Have you seen these prefab structures? Aren't they cool?
They're located on the Flushing Bay Promenade in Queens, a few hundred yards from the Mets' new stadium. Millions of people have seen them over the past 45 years, but almost nobody knows anything about them.
The Candela Structures: A New York City History Mystery, a new exhibition at the City Reliquary, tells the story of these underappreciated fiberglass formations and the surprising culture of mystery and misinformation surrounding them, from their origins as exhibit spaces during the 1964 World's Fair to their current status as neglected but enduring landmarks on the Queens waterfront.
The exhibit has been produced by journalist Paul Lukas and architect Kirsten Hively, who developed a crush on the Candela Structures last year and decided to investigate their backstory. What began as a quick research project turned into an eight-month odyssey of dead ends, wrong turns, and architectural obsession. The resulting exhibit should give these underrated structures the attention they've long deserved.
The exhibit will kick off with an opening reception on May 16th, 7pm, at the City Reliquary. Arts and crafts materials will be provided, so guests can sculpt their own Candela Structures, and the Reliquary will also provide "Save the Candelas" letters and envelopes, so guests can petition city officials to provide the Candelas with sorely needed repairs. Beer and other refreshments will be provided, and DJ Stacher will kick out the jams with mid-1960s pop-garage, psychedelia and Shea Stadium live concert hits.
The Candela Structures: A New York City History Mystery will remain on view at the Reliquary through June 28th.
Saturday May 9th, 12noon – 6pm
Havemeyer between Hope and Grand streets
6 – 10pm, Afterparty in the City Reliquary’s spacious backyard.
It’s a block party for your bicycle! Come and celebrate at our fifth annual Bicycle Fetish Day, with Bike related events including, but not limited to, awards and celebrations of bicycle culture, bike artwork, bicycle rides, and bicycle beautification stations to spiff up your wheels. Burgers, & Dogs of the meat and veggie kind will be on sale at the grill, and Brooklyn Beer will be purchasable at the Museum. Local bike-related organizations will be on-hand to share pro-cycling gear and information, including but not limited to: The Pablo Legal Defense Fund, Outlier Tailored Performance, Taliah Lempert, Transportation Alternatives, and many more. Afterparty at the City Reliquary’s spacious backyard to follow, featuring funky bike and cycle soul with DJ Barney Iller.
Sunday April 26th
Check out the photos of our awesome ride!!
Join the most civic cyclists in town for a fun, free and leisurely bicycle ride from Museum2Museum – Brooklyn to Queens. We will depart the City Reliquary at 2pm, wind our way through Williamsburg and East Williamsburg, into Long Island City, Elmhurst, Corona, and finally Flushing-Meadows Corona Park, for the QMA’s Queens International 4 closing party. Total miles: 6.5.
Saturday May 16th 1:30 - 5pm
Meet at 1:30pm, leave 2pm, return 6pm.
Join the most civic cyclists in town for a fun, free, leisurely and historical bicycle ride from North to South Brooklyn and back. Travel along America's first urban bicycle lane, traverse various "deep Brooklyn 'hoods" and end at Dead Horse Bay, aka Bottle Beach. After a rest, we'll return the way we came. End at the City Reliquary for the official opening of the Candela Structures: A New York City History Mystery! Total miles: 21.
Saturday June 6th, 1145 - 3pm
Meet at 11:45am, depart at 12noon. Arrive at Queensboro bridge at 12:45pm, depart at 1pm, Arrive at Socrates Sculpture Park at 2pm.
Join the most civic cyclists in town for a celebratory bike ride over the best bridge to Queens. From the City Reliquary we will head to the Queensboro bridge via Manhattan. As we ride across the Queensboro Bridge we'll also learn its history, then continue to the Socrates Sculpture Park. Upon arriving we'll kickstart the 2nd Annual LIC Bike Parade at 2. Total miles: 8
Over Spilt Milk: The Fight for Fair Price and Fair Profit in Depression Era New York.
January 30th - May 3rd 2009
Consumer-Farmer Milk Cooperative pamphlets and broadsides, vintage milk cartons, and miniature dioramas on display.
The show will feature documents and artifacts from the 1930s, when immigrant Meyer Parodneck and a handful of anti-poverty activists founded the Consumer-Farmer Milk Cooperative to ensure farmers received a fair price, and consumers paid a fair price, for milk. The Co-op played a pivotal role opening the market controlled by milk distribution giants. With their own processing plants and distribution stations, the Consumer-Farmer Co-op sold milk to consumers at the lowest possible price, and paid farmers the highest possible return, for nearly fifty years. Overcoming a mountain of obstacles, this organization made a difference to hundreds of struggling farmers and to the children of low-income New Yorkers.
The exhibition includes period Co-op newsletters and advertising campaigns, vintage paper milk containers, and cooperative movement propaganda. Pivotal moments in the Co-op's story are illustrated with miniature dioramas.
