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Preserving and Honoring Women’s History
…of Union Square Women’s History Tour — click to access We have been advocating to achieve landmark designation status for many places based on women’s history. One of the most…
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Welcome to March! Celebrate Irish Heritage and Women’s History with Village Preservation Programs
…colorful information, offering countless dimensions for celebrating Irish Heritage and Women’s History Month. Programs coming up: Women’s History Month: The Witches of Downtown New York (waitlist only) and The NEW…
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My Favorite Things: Women’s History Month Edition
When March finally rolls around, I feel the need for celebration! Not only does it mean that we have weathered the January/February doldrums, but also because March is Women’s History…
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Honoring Preservationist Margot Gayle Women’s History Month Panel Discussion
Honoring Preservationist Margot Gayle Women’s History Month Panel Discussion Margot Gayle (1908-2008) was one of the most influential preservationists in New York City history. Among her many achievements were founding…
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Women’s History Month: Saluting Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt 1933 (Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons) On this last day of Women’s History Month, we would be remiss if we didn’t salute one of my favorite 20th century female…
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Women’s History #SouthofUnionSquare
The neighborhood south of Union Square, for which Village Preservation is advocating expanded landmark protections, holds a unique place in the history of women’s rights and women’s suffrage movements. In…
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“Amended,” a Podcast Going Deeper on Women’s History
…played key roles in the women’s suffrage movement. That these neighborhoods were long centers of political ferment and progressive social change, and people here played a prominent part in removing…
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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: Celebrating Women’s History Month
…York City. The neighborhood South of Union Square was also home to several important events in women’s history. And so this Women’s History Month, we are celebrating the many female…
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Women’s History Month Celebration of Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs; pioneering urban activist and mother The celebration of Women’s History Month cannot go without being reminded of the venerable Jane Jacobs. Much has been written about her here…
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Join Us To Explore, Celebrate, and Advocate to Preserve Women’s History
…Social Justice Map: Among the more than 200 sites in our neighborhood are more than 60 connected to women’s history and the women’s movement, including several new additions regarding Women’s history. …
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Join Us To Explore, Celebrate, and Advocate to Preserve Women’s History in March
…+ Tours: The Women’s History tour on our South of Union Square Map contains 20 sites connected to crucial events, figures, and organizations in women’s history, and some amazing women…
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Women’s History Month: Celebrate, Explore, Preserve Women’s History
…Map: Among the more than 200 sites in our neighborhood are more than 60 connected to women’s history and the women’s movement, including several new additions regarding women’s history. Emma…
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Women’s History Month: Celebrate, Explore, Preserve Women’s History
…connected to women’s history and the women’s movement, including several new additions regarding women’s history. Emma Lazarus and her home at 18 West 10th Street, one of the sites on…
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The First Library for Women, in Greenwich Village
…Women’s Protective Union was formed providing legal protection for these women. However, civic leaders were also concerned with these women’s intellectual development. As early as 1820, the Apprentices Library was…
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Behind the Historic Image Archive: Women Who’ve Captured History
…impact on what would become the Greenwich Village Historic District. Merchants House Museum. Date unknown. Click here to access all collections. Click here to read more about Women’s History Month….
