Historian, author, lecturer and tour-leader, Tony Robins has spent twenty-five years digging through dusty files to unearth the histories of New York's buildings. From 1979 to 1998, he served on the staff of New York City's Landmarks Preservation Commission, as Deputy Director of Research and later Director of Survey. In those capacities, he supervised a staff of professional historians researching the history of New York City's landmarks. Since the mid-1980s, he has also taught the popular annual "Urban Genealogy" (recently renamed "If These Walls Could Talk") seminar at New York's Municipal Art Society. Currently, he is compiling a lifetime's worth of research and teaching experience in the "Urban Genealogy Handbook" (compact disk edition) which will be available later in 2009.
Tony also lectures on New York history and architecture to audiences ranging from Elder Hostels to university seminars. He has lectured both in the United States and abroad including, in New York City, the Metropolitan Museum, Columbia University, New York University, Fordham University, Pratt Institute, Cooper-Union, the National Arts Club, the Bard Graduate Center, the Municipal Art Society, the South Street Seaport Museum, and the New School; the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C.; in London in the U.K.; in Sydney and Perth in Australia; in San Jose, Costa Rica (in Spanish); and in Rome, Italy, at the University of Rome and the American Academy (in Italian).
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