Modern Day Depression-Era Fundraiser!
Friday February 27th 7-11pm
Times are tough all around – rollercoaster stock markets, job losses by the hundreds of thousands, bipartisan bickering with no relief in sight. It’s even tougher for 501 (c) (3) non-profit Community Museums. So the City Reliquary is hosting a fundraiser to raise some of (last month’s!) rent. BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE SOME RENT? is a Modern Day Depression-Era Fundraiser held in our backroom and backyard. For a minimum $10 tax-deductible donation at the door, you can come and participate in scores of historical diversions and entertainments circa 1935.
The City Reliquary is proud to present:
Pie the Landlord! That’s right: the City Reliquary will have our very own cigar-chomping, unshaven, smelly Landlord demanding our rent! Tell him where to shove it with a whipped cream pie in his face!
Madame LuLu LoLo, Fortune Teller Extraordinaire: She Sees All and Knows All and Your Fortune Might Help Pay Our Rent!
Hobo Photos a Go-Go: Take your picture in our hand painted carnival sign. Remember the Recession of ’09 with a photographic keepsake!
Depression-era movies: shown on the projector in the backyard. Laugh it up with Mae West, the Marx Brothers and James Cagney.
Oil drum fires: (and more modern propane heaters) to keep you warm while you chill in the cold. All fires will be regulated carefully by official FDNY supervision!
DIY Fingerless Gloves Table! Because nothing says Depression-chic than rockin’ a pair of fingerless gloves!
Prohibition-era Beer provided by the Brooklyn Brewery and Depression-era “Rum” Punch provided by the City Reliquary at contemporary-recession era prices.
DJ Stacher playing hits from the economically challenged 1930s (Harlem Jazz) and 1970s (early Rap); as well as Big Money tracks from the 1980s (disco) and 2000s (electro). Get down!
All entertainments and diversions will be priced at the Depression-friendly rates of $2-5 a pop. All proceeds go to help the City Reliquary pay (last month’s, and this one’s) rent.
Announcing the City Reliquary's first Summer Benefit Party!
We hope you will join us for this delightful evening benefiting everyone's
favorite community museum on July 31 at 7:00pm.
Please email [email protected] to reserve your tickets
as soon as possible! Tickets are $50 (civic level) or $100
(metropolitan level -- includes a Reliquary membership!).
In addition to enjoying drinks, snacks, and music while exploring the
Reliquary and its grounds, the evening will include a silent auction
featuring swag from Crest Hardware and Transportation Alternatives, a
personalized NYC tour from The Levy's Unique New York!, original
artwork, and more. We'll also offer you the once-in-a-lifetime
opportunity to "Win-a-Date with a Reliquarian."
You can pay for your tickets by mailing a check to the Reliquary at PO
BOX 110948, Brooklyn, NY 11211 or by cash or check night-of the party.
Thanks for your support and see you on July 31!
May 22nd, 23rd, 24th & 25th:
in association with the City Reliquary,
The Levys' Unique New York, NY's First Family of Tour Guides presents:
Harbor Tours of the Brooklyn Bridge with the Roebling Family!
Take an hour-long New York Harbor cruise aboard the NY Water Taxi with The Levys' Unique New York! NY's First Family of Tour Guides portraying the family that built the Brooklyn Bridge – John, Washington and Emily Roebling. Tour will include a first person narrative of the history, drama, tragedy and triumph of the building of The Great Bridge by one of the Roeblings or a caisson worker. Cruise beneath its majestic Gothic arches and sail past Lady Liberty and Ellis Island.
Tours depart from South Street Seaport on May 22nd, 23rd, 24th, and 25th at 10:30 am, 12noon and 1pm.
Tours are $25. To purchase tickets or book this tour as a charter contact [email protected]
or call 877 NYC LUNY (877 692 5869)
May 24th aka BRIDGE DAY!
The City Reliquary Museum presents our annual,
Brooklyn Bridge Birthday Bike Ride!
This year celebrating 125 years since opening day May 24th, 1883.
Meet at the City Reliquary Museum
370 Metropolitan Ave. near Havemeyer St.
in Williamsburgh, Brooklyn
on Saturday May 24th at 12:00 noon
The bicycle ride will depart from the Museum and culminate on the Brooklyn anchorage of the Brooklyn Bridge, approximately 10 miles roundtrip. We will be met with Birthday cake, beverages, and a lively presentation of the bridge's illustrious history. Souvenir t-shirts will be on sale at the CR giftshop. Suggested donation $5; or free with purchase of t-shirt.
The City Reliquary Presents: The 4th Annual Bicycle Fetish Day
Saturday, May 10, 2008 12:00noon – 6:00 PM
Havemeyer St. between Grand St. & Metropolitan Ave
Afterparty 8pm –latepm at the City Reliquary: 370 Metropolitan Avenue.
