Saturday, November 22 / 3:15 PM - 5:00 PM Burnham 2 (7th Floor)

Session 190
New York City: Mapping Social History

Chair: Meredith Linn, Bard Graduate Center

1. "Bread, Meat, Rent, Fuels! Their Prices Must Come Down!": A History of Economic Crises and Housing Affordability in New York CityJason Barr, Rutgers University - Newark; Ronan Lyons, Trinity College Dublin; Rowena Gray, University of California Merced.

2. Dante’s Not Dead: New York Women’s Clubs and the Local, 1910-1922Alexandra Miller, George Mason University.

3. Diaries and Rhythmic Behavior in Nineteenth-Century New York City, Techniques in Visualizing and Mapping Periodicity in Daily Life.Kenneth Scherzer, Emeritus, Middle Tennessee State University.

4. Assessing the City: Special Assessments, Property Values and Infrastructure Development in 19th-Century New York CityRachel Eu, Princeton University.

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