Today the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) voted unanimously to landmark the first phase of our proposed South Village Historic District, adding 235 buildings on 11 blocks to the existing…
Read More…the South Village Historic District in December 2013 (m.); and the Sullivan Thompson Historic District in December 2016 (r.). Origins of the South Village The South Village is one of…
Read More…effort to secure landmark protections for the South Village, including the final piece, the Sullivan-Thompson Historic District, in 2016. The South Village is one of New York and America’s great…
Read More…Save the South Village Timeline In December of 2006, Village Preservation submits a proposal for South Village Historic District to the Landmarks Preservation Commission, based on research undertaken beginning in…
Read More…history that reflects immigration, labor, music, foodways, and activism. The South Village Historic District boundaries in 2013 — one of three historic districts Village Preservation secured in the South Village,…
Read More…and protect the South Village. We’ve made tremendous progress, but the job is still not entirely done. South Village study area and proposed district To recap: nearly ten years ago at…
Read More…Register of Historic Places “South Village Historic District”; and several individual landmark designations on MacDougal and Sullivan Streets. Map showing the various South Village areas for designation. If this all…
Read More…history of the South Village in our original landmark proposal. Explore our history of “The Italians of the South Village.” Explore our entire South Village Historic District State and National Register of…
Read More…new South Village Historic District. This is a tremendously important step forward that the community fought for years to achieve, and is “Phase II” of the South Village Historic District…
Read More…Andrew Dolkart on the history and architecture of the South Village, supporting our argument for landmark protections for the area. The report and proposal documents the South Village’s unique historic…
Read More…only way in which 57 Sullivan Street is unique. Unlike the other South Village landmark-limbo sites, 57 Sullivan Street is not within the northern section of the proposed South Village…
Read More…Village Oral Histories HERE (click “South Village” tab) Watch our South Village videos. Explore the architecture and cultural history of the South Village in our original landmark proposal. Explore our…
Read MoreIn 2007, Village Preservation published “The Italians of the South Village” by Mary Elizabeth Brown, Ph.D. The report is exhaustive and highlights buildings, people, and dynamic histories of a long-storied…
Read MoreLocated in the heart of the South Village and the South Village Historic District is the oldest continuing South Village Italian organization, Tiro a Segno, today located at 77 MacDougal…
Read More…Italians of the South Village.” Explore our entire South Village Historic District State and National Register of Historic Places report, photos, and map. Explore our South Village Historic Image Archive…
Read More…were brought to Greenwich Village by Italian Immigrants and their descendants are still enjoyed by Village residents to this day. Find out more about South Village history and South Village…
Read More…Manhattan, especially in what came to be known as the South Village. Here, a vibrant Italian-American enclave took root, one that would give rise to iconic restaurants, bakeries, cafes, and…
Read MoreVillage Preservation has declared December to be South Village Month! Why, you ask? Well, we kicked off our campaign to seek landmark designation for the entire South Village and its…
Read More…and Affordability’ (ZQA) and ‘Mandatory Inclusionary Housing’ effort passed, diverse groups, from South Village to South Bronx, from Northern Manhattan to Chinatown, are spearheading their own local planning visions. https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/…
Read More…Park. Read other blog posts about the South Village here and here to read about GVSHP’s efforts to protect the South Village. Click here to access GVSHP’s South Village Oral History Project….
Read More…Anthony’s is the oldest extant Italian-American church in the nation. The South Village is one of New York’s great immigrant neighborhoods from the last great wave of immigration to New…
Read More…resilient and vital in the City. The GVSHP-commissioned report Italians of the South Village takes an in-depth look at the strong immigrant roots that make the South Village so worthy…
Read More…of why the South Village is so special to so many people. Some wonderful individuals with strong connections to the South Village allowed us to record some of their thoughts…
Read More…And to the surprise of many, the South Village was once the center of the world for LGBT New Yorkers. In fact, a century ago, the South Village one of…
Read More…the South Village. The area south of Washington Square Park and West Fourth Street and east of Seventh Avenue, now often referred to as the South Village, was left out…
Read More…third and final phase of our proposed South Village Historic District to protect their contexts. Landmark designation of the South Village, like the neighborhood’s development, seems to come in stages….