FREE!
A Street fair for your bicycle! Show off your ride and revel in the beauty of all types, styles, and genres of specialized, customized, and personalized bicycles. CONTESTS throughout the day: Best in Show, Best Vintage, Best Hand-made, Best Chopper, Best Small Wheel (includes foldable bikes), Wheelies, BMX tricks, Track bike tricks, Heaviest Bike, Ugliest Bike, and more. Games, Rides, Bike Beautification Station, Merch tables and more!
Live performances by the Rude Mechanical Orchestra, NYC’s finest street-art-protest-radical-marching-band-and-dance-troupe! DJs Stacher and Dirtyfinger from Black Label Bicycle Club laying down the tracks and inducing a dance riot! Burgers & dogs, both carnivorous & herbivorous for sale! Cheap beer to be enjoyed in the beautiful City Reliquary backyard / veranda! Peruse arts and crafts at local organizational tables. Come and enjoy the springtime and bring yer bike!
Free Afterparty to be held at the City Reliquary, 370 Metropolitan Avenue at Havemeyer, 8-late. Tunes provided by DJs Stacher and DirtyFinger.
Contact:
The City Reliquary Museum,
[email protected]
www.cityreliquary.org,
718. R.U.CIVIC (718.782.4842)
Getting there:
Ride Yer Bike! or
L train to Lorimer St.; G train to Metropolitan Ave.; J, M, Z train to Marcy Ave.
Saturday September 8th, 2007 12-6PM
The fourth annual
Tribue to Our City will be held on Havemeyer Street between Grand & Hope Sts. A neighborhood pot-luck picnic in the streets complete with live music, games, entertainment, free food and good will all day long! Please come out to join us.
Macaroni and Mal Occio by LuLu LoLo
Food, Faith, and Family - Growing up Italian American
Recapturing the love, laughter, and tears of her Italian-American childhood in East Harlem’s Little Italy, LuLu LoLo in a virtuoso performance—without intermission—and with inventive costume changes and songs—fills the stage with a non-stop parade of eleven family characters and vignettes such as Making Macaroni with Grandma LuLu, Great Aunt Lena Warding off the Evil Eye (Mal Occhio), The Seven Fishes of Christmas Eve Dinner and other scenes which take the audience back to the tenement life of her Italian immigrant grandparents. Theatergoers from all backgrounds will recognize themselves and their families in this poignant, exhilarating, and heartwarming show.
The first production of this play was performed in Williamsburgh at the Leonard Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library in 2002. For a review of Macaroni and Mal Occio by Arlene McKanic, Greenwich Village Gazette go to www.hoast.org/artists/artistsLL.htm - 14k –
LuLu LoLo is an actor/playwright who has written and performed five acclaimed one-person plays Off-Broadway highlighting her immigrant family heritage and the dramatic struggle of women in New York City’s past. LuLu has performed at Metropolitan Playhouse, NY; FAR (Field Artist Residency) Space; Hofstra University; Columbia University; Stony Brook University; Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo NYU; Garibaldi-Meucci Museum; Lower East Side Tenement Museum Theater; Raw Space, NY; 2004 Columbus, OH Gay and Lesbian Theatre Festival; and Provincetown Fringe Festival, MA. LuLu is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work has been exhibited worldwide. The New York Times and The Village Voice have reviewed her work. LuLu was also a contestant on Who Wants To Be a Millionaire.
Larry from Classic Riders B.C. winner of "Best in Show 2005"
Bicycle Fetish Day 2007
Brought to you by the City Reliquary Brooklyn Civic Riders B.C.
May 26th 12 - 6 PM in Williamsburgh, Brooklyn
Havemeyer St. btw. Grand & Hope Sts.
Bicycle contests, live music, food, raffle prizes all day long!
For more information: [email protected]
Come out on Sunday April 1st from 12-6 PM to The City Reliquary Museum! That's right, we've officially been here 1 year...and we're still going strong. Come meet members of the board, play games, and hang out in our new back room!
Come hang out on the sidewalk with us in celebration of Chris Millstein's Illuminating Flashlight Collection! The Museum will be open as well...refreshments, artifacts, and other civic splendor. 7 - 10 PM.
Come hang out on the sidewalk with us in celebration of Chris Millstein's Illuminating Flashlight Collection! The Museum will be open as well...refreshments, artifacts, and other civic splendor. 7 - 10 PM.
Join the Waterfront Preservation Alliance at the City Reliquary on Saturday, March 24th from 7 – 9pm for an informal chat over cookies, cakes and other delectables baked with Brooklyn’s own Domino Sugar. WPA is a neighborhood-based organization that has been working for the past year to identify and designate historic structures in Greenpoint & Williamsburg, which are undergoing major changes that will dramatically change the face of our neighborhoods. As we move forward into the future of Greenpoint & Williamsburg, our aim is to ensure that vital connections to the past are retained through the preservation, reuse and rehabilitation of the historic buildings that define the character of our neighborhood. Members of the WPA will give short informal yet informative talks on the future of the Domino Sugar Factory and answer community questions. Tea, coffee and baked goods will be available for purchase at affordable prices.
