Housing Works and the Center for Urban Pedagogy present a panel on Stuyvesant Town with historian Samuel Zipp and playwright and screenwriter Amy Fox. Currently the subject of the largest real estate deal in US history, Stuyvesant Town is a haven of middle class housing with an embattled past and an uncertain future. Zipp will talk about the early history of Metropolitan Life and Robert Moses’ new mass cityscape. Fox will present a dramatic reading of her screenplay “Stuyvesant Town” about a group of white tenants, including her grandparents, who fought in the early 40’s to end discrimination in the complex.

FREE 

Location: Housing Works Used Book Cafe, 126 Crosby Street (bwtn Broadway & Lafayette)