If you went by its shabby, forgotten web presence, you’d think New York’s “Nerd Nite” had trailed off into nothingness after Jan. 10. In fact, the educational, inebriational event remains in full swing, convening at 7:00 this Thursday night at Angels & Kings (500 E. 11th St.).

Nerd Nite invites experts in eclectic fields to deliver presentations to a 2-drink-minimum crowd in one of the city’s many fine saloons. The April 3 evening will include presentations on the history of drinking in New York and a debunking of the conventional wisdom on dinosaurs.

The most interesting lecture looks to be that of Manhattan Borough Historian Mike Miscione, who will explain how modern NYC came to be. From the Nerd Nite NYC mailing list:

In 1898 the patchwork of rival municipalities around New York harbor were joined together to create the five-borough New York City that exists today. But the city that never sleeps was almost the city that never was. Michael will describe the clash between the pro-consolidationists, led by civic visionary Andrew H. Green (“the 19th century Robert Moses”), and the Brooklyn loyalists who opposed them. He’ll also answer that age-old question, “Why on earth did we let Staten Island join the club?”

If you can’t make the talk, you can still peruse Miscione’s Andrew H. Green website, which seeks to raise awareness of the forgotten civic titan.