Join the Waterfront Preservation Alliance at the City Reliquary on Saturday, March 24th from 7 – 9pm for an informal chat over cookies, cakes and other delectables baked with Brooklyn’s own Domino Sugar. WPA is a neighborhood-based organization that has been working for the past year to identify and designate historic structures in Greenpoint & Williamsburg, which are undergoing major changes that will dramatically change the face of our neighborhoods. As we move forward into the future of Greenpoint & Williamsburg, our aim is to ensure that vital connections to the past are retained through the preservation, reuse and rehabilitation of the historic buildings that define the character of our neighborhood. Members of the WPA will give short informal yet informative talks on the future of the Domino Sugar Factory and answer community questions. Tea, coffee and baked goods will be available for purchase at affordable prices.
For More Information contact [email protected] or call (718) R-U-CIVIC.
The Queens Museum of Art Presents:
THE PANORAMA CHALLENGE!
A benefit for the City Reliquary
Hosted by The Levys’ Unique New York!
Think you know New York? Brush up on your history, grab your geographical guidebooks, round up your friends and head out to the Queens Museum of Art on April 7th from 6 – 8pm for the City Reliquary’s fundraiser of the year: The Panorama Challenge!
The Panorama Challenge is a geographical trivia-based game night at the newly refurbished Panorama of the City of New York that pits teams of knowledgeable New Yorkers against one another for prizes and prestige.
Directed by laser-wielding Game Controllers, teams of ten will identify landmarks, parks, neighborhoods, bridges, bodies of water and more out of the Panorama’s almost one million structures.
Enjoy libations provided by Brooklyn Brewery; rah-rah along with the City Reliquettes – our very own brainy, brawny Community Cheerleaders; listen to the wise advice of Manhattan Borough Historian Michael Miscione, one of our Celebrity Judges, as they settle disputes. Form your own team or find one at the Challenge!
April 7th, 2007
6-8pm
at the Queens Museum of Art: Flushing Meadows – Corona Park
Free trolley between Shea Stadium 7 train and QMA, 5:30 – 8:30
$25, includes two free drinks.
ADVANCE TICKETS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED:
Please call 718. R U CIVIC or
visit www.cityreliquary.org or
write [email protected]
For More Information contact [email protected] or call (718) R-U-CIVIC.
The Queens Museum of Art Presents:
THE PANORAMA CHALLENGE!
A benefit for the City Reliquary
Hosted by The Levys’ Unique New York!
Think you know New York? Brush up on your history, grab your geographical guidebooks, round up your friends and head out to the Queens Museum of Art on April 7th from 6 – 8pm for the City Reliquary’s fundraiser of the year: The Panorama Challenge!
The Panorama Challenge is a geographical trivia-based game night at the newly refurbished Panorama of the City of New York that pits teams of knowledgeable New Yorkers against one another for prizes and prestige.
Directed by laser-wielding Game Controllers, teams of ten will identify landmarks, parks, neighborhoods, bridges, bodies of water and more out of the Panorama’s almost one million structures.
Enjoy libations provided by Brooklyn Brewery; rah-rah along with the City Reliquettes – our very own brainy, brawny Community Cheerleaders; listen to the wise advice of Manhattan Borough Historian Michael Miscione, one of our Celebrity Judges, as they settle disputes. Form your own team or find one at the Challenge!
April 7th, 2007
6-8pm
at the Queens Museum of Art: Flushing Meadows – Corona Park
Free trolley between Shea Stadium 7 train and QMA, 5:30 – 8:30
$25, includes two free drinks.
ADVANCE TICKETS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED:
Please call 718. R U CIVIC or
visit www.cityreliquary.org or
write [email protected]
Join us for the first ever City Reliquary Poetry Event! Thursday February 22 at 7:30 PM at The City Reliquary Museum (370 Metropolitan Ave.) Seating is Limited, so come early. Featured Readers: Michael McDonough, Jeremy Schmall, and New York Times guest-columnist, Jennifer Michael Hecht. John Foti will be performing original music with Charlie Faye. Admission: a very affordable $5 museum donation which includes one free drink.
Manhattan Borough Historian, Mike Miscione, will be hosting a tribute to New York's most forgotten civic leader on Sunday November 19th at the A.H. Green memorial bench in Central Park. See the flyer for more details. Download file
Our current Community Collections window and Holiday display
THIS FRIDAY 11/17/06 beginning at 7:30 PM,
Unveiling Ceremony at 8:00 PM *promptly*
Refreshments and museum tours to follow.
