"I strive to link your ordinary experience of New York – what you can see, hear and feel – with the history and culture of New York."

Peter Laskowich: Historian, Teacher & Guide
The Brooklyn Bridge and downtown Manhattan
Downtown before 9/11, with the Hudson River to the left and the East River to the right - Why doesn't the East River freeze, and how does it matter?
Ebbets Field in the spring of 1955 - Gil Hodges at bat
The Polo Grounds in 1950 - Jim Hearn warming up for the Giants
Park Row was Newspaper Row in the year 1900.
To convey the power, beauty and cause of this great city.
New York City
My Focus

I concentrate on drawing connections between your experience of New York and this city's history and culture. In this way we go beyond the who-what-where-when in favor of the "why" and "how"

Here is information and context you won't get anywhere else. Note that several of these offerings also involve baseball.
What's Happening

Each of New York's four major league teams illustrates a different phase of New York history and culture. This has something to do with the formal titles of the coming baseball classes, respectively Tradition, Mystique, Dynasty and Spiritual Descendants. They will be held on Friday mornings in June at the 92nd Street Y, with details available on the calendar page.


The new gallery page features a few dozen photos of New York and of baseball. You may find them worthwhile.

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