…witnessed or participated in which shaped our neighborhoods, city, and sometimes our nation and world. Alex Harsley’s oral history page on our website. Alex’s oral history has so many fascinating…
Read More…pending oral history interview with Jane Jacobs for Village Preservation. Additionally, they spoke with Kent about her work with Jane Jacobs and the preservation battles she led during the 1960s…
Read MoreWhite Horse Tavern, Hudson and 11th Streets. © Estate of Fred W. McDarrah. Three years ago today, Village Preservation conducted an oral history with Gloria McDarrah, a Village resident for…
Read More…made my work.” So begins Village Preservation’s newly released Oral History interview with the unparalleled “Queen of the Underground,” Penny Arcade. Catch Penny on stage celebrating her oral history on…
Read MoreVillage Preservation shares our oral history collection with the public, highlighting some of the people and stories that make Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo such unique and vibrant neighborhoods. Each…
Read MoreVillage Preservation is excited to share our oral history collection with the public, and hope they will shed more light on what makes Greenwich Village and the East Village such…
Read More…check out… The full transcript of Spatt’s NYPAP Oral History with Spatt Brown University Library’s Page on the Beverly Moss Spratt papers here. Spatt’s oral history with Brown University, here….
Read More…residents, their children, and people who have served immigrants and their communities. Immigrants also make up a big part of Village Preservation’s Oral History collection. Today we look at one…
Read More…daughter, Maria Kenny, who ran Kenny’s Castaways with her brother for over a decade and generously shared an oral history with us in 2015. Maria’s oral history, conducted on June…
Read MoreVillage Preservation shares our oral history collection with the public, highlighting some of the people and stories that make Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo such unique and vibrant…
Read More…to obtain fresh pasta, along with homemade sauces and prepared meals. Recently, Andrew and his mother Ramona gave an oral history as part of the GVSHP Oral History Collection focused…
Read MoreIt’s Pride Month!! Today we look at Richard Wandel, someone who has been instrumental in archiving LGBT history and who shared his story with us through our Oral History Project…
Read MoreGVSHP is excited to share our oral history collection with the public, and hope they will shed more light on what makes Greenwich Village and the East Village such unique and vibrant…
Read MoreGVSHP is excited to share our oral history collection with the public, highlighting some of the people and stories that make Greenwich Village and the East Village such unique and…
Read More121 Charles Street GVSHP is excited to share our oral history collection with the public, and hope they will shed more light on what makes Greenwich Village and the East…
Read More…over 120 years, and has become extremely popular with tourists. Listen below to hear highlights from the Robert Zerilli oral history, or click here for the full oral history and transcript….
Read MoreVillage Preservation shares our oral history collection with the public, highlighting some of the people and stories that make Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo such unique and vibrant…
Read MoreCalvin Trillin, photo by Richard Drew/AP We’re proud to share our latest oral history with writer, humorist, and longtime Greenwich Village resident Calvin Trillin. Trillin has lived on and off…
Read More…and 60’s. Our oral history from Mr. Longo covers much about his family and upbringing, life in the South Village, and how he got involved in the coffee business. Below…
Read More…member that Village Preservation is honored to include in our oral history collection. We hope you get to know Christina Maile’s work and impact via our oral history and support…
Read MoreVillage Preservation shares our oral history collection with the public, highlighting some of the people and stories that make Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo such unique and vibrant neighborhoods. Each…
Read MoreCalvin Trillin, photo by Richard Drew/AP Village Preservation shares our oral history collection with the public, highlighting some of the people and stories that make Greenwich Village, the East Village,…
Read MoreGVSHP is excited to share our oral history collection with the public, and hope they will shed more light on what makes Greenwich Village and the East Village such unique…
Read MoreGVSHP shares our oral history collection with the public, highlighting some of the people and stories that make Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo such unique and vibrant neighborhoods….
