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Making The Queer Scene At The Museum Of The City Of New York In Harlem

Bars and clubs have long been places where LGBTQ people have come together to socialize, celebrate community, and push back against social prejudice from Harlem to Hollis. Continue reading

New York At Its Core From Bed-Stuy To Harlem: The City Confronts Civil Rights

In our latest video preview of New York at Its Core, peer into the tumultuous, transformative era of 1960s New York and discover some of the forces that shaped the city's legacy of civil rights activism. Continue reading

“#GayGotham : Art and Underground Culture in New York” In Harlem

Our upcoming exhibition Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York brings to life the LGBT artistic communities that sprang up over the last hundred years, a creative class whose radical ideas would greatly influence the definition and evolution of "modern" culture in New York City. #GayGothamContinue reading

Uptown Bounce At The Museum Of The City Of New York

Join the Harlem partnership of the Museum of the City of New York and El Museo del Barrio for their third annual Uptown Bounce series of summer block parties! Continue reading

More Ounce To The #UptownBounce In Harlem

UptownBounce is back! Join the Museum of the City of New York and El Museo del Barrio for their third annual series of summer block parties. Continue reading

Cinco de Mayo Celebration In East Harlem

Join us for hands-on activities in honor of Mexican heritage as we commemorate the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. Continue reading

Street Art Stories At The Museum of the City of NY In Harlem

Since graffiti emerged as a powerful form of self-expression on New York City streets in the 1970s, the city has grown into the epicenter of the contemporary street art movement. Continue reading

Harlem’s Museum Of the City Is Getting In the Fashion Game

Step into the world of 20th century high fashion, courtesy of The Museum of the City of New York's newest exhibit Dressing Room: Archiving Fashion.Continue reading

Free, Free, Free Programs And Ice Cream At City Museum

The folks at Museum of the City of New York know exactly what we like, free, free, free arts programming and ice cream! Continue reading

Harlem’s Museum of the City of New York Names New President, Director

The Board of Trustees of the Museum of the City of New York has appointed Whitney W. Donhauser President and Director of the Museum. She will join the City Museum on January 1, 2016, succeeding Susan Henshaw Jones who is retiring at the end of the year.Continue reading

Beverly Johnson Launch “The Face That Changed It All “

By Eartha Watts-Hicks On Saturday, September 5th, 2015, my cousin, Leslie Faulkner (Beverly Johnson fan) and I attended Beverly Johnson's launch of her new book The Face That Changed It All at the Museum of the City of New York, New York City.Continue reading

Affordable New York: A Housing Legacy (video)

These days, when New Yorkers of all stripes are having a hard time finding a place to live that fits in their budgets, the City Museum is shining a lens on the City's long history of affordable housing activism from Harlem to Hollis. Continue reading

Affordable Housing: What About The Future? A Symposium

For over a century New York City from Harlem to Hollis, the most expensive city in the nation, has also been a leading provider of affordable housing and a laboratory for innovative housing initiatives.Continue reading