The Glory Days: New York Baseball 1947-1957 exhibit ran at the Museum of the City of New York from June 27 to December 31, 2007. The decade between 1947 and 1957 was the golden age of baseball in New York City. With three major league teams—the Yankees, the Brooklyn Dodgers, and the New York Giants—at least one of whom played in the World Series every year except 1948; two National League teams in an intense rivalry each season; and seven landmark subway series, New York was the undisputed baseball capital of the nation. But more than that, New Yorkers lived and experienced baseball in their town in a way never to be repeated again. This exhibit explores how and why New York City came to dominate the sport, how this changed by 1957, and how the events of these eleven seasons shaped today’s game. In addition, the exhibition uses baseball as a lens through which city life in the post-war years is examined, and contextualizes baseball’s dominance in the history of the city.
The Museum of the City of New York (MCNY), founded in 1923 to present the history of New York City and its people, fills an imposing 5-floor brick and limestone building on the Museum Mile section of Fifth Avenue, between 103rd and 104th Streets. The Museum was originally housed in Gracie Mansion until this Neo-Georgian-Colonial style was built to the design of Joseph J. Freedlander from 1928-1930. The museum's collections include paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs featuring New York City and its residents, as well as costumes, decorative objects and furniture, toys, rare books and manuscripts, marine and military collections, police and fire collections, and a theater collection.
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Museum Mile is the name for a stretch of Fifth Avenue running from 82nd to 105th streets on the Upper East Side in a neighborhood known as Carnegie Hill. New York City officially designated this segment as Museum Mile because it is the location of nine museums, several of which are world-renowned. A tenth museum, the Museum for African Art, will be joining the ensemble in 2008.
The nine museums, north to south, are:
* El Museo del Barrio at 104th Street
* Museum of the City of New York (MCNY) at 103rd Street
* The Jewish Museum at 92nd Street
* Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution at 91st Street
* National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts at 89th Street
* Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum at 88th Street
* Neue Galerie New York at 86th Street
* Goethe-Institut New York/German Cultural Center at 83rd Street
* The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) at 82nd Street
Other museums in the area include:
* Frick Collection and Reference Library at 70th Street
* Whitney Museum of American Art at 75th Street and Madison Avenue
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The Museum of the City of New York (MCNY), founded in 1923 to present the history of New York City and its people, fills an imposing 5-floor brick and limestone building on the Museum Mile section of Fifth Avenue, between 103rd and 104th Streets. The Museum was originally housed in Gracie Mansion until this Neo-Georgian-Colonial style was built to the design of Joseph J. Freedlander from 1928-1930. The museum's collections include paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs featuring New York City and its residents, as well as costumes, decorative objects and furniture, toys, rare books and manuscripts, marine and military collections, police and fire collections, and a theater collection.
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This 8-foot silver bronze statue of DeWitt Clinton, executed by Adolph A. Weinman, was dedicated in 1941 and sits in a niche on the southern end of the facade of the Museum of the City of New York, opposite a sculpture of Alexander Hamilton. Gifts of a trustee of the MCNY, they represent New York City's emergence as a commercial center.
DeWitt Clinton (March 2, 1769–February 11, 1828) was a mayor and governor of New York and one-time presidential candidate who is best known for the creation of the Eerie Canal. Just the third New York statue of Clinton (the others are in Green-Wood Cemetery and embedded in the fifth-floor cornice of the Surrogate's Court at Chambers Street), Weinman's statue shows Clinton standing with one arm akimbo, holding an unrolled map of the Erie Canal, one foot forward and eyes set off at the distance.
The Museum of the City of New York (MCNY), founded in 1923 to present the history of New York City and its people, fills an imposing 5-floor brick and limestone building on the Museum Mile section of Fifth Avenue, between 103rd and 104th Streets. The Museum was originally housed in Gracie Mansion until this Neo-Georgian-Colonial style was built to the design of Joseph J. Freedlander from 1928-1930. The museum's collections include paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs featuring New York City and its residents, as well as costumes, decorative objects and furniture, toys, rare books and manuscripts, marine and military collections, police and fire collections, and a theater collection.
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This 8-foot silver bronze statue of DeWitt Clinton, executed by Adolph A. Weinman, was dedicated in 1941 and sits in a niche on the southern end of the facade of the Museum of the City of New York, opposite a sculpture of Alexander Hamilton. Gifts of a trustee of the MCNY, they represent New York City's emergence as a commercial center.
DeWitt Clinton (March 2, 1769–February 11, 1828) was a mayor and governor of New York and one-time presidential candidate who is best known for the creation of the Eerie Canal. Just the third New York statue of Clinton (the others are in Green-Wood Cemetery and embedded in the fifth-floor cornice of the Surrogate's Court at Chambers Street), Weinman's statue shows Clinton standing with one arm akimbo, holding an unrolled map of the Erie Canal, one foot forward and eyes set off at the distance.
The Museum of the City of New York (MCNY), founded in 1923 to present the history of New York City and its people, fills an imposing 5-floor brick and limestone building on the Museum Mile section of Fifth Avenue, between 103rd and 104th Streets. The Museum was originally housed in Gracie Mansion until this Neo-Georgian-Colonial style was built to the design of Joseph J. Freedlander from 1928-1930. The museum's collections include paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs featuring New York City and its residents, as well as costumes, decorative objects and furniture, toys, rare books and manuscripts, marine and military collections, police and fire collections, and a theater collection.
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