“Past, Present and Place: Overcoming the Urban Crisis in Washington Heights and Inwood"

Wednesday, March 4^th, 2020
6:30 until 7:30 pm
#CityCollegeDowntown
Division of Interdisciplinary Studies
25 Broadway, 7^th Floor R: 52-53

These events are open and free to the public. Please, bring an official ID to enter the building.

Professor Robert Snyder [Manhattan Borough Historian since 2019]

Dr. Robert W. Snyder has worked since the 1980s with journalists, museum curators, and documentarians to share history with a broad public. An historian and a professor of journalism and American Studies at Rutgers University-Newark, he has written widely on New York City history. He was a Fulbright lecturer in American Studies in South Korea in 2016.  Most recently, he is the co-author of All the Nations Under Heaven: Immigrants, Migrants and the Making of New York and the author Crossing Broadway: Washington Heights and the Promise of New York. He is also the author of The Voice of the City: Vaudeville and Popular Culture in New York; Transit Talk: New York’s Bus and Subway Workers Tell Their Stories; co-author of Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and Their New York, which won the Barr Prize of the College Art Association; and the editor of nine volumes in media studies.

Organized by Prof. Susanna Schaller, Urban Studies, Administration and Planning Concentration at The City College of New York Downtown
Co-sponsored by CWE’s Committee on Inclusive Excellence

City College Downtown https://www.ccny.cuny.edu/cwe