The New York Landmarks Conservancy Celebrates 50th Anniversary with Events Throughout The City

Alice Austen House. Photo credit: Noel Sutherland

As part of its 50^th Anniversary year-long celebration, The New York Landmarks Conservancy has partnered with sites highlighted in its “50 at 50” online exhibition to offer the public an opportunity to explore some of the Conservancy’s most iconic and memorable successes. Events in June include:

June 3, 2023

Alice Austen House – Concert “Celebrating Alice and Gertrude through Song: Preservation and Pride in Partnership with Tin Pan Alley”

2 Hyland Blvd., Staten Island

1:00pm – 4:00pm

To kick off Pride month and celebrate the preservation of Alice Austen and Gertrude Tate’s iconic love story, the Alice Austen House and Tin Pan Alley present an afternoon of music with Miss Maybell and Charlie Judkins and the inimitable Kay Turner.  Taking inspiration from an era when Alice Austen and her life partner Gertrude Tate resided at Clear Comfort and presented in collaboration with the Tin Pan Alley American Popular Music Project; Miss Maybell and Charlie Judkins will perform vintage jazz, ragtime and blues songs from 1900-1929. 

June 11, 2023

Flushing Friends Quaker Meeting House and Bowne House – Walking Tour 

37-01 Bowne Street, Queens

11:30am – 3:00pm

Bowne House and the Flushing Friends Quaker Meeting House are partnering to host a joint, in-person event to celebrate the Conservancy’s 50^th Anniversary.  This event will include a live presentation in the Bowne House garden, self-guided tours of the Bowne House, and a Flushing Freedom Mile walking tour led by the team at the Friends Meeting House. Young visitors can enjoy a craft station with coloring pages in the Bowne House garden.

June 21, 2023

Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum – Summer Solstice Dance Performance

895 Shore Road, Pelham Bay Park

6:00pm – 8:00pm

As the sun goes down on the pebble court, enjoy cocktails and bites and a site-specific, two-part dance performance by the Eva Dean Dance Company entitled Liquid Silver: Sanctuary. As a past grant recipient of emergency funds from the Conservancy, Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum is honored to be a part of the 50^th Anniversary celebration.

For more information, please visit www.nylandmarks.org.

“50 at 50” is an extraordinary online exhibition of stunning contemporary and historic photographs featuring highlights from the Conservancy’s most iconic, memorable successes in preserving and protecting the architecture that helps make New York the greatest city in the world.  Visitors to the “50 at 50” exhibition will experience, borough by borough, the Conservancy’s work to preserve not only physical landmarks, but also the stories and the history behind them, all woven into the fabric of the City we all love. From the Conservancy’s first project in 1973, finding a new use for the vacant U.S. Custom House on Bowling Green, the exhibition highlights 50 examples of the Conservancy’s critical work that over the past half century has helped save major public buildings, brownstone blocks, irreplaceable religious institutions, and much more.

The “50 at 50” exhibition is curated by Donald Albrecht and Thomas Mellins, with contemporary photographs by Noel Sutherland and design by SJI Associates.

About The New York Landmarks Conservancy

The New York Landmarks Conservancy, a private non-profit organization, has led the effort to preserve and protect New York City’s architectural legacy for 50 years.  Since its founding, the Conservancy has loaned and granted more than $60 million, which has leveraged more than $900 million in more than 1,300 restoration projects throughout New York, revitalizing communities, providing economic stimulus and supporting local jobs.  The Conservancy has also offered countless hours of pro bono technical advice to building owners, both nonprofit organizations and individuals.  The Conservancy’s work has saved more than a thousand buildings across the City and State, protecting New York’s distinctive architectural heritage for residents and visitors alike today, and for future generations.  For more information, please visit www.nylandmarks.org.