Read MoreVillage Preservation is excited to share our oral history collection with the public, and hope they will shed more light on what makes Greenwich Village and the East Village such…
Read More…“Last Car Thru Washington Square”. GVSHP Archives, Claire Tankel Collection. GVSHP is excited to share our oral history collection with the public, and hope they will shed more light on…
Read MoreVillage Preservation shares our oral history collection with the public, highlighting some of the people and stories that make Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo such unique and vibrant…
Read More…at least – by the GVSHP Oral History Collection. The tales told by accomplished people in our oral histories are largely about the kind of serendipity that enchants our days…
Read MoreGVSHP is excited to share our oral history collection with the public, and hope they will shed more light on what makes Greenwich Village and the East Village such unique and…
Read MoreGloria McDarrah at her home, February 27, 2014. Photo by Liza Zapol. Village Preservation is excited to share our oral history collection with the public, and hope they will shed…
Read More…with us to conduct an oral history, providing personal insights into his life and career, and how it’s been interwoven with Greenwich Village for more than half a century. It’s one…
Read MoreVillage Preservation shares our oral history collection with the public, highlighting some of the people and stories that make Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo such unique and vibrant…
Read MoreVillage Preservation shares our oral history collection with the public, highlighting some of the people and stories that make Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo such unique and vibrant…
Read More…Place apartment in 2013.” In 1996, we conducted our oral history interview with Doris Diether. The transcript covers the early stages of her civic involvement with Save the Village to…
Read More…2020, Village Preservation conducted an oral history with Ayo Harrington. Various topics were covered, many of which surrounded her work in community gardens, urban homesteading, environmental resilience, educational equality, and…
Read MoreVillage Preservation shares our oral history collection with the public, highlighting some of the people and stories that make Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo such unique and vibrant…
Read MoreOur oral history collection contains many incredibly compelling stories about our neighborhoods’ histories, told from a first-person perspective by those who were in the center of the action. Perhaps no…
Read MoreVillage Preservation shares our oral history collection with the public, highlighting some of the people and stories that make Greenwich Village and the East Village such unique and vibrant neighborhoods….
Read More…Tom is one of 20 people recently interviewed for Village Preservation’s expanded oral history project. When Tom spoke, it was from the viewpoint of a longtime neighborhood resident who has…
Read MoreWe’ve just added our first new oral history of 2021. Michael E. Levine is an urban planner who worked as the NYC Department of City Planning’s Community Board #2 liaison beginning in…
Read MoreOtis Kidwell Burger. The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation recently released two new oral histories. Today, we dive into Otis Kidwell Burger‘s. For 58 years, Burger has lived on…
Read More…kind of history,” as “part of the struggle of memory against forgetting.” GVSHP Oral Historian conducts an interview On April 27, 2007, GVSHP recorded the oral history for Dixon Bain,…
Read More…here. Explore the “Virtual Village” To visit even more sites connected to Village Preservation’s oral history subjects, continue the Oral History Tour of our “Virtual Village” interactive map. #SouthOfUnionSquare is an…
Read More…more about the study and practice of oral history, you can visit the Oral History Association’s website. Interviewers gather to train how to conduct an interview. Photo via the NYPL….
Read More…of Fame. Photo by Helayne Seidman In his oral history, Jack Lebewohl speaks of his family’s history when World War II started: My brother was 8 years old when World…
Read More…and the photography of David McReynolds, Ed Hedemann, Marlis Momber (click here to read more and hear an oral history Village Preservation did with her) and Jade Doskow. It also…
Read More…a part. Our oral history with Penny was launched with the Village Preservation program “Penny Arcade Herself, Celebrating Her Village Preservation Oral History.” Penny Arcade, also known as “Queen of…
Read More…preserve his body of work. You can explore some of Fred McDarrah’s work in our Historic Image Archive here and here, or listen to Gloria McDarrah’s oral history here. Robert Mapplethorpe…
Read More…of preservation efforts over the years that span even before the inception of the Landmarks Law in 1965, I also recommend looking at our Oral History Collection of Preservation Pioneers….
