Chocolate Milk is on us!
A Standout Photo Documentary by Mo Pepin
**Cinema City: Bad NYC Geography is Saturday!**
Lord Over Famous Directors With Your Superior City Knowledge
**Discover the History of Barren Island with Miriam Sicherman!**
Learn About a Fascinating and Oft-forgotten NYC Community
**Opening Reception on Friday, November 15 from 6-8 pm!**
We invite you to [join us on Friday evening](https://www.facebook.com/events/740240669776476/) for celebratory beverages in honor of our new exhibit, Chocolate Milk! A photo documentary series by [Mo Pepin](http://www.mopepin.com/), this display follows the extraordinary perseverance of a small carton of chocolate milk on the top of a phone booth on 1st Avenue and 21st Street.
Mo first spotted the carton on March 8, 2017 on her commute and kept an eye on it in the following weeks, watching it expand in the heat and then slowly shrink. Four months later, the carton remained untouched on the phone booth, and from this point Mo kept a closer eye on this marvel, photographing it about once a month. Through snow, rain, 45-mph winds, and other vagaries of the NYC streets, the chocolate milk carton remained atop the phone booth for 405 days, through April 2018.
Chocolate Milk will be on view in the front window of the City Reliquary Museum through January 2020.**Tickets Available Now! – $20 General Admission – $15 City Reliquary Members (Join Today!)**
The City Reliquary’s Fall event series, Cinema City, continues with its third edition on **Saturday, November 16**! Presented by [Screen Slate](http://screenslate.com) contributor and NYC trivia expert (part of the [reigning Panorama Challenge championship team](https://levysuniqueny.com/blog/the-12th-annual-panorama-challenge-results/)!) Cosmo Bjorkenheim, each Cinema City program will explore New York City’s many and varied depictions in film through clips and discussion. From early Edison experiments to recent blockbusters, studio standards to cult favorites, you’ll see New York in a whole new light!
This program examines cinematic errors in NYC’s geography. Nothing gets New Yorkers’ goats quite like filmmakers (especially non-New Yorker filmmakers) disrespecting the physical reality of our beloved city, like placing the Guggenheim around the corner from Penn Station or putting waiters in Katz’s Deli. Movies with egregious errors (ahem, *Ghostbusters II*) have the power to infuriate us proportional to the power of accurate NYC geography (as in the original *Ghostbusters*) to delight us. Prepare to boo the worst of the worst with us**!**
Your ticket includes a specially designed menu of themed snacks created by Lucia Jazayeri and Anna Gelb, a.k.a. Forest Dinners! Lucia is the Creative Director for [Clover Food Lab](https://www.cloverfoodlab.com/). Anna is the Director of Events for [Outstanding in the Field](http://www.outstandinginthefield.com/). You’ll also receive a drink from our friends at [Brooklyn Brewery](http://brooklynbrewery.com)! (Non-alcoholic beverages will also be available.)
| [Tickets Available Here!](https://www.artful.ly/store/events/19324) |
On a now-vanished island in Jamaica Bay, a community of new immigrants and African-Americans transformed the city’s waste into industrial products and built a neighborhood from scratch. In [her book](https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/Products/9781467144315) *Brooklyn’s Barren Island: A Forgotten History*, author Miriam Sicherman (of [Closet Archaeology](http://www.cityreliquary.org/closetarch/) fame) traces the development of this oft-forgotten community from the 1850s to 1936, when they were evicted to create New York City’s first municipal airport, Floyd Bennett Field.
We will celebrate the release of *Brooklyn’s Barren Island* with a talk and book signing by Miriam Sicherman at the City Reliquary Museum on **Thursday, November 21 at 7 pm**! Join us to learn more about this fascinating fragment of NYC history.
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