This special sidewalk reception will reveal the astounding collections of Kyle Supley, a current Williamsburgh resident. Beginning at the young age of 8 years old, Kyle has ammassed an impressive collection of memorabilia from the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair among many other collections. The extensive and educational display featured in the CR sidewalk windows extends into one full display case inside our museum, complete with actual technicolor film footage of the fair. In addition to this exhibition, we will also be unveiling our annual Holiday Window Display decorated with care by another of Kyle's extensive collections, Vintage Holiday Decor. Please stop by to help us celebrate the astounding collections on display and enjoy free refreshments and museum tours.
Following our reception, stop by the Cinders Gallery around the corner for more fun, spirits, and a collection of fine artworks by our friend David "Scout" McQueen entitled "Cloudbursts". Cinders is located on Havemeyer St. at Hope St. Reception; Friday Nov. 17th 7-11 PM
Folks, be sure and save the date. The Lodge is generously hosting us for our first ever fund-raising dinner. It promises to be a fabulous evening, with fine food, outstanding company and excellent conversation. Our guest of honor, Philip Lopate (author of Waterfront: A Journey Around Manhattan) will be joining us for dinner and no doubt dazzling us with his love and knowledge of New York. Dinner is from 6:00 - 9:00 at the Lodge (318 Grand St. at Havemeyer.) Tickets are $100.00 per person with proceeds to directly benefit the City Reliquary. With our modest 50 cent admission fee to the museum, events like these are how we keep our doors open. Click on the Make a Donation button below, and reserve your tickets for dinner. Thanks!
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Just as you suspected, the City Reliquary is officially the "best-dressed window museum" in New York. Read all about it in this year's "Best of New York" edition of the Village Voice.
Also, in case you missed it, view this earlier article about the Reliquary and founding member Dave Herman in the Village Voice article, "Collection Agency, An ever evolving periscopic museum intended "for the people" by Silke Tudor, September 19th, 2006 10:53 AM
The City Reliquary is featured in October on Brooklyn Community Access Television's "Neighborhood Beat," a program highlighting Brooklyn's diverse neighborhoods. The show featuring the Reliquary will air several times in October on channel 56 (Time Warner) and on channel 69 (Cablevision.)
Tuesday, October 3rd: 12:30 pm, 8:30 pm
Monday, October 9th: 12:30 pm, 8:30 pm
Friday, October 13th: 12:30 pm, 8:30 pm
Thursday, October 19th: 12:30pm, 8:30 pm
Read a great article about Dave Herman and the City Reliquary in this week's Village Voice (Sept. 20 - 26th. page 36)
The City Reliquary will be designing a satellite museum for the upcoming Dumbo Arts Festival. The City Reliquary will be installing a mini-mini-museum in the DUMBO Arts Center building, which will be on display through November 12th. The temporary exhibit will feature a tribute to one of our heroes and a major inspiration for the Reliquary, Adam Petrella, as well as previously unexhibited New York City Artifacts.
The City Reliquary is looking for New York-related artwork or souvenirs designed by New York artists to sell in our gift shop. If you know of any work that might be appropriate, please drop us a line: [email protected]
Please join the City Reliquary for the 3rd Annual September Tribute to Our City
SAT. 9/9/6 from 12 NOON until 6PM
Havemeyer St. btw. Grand & Metropolitan
Williamsburgh, Brooklyn
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Every year the City Reliquary organizes a "Tribute to Our City" in honor of the strength and unity New Yorkers demonstrated surrounding the events of September 11th, 2001. We close down a block of Havemeyer Street, have a neighborhood-wide potluck lunch, listen to live local bands play and offer you a chance to meet your neighbors. We need all the grills and chefs we can get together. So, bring out your BBQ equipment, or if you can loan some equipment for the day please contact [email protected]. If you know a band, speaker, or performer who would like to participate, please contact [email protected].
Saturday, September 9th from 12:00 to 6:00 PM on Havemeyer Street between Grand St. & Metropolitan Av.
INCLUDING
Appearances by Manhattan Borough Historian Mike Miscione, Brooklyn Poet Laureat Ken Siegelman, live bands, Brooklyn street games, FDNY Fire Safety Education, free food all day, and much more in the works.
To see pictures from last year's event, go to: "Tribute to Our City"
September 14 - 19th - The City Reliquary is a proud participant of CONFLUX: the annual NYC festival for contemporary psychogeography where international artists, technologists, urban adventurers and the public put investigations of everyday city life into practice on the streets. confluxfestival.org
Rest Assured that the City Reliquary will be participating in this amazing insider's weekend:
The 4th Annual openhousenewyork (OHNY) Weekend will be held on Saturday and Sunday, October 7 & 8, 2006. Nearly 200 sites in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island are gearing up to show an expected 75,000 visitors why New York is one of the greatest cities in the world! For more information go to: www.ohny.org
We don't know what special doings we'll have in the works for this event yet, but you can bet that they'll be worth more than the fifty cent admission.
