The Museum of the City of New York- Friday, May 11th, 2018 May 16, 2018

This Friday the students visited the little known Museum of the City of New York. Outside of the great building stood a statue of DeWitt Clinton, an early mayor of New York City who was also largely responsible for the construction of New York State’s Erie Canal. Once inside, we were met with a massive spiraling staircase in the brightly lit and impressive lobby. We were then directed to a theater where they played a film on the history of New York City. We learned that the name Manhattan came from the name for the island by the Abenaki people who lived in the area before Europeans appeared in what is now New York Harbor. After that we went through the different galleries where there were exhibits on public art across New York City, a history on the woman’s suffrage movement and even a series of photographs taken in New York by the famous movie director Stanley Kubrick. All in all, we were met with images of both the Big Apple’s past and present, giving us a wealth of ideas for other historical places to visit right in our own city.