August 15 | 1pm – 8pm | Tickets: $30
Celebrate the world’s greatest food in our leafy backyard. Featuring pizza, live music, pizza inspired craft and vintage items from Brintage Brooklyn and much more.
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Pizzafest is co-curated by Scott Wiener, owner of Scott’s Pizza Tours.
Tickets: $30
Join us as we celebrate the opening of our latest exhibition, The Pizza Box Chronicles! Produced in collaboration with Scott’s Pizza Tours, this exhibition features a comprehensive display of pizza boxes from New York City pizzerias. The iconic imagery of each box relates the central role of New York in the history of pizza in the United States. A brief history of the pizzerias and photos from The New York Pizza Project further contextualize each box.
March 7th at 10am
A hands-on Lego building class with Master Lego Builder Eleanor Rogers. We’ll focus on building scenes from the NYC skyline and cityscape. Learn about NYC as you build your own urban space.
Participants will get to take home legos!
Only $10 for 1 adult and 1 child…and a Lego take-home!
Only 15 spots available!
Check out more Lego magic on Eleanor’s blog: https://kensingtonlegoclass.wordpress.com/
Friday, March 6 at 7:00pm – 10:00pm
Join Levy’s Unique New York to participate in the world’s only geographical trivia-based game night at the world’s largest panorama – The Panorama of the City of New York at the Queens Museum! Plus a special performance by Batala!
Admission: $15 per person, or $7 for members of Queens Museum or City Reliquary Museum (member tickets available only on site).
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Proceeds from admission and concessions support the City Reliquary Museum and Queens Museum.
The Panorama Challenge poses a variety of questions about city landmarks, bridges, neighborhoods, parks and more. Each location will be pinpointed by one of the Levy’s Unique New York team (NYC’s First Family of Tour Guides) who will be wielding laser pointers. Teams of 10 (or so) will play either as a Panorama Challenger or Panorama Pro team. Challenger teams are first-timers or those who may not have dedicated their lives to the study of our great city. Pros are returning contestants who are die-hard students of our city’s hidden corners – and must answer an extra question each round (60 questions total!). Identify the most locations and your team will have their name etched on the trophy at the Queens Museum!
December 5 | 7pm
Join Gideon Levy of NYC Gangster Tours for a lively discussion and slideshow about the history of Jewish Gangsters in New York.
Otherwise known as the “Kosher Nostra,” one generation of Jewish Gangsters introduced loan sharking, large-scale gambling and contract killing to the world of Organized Crime. Learn about the origins of New York’s criminal underworld and how the greatest Jewish Gangsters in America got in, got rich and got out.
Presented in conjunction with Mazel Tough: Jewish Gangsters of NY 1900 – 1945, Illustrated Portraits by Pat Hamou, on view through Feb. 22nd 2015
The father-son curatorial team Spiller & Spiller premier “Which Came First? The Chicken Museum” their dually collected and curated exhibition. This presentation of everything chicken includes Omelet King Rudolph Stanish’s custom pan and recipe book; photographs of hand-painted roast chicken signs from Roosevelt Avenue; and a collection of wishbones ranging from the tiny breastbone of a quail to pelican and turkey furcula (Latin for wishbones) This is the first known public exhibition curated by a parent-child team.
Six-year-old Hiro Maddock Spiller inspired “Which Came First? The Chicken Museum” at age 3 when he asked, “Can I go to a chicken museum tomorrow?” That night his father, Harley Judd Spiller, amassed chicken-related items from around their home and installed the considerable selection in their museum cabinet. Hiro has curated “I Am 3” and “Lego Vehicles” and exhibited his art at Wayfarer Gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn.
About Spiller & Spiller
Harley Spiller met Colonel Sanders in 1968 and stewed wings for William Grimes in 2009. A longtime NYC museum professional, dubbed “collector extraordinaire” by The New York Times, Harley has blogged about sasami (Japanese raw chicken); published essays on chicken culture for magazines Flavor & Fortune and Gastronomica; and written the chapter “Chow Fun City” for Columbia University Press’Gastropolis: Food & New York City. His flavor-intensified Buffalo wing recipe ran in The New York Sun.
Micki Spiller teaches art at Parsons The New School for Design and Pratt Institute and is currently completing an MLS at Queens College. Her sculptural children’s books are in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn and Newark public libraries. She tells fun stories.
Mortimer Spiller sired the family predilection for poultry and collected many of the artifacts on view. “Which Came First? The ChickenMuseum” is presented in his memory.
The City Reliquary is a not-for-profit community museum and civic organization in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Through permanent display of New York City artifacts, rotating exhibits of community collections, and annual cultural events, The City Reliquary connects visitors to both the past and present of New York.
1. You can ride crazy bikes like Domes For Haiti’s twin rider. Photo by Scoboco
2. You can hang out with disco Pee Wee. Photo by Eric Harvey Brown from Smosh
3. There are BMX tricks
4. Name aside, it’s family friendly. Really! Photo by Scobo
5. See, even really little kids come! Photo by Jaime NYC
6. There will be a visit from the Classic Riders bicycle club and their immaculate Schwinns. Photo by gudphoto.com
7. We’ve got nothing to add here. This is awesome. Photo by Scobo.
8. Did we mention the cool bikes you can ride? Photo by Alfalfa Studios.
Saturday, June 21st, 2014
Noon til 6PM
Havemeyer between Grand St. and Hope St.
Calling bicycle fetishists of all types!! Bike collectors, builders, activists, shops, attire designers, community groups and all-around BIKE NERDS…
BICYCLE FETISH DAY IS A BLOCK PARTY FOR YOUR BICYCLE! The 10th Anniversary Bicycle Fetish Day will take place on Havemeyer Street between Hope and Grand. We’ll have a bike judging contests, offer bike rides, host bicycle advocacy groups and display boutique bicycle-artist wares… and our BBQ grill will going at full capacity.
Contests include: Best Vintage Bike, Best Shiny Bike, Best Family Bike, Best Mutant Bike, Best in Show and much more! Win great bike trophies , and maybe, possibly, hopefully a bicycle or two.
If you’re a self avowed bike weirdo, bicycle enthusiast, bicycle advocate, bicycle commuter, biek nut, you shouldn’t miss this yearly celebration of all things bicycle.
See you there, BIKE NERDS!!!!!!!!!!!
(…Bring Your Bikes And Get Those Prizes!!!)
Schedule for Bicycle contests:
Judging starts at 2pm
2:45: Best vintage bike
3:15: Best Mutant bike
3:45: Best Commuter bike
4:15: Best Handmade bike
4:45: Best Small Wheel bike
5:15: Best Ugly Bike
5:45: Best in Show
BMX tricks courtesy of Harvest Cyclery.
Music by: Boogaloo DJ Harry Ballz
Thursday, July 17 at 7:00pm
Brooklyn Historical Society (128 Pierrepont St, Brooklyn, New York 11201)
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People say that if something exists, someone somewhere probably collects it. City Reliquary, Brooklyn’s beloved community museum, hopes so! It’s time to dust off your own quirky collection for our annual Collector’s Night hosted by Brooklyn Historical Society.
Not a collector yourself? Enjoy performances, presentations, and stories from some of the best off-the-wall collections New York City has to offer!
Share Your Collection! Register by emailing [email protected]
Proceeds from Collector’s Night benefit The City Reliquary and the Brooklyn Historical Society