From Farm to City: Staten Island 1661-2012

 (Exhibition opening date is tentative.)

Through maps, photographs, newspapers, government documents, and original artifacts, visitors will encounter Staten Island’s historical transformation and its changing roles as a farming center, as a rural retreat, as the site of rapidly residential communities, as a center for industry, and as an increasingly dense urban environment. From Farm to City: Staten Island 1661-2012 will also enable visitors to explore current debates about land preservation, environmental sustainability, and redevelopment on the island, including through a special case study of the Fresh Kills landfill redevelopment.

A companion Web site accompanying From Farm to City will provide visitors with an interactive porthole through which to view Staten Island’s centuries of transformation.

From Farm to City is sponsored by Richmond County Savings Foundation.