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Stories from The Panorama 

with Michael Miscione and Kenneth T. Jackson 

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Please join the Queens Museum for a lively conversation between New York City historians Michael Miscione and Kenneth T. Jackson, who contributed to the Museum’s most recent publication dedicated to The Panorama of the City of New York.
 
Held inside the Panorama Gallery, the discussion will animate the model through an assessment of two important milestones in New York City history: the Commissioner’s Plan of 1811, which enacted a grid plan for streets in Manhattan above Houston Street and below 155th Street; and the consolidation of Greater New York in 1898, which united all five boroughs into one territory. These 19th century determinations set out a particular vision for New York City, and we will use the Panorama to consider how the outer boroughs have developed and changed in conversation with and completely independently of Manhattan. El Queens Museum le invita a esta dinámica conversación entre los historiadores de la Ciudad de Nueva York Michael Miscione y Kenneth T. Jackson, que participaron en la publicación más reciente del museo dedicada al Panorama de la Ciudad de Nueva York.
 
El debate, que se celebrará en la Galería del Panorama, hará que la maqueta cobre vida a través del análisis de dos hitos muy importantes en la historia de la Ciudad de Nueva York: por un lado, el Plan de los Comisionados de 1811, que estableció una estructura en forma de cuadrícula para las calles de Manhattan por encima de Houston Street y por debajo de la calle 155 y, por otro lado, la consolidación del área metropolitana de Nueva York en 1898, con la que se unificaron los cinco distritos (boroughs) en un único territorio. Estas decisiones decimonónicas establecieron una visión particular para la Ciudad de Nueva York, y utilizaremos el Panorama para considerar cómo se desarrollaron y cambiaron los distritos exteriores, dialogando con Manhattan y, a la vez, de forma totalmente independiente. 

Publication of The Panorama of the City of New York is made possible by the generosity of Steven M. Polan as well as a generous grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation of New York.

The Queens Museum and The Panorama of the City of New York are supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the New York State Council on the Arts.

The Queens Museum is housed in the New York City Building, which is owned by the City of New York.

The Museum is supported, in part, by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with Mayor Eric Adams, the Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, and the New York City Council under the leadership of Speaker Adrienne E. Adams.

Major funding is generously provided by Bloomberg Philanthropies, Ford Foundation, Hearst Foundations, Jerome Foundation, Lambent Foundation, MacMillan Family Foundation, Mellon Foundation, E.A. Michelson Philanthropy, New York Community Trust, Richmond County Savings Foundation, and Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

Image: “Worker at Lester Associates pulls a reference image from a set of aerial photographs used for the construction of The Panorama of the City of New York,” c. 1963. Scanned medium-format negative. Gift of Bernard Spence, Lester Associates.

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