The
East Village on Film
 An
evening of films about the history of the East Village with guest speaker Roland
Legiardi-Laura.
Yael Bitton's Not For Sale (2002) is a documentary
that examines the metamorphosis of East 7th Street from immigrant working-class
to well-heeled urban professional. What happens when the local community garden
is bulldozed and luxury condominiums rise in its place? Roland Legiardi-Laura's
Duh-Huh (2003) poses this question to those in his ever-changing neighborhood:
"What is the East Village and why should we care?" Curated by Matthew
Seig and Leonard Quart
Roland Legiardi-Laura is a filmmaker
and poet. He is Chairman of the Board of Directors of The Nuyorican Poets Cafe
and founder of its Fifth Night Screenplay Reading and Short Film series.
Leonard
Quart is Professor Emeritus of Cinema Studies at the College of Staten Island
and at the CUNY Graduate Center, and is a Contributing Editor of Cineaste.
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 New
York Underground
Come see what is going down in New York as we descend into its
underbelly to explore the city from the bottom up. Urban explorer Julia Solis
will present a slideshow of her underground discoveries while a panel of authors
helps to navigate our course through these subterranean worlds.
Julia
Solis, author of New York Underground (Routledge) and Director of Dark
Passages and Ars Subterranea
Robert Sullivan, author of Rats: Observations on the History and
Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants (Bloomsbury USA)
Chris
Neville, lecturer for Place Matters on the Marble Cemetery
Anne-Marie
Cantwell and Diana diZerega Wall, authors of Unearthing Gotham:
The Archaeology of New York City, (Yale)
co-sponsored with ASHP and Citylore
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 The
Bronx
A book talk and signing with Evelyn Gonzalez, associate professor of History
at William Paterson University
Home to the New York Yankees, the Bronx
Zoo, and the Grand Concourse, the Bronx was at one time a haven for upwardly mobile
second-generation immigrants. During the 1960s and 1970s the Bronx became a national
symbol of urban deterioration. In this revealing history of the Bronx, historian
Evelyn Gonzalez describes how the once-infamous New York City borough underwent
one of the most successful and inspiring community revivals in American history.
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 The
1964/65 New York World's Fair: Fortieth Anniversary
A screening of the documentary PEACE THROUGH
UNDERSTANDING: The 1964/65 New York World's Fair by Terri Marlowe and
Curtis Cates of BBQ Productions with guest speaker historian Marc H.
Miller.
The film interweaves recollections of numerous participants
with archival footage, photos and period music for a behind-the-scenes and historical
account of the creation and running of the 1964/65 World's Fair, against the turbulent
backdrop of the civil rights movement, the assassination of JFK, the space race
and more.
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 100
Years of the New York Subway: A Look Back and A Look to the Future
November 10, 6:30 p.m. - Auditorium
This forum will examine the New York
City subway. Experts will put the subway in historical perspective, bring the
story of the subway up to date and take a look at what might happen to it in the
future. Speakers will include Richard Ravitch, Ravitch, Rice and Company,
subway author Robert W. Snyder, Rutgers University at Newark, transportation
consultant Jeffrey Zupan, and others. A panel that will include Gene
Russianoff of the Straphangers' Campaign will question the speakers.
Co-sponsored with MTA New York City Transit, NY Straphangers' Campaign, Bronx
County Historical Society, New York Transit Museum, New-York Historical Society,
Museum of the City of New York and CUNY Urban Transportation Research Center,
CUNY
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 The
Moving Deuce: Films on Times Square
December
15, 6:30 p.m. - Recital Hall
An evening
of film, organized by Barbara Abrash and Kathleen Hulser for the
Gotham Center at City University of New York
Digging beneath the
gold-digger Hollywood history of Times Square, this evening of short films roams
around the Deuce, starting with a 1905 pan from the then unfinished Times Square
Tower. Notable filmmakers include Rudy Burckhardt, Charles Ahearn, The Municipal
Art Society and Edison Films. The assortment of cinematic visions constitutes
a national template of the mixed-up, hybrid American culture that brewed for a
hundred years in the burning heart of urban New York.
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