The Call of Candy, our new exhibit and other Museum news!

        January 30, 2021

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**The City Reliquary Proudly Presents:
The Call of Candy!
and
Our Events & Exhibits in the News!**

We are pleased to present a sweet new exhibition, The Call of Candy! At the turn of the 20th century, candy manufacturing was an enormous industry in New York, using sugar processed in the city's many refineries and ingredients imported from around the world. In 1908, Brooklyn alone produced 130 million pounds of confections, serving not only the 560 candy shops across Kings County, but also for national and international export and sale to the U.S. government as military rations.

From the Rockwood Candy Company near the Navy Yards, to Phoenix Candy Company of Greenwood Heights and the nearby Topps Chewing Gum of Industry City, to Manhattan’s Huyler’s Candy on Irving Place near Union Square, this exhibition displays wrappers, packages, and ephemera of NYC’s boisterous history of candy-making on an industrial scale.

Come explore the exhibit by [making an appointment to visit the Museum on Saturdays and Sundays!](https://square.site/book/EGTST609VR8N3/the-city-reliquary-brooklyn-ny) [Museum Members](https://withfriends.co/cityreliquary/join?utm_campaign=wf-newsletter) are always free, and so is the Bazooka gum (made by Topps, headquartered in Manhattan!).  

**The City Reliquary in the News!**

Have you attended any of our recent backyard events? Since Halloween, the City Reliquary has hosted a number of [socially distanced, limited-capacity](https://www.instagram.com/p/CHs-oC-l1-t/) and [virtual ](https://www.instagram.com/p/CHlqUXFheWc/)performances featuring [talented artists](https://www.facebook.com/cityreliquary/photos/10158853891972378) across [many genres](https://www.facebook.com/cityreliquary/photos/10158860456877378): [experimental pop](https://www.facebook.com/cityreliquary/photos/10158792086122378), chamber music, immersive theater, poetry, and [burlesque](https://www.facebook.com/cityreliquary/photos/10158792086167378) to name a few. This [great Brooklyn Magazine article](https://www.bkmag.com/2021/01/29/pandemics-make-strange-bedfellows-too/) talks to some of the performers about working with the Reliquary and the key role their shows played in the success of our membership drive. ([Members](https://withfriends.co/cityreliquary/join?utm_campaign=wf-newsletter) can snag free tickets to all our events - first-come, first-served for all in-person events as capacity is strictly limited.)

**And in Further News...**

You may have spotted this special artifact on one of your visits to the City Reliquary: a wooden brick from the last known remaining wooden sidewalk in NYC, on West Street in Greenpoint. Wooden sidewalks sound strange to us today - you can read more about their history and why they were installed in parts of the city in the late 1800s in [this fascinating article from Untapped New York](https://untappedcities.com/2021/01/12/nyc-last-wooden-sidewalk-city-reliquary/).

And, our 2018 exhibit [Empire Skate: The Birthplace of Roller Disco](http://www.cityreliquary.org/empire-skate-the-birthplace-of-roller-disco/) was one of the most popular in the City Reliquary's history. A star figure of that exhibit - the Godfather of Roller Disco and creator of the Brooklyn Bounce, Bill Butler - was recently [profiled by the New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/30/arts/dance/bill-butler-empire-rollerdrome.html)! The article goes in-depth about Bill's time skating at Empire and also features some great photos and videos -  check it out!

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