Join us for an engaging lecture and book signing with Mosette Broderick, scholar, author, and professor of architectural history and urban issues at New York University. Broderick will explore the evolution of New York’s Fifth Avenue—America’s “Street of Dreams.” Once a quiet country road shown on the Commissioners’ Map of 1807, Fifth Avenue grew into a boulevard synonymous with grandeur, wealth, and architectural distinction. Through over 200 archival photographs, Fifth Avenue: The Street of Dreams traces how the avenue flourished with brownstone rowhouses and magnificent mansions before its transformation under the shadow of skyscrapers.
A specialist in 19th- and early 20th-century American and English architecture, Broderick has taught at NYU since 1978 and directs the university’s Urban Design and Architecture Studies Program as well as the M.A. Program in Historical and Sustainable Architecture at NYU London. The author of The Villard Houses and Triumvirate, she received NYU’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 2010. Her deep knowledge and passion for New York’s architectural history bring this vivid portrait of the rise and fall of one of the world’s most celebrated streets to life.
Generously Underwritten by Hederick Brothers Construction.
