BGuthrie Photos: NY -- NYC -- Museum of the City of New York -- Exhibit: NY At Its Core: 400 Years of NYC History: World City 1898-beyond

NY -- NYC -- Museum of the City of New York -- Exhibit: NY At Its Core: 400 Years of NYC History: World City 1898-beyond:

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Description of Pictures: NY At Its Core: 400 Years of NYC History
What made New York New York? Follow the story of the city’s rise from a striving Dutch village to today’s “Capital of the World,” and consider its future in our changing world.
Framed around the key themes of money, density, diversity, and creativity, New York City’s history and future come alive in this first-of-its-kind exhibition, through the stories of innovation, energy, struggle, and the vision of generations of immigrants, politicians, tycoons, dreamers, master builders, and ordinary New Yorkers.
New York at Its Core captures the human energy that drove New York to become a city like no other, featuring the city’s “big personalities” – among them, Alexander Hamilton, Walt Whitman, Emma Goldman, JP Morgan, Fiorello La Guardia, Jane Jacobs, and Jay Z. The stories of lesser-known New York personalities, like Lenape chieftain Penhawitz and Lower East Side denizen Susie Rocco, also figure prominently in the exhibition, as do some of the furred and shelled residents who shaped the city’s economic and daily life – among them, the pig, the beaver, and the oyster. And the final gallery, the Future City Lab invites visitors to delve into the issues facing the city over the coming years in an immersive, hands-on space.
Through almost 450 historic objects and images, many from the Museum’s rich collection, as well as contemporary video, photography, and interactive digital experiences, we welcome you to dive deep into the city’s past and create your own visions for its future.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. MCNYC2_180823_001.JPG: 1898-2012 World City
2. MCNYC2_180823_005.JPG: 1898
3. MCNYC2_180823_012.JPG: The World's Port
4. MCNYC2_180823_015.JPG: Capital of Enterprise
5. MCNYC2_180823_025.JPG: Capital of Enterprise
6. MCNYC2_180823_027.JPG: Capital of Finance
7. MCNYC2_180823_031.JPG: Immigration
8. MCNYC2_180823_033.JPG: Cigar owned by J.P. Morgan with "JPM" monogram, c 1900 J.P. Morgan, c 1902
9. MCNYC2_180823_036.JPG: Candlestick with bullet hole, c 1905 (Bullet from anti-Semitic violence in Kiev.)
10. MCNYC2_180823_050.JPG: 1894-1914 Origins of the Progressive City
11. MCNYC2_180823_051.JPG: Origins of the Progressive City
12. MCNYC2_180823_055.JPG: The Power of Print
13. MCNYC2_180823_058.JPG: Organizing Workers
14. MCNYC2_180823_060.JPG: Tammany Goes Progressive
15. MCNYC2_180823_079.JPG: 1914-1929 Out and Up
16. MCNYC2_180823_080.JPG: 1914-1929 New York Roars into the Twenties
17. MCNYC2_180823_082.JPG: New York Roars into the Twenties
18. MCNYC2_180823_088.JPG: Tap shoes worn by Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, c 1925
19. MCNYC2_180823_095.JPG: Harlem
20. MCNYC2_180823_098.JPG: Broadway: Cultural Crossroads
21. MCNYC2_180823_110.JPG: 1920s Style
22. MCNYC2_180823_112.JPG: Cane owned by Jimmy Walker, c 1930
23. MCNYC2_180823_120.JPG: 1929-1941 Facing the Depression
24. MCNYC2_180823_123.JPG: Facing the Depression
25. MCNYC2_180823_134.JPG: Disaster
26. MCNYC2_180823_138.JPG: Coping
27. MCNYC2_180823_148.JPG: 1929-1941 New York's New Deal
28. MCNYC2_180823_151.JPG: New York's New Deal
29. MCNYC2_180823_156.JPG: La Guardia, Moses, and Roosevelt
