Educator Evening: Cycling in the City

When: Thursday, March 21, 2019, 4:30pm

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Group of youths on bicycles looking into the window of a Hobby Shop selling airplanes and train models. — Wurts Bros., Boys outside of Long Island Hobby Shop, 1939. Museum of the City of New York X2010.7.1.17890.

Cycling in the City traces the bike’s transformation of urban transportation and leisure and explores the extraordinary diversity of cycling cultures in the city, past and present. The exhibition reveals the complex, creative, and often contentious relationship between New York and the bicycle, while underscoring the importance of cycling as the city confronts climate change, energy scarcity, and population growth in the years to come.

Join curator Donald Albrecht for a guided tour of the exhibition and find curriculum connections. 1.5 CTLE hours.

Cycling in the City is made possible with lead support provided by Metropolitan Velodrome, Inc.; additional support provided by the Lily Auchincloss Foundation; Katheryn C. Patterson and Thomas L. Kempner Jr.; Bike New York; Rabobank International; and George H. Beane.

The Frederick A.O. Schwarz Education Center is endowed by grants from The Thompson Family Foundation Fund, the F.A.O. Schwarz Family Foundation, the William Randolph Hearst Endowment, and other generous donors.