Building the Outer Boroughs
March 23, 2017
Brooklyn College

Schedule:

All panels will be held in the Woody Tanger Auditorium (Library, first floor)

Opening Remarks
9:30-10:00
Anna Jozefacka and Malka Simon

Panel 1: Living in the Outer Boroughs
10-11:45

Thomas J. Campanella, “Across the Tudor Plain”

Andrew S. Dolkart, “Hiding in Plain Sight: The Six-Story Apartment House in New York City’s Outer Boroughs”

Emma Fuller, “A Green Ward: Mass and Void in Jackson Heights”

Kimbro Frutiger, “’You learn a lot in the streets’ — Bedford Stuyvesant Superblock, 1967-69”

 
Lunch Break: 11:45-1:30

Poster presentations and a brown bag talk will be held during the lunch break in the Samuel and Bernice Gottlieb Room (Library, fourth floor, room 411).

Poster Presentations: 11:45-12:30 (posters will be on view throughout the day)

Jane Cowan, “The Next Generation Row House”

Alyssa Loorya, “Landscape Transformation in Marine Park, Brooklyn – Prehistory to modern-day Suburb”

Catherine Seavitt Nordenson, Babbie Dunnington, Anna Jalazo, Kate Jirasiritham, and Margaret Mulligan, “Toward an Industrial Ecology: Staten Island’s North Shore”

Jonathan D. Taylor, “Tapestry Brick Dwellings: The Afterlife of the Row House in Brooklyn”

Brown Bag Talk: 12:45-1:15
Martha J. Nadell, “The Poetics of Brooklyn’s In-Between Spaces”

Panel 2: Outdoors in the Outer Boroughs: Park and waterfront development
1:30- 2:45

Alyssa Loorya and Christopher Ricciardi, “From Private to Public: The Changing Landscape of Van Cortlandt Park, Bronx, New York in the Nineteenth Century”

Kara Murphy Schlichting, “’From Dumps to Glory’: City Planning, Coastal Reclamation, and the Rebirth of Flushing Meadow for the 1939-1940 New York World’s Fair”

Andrew Wasserman, “Missed Target: Locating and Losing Staten Island’s Nuclear Homeport”
Panel 3: Public Spaces and Civic Institutions
3:00 – 4:15

Paul Ranogajec, “The Staten Island Civic Center and Architectural Scenography in Metropolitan New York”

Jon Ritter, “Democratic Amusements: Civic Centers, Amusement Parks, and Public Life in Early 20th Century New York City”

Frampton Tolbert, “Queens Modern: How Vernacular Mid-Century Architecture Defined a Borough”
Keynote lecture:
4:30-5:30
Introductory remarks: Maria Ann Conelli, Dean, School of Visual, Media and Performing Arts at Brooklyn College

Hilary Ballon, “Journeys across Greater New York: How to Unify the Five-Borough City”