Tag: Cloisters

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: 150 Years of History on Display

Post author By Greg Young
Post date October 9, 2020
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EPISODE 341 Celebrating the history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the 150th anniversary year of its founding — certainly one of the strangest years in its extraordinary existence. The Met is really the king of New York attractions, with visitors heading up to Central Park and streaming through the doors by the millions to gasp at… Read More

Tags architects, art, artists, Central Park, Cleopatra's Needle, Cloisters, costumes, fashion, J.P.Morgan, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Richard Morris Hunt

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Green-Wood Cemetery, Katz’s Deli and The Cloisters: Three great New York institutions, three big anniversaries

Post author By Bowery Boys
Post date May 16, 2013
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Green-Wood Cemetery celebrates its 175th year as Brooklyn’s oldest greenspace, populated with deceased politicians, writers and actors. It’s the final resting place for some of New York’s most famous and notorious characters — Henry Ward Beecher, Horace Greeley, DeWitt Clinton and Boss Tweed among them. The Museum of the City of New York debuts its… Read More

Tags Cloisters, Green-Wood Cemetery, Katz's Delicatessen, Metropolitan Museum of Art