Lost New York, 1609-2009 (NYU, Oct 2-3)

by | Sep 16, 2009 | Conferences

We’re pleased to announce the full schedule for our conference Lost New York, 1609-2009, to be held at NYU on 2-3 October 2009. All sessions are free and open to the public. Has New York always been a lost city? Lost New York marks the 400th anniversary of Henry...

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by | Sep 4, 2009 | Conferences, Out and About

One of the things I like most about the moral orientation of David Freeland’s new book Automats, Taxi Dances, and Vaudeville is its simultaneous focus on the lost and the found of living in the contemporary city. Most of the vanished forms of leisure he writes...