Enhance Your Local Online Marketing With LocalVoxMay 16, 2012
“Finding History in Sewers: Urban Explorations Around the World,” with Steve Duncan, urban historian, explorer, and photographer.
From underground rivers and abandoned subway tunnels to the tops of bridges and skyscrapers, the world’s great cities are full of places that are usually unseen, but that reveal the city’s history in new and startling ways. These hidden layers of the urban environment can teach us about how cities grow and function, and can provide a new perspective that highlights the ways that our daily experience in any city shapes– and is shaped by– the built environment around us.
For urban explorers, the quest to see and experience these places turns the great cities of the world into playgrounds of epic scale and drama. The presenter shares slides and tales of intrepid acts of trespassing and discovery in NYC, London, Paris, Moscow, Los Angeles, and elsewhere, and you will learn about the hidden world that lies all around us. From the tops of New York’s great bridges to the depths of ancient sewers, these stories and pictures show that history never has to be boring.
http://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2012/05/16/finding-history-sewers-urban-explorations-around-world-steve-duncan?pref=node_type_search%2Fevents
May 8, 2012
“Design After Modernism: Furniture and Interiors 1970-2010,” with Judith Gura, Head of Design History and Theory at New York School of Interior Design.
This illustrated lecture offers an overview of developments in design over the past four decades—some evolutionary, some expected, and some extraordinary. The author identifies the diverse influences that have generated new directions in design and illustrates many of the most characteristic, most noteworthy, and most innovative objects in this rich and variegated mix.
http://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2012/05/08/design-after-modernism-furniture-and-interiors-1970-2010-judith-gura-head?pref=node_type_search%2Fevents
Great Houses of Havana: A Century of Cuban Style
Architect and author Hermes Mallea gives the first-ever insider’s tour of Havana’s architectural gems. This talk, based on Mallea’s book of the same title, traces the evolution of the Cuban home from its traditional Spanish colonial roots to the “tropical Modernist” villas of the 1950′s.
Mallea will take us on a journey through some of Havana’s most fantastic residences analyzing their design and decoration, and introducing the architects and larger-than-life patrons who made Havana “the Paris of the Caribbean.” The author, who is a collector of vintage Cuban photography, puts a personal face on the city’s great houses by including family photographs and first-hand familial anecdotes that allow him to tell a more complete story than the ones usually found in a design book.
This talk is jointly sponsored by the The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection and the Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy.
This event is FREE and open to the public.
http://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2012/05/08/great-houses-havana-century-cuban-style?pref=node_type_search%2Fevents
May 6, 2012
Jane’s Walks — A New Way of Seeing and Understanding New York City
This walk, beginning at the former home of Jane Jacobs, will discuss what could have happened to the area if she had not defeated Robert Moses in building a Lower Manhattan Expressway, urban density and diversity (which Jacobs was highly in favor of), and will look at the type of “sidewalk ballet” that Jacobs viewed from her window.
http://mas.org/walk/a-new-way-of-seeing-and-understanding-new-york-city/
Jane’s Walks — In Search of the Tenderloin and Tin Pan Alley
From the 1870s to about 1910, the Tenderloin was Manhattan’s most famous red-light district, a cradle of elegant vice that developed north of 23rd Street west of Fifth Avenue, in the shadow of luxurious hotels such as Gilsey House. High-stakes gambling parlors, brothels, saloons, dance halls – the Tenderloin reveled in its own illegality, until pressure from civic authorities and corporate development led to its demise. Since the 1990s, zoning changes have altered the landscape of the old Tenderloin’s main stem – Sixth Avenue – and have led to the destruction of many buildings. But a few reminders survive. On this tour, we will visit sites associated with still-visible Tenderloin businesses, including the block of 28th St. once known as Tin Pan Alley, birthplace of the pop music industry.
http://mas.org/walk/in-search-of-the-tenderloin-and-tin-pan-alley/
May 5, 2012
The Orchard Beach Pavilion: past, present and future – an illustrated talk by Art Historian Deborah Wye
This illustrated talk will explore the distinctive architecture of the classically inspired Art Deco Pavilion built in the 1930s and will introduce ideas for adaptive re-use and restoration. Deborah Wye is an Art Historian and recently retired Chief Curator at The Museum of Modern Art.
http://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2012/05/12/landmark-pavilion-orchard-beach-talkdiscussion?pref=node_type_search%2Fevents
Jane’s Walks — Atlantic Yards: Brooklyn’s Most Controversial Development
Jane’s Walkers will learn the context of Brooklyn’s most controversial development project with Norman Oder, the journalist behind the Atlantic Yards Report blog and founder of New York Like a Native tours. The walk will begin near Atlantic Terminal, in front of the Williamsburgh Savings Bank, Brooklyn’s iconic tower. Walkers will then dip into the revitalized Fort Greene community before traversing the area around the Barclays Center arena and the rest of the unbuilt Atlantic Yards footprint in Prospect Heights.
http://mas.org/walk/the-atlantic-yards-brooklyns-most-controversial-development/
Jane’s Walks — Damsels in Design Takeover Chelsea and Meatpacking District
Follow Damsel’s in Design founder, Jennifer Markas on a walk of the Meatpacking District and Chelsea, arguably the new center for fashion, design, and the arts in New York City.
http://mas.org/walk/damsels-in-design-takeover-chelsea-and-meatpacking-district/
Astoria Pool Music and Performance Festival
Dive into spring at Astoria Pool and Park with a music and performance festival! Astoria Pool is the oldest and largest pool in the city, and you can get a birds-eye view of this historic site at our spring kick-off festival!
Activities include:
Live Bands
Live Performances
Arts & Crafts
Inflatable Kids Activities
Story-Telling Hour
Featuring performances by the Hip to Hip Theater Production, the Astoria Performing Arts Center, and Council Member Peter F. Vallone Jr.
http://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2012/05/05/astoria-pool-park-music-and-performance-festival
Jane’s Walks — Revisit Rockaway Beach: Village Inside a Bustling Resort
Join Rockaway native and author of Images of America: Rockaway Beach, Vivian Carter, in walking Rockaway Beach. Event participants will be exploring the area between Beach 84 Street and Beach 102 Street, while learning about the historical Village of Rockaway Beach, established in 1897. This event will be offered on both Saturday, May 5th, and Sunday, May 6th.
http://mas.org/walk/revisit-rockaway-beach-village-inside-a-bustling-resort/
