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…
Read More…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 significant…
Read More…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…
Read MoreWhen 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…
Read MoreHonoring 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…
Read MoreEleanor 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…through history in our own backyard and learn how our neighborhoods have impacted women’s history in New York City. We’ll learn about notable women and Village residents, including the first…
Read More…through history in our own backyard and learn how our neighborhoods have impacted women’s history in New York City. We’ll learn about notable women and Village residents, including the first…
Read MoreJane 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…
Read More…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. …
Read More…+ 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…
Read More…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…
Read More…Women’s History Month, we offer many ways for you to celebrate, explore, and help preserve the rich women’s history in our neighborhoods: Our Women’s Suffrage History Map: Explore dozens of…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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….
Read More…are worth an extended visit, such as a museum, others are marked as “on the way.” All include significant landmarks of women’s history, some of them not yet memorialized. The…
Read MoreMarch 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…
Read More…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,…
Read More…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…
Read MoreMarch 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…
Read More…Blocks Synagogues Tour in our East Village Building Blocks Jewish History Tour – South of Union Square Greenwich Village Historic District: Then & Now Photos and Tours Women’s History Women’s…
Read MoreMarch is Women’s History Month, and we’re celebrating, honoring, and advocating, and you can too!…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…more local and national women’s history to be found throughout the neighborhoods we serve. Explore our maps on women’s history South of Union Square here and here, and beyond here;…
Read MoreBad, 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…
Read MoreMarch, which is celebrated as Women’s History Month, comes to a close. But the women who shaped the Village do not fade with the calendar. Their work was never seasonal….
Read More…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,…
Read More…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…
Read MoreThis March, Village Preservation presents a dynamic slate of public programs that embody two defining themes: Women’s History Month and our 2026 Semiquincentennial series, “The Revolutionary Village.” From grassroots activism…
Read MoreMarch 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,…
Read MoreThere’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…
Read 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…
Read More…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…
Read MoreShifting 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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read MoreWomen’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….
Read MoreWomen’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….
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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,…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read MoreWomen’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…
Read More…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….
Read MoreContinuing 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…
Read More…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…
Read MoreJoin 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…
Read MoreJoin 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…
Read MoreMarch 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….
Read MoreMarch 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…
Read MoreMarch 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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read MoreMarch 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…
Read More…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…
Read MoreImage 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…
Read More“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…
Read More…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….
Read MoreThe 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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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….
Read More…info + to register Women’s History Walking Tour of Greenwich Village March 18 and March 24, 2026 12 PM In person Free Pre-registration required Join Village Preservation as we take…
Read MoreIn 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…
Read More…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….
Read More…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…
Read More…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,…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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,…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…Scholars and researchers seeking new perspectives on women’s history and nightlife studies Anyone curious about the hidden stories of female activism and community-building in the Village Please note: A recording of…
Read More…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…
Read MoreWomen’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…
Read MoreMarch 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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read MoreGVSHP 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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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….
Read More…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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