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Inside the Steinway Mansion a Virtual Tour Walk through the rooms and halls of the famed Steinway Mansion. Experience the interior of this landmarked home and see what it looked like for many years. To get a ticket for the event click here  

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 is at once ordinary and an extraordinary panorama of America. As the only child of a family that worked in the opera, Bank Street in […]

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 once stood. Pass by the sites of the olds restaurants such as Sweet’s and Sloppy Louie’s Restaurants (the old Paris Bar and Grill at South Street […]

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 […]