Wednesday, February 10, 2021 – Learn about all those collectables from our transit system

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2021


THE 283rd  EDITION

FROM OUR ARCHIVES

NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT

AUTHORITY

OBJECTS

New York City Transit Authority Objects, from the collection of and photographed by Brian Kelley, published by Standards Manual.
Introduction by Eric Greene

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Brian Kelley (b. 1988) moved to New York City in 2006 and received his BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts. Kelley’s work resists the hurried march of consumerist modernity, seeking to halt the cyclical emptiness of our material lives to capture a sense of culture at “the end of history.” A mixed-media approach has allowed him to pursue artwork with disruptive capacities—exhaustive research, slow & meditative composition, and the repurposing of photographic mediums—all employed to reveal the artifacts left behind by the precession of simulacra. Kelley was born in Horseheads, NY and currently lives in Lumberland, NY.

Since 2011 Brian Kelley has been collecting and photographing Metrocards and other ephemera from the New York City Transit Authority.  He now has a collection of thousands of items from the TA.  Some were trash, found items and donations from employees and others.

We will learn how Brian’s collection have overtaken his studio
and how he shares his collection with a contemporary audience.

FOLLOW THIS LINK TO REGISTER FOR THE PROGRAM:
https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2021/02/16/nyta-objects

Library card number is not needed
A confirmation will be e-mailed to you

MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR OUR EVENTS

UPCOMING PROGRAMS ON ZOOM 
Registration will be available before each event 
All events are at 7 p.m.

Tuesday, March 16 “Abandoned Queens”
Author Richard Panchyk takes us on a journey through Queens’ past. Revealing haunting reminders of the way things used to be, he describes fascinating, abandoned places, including the chilling Creedmoor Psychiatric Center, the meandering remains of the country’s first modern highway, a defunct airport reclaimed by wilderness, an eerie old railroad line in Forest Hills, and a destroyed neighborhood in the Rockaways.


Tuesday, April 20 “Mansions and Munificence: the Gilded Age on Fifth Avenue”
Guide, lecturer, author and teacher of art and architecture, Emma Guest-Consales leads a virtual tour of the great mansions of Fifth Avenue. Starting with the ex-home of Henry Clay Frick that now houses the Frick Collection, all the way up to the former home of Andrew Carnegie, now the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, she takes us through some of the most extravagant urban palaces the city has ever seen.


Tuesday, May 18 “Saving America’s Cities” Author and Harvard History Professor Lizabeth Cohen
Provides an eye-opening look at her award-winning book’s subtitle: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age. Tracing Logue’s career from the development of Roosevelt Island in the ‘70s, to the redevelopment of New Haven in the ‘50s, Boston in the’60s and the South Bronx from 1978–85, she focuses on Logue’s vision to revitalize post-war cities, the rise of the Urban Development Corporation.

WEDNESDAY PHOTO OF THE DAY

Can you identify this photo from today’s edition?
Send you submission to 
ROOSEVELTISLANDHISTORY@GMAIL.COM

TUESDAY PHOTO OF THE DAY

VICKI FEINMEL, ANDY SPARBERG AND ARLENE BESSENOFF GOT IT!!!

Text by Judith Berdy
Thanks to Bobbie Slonevsky for her dedication to Blackwell’s Almanac and the RIHS
Thanks to Deborah Dorff for maintaining our website
Edited by Deborah Dorff
All image are copyrighted (c)
Roosevelt Island Historical Society
unless otherwise indicated

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