| BI-50108-09 | Education Programs: Landmarks of American History for Community Colleges, WTP | CUNY Research Foundation, NYC College of Technology | Along the Shore: Changing and Preserving the Landmarks of Brooklyn's Industrial Waterfront | 10/1/2009 - 12/31/2010 | $140,000.00 | Richard | | Hanley | | | | CUNY Research Foundation, NYC College of Technology | Brooklyn | NY | 11201-1909 | USA | 2009 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Landmarks of American History for Community Colleges, WTP | Education Programs | 140000 | 0 | 140000 | 0 | Two one-week workshops for fifty community college faculty members on selected Brooklyn waterfront landmarks.
Brooklyn's industrial waterfront was named one of America's eleven most endangered places by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 2007. Participants will explore five selected landmarks along this waterfront including the Brooklyn Bridge, the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn Heights, the Newtown Creek, and Coney Island. Starting with the assumption that meaningful landmarks involve preservation not just of buildings and physical fabric but of the lives, work, and play of those associated with the physical place, we will consider the many possible roles of the "landmark" in illuminating and commemorating both the cultural past and the living present. How do we preserve and celebrate the historical past in the face of inevitable change? Where the significance of a landmark is contested, what values and whose voices shape its meaning? Participants will also use emerging media production techniques to document their learning. |
| BI-50151-11 | Education Programs: Landmarks of American History for Community Colleges, WTP | CUNY Research Foundation, NYC College of Technology | Along the Shore: The Landmarks of Brooklyn's Industrial Waterfront | 10/1/2011 - 12/31/2012 | $155,400.00 | Richard | | Hanley | | | | CUNY Research Foundation, NYC College of Technology | Brooklyn | NY | 11201-1909 | USA | 2011 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Landmarks of American History for Community Colleges, WTP | Education Programs | 155400 | 0 | 149289.71 | 0 | Two one-week Landmarks workshops for fifty community college faculty members to study the diverse and historically rich Brooklyn waterfront through the changing lens of historic preservation.
"Along the Shore: The Landmarks of Brooklyn's Industrial Waterfront" consists of two one-week NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops held during summer 2012 for fifty community college faculty members on the diverse and historically rich Brooklyn waterfront through the changing lens of historic preservation. The program focuses on Brooklyn's waterfront by exploring its preservation history and the questions it raises about the meaning of landmarks. Participants study such prominent sites as Brooklyn Bridge and Coney Island, as well as the architecture of Charles Bulfinch, whose work in the former Brooklyn Navy Yard (now a burgeoning industrial park) exemplifies some of the workshop's complex issues. The group also examines how industrial landscapes, such as the environmentally damaged Newtown Creek, exist alongside diverse and changing neighborhoods, from Greenpoint to Brooklyn Heights. Readings and lectures span architectural and environmental histories, maps, and poetry. Richard Haw, Francis Morrone, and Shelley Smith discuss Brooklyn's diverse architectural history, supported, for example, by Haw's Art of the Brooklyn Bridge and John Kasson's Amusing the Millions: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century. Geoff Zylstra, Roberta Weisbrod, and Daniel Campo address the area's environmental history as participants read articles on specific sites, EPA documents, and NOAA maps. Debby Applegate's biography of Henry Ward Beecher, Joshua Freeman's Working Class New York, and Walt Whitman's "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" illuminate some of the social and literary topics to be treated by Mark Noonan and Carolyn Hellman. This program features access to the Brooklyn Historical Society's extensive manuscript, map, and image collection. |