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A 1948 photograph of L Motors on 175th Street and Broadway is on view in the Museum of the City of New York’s “Cars, Culture, and the City” exhibition.

Who says that New York isn’t a car town? A new exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York examines the city’s essential role in creating today’s car culture and how the car has helped to shape modern New York. Don’t miss the streamlined automotive delights of Norman Bel-Geddes, who designed the now iconic General Motors Pavilion at the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Futurama, indeed. Get the full story on the “Cars, Culture, and the City” exhibition on the evening of Tuesday, April 20, when automobile design authority Phil Patton (who co-curated the show with the MCNY’s Donald Albrecht) will discuss how New York helped make the automobile a modernist icon. Expect speed, glamour, and photos that will make you wish you had bid on Jay Gatsby‘s Rolls Royce when you had the chance. Tickets for the talk are available here.

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