, the neighborhood of SoHo (south of Houston) has housed the city’s upper class, its first red light district, luxury textile industries, some of the country’s most influenti...
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