{"title": "Talks of the Town: From the Stacks: Loring McMillen’s Map of the American Revolution", "start": "2026-11-14T14:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Historic Richmond Town", "address": "441 Clarke Ave, 10306 Staten Island", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/american-revolution"], "description": "A talk exploring Loring McMillen's 'Map of Staten Island During the Revolution, 1775-1783,' which he created in 1933. In this 250th anniversary year, Staten Islander Janet Medoro shares what her research in the McMillen archive at Historic Richmond Town revealed about the sources he consulted, the people he highlighted, and how this portrait of Revolutionary Era Staten Island came to be. Medoro is a 6th generation Staten Island resident, a former critical care nurse of over forty years, and author of the book 'Our Staten Island.'", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/talks-of-the-town-from-the-stacks-loring-mcmillens-map-of-th-66596/", "official_url": "https://www.historicrichmondtown.org/events/2026/11/14/talks-of-the-town-from-the-stacks-loring-mcmillens-map-of-the-american-revolutionnbsp", "image": "https://noky.io/images/93b659c35bdc1188a9cf9256c869bfb72d16df068192815ef06a016f62f4d454-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-14T14:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Historic Richmond Town", "address": "441 Clarke Ave, 10306 Staten Island", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "The Occupied City", "start": "2026-11-04T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2027-03-21T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Museum of the City of New York", "address": "5th Avenue 1220, 10029 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/american-revolution"], "description": "\"The Occupied City: New York and the American Revolution\" is a major exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York marking the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution. It was developed in partnership with the Gotham Center for New York City History and turns the museum's entire third floor into a 7,000-square-foot immersive journey through Revolutionary-era New York. Visitors trace the city's role from the first sparks of rebellion in 1763 to its emergence as the new nation's first capital in 1790, through historical objects, multimedia installations, a recreated 18th-century tavern, a walk-through \"Canvas Town,\" and scenes drawn from the video game Assassin's Creed III. The exhibition tells the stories of revolutionaries and loyalists, enslaved and free Black New Yorkers, women, and Native peoples, and shows how New Yorkers endured seven years of British occupation, fires, and battles before becoming residents of the nation's new capital.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-occupied-city-118890/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d16a862fa0698ebaf3666ba6846329361593ada11fee9b63952a2412aca9d6c2-600.webp"}, {"title": "Guided Tours", "start": "2026-09-12T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-20T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Historic Richmond Town", "address": "441 Clarke Ave, 10306 Staten Island", "price": "", "price_from": "3.00", "price_to": "8.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history"], "description": "Guided Tours are walking tours through Historic Richmond Town, a historic site of restored buildings from the 17th to 19th centuries on Staten Island. Led by expert Historical Interpreters, the tours include the 1820s Village Life Tour, exploring taverns, trades like basket making and broom making, and an 1820s kitchen, and the Two Centuries Tour, a survey of Staten Island from a 1640s Native Encampment through the Revolutionary era to slavery and emancipation in the 1820s. Each tour lasts 75 minutes and also includes admission to the Historical Museum, open 11am to 4pm on the day of the visit. The tour covers uneven ground and is not recommended for visitors with mobility issues.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/guided-tours-66593/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a097030439265b7461a69161ca8d3c2c78becaa2edc6256c3cf503ce98760a28-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Spies Among Us: From the American Revolution to 1830s New York", "start": "2026-11-06T12:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-06T13:30:00-05:00", "place": "Mount Vernon Hotel Museum", "address": "East 61st Street 421, 10065 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/american-revolution"], "description": "A program at the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden looking back at spies and spying in New York City from the American Revolution to the 1820s and 1830s. The museum's brand new program explores the spying and spying techniques of ordinary citizens, from George Washington's Culper Spies in the Revolutionary War to the War of 1812 and early 19th-century reform movements like temperance and abolition, which set the stage for spies of the Civil War. It is followed by a tour of the Mount Vernon Hotel, where from 1826 to 1833 guests might have gossiped about spies of their day—or been spies themselves—while pursuing leisure activities in the then-tranquil countryside of Manhattan. The museum marks 250 years of American Independence and 200 years of the Mount Vernon Hotel with this look at a hidden facet of New York City history.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/spies-among-us-from-the-american-revolution-to-1830s-new-yor-54013/", "official_url": "https://mvhm.org/event/spies-among-us-from-the-american-revolution-to-1830s-new-york/", "image": ""}, {"title": "“Black People and the Battle of Brooklyn” Exhibit", "start": "2026-07-01T12:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-15T17:00:00-05:00", "place": "Lefferts Historic House", "address": "Flatbush Avenue 452, 11215 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/american-revolution"], "description": "“Black People and the Battle of Brooklyn” is a pop-up exhibit in the yard of Lefferts Historic House. Presented by Prospect Park Alliance, it explores the important and varied roles Black people played in the Battle of Brooklyn in August 1776, the first and largest battle of the American War for Independence. It shows how they served as soldiers and spies on both sides, built American forts, maintained British ships, and seized the conflict to better their lives. The exhibit also tells how the Africans enslaved by the Lefferts family and their neighbors navigated the war, including fighting at Battle Pass in what is now Prospect Park.