Events in August 2021
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Six to Celebrate: Rooms of Their Own: The Social and Architectural History of Women’s Institutions on the Upper East Side
Six to Celebrate: Rooms of Their Own: The Social and Architectural History of Women’s Institutions on the Upper East Side
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Aug 11, 2021August 11, 20215:00 p.m.This is an in-person tourThe Upper East Side boasts the first private women’s social club in New York, the first public women’s college in the nation, and the first Black working women’s settlement house in the city. Since the 19th century, the neighborhood has been home to clubs, schools, residences, political institutions, and professional associations catering exclusively to women. The women who founded, joined, lived, worked and learned in these institutions used them to shape their lives, their city and their nation. On this walking tour, led by historian Lucie Levine, we will dive into the architectural and social history of these establishments, and delve into more than 100 years of local women’s history through the spaces they made their own.$30 / $25 Friend / Senior
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Six to Celebrate Tour: Victorian Flatbush: Where Brooklyn’s Dutch Roots Meet the City’s Stateliest Suburbs
Six to Celebrate Tour: Victorian Flatbush: Where Brooklyn’s Dutch Roots Meet the City’s Stateliest Suburbs
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Aug 25, 2021August 25, 20215:00 p.m.This is an in-person tourFrom the oldest continuous site of worship in New York City, to the highest concentration of Victorian mansions in the United States, Victorian Flatbush stands out as one of the most striking, and historically rich areas in the city. As we make our way from the epicenter of Dutch settlement on Long Island, to the leafy splendor of Prospect Park South and Ditmas Park, we’ll take in a dash of rainbow shingles, a drop of Dutch Reform, and find out how this remarkable neighborhood has a direct connection to The American Revolution, the Women’s Movement, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the Golden Age of Hollywood!