Culture Briefs: Gallery studies, subway series and bridge birthday celebrations
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, VERRAZANO
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority will kick off the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge’s 50th birthday bash with an exhibit at Historic Richmond Town. “Spanning the Narrows for Five Decades,” will feature historic photographs and artifacts and will open on Tuesday, August 19 at the Staten Island Historical Society (441 Clarke Avenue), running through the end of 2014.
A similar exhibit will open in Brooklyn’s New York Transit Museum (99 Schermerhorn Street) on Saturday, November 1, and will run through Monday, March 23, 2015. Additionally, the Transit Museum will host a book signing of author Gay Talese’s “The Bridge,” on Thursday, November 13 at 6:30 p.m.
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