City Play: Martha Cooper’s New York

Tuesday, July 3, 2018 by Sean Corcoran

By Sean Corcoran, Curator of Prints and Photographs

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Notable New Yorkers Wednesday, November 1, 2017

Remembering Mel Rosenthal

Mel Rosenthal—photographer, educator, activist, and friend of the Museum of the City of New York—recently passed away. We remember the life of this notable New Yorker.
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What if… There was a universal basic income?

Thursday, June 28, 2018

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Translation: What if… More of the waterfront was accessible to the public?

Tuesday, June 26, 2018

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Thursday, June 28, 2018

What if… There was a universal basic income?

Low-wage jobs have many workers struggling to make ends meet. Some people believe that the simplest and most effective solution may be to just provide everyone with a basic income. What if the city adopted this approach?
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Translation: What if… New York had stricter rent-control laws like those in Paris?

Tuesday, June 26, 2018

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Thursday, June 28, 2018

What if… There was a universal basic income?

Low-wage jobs have many workers struggling to make ends meet. Some people believe that the simplest and most effective solution may be to just provide everyone with a basic income. What if the city adopted this approach?
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Translation: What if… There was a high-speed rail link connecting New York to other cities, as exists in China?

Saturday, June 23, 2018

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Thursday, June 28, 2018

What if… There was a universal basic income?

Low-wage jobs have many workers struggling to make ends meet. Some people believe that the simplest and most effective solution may be to just provide everyone with a basic income. What if the city adopted this approach?
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Loyalists Reunited! A Peek into the Edward Floyd De Lancey Collection of Family Papers

Tuesday, June 19, 2018 by Mary Silverstein

By Mary Silverstein

Project Archivist

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Housing Tomorrow's City

Courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York by Rayna Weingord

With a population of more than 8.6 million and growing, New York City is experiencing a housing crisis that threatens its future vitality.

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Housing Tomorrow’s City is made possible in part by Sophia and Peter J. Volandes.

Series Affiliates:
Association for Neighborhood Housing & Development
Breaking Ground
Citizens' Housing Planning Council
Columbia GSAAP
Community Solutions
Department of Urban Studies - Queens College CUNY
Design Trust for Public Space
Earth Institute Urban Design Lab
Guarini Center at NYU School of Law
Henry Street Settlement
Institute for Public Architecture
New York Housing Conference
New York State Association for Affordable Housing
NYU - Center for Urban Science and Progress
NYU Furman Center
Picture the Homeless
Pratt Center for Community Development
Pratt Institute Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment
Regional Plan Association
RiseBoro Community Partnership
The West Side Commons
Urban Democracy Lab
Van Alen Institute

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Geoffrey Holder: New York’s Renaissance Man

Monday, June 4, 2018 by Lauren Robinson

By Lauren Robinson, Metadata and Rights and Reproductions Specialist

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Hitting the Beach in the 19th Century

Tuesday, May 22, 2018 by Emily Chapin

By Emily Chapin, Collections Access Archivist

Emily Chapin oversees projects involving the Museum's Manuscripts and Ephemera holdings.

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Frances Feist: New Jersey to the Cotton Club

Tuesday, May 8, 2018 by Morgen Stevens-Garmon

By Morgen Stevens-Garmon, Associate Curator, Theater Collection

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