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Rosie the Riveter: Symbol of Women’s Empowerment and Workforce Revolution
March is Women’s History Month. While we celebrate women’s history all year, we do so especially in March, when we highlight the countless women of our neighborhoods who have fought…
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Behind the Historic Image Archive: Women Who’ve Captured History, Part II
…collection here. Click here to access all collections. Click here to read more about Women’s History Month. And if you’re interested in donating your images to our historic image archive,…
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Behind the Historic Image Archive: Women Who’ve Captured History, Part III
…Bridget, Jen, Margie, and Johnny, May 30, 2002. Click here to access all collections. Click here to read more about Women’s History Month. And if you’re interested in donating your…
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Women’s History Month: Celebrate, Honor, Preserve Women’s History
March is Women’s History Month, and we’re celebrating, honoring, and advocating, and you can too! Here’s how: Advocacy: Our neighborhood contains a treasure trove of women’s history, in some cases…
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Civil Rights History and Diversity
…programs like ‘City of Yes’ may do more harm than good. Preserve + Protect Women’s History Landmarks South of Union Square Recognize and protect more than 20 women’s history sites…
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Women’s History Month: Celebrate, Honor, Preserve Women’s History
March is Women’s History Month, and we’re celebrating, honoring, and advocating, and you can too!…
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Women’s History Month Continues with Your Choice for 25 Most Impactful Women, and New Artists Tour
…work in this neighborhood changed the course of history. Explore our new Women’s History StoryMap — CLICK HERE Want to explore more women’s history resources and support landmark designation of…
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South of Union Square History IS Women’s History
…in women’s history and historic sites. Explore our Women’s History Tour for South of Union Square here. These 200 buildings on roughly 20 blocks south of Union Square contain a…
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Bad, Rad, and Boho Women of the Village: A Women’s History Month Lecture by Kathleen Hulser
Bad, Rad, and Boho Women of the Village: A Women’s History Month Lecture by Kathleen Hulser Unruly women readily found a berth in the Bohemian Village, allowing them to pioneer…
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Women’s History and Our Civil Rights Map
…resources shedding light upon women’s history in our communities, one of the most comprehensive of which is our Civil Rights and Social Justice Map. The map was launched in 2017,…
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A Doctor That Was In The House: Elizabeth Blackwell
…if not attended, can spread to the larger society. This Women’s History Month we take a look at once such special figure — a woman who lived and worked in our…
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LPC Spotlights Women in the Arts
March is Women’s History Month; the month-long celebration highlights the accomplishments of women in various fields throughout our history. With so much to choose from in New York City alone,…
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Exploring Women’s History South of Union Square
There’s no better time than Women’s History Month to explore the lives and accomplishments of the many influential women who lived and worked South of Union Square. One of our…
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March Programs: Mondrian, Merchant’s House, Women’s History Month, and More
…audiences at Webster Hall, and Patti Astor gathering New Wave artists and graffiti writers in one space. CLICK HERE for more info + to register Women’s History Month Daytime Walking…
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Essential Local Oral Histories for Women’s History Month
…sought to capture their legacies and tell their stories through our long-standing series of oral histories. In honor of Women’s History Month, we take a look at a few of…
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Shifting Images: Changing Perceptions of Italian Immigrant WomenA Lecture with Miriam Cohen
Shifting Images: Changing Perceptions of Italian Immigrant Women A Lecture with Miriam Cohen Part two of our Women’s History Month series. While the conventional wisdom regarding women and family from…
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Women’s History Month — Tell Us Who Means the Most to You!
…all year, but especially during Women’s History Month in March. We’re holding great programs, sharing fascinating resources, and advocating to honor and protect women’s history sites. But we’re also asking…
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Living History Lunch Chat with Luz Rodriguez
…a fascinating life that deserves to be celebrated and shared. Her papers are included in Sophia Smith Collection of Women’s History Repository at Smith College. Her work has impacted and continues…
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Women’s History Month Midday Walking Tour: Jefferson Market to Café Society
Women’s History Month Midday Walking Tour: Jefferson Market to Café Society You’ll have three chances to join Village Preservation as we take a walk through history in our own backyard….
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Women’s History Month Afternoon Walking Tour: Jefferson Market to Café Society
Women’s History Month Afternoon Walking Tour: Jefferson Market to Café Society You’ll have three chances to join Village Preservation as we take a walk through history in our own backyard….
