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Feb 20 2020

Illustrated Talk & Book Launch with Jerry Mikorenda

Illustrated Talk & Book Launch with Jerry Mikorenda!

Illustrated talk with Jerry Mikorenda

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May 11 2018

Bring Them home !

Bring

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May 11 2018

Talk & Singin! The Bowery, Past, Present & Future

Talk & Singin! The Bowery, Past, Present & Future

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Dec 20 2017

A Talk by Historian MIKE WALLACE

The Bowery & Lower East Side
100 Years Ago

Followed by Q & A and signing for his new book

Greater Gotham: A History of New York City, 1898-1919

Historian Mike Wallacetext

Mike Wallace teaches history at John Jay College and CUNY Graduate Center. He is the founder of the Gotham Center for NYC History.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning GOTHAM: A History of New York City to 1898 by Mike Wallace & Edwin Burrows set a new standard for urban history. Wallace continues the story with GREATER GOTHAM: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919, which surveys its move from national to global prominence:

Book, GREATER GOTHAM: A History of New York City from 1898 to 1919

“From Wall Street to immigrant slums, from vaudeville to the Metropolitan Opera, from Tammany Hall to union radicals . . . a kaleidoscope of New York life in the two pivotal decades in which it emerged as the nation’s largest city and center of commerce, culture, and political radicalism.” —Eric Foner

“Magisterial” —Publishers Weekly

“A tour-de-force” —Phillip Lopate

Free Event!

Where: Grace Church School Auditorium, 46 Cooper Square

(South of Astor Place) Trains: 6 to Astor Place R, W to 8th Street

When: January 23 (Tuesday) at 6:30pm

RSVP by Jan. 19th: ban62007@gmail.com or call 212-674-9073

Sponsored by:
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May 01 2017

Big Tim Sullivan Talk on May 24

FLYER 4 Big Tim event PDF


Big Tim Sullivan

Bowery Alliance of Neighbors & Grace Church High School present:

“Big Tim” Sullivan:

King of the Bowery

An illustrated talk by

Alice Sparberg Alexiou

Born to Irish immigrants and raised in the Five Points ghetto, Timothy Sullivan began working at age 8. Enriched by saloons, theatres, and gambling, he became a Tammany political boss who controlled everything below 14th Street from the 1880s until death in 1913, serving as state assemblyman and U.S. congressman. Adored by Lower East Siders, he gave out shoes to the needy and helped mothers bail sons out of jail or pay off landlords to avoid eviction. The “King of the Bowery” lived at the Occidental Hotel (now SoHotel) at 146 Bowery and kept a clubhouse at 207 Bowery. Remembered as a colorful, quintessentially corrupt politician, he supported labor and women’s rights, and pushed America’s first gun control law through the New York legislature.

In 1913, The New York Times reported that 75,000 lined the Bowery for his funeral cortege.

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When: May 24, 2017 (Wed) 6:30pm
Where: Grace Church High School 46 Cooper Square
(Btwn Astor Place & 4th St.)

Free admission!

A Lower East Side History Month event

Transportation: 6 train to Astor Place / R, N to 8th Street, F to Broadway-Lafayette or 2nd Ave.
Info:

631-901-5435

mulbd@yahoo.com

Written by onno · Categorized: Events, News

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