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  • Fort Tryon Park: Historic Cottage Access

    Cottage at Fort Tryon Park 741 Fort Washington Avenue, New York

    Step inside the historic cottage at Fort Tryon Park during Open House New York for a rare opportunity to explore one of the park’s original structures. Built as the gatehouse for the early 20th-century Billings Estate, the cottage now serves as the offices of NYC Parks and the Fort Tryon Park Conservancy. Visitors can learn about the cottage’s history, architecture, and connection to the Billings Estate while exploring this unique piece of Fort Tryon Park’s past.

    FREE

  • Hispanic Society: Book Presentation with Jonathan Goldman

    Hispanic Society Museum & Library Audubon Terrace, Broadway betw 155th & 156th Sts., New York, NY, United States

    Book Presentation with Jonathan Goldman. Join the Hispanic Society for a conversation with Jonathan Goldman on the Puerto Rican experience in 1920s New York. In Hidden Histories of Jazz Age: New York: From the Suppressed to the Strange, Jonathan Goldman offers a fresh look at 1920s New York City. Jonathan Ezra Goldman’s whirlwind tour of early 1920s New York City visits an all-female police platoon, a Black amusement park shut down before it opened, an Arabic literary salon, socialist Puerto Rican cigar factories, Chinatown funerals, lesbian cafes, overcrowded jails, toxic dumps, and Ku Klux Klan recruitment offices.

    FREE with RSVP