Last weekend I had my first NYC Museum outing of the year. I went with a new friend to see the Museum of the City of New York. Since I am a born and raised New Yorker, I didn’t think this museum would have much to offer me but it was more than I expected.
The museum is free to college students (and this was the first time I was able to show off my Baruch pride!) and offers several different exhibits on the history and build up of NYC.
We started in the “NY at its Core” exhibit that visualizes 400 years of history that led to what NYC is today, saw the “AIDS at Home” exhibit that shows how caring and quick to act people are in this city of ours when there is someone in need, and we finished with the “Activist New York” exhibit which documents some of the mot influential social activism movements that have affected the culture of the city, and still are changing it today.
Throughout the museum there were hundreds of different “New Yorker” identities documented and discussed. Immigrants from all over the world, born and bred patriots with widely different backgrounds, all kinds of LGBTQ personalities, upper, middle, and lower class families, and groups of people with all different cultural identities.
I feel that this was a good place for me to start off my first semester going to school in NYC, and more specifically at Baruch. With such a diverse student body, Baruch is truly a place where you can find people of all walks of life. I believe that this was a good opportunity for me to open myself up to experiencing New York City in ways that I had not previously been able to. It helped me to understand the city I am in more and hopefully be able to connect better with my classmates and other people on the Baruch campus.
