…event, attracting world-wide attention and participation. Avant-garde performance artists like Ann Magnuson were regulars at the Pyramid Club, and several well-known artists and musicians performed and partied at the club….
Read More…visit. 101 Avenue A also appears on GVSHP’s Civil Rights and Social Justice Map with more than a hundred other local sites. And right now Clayton Patterson has an exhibit “Portraits…
Read More101 Avenue A: Melting Pot to Hot Spot A Panel Discussion Moderated by Village Preservation Executive Director Andrew Berman Few buildings embody the full zeitgeist of everything East Village as…
Read More101 Avenue A Read Blog Posts about 101 Avenue A Built in 1876 and designed by architect William Jose, this distinctive Neo-Grec design has an ornate cornice, fire escapes, and…
Read More…by performance artist Iris Rose as part of a panel discussion on the history of 101 Avenue A, can be found on GVSHP’s website. Photographer Clayton Patterson captures performer Lypsinka…
Read More…Cathedral at 59 East 2nd Street, the former Magistrates Court at 32 2nd Avenue (now Anthology Film Archives) and 101 Avenue A; the district also included notable sites such as…
Read More…Avenue at St. Mark’s Place, once the home of the Negro Ensemble Company, which helped launch the careers of Angela Bassett, Laurence Fishburne, and Phylicia Rashad, and 105 Second Avenue, which functioned…
Read More…to advocate that areas including Anthology, the NYC Marble Cemetery, and 101 Avenue A be included. (GVSHP had been advocating since 2007 to landmark 101 Avenue A.) After considerable lobbying…
Read More…Council, East Village Community Coalition, and the Lower East Side Preservation Initiative – to advocate that areas including Anthology, the NYC Marble Cemetery, and 101 Avenue A be included. (GVSHP…
Read More…at 101 Avenue A. Image courtesy of Sally Davies. On October 30, 2007, Village Preservation submitted a request to the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission that they consider 101 Avenue A…
Read More…known as PFLAG, Parents, Friends, and Families of Lesbians and Gays, now a national organization with 350 Chapters and 200,000 members. 101 Avenue A (site of the Pyramid Club) In…
Read More…as a landmark district. So as we celebrate this long deserved piece of landmark protection, we thought we would revisit our Landmarking 101 series to talk a little more about…
Read More121 Charles is up for sale and press about the house as a potential development site has generated a lot of landmark misconceptions. The freestanding house at 121 Charles Street…
Read More…also here, which was published in 1964. His writings often reflected and referenced his East Village surroundings. 20. Pyramid Club, 101 Avenue A 101 Avenue A, via Village Preservation Located…
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8/5/2014 LPC hearing. For more information about this application, click here….
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5/13/2014 LPC hearing. For more information about this application, click here….
Posted June 2, 2020
Read More…noted). STAY UPDATED! Click here for our e-alerts to be updated on this application as soon as we find out more. As of: 5/14/14: Application approved at yesterday’s LPC hearing,…
Read More…UPDATED! Click here for our e-alerts to be updated on this application as soon as we find out more. As of: 8/6/14: Application approved at yesterday’s LPC hearing, and is…
Read More…number of protests whose participants included architect Philip Johnson, art critic Aline Saarinen (widow of the late architect Eero Saarinen), and urban advocate Jane Jacobs. Its ultimate demise at the…
Read More…demolition or alteration of an existing building, and a large new addition or an entirely new building in its place. The Morgan Library and its very modern addition. So how…
Read More…lifelong New Yorker from Queens committed to fighting for economic justice and an equitable city. For over a decade, Will has worked as an organizer and advocate with immigrant and…
Read More…require a public hearing before they can be approved. These proposals range from minor alterations to large additions, demolition, and new construction on landmarked sites. Find out about the application,…
Read More…to the hearing dates listed above, which includes instances when an application has been laid over (aka postponed). If applicable, LPC public meeting dates for this application will also be…
Read More…class.) You will learn the meaning of traditional symbols and colors, as well as the basics of structure and decoration that can be used to write an endless variety of…
Read More…juice bar chain (NY Post) MTA eliminates that pesky Alphabet City in new subway map (EV Grieve) East Villagers rally to save St. Mark’s Bookshop with song (Gothamist) Cooper Union…
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This image is part of the Louis “Sonny” DeLuccy collection, which is dedicated in memory of Sonny and to honor him and others as heroes for their sacrifice. This image…
Posted September 8, 2021
Read More…date, architect name, and significant architectural features, though it can contain as little as the address or name of the building, site, or neighborhood. Because historical significance is also an…
Read More…Alliance presented a plan to CB2 to make the St. Vincent’s Triangle into an AIDS memorial (NY Times) Minetta Lane ‘Salad House’ tries fresh photos to get its $3.75 million…
Read MoreJohn’s of 12th Street was thrilled to be featured on Sunday’s episode of Boardwalk Empire! Facing eviction, Village Scandal holding sale to pay for legal fees (EV Grieve) Looking at…
Read More…becoming a ‘Village Getaway?’ (Architect’s Newspaper) Fire at Il Cantinori caused by a kitchen explosion (Eater) For sale: A loft owned by Aaron Burr & occupied by Jackson Pollack (Curbed)…
Read More…which makes an area and a building more desirable and ultimately more valuable. A number of studies have pointed to the increased resale value of buildings in historic districts when…
Read More… What is an historic district? An historic district is an area where a group of buildings and sites have a distinct sense of place or character….
