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Historical Society
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Mitch Waxman, artist, Newtown Creek historian, and Steering Committee member of the Working Harbor Committee, started the Newtown Pentacle website in 2009 to document his adventures along the Creek. He regularly offers walking, bus, and boat tours of the Newtown Creek Watershed.
Waxman will discuss the history of Newtown Creek and his on-going work in a lecture presented by the Roosevelt Island Historical Society at the New York Public Library Branch on Roosevelt Island, on Thursday, November 14, 2019 at 6:30p.m.
The event is FREE and open to the public. It is the first in the Society’s annual series of Fall lectures, which is supported by Amalgamated Bank, Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation’s Public Purpose Fund and New York City Council Member Ben Kallos, with funding from the New York CityDepartment of Youth and Community Development.
DIRECTIONS: Take the Tram at 59th Street and Second Avenue or the F train to Roosevelt Island. Take the red bus (no charge) or walk eight minutes north to 524 Main Street.
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Scott Warnasch has been a forensic anthropologist/archaeologist for the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner, director of the Human Remains Recovery excavations at the World Trade Center site, consultant to the NYPD and FBI on crime scene search and recovery operations, and has recently opened his own consulting business. He will discuss several forensic search and recovery excavation projects, including the mysterious woman in the iron coffin.
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