On April 1, 2006 at 12:00pm, sashed members of the newly formed 501(c)3 organization Friends of City Reliquary Inc. cut the ribbon of the new City Reliquary Museum and Civic Organization, at 370 Metropolitan Avenue. We’ve been here ever since.

While this week marks two decades in our current home, 2027 will be the 25th year of the existance of the City Reliquary: our semisemicentennial. The Reliquary’s first iteration began in 2002 within our founder Dave Herman’s apartment window at Grand & Havemeyer. Festivities and a semisemicentennial gala are in the works, with special attention and many thanks given to those who have supported us over nearly 10,000 days.

In today’s issue of the Reliquarian, it’s all Fridays:

• April 2: Free First Friday (celebrating 20Y at 370M)

• April 17: Panorama Challenge (tickets available but going fast)

• June 5: Miss Subways in Coney Island (contestants wanted)

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Tomorrow 7–9pm: Free First Friday

It is a new month, and so a new First Friday. Free admission for all, and for our 20th year at the address we will share photos, artifacts, stories, and casual, fiercely competitive trivia.

No RSVPs, simply drop by.

Friday April 17, 6pm: The 15th Panorama Challenge

Tickets are still available, but moving fast. There is no obligation to play, many attend every year just to watch. Not sure what it’s all about? Try NYT or NPR’s take.

N.b.: Panorama Challenge takes place at Queens Museum, not at the City Reliquary.

Friday June 5: Miss Subways

Hold the date for the all-gender beauty pageant which “rewards those who most creatively vent their frustration at public transit,” “A show like no other,” revealing how “gentrification has reversed the flow” of Take The A Train, as well as some skin. Will we top “the first post-menopausal Miss Subways”? Will you ratcall them?

Tickets will announced soon at cityreliquary.org. Interested in being a 2026 contestant? Reply to this email with your stage name.