Landfill was used by the Dutch and by later generations to transform the landmass of the island; today, climate change and rising sea levels threaten to again alter our city and reclaim some of the historic landfill.

Join Dr. Ann L. Buttenwieser, adjunct assistant professor at Columbia University's School of Architecture, Urban Planning, and Historic Preservation and author of "Manhattan Water-Bound: Manhattan's Waterfront from the Seventeenth Century to the Present" (Syracuse UP, 1999); Dr. Ed Cook, Doherty Senior Scholar at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; Dr. Eric Sanderson, Director of the Wildlife Conservation Society's Mannahatta Project and guest curator of the Museum's exhibition "Mannahatta/Manhattan"; and Dr. William Solecki, geography professor at Hunter College and Director of the CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities, as they discuss the forces that have altered our shoreline. Presented in conjunction with "Mannahatta/Manhattan: A Natural History of New York City."

Reservations required. $6 Museum members; $8 seniors and students; $12 non-members.

For tickets, call 212.534.1672, ext. 3395, or visit www.mcny.org/public-programs/

Museum of the City of New York
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