'Sites & Sounds' Nominated for GANYC Apple Award

The Gotham Center’s new podcast series Sites and Sounds has been nominated for The Guides Association of New York City’s 2019 Apple Award for ‘'Outstanding Achievement in Radio Program or Podcast.”

Past awardees include WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show, The Bowery Boys, and WFUV’s Cityscape.

The series, launched in October of this year, features scholars and experts talking about some of New York City’s most important historical sites and organizations for Open House New York Weekend.

Robert D.L. Gardiner Foundation Establishes New Writing Fellowship Program at Gotham Center

The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation has awarded $250,000 to The Gotham Center, at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York, to establish a fellowship program, "Writing the History of Greater New York." It is the center's first such grant. Four one-year awards of $40,000 will be conferred in 2020 and 2021 on scholars with promising book manuscripts nearing completion.

Gotham Blog Spotlighted by Urban History Association

As part of its “digital summer school” series, The Metropole, official blog of the Urban History Association, spotlighted the Gotham Center’s digital semiweekly publication, “Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City History.” Read more here.

Garment Industry History Initiative

The Gotham Center is partnering with the Leon Levy Foundation on a project documenting the history of New York City's garment industry, to encourage further research on the business during its heyday. The project will include a series of public programs, a website showcasing lives of various figures, a symposium on understudied aspects of the industry’s past, the creation of comprehensive bibliography of scholarship, and the making of a documentary film, “Dressing America,” to be aired on public television.

Gotham History Festival

In early October, The Gotham Center sponsored a New York City History Festival. The 10-day affair kicked off with a conference at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Over the following week, myriad panels, performances, walking tours, exhibitions, and screenings created what Festival planners called "a citywide jamboree for citizens and tourists alike to celebrate New York’s magnificent but under-appreciated historical resources."