MAY 17 | 10:30am at McNally Jackson Seaport
The Slip and Other Seaport Secrets
feat. Prudence Peiffer and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
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Art historian Prudence Peiffer and geographer Joshua Jelly-Schapiro give a short tour of unexpected and fascinating pockets of history in New York's downtown Seaport neighborhood that inspired their own books: from Coenties Slip, the three-block street that hosted a modern art community in its sail-making lofts, to the long history of naming places in Manhattan, and the stories we uncover and bring to our own personal portraits of the city.
Prudence Peiffer is an art historian and writer, and Director of Content at The Museum of Modern Art. Her book The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever (2023) won the New York City Book Award, was shortlisted for the Plutarch Award for best biography, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and was longlisted for the National Book Award, among other accolades.
Joshua Jelly-Schapiro is a geographer and writer whose books include Island People, Names of New York, and, with Rebecca Solnit, Nonstop Metropolis. His work appears regularly in the New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and the New York Times, among many other publications. He teaches at NYU, and is Director of Publishing at Pioneer Works.