Read More…has a wealth of resources on its page which you can visit here. You can read more about Jane Jacobs in her own words in our oral history here. …
Read More…Lauper was also a one-time resident of the building. Listen to Paula Poons’ Oral History here. St. Denis Hotel 2014 The St. Denis Hotel, located at 799 Broadway until 2019,…
Read More…to have archival material and exclusive oral history interviews with many of them. Evelyn G. Haynes was a preservationist who became a member of the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) in…
Read More…preservation movement in our neighborhood. Our Preservation History Archive contains printed materials from organizations and individuals, while our Oral History Collection features first-person accounts of some of the great community…
Read More…do you like that? What a great way to end the interview! Access the full Margot Gayle oral history here. Margot Gayle’s oral history is one of about fifty in…
Read More…kind of human-scaled, historic, mixed-use neighborhoods Jacobs touted have become amongst the ‘hottest’ and most desirable places to live in the country. Read or Listen to Jane Jacobs’ Oral History…
Read More…(event description) Clayton Patterson: Godfather of the Lower East Side This wild, wonderful graphic biography and oral history book gets into the LES of the 70s through today (video) (event…
Read MoreTo celebrate the birthday of Villager and oral history interviewee Gloria McDarrah, we’re reposting an earlier Off the Grid piece written by Lauren Snetiker. Since writing this piece, GVSHP has…
Read More…somewhere? Learn about buying prints and donating images here! Oral Histories Archive Village Preservation’s Oral History Archive includes interviews with some of the great artists, activists, business owners, community leaders,…
Read More…where both she and her gallery would reside. In an oral history recorded nearly forty years later, in 1962-1963, Halpert recalled: “I decided that it would have to be on…
Read MoreLast car through Washington Square Park, 1958. Tankel Collection, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation. The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation’s Preservation Archive and Oral History Project was begun…
Read More…March we celebrated the release of Village Preservation’s oral history with Barbara Kahn. In this program Barbara and her long time collaborator Robert Gonzales Jr. shared monologues, songs, reflections, and…
Read More…who have shaped, and been shaped by, the Village over time. We also have a robust oral history collection showcasing the personal voices of the people who have called the…
Read More…to newer generations. In 2014, Village Preservation conducted an oral history with Amram that explores his childhood, adolescent inspirations, young adulthood in Greenwich Village, amazing career, and his thoughts on…
Read More… In 2014, she generously provided an oral history of GVSHP, which tells the story of her life, activism, and outlook in the East Village and Lower East Side, which you…
Read MoreFor more than a quarter century, Rob Mason (the subject of a recent Village Preservation Oral History) operated RPM Studios from his live/work loft at 12 East 12th Street, south of…
Read More…still very much a family-run business, with Robert and his three sisters at the helm as co-owners. To read the oral history, click here; to listen to the oral history,…
Read More…GVSHP over the years, supporting South Village preservation efforts and providing us with an oral history, along with her son Andrew. We remember and honor Romana, who left such a…
Read More…was anything but a dull decade. We launched our Annual Village Awards, formed our preservation committee to review important preservation issues in our neighborhood, began our Oral History Project, and…
Read More…oral history of that movement through a close look at a diverse group of Lower East Side squatters who occupied abandoned city-owned buildings in the 1980s, fought to keep them…
Read More…Watch here: https://youtu.be/vpL9ku7kBiI Michael E. Levine’s Greenwich Village, SoHo, Stonewall, and Beyond: an Oral History Celebration — To celebrate the release of Michael E. Levine’s Village Preservation Oral History, Village…
Read More…artistic expression through events, presentations, and discussions about Merce, dance, and his influence on culture. This Village Preservation Oral History participant will continue to be a foundational figure of the…
Read More…History and Oral History books. Lena lives in Brooklyn. She enjoys writing, painting, practicing yoga, and riding her bike in Prospect Park. Lena feels a deep connection to the Jewish,…
Read More…still among us. David Amram is one of those extraordinary people. Village Preservation conducted an oral history with Mr. Amram on January 28, 2014, and at 92 this year, it…
Read More…and owner Ingrid Bernhard for an oral history. In this interview, Ms. Bernhard discusses her early years in Sweden and 1956 move to New York, living in a Greenwich Village…
