…significance of this history. Looking Forward While buildings like 80 Fifth Avenue are unlikely to be demolished any time soon, much of their non-landmarked surroundings are, and buildings like 80…
Read MoreFor its entire existence over twenty years, the International Worker’s Order’s (IWO) New York City headquarters was located at 80 Fifth Avenue. 80 Fifth Avenue, at 14th Street, is located…
Read More…and Asian-Americans. Here’s a look at the IWO and some of its extraordinary accomplishments during its time at 80 Fifth Avenue: 80 Fifth Avenue, 1937. Photo courtesy of MCNY Digital…
Read More…(MPPC), headquartered at 80 Fifth Avenue, in the area South of Union Square which was the center of that center of the film industry, from 1909 until its dissolution in…
Read More…at 80 Fifth Avenue for its entire lifetime, from 1930 until 1954, this progressive mutual-benefit fraternal organization was a pioneering force in the U.S. labor and civil rights movements. The…
Read More…Fifth Avenue already had but to create an even more beautiful streetscape began to gain steam when he appointed the Fifth Avenue Commission. 72, 74-76, 78, 80 Fifth Avenue (r….
Read More…Force, located at 80 Fifth Avenue in the 1970s and 80s, while the headquarters of the New York Women’s Suffrage League, the leader in the fight for women’s right to…
Read More…a trailblazing labor organization at 80 Fifth Avenue, the New York City Woman Suffrage League at 10 East 14th Street, and much more: Explore “Virtual Village” — South of Union Square Send…
Read More…Women’s Council at 80 East 11th Street, Southern Tenant Farmers Union at 50 E 12th Street, Young Pioneers (communist subsidiary) at 80 Fifth Avenue, Defense Committee for Civil Rights for…
Read More…a pioneering dance and arts school got its start. “Virtual Village” Dance Tour, 2020. 80 Fifth Avenue 80 Fifth Avenue, 2020. The International Workers Order (IWO) was located at 80…
Read More80 Fifth Avenue at 14th Street is a building with an incredibly rich civil rights and social justice history, about which we have done a great deal of research as…
Read More…also showcased in the documentary film They Shall Not Perish. 80 Fifth Avenue 80 Fifth Avenue, 2020. The International Workers Order (IWO), which originated within the Jewish Workmen’s Circle, was located…
Read More…people and places we have documented in this historic neighborhood. Here you will find a trailblazing labor organization at 80 Fifth Avenue, the New York City Woman Suffrage League at…
Read More…and back on University Place the first woman doctor in America established her home and office. 80 Fifth Avenue 80 Fifth Avenue, 2020. The International Workers Order (IWO) was located…
Read More…lofts in the area south of Union Square. 72, 74-76, 78, 80 Fifth Avenue (l. to r.), 1940s Tax Photo. Courtesy of Municipal Archives. Wagner designed 78 Fifth Avenue in…
Read More…International Workers Order, 80 Fifth Avenue 80 Fifth Avenue. The International Workers Order (IWO) was located at 80 Fifth Avenue for its entire lifetime, from 1930 until 1954. This progressive…
Read More…African American history tour. The journey starts at almost the northern end of the proposed district at 80 Fifth Avenue, one-time home of the International Workers Order, an organization that…
Read More…72, 74-76, 78, 80 Fifth Avenue We have previously written about one of those two women, Marion Sara Parker. Parker graduated from the University of Michigan in 1895 and was…
Read MoreThe progressive mutual-benefit organization the International Workers Order (IWO) was located at 80 Fifth Avenue for its entire lifetime, from 1930 until 1954. A pioneering force in the U.S. labor…
Read More…designation for 285-287 East 3rd Street 80 Fifth Avenue 80 Fifth Avenue; photo by Dylan Chandler in his Architecture of Union Square portfolio Our proposed South of Union Square Historic…
Read More…poets, painters, dancers, and musicians. International Workers Order, 80 Fifth Avenue The International Workers Order (IWO) was located at 80 Fifth Avenue for its entire lifetime, from 1930 until 1954….
