Thea Riofrancos presents Extraction, an in-depth investigation into the growing industry of green technologies and the environmental, social, and political consequences of the mining it requires. In conversation with David Wallace-Wells
NYCRun’s final Governors Island 10K race of 2025.
Pick up trash and tend to pollinator-friendly gardens. No experience is necessary; all ages and abilities are welcome!
The sky’s the limit in our board game: Skyscraper Monopoly! We’ll use the space of the gallery as a big board game where kids can test their knowledge of tall CONCRETE buildings and some of NYC’s most famous skyscrapers to earn points towards building the tallest tower. Will you become the skyscraper mogul? Join us […]
All-levels class for skaters, gardeners, park enthusiasts—and anyone who wants to join. No experience needed.
NYCRun’s final Governors Island 5K race of 2025.
Day-long event featuring talks, panels, and author signings, and themes of Jewish heritage, culture, and history, modern life and literature.
Historian of architecture, engineering, and the urban history of Chicago, Thomas Leslie, guest co-curator with Carol Willis for the Museum’s exhibition The Modern Concrete Skyscraper, will summarize the new avenues of research that grew from research on the exhibition. This in-person program traces the history of concrete skyscraper construction in Chicago, highlighting how the material […]
Daniel Wortel-London will discuss his new book, The Menace of Prosperity: Economic Development and its Discontents in New York City, 1870–1981, which explores how generations of New Yorkers have struggled with the promises and perils of economic development. Spanning New York City’s post–Civil War boom to the 1970s fiscal crisis, Wortel-London will reveal how NYC’s […]
Join fellow readers for lively discussion and thoughtful socializing. Today's book is James by Percival Everett
Join a dedicated group of adult American Mah Jongg enthusiasts for friendly and informal games, or try your hand at other card and board games. Make friends and catch up with neighbors. Sets, cards, and games provided, or bring your own.
Chicago’s tallest skyscraper when it opened in 1921, the Wrigley Building could be called the Midwest’s Woolworth Building. The gleaming white terra-cotta tower at the head of Michigan Avenue marked a move that opened the northward extension of the commercial concentration of the Loop. To celebrate the publication of the handsome new monograph The Wrigley […]