The City Reliquary and the Brooklyn Civic Riders are pleased to announce our:
2nd Annual Bicycle Fetish Day
on July 1st 2006 from noon until 5 PM. Find the festival on Havemeyer between Grand & Metropolitan.
CONTESTS:
Best in Show, Best Vintage, Best Hand-made, Best Chopper, Best Small Wheel (includeds foldable bikes), Wheelies, BMX tricks, Track bike tricks, Heaviest Bike, Ugliest Bike, and more...
BANDS, FOOD, and RAFFLE PRIZES
including, IRO bike built-up by Bicycle Doc, Gift Certificates to: Catbird, Lodge, Foodswings, Loveshine, Cheeks Bakery, Maiden Brooklyn, Celebritay, and more... Brooklyn Bridge walking tours by Matt Levy of Vintage NY Tours, Merbag Messenger Bag, and more...
After party on Hope street between Havemeyer & Roebling Sts.
An INCREDIBLE DAY AND NIGHT for you and YOUR BIKE!!!
Amy Bolger and The City Reliquary present Turning Point: a celebration of cycling and art. A photographic exhibition at:
The City Reliquary Museum
370 Metropolitan Ave @ Havemeyer
Opening: Saturday, May 20th 2006 at noon
Sunday, April 9th at 5:00 PM
Friends,
If you thought the Grand Opening of the City Reliquary Museum was a big event... You haven't seen
anything yet!
Collectors' Night 2006 has been rapidly shaping up to easily surpass last year's expectations. There will be
collectors of all kinds setting up their displays for your enjoyment and a special presentation which will give
amazing new insite to the wide world of collecting. Union Pool has agreed to open up their entire space to
allow for the displays to expand into the front room as well as the outdoor area (weather permitting). This
has allowed us to accept some incredible last minute additions to the line up of collectors. I assure you,
this year's event is not to be missed! All the information is just below.
Hope to see you Sunday.
Always civic,
Dave
The 2nd Annual Collectors' Night 2006
Sunday April 9th
Doors open at 5:00 PM
at Union Pool 484 Union Av. @ Meeker St.
in Williamsburgh, Brooklyn
Admission: $10
Featuring:
Ornithologist Mary Lecroy presents THE BOWER, a Collecting Bird
Performance artist LuLu LoLo explains the COLLYER BROS.
A presentation of Allen Koenigsberg's vintage TALKING MACHINES
Dozens of Collectors' DISPLAYS on-site
Collectors' Panel Discussion and Show & Tell
And much, much more!!!
Location:
Collectors’ Night 2006 will be held at Union Pool, which is
located at 484 Union Ave., at Meeker Street
Phone: (718) 609-0484 Directions: L train to Lorimer St, G train to Metropolitan Av,
then walk NE toward the BQE on Union Av to the corner of
Meeker St. under the BQE.
Collectors, see you Sunday at 4:00PM. Doors open at 5:00 PM.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Happy Presidents' Day. When current presidential turmoil troubles you, turn to the folks at the City Reliquary. We
have been working hard on the new City Reliquary Museum at 370 Metropolitan Av. While we aren't yet fully prepared
to open our doors, we would like to offer you a special event to honor presidents, collectors, artists, and of course
most importantly, our beautiful new windows!
The City Reliquary Inaugural Sidewalk Reception
FEATURING:
Pedro Genao's Abraham Lincoln Statue,
Christy Gast's Collectible Presidents' Plates
and honoring the first African-American female presidential candidate, Charlene Mitchell
AT:
The new City Reliquary windows at
370 METROPOLITAN AVENUE at Havemeyer Street
ON:
Sunday, February 26th beginning promptly at 12:00 noon
SERVING:
Civic pride, honorary degrees, and delicious refreshments.
Our featured presentation will include:
A special appearance by our honored guest, CHARLENE MITCHELL.
Ms. Mitchell, the first African-American woman to run for President, represented the Communist Party in 1968. A civil
rights activist for over 50 years, Ms. Mitchell is also the founding National Coordinator of the Committee of
Correspondence for Socialism and Democracy. She serves as national co-chair of the National Alliance Against Racist
and Political Repression, the organization that grew out of the campaign to free Angela Davis. A portrait of Ms.
Mitchell was included in a large wall mural called "When Women Pursue Justice," which was recently completed by
Artmakers, Inc. at 498 Greene Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant. She will be honored with a special presentation by our
presenter of Presidential Plates, Christy Gast.
