ROOSEVELT ISLAND: END TO END!
2022-06-06 19:00 - 20:30 UTC
JOIN JUDY BIRDY!
PRESIDENT
OF THE ROOSELVELT ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY
On a Virtual Tour!
“ROOSEVELT ISLAND END TO END”
Roosevelt Island vastly changed over the years while our community developed
Our six landmarks remain, all beautifully restored
Our parks have been expanded and the FDR Four Freedoms Park graces the Southern tip.
The landmark lighthouse at our northern tip is restored to its original design
standing tall above The Girl Puzzle sculptures.
It is time to explore the island …
its monuments, parks, history, a college campus and wonderful history!

MONDAY, JUNE 6, 2022
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
TO REGISTER FOR THE EVENT:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/roosevelt-island-end-to-end-tickets-347911601967

LONG ISLAND CITY: CRADLE OF CREATIVITY
2022-06-15 19:00 - 21:00
WITH
Bob Singleton, Executive Director
of the Greater Astoria Historical Society!
THE CRADLE OF CREATIVITY: a Virtual Tour!
In this community:

the document proclaiming American Independence was first read on our Nations’s soil,
the Inland Empire (as the called the great center of the continent) was linked to the Empire City,
the name of one of its neighborhoods is on the First Page of the Information Age,
the Steinways built and developed the Entertainment Industry making Gotham the World Capital,
and Sony showed the world what a transistor could do, and by doing so, showed us our Future.

MONDAY, JUNE 15, 2022 / 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
TO REGISTER FOR THE EVENT:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/historic-tales-of-long-island-city-tickets-347922243797

THE LONG ISLAND JOURNAL: The Newspaper of Record for old Long Island City!
2022-07-26 19:00 - 20:30
LONG ISLAND CITY
FROM THE PAGES OF
THE LONG ISLAND JOURNAL !

Job Press Room at the Newspaper

LONG ISLAND CITY IN 1896!
WITH
Bob Singleton, Executive Director of the Greater Astoria Historical Society!
TUESDAY, JULY 26, 2022 / 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
TO REGISTER FOR THE EVENT:
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER!!!

A Study of Long Island City's Post Industrial Landscape!
2022-08-17 19:00 - 20:30
A STUDY OF LONG ISLAND CITY’S
POST INDUSTRIAL LANDSCAPE ~
AND ITS IMPACT ON OUR CITY’S LANDSCAPE …

NATHAN KENSINGER
PHOTOGRAPHER – FILMAKER – JOURNALIST

The first part of this program will be a short documentary film that he co-directed with Nate Dorr about Hunter’s Point South in 2015 titled Reclaimed Ground. This piece was part of a larger arts project he co-curated called Change Ecologies, that brought 20 artists to engage with the Long Island City waterfront and investigate its history.
The second part of the program will be a presentation of his ongoing photographic and journalistic documentation of LIC’s changing post-industrial landscape, highlighting local industrial sites that have now been demolished or developed, including West Chemical, Schwartz Chemical, and the Neptune Meter Company, otherwise known as 5 Pointz.
SPECIAL PRESENATION: RECLAIMED GROUND — A Short Documentary

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 2022 / 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
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Marine Air Terminal
2022-09-12 19:00 - 20:30
LaGuardia Airport’s
~ MARINE AIR TERMINAL ~
A STUDY OF ITS HISTORY AND SUGGESTION FOR ITS REUSE

The Terminal’s Main Rotunda
Robert Singleton, Executive Director
Greater Astoria Historical Society
The Marine Air Terminal (also known as Terminal A) is an airport terminal located at LaGuardia Airport in Queens, New York City. Its Main Building (sometimes referred to as Terminal ‘A’, designed in the Art Deco style by William Delano of the firm Delano & Aldrich, opened in 1940. The terminal was built to handle Pan Am’s fleet of flying boats, the Boeing 314 Clippers, which landed on the nearby Bowery Bay.

The Main Terminal building consists of a two-story circular core with a projecting entrance pavilion and a pair of two-story wings. The brick facade is painted buff, with black details, and contains a frieze that depicts flying fish. The three-story rectangular entrance pavilion contains a canopy and a set of doors leading to the terminal’s main rotunda. The rotunda contains marble floors and walls, as well as the Flight mural by James Brooks. Both the interior and the exterior of the main building were declared New York City Landmarks in 1980, and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
Wikipedia

Clipper Leaving for Europe from Main Terminal
A SLIDESHOW ON THE AIRPORT’S HISTORY … and future?
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2022 / 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
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Astoria's Chester Carlson: Founder of Xerography - Funder of Parapsychology
2022-10-19 19:00 - 21:00
Astoria’s Chester Carlson:
THE FOUNDER OF XEROGRPAHY / THE FUNDER OF PARAPSYCHOLOGY

Chester Carlson
Most people are familiar with Chester Carlson and his invention, the xerox machine. Few people know that Carlson had an interest in paranormal phenomena and donated anonymously to these causes. This lecture will explore these connections and discuss what is parapsychology.

What is the connection between Chester Carlson and Parapsychology? What is the relationship?
Dr. Sally Ann Drucker, Lecturer
PREVIOUS EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL OF PARAPSYCHOLOGY
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2022 / 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Tickets: $5.00:
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The History of Hell Gate Brewery
2022-11-16 19:00 - 20:30
The History of Hell Gate Brewery
or WHY THE PILGRIMS LANDED ON PLYMOUTH ROCK!

Drinking Ehret’s Beer
George Ehret established the Hell Gate Brewery in 1866 in New York City. It became one of the nation’s largest breweries, producing 602,000 barrels in 1900. For the 25th Anniversary of the Brewery, Mr. Ehert wrote a book looking back on the history of beer in America and his own rise to fame.

Come hear his stories!!!
Deborah Van Cura
BOARD MEMBER OF THE GREATER ASTORIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2022 / 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Tickets: $5.00:
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Secrets of Central Park
2022-12-01 19:00 - 20:30
The Secrets of Central Park
… A VIRTUAL TOUR WITH LEGEDNARY TOUR GUIDE KEVIN WALSH!

Its over 850 acres discovered and rediscovered every time you walk around it!
Central Park has had 150 years to collect a lot of attractions and features that are, more or less, Forgotten.
It’s vast enough so that quite a bit of it is rarely trodden by the public… which passes some highlights by without giving them a second glance.

Walk with Kevin, Goatham’s Leading Urban Blogger, as he Uncovers its Secrets!
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2022 / 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Tickets: $5.00:
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Visit Kevin’s Legendary Blog “FORGOTTEN NY” !
