From the meadows and forests of Central Park, to the span of the Brooklyn Bridge, uncover the secrets of New York City on a behind-the-scenes experience with Untapped Cities. This week, explore the treasures of Grand Central Terminal, learn how women shaped the Modern art scene, hear stories of hidden vaults inside the Brooklyn Bridge, and more! Check out everything happening this week:
Join art historian Elizabeth Thompson Colleary for a lecture presented by the Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts that will look at New York’s Modern Art scene through the eyes of its female patrons and artists. Modernism hit New York with a bang at the International Exhibition of Modern Art, at the 69th Regiment Armory in 1913. The “guiding lights,” and principal financiers, of that stunning event were New York’s female Modern Art patrons. Since then, New York women have continued to play a remarkable role in the creation and exhibition of American Modern Art. From Upper East Side collectors like Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, who founded some of the nation’s leading modern and contemporary art museums, to Villagers like Jo Hopper, Lee Krasner and Helen Frankenthaler, we’ll see how the work and vision of New York’s Modern women helped shape the 20th century art world encourage Americans to see the world in a whole new way. If you are an Untapped Cities Insider, you can attend this lecture for free! Not an Insider yet? Become a member today to gain access to free behind-the-scenes tours and special events all year long!
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What can New York’s ballparks – from the gone-but-not-forgotten Ebbets Field to today’s reimagined Yankee Stadium and Citi Field – tell us about the evolution of our city? Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Paul Goldberger, author of the new book Ballpark: Baseball in the American City, sits down with author Kevin Baker at the Museum of the City of New York to discuss the connection between the physical transformation of New York’s ballparks and America’s changing attitudes toward cities and shared civic space, past and present. This program accompanies the Museum of the City of New York’s exhibition In the Dugout with Jackie Robinson: An Intimate Portrait of a Baseball Legend (on view through September 22, 2019).
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Discover the Brooklyn Bridge‘s secrets, including its old Cold War fall out shelter, the hidden champagne vaults, the bridge jumper survivor’s support group and so many others… *NOTE: we will not be going inside the shelter or vaults.*
See an abandoned park hidden in plain sight as you explore the perimeter of the Manhattan anchorages of the bridge
Uncover the hidden statue of the family of engineers who built the bridge
Locate the site of the nation’s first White House
Cross the bridge span, which offers one of the best vantage points in New York City
Explore City Hall Park as the birthplace of the NYC subway system, including elements of the famed, decommissioned City Hall Station you can see right in the park
Learn about the comically short route of the mythical “Subway before the Subway,” Alfred Ely Beach’s Pneumatic Transit System
See the architectural ghosts of the now nearly forgotten, and partially abandoned, Chambers Street station then nicknamed the “Grand Central of Downtown”
Use the 6 train as your own time machine as you ride through abandoned subway stations
Discover the remnants of Union Station as you learn about a hidden art installation thousands of riders walk by everyday
Nicole Saraniero is the Insider-in-Chief at Untapped New York, leading our Untapped New York Insiders membership program. Nicole graduated from Hofstra University with a Bachelor of Science in Televis