Read More…very low-rise, South Village. St. Anthony of Pauda Church and tenements on Sullivan Street in the South Village. Also undeniable is that the South Village is experiencing huge development pressure…
Read More…the South Village…Do you know what event the Washington Square Arch commemorates or who’s buried at Washington Square Park? On the South Village and Washington Square Park Tour, learn interesting…
Read More…State and National Register nomination for the South Village Historic District. Last week GVSHP took an important step in documenting the South Village for its listing on the National Register…
Read More…to as “Little Africa”, as it was the center of a growing African-American community. As a whole, it consisted of several streets in the South Village, including Amity Street (now…
Read MoreVillage Preservation provides an ongoing record of all applications for changes to landmarked properties in our neighborhoods (Greenwich Village, NoHo, Gansevoort Market, the South Village, and the East Village) that…
Read More…fascinating report authored by scholar Mary Elizabeth Brown about the Italian community of the South Village. You can read the report, “The Italians of the South Village,” here. Not only…
Read More…in the South Village, an area which in the early 1900s was a predominantly Italian neighborhood, and one near and dear to Village Preservation’s heart, as we led the successful…
Read More…the first third of the South Village in June 2010, and was intended to bring attention to the remaining, unprotected portions of GVSHP’s proposed South Village Historic District. Many of us take…
Read MoreDecember is South Village Month – join us in celebrating this vibrant neighborhood all month long! The South Village in the 50s and 60s was a hotbed of creativity and activism. Where…
Read MoreGVSHP has gotten many inquiries about exactly what the City Council vote last week on the Hudson Square rezoning, and the announcements regarding the proposed South Village Historic District, means…
Read MoreThe veneration of a martyred-thirteen-year old virgin once brought residents of the South Village together in celebration every August 11th. A special mass would kick off the event, which was…
Read More…Village? Check out our South Village oral history collection, watch our Save the South Village videos, or read about Italians of the South Village, Our Lady of Pompeii, and Father…
Read MoreIn honor of the incredible strides made in preserving the South Village over the past two decades, Village Preservation has named December “South Village Month” in honor of our kicking…
Read More…took up consideration of the first third of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation’s proposed South Village Historic District. The South Village — the historically immigrant, working-class and largely…
Read More…Hudson Square rezoning, which will increase the already considerable development pressure upon the South Village (as illustrated by this application for 9 Minetta Street). The proposed South Village Historic District,…
Read More…in the South Village. We looked back at rallies held to Save The South Village! We were very excited to report on the long-awaited progress at 43 MacDougal Street and…
Read More…able to appreciate the historic 19th and early 20th century buildings that are such an important feature of the South Village. As GVSHP said in 2003, the South Village is the…
Read MoreThe Landmarks Preservation Commission’s (LPC) response to pleas to consider the entire proposed South Village Historic District for landmark designation, as LPC Chair Robert Tierney promised to do in 2009,…
Read More…homes and business opportunities in the South Village, forming a second prominent neighborhood for Italian culture and life. The new residents of the South Village quickly started to form institutions…
Read MoreDecember is South Village Month – join us in celebrating this vibrant neighborhood all month long! Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Gregory Corso in the South Village Postwar America in the 1950s…
Read More…the designation report here. If you want even more South Village stories, you can take a look at GVSHP’s original South Village landmark proposal by architectural historian Andrew Dolkart here;…
Read More[source: Library of Congress; Marjory Collins, 1942]Eight years ago today, on October 8, 2007, GVSHP published the report, “The Italians of the South Village” as part of the Historic South…
Read More…designation for the South Village and its remarkable immigrant and artistic histories in December 2006, and completed the effort in December 2016 with designation of the third and final phase of our proposed South Village…
Read More…the South Village by contacting our elected officials and questioning the City’s Plan to transfer Hudson River Park Air Rights and upzone inland areas without recognizing the South Village needs landmark…