A collection presented by CHRISTY GAST
of COLLECTIBLE PRESIDENTIAL PLATES with
Limited Edition LADY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES Collectible Plates 2004
In honor of the 2004 campaign season, Ms. Gast created a set of Limited Edition Lady Presidential Candidates
Collectible Plates, featuring the first ten women to run for President. The candidates and their stories are largely
unknown, although a number of them were major players in their times. Some of those included are: Victoria
Woodhull, whose running mate was Frederick Douglass, was the first female stockbroker on Wall Street. Margaret
Smith, Shirley Chisholm, Bella Abzug, and Patsy Mink all served in the legislature in the mid-twentieth century, and
Charlene Mitchell, a native New Yorker, has been a civil rights activist and union leader for 50 years. Thanks to Melissa
Memory, Rodney Harrison, and Kevin Harper for generously lending their collections of original collectible Presidential
Plates.
PEDRO GENAO's Life-size Abraham Lincoln Statue
made of 100% hand-felted wool.
Pedro moved to New York in 1992 from the Dominican Republic and soon became employed as a Maintenance
Technician at the Steiner School, a part of the Waldorf school system. There he watched some of the teachers' craft
presentations working with wool. He has since taught himself many finer techniques of NEEDLE FELTING and is now
considered to be easily among the best in his field. The Abraham Lincoln statue presented in our windows was
created by Pedro during the course of 3 years and over 300 hours. Pedro estimates that the statue was pointed with
a single needle over 3 million times. As he should be, Abraham is standing tall at over 6 feet 4 inches not including
his 9-inch top hat and supports his own weight with absolutely NO INTERNAL ARMATURE.
CITY RELIQUARY ON TV!
This FRIDAY February 24th, our hometown news channel NY1 will feature a story about the City Reliquary,
LIVE at 7am, 8am, and with recorded highlights throughout the day.
NEXT MONTH:
The Grand Opening Celebration of the City Reliquary Museum
and the 2nd Annual Collectors' Night, at Union Pool
We'll keep you posted with the final dates for these two exciting events!
Thank you for your support.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
As of January 1st at 12 o'clock midnight, we all ushered in the new year 2006
(happy new year to all of you.) At this same time, we at the City Reliquary, have also ushered in a new era in our mission to serve the people of New York City. Effective today, January 1st 2006,
I am astoundingly proud to announce...
THE CITY RELIQUARY will be opening a new storefront MUSEUM
(with gift shop!)
at 370 METROPOLITAN AVENUE at HAVEMEYER STREET,
just 2 blocks away from our current residence!
This means GREAT OPPORTUNITIES for our museum and the scope of COMMUNITY OFFERINGS which we have dreamed of and planned for so long. Soon to come will be: a museum dedicated to preserving and displaying the artifacts of New York History which often go overlooked by those larger museums, a public space for community events, an office for our Civic Organization meetings, educational classes, and neighborhood comradery, as well as a quintessential Museum Gift Shop complete with unique New York souvenirs, books, hand-made keepsakes, and the original "City Reliquary T-Shirt." Rest assured, this will not be another Williamsburgh boutique. We'll be maintaining our window-museum style charm on Metropolitan Avenue as well as part of our displays on Grand Street and all the other things you love about the Reliquary.
At this time of great new beginnings, I want to extend SINCERE APPRECIATION to all of our SUPPORTERS. It is due to all your enthusiasm, involvement, and endurance of these e-mailings, that we have been able to begin this next step as a civic organization for-the-people, not-for-profit!
OPENING DAY of new facility will be within the next few months, and we will be sure to invite the entire neighborhood to celebrate with us. In the mean time, feel free to stop by and witness the MUSEUM-IN-PROGRESS.
WCRM - The Citizens' Radio Music Station
LIVE Broadcast of The Coffee Show on www.cityreliquary.org
This month, WCRM starts a little earlier but is bound to stay up later as the theme this month is COFFEE. We'll have this month's collector Rodger Stevens in the studio for a few questions about his display of NYC Paper Coffee Cups in our Community Collections window. We've also asked Marshall Brain, creator and chief contributor of HowStuffWorks.com, to explain for us "How Coffee Works." Throughout this broadcast we will be treated to a selection of music curated by Erica Matthews, resident Coffee Connoisseur. Erica also brings us movie quotes, literary references, and coffee facts as we dig into the cultural effects of the coffee bean. Regular contributers to the show this month include: Jesse James Arnold, Dave Herman, Mindy Abovitz and George Ferrandi.
Write to [email protected] for more info, music requests, feedback, and other comments.
www.cityreliquary.org/wcrm
Saturday, November 5th
The Annual Brooklyn History Fair in Bensonhurst
10:30 A.M. – 4:00 P.M.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5
NEW UTRECHT REFORM CHURCH PARISH HOUSE
CORNER OF 18TH AVENUE AND 84TH STREET BENSONHURST, BROOKLYN
TRANSPORTATION: D TRAIN to 20th AVE & 86th STREET
CONTACT: 718-377-5527
All of the most reputable Brooklyn historical organizations will be gathering for the annual Brooklyn Historical Fair. YES, the City Reliquary was personally invited to participate by the great Brooklyn Borough Historian, Ron Schweiger. We will have a fine display of Brooklyn artifacts on-site at the New Utrecht Reform Church on 18th Avenue and 84th Street in Bensonhurst. This is yet another Reliquary event which will be FREE and open to the public. Please stop by as this will also be an excellent opportunity for you, yourself, to become a fully recognized card-holding member of the City Reliquary and recieve all of the honors, attributes, and gifts due to a person of your stature. Here's the official; info:.
