Hours: Wednesdays through Sundays, 1 to 5 p.m. NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 2 West 77th Street, Manhattan.

Suggested donation, $12; $8 for under 16, students and 65+; free for all, Fridays, 7 to 9 p.m. NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 2 West 77th Street, Manhattan.

Beautiful light of a different, unchanging, sort can be appreciated at the NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY, where more than 100 paintings by Hudson River School artists are on view through Feb. 5.

(Schwendener)NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: 'NEW YORK DIVIDED: SLAVERY AND THE CIVIL WAR,' through Sept. 3.

NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY - 2 West 77th Street.

NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 170 Central Park West, near 77th Street.

NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 2 West 77th Street, Manhattan, (212) 873-3400.

"NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY IS PET COUNTRY," 2 West 77th Street, Manhattan.

Just as the little green buds emerge in the spring, so do the AUDUBONS at the NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY, which has the world's largest collection of that artist's work.