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The New York Historical (known as the New-York Historical Society from 1804–2024) is an American history museum and library on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. The society was founded in 1804 as New York's first museum. It presents exhibitions, public programs, and research that explore the history of New York and the nation.
Louise Mirrer is an American historian who is president and CEO of the New-York Historical Society. [1] Under Mirrer’s direction, the New-York Historical Society has launched a series of exhibitions, including Slavery in New York; New York Divided: Slavery and the Civil War; A New Light on Tiffany: Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls; French Founding Father: Lafayette’s Return to ...
Houses the Museum of Bronx History, operated by the Bronx Historical Society Van Cortlandt House Museum: Riverdale: Bronx: Historic house: 18th-century period manor house Vander Ende-Onderdonk House: Ridgewood: Queens: Historic house: Oldest Dutch Colonial stone house in New York City, operated by the Greater Ridgewood Historical Society ...
A 99 B-Line bus at UBC Exchange. The internal campus street grid is mostly organized as a number of east–west roads intersecting a series of north–south malls. There are few through streets on campus as both Main Mall and University Boulevard are largely pedestrian streets, bisecting the campus in both the east–west and north–south directions.
Some institutions have a museum or an art gallery, and some have both. Others, such as the City College of New York, have important collections but neither a museum nor a dedicated gallery. Art schools in the United States often have many gallery spaces on campus. Maryland Institute College of Art has 21 galleries. [citation needed]
Avery Library is named for New York architect Henry Ogden Avery, a friend of William Robert Ware, who was the first professor of architecture at Columbia University in 1881. Soon after Avery's death in 1890, his parents, Samuel Putnam Avery and Mary Ogden Avery , established the library as a memorial to their son.
The New-York Historical Society is an American history museum and library in New York City, along Central Park West between 76th and 77th Streets, on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The society was founded in 1804 as New York's first museum. It presents exhibitions, public programs, and research that explore the history of New York and the ...
The American LGBTQ+ Museum is a museum in development on the Upper West Side of Manhattan that will focus on New York City's LGBTQ history. [1] [2] It will be part of the campus of the New-York Historical Society, which is undergoing a 70,000 square feet (6,500 m 2) expansion, [3] and is slated to open in 2026.