Read More…in both the East and South Villages. We are excited to share these new histories with the public and hope they will shed more insight on what makes Greenwich Village…
Read MoreEarlier in the week we looked at what sites the Landmarks Preservation Commission excluded from our proposed South Village Historic District in their draft proposed phase II designation. Map of…
Read More…a South Village Landmark District, we wanted to take some time to explore the South Village during Prohibition. The New York Times lists residents against the “Bohemian” life-style as responsible…
Read MoreThis Sunday at 1:00pm, GVSHP will be holding a rally to urge the Landmarks Preservation Commission to designate the remainder of the South Village Historic District. We hope you will…
Read MoreMap of the new South Village Historic District. We’re excited to share that the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) voted today to landmark the South Village Historic District, a two…
Read More…final phase of that area. And importantly, as many of you know, the South Village was also the neighborhood of one of the most celebrated South Village residents: Nobel Prize…
Read More…most historically significant sites relating to the Italian-American experience in New York can be found in the Greenwich Village blocks known as the South Village–from the first church in America…
Read MoreFrom the late nineteenth through the twentieth century, the South Village was a tale of two communities: Italian immigrants and American-born artists, authors, and performers. This illustrated Zoom lecture explores the…
Read More…the West Village, East Village, South Village, and NoHo. All of these sites can also be found on our GVSHP Civil Rights and Social Justice Map, and we encourage you…
Read More…quaint and irregular. One is pre-planned and serene, the other — spontaneous, and buzzing with activity. Who is this odd couple? It’s Silver Towers and the South Village, neighbors across…
Read MoreI am not a native New Yorker, but as a long-time (now former) resident of the South Village, I had the distinct privilege of getting to know many people who…
Read More…here. Click here to access other South Village oral histories. Read more about the history of the South Village here. Help GVSHP support local businesses! Read about the GVSHP Business of…
Read MoreLast week the Landmarks Preservation Commission revealed their draft proposed boundaries for Phase II of our proposed South Village Historic District, and announced that the public “property owner’s” meeting to…
Read MoreDecember is South Village Month, when we celebrate the incredible neighborhood south of Washington Square and West 4th Street. Village Preservation kicked off the effort to preserve this endangered historic…
Read More…initiated an injunction against seven restaurants and bars in the South Village that were repeatedly violating Prohibition laws by serving alcohol. Prohibition agents had quietly gathered evidence for weeks, often…
Read More…of the neighborhood. Last month we launched new collections focusing on the East and South Villages, and have been highlighting some of the featured individuals on Off the Grid; these…
Read More…those landmarked buildings are located within the three designated historic districts of GVSHP’s proposed South Village Historic District. Find out more about our efforts to preserve the South Village here….
Read More…landmarked buildings are located within the three designated historic districts of GVSHP’s proposed South Village Historic District. Find out more about our efforts to preserve the South Village here. …
Read More…those landmarked buildings are located within the three designated historic districts of GVSHP’s proposed South Village Historic District. Find out more about our efforts to preserve the South Village here….
Read MoreWe are thrilled to share with you the news that GVSHP successfully nominated the South Village to the Preservation League of New York State’s “Seven to Save” list — their…
Read More… in this GVSHP report about the South Village. If you want to write a letter of support for landmarking the entire South Village, you can find a sample letter here….
Read MoreTwelve years ago tomorrow, GVSHP began an initiative to secure historic district designation for the South Village. It’s hard to believe that the original 1969 Greenwich Village Historic District did…
Read MoreYesterday, in anticipation of the vote on the Hudson Square rezoning, we took a look at some of the sites currently threatened or recently lost in the South Village. Today,…
Read More…vogue, white brick homes were sprouting in the South Village. In addition to the well-known Mills House on Bleecker Street, five unique tenements designed by Louis A. Sheinart for Italian-born…
Read More…Village Preservation proposed and fought for these groundbreaking landmark designations. Read more about the South Village Historic District designation HERE, and why we celebrate December as South Village month HERE….
