by Bryan Waterman | Oct 23, 2014 | Art, Cultural History, Events
Friends of our too-long moribund Writing New York site, I hope you’ll come say hello while I’m in town, briefly, to participate in the following event, which draws on a new research project I’ve undertaken re: New York in the Age of Warhol. Andy...
by Cyrus Patell | Mar 11, 2013 | Complete, Cultural History, This Day in New York History
Today is the 365th anniversary of the famous “goats and hogs ordinance” passed in New Netherland under the governorship of Peter Stuyvesant. Here’s the text of the ordinance: Whereas the Honble Director General and Council of New Netherland have daily seen and...
by Jane | May 4, 2012 | Cultural History, Networked New York
As part of our ongoing series of interviews with Networked New York participants, Kristen Doyle Highland weighs in on her work, which examines the nineteenth-century bookstore in New York City. Moving between the rise of the dedicated bookstore in nineteenth-century...
by Jane | Apr 27, 2012 | Cultural History, Networked New York
Next up in our Networked New York Q&A series, we have Cecily Swanson, a doctoral candidate in the English department at Cornell. Her dissertation,
by Cyrus Patell | Apr 15, 2011 | Books, Complete, Cultural History, Music
Bryan’s last three lectures for Writing New York have traced the development of the West Village, East Village, and Downtown cultural scenes from Ginsberg and the Beats through Dylan and then the Velvet Underground, up to the CBGB’s scene. As part of last weeks’...
by Cyrus Patell | Dec 3, 2010 | Cultural History, Film |
Bryan and I were pleased to host a visit by Ric Burns to NYU last night, for a special screening of his most recent documentary, Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World. Many of our readers no doubt are familiar with Burns’s monumental, eight-part New...
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