Dr. Camilla Townsend discusses the book On the Turtle’s Back: Stories the Lenape Told Their Grandchildren she co-authored with Nicky Kay Michael. The Lenape tribe, also known as the Delaware Nation, inhabited the region now comprising eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and parts of New York, Connecticut, and Maryland for centuries. However, America’s independence from […]
Book reading and signing by Alissa Lee, author of With Friends Like These.
Author Cynthia Zarin presents her novel Estate, in conversation with Jonathan Galassi.
Maximilian Schell and George Gizzard starred on Broadway in the powerful stage version of an Academy Award winning film. Ernest Janning, one of the most influential German legal minds of the pre war era, and other influential Nazis face a military tribunal in the second wave of post war trials at Nuremberg. Issues at the […]
Join this group of fiber art crafters for a fun afternoon of creativity and camaraderie. Bring your projects, which can include—but are not limited to—knitting, crocheting, embroidery and small-loom weaving.
President & CEO of the New York City Economic Development Corporation, Andrew Kimball, for a live recording of Person Place Thing with Emmy Award winner, Randy Cohen. Person Place Thing is an interview show based on the idea that people are especially engaging when they speak, not directly about themselves, but about something they care […]
On November 13th, the NYC Department of Records & Information Services (DORIS) will welcome the President & CEO of the New York City Economic Development Corporation, Andrew Kimball, for a live recording of Person Place Thing with Emmy Award winner, Randy Cohen. Person Place Thing is an interview show based on the idea that people […]
Film screening: “Force of Evil” (1948) is Abraham Polonsky’s searing portrait of corruption and conscience in postwar New York. John Garfield stars as a Wall Street lawyer ensnared in the city’s numbers racket, torn between moral reckoning and ruthless ambition. Shot on location in Lower Manhattan and the Bronx, “Force of Evil” portrays New York […]
Each November, movie fans celebrate the hallmark antiheroes, femme fatales, moral complexities, and the stunning black & white cinematography of film noir. Free popcorn will be served, and a discussion will follow each screening. In The Breaking Point (Michael Curtiz, 1950, 97 minutes) John Garfield plays Harry Morgan, a charter boat captain who takes on […]
Nerdy Thursdays are the Black Gotham Experience take on the Harlem Renaissance salon. A familiar place to meet new ideas. Tonight's theme: War.
Preview reception for Path to Liberty: Orders, Discipline and Daily Life. Expanding upon the museum's commemoration of the United States Semiquincentennial in the Path to Liberty: The Emergence of a Nation exhibition, this newest exhibition will feature orderly books from 1775 to 1783 drawn from the Museum’s collection. The books reveal how officers used daily […]