Julie Salamon
The Ghosts of Tenth Avenue
Noted author Julie Salamon https://juliesalamon.com/ will discuss her forthcoming book, The Ghosts of Tenth Avenue (The Penguin Press, 2026.) Along with being an accomplished author of numerous books including including New York Times best-seller, Wendy and the Lost Boys, a biography of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein, (The Penguin Press, 2011) Julie is also chair of the Board of Directors of the non-profit Bowery Residents Committee aka BRC.
Presently, the BRC is building the women’s shelter on Tenth Avenue and 212th street. When they learned that early maps showed their building’s site had been a cemetery for enslaved people, the board decided to include a memorial into the shelter’s design. Julie began her research.
1775 was 250 years ago. At that time the people of Kingsbridge did not know that the most dramatic and violent 8 years in the history of the area were about to begin. The Revolutionary War would transform the neighborhood from a lush and fertile farming community into a muddy battle-scarred military camp with forts on every hilltop. For the community that was here, 1775 was the year that everything changed. The men of the area formed a militia for defense and the Continental Congress ordered the area fortified. But why here? Why did George Washington consider it a “pass of the utmost importance?” And how did local people feel about the ideas and events that were reshaping America and their lives?
On August 27th at 6:00 PM, join us for Dyckman Farmhouse Museum’s LAST Back Porch History lecture of the season featuring historian Nick Dembowski, who will take you on a virtual tour of Kingsbridge and northern Manhattan in the years before the war, leading up to the Declaration of Independence.
Nick Dembowski is a Bronx local historian and Executive Director of the Kingsbridge Historical Society. He was the lead curator of the Kingsbridge Remembers 1775-1783 exhibit at the Kingsbridge Historical Society. He is also the Site Historian of the Van Cortlandt House Museum.
Date: Wednesday, August 27th
Time: 6-7pm
Registration: Zoom registration required.
Cost: FREE!
Livestream? YES! Register using the link in our bio!
Location: Livestream via Zoom and in person at Dyckman Farmhouse Museum (on the corner of 204th and Broadway)
Our annual shuttle tour is back, this time in Upper Manhattan and The Bronx! We’re teaming up with some incredible cultural organizations to offer a unique opportunity to trace New York City’s foundations across historic sites built between 1748 and 1836.
Travel by shuttle to three historic sites with an extra stop on our extended tour that includes a boxed lunch. Enjoy special crafts, activities, and delicious treats along the way. Learn about the lives of the people that lived and worked in these places including the Lenape, Dutch settlers, and enslaved Africans.
Purchase tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/…/heritage-trail-tracing…
Thanks so much to Dutch Culture USA for supporting this opportunity to connect, and to our wonderful partners who are helping make this event a success. #nychistory #thebronx #uppermanhattan #historichouses
Drop in for storytime featuring a selection of our favorite children’s picture books each week!
Sundays, August 3rd & 8th
11am
