The borough of Brooklyn is currently enjoying a renaissance, as can be seen in the rise of DUMBO, MetroTech, Williamsburg, Ditmas Park, etc. But in the 1950s and 1960s it was in decline. Starting in the 1970s, however, a number of local forces came together to reverse this condition, producing the renaissance that is Brooklyn today. The current exhibit in the Ursula C. Schwerin Library of New York City College of Technology, “The Roots of Modern Brooklyn: A Look at the 1970s and 1980s”, documents how a combination of business, political and social forces helped to turn the tide to produce the vibrant borough that we see in the 21st century.
The individual sections (bottoming out in Brooklyn; Brooklyn and the world; turning things around; Brooklyn’s people power; preserving, restoring, renewing, and creating communities; celebrating Brooklyn’s arts and cultures; and celebrating Brooklyn) chronicle the fascinating history of this turbulent period in the borough’s history. Most of the materials displayed in this traveling exhibit are drawn from the archival holdings of the Brooklyn College Library, which includes the holdings of The Phoenix Newspaper (1972-1995), published by Dnynia and Michael Armstrong.
The display can be viewed during the months of March and April 2009. It can be viewed in the Library during the following hours: Mondays through Thursdays from 9:00 a.m.-10:00 p.m., Fridays from 9:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m., and Saturdays from 10:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m. During the Spring recess, the Library will be open from 9:00 a.m.-4:45 p.m. on 4/8-4/10 and 4/13-4/17. It will be closed on 4/11.
Library Exhibit: Lionel Train Collections
The Ursula C. Schwerin Library at New York City College of Technology will host an exhibit in its showcase windows of Lionel trains from the collections of Professors Nicholas Manos, Restorative Dentistry, and Robert Russo, Vision Care Technology, from December 9, 2008, through January 31, 2009, 300 Jay Street (at Tillary), Atrium 4th Floor, Downtown Brooklyn. The exhibit is free and accessible to the public Mondays through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., when College is open.
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The Photography of Barbara Kitai
A resident of Manhattan, originally from Montreal, Canada, Kitai has been photographing the world for more than 20 years. The exhibit depicts, says Kitai, “timelessness in the ancient land of Israel and fleeting impressions of ineffable beauty from the gardens of Claude Monet. Both settings speak to the paradox of the timelessness and evanescence of land, nature and history.” The interplay of shadow and light, sharp clear images and hidden, secret area of haze and mist,” adds Kitai, who is an adjunct assistant professor of English at the college, ” frame some of the most beautiful and precious existences on our planet, some created by the hand of man and some by the Divine, giving one a glimpse into the infinite.”
November 10 through December 6, 2008
Mondays through Saturdays (when College is open)
New York City College of Technology
Ursula C. Schwerin Library
Atrium 4th Floor
300 Jay Street (at Tillary)
Downtown Brooklyn
For information on exhibit hours, contact Library Professor Morris Hounion at 718.260.5491 or mhounion@citytech.cuny.edu.
Library Exhibit Marks 125th Anniversary of Brooklyn Bridge
The Ursula C. Schwerin Library at New York City College of Technology, 300 Jay Street (at Tillary), Atrium 4th Floor, Downtown Brooklyn, is hosting an exhibit marking the 125th anniversary of the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge. The exhibit will run through the end August.
The exhibit features materials provided by the College’s Department of Architectural Technology, a scale model of the Brooklyn Bridge, and two large posters on the history of what was the tallest structure in the Western hemisphere at the time of its opening and the Hart Crane poem “The Bridge.” Also featured are facsimiles of photographs of the bridge from the collection of Brooklyn Borough Historian and City Tech graduate Ron
Felix Baez, Architectural Technology CLT, worked with the library to mount the exhibit, which also features a multimedia display of scores of scenes from the bridge’s long history courtesy of Alberto Rivera, Library CLT. For more information, contact Library Professor Morris Hounion at 718.260.5491.
Living Off the Land in Space: Green Roads to the Cosmos
The library has a new exhibit called Living Off the Land in Space: Green Roads to the Cosmos. Read below for more information.
C. Bangs, who served as a NASA Faculty Fellow in 2002-04, created the art in this exhibition. Living in the Land in Space, which Ms. Bangs coauthored with her husband, Prof. Gregory Matloff of the NYCCT Physics Department and NASA manager Les Johnson, was publisher by Springer-Copernicus in 2007. Living Off the Land in Space demonstrates how future space pioneers and explorers might utilize the resources of the solar system, just as terrestrial pioneers and explorers used the resources of the Earth in spreading human settlement aroudn the globe. Space is not about individual heroics or national pride. Ultimately, it deals with the survival of the human species and other terrestrial life forms.
This exhibit will be on display in the Library during the months of March and April, 2008.
