Photo Courtesy of NYLC
Flushing Friends Quaker Meeting House and Bowne House
By Forum Staff
As part of its 50th 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
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 p.m. – 4 p.m.
To kick off Pride month and celebrate the preservation of Alice Austen and Gertrude Tate’s love story, the Alice Austen House and Tin Pan Alley present an afternoon of music with Miss Maybell and Charlie Judkins and 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
Photo Courtesy of NYLC
TWA Flight Center and Hotel at John F. Kennedy International Airport
Flushing Friends Quaker Meeting House and Bowne House – Walking Tour
37-01 Bowne St., Queens
11:30 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Bowne House and the Flushing Friends Quaker Meeting House are partnering to host a joint, in-person event to celebrate the Conservancy’s 50th 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 p.m. – 8 p.m.
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.
“50 at 50” is an 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 NYC.
For more information, visit nylandmarks.org.
