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Events at Brookfield Place
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Trivia Tuesdays in Hudson Eats
Tuesdays, February 15 – August 31
6:30 – 8:30 PM, Hudson Eats
Join us in Hudson Eats for happy hour specials while you test your knowledge on a variety of topics for a chance to win fun prizes. Plus, at the last game of each month we’ll host a theme night to mix things up!
For more information, click here.
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Celebrate Pride
June 1 – June 27,
All Day, Winter Garden
Celebrate Pride month at Brookfield Place with Radiance, a colorful large-scale suspended sculpture, alongside artfully designed tables in the Winter Garden.
For more information, click here.
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Camille Seaman
June 7 – September 12
8:00 AM – 10:00 PM, Winter Garden Gallery
Discover nine photographs on view in the Winter Garden Gallery as part of the series, A Matter of Time, by Camille Seaman. The exhibition features photographs captured during the winter solstice on the Weddel Sea in Antarctica in December 2021. For more information, click here.
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Events at The Museum of Jewish Heritage
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JOB – A Simple Man
June 1 & June 2
7:00 – 9:00 PM
In Person and Virtual eventIn an intense and musical dramatization, J O B – A Simple Man tells the story of an emigrant’s journey from the old world-a little village in Russia-to the new world in New York. Mendel Singer, much like Job in the Hebrew Bible, loses everything. He despairs and curses, but ultimately experiences a miracle.
This program is made possible in part by support from the Battery Park City Authority.
For more information, Click here.
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Transgender Experiences in Weimar and Nazi Germany
Thursday, June 2, 12:00 PM
Virtual Event
Before 1933, Germany was a center of LGBT+ community and culture, with several renowned organizations serving and supporting trans and gender non-conforming people. Hitler’s Nazi government, however, brutally targeted the trans community, deporting many trans people to concentration camps and wiping out vibrant community structures. Join the Museum for a program exploring these stories and experiences prior to and during the Holocaust.For more information, click here.
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Step by Step Recreating a Family's Lost Holocaust History
Tuesday,June 14, 2:00 PM
Virtual Event
Holocaust survivors can have a difficult time talking about what they experienced during World War II. This is what happened to Jessica Shaw. She had been told that her father Henri had escaped France as a child by climbing over the Pyrenees Mountains with his mother and younger sister into Spain, where he reunited with his father. The family journeyed through Spain, Portugal, and Cuba before they ended up in the United States. For more information, click here.
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Good Trouble: A Juneteenth Tribute Concert
Sunday, June 19, 3:00 PM
In-Person & Virtual Event
Join the Museum of Jewish Heritage and the Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra for a special concert on Juneteenth, the holiday that commemorates the emancipation of slaves in the United States. Presenting music that celebrates the Black experience, the featured work will be the world premiere of KCO Music Director Gary S. Fagin‘s Good Trouble, inspired by the late Congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis.
This program is made possible in part by support from the Battery Park City Authority and the Frances Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts.
For more information, click here.
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Boris Lurie: Nothing to Do But to Try
On View, Thru November 6
36 Battery Place
Boris Lurie: Nothing To Do But To Try is a first-of-its-kind exhibition on the 20th-century artist and Holocaust survivor Boris Lurie. For more information, click here.
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Events at the Skyscraper Museum
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The Architecture of Trees
Saturday, June 4, 10:30 AM
39 Battery Place
Architects can spend years designing their buildings, but trees have been perfecting their own architecture in response to their environment for eons. On a walking tour through Wagner Park, learn how trunks and branches support their leaves or needles and how roots create strong foundations.
Presented by The Skyscraper Museum in partnership with Battery Park City Authority
For more information, click here.
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BPC South Neighborhood Walking Tour Part 1
Thursday, June 9, 4:00 PM
39 Battery Place
Tour 1 explores Battery Park City's southern district, which is home to the Skyscraper Museum and includes some of BPC's earliest landscapes and infrastructure, including the residential enclaves built in the 1990s that followed the 1979 Cooper Eckstut Master Plan. We will also learn about the developing Resilience Action Plan of the BPC Authority.
Programs are supported by a Community Partnership with the Battery Park City Authority.
For more information, click here.
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Juneteenth Skyscraper Yoga
Saturday, June 18, 10:30 AM
39 Battery Place
Get ready to move and have fun as we explore how our own bodies help us understand skyscrapers! After a history lesson on the celebration of Juneteenth and how African-American culture has impacted this country, kids will learn why mindfulness is important and connect to their foundations to stretch to new heights in a 30-minute yoga session!
Presented by The Skyscraper Museum in partnership with Battery Park City Authority
For more information, click here.
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Construction History Roundtable: Work In Progress
Tuesday, June 21, 5:30 PM
Virtual Event
The sixth session of the 2022 Construction History lecture series Work in Progress brings together the key presenters and the additional speakers for a virtual roundtable review and discussion of what we learned from the talks and what framing questions should be applied in future research and scholarship.
For more information, click here.
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Events at the NY Public Library
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Little Movers Storytime - In person!
Thursday, June 2, 10:30 –11:00 AM
Battery Park City Library
Join us on Thursday mornings for a storytime for children who are learning to toddle and talk! We'll be reading our favorite stories, singing songs, practicing our big motor skills with movement, and making new friends! Recommended for children age 18 months - 36 months
For more information, click here.
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Open Book Hour: What Have You Been Reading
Tuesday, June 14, 4:00 – 5:00 PM
Virtual Event
Join staff from the Battery Park City Library and the Andrew Heiskell Library to talk about what books you've been reading and hear from other book lovers. We'll facilitate with some questions and we'll all leave with new recommendations and thoughts about good reading.
For more information, click here.
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STEAM Maker's Space
Wednesday, June 15, 4:00 – 4:45 PM
Battery Park City Library
It’s Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics Time! Join us for creating!
For more information, click here.
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Battery Park City Walking Tour
Thursday, June 16, 1:00 – 2:00 PM
Battery Park City Library
Join branch staff from the Battery Park City Library for an in person walking tour of Battery Park City! Learn more about the history and landmarks of this neighborhood and connect with community.
For more information, click here.
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Saint Joan
June 16 – June 19 & June 23 – June 26
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Castle Clinton National Monument, The Battery
Lower Manhattan’s Shakespeare Downtown presents eight free performances of George Bernard Shaw’s masterpiece, “Saint Joan,” from June 16-26, 2022 inside the historic walls of Castle Clinton National Monument at The Battery. This timely play is based on historical records of the 1431 trial of French military icon and religious martyr Joan of Arc. For more information, click here.
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