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/black-people-and-the-battle-of-brooklyn-exhibit-53028/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Revolutionary Ink Book Launch", "start": "2026-11-17T18:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "213 Water Street", "address": "213 Water Street", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/american-history", "literature"], "description": "Revolutionary Ink Book Launch is a reception marking the final weeks of the exhibition The Promise of Liberty: Words That Shaped a Nation, featuring the New York launch of Mark J. Noonan's book Revolutionary Ink: New York Printers and the Promise of Democracy, 1693–1804. The book talk brings the stories of New York's printers to life, showing how they spread Enlightenment ideals, championed freedom of the press, and shaped political debates of the 18th century, with the exhibition open before and after the presentation. A reception with light refreshments follows. It is organized by the South Street Seaport Museum.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/revolutionary-ink-book-launch-56003/", "official_url": "https://southstreetseaportmuseum.org/revolutionary-ink/", "image": ""}, {"title": "An Unlikely Barn: The Mount Vernon Hotel & Villa Building on the East River", "start": "2026-11-10T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-10T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "Mount Vernon Hotel Museum", "address": "East 61st Street 421, 10065 New York", "price": "", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/architecture"], "description": "A lecture on the history and architecture of the 1799 building that now houses the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum. Art historian J. Keith Doherty explores how the structure, ostensibly built as a barn on the former estate of Revolutionary War colonel William Stephens Smith, served as a showpiece displaying its owner's wealth and taste to those sailing past on the East River. He also discusses the history of villa building along the river, from Peter Stuyvesant's Bowery farmhouse to the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum and Gracie Mansion, and compares surviving buildings such as Philipse Manor Hall, the Van Cortlandt House Museum and the Valentine-Varian House. 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The show examines the different levels and branches of government and the ways citizens engage it, and also explores civic assets, public spaces, and forums for civic engagement.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/founding-principals-exhibition-53026/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/557991e175b73c332d322a046f4a0c41cff93bc80412909ad82c33ebcc7f760e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "“Battle Pass in Prospect Park” Exhibit", "start": "2026-07-01T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-15T23:59:00-05:00", "place": "Lefferts Historic House", "address": "Flatbush Avenue 452, 11215 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/american-revolution"], "description": "This exhibit at Lefferts Historic House is a replica of the famous Battle Pass, a military installation with two historic replica cannons where visitors can learn about a formative battle. It was created by the Prospect Park Alliance to mark the 250th anniversary of the Revolutionary War's Battle of Brooklyn, the first and largest battle of the American War for Independence. In August 1776, American troops stationed two cannons on this site, in the hills separating Flatbush from the rest of Brooklyn, to defend against the British, but on August 27 British troops evaded these defenses, forcing the Americans to withdraw across the Gowanus Creek. Nearly a century later, Prospect Park landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux named the area Battle Hill to commemorate the soldiers who fought there.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/battle-pass-in-prospect-park-exhibit-53027/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7fb33b0844b17c77c9928d1e0ea6fee046ce93819b9a7f871655b3fe085652b9-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Common Sense", "start": "2026-05-01T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Brooklyn Museum", "address": "Eastern Parkway 200, 11238 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/american-history"], "description": "Common Sense is a group exhibition that puts America's past in dialogue with its present. It pairs Thomas Paine's foundational revolutionary writings, Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776–83), with nine contemporary works by artists including Paul Ramírez Jonas, Charles Gaines, Jason Kao Hwang, Öyvind Fahlström, Joyce Kossloff, Hank Willis Thomas, Kara Walker, Maynard Monrow, and Donald Moffett. The works address community, music, and democracy, reframe American histories, and deliver a message that power lies with us. It runs from May 1 to November 8, 2026.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/common-sense-107896/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e313f291750b6cf9118b298b3a250dc9164fbf0012c047b2e9f32da72333799d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Collective Witness: A Library for a Young Country", "start": "2026-06-18T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-31T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "The New York Society Library", "address": "East 79th Street 53, 10075", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/us"], "description": "\"Collective Witness: A Library for a Young Country\" is an exhibition at the New York Society Library marking the United States' 250th anniversary. It explores how the library, founded twenty-two years before the Declaration of Independence, bore witness to the earliest days of the U.S. government, lending books to President Washington and serving as the first Library of Congress. On view are a first edition of Thomas Paine's \"Common Sense\", a 1776 New York newspaper chronicling the path to Independence, a first edition of the Federalist Papers, and books read by George Washington and other founding fathers. The exhibition is open daily in the Assunta, Ignazio, Ada and Romano Peluso Exhibition Gallery.