On Saturday, November 5, Borough President Marty Markowitz and Brooklyn Borough Historian Ron Schweiger present the Brooklyn History Fair. Brooklynites and visitors of all ages are invited to this free public event to view memorabilia representing Brooklyn’s unique past. Brooklyn authors Brian Merlis and Lee Rosenzweig, whose works focus on the history of Brooklyn’s neighborhoods, will also be on hand. The event boasts a wide array of photos, documents, maps, and artifacts assembled by nearly 20 diverse historical groups and museums. Participating organizations include the Coney Island Museum, Brooklyn Theater History, Friends of Historic New Utrecht, The Bay Ridge Historical Society, The Canarsie History Museum, The Harbor Defense Museum at Fort Hamilton, Weeksville Museum, The Greenpoint Monitor Museum, the City Reliquary and other local historical groups. History buffs will cherish the opportunity to view relics of Historic Weeksville, a 19th century community named for James Weeks, an African American who purchased the land in 1838. Baseball lovers will enjoy Brooklyn Dodgers memorabilia. The event will also include diving archaeology, featuring 19th century artifacts recovered from the waters near Coney Island and under the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.
Here is a FLYER for you to look at too!
Thursday, November 10th 6:30 - 8:00
City Reliquary Board of Directors Meeting
Yes it is open to the public, but the location is top secret. You'll have to write to [email protected] for full disclosure.
SUNDAY, September 11th on Havemeyer Street between Grand and Hope Streets. 1:00 until 7:00 PM Block Party
"The September Tribute to Our City"
featuring live bands throughout the day
plus, the street will be closed for you to enjoy your picnic lunch under the trees.
B.Y.O.>B.B.Q.
Schedule:
All Day - bring your own B.B.Q. We will also be sharing delicious treats such as Big Apples and Big Apple Cider supplied by Red Orchard Apple Farms, home made Brooklyn Browncakes, freshly grilled Cobblestone Corn, and many other less witty delicacies.
1:00 - SALSA & SAMBA HOUR - Bring your drums, shakers, congas, and whistles to join in the street music of Williamsburg's Puerto Rican Southside.
2:00 - CIRCUS CONTRAPTION - This Seattle-based circus will have musical and acrobatic performances to coincide with their New York show currently running at the Theater for the New City.
3:00 - RUDE MECHANICAL ORCHESTRA - Enjoy the sounds of this street marching band as seen at Bicycle Fetish Day, The Mermaid Parade, and many other events around town.
4:00 - LAVENDER LAKE - The impressive jazz duo of Mindy Abovitz and Tianna Kennedy, both of WCRM Radio show fame!
5:00 - THE GOOD GOOD - If you've seen them before you know this indie band always lives up to their name!
6:00 - PINATALAND - As heard on the WCRM September Tribute radio show, this incredible band finds their inspiration in the rich history of our great city, New York!
We will also be accepting donations for the Red Cross Hurricane Katrina fund throughout the day.
Please stop by to enjoy the benefits of civic life and appreciate the greatness of being a New Yorker during this special day of remembrance. The streets are yours. Let's enjoy them together.
Friday, August 19th at the City Reliquary (Grand & Havemeyer), 7:30 PM, FREE for the people!
Community Collections Sidewalk Reception
Collector of the Month, Ervin Mendez presents just a small sample of his collection of over 300 bobble-heads. Better known as "nodders" to the proffesionals, these nodding figures will fill the Reliquary windows through September 8th, complete with animatronics, black light figures, and an LED display! Come to the reception for "jiggly" refreshments, and a chance to win the Giant Bobble-Head RAFFLE! This oversized nodder is a promotional character for the Funko company Wacky Wobblers which make up the majority of Ervin's collection and has an "MSRP" (Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price) of over $200.00!!!
Sunday, August 21st; Reception from 3:00 to 6:00 PM at the Matzoh Files (Rivington and Suffolk Streets, L.E.S.)
A Lower East Side Howl Festival Event; the City Reliquary with the Matzoh Files at the Streit's Matzoh Factory
Featured in the Matzoh Files' "Top Drawer Exhibition" will be a selection of New York City specimens by Resident Geologist Nik Sokol. Also included will be selections from the Streit's Factory and City Reliquary Archives displayed by V.P. of Collections Bill Scanga. The show opens at noon as a part of the Alan Ginsberg inspired Lower East Side "Howl Festival".
