…a larger adjacent property at 190 Spring Street which it also plans to demolish and develop, air rights from 186 Spring Street could be transferred to the other site allowing…
Read More…a lethal amount of barbiturates. Spring in War-Time I feel the spring far off, far off, The faint, far scent of bud and leaf— Oh, how can spring take…
Read More…about these, and many others, on the map). 190 Spring Street In June of 1969, James Hormel purchased the row house located at 190 Spring Street, between Sullivan and Thompson…
Read More…Presbyterian Church on the unique history of the former Spring Street Presbyterian Church. Erected in 1810 on the corner of Spring Street and Varick, the Spring Street Presbyterian Church was…
Read More…music, and Rite of Spring is considered his most groundbreaking and influential work. And some of the greatest names in the arts worked with Stravinsky on Rite of Spring’s realization…
Read MoreSpringtime in New York City! What could be more inviting? Tulips, daffodils, and flowering trees and bushes fill our parks, people pour into the streets to enjoy the sunshine, and,…
Read More…hearing on 186 Spring Street. I find the letter to be puzzling and hope that you will reconsider your decision. If the issue regarding the designation of 186 Spring Street…
Read MoreOn December 14th, 1963, the Presbytery of the City of New York officially voted that the historic Spring Street Presbyterian Church would close its doors at the end of the…
Read MoreJoin us on Sunday, May 6th to step into some of the Village’s most extraordinary homes! Ah, springtime in New York City. Tulips and daffodils fill our parks, people pour…
Read MoreIn light of demolition plans that GVSHP uncovered for the Federal row house at 186 Spring Street, we recently discovered an incredible bit of history about the building. If surviving…
Read More…corner. The actual anniversary is April 29th, when we will be rolling out some truly fantastic online tours of the district, and our 21st Annual Spring House Tour on May…
Read MoreVillage Preservation’s Spring House Tour Benefit is finally making its long-awaited return! The time-honored and much-beloved event heralds the start of spring in our beautiful neighborhoods, and we are pleased…
Read MorePrince Street Townhouse from GVSHP’s South Village Survey This year’s Spring House Tour Benefit is right around the corner; on Sunday, May 7th to be exact! This year’s tour features…
Read MoreEXPLORE SIX STATELY GREENWICH VILLAGE HOMES ON THE 19TH ANNUAL SPRING HOUSE TOUR BENEFIT On Sunday, May 7, the doors to six private Village homes will be opened only to…
Read MoreIt may not technically be spring just yet, but the spring semester for GVSHP’s Children’s Education program, affectionately known as “Kids’ Ed,” is underway. Every year GVSHP introduces New York…
Read More…Scholar Program from the fall, 2020, through the spring of 2021 and we are happy to now have Alexis on our staff. Alexis is completing a Bachelor’s Degree in Urban…
Read MoreSpringtime has arrived in our wonderful neighborhoods. Many more people are out and about. Locals and visitors alike enjoy our diverse culture, community history and appreciate a part of the…
Read More…entwined with activism in Greenwich Village, New York City, and our greater society. Please email us today for more information or to schedule a course for January or the spring….
Read More…focused on administrative support for the Annual Spring House Tour Benefit, which features seven particularly stunning homes this year. In between committee meetings and volunteer coordination for this event, she…
Read MoreGreek Revival Style The 20th Annual Spring House Tour Benefit on May 6th, 2018 featured an array of homes unlike any others in the tour’s twenty year history. Tour…
Read MoreJason Birchard, of Veselka’s founding family, supports the #SaveNYC effort. Photo from #SaveNYC by Kirsten Theodos. It was just shy of a month ago, on March 5, that a forum…
Read MoreVillage Preservations’ highly acclaimed continuing education classes are available online this May, and we are excited to now offer the course at a highly discounted rate to people not acquiring the continuing…
Read More…vital role in shaping Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. L: The Wonder Bar; R: Yesterday outside of the Stone Pony At the age of 17, Springsteen was a…
Read More…see more at http://www.gvshp.org/_gvshp/preservation/186_spring/186-spring-08-23-12.htm. While the LGBT rights movement has made tremendous progress in the decades since 186 Spring Street was a nexus of such groundbreaking activity, the history and…
Read More…Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club is named in his honor. Press conference in 2012 seeking to save 186 Spring Street — see more at http://www.gvshp.org/_gvshp/preservation/186_spring/186-spring-08-23-12.htm. While the LGBT rights movement…
Read More…Rally to save 186 Spring Street. In fact, the LPC has a rather poor record when it comes to landmarking sites whose primary significance is LGBT history. In truth, the…
Read More…vulnerable. “Gone But Not Forgotten,” Greek Revival Bicentennial Storymap, 2021. Spring Street Presbyterian Church, 246 Spring Street The Spring Street Presbyterian Church was founded in 1809, at which point prayer…
Read More…and first meeting of Gay Men’s Health Crisis also took place there. Gone but Not Forgotten: Spring Street Presbyterian Church, 246 Spring Street Spring Street Presbyterian Church 1927 The Spring…
Read More…Spring Street, between Thompson and Sullivan Streets, in the South Village. Like the nearby 54 MacDougal Street, 186 Spring Street had some interesting recent pop cultural history — for many…
Read More…Spring Street Residence In the era immediately following the Stonewall riots, 186 Spring Street (which was recently demolished) was home to a number of important figures of the Gay Rights…
Read More…box company. Site of the Spring Street Presbyterian Church, 246 Spring Street Spring Street Presbyterian Church, 246 Spring Street Now the site (ironically enough) of the Trump SoHo, the Spring…
Read More…of Gracia’s farm was located near what is now the intersection of West Houston Street and Wooster Street, stretching downwards toward Spring Street and eastwards toward Mercer Street. Detail of…
Read More…number 33, designed the set for Appalachian Spring. Noguchi would go on to design many of the sets and costumes for the Graham Company. Appalachian Spring with Martha Graham, set…
Read More…what is left of lot 20 is being used by the upscale seafood restaurant Aqua Grill at 210 Spring Street (lot 21). 210 Spring Street was built in 1902 as stable, transitioning…
Read More…further north, between present-day Horatio and Gansevoort Streets in the West Village. The Manhattan Well Murder, Spring Street 129 Spring Street today, via Wiki Commons Their infamous July 11, 1804…
Read More…the Greenwich Village Historic District. Read on for more information on the architect Napoleon Lebrun. Former Engine Co. 30, Now the New York City Fire Museum, 278 Spring Street Just…
Read More…Brown House at 326 Spring Street, that a street gang called the Spring Street Fencibles were known for “knocking down black females.” During the Five Points riot of 1834, Irish…
Read More…wanted to arch a building over the cemetery, leaving it undisturbed, but that plan was rejected, too.” — (The New Yorker “Where Time Has Stopped,” 25 February 1928). Spring…
Read More…information on these buildings, view the designation reports available on our Resources page. The fourth designated landmark, 310 Spring Street, dates even earlier. Built c. 1818-19, 310 Spring Street is…
Read MoreJim Owles, a resident of 186 Spring Street was the first openly-gay candidate for public office in New York City, here in front of a campaign banner in 1973. Image…
Read More…53 East 