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SUMMARY:Queens: From Agricultural Hinterland to Vital Urban Corridor
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of the late Jeffrey A. Kroessler’s book Rural County\, Urban Borough: A History of Queens (Rutgers U. Press\, 2025)\, his widow\, Laura Heim\, will discuss with Eve Kahn and Frampton Tolbert the unique production process and engaging content of this first comprehensive\, scholarly\, and readable history of the great borough of Queens. \nLaura Heim\, architect and widow of author Jeffrey A. Kroessler\, will discuss with Eve Kahn\, lectures committee co-chair of the Victorian Society’s New York chapter\, and Frampton Tolbert\, Executive Director of the Historic Districts Council\, the genesis\, evolution\, production\, revelatory content\, and impact of Kroessler’s posthumously published book\, Rural County\, Urban Borough: A History of Queens. A former wetlands\, Queens today is a crowded cityscape of dense urban neighborhoods and suburban sprawl. Rural County\, Urban Borough is a history of place\, charting the rapid transformation of the Queens landscape\, identifying what drove the borough’s development\, from public infrastructure\, architecture\, and transportation to technological innovation and urban planning. The book dramatically chronicles how Queens’s relationship with the city has evolved and highlights how Queens residents\, from all backgrounds\, care for their neighborhoods and build their communities. Queens is integral to New York City and the wider world and reveals\, in its evolution\, the whole arc of American urban history. \nTuesday\, October 14\n6:30–8:00 pm\nSt. Paul & St. Andrew United Methodist Church\n263 West 86th Street New York\, NY 10024 \nThe book will be available for sale and signing at the event. \nPurchase tickets. \nLaura Heim\, FAIA LEED AP\, is an award-winning architect with a firm in historic Sunnyside Gardens\, Queens. Her firm has a particular expertise in historic preservation and adaptive reuse/renovation. She has served as the Chair of Architecture on the Steering Committee of the Sunnyside Gardens Preservation Alliance\, as president of the AIA Queens chapter\, and on the Board of Directors of AIA New York State. She was the Co-Chair of the AIANY Fellows Committee in 2023. Currently\, she is on the Board of Directors of the Historic Districts Council. She frequently collaborated on historic preservation work with her late husband\, Jeffrey Kroessler\, author of Rural County\, Urban Borough. \n \nVillage of College Point\, 1876. Courtesy of the Queens Borough Public Library\, Archives\, Borough President of Queens Photographs. \n \nSteinway and Sons Factory\, Astoria\, New York\, 1895. Courtesy of the Queens Borough Public Library\, Archives\, Illustrations Collection-Astoria. \n \nBorden Avenue\, Long Island City\, as it appeared in an Earlier Day\, Looking from the roof of the Long Island Railroad Station\, n.d. The LaGuardia and Wagner Archives\, LaGuardia Community College/The City University of New York. \n \nView of Steinway Street\, 1923. Courtesy of the Queens Borough Public Library\, Archives\, Eugene L. Armbruster Photographs.
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SUMMARY:The Queen of Bohemia Who Fought for the Poor
DESCRIPTION:Independent scholar and New York Times contributor Eve M. Kahn in conversation with scholar and podcaster Carl Raymond about her new book. \nKahn will explore her seven-year Zoe Anderson Norris book journey: the strangest coincidences\, most frustrating roadblocks\, and most heartbreaking\, luminous\, and funniest details uncovered on the trail. \nZoe Anderson Norris (1860–1914) was a Kentucky belle turned restless Kansas housewife turned lauded writer/reformer/publisher on the Lower East Side\, documenting desperate immigrant poverty in her own bimonthly magazine\, The East Side. Defying her era’s ingrained xenophobia (that echoes in our own tumultuous times)\, and sometimes reporting undercover dressed as a pauper\, Zoe (as everyone called her) raged against predatory landlords\, corrupt charity executives\, cruel Ellis Island guards\, and garbagemen ignoring trashcans spreading pestilence\, among other pernicious forces. Her motto: “To fight for the poor with my pen.” She took breaks from activism to admire Manhattan skyscrapers “flashing back the fire of the sun” and to dine at restaurants with her friends in an intentionally disorganized group that she organized\, the Ragged Edge Klub\, dedicated to “the Killing of Kare.” \nWednesday\, October 15\n6:30–7:30 pm\nSalmagundi Club\n47 5th Avenue New York\, NY 10003 \nPurchase tickets. \nThis event is hosted by Coffee House Club. Queen of Bohemia will be available for sale and signing. \nEve M. Kahn writes for The New York Times among other publications. Queen of Bohemia has been called a “compelling\, vibrant biography of a larger-than-life character [that] will appeal to anyone interested in turn-of-the-century New York and women’s history.” (Library Journal). Kahn’s 2019 book\, Forever Seeing New Beauties: The Forgotten Impressionist Mary Rogers Williams\, 1857-1907 (Wesleyan U. Press)\, won awards from groups including the Connecticut League of History Organizations. \nCarl Raymond is the creator and host of The Gilded Gentleman history podcast.
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SUMMARY:Walking Tour: Finding Prospect Park
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a walk through Prospect Park\, where we’ll discover lost features and why their disappearance matters. \n“Finding Prospect Park\,” a historical discovery tour sponsored by the Victorian Society New York\, will take you through the northern half of Prospect Park\, Olmsted and Vaux’s masterpiece. A brief introduction to the park’s history and design will be provided\, but the focus of the tour will be on discovering lost features and why their loss matters. Some of these features are gone without a trace; others remain only as archaeological remnants; some are largely intact but have been “lost” to the public for other reasons. We will investigate lost rustic and picturesque shelters and bridges\, the marvelous “electric fountain\,” the mysterious “Culvert Arch\,” the Park’s “Dairy\,” the “braiding of the ways\,” the still present but deteriorating Litchfield Villa\, the circular yacht\, and other sites and features of the original park. \nSunday\, October 19\n11:00 am–1:00 pm\nProspect Park\, Grand Army Plaza\, West Shelter\nGrand Army Plaza Brooklyn\, NY 11238 \nPurchase tickets. \nFor those who register\, a link and QR code will be available that will allow you to download a series of historic images to use on your cell phone or tablet during the tour. There will be a physical set of images that can be viewed as well. \nJeremy Woodoff\, is a city planner and historic preservationist. He currently serves as President of the Board of the Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in New York\, and is a board member of the Bowne House Historical Society\, the Park Slope Civic Council\, Save America’s Clocks\, and the Historic Districts Council. During his 20-year career at the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission\, Jeremy was responsible for setting up the Commission’s review procedures for work in scenic landmarks like Prospect Park and for reviewing all work proposed for the park by the Parks Department and the Prospect Park Alliance. \n \nA 19th-century view of the Vale of Cashmere\, one of the stops on our tour. \n \nA view of Litchfield Villa\, c. 1857\, architect Alexander Jackson Davis’s Italianate-style masterpiece\, now administrative offices for NYC Parks.
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