About this Event
Join the (DORIS) each month for our virtual Lunch & Learn Series—an intimate conversation with agency staff and special guests focusing on the collections of the Municipal Archives and Library and the history of New York City. During 2025, the 400th anniversary of the founding of City government, DORIS is expanding access to records documenting the city and its diverse communities.
On April 8th, join architectural historian Dr. Mosette Broderick as she delves into the evolution of one of the most iconic streets in the world, New York’s Fifth Avenue.
Dubbed America’s “Street of Dreams,” the transformation of Fifth Avenue from a country road on the 1807 Commissioners’ Map to a 19th-century symbol of wealth and high society mirrored the dramatic shifts in the city’s early social and architectural landscape.
Explore Fifth Avenue’s 19th and early 20th-century architecture, from the brownstone rowhouses of NYC mercantile society to the grand European-inspired mansions of arrivistes such as Alva Vanderbilt and Marietta Stevens; and discover how the rise of modern skyscrapers quickly overshadowed it.
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About the Author:
Mosette Broderick is the director of the Urban Design and Architecture Studies Program at NYU and the Historical and Sustainable Architecture MA program at NYU London. She specializes in 19th and early 20th-century American and English architecture and has been a professor of architectural history and urban issues at New York University since 1989. Her work has benefited from the archives you all support!
This Lunch & Learn is part of a three-part series created in memory of Catha Jackson Grace to highlight the work of Catha and other notable NYC architectural historians.
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