Contact us to discuss how you can make up missing assignments.

If you missed a field trip or an archives visit, we expect you to visit an archive or specialized museum like the Transit Museum, the Museum of the City of NY or even the NY Historical Society to make up the work via a report.

WNYC had a segment today about the BQX (Brooklyn-Queen Connector) Light Rail that we mentioned in class last time. This proposed street car would help connect Sunset Park to Red Hook to Downtown Brooklyn to Dumbo and ultimately Long Island City and Astoria. The BQX would provide public transportation for the waterfront.

The BQX is controversial. The WNYC segment helps to explain why.

Interested in the transportation aspect of the Brooklyn Bridge and its terminations? There is a new exhibit, “From Fulton Ferry: Building Downtown Brooklyn” at the Transit Museum.  Brownstoner sums up the exhibit but we recommend you consider going in person! There are likely archival images, maps and other historic objects in the exhibit you can use for your final project.

Although we will still meet at our original spot of Room 117, our session has been moved to room 217 so if you are late (after 1:10), you can go ahead to this room. Please share this information with your classmates who are late.

Remember to bring pencils and your notebooks as well as your phones! We are meeting at 1 pm inside main branch of New York Public Library 42nd Street and 5th Avenue in the hallway outside the Map Room, room 117. The map room is officially called:

The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, Room 117

A link to a Google map is included on the link above to New York Public Library’s Schwarzman building. This is the famous building with the lion statues.