History
Tour: Exploring Lower Manhattan
The Municipal Art Society of NY 488 Madison Ave Suite 1900, New York, NY, United StatesWherever possible, guide Joe Svehlak will keep us off the streets as we learn about the continuing struggle to keep Downtown Manhattan connected to its multi-layered history during this time of much redevelopment. Above ground we’ll view sites connected with preservation gains and losses, including the nation’s first memorial, and New York’s first Roman Catholic […]
The Politics of Preservation
MoMA PS1 22-25 Jackson Ave, Long Island City, NY, United StatesMoMA PS1 presents an afternoon of programming that examines the destruction of Iraqi heritage by the allied forces during the Gulf wars. Scholarship and mainstream attention surrounding the destruction and preservation of cultural heritage in Iraq have tended to focus largely on antiquity. This critical conversation expands this scope to not only address archeological sites […]
Gentrification 2.0: The Good, the Bad, and the Blurry
Brooklyn Historical Society 128 Pierrepont St, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesFrom Sunset Park to East New York, barely a neighborhood in Brooklyn isn’t ensconced in its own version of the gentrification debate. Beyond the posturing and the rhetoric is a nuanced history and present day reality that’s neither all good, nor all bad. Join Matthew Schuerman, author of Newcomers: Gentrification and Its Discontents; Kay Hymowitz, Fellow at the […]
Book Launch for Seven Sisters and a Brother—Untold Truths Behind Black Student Activism in the 1960s
92 Y 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY, United StatesUntold Truths Behind Black Student Activism in the 1960s: Marilyn Allman Maye, Harold S. Buchanan, Jannette O. Domingo and Marilyn Holifield with Brent Staples Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has called Seven Sisters and a Brother “compelling portraits of the lives of the young people who risked their futures to make a difference.” Four of the eight authors […]
Exclusive Tour and Artifact Showcase at the KGB Espionage Museum
KGB Espionage Museum 245 West 14th Street, New York, NY, United StatesJoin New York Adventure Club for a private evening tour and artifact showcase at The KGB Espionage Museum, the only public museum in the world that focuses entirely on the espionage operations carried out by the KGB, the state security police of the former Soviet Union. Our unique experience at one of New York's newest museum will include: An overview […]