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/collective-witness-a-library-for-a-young-country-56807/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/db34d8ac8d84ad03a789dbd97df2e586cd0d52cc882f707a6611ff1aed9b3b34-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Open Hours", "start": "2026-11-07T12:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T14:00:00-05:00", "place": "Old Stone House", "address": "3rd Street 336, 11215", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history/american-revolution", "art"], "description": "Open Hours are the public visiting times of the Old Stone House, a historic house in Brooklyn where visitors can drop in without a reservation. The organizer is Old Stone House & Washington Park, which keeps the house open and welcomes all, with a suggested three-dollar donation at the door and no one turned away for lack of funds. Upstairs, the contemporary exhibition 'Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Land', curated by Jeremy Dennis, brings together new work by Indigenous artists Luanne Redeye, Ella Mahoney, Leonard Harmon and Dennis himself to examine the contradiction between the Declaration of Independence's promises and the dispossession of Native lands. On the ground floor, the permanent exhibit 'The Old Stone House: Witness to War' leads visitors through ten themed areas covering the journey from the Lenape village of Marechkawick through Dutch colonization and the Revolutionary War era in Brooklyn.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/open-hours-76987/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6500f42884a5b5d67183669b37bf6c23a15f15238db7e199bdb63def46ddfab7-600.webp"}, {"title": "Art + Furniture: A Conversation with Dennis Miller", "start": "2026-11-12T18:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-12T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "New York School of Interior Design", "address": "East 70th Street 170, 10021", "price": "", "price_from": "17.35", "price_to": "17.35", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/design/furniture-design"], "description": "An evening conversation on the American furniture movement, held at the New York School of Interior Design. Curators Thomas Mellins and Donald Albrecht will interview Dennis Miller, author of the book Art + Furniture: An Oral History of the American Furniture Movement, published by Abbeville Press. The book grew out of an oral history project at the school's archives and tells the movement's story through its protagonists' words, with contemporary and archival photography. The evening includes a reception and ends with a book signing, with copies available for purchase.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/art-furniture-a-conversation-with-dennis-miller-54344/", "official_url": "https://www.nysid.edu/events-calendar/art-furniture-a-conversation-with-dennis-miller", "image": "https://noky.io/images/146338c651cf249f12c250a75849e6bed51fc8b9d89d3e776df1b646927829a4-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Tour the Building with a Docent, November (2-4 PM on the half hour)", "start": "2026-11-07T14:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T16:00:00-05:00", "place": "The New York Society Library", "address": "East 79th Street 53, 10075", "price": "free of charge; drop in", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["history/new-york", "literature/libraries"], "description": "Join a docent-led tour that steps out of the city's hustle and into history, exploring the gallery and the architectural wonders of the Library's landmark 1917 building. The New York Society Library hosts these tours in connection with its exhibition 'Collective Witness: A Library for a Young Country,' which celebrates the United States' 250th anniversary and explores how a public library and a nascent democracy converged in New York City. Tours begin at 2:00, 2:30, 3:00, and 3:30 PM, and visitors meet their docent guide in the first-floor public Reference Room, to the right as they enter. The event is free of charge and open to the public on a drop-in basis.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/tour-the-building-with-a-docent-november-2-4-pm-on-the-half-105144/", "official_url": "https://www.nysoclib.org/events/tour-building-docent-november-2-4-pm-half-hour-0", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7c4561d354af77449b1ec93f426289ca85eaec9df4cdcc39b3a0ec29cc2a835f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "“The Bicentennial Revisited: The Spirit of ’76?” Exhibition", "start": "2026-05-05T12:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-19T16:00:00-05:00", "place": "King Manor Museum", "address": "Jamaica Avenue 150-05, 11432 Jamaica", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art"], "description": "King Manor Museum presents the exhibition “The Bicentennial Revisited: The Spirit of ’76?”. It explores how Americans interpreted the nation’s founding during the 1976 bicentennial through the material culture of the era. Objects on display include printed fabrics, commemorative plates, beer cans, magazines, school yearbooks, underground prints, and protest posters. The show examines the vision of America expressed in both consumer goods and handmade items, highlighting the colorful and eclectic aesthetics of the 1970s.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-bicentennial-revisited-the-spirit-of-76-exhibition-53025/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c9c8ee2e8c5f55e45f5de8a1eff01421b24c0e6e88f8f500398c8c0612d9fc11-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Photo-Walk: Visions of New York Harbor", "start": "2026-11-07T13:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Empire Outlets", "address": "55 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, NY 10301", "price": "", "price_from": "30.00", "price_to": "30.00", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/photography"], "description": "A guided Photo-Walk led by photographer and Oceanus co-curator Michael McWeeney, exploring New York Harbor and its working waterfront through photography. Participants meet Noble Maritime Collection staff in the St. George area, photograph the waterfront and ferry terminal, then ride the Staten Island Ferry round-trip between St. George and Whitehall while experimenting with composition, perspective, light and movement. Afterwards, participants are invited back to the museum for a gallery walk with Michael McWeeney through the Oceanus exhibition, which celebrates the harbor's visual and cultural character.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/photo-walk-visions-of-new-york-harbor-54393/", "official_url": "https://noblemaritime.org/events/2026/11/7/photo-walk-visions-of-new-york-harbor", "image": "https://noky.io/images/46a8e562d0c8620fc725d4cea6261af309f2e5d740ac736e8e1046c835332098-1200.webp"}]}