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EVENT DETAILS

In the seventeenth century, Brooklyn was one of only six towns of rural Kings County. By 1883, when the Brooklyn Bridge opened, Brooklyn was the fourth largest city in the country, with a population of over a half million. Join Barry Lewis as he surveys the enormous changes the industrial era brought to bucolic Brooklyn: horse car lines, el train routes, thousands of middle-class brownstones in new bourgeois neighborhoods, and working-class tenements in today’s Williamsburg and Bushwick. With a park and parkway system that outshone New York's, Brooklyn was getting ready for the “big time.”

Barry Lewis is an architectural historian who specializes in European and American architecture from the 18th to 20th century.

LOCATION

The Robert H. Smith Auditorium at the New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024

STANDBY TICKETS

This program has reached capacity. There will be a standby line the evening of the program. One hour before the program begins, we will begin handing out standby numbers with members receiving priority. Shortly before the program begins, we would begin selling tickets if we are able to do so. Standby does not guarantee admission.

Advance purchase is required to guarantee seating. All sales are final and payments cannot be refunded. No exchanges are permitted. Programs and dates may be subject to change. Management reserves the right to refuse admission to latecomers.