NEW YORK (1010 WINS) You know how when they tear down a building in your neighborhood and put something else up, suddenly you can't remember what was there before? Well, in some cases in New York City, what was there before, left behind some rich history.
"Bygone Landmarks And Sites Of Lost New York" is the name of a new exhibit opening Friday, April 19 at the New York Historical Society.
It features the lost landmarks of New York, important buildings and other sites, that were torn down for one reason or another, including the original Penn Station, the old Metropolitan Opera House... the Croton Reservoir, Chinese Theater, and more.
"The exhibition is about loss, but it's also about recovery and it's about resonance with the present day," Vice President & Chief Curator Wendy Nalani E. Ikemoto told 1010 WINS. "We're putting these physical pieces of the past on view. We're bringing modern day New York voices in to reminisce about these places, and so we call them lost, but they haven't been forgotten."
The exhibit will be up through September 29.
On Friday evenings, it's pay-as-you-wish from 5 to 8pm, with special live music and what they're calling "lost" cocktails during the spring and summer months.
Get tickets at NYHistory.org.