LIC Gantry Lecture The Backstory of the Long Island City Gantries with Bob Singleton, Exec Dir Greater Astoria Historical Society Before the Hell Gate Bridge opened in 1917, New York’s topography, which gave it extraordinary water access, also made Long Island (including Queens and Brooklyn) inaccessible to the national rail grid. Join Bob Singleton for… Read More »LIC Gantry Lecture
City Island City Island is chock full of antique shops, art galleries, and seafood restaurants, most of them arrayed along City Island Avenue. Located on a spit of an island in Eastchester Bay in the extreme northeast Bronx, City Island is a transplanted New England fishing village seemingly beamed into the New York Metropolitan area.… Read More »City Island
Historic Houses of Queens Queens, New York, boasts a rich history that includes dozens of poorly publicized but historically impressive houses. A mix of farmsteads, mansions, seaside escapes, and architecturally significant community dwellings, these homes were owned by America’s forefathers, nouveau riche industrialists, Wall Street tycoons, and prominent African American entertainers from the Jazz Age.… Read More »Historic Houses of Queens
Open House NY - A Virtural Tour of the Steinway Mansion Home to renowned piano manufacturer William Steinway and his family, this grand Italianate villa overlooking Bowery Bay was the center of a thriving model community and commercial district and the birthplace of urban development ideas that influence the city today. Home to renowned… Read More »Open House NY – A Virtural Tour of the Steinway Mansion
Civil Rights on Long Island Long Island has been in the corridors of almost all major turning points of American history, but Long Island has been overlooked as a battleground of the civil rights movement. Christopher Verga is a local historian and American history lecturer at Suffolk County Community College. Christopher utilized images from local… Read More »Civil Rights on Long Island
A Halloween Tour of the Cemetary Belt Only the brave should join us on a virtual tour of the Queens Cemetery Belt. Thomas Wolfe wrote, “Only the Dead Know Brooklyn,” but he must not have spent much time in Queens. This tour will take you to the Cemetery Belt - the great burial grounds of… Read More »A Halloween Tour of the Cemetary Belt
Prospect Park with Forgotten NY Prospect Park is hardly Forgotten: millions use it to relax, play ball, stroll, take in the sun. But there are plenty of nooks and crannies in the park that is unknown to all but the connoisseurs. Come with Kevin Walsh and Forgotten NY in association with the Greater Astoria… Read More »Prospect Park with Forgotten NY
The highly idiosyncratic housing styles of Queens! The borough of Queens has long been celebrated as the melting pot of America. Over a million foreign-born residents call it home, yet its houses are relatively unknown. This first comprehensive publication features over two-hundred images of highly idiosyncratic residential structures that characterize the global building aesthetic of… Read More »All the Queens Houses: the highly idiosyncratic housing styles of Queens
Greater Astoria Historical Society Holiday Party Please join us for our annual ‘Tis the Season’ Virtual Holiday Party for fun and good conversation Special Guest: Tom Wilk Founder of Wilk Apiaries Founder of the Queens Beekeepers Guild to help beekeepers in Queens Certified Master Beekeeper: Cornell University's Dyce Labs for Honey Bee Studies. Long Island/New… Read More »An Evening with Tom Wilk – Master Beekeeper
Walk Through Ravenswood w/ FNY & GAHS 12th Street looking north between 37th and 36th Avenues (c. 1910) There are many layers of Ravenswood ... ... a past community of mansions, industry, and waterfront parks. Join Kevin Walsh of Forgotten NY as he peels back the layers of this old village in Long Island City.… Read More »Walk Through Ravenswood (Astoria, Qns.)
Black History Month with Forgotten NY Weeksville Brooklyn There is much to see of Black History ... . . . ... but streets, parks, and buildings that are renamed for deserving individuals they often lack signage – and their stories remain all but unknown. This lecture embraces a Forgotten-NY goal: Bring Gotham's hidden Black History… Read More »Forgotten NY – Black History Month with Sergey Kadinsky
Virtual Lecture - Wednesday, March 30th at 7 PM View of Bridge Construction from Blackwells (Roosevelt) Island Opened in 1909, the Queensboro Bridge is the longest bridge spanning the East River. The Queensboro Bridge documents the creation of this cultural icon and its contributions to the history of New York. With Bob Singleton, Executive Director… Read More »The 113th Anniversary of the Opening of the Queensboro Bridge