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Remembering the Women of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
…the month of the anniversary of the fire and Women’s History Month, we will learn from a panel of speakers about the women, the building, the fire, its legacy, and…
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RESCHEDULED: The Unseen Revelers: A Brief History of Female Nightlife Activists in the Village
…society of 20th-century New York City Nightlife enthusiasts and professionals looking to learn from the past Scholars and researchers seeking new perspectives on women’s history and nightlife studies Anyone curious…
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Landmarks Preservation Commission Celebrates Gay Pride, Doesn’t Designate Gay Landmarks
…city’s roughly 31,000 landmarked properties. In March, they highlighted Women’s History Month, and in February, Black History Month. Now for the first time, the LPC has also created a “Gay…
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Glitter and Concrete: A Cultural History of Drag in New York City
…them, where she was the site’s “Drag Herstory” and Queer Women’s History columnist. She has been a freelance writer for 19 years and in love with drag for 27 years,…
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Women’s History Month Afternoon Walking Tour: Jefferson Market to Café Society
…Alliance, we will begin with a discussion of the current site of Jefferson Market Library and the impact this location has had on women’s history in New York City. We’ll…
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15 Trailblazing Women of Greenwich Village and the East Village
…for President, to America’s first woman doctor, to the “mother of birth control.” This Women’s History Month, here are just a few of those trailblazing women, and the sites associated…
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Women’s History Month Walking Tour: Jefferson Market to Café Society
Women’s History Month Walking Tour: Jefferson Market to Café Society You’ll have three chances to join Village Preservation as we take a walk through history in our own backyard. Co-sponsored…
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Women’s History Tour A: Greenwich Village – Jefferson Market to Café Society
…impact this location has had on women’s history in New York City. We’ll end at Café Society, celebrating Billie Holiday and her courageous performance of Strange Fruit at that location….
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Is there a Doctor in the Village? Yes, and Her Name Was Elizabeth Blackwell
Continuing our celebration of Women’s History, today we look at a seminal figure not only in women’s history but medical history as well — Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell. You may already…
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The Iconic Women of One Greenwich Village Block
…Place and Sheridan Square between 6th and 7th Avenues, there are multiple sites that have deep connections to Women’s History. On Village Preservation’s Greenwich Village Women’s History Walking Tour, we…
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Women’s History Month Daytime Walking Tour (12pm)
Join Village Preservation as we take a walk through history in our own backyard and how our neighborhoods have impacted women’s history in New York City. We’ll end at Café…
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Women’s History Month Daytime Walking Tour (4pm)
Join Village Preservation as we take a walk through history in our own backyard and how our neighborhoods have impacted women’s history in New York City. We’ll end at Café…
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Finding the Most Impactful Women of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo
March is Women’s History Month, and we’re taking a good long look at just some of the incredible women of our neighborhoods who had the deepest impact upon our world….
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Who Were the Most Impactful Women of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo?
March is Women’s History Month. To mark the occasion, we’re taking a look at just some of the incredible women of our neighborhoods who had the deepest impact upon our…
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Who Were the Most Impactful Women of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo?
March is Women’s History Month. To mark the occasion, we’re taking a look at just some of the incredible women of our neighborhoods who had the deepest impact upon our…
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Labor History in the Village
…The first International Women’s Day was celebrated to commemorate the anniversary of the strike, and Women’s History Month is celebrated in March to correspond with this date. The New York…
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Get Lost in History: Creating Self-Guided Neighborhood Walking Tours with Maps
…select related sites: African American History, LGBTQ+ History, Women’s History, Social Justice and Other Civil Rights Activism, Hispanic History, Asian-American History, and Disability History. Each site on the map has…
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Elizabeth Blackwell Historic Plaque Unveiling Ceremony
…Michigan and a BA from University of Chicago. Betty Bayer is an expert on the intersections of women’s history, psychology, science, religion and spirituality, Bayer has explored the abolitionist and…
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Mother Courage – Serving Feminism and Food
March is Women’s History Month. We here at GVSHP are celebrating by highlighting different sites and locations of significance to Women’s history in the Village. A great source is our recently-released Civil…
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13 places in Greenwich Village where the course of history was changed
…Studies course in 1948, taught by none other than W.E.B. du Bois. And in 1962, the first college course devoted to Women’s History in the United States was taught here…
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“Where Are the Women?” A Mother-Daughter Greenwich Village Pair Tell Us
Image courtesy of alicefest.org. March is Women’s History Month. With the recent “Day Without Women” activities and our upcoming walking tour on Radical, Notorious Women of Washington Square, we thought…
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Groundbreaking Artist and Educator Selma Hortense Burke’s Home at 88 East 10th Street
“One of the most notable sculptors of the twentieth century” according to the National Women’s History Museum, the celebrated artist, educator, and self-described “people’s sculptor” Selma Hortense Burke lived and…
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Birth Control as Health Care: The Legacy of the International Workers Order #SouthOfUnionSquare
…society and city. Click here to take our Women’s History tour, and here to submit a letter in support of landmark designation for the area to the Landmark’s Preservation Commission….