30. MCNYC2_180823_159.JPG: Building Jobs
31. MCNYC2_180823_160.JPG: City of Parks
32. MCNYC2_180823_186.JPG: 1914-1929 Out and Up
33. MCNYC2_180823_188.JPG: Mass Transit
34. MCNYC2_180823_191.JPG: Skyscraper City
35. MCNYC2_180823_205.JPG: 1941-1960 Changing City
36. MCNYC2_180823_210.JPG: Changing City
37. MCNYC2_180823_215.JPG: Race and Place
38. MCNYC2_180823_220.JPG: Urban Renewal
39. MCNYC2_180823_222.JPG: Set of keys belonging to Louis and Lucille Armstrong, 1950-1980
40. MCNYC2_180823_243.JPG: 1941-1960 Capital of the World
41. MCNYC2_180823_250.JPG: Capital of the World
42. MCNYC2_180823_262.JPG: Trumpet owned by Roy Eldridge, 1960-80
43. MCNYC2_180823_266.JPG: Ab Ex
44. MCNYC2_180823_268.JPG: Jazz
45. MCNYC2_180823_272.JPG: Capital of Fashion
46. MCNYC2_180823_278.JPG: Paint can, mixer, and brush used by Jackson Pollock for "drip" painting, 1950s
47. MCNYC2_180823_294.JPG: Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly, 1961
48. MCNYC2_180823_296.JPG: Chandelier used in Tiffany & Company window dressing, 1961 This chandelier, displayed in Tiffany & Company's window during the filming of the opening scene of the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, evokes the elegance and glamour associated with postwar Manhattan.
49. MCNYC2_180823_300.JPG: 1960-1970 What is the City For?
50. MCNYC2_180823_302.JPG: What is the City For?
51. MCNYC2_180823_310.JPG: Business Exodus
52. MCNYC2_180823_313.JPG: New Visions
53. MCNYC2_180823_324.JPG: Orb, 960 by Robert Indiana
54. MCNYC2_180823_336.JPG: Robert Indiana standing in front of his studio at 25 Coentles Slip, 1965
55. MCNYC2_180823_339.JPG: 1960-1970 Divided City
56. MCNYC2_180823_342.JPG: Divided City
57. MCNYC2_180823_348.JPG: Crisis and Confrontation
58. MCNYC2_180823_353.JPG: Power and Pride
59. MCNYC2_180823_355.JPG: Activism
60. MCNYC2_180823_365.JPG: 1970-1980 On the Brink
61. MCNYC2_180823_367.JPG: On the Brink
62. MCNYC2_180823_378.JPG: Subway #1, 1984-85 by Bruno Lucchesi
63. MCNYC2_180823_381.JPG: City on Fire
64. MCNYC2_180823_384.JPG: Budget Woes
65. MCNYC2_180823_389.JPG: "Fear City"
66. MCNYC2_180823_392.JPG: Vest worn by a member of the Savage Nomads, c 1977 The Savage Nomads were an infamous South Bronx youth gang during the 1970s. By 1975, there were at least 275 gangs with 11,000 total members in the city; many had their own dress code, including identifying denim jackets.
67. MCNYC2_180823_399.JPG: 1980-2001 New York Comes Back
68. MCNYC2_180823_400.JPG: New York Comes Back
69. MCNYC2_180823_403.JPG: A New Gilded Age
70. MCNYC2_180823_410.JPG: A New Gilded Age
71. MCNYC2_180823_411.JPG: Bloombeg keyboard, c 1989
72. MCNYC2_180823_425.JPG: A Tale of Two Cities
73. MCNYC2_180823_435.JPG: 1980-2001 New Immigrant City
74. MCNYC2_180823_437.JPG: New Immigrant City
75. MCNYC2_180823_442.JPG: The New Immigrant Economy
76. MCNYC2_180823_446.JPG: Neighbors in Conflict
77. MCNYC2_180823_460.JPG: Art Spiegelman cover
78. MCNYC2_180823_468.JPG: 1970-1980 Against the Odds
79. MCNYC2_180823_472.JPG: Against the Odds
80. MCNYC2_180823_477.JPG: Hip Hop
81. MCNYC2_180823_485.JPG: Resilience
82. MCNYC2_180823_494.JPG: Nightlife
83. MCNYC2_180823_502.JPG: Matchbook from Studio 54, c 1979
84. MCNYC2_180823_511.JPG: Studio 54 guest list, 1976 List includes Ringo Starr, David Bowie, and Liberace.
85. MCNYC2_180823_515.JPG: 1980-2001 A Safer City?
86. MCNYC2_180823_517.JPG: A Safer City?
87. MCNYC2_180823_524.JPG: Policing
88. MCNYC2_180823_528.JPG: Cleaning Up
89. MCNYC2_180823_531.JPG: 9/11/2001
