The Institute offers cultural seminars, and language classes. The city's most extensive French library, film screening, live dance, music and theater. Tompkins Ave, Staten Island. Former refuge for Italian Patriot Antonio Garibaldi and Gothic revival home of Italian inventor Anton Meucci. 1014 Fifth Ave.
Shows feature German born contemporary artists.
Film screenings, lectures, and concerts. The upstairs gallery houses paintings by Goya, Velazquez, and El Greco. There is a Spanish Renaissance court. The collection is mostly religious artifacts, including 16th century tombs from the monastery of San Francisco in Cuellar, Spain. 1996 Paperback by Joyce Gold 42nd Street by Neil Selkirk, photographer.