Growing Up Bank Street a Book Discussion Donna Florio’s fierce love letter to a quintessential city street and the characters who lived, laughed, cried, and sometimes died there. Bank Street… Read More »Growing Up Bank Street a Book Discussion
South Street Seaport A virtual walking tour of the South St. Seaport with Forgotten NY's Kevin Walsh Stroll the streets of the South St Seaport where the Fulton Fish Market… Read More »South Street Seaport
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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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,”… 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… 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… 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… 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… Read More »Walk Through Ravenswood (Astoria, Qns.)