Lectures and Discussions
Tenement Talk-- Breadwinners: Working Women and Economic Independence, 1865-1920 with Lara Vapnek
Vapnek tells the story of one activist’s fight for female suffrage. The daughter of Irish immigrants, Lenora O’Reilly was a factory hand, union organizer, socialist, and suffragist who began organ...
The History and life in Yorkville/Kleindeutschland
An exhibit/lecture by Yorkville Historian, Kathy Jolowicz.displays 20 photo panels, depicting the life and times of this once internationally famous landmark in New York City called “Germantown”. ...
The New York City Origins Of The Disability Rights Movement
Warren Shaw's lecture is a groundbreaking look at an important branch of the civil rights revolution of the 1960's and 1970's. This movement is often overlooked, but it was truly a revolutionary effo...
Museum Events/Exhibitions
Brooklyn in Prints: A Special Exhibition curated by The Old Print Shop
In celebration of the Centennial of the Brooklyn Heights Association (BHA), BHS and BHA will co-host the special exhibition Brooklyn in Prints featuring rare and unusual prints that depict Brooklyn He...
Charles Addams' New York
Charles Addams’s New York is an exhibition of original artworks by the legendary New Yorker cartoonist that capture Addams's quintessentially idiosyncratic and slyly subversive view of the city, dep...
GRATEFUL DEAD: NOW PLAYING AT THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY
n March 2010, the New-York Historical Society will present the first large-scale exhibition of materials from the Grateful Dead Archive. Drawn almost exclusively from the Archive housed at the Univers...
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...
Mapping New York's Shoreline, 1609-2009
September 2009 marks 400 years since Henry Hudson sailed into New York Harbor and up the Hudson River, almost to what is now Albany, performing detailed reconnaissance of the Hudson Valley region. Oth...
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. ...
New York Through the Lens: Photographs from the Permanent Collection
The Museum of the City of New York's collection of more than 350,000 prints and photographs is a remarkable visual resource that documents the built environment of the city and its changing cultural, ...
Tivoli: A Place We Call Home
Curated by Delphine Fawundu. A multi-media exhibition of photographs, words and video documenting the people of Tivoli Towers, a 35-year-old apartment building in Crown Heights Brooklyn.
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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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