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Port of New York, from Mannahatta to 1949

February 1, 2011 in Port of New York by Bryan | 5 comments

In addition to team-teaching Writing New York with Cyrus, I’m also teaching, this semester, an interdisciplinary honors seminar called “The Port of New York.” We’ll spend the semester thinking about how various disciplines frame evidence and construct knowledge, with the port our basic entryway to a long cultural history of the city, from pre-European settlement to the effects of 9/11. In relation to an ongoing conversation we’re having in that class — a surprising debate has arisen over the value of studying the city’s distant, pre-European past — I was digging around on YouTube for this video

when I stumbled across this one:

I hope you enjoy both.

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Sign me up

August 24, 2009 in Books, Exhibitions, Odds and Ends by Bryan

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Not sure exactly how this sign ended up at the Morgan Ave. stop on the L, but according to New York Shitty it’s connected to the MCNY exhibit Cyrus wrote about here some time back. Exhibit has a nice coffee-table book associated with it, too. I’ve got a birthday coming up this week. I’m just putting that out there.

Photo warms my heart for some reason. (h/t Jeremiah)

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