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Tour of Stonewall Visitor Center

Join us for a private tour of the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center, one of this year’s Village Award winners. This guided tour will explore how the visitor center came to be and the story it tells.

The mission of the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center (SNMVC) is to memorialize the legacy of the Stonewall Rebellion while serving as a beacon for generations to come and visit the very site where history was made and the fight for full LGBTQ+ equality began.

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Queer History Walking Tour with the Whitney Museum

Explore the long and rich history of queer communities in Manhattan’s East Village, from the turn of the last century to the turn of the Millennium. Subjects include labor organizers of the 1910s, homophile activists of the 1960s, and drag kings of the 1990s. The tour begins at the Public Theater and ends at Tompkins Square Park.

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How French Flats Changed the Way We Live

Join us this Bastille Day for a fun and enlightening talk about “French Flats,” which first began to appear in New York not long after the Civil War, and by the end of the 19th century had completely changed the way New Yorkers lived.

We’ll take a look at how and why this revolution in housing took place in our city, examining the very first examples, and then honing in on how, where, and why French Flats spread throughout Greenwich Village and the East Village.

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Chelsea Piers: New York’s Maritime Grand Central Terminal

Today the lonely iron arch of Pier 54 is an often ignored reminder of what was New York’s Grand Central Terminal of the Hudson River waterfront, the original Chelsea Piers complex that extended from Little West 12th Street to West 23rd Street. Great ocean liners carrying millions of immigrants and some of the wealthiest people in the world once docked along the Hudson.

This illustrated talk will explore this extraordinary period of New York’s waterfront, now nearly forgotten and unknown.

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Art Deco Centennial: A Guide to the Jazz Age Style in Our Neighborhoods, City, and World

The style we now know as Art Deco officially turned 100 this year, marking the centennial of the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, or the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Art in Paris from which it derived its name.

Join Executive Director Andrew Berman as he takes a look back at the roots of this design aesthetic, which grew out of revolutionary 19th- and early 20th-century movements, and examines how it transformed NYC and our neighborhoods, from skyline landmarks to humble neighborhood infill developments.