Historic Preservation
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Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment
Amplifying an Unsung Site of Queer History on Staten Island
Photographer Alice Austen did not conform to the expectations for women in 19th-century New York. Hoisting her equipment on her bicycle (she was an early advocate for women’s cycling), she traveled the city to capture its lively neighborhoods and vendors…
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Graduate Architecture and Urban Design
The Frick Collection Abandons Controversial Expansion Plans
In this first News page “Faculty Insight” column, Lisa M. Ackerman, executive vice president, World Monuments Fund, and visiting professor, School of Architecture, provides context surrounding The Frick Collection’s recent decision not to pursue its expansion plans in light of…