90. MCNYC2_180823_540.JPG: Modern tile from Bethesda Fountain, c 2000
91. MCNYC2_180823_546.JPG: Boot worn by "Mrs. Potts" in Beauty and the Beast, 1993-94
92. MCNYC2_180823_554.JPG: 2001-2012 Debating the City
93. MCNYC2_180823_557.JPG: Debating the City
94. MCNYC2_180823_571.JPG: New Developments
95. MCNYC2_180823_575.JPG: Meltdown
96. MCNYC2_180823_587.JPG: Facing the Future
97. MCNYC2_180823_595.JPG: The Annotated Fuld, 2008/16 by Geoffrey Raymond (reproduction)
98. MCNYC2_180823_606.JPG: 2012
99. MCNYC2_180823_614.JPG: Future City Lab
100. MCNYC2_180823_617.JPG: What Makes New York New York? Money Diversity Density Creativity
101. MCNYC2_180823_620.JPG: Mapping NYC 2000-2050
102. MCNYC2_180823_627.JPG: Where is Nature in the City? 21% Green Space
103. MCNYC2_180823_630.JPG: What If...
104. MCNYC2_180823_635.JPG: New Yorkers by Race and Ethnicity, 1970-2015
105. MCNYC2_180823_651.JPG: Poverty and Inequality Income Inequality
106. MCNYC2_180823_655.JPG: The Middle Class and Mobility Economic Mobility
107. MCNYC2_180823_660.JPG: The Middle Class and Mobility Challenges in the Middle
108. MCNYC2_180823_666.JPG: Public Transit Commuting
109. MCNYC2_180823_669.JPG: Public Transit Subway Squeeze
110. MCNYC2_180823_672.JPG: The Changing Streetscape Transformed Public Spaces
Wikipedia Description: Museum of the City of New York
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The Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) is a history and art museum in New York City, New York. It was founded by Henry Collins Brown, in 1923 to preserve and present the history of New York City, and its people. It is located at 1220–1227 Fifth Avenue from East 103rd to 104th Streets, across from Central Park in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, at the northern end of the Museum Mile section of Fifth Avenue.

The red brick with marble trim museum was built in 1929–30 and was designed by Joseph H. Freedlander in the neo-Georgian style, with statues of Alexander Hamilton and DeWitt Clinton by sculptor Adolph Alexander Weinman facing Central Park from niches in the facade.

The museum is a private non-profit organization which receives government support as a member of New York City's Cultural Institutions Group, commonly known as "CIG"s. Its other sources of income are endowments, admission fees, and contributions.

The Museum currently hosts the first-ever museum presentation of New York City's four-century history in its "New York At Its Core" permanent exhibition.

History

The museum was originally located in Gracie Mansion, where available space was limited. One of its first major exhibits was "Old New York", presented in the Fine Arts Building on West 57th Street in 1926. The success of the project led to a search for a new, permanent headquarters for the museum. A design competition was held between five invited architects, and the Colonial Revival design by Freedlander was selected. The city donated a site on Fifth Avenue, and funds for construction of the museum building were raised by public subscription. The original plans for the museum's building were scaled back as a result of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, nevertheless, the building was dedicated on January 11, 1932.

On January 24, 1967 the museum building was designated a New York City landmark.

In 1982, the Museum received The Hundred Year Association of New York's Gold Medal Award "in recognition of outstanding contributions to the City of New York."
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