Read More…first national gay rights organization in the country, which was headquartered at the striking 80 Fifth Avenue. You’ll see some of the writers who lived here while writing controversial and…
Read More…these historic structures can be found at 80 Fifth Avenue, an exquisitely detailed Renaissance Revival–style building dating to 1908. From 1973 to 1986, 80 Fifth was the home of the…
Read More…the AIDS activist group ACT UP, and GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation). Read more about the building’s history here. National Gay Task Force Headquarters, 80 Fifth Avenue 80…
Read More…1919. 80 Fifth Avenue 61 East 11th Street 57 East 11th Street Another prominent firm with many impactful designs in the area was Buchman & Fox. The firm was founded…
Read More…noted on this map fall in our proposed South of Union Square historic district which has yet to be protected with landmark designations. On Fifth Avenue, No. 80 Fifth Avenue…
Read More…had offices at 80 Fifth Avenue. Among the IWO’s many efforts to protect working-class people, it led the Harlem Suitcase Theater. Led by IWO vice president and Harlem resident Louise…
Read More…80 Fifth Avenue As documented throughout our South of Union Square Map + Tours, for half a century the International Workers Order fought relentlessly for racial equality and solidarity, industrial…
Read More…origin of the International Workers Orders at 80 Fifth Avenue, and the home of Igal Roodenko, a noted printer, socialist, and activist whose parents were Jewish immigrants from Ukraine. Roodenko…
Read More…Lenape. 80 Fifth Avenue Kalmia latifolia “Mountain Laurel”, Jacob Bigelow, (ca. 1817) Known as the headquarters for both the International Workers Order and the National LGBTQ Task Force, the Renaissance…
Read More…under their health insurance, becoming the first insurer to do so. 80 Fifth Avenue, 1937 In 1936, the International Workers Order (IWO) became the first insurer to offer birth control….
Read More…to landmark the LGBT Community Center will be heard by the LPC on June 4. 8. National Gay Task Force original offices, 80 Fifth Avenue The National Gay Task Force…
Read More…places we have documented in this historic neighborhood. Here you will find a trailblazing labor organization at 80 Fifth Avenue, the New York City Woman Suffrage League at 10 East…
Read More…Ron Gold, Dr. Howard Brown, Dr. Bruce Voeller, and Nathalie Rockhill. (l. to r. back row) Martin Duberman, Barbara Gittings, Frank Kameny. 80 Fifth Avenue Initially located at 80 Fifth…
Read More…slated for demolition until Village Preservation was able to successfully advocate for the buildings’ landmark designation. Listen to Paula Poons’ Oral History here. David Rothenberg, 80 Fifth Avenue David Rothenberg,…
Read More…Center is around the corner on the 11th floor of 80 Fifth Avenue. Adding to the shops’ appeal, its located in an elaborately-detailed Renaissance Revival style office building constructed in…
Read More…78, 80 Fifth Avenue, 2022 We have written extensively about the two female engineers who broke down barriers South of Union Square. Marion Parker and Elmina Wilson, who practiced with…
Read More…as the trailblazing labor organization at 80 Fifth Avenue, the New York City Woman Suffrage League at 10 East 14th Street, the headquarters of the NAACP at 70 Fifth Avenue,…
Read More…places we have documented in this historic neighborhood. Here you will find a trailblazing labor organization at 80 Fifth Avenue, the New York City Woman Suffrage League at 10 East 14th Street,…
Read More…the extraordinary people and places we have documented in this historic neighborhood. Here you will find a labor organization with a pioneering birth control clinic at 80 Fifth Avenue, a trailblazing…
Read More…for immigrants, and social equity from 80 Fifth Avenue between 1930 and 1954. 112 Fourth Avenue hosted the Workingmen’s Cooperative Publishing Association, which printed the first newspaper associated with the…
Read More…and groundbreaking roles in the Greenwich Village and Lower East Side theater scenes, including the Harlem Suitcase Theater, run by the International Worker’s Order located at 80 Fifth Avenue; Villager…
Read More…Read more about the history and the work we’re doing to preserve it at other buildings linked to labor and social justice history, such as 70 and 80 Fifth Avenue….
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