Museum of the City of New York
The Museum of the City of New York celebrates and interprets the city, educating the public about its distinctive character, especially its heritage of diversity, opportunity, and perpetual transformation. Founded in 1923 as a private, nonprofit corporation, the Museum connects the past, present, and future of New York City. It serves the people of New York and visitors from around the world through exhibitions, school and public programs, publications, and collections.www.mcny.org
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Nov 6, 2026
SiobhanHOST
going to go and see all those.
SiobhanHOST
There's a huge archive of all of his photographs from kind of the early era in the Museum of the City of New York.
SiobhanHOST
And I put it on my list of something I want to do.
SiobhanHOST
I have been to
Veronica CaicedoGUEST
And then the second night is at the Silverman Theater at Hunter College, a collaboration with Center for Puerto Rican Studies.
Veronica CaicedoGUEST
And then followed by Thursday at the Museum of the City of New York.
Veronica CaicedoGUEST
Followed by going all the way downtown to Regal Battery Park City.
Veronica CaicedoGUEST
And that's where you will catch us on our last day.
Elizabeth L. BlockGUEST
This was the father of the bride.
Elizabeth L. BlockGUEST
And there's an entire sequence of Byron photographs that exist today in the Museum of the City of New York.
Elizabeth L. BlockGUEST
And they're really spectacular.
Elizabeth L. BlockGUEST
And it goes back to the point you were making earlier that for many women, not as At the upper end of society, we would often see these brides and grooms in the newspapers and magazines.
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Elizabeth L. BlockGUEST
So there's drawings in newspapers.
Elizabeth L. BlockGUEST
And then there's the Byron photo.
Elizabeth L. BlockGUEST
There's a famous photo in the Museum of the City of New York.
Elizabeth L. BlockGUEST
showing Consuelo entering the horse-drawn carriage after the ceremony.
Liz CovartHOST
In our last episode, we explored the 250th anniversary of the Battle of White Plains and the neutral ground or no man's land that formed in Westchester County during the war for American independence.
Liz CovartHOST
Today, we're going to explore the 1776 New York Campaign and the seven years of British occupation that followed it through a new exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York.
Liz CovartHOST
It helps to know that New York City looked very different in 1776 than it does today.
Liz CovartHOST
What revolutionaries called the town sat entirely below present-day City Hall Park on the southern tip of Manhattan.
Liz CovartHOST
About 25,000 people lived there, which made New York one of the largest cities in British North America.
Liz CovartHOST
Now, the British Army had a strong presence in New York City long before the war, with barracks at the town's northern edge and Fort George at its southern tip, near what is today Battery Park.
Liz CovartHOST
Sarah Henry, the Chief Curator Emerita of the Museum of the City of New York, and Blake McGready, a recent PhD graduate at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York, joins us to discuss this history through the Museum of the City of New York's new exhibition, The Occupied City, New York, and the American Revolution.
Liz CovartHOST
Now, during our exploration of the Occupied City, Sarah and Blake revealed How the occupation of New York City began not with British warships, but with the arrival of the Continental Army in the spring of 1776.
Louisa JacobsonGUEST
I did.
Louisa JacobsonGUEST
You know, I wanted to go visit the Museum of the City of New York, which has a Settlement House section.
Louisa JacobsonGUEST
I never went, but...
Louisa JacobsonGUEST
PBS has a really wonderful hour-long segment on their Treasures of New York program about the history of the settlement houses.
Johnny MacHOST
His daughter put a video on TikTok, 10 million views in a week.
Johnny MacHOST
The Museum of the City of New York reached out and opened an exhibit called He Built This City.
Johnny MacHOST
People came and leaned over the platform, found their grandparents' old neighborhoods, and traced a family history across the boroughs.
Johnny MacHOST
How cool is that? In September, a large gray shark swam into an artificial canal at the Northport Waterfront Park in Busan, South Korea.
Curtis LockhartHOST
And yesterday, obviously, I'm in one of the best cities in the world.
Curtis LockhartHOST
So I took the opportunity to walk around and went up to the Museum of the City of New York.
Curtis LockhartHOST
And you can literally see there are pictures of this process of delineating, as you say, the rights of way for this arterial road grid in early and mid 19th century Manhattan.
Curtis LockhartHOST
in advance of the growth of the urban population, which started on the southern tip of the island and grew northward as the city rapidly grew.
Sean Smith PierceHOST
When the Statue of Liberty was dedicated, we've got the story behind it here, including the great picture from, it's a painting from Edward Moran.
Sean Smith PierceHOST
It's actually the originals of the Museum of the City of New York.
Sean Smith PierceHOST
You guys can click and get a nice bigified version of that.
Jodi HamiltonHOST
Have you ever
Carl RaymondHOST
For Alva Vanderbilt's famous costume ball in 1883, Alice Vanderbilt outdid them all by appearing in a gold and silver gown representing electric light, a very new technology.
Carl RaymondHOST
As a contender in the Gilded Age's Best Costume Ever contest, we are relaunching my show in which we explore Alice's costume and pay a visit to the Museum of the City of New York, where the original gown exists to this day.
Carl RaymondHOST
¶¶ Being able to have Frederick Wirth, the great British-born couturier, custom-make your gowns was a mark of truly being in the elite social set in the Gilded Age and Belle Époque.
Carl RaymondHOST
With his team of seamstresses and assistants, Wirth was able to create fantasy and achieve extraordinary effects in satin, lace, and silk from his eponymous design house on Paris' Rue de la Paix.
Carl RaymondHOST
There were even some reports that the dress was encrusted with diamonds, which wasn't true, but certainly its brilliance created by the gold and silver threads covering the dress would have created a similar stunning effect.
Carl RaymondHOST
Alice's electric light dress, created by Worth, quite astonishingly exists today, as do the shoes, stockings, headpiece, and wig that she wore to Alva's ball on that March evening.
Carl RaymondHOST
The dress and its accessories are in the collection of the Museum of the City of New York.
Carl RaymondHOST
Given its importance and fragility, the Gilded Age's most famous dress is rarely on display and was last exhibited to the public in 2017.
Sree SreenivasanHOST
And we have so many friends who've obviously gone to the Met, visited the Met.
Sree SreenivasanHOST
But one of our friends, Chris Gorman, who often watches the show with us, Chris started his career in the museum world as a guard at the Met and has gone on to now help run the Museum of the City of New York, which is pretty cool.
Sree SreenivasanHOST
So that just shows you how interesting the guards are.
Sree SreenivasanHOST
And by the way, the guards have an annual art show uh and where they do their own art many of them are art experts themselves and that's a fun thing i believe in recent years they've opened it to the public i'm not sure i think it's called the staff guards and other staff also participate so it's pretty cool let's see uh stefan is watching for uh good morning to read along family off to long island city right now for the Five Borough Photo Fest to see some great photography being displayed.
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Sree SreenivasanHOST
Let's quickly look at some of the other notes that are coming.
Sree SreenivasanHOST
Oh, my God, so many people writing in.
Sree SreenivasanHOST
The Museum of the City of New York is priceless, and Chris does a fantastic job there.
Sree SreenivasanHOST
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