Near the top of New York’s Museum Mile, north of the Cooper Hewitt, a gem from the Gilded Age, and the Guggenheim, itself a Frank-Lloyd-Wright-work-of-art, and the classical majesty of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, sits the Museum of the City of New York. It, too, occupies a building of architectural distinction, a five-story, red brick and marble Georgian Colonial-Revival completed in 1932 and the home of the museum ever since. But it can be overlooked amid the star power of its cultural neighbors, even when it punches above its weight with expansive exhibitions like “New York at Its Core,” which examines the city’s history since 1609 or “Activist New York,” which reviews the city through the prism of social justice and political agitation. “If you had to pick one place to learn about New York City, it would probably be the Museum of the City of New York,” said Kenneth T. Jackson, a former president of the New-York Historical Society and editor of the Encyclopedia of the City of New York.

Source: New York Times June 28, 2020 18:22 UTC