In celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Black History Month, the Museum of the City of New York is exhibiting a portrait of Dr. Aubré de Lambert Maynard - best remembered for his role in helping to save Dr. King life’s after an assassination attempt in New York in 1958.

Dante from Million Hoodies for Justice is just one of the NYC activists profiled in our new Activist New York touch screen interactive stations.

Women have been considered some of the most visible advocates of the temperance movement, but did you know that women were also some of the most active opponents of the 18th amendment?

You’re invited to take a look back at the fabulous fashion and famous guests of Truman Capote’s legendary event at the Plaza Hotel that brought actors, socialites, and style icons together for the party of the century.

In the spring of 1883, the solemnity of Lent didn’t stand a chance against the social event on the mind of all of New York’s elite society: Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt’s fancy dress ball.

Learn how conservators brought the story of Harlem fashion designer Ruby Bailey to life.

In the 1930s, Madison Square Garden was transformed into a winter wonderland for the Winter Sports Show. Real snow and ice blanketed the area where spectators witnessed “a host of new and nerve-pulsating events” like ski jumping, slalom and cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, “fancy” ice skating, and dog sledding.

Sculptures of these legendary New Yorkers have been standing in the niches of the Museum’s façade since 1941. Curator Steven Jaffe explains how they shaped the future of both the city and the United States.

It’s not every day that collections care at the Museum involves a giant boom crane and a forklift. Learn about the effort to clean and conserve the sculptures of Alexander Hamilton and DeWitt Clinton.

Towards the end of his career, Alexander Hamilton wrote to his wife, Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, about a “sweet project” he was planning, with which she would be pleased.