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Two Solo Exhibitions: Tracey Snelling and Michael Paul Britto

Two Solo Exhibitions Exhibition dates: November 21, 2009 -January 3, 2010 Artists’ reception: Saturday, November 21, 5-8pm Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Sunday, 12-6pm Smack Mellon is pleased to present Tracey Snelling’s installation Woman on the Run and Michael Paul Britto’s new video works in Society’s Children. The two artists incorporate elements of pop culture, cinema, and reality to very read more...

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Daily Life Collection

Besides momentous events of the Revolutionary Era and New York City history, Fraunces Tavern's collection represents daily life of 18th-century Americans. Objects that were once common are now the most rare. Utilitarian items were often broken or used until they were worn out and then tossed away. Cooking pots, bottles, pipes, and other such items are now treasured at Fraunces Tavern Museum. An read more...

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Magna Carta and the Foundations of Freedom

See where the story of your freedom began. Magna Carta will make its appearance at historic Fraunces Tavern® Museum in New York City from September 15 - December 15, 2009. In the almost 800 years since it was drawn up this remarkable copy of Magna Carta has journeyed from its home at Lincoln Cathedral in England to New York just twice. The first time was for the 1939 World's Fair. The second ti read more...

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New York Collection

The collection captures an important portion of New York City's past, which is as colorful and vibrant as its present. What began as New Amsterdam, a rather insignificant Dutch outpost, became New York in 1664. Under English rule the city took on greater importance as part of Britain's vast trade system and as a strategic military base for conflicts with France for control of North America. By 177 read more...

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Revolution

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Manhattan Mini Models

Two highly-detailed, hand-carved miniature wooden models of Downtown and Midtown Manhattan on permanent display. Donated by Mike Chesko, a 49-year-old retiree and devoted amateur model maker. Chesko's models measure 17-3/4 by 20 inches for the Lilliputian Lower Manhattan and 37 by 31 inches for Midtown. The scale of the model is 3/8 inch for every 100 feet, meaning that the 1,250 foot Empire State read more...

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Maps and Photographs of Lower Manhattan

Lower Manhattan in the Sixties was a mature business district trapped in the fitments of an earlier age. A corset of finger piers bounded the island's edge, constraining growth. The downtown waterfront had been rendered obsolete, first by larger ships with deeper drafts, and from the late 1950s, by containerization which drove shipping to relocate to the vast, vacant expanses of the New Jersey low read more...

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Seaport Past & Future

This free exhibit will take guests through The Seaport's centuries of growth and epic changes that have impacted New York City and the entire region. Achival materials showcase vintage streetscapes presented with the same views as they appear today allowing visitors to examine continuities and change over time at The Seaport. These momentous occasions will be demonstrated through multi media featu read more...

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Pages of the Past: The Breukelen Adventures of Jasper Danckaerts

In 1679 Jasper Danckaerts and his colleague Peter Sluyter came to New York in search of land for a religious colony. For 200 years Danckaerts’ meticulously written and illustrated diaries lay undiscovered until Henry C. Murphy, a founder of the Long Island Historical Society, (later renamed the Brooklyn Historical Society) came upon the diaries in 1864, in an Amsterdam book store. Now an important read more...

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Images of the Brooklyn Bridge

The Brooklyn Historical Society displays in their main lobby historical images of the Brooklyn Bridge

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In Our Own Words: Portraits of Brooklyn's Vietnam Veterans

With the use of oral histories, portraits, and personal artifacts this audio installation explores the impact of the Vietnam War on the lives of Brooklyn’s diverse residents, from the first person perspective. “Meeting” eight people who were touched by the Vietnam War, visitors are prompted to consider the on-going impact of the Vietnam War in the lives of Brooklynites, from their memories of the read more...

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It Happened In Brooklyn

This exhibit highlights key moments in our nation's history and how they played out in Brooklyn. Through artifacts from the Brooklyn Historical Society's permanent collection such as photographs, artworks, and documents, visitors will meet a diverse range of residents from Brooklyn's earliest Native American settlements, to the men and women who fought in the Revolutionary War on Brooklyn's shores read more...

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Portraits of Prominent New Yorkers

The Brooklyn Historical Society presents Portraits of Prominent New Yorkers

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The Legend of Martense's Lane: Folklore in Dutch Colonial Brooklyn

“The Legend of Martense’s Lane,” a folktale that originated in Colonial Dutch Brooklyn, offers a fascinating glimpse into the real and perceived lives of African Americans during the 17th century. This exhibition centers on a series of four commissioned charcoal drawings by William Moore Davis illustrating the folktale. Curated by Sarah Gillespie. This exhibition is part of the “5 Dutch Days” read more...

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Two Solo Exhibitions: Tracey Snelling and Michael Paul Britto

Two Solo Exhibitions Exhibition dates: November 21, 2009 -January 3, 2010 Artists’ reception: Saturday, November 21, 5-8pm Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Sunday, 12-6pm Smack Mellon is pleased to present Tracey Snelling’s installation Woman on the Run and Michael Paul Britto’s new video works in Society’s Children. The two artists incorporate elements of pop culture, cinema, and reality to very read more...

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Fare Collection

An exhibit on Fare Collection shows representative examples of various types of collection devices used throughout the subway system's history. Visitors may interact with these devices for a uniquely tactile retrospective experience. The exhibit features the first paper ticket-choppers used in 1904, later turnstile designs that accepted coins and tokens, the MetroCard turnstile currently in operat read more...

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Moving The Millions: New York City's Subways From Its Origins To The Present

On the platform level, Moving the Millions: New York City's Subways from its Origins to the Present provides visitors with an overview of the magnitude and complexity of New York City's rapid transit system. The exhibition uses historical photographs, diagrams, cartoons, period maps, and newspaper clippings to illustrate major issues and events that influenced the development of the largest transp read more...

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On The Streets: New York's Trolleys And Buses

A gallery dedicated to surface transportation presents, in nine complementing segments, a history of above ground mobility for the last 175 years – from the early 1800s through the 21st Century. The central element of the exhibition On the Streets: New York's Trolleys and Buses is a simulated traffic intersection complete with traffic lights and coordinated walk-don't walk signs, parking meters, f read more...

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Steel, Stone & Backbone: Building New York's Subways 1900-1925

This ever-popular exhibition presents a look at the building of New York City's first subway line, various construction methods, and the people who built it. The exhibition features pictures taken over 100 years ago during construction, along with historical artifacts and period videos. The faces of the workers and images of the birth of the subway evoke a sense of awe and appreciation for the ded read more...

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The Triborough Bridge: Robert Moses and the Automobile Age

Examining the legacy of Robert Moses, this exhibition focuses on the Triborough Bridge, now renamed the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge, designed and built to connect three boroughs and accommodate New York's burgeoning auto traffic. Enjoy illustrated family exhibit labels! Kid-friendly pictures and diagrams explain the operation and maintenance of bridges to the littlest engineers.

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