All are welcome at our annual meeting, awards showcase, and reception! Current members, new members, and guests are invited to join us at our Annual Meeting, where we will vote in new board members, showcase this year's award winners, and hear our reports for 2024-25. Celebratory reception to follow on a 36th floor's outdoor terrace […]
Pat Hoerth Batchelder, author of the new book Evelyn Beatrice Longman, The Woman Who Sculpted Golden Boy, Thomas Edison, and Other Monuments, has mined long-forgotten archives to explore how Longman arose from Midwestern poverty to portray luminaries and allegorical figures in stone and bronze for public and private spaces nationwide. Longman navigated an art world where hardly […]
Join the Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in America (Victorian Society New York) for its annual Margot Gayle Fundraiser! This year we will enjoy a private tour of an exceptional Brooklyn brownstone. Built in 1862 in the affluent neighborhood of Fort Greene, bordering downtown Brooklyn, it was designed as an upper-class residence featuring large […]
Join popular tour guide Stephanie Azzarone for a fascinating tour of Riverside Drive—best known for elegance and quiet. But behind its serene facades lie secrets, from intriguing architectural details to headline-making tales. This in-person tour will take a close look at the avenue’s most notable buildings—many of them built around the turn of the century—and […]