In Honor of Christopher Gray, Chronicler of the Streetscape
While many New Yorkers had their eyes turned toward what was predicted to be a historic snowstorm late Monday evening, the New York Times shared the sad news that Christopher … Continue reading
Tales from recent work with the Costume Collection
This week’s post is from Grace Hernandez, Assistant Curator of the Costumes and Textiles Collection. Over the fast few years, the Museum has been defining and honing the scope of … Continue reading
Muslim in New York: Highlights from the Photography Collection
Muslims have been woven into the fabric of New York since the city’s origins as New Amsterdam, and the Museum is happy to share highlights from our collection which shed … Continue reading
In Conversation with Gloria Steinem
“If I stayed home, I’d have to live like everybody else. If I came to New York, I could be myself.” — Gloria Steinem. Since the Museum’s exhibtion New York … Continue reading
Profiles in Freedom: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Dr. Aubre Maynard, and Yun Gee
In celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Black History Month, the Museum of the City of New York is exhibiting a portrait of Dr. Aubré de Lambert Maynard, … Continue reading
Ringing in the New Year with the Second Avenue Subway
The Museum connects the past, present, and future of New York City, by documenting, celebrating, and interpreting its distinctive character through exhibitions, programs, and collections. However, now and then, the … Continue reading
From Sea to Stall
A visit to my local Greenmarket on Saturday mornings is as much a part of my routine as a cup of coffee. And without a doubt, September is one of my … Continue reading
Conserving the Rufus King Traveling Medicine Chest
The New York City of statesman and diplomat Rufus King (1755-1827) was a grim place. Disease crippled the city, with its rampant overcrowding and meager sanitation. And despite their stature, the … Continue reading
Corsets Begone: Women’s Fashions of the Roaring Twenties
The decade that gave rise to the Chrysler and Empire State Buildings, the speakeasy, and the big band also brought with it soaring hemlines, breast-freeing bandeaus and the “uplift” brassiere, … Continue reading
State Dinners at the Lotos Club
New Yorkers, as we know, love to document their peer group—even colonial New Yorkers did it, as Curator Bruce Weber recently described in a post on the City Musuem’s exhibition … Continue reading
Can’t make it to the runway? Check out Dressing Room: Archiving Fashion
Do you have your tickets to New York City Fashion Week, yet? If not (or even if you do) we invite you to step up to the velvet rope here … Continue reading
Folded and Feathered: bringing hand fans to the Collections Portal
Long before air conditioning was a common amenity in most residences and buildings, high society New York women established their “cool” with an opulent, yet useful accessory: the hand fan. … Continue reading
The Sporting Life: A look at Harry T. Peters as huntsman
Harry Twyford Peters was born in Greenwich, Connecticut in 1881, and entered the coal business after graduating from Columbia College in 1903. He worked at Williams and Peters, his … Continue reading
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