MICHAEL KIMMELMAN AT MOCA TALKS
NY Times art writer Michael Kimmelman will discuss his book “The Intimate City: Walking New York” on Thursday, Jan. 26, at 6:30 at the Museum of Chinese in America, 215 Centre. The event is free but registration is suggested. You can also purchase signed copies of the book at the event. As New York came to a halt with COVID, Michael Kimmelman composed an email to a group of architects, historians, writers, and friends, inviting them to take a walk. What began with a lighthearted trip to explore Broadway’s shuttered theater district and a stroll along Museum Mile when the museums were closed soon took on a much larger meaning and ambition.

THE CITYSCAPE AFTER WWII
The staff from the Municipal Archives on Chambers will host a lecture in January, part of a monthly series, called “Lunch & Learn: How Manhattan’s Cityscape Was Remade After WWII” on Jan. 24 from 1 to 2p. The event is free and on Zoom. This month’s author is Samuel Zipp, a cultural and urban historian and author of Manhattan Projects: The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York, Vital Little Plans: The Short Works of Jane Jacobs, and The Idealist: Wendell Willkie’s Wartime Quest to Build One World.

AUTHOR PROGRAM AT NEW AMSTERDAM
The New Amsterdam branch of the New York Public Library on Murray has launched a Downtown Author Talk series, which will begin on January 24 at 5p with “Our Laundry. Our Town,” by Tribeca resident, Alvin Eng. On Friday, February 24, at 3:30p the book in focus will be “War In A Beautiful Country,” an e-novel by Seaport resident Patricia Ryan described as “a quirky mystery…because death is unknown life becomes the puzzle.” Local authors who wish to be part of the program are encouraged to apply to librarian Karen Loder.

NATIVE AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHERS IN THE FIELD
The Museum of the American Indian at The Battery will show the work of photographers who are defining what it means to be Indigenous today in a show titled Developing Stories: Native Photographers in the Field through March 12. Photojournalists Donovan Quintero (Navajo), Tailyr Irvine (Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes), and Russel Albert Daniels (Diné descent and Ho-Chunk descent) are featured and will also participate in an event/discussion on Saturday, Feb. 4, from 1 to 5p.