Anthony W. Robins Email & Phone Number

New York City

• Research consultant and advisor on historic preservation issues. Services include preparation of National Register nominations and applications for government grants to fund restoration projects.
• Lecturer and guide. Lectures on and tours of New York's remarkable architecture and history - with special attention to (and affection for) the city's Art Deco wonders.
• Author and editor. Books, articles, public history installations and exhibition texts on New York City history, architecture and historic preservation, geared to an intelligent lay audience.

New York City

Teach a class on the architecture and development of New York City for the Columbia U. summer session. Students range from undergrads to mid-career professionals doing M.A. degrees - and they bring a terrific range of perspectives to our exploration of the city's neighborhoods and buildings! Looking forward to teaching it again in 2016.

New York City

NYPAP (yes, nobody really likes the acronym) is collecting the history of New York's preservation movement even as the preservation movement attempts to collect New York's history. (Also: live long enough, and you become living history....)

New York City

Every year, I lead NYU (School of Professional Studies) classes with walks throughout the city, focusing on neighborhoods, history and architecture.

Greater New York City Area

Taught a seminar, "Case Studies in Historic Preservation," in the Urban Design and Architecture Studies section of the Department of Art History.

New York City

Teach "If These Walls Could Talk," an annual seminar (formerly called "Urban Genealogy") that attracts building owners, preservation advocates, architects, engineers, lawyers, and landmarks commissioners (and, once, even a New York City detective) who want to learn how to research the history of New York buildings. The seminar has always covered dusty city.

New York City

As a founding member (more or less) of the Art Deco Society of New York (ADSNY), I created the Society's walking tour program, and currently lead the tour committee - as well as leading tours for them several times a year.

New York City

Conceived, researched, and wrote the text for the exhibition "New York's Transportation Landmarks," on view at the Transit Museum's annex at Grand Central Terminal. Part of the year-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of New York City's Landmarks Law.

New York City

As a "featured speaker" in the Council's "Speakers in the Humanities" program, I gave illustrated lectures about New York City architecture for non-profit educational organizations (for the most part, schools and libraries) around New York State. Most recent topics: 1) Behind the Bright Lights: The Great Broadway Theaters, 2) Art Deco Metropolis: From the.

New York City

Preservation Committee, Newsletter Committee.

New York City

Taught a seminar, "Street Smarts," on the urban environment of New York City, for "Williams-In-New-York," a junior-year semester abroad program. It was wonderful to watch these students discover their own personal versions of New York, and grow into potential New Yorkers.

New York City

In 1996, '97 and '98, the Alliance sponsored four "Downtown Open House" events - inviting all and sundry to visit the financial district for inside looks at a dozen sites not normally open to the public - and hired me to write a self-guided tour-brochure for each event. The first time, we thought perhaps 500 people would show up - but came the day, more.

New York City

To mark the 100th anniversary of the 1904 opening of the IRT - New York City's first subway line - the Transit Museum put together an exhibition and book called "Subway Style." Brought in as a consultant to edit both, I ended up re-researching and rewriting most of the text. Without doubt, one of the most fun projects I've ever worked on. The book won a.

New York City

I researched and wrote the texts for 45 large sidewalk site-markers (plus an accompanying small guidebook) in the Downtown/Wall Street district. These sitemarkers, New York's answer to Boston's "Liberty Trail,"are all still standing - including the sitemarker for the destroyed World Trade Center - and I update them every couple of years (for the Alliance.

New York City

During two decades at the Landmarks Commission, I wrote, edited or supervised the preparation of hundreds of historic reports, while tending a staff of half a dozen professional historians. I also developed presentations on such policy issues as the economics of preservation, the preservation of sites from the recent past, and the preservation of sites.

New York City

Straight out of graduate school, I became one of countless volunteers corralled by the (late) legendary Margot Gayle, for whom I stuffed flyers into envelopes, delivered awards to bemused building owners, and led walks through SoHo, TriBeCa, Ladies Mile and Williamsburg. Promoted to co-chairman of tours, I coordinated the walks, prepared itineraries, and.

Ma, History Of European Art And Architecture

First year, 15th-century Italian art and architecture; second year, English architecture from Wren through the Palladians. MA thesis: "The.

Ba, Art History

Spent as much time as possible at the Clark Art Institute's galleries and library, where I took a summer job directly after graduation.

Junior Year Abroad, History Of Italian Art

I spent my third year living in Florence, with the Smith College Junior Year Abroad program. Studied Italian art, literature and language.

Diploma