Read More…with Eater’s feature Explain Your Tchotchkes Ray’s Pizza on 6th Avenue & 11th Street closes (Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York) Apparently, the Village is a great place to drink beer (Gothamist)…
Read More…Workers of America (ACWA) took place here in December 1914 … For decades, ACWA continued to meet and later celebrate its founding at Webster Hall. In the first decade of…
Read More…as German community meeting and clubhouses including the landmark German-American Shooting Society Clubhouse at 12 St. Mark’s Place and the Pyramid Club at 101 Avenue A, a site GVSHP successfully…
Read More…at the Pyramid Club at 101 Avenue A look up, they’ll find some equally primped ironwork along the fire escapes of the apartments above. Over on Avenue C, a Mary…
Read More…back into the spotlight this year as a result of the release of the HBO documentary “Wig,” which debuted at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival. 101 Avenue A appears on Village Preservation’s…
Read More…the former Frank Stella studios at 128 East 13th Street, the Anthology Film Archives, and the Pyramid Club at 101 Avenue A in the proposed East Village/Lower East Side Historic…
Read More…on April 26th, 1990, the band played a highly important gig at The Pyramid Club at 101 Avenue A in the East Village. Nirvana at The Pyramid Club, April 26,…
Read More…GVSHP asked the LPC to consider landmark designation of 101 Avenue A, an incredibly architecturally distinctive 1876 tenement with a ground floor used for generations as a German immigrant social…
Read More…to 103 Avenue A, between East 6th & 7th Streets and right next door to 101 Avenue A. According to the book Ethel Rosenberg: Beyond the Myths, their apartment, one…
Read More…Jewish-American Communists, along with Soviet spy Morton Sobell, were accused of selling nuclear secrets to Russia. Ethel’s brother, David Greenglass, worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory and allegedly supplied Julius…
Read More…Club Pyramid Club exterior at 101 Avenue A. Over to 101 Avenue A, our last stop (as a tour of all the venues would be quite lengthy!) is the Pyramid…
Read MoreCity Councilmember Rosie Mendez At a time when over-development is an ever-present threat in our Village neighborhoods, City Councilmember Rosie Mendez has distinguished herself as a staunch advocate for historic…
Read More…include sites like the Pyramid Club at 101 Avenue A and the former Third District Magistrates Court Building at the corner of Second Avenue & East 2nd Street that now…
Read More…to act. Save the Historic Eye and Ear Infirmary at 13th Street and Second Avenue! The historic New York Eye and Ear Infirmary (NYEEI) at East 13th Street and Second…
Read More…NoHo. In addition to LGBT history, the map also covers African-American, Women’s, Hispanic, and immigrant history, as well as many other locations important to civil rights and social justice movements…
Read More…also launched an online Civil Rights and Social Justice Map, documenting over 120 sites of significance to the struggle for LGBT, Women’s, African-American, Latino/a, and Asian-American Civil Rights in Greenwich…
Read More…the 50th anniversary of the Sip-In. In 2016, Julius’ also received a Village Award from GVSHP. The Pyramid Club (101 Avenue A) 101 Avenue A — home to the Pyramid Club,…
Read More…incarnation, still operates in the ground floor of the building. Ana Maria Simo Residence (52 East 1st Street) Ana Maria Simo Residence, 52 East 1st Street. Ana Maria Simo is…
Read More…head to Webster Hall. We’ll end the tour near Tompkins Square Park at the Pyramid Club’s location on Avenue A between 6th and 7th streets (101 Avenue A, New York,…
Read More…more formalized and would grow to be a major New York City event, attracting world-wide attention and participation. Madonna, who frequented the Pyramid Club, attended an early AIDS benefit there…
Read More…the Metropolitan Community Church (an LGBT congregation), the AIDS activist group ACT UP, and GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation). East Village Pyramid Club, 101 Avenue A Since opening…
Read More…Pyramid Club at 101 Avenue A (considered the birthplace of politically-conscious drag performance art) and Julius’ Bar in New York City historic districts and on the State and National Registers of…
Read More…votes to landmark on June 4th. Learn more here about this Landmarking and Village Preservation’s ongoing work protecting LGBT historic sites including the Stonewall Inn and the East Village’s Pyramid Club at 101 Avenue A (and more…
Read More…at 101 Avenue A and in 1966, The Velvet Underground performed at and was the house band for The Dom on St. Mark’s Place. McDarrah was quite close to Warhol…
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