DART Partners with the Arts at Museum of the City of New York
Saturday, March 10, 2:00 pn       
The Greatest Grid: Curator’s Talk

Exhibition curator Hilary Ballon will present an illustrated talk about the creation of New York's street grid — one of the most distinctive and defining features of the city. Join us as she explores how the grid has spurred Manhattan's physical and economic growth, and how it has influenced public life and culture. Above: West Side Improvements, 1868; Courtesy of Museum of the City of New York, J. Clarence Davies Collection, 29.100.2723

This special program is being offered to DART subscribers at the MCNY member's half-price cost of $6 when you contact 917.492.3395 or programs@mcny.org (enter promotion code DART2012). If you phone, just mention DART and your tickets will be held for you. Please do not reply to this email. For more information: 917.492.3395..

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011 which has been extended through July 15^th. Read DART’s December 2011review of The Greatest Grid. Photo above from opening night: Peggy Roalf.

The Museum of the City of New York is located at Fifth Avenue and 103^rd Street.

By bus: M1, M3, M4 or M106 to 104th Street, M2 to 101st Street. 
By subway: #6 Lexington Avenue train to 103rd Street, walk three blocks west. #2 or #3 train to Central Park North (110th Street), walk one block east to Fifth Avenue, then south to 104th Street.

Curator and editor of The Greatest Grid: The Master Plan of Manhattan, 1811-2011, Hilary Ballon is deputy vice chancellor of New York University Abu Dhabi, part of the leadership team developing the school's new, full-scale campus and establishing its identity as a global university. Based in New York, she teaches courses on urbanism and architecture at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Her books include New York's Pennsylvania Stations; Colbert's Revenge, which won the Prix d'Académie from the Académie Française; The Paris of Henri IV: Architecture and Urbanism, which won the Alice Davis Hitchcock Prize for the Most Distinguished Work in Architectural History; and Robert Moses and the Modern City, for which she served as curator of a critically acclaimed, three-part exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York.

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