Upcoming Events at the Museum of the City of New York
The High Line: Reviving New York’s Avant-Garde Architecture
Thursday • September 11 • 6:30 PM
Join Museum of the City of New York curators Donald Albrecht and Thomas Mellins; architect Neil Denari; architectural historian Kenneth Frampton, Ware Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University; Sherida Paulsen, architect and former chair of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission; and Rick Bell, architect and executive director of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, for a discussion of the broader implications of Denari’s HL23 residential tower, now under construction at 23rd Street and the High Line. The program will explore HL23’s role in New York City’s revival as a center of avant-garde architecture and how today’s global culture and economy have shaped the building’s design and construction. Presented in conjunction with New York Fast Forward: Neil Denari Builds on the High Line. Reservations required. $5 for Museum members, seniors, and students; $9 for non-members.
New York For Sale: Are Developers Overbuilding?
Monday • October 20 • 6:30 PM
Neighborhood activists and preservationists claim that changes in zoning regulations and new construction are destroying the character of New York. Public officials and pro-development forces maintain that in order to compete with other global cities, New York must continue on its current course of development and that there are ways to do this sustainably. Hope Cohen, deputy director of the Center for Rethinking Development in New York City, will moderate a panel discussion with Tom Angotti, director of Hunter College’s Center for Community Planning & Development and author of New York for Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate (MIT Press, November 2008); Yvonne Isaac, founding partner and chief operating officer of Full Spectrum; Steven Spinola, president, The Real Estate Board of New York; and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer. Reservations required. $5 for Museum members, seniors, and students; $9 for non-members.
For reservations and program information, call (212) 534-1672, ext. 3395.
Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
(212) 534-1672