Read More…a good friend to GVSHP’s efforts to landmark the South Village, serving on the organization’s South Village Preservation Project Advisory Board. So what does the neighborhood mean to you? I…
Read More…240 Sullivan Street. Fany Gerson at La NewYorkina 240 Sullivan Street in the South Village Fany recently, and very graciously, offered to give a talk to some of the supporters…
Read More68 Thompson Street At 2 AM this morning, a beautiful South Village building caught fire, resulting in a three-alarm fire that injured 10 firefighters and 1 civilian woman, sending all…
Read More…Hudson Square, and to enact needed and long-promised landmark protections for the neighboring proposed South Village Historic District. WITHOUT THESE LANDMARK PROTECTIONS, THE SOUTH VILLAGE WILL FACE INCREASED DEVELOPMENT PRESSURE…
Read MoreSouth Village Walking Tour: Architecture and Italian Culture The South Village, south of Washington Square Park, is what many people picture when they think of Greenwich Village. Much of the…
Read MoreCelebrate the South Village Victory! Landmark designation of the first third of our proposed South Village Historic District was big news, and the culmination of many years of very hard…
Read MoreVillage Preservation has been the leader in documenting, celebrating, and advocating for the preservation of the South Village, the once-predominantly immigrant section of Greenwich Village south of Washington Square and…
Read More…tripled in New York, and Fiorello’s birthplace the South Village became near majority Italian at 42% of the population. Fiorello played a key role in this flow of immigrants. Cunard…
Read More…18th and early 19th centuries, Greenwich Village, especially in the South Village, was home to a significant free Black population. In the latter half of the 19th century, one of…
Read More…Village Society for Historic Preservation’s report The South Village: A Proposal for Historic District Designation, architectural historian Andrew Dolkart refers to James Weldon Johnson’s Black Manhattan and Jacob Riis’ How…
Read MoreWe’re gearing up for the Landmarks Preservation (LPC) hearing about “Phase II” of the proposed South Village Historic District next Tuesday, June 25. We hope you can join us at…
Read MoreIt’s no surprise that one of New York City’s beloved cultural platforms, the Minetta Lane Theatre, is situated in the heart of the South Village, an area which Village Preservation…
Read More…in the South Village, was home to a significant free Black population. In the latter half of the 19th century one of the most notable early settlements was “Little Africa,”…
Read More…population in the latter decades of the 19th century. This area, part of GVSHP’s proposed South Village Historic District and currently calendared by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission,…
Read More…the process. But South Villagers have a particular stake in ensuring these rezoning plans are not adopted. Why? Because we have been fighting to get much of the South Village…
Read MoreThe newly calendared Sullivan-Thompson Historic District contains some of the oldest and most historically significant buildings in the South Village, including St. Anthony of Padua, the oldest extant Italian-American Church in…
Read MoreThe Architecture of the South Village: A walking tour with Andrew Dolkart Architectural historian and Columbia University professor Andrew Dolkart will lead a walking tour of the South Village, the…
Read MoreOne-third of South Village still not landmarked Op-Ed BY ANDREW BERMAN, Executive Director, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation October 16, 2014 Word that an eight-story building is planned…
Read MoreThe South Village: Birthplace of an American Immigrant Community A panel discussion First developing as a district of rowhouses for middle-class New Yorkers in the early 19th century, the South…
Read MoreYesterday the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) held its only public hearing on “phase II” of GVSHP’s proposed South Village Historic District. There was a great turnout in support of landmarking…
Read More…rezoning, and very importantly, if the City will commit to long-promised landmark protections for the South Village. Without landmark protections, the South Village will be gravely endangered by the rezoning,…
Read MoreLittle Africa in the South Village: A lecture and slideshow with historian Joyce Gold The South Village was once home to a significant population of African-Americans, known as “Little Africa,”…
Read More…St. Benedict the Moor opened, the South Village was known as Little Africa, and was home to New York City’s largest Black population. The community was centered around Minetta Street and…
Read MoreOn Tuesday we celebrated the Landmarks Preservation Commission vote to designate the South Village as an Historic District. I hope you will see for yourself why we fought so hard…
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