Read More…beautifully.” In his oral history, Roodenko remembers his own press, which by 1957 was located at 36 East 10th Street: “The printshop was a marvelous excuse for not doing anything,…
Read More…of vacant lots and abandoned buildings, turning what had bene the neighborhood’s greatest liabilities into some of its greatest assets.” You can listen to our oral history with CHARAS community…
Read More…and customs continue to shape vibrant communities. In celebration of these voices, we’re combing through the GVSHP Oral History archives to highlight some of the fascinating stories of immigrants, their…
Read More…ever since. Some of the quotes from her oral history with GVSHP below are similar to what we hear on a regular basis from long time Village residents: “When I…
Read More…about life, business, and history on the East Side. So he was an obvious choice for GVSHP’s oral history project — an ongoing campaign to record and celebrate the stories…
Read More…of the 1970s and 80s was a different place than today. Tom’s oral history (and the rest of our Oral History Collection) cover these different times that we often view through…
Read MoreBarbara Kahn Barbara Kahn recently joined Village Preservation for a celebration of the her oral history with the organization (watch the video here). Barbara and friends offered a selection of…
Read More…and we at Village Preservation continue to appreciate his work, captured in many ways in the fascinating oral history we conducted with us on May 13, 2015. In addition to…
Read More…the Grid often features images from GVSHP’s Preservation Archive and Oral History Project. The image archive includes approximately 300 images from ten different collections that document the architecture, cultural history,…
Read More…history. April 19th happens to be the birthday of one of our neighborhood’s many incredible immigrants, noted East Village photographer Marlis Momber. In 2015, GVSHP conducted an oral history with…
Read More…Bar, and is also a contributor to our oral history collection. Tom Bernardin, photo by Liza Zapol for GVSHP, March 12, 2015 Tom was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts and spent most…
Read More…GVSHP is in the process of putting together an oral history interview with Ingrid. We will let you know when that has been completed, but until then please check out…
Read More…writing sections of his anthology Poet in New York during his stay at the Society. Click here to access our oral history with Robert Sanfiz, the Executive Director of La Nacional. Nuyorican Poets…
Read More…her oral history) is working on one of the sublime sauces she turns out here.” Romana passed away in 2018, but her tradition of excellence continues as the fourth generation…
Read More…What he said is true about how the explosion changed the neighborhood. The explosion also changed the inner workings of the Weathermen themselves. Courtney Ivins, whose Oral History with Weather…
Read More…seeing … kind of the worst consequences of excessive wealth and real estate development around us,” Polshek said in an oral history conducted with us in September of 2017. “If…
Read MoreWashington Square Park, Aeriel View, Looking North, 1950. (Photo from nyulocal.com) Eighteen years ago, GVSHP had the privilege of recording an oral history interview with early preservationist, Edith Lyons, the…
Read More…community of Westbeth and surrounding neighborhood from the 1970’s until present time. Listen to the Merce Cunningham Oral History here, and the rest of our Westbeth Oral History Collection here….
Read More…the year. Here is a link to a summary of the oral history transcript. You can click here to access GVSHP’s full Oral History Collection. Peter also generously opened to…
Read More…on Bethune Street, renting a room from Otis. As per her Village Preservation oral history, Otis said of Jacobs: “she had a house around the corner and a family, but…
Read More…assault, and harassment that LGBTQ+ individuals frequently experienced in the prison system in the 1960s. According to an oral history David Rothenberg gave with our organization in 2016, Herbert found…
Read More…Germany, Austria, and Belgium, established a scholarship fund, financed the English translation of an oral history of the Holodomor, and launched Our Life, a newsletter-turned-monthly-magazine that has covered subjects of…
Read More…GVSHP and included soundbites from our Oral History Collection to be included in their sound boxes. These sound boxes will be found once again between 1st Avenue and Avenue C,…
Read More…details about that in Ralph’s amazing oral history with Village Preservation). With paper-mâché puppets, the group of Lee’s children and their friends paraded through the streets. The event grew each…
Read More…Preservation honored Porto Rico with a Village Award and, in 2015, we released an oral history with Peter Longo, the current owner and operator of Porto Rico, who joined us…
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