EVENT: Robert Moses-Mania at the MCNY & elsewhere
The Symposium: Lessons from Robert Moses
Thursday, February 1, 2007
Symposium: 5:30 – 7:00 pm
The New York Academy of Medicine
1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
Presented by the Museum of the City of New York
Opening Reception: 7:00 – 9:00 pm
Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
The Symposium: Lessons from Robert Moses
Forty years after the reign of Robert Moses, key city players consider urbanism in the 21st century and set out their vision for the future. Topics to be addressed include regional planning, open space initiatives, transportation, sustainable development, and New York’s role as an international city. James S. Russell, the architecture critic for Bloomberg, with moderate this program featuring a keynote address by Deputy Mayor Daniel Doctoroff and a roundtable discussion with Majora Carter, Anthony Coscia, Tony Hiss, and John Sexton.
Advanced Reservations Required
$10 for Historic District Council members, Museum of the City of New York members, seniors, and students
$20 general admission.
Order Tickets Now at http://www.mcny.org/public_programs/all/536.html
For more information, please call 212.534.1672, ext. 3395.
Presented in conjunction with the exhibition:
Robert Moses and the Modern City: Remaking the Metropolis focuses on the extensive physical transformation of New York City guided by city planner Robert Moses from 1934 to 1968. Proclaiming that “the city must be saved,” Moses literally remade the landscape of the city with roads, tunnels and bridges, new landmarks and parks, and massive urban renewal projects. Documents, photographs, publicity brochures, and never-before-exhibited three-dimensional models of Moses’ projects—both realized and failed—trace the controversial history of this complicated figure.
The exhibition will be on view at the Museum of the City of New York through May 28, 2007.
The exhibition coincides with
Robert Moses and the Modern City: The Road to Recreation at the Queens Museum of Art (www.queensmuseum.org) and
Robert Moses and the Modern City: Slum Clearance and the Superblock Solution at the Wallach Gallery of Columbia University (www.columbia.edu/cu/wallach).
Special event, February 11, 2007 • 3:00 pm
Robert Caro, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Knopf, 1974), will offer reflections on the career of Robert Moses three decades after the publication of his seminal biography.
For information about this and other Robert Moses and the Modern City programs, please visit www.mcny.org.