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invites us to honor and celebrate Native American cultures, including those who inhabited what is now present-day New York City. When European settlers began building a town at Manhattan Island’s southern tip in 1624, they did not occupy a landscape empty of human habitation. For 6000 years, people who called themselves the Lenape and earlier native groups had lived here, using the land and water for hunting, gathering, planting, fishing, and trading. The Lenape homeland stretched across southeastern New York, New Jersey, and eastern Pennsylvania. Their matrilineal society was based on hunting, fishing, and planting. They moved seasonally among networks of local villages located along the region’s many waterways. The Lenape used the natural resources of the Hudson River estuary region in many ways. The plentiful oysters and clams were not just food: their shells could be turned into tools and ornaments. Stone provided materials for axe heads, arrowheads, and small cups used to hold pigments. Clay was useful for making small containers, including this small hollowed-out stone used as a paint cup, possibly to adorn bodies with vegetable or animal pigments. 🍵 : Unknown maker; Paint cup, 1400–1650; Stone, ⅞ ×1¼×1⅜ in. (2.2×3.2×3.5 cm)

in 1975, Saturday Night Live (@snl) premiered on @nbc, broadcasting live from Studio 8H in Rockefeller Center in NYC. . . . .📸: Wurts Bros. (New York, N.Y.), Studio H of the National Broadcasting Company, ca. 1940, Museum of the City of New York, X2010.11.8785)

. ✨ ✨ ✨ ✨⚫ ✨ Well spotted, @Betimbal. ✨✨ ✨

Curator Sean Corcoran (@seanc74) chats with photographers Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb (@webb_norriswebb) about their exhibition, “The City Within”- on view at MCNY through April 18, 2021 (part 1 of 3)

, , , and all kinds of : How are you celebrating ? 🧶 . . (📸: Byron Company, Giving Woman Instruction, 1926, Museum of the City of New York, 93.1.1.7106)

Sure, right now, bicycles are the popular two-wheel ride in NYC - but that doesn't mean we can't tip our helmets to . 🏍️ 🏍️ . . . 📸 unknown ["Leader of the Pack" theater still.] 1985. Museum of the City of New York F2013.41.3835)

"The City Within," an exhibition of photographs by Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb (@webb_norriswebb ) is now extended to April 18, 2021. Featuring more than thirty photographs made since 2014, the resulting work is a collaborative series that explores the borough they have called home for some 20 years. . The Museum--in conjunction with artists--is delighted to offer a set of two limited edition photographs: "Brooklyn Heights" (Alex Webb) & "Shimmering, Prospect Park" (Rebecca Norris Webb). The purchase of these 11” x 14” signed, editioned photographs will support the exhibition. . . .Photographs are priced at $2,500 (for the set of 2), plus shipping. $1,000 of your total contribution of $2,500 will be tax-deductible. for availability and other details.

Sailing into the weekend with this much needed . . . 📸 George Miller, Jr. Skyscrapers from Staten Island Ferry. -ca. 1930 Museum of the City of New York X2010.12.6

in 1904, the first Carnegie Library built in Brooklyn, the @PacificLibraryBPL, opened on Fourth Avenue. . 📚 In 1973, after a second damaging fire, the library was set to be demolished; however, the @BrooklynPublicLibrary and community activists successfully rallied to save it. After necessary renovations, the Pacific Branch reopened in 1975, and, in 2018, it received some new repairs and updates, including a garden! 🌷 . . . 📸: Wurts Bros. (New York, N.Y.), 25 4th Avenue. Brooklyn Public Library, Pacific Branch, ca. 1915, Museum of the City of New York, X2010.7.1.4754

TODAY at 1:30PM ET: Join us for the latest "Curators from the Couch" free live-stream conversation. 🏀 🗑️ This episode features MCNY Curator Lilly Tuttle with @WeShouldDoItAll ‘s Jonathan Jackson (@atticusFinch_jackson) & Christopher Al-Jumah (@thisisyourmothercallme) about the "City/Game" exhibition and the important interplay of sports and design. 🗑️ 🏀 to register. (📸 City/Game installation shot by @FilipWolak)

Congratulations to N.K. Jemisin on being named as a 2020 Genius Grant recipient! Her creativity is highlighted in our current exhibition, “Who We Are: Visualizing NYC by the Numbers.” (Full video now up on IGTV and on view at the Museum.)

Just one week until we kick off "Another City," our four-part virtual symposium, featuring intimate discussions with leading writers and observers of the New York scene. . Moderated by @newyorkermag writer @vinsoncunningham, each session of the symposium explores a new topic with guest speakers offering insights from a variety of perspectives on the unprecedented events of 2020. . All live-streams will include a curated list of readings and visual links, and time for participant Q & A. $90/for all four sessions; $25 per session. for tickets and more info. . . The line-up includes: -Wednesday, October 14: Protest City with architect Mabel Wilson (@Studio_And) and photographer Mark Clennon (@mark.c). . -Wednesday, October 21: Empty City with essayist Garnette Cadogan and writer and critic Luc Sante (@luxante) . -Wednesday, October 28: Everyday City with architect and urbanist Susan Chin and architecture critic Kate Wagner . -Wednesday, November 11: Celebratory City with photographer Ricky Flores (@rickyflores) and New York Times columnist Ginia Bellafante . . 📸 : Copyright © 2020 Mark Clennon Creative, LLC. All rights reserved.