Bring the museum to you! Our interactive and engaging workshops for educators and administrators utilize the Museum of the City of New York's exhibitions and collections to connect the stories of the ...

Ring in the holiday season at the Museum of the City of New York and join us for a family day of seasonal fun and activities!

Left: Cover of The League of Kitchens Cookbook, Right: Lisa Kyung Gross Join us for a special book talk celebrating the launch of The League of Kitchens Cookbook, a vibrant collection of recipes and ...

CHISHOLM WITH CHILDREN, UNDATED, King Photographers, Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries On Saturday, November 30th, commemorate the centennial of the birth of ...

Join us for a special screening of Wild Style (Charlie Ahearn, 1983, 82 mins), widely regarded as the first hip-hop film, capturing the early days of graffiti, breakdancing, DJing, and MCing in New ...

On May 21, 1910, some 10,000 New Yorkers gathered in Union Square to demand that women receive the right to vote. The rally, the largest woman suffrage demonstration yet held in the country, ...

To commemorate the centennial of the birth of Shirley Chisholm (1924–2005), the Museum of the City of New York and the Shirley Chisholm Project at Brooklyn College will present the first major museum ...

Sara Roeloffs was born in Amsterdam in 1627 to Scandinavian immigrant parents. Over her very long life, she would marry three times, and is known today mostly by the last name she used during her ...

In the decades after the new Cross-Bronx Expressway bisected the South Bronx in the 1950s, abandonment and arson claimed large swaths of the borough. Facing diminishing revenues, some landlords were ...

In 1886, New Yorker Stanton Coit founded the nation’s first “settlement house,” the New York Neighborhood Guild (today the University Settlement) on Forsyth Street on the Lower East Side. Inspired by ...