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Inez Haynes Irwin: Writing Powerful Women
…all have rich histories in women’s suffrage and civil rights. You can learn more about the women of our neighborhood by visiting our South of Union Square Women’s History Tour….
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The Bohemian Women of Greenwich Village & Harlem
The Bohemian Women of Greenwich Village & Harlem Part one of our Women’s History Month series saluting the rich history of women in Greenwich Village. They were the first women…
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Disabled Advocates, Preservationists, Elected Officials, Doctors, and Patients Call for Landmark Designation of New York Eye and Ear Infirmary as First NYC Landmark Honoring Disabled History
…Village Preservation is also leading campaigns to landmark the city’s first (and endangered) Spanish-language church, Our Lady of Guadalupe, various women’s history sites, and 50 West 13th Street, an historic…
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Protesting the Federal Government’s Erasure of Transgender History in Our Neighborhood
…for sites marking Black history like 70 Fifth Avenue and 50 West 13th Street, and are currently campaigning to protect multiple sites connected to women’s history; the city’s first Spanish-language…
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Women of the Mimeo Revolution: Diane DiPrima & Anne Waldman
In honor of Women’s History Month, we’re celebrating, honoring, and advocating for the important contributions of women in our neighborhoods. And today we’re highlighting the innovative work of women poets…
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A Woman Can Keep a Home and Build It
…in their footsteps. Click here to explore our women’s history tour South of Union Square and click here to explore our transformative women tour in the Greenwich Village Historic District….
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Plaque Unveiling: Frances Perkins
…Hellman. She is co-editor of Protecting Women: Labor Legislation in Europe, Australia, and the United States, 1880-1920 and U.S. History as Women’s History. Darren Bloch is the CEO and Executive Director of Greenwich House,…
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Woman Crush Wednesday: Beatrix Farrand
…opened for women in the field are unparalleled. There is no shortage of inspiring and impactful women in the history of Greenwich Village. To learn more about Women’s History in…
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Setting Women Up for Success: Lydia Fowler Wadleigh
…for the Performing and Visual Arts. Though 34 1/2 is protected as an individual landmark, other great landmarks of women’s history in the surrounding area don’t enjoy similar protections. Want…
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Women’s Work: Celebrating (More) Amazing Female Artists of the Village
…the countless figures who have become synonymous with the neighborhood. Alongside them were incredible female creators who, although undoubtedly well-known, are sometimes forgotten. Today we continue to celebrate Women’s History…
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Looking Back On Our Civil Rights and Social Justice Map
…in a supportive environment, away from the threat of violence. Anais Nin’s Gemor Press: 17 East 13th Street (Women’s History). Anais Nin at her printing press, at MacDougal Street location, by permission…
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Dissent and “Strange Fruit” in the Village
…organized into five categories—African-American history, LGBT history, women’s history, social justice and political activism, and Hispanic history. Some sites are even members of several categories, like the Lorraine Hansberry Residence,…
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East Village Building Blocks Tour: African American History
…of the most notable sculptors of the twentieth century” according to the National Women’s History Museum, was the Harlem Renaissance artist, educator, and self-described “people’s sculptor” Selma Hortense Burke, who…
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Celebrating Even More Women Artists #SouthOfUnionSquare
…Women’s History Museum, was a celebrated artist, educator, and self-described “people’s sculptor.” Selma Hortense Burke, Untitled (Woman and Child), ca. 1950, painted red oak. While her studio was at 88…
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The Unseen Revelers: A Brief History of Female Nightlife Activists in the Village
…society of 20th-century New York City Nightlife enthusiasts and professionals looking to learn from the past Scholars and researchers seeking new perspectives on women’s history and nightlife studies Anyone curious…
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The Irish Bridget: Celebrating Immigrant Heritage & History Month
…their social life, the impact they had on Irish-American life, labor history and women’s history. Dr. Lynch-Brennan will also explore the relevance of the Irish Bridgets’ story to contemporary American…
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O Pioneers! Two Remarkable Women of Bank Street: Willa Cather and Lucy Sprague Mitchell
Women’s History Month gives us yet another opportunity to celebrate the marvelous and groundbreaking women who have lived and worked in our neighborhoods. Today we look at two pioneering women…
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Ida Rauh: A Pioneer at the Crossection of American Theater and Civil Rights
March is Women’s History Month, and while we celebrate women’s history all year, we do so especially during this particular month when we highlight the countless women of our neighborhoods…
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Radical Social Movements in the Village and the Battle for Reproductive Rights
…Journal, Guardian, Times Literary Supplement, Paris Review, and New Yorker online. As the inaugural postdoctoral fellow in women’s history at the New-York Historical Society, she helped plan and launch the museum’s Center for…
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The Downtown Gallery and the Woman Behind the American Art Market
…whom she worked. She is, without a doubt, a critical part of American art history, women’s history, immigrant history, Jewish history, and Greenwich Village history. To learn more about the…
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Black History Month Advocacy: African American Artist and Educator Selma Hortense Burke’s Home at 88 East 10th Street
…multiplies that extraordinary legacy, and speaks to the rich heritage of this area south of Union Square in relation to African American history, women’s history, and art history. Send a Letter to City Officials…
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On this day in history…
GVSHP is marking March, Women’s History Month, with some great public programs. But today I am going to focus on two men who helped to shape the history, geography, and…
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: 814 Broadway
…central location in photography, film, commerce, music, Civil War, and women’s history. We hope you’ll enjoy, explore, and advocate for saving this amazing neighborhood as we continue to add new layers of…
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Local Lesbian Bookstores: Founders of a Feminist Future
…Murray photography. These bookstores, although they existed for a relatively short period of time, are hugely important to the context of queer women’s history. Largely marginalized by the stories of…
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“Hidden Figures” #SouthOfUnionSquare: The Unsung Female Engineers Who Built Some of NYC’s Greatest Landmarks
…month as we highlight tremendous women around our neighborhoods. And to learn more, explore women’s history in the area South of Union Square and in the Greenwich Village Historic District….
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#SouthofUnionSquare — The Social Reform Club at 45 University Place
…of many sites in the labor, civil rights, social justice, and women’s history rooted in the area south of Union Square. Click to view our Leftist and Labor Tour, our…
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Cyrilly Abels: Friend and Agent of Katherine Anne Porter
…shared a long friendship. Author biographies and correspondence memorialize Abels’ life, illuminating her profound influence on the literary scene of her era. In honor of Women’s History Month, we piece…
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South of Union Square
…needs and deserves landmark protection. Preserve + Protect Women’s History Landmarks South of Union Square Recognize and protect more than 20 women’s history sites South of Union Square, and support…
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Crystal Eastman, Greenwich Village’s Suffragist Lawyer
…day. To learn more about women’s history in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and Noho, check out our Women’s Suffrage History Map and our Civil Rights and Social Justice map. …
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Ana Maria Simo – Lesbian Avenger in the East Village
52 East 1st Street Here at GVSHP, we’re always singing the praises of the avant-garde, innovative, inspiring women of Greenwich Village, East Village and NoHo. But since March is Women’s…
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The Witches of Downtown New York
Women’s History Month: The Witches of Downtown New York Just in time for Women’s History Month, this lecture will take you on a journey back in time to learn about…
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Off the Grid Podcast
…of the most vulnerable among us, which if not attended, can spread to the larger society. This Women’s History Month we took a look at such special figures — women…
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Working with Fire: Resilience & Resistance in New York’s East Village
…Griffith University. Rebecca aka Bek lives in Long Island City with her partner. Co-hosted by the Women’s Prison Association and Village Preservation as part of our Women’s History Month programming…
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Book Talk: Hotbed – the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism
…postdoctoral fellow in women’s history at the New-York Historical Society, she helped plan and launch the museum’s Center for Women’s History in 2017. She holds a BA from the University…
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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: Labor Activist and ‘Rebel Girl’ of the Village
…of expression for all. To learn more about women’s history and labor history in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and Noho, check out our Women’s Suffrage History Map and our…
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A Look Back at 2015 Programs
…March we celebrated Women’s History Month with John Strausbaugh’s program about the life and times of infamous NoHo resident Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for President of the…
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Beyond The Village and Back: the Statue of Liberty and “The New Colossus”
…Justice Map for its significance in Women’s History and Civil Rights. It was in that year that Lazarus was asked to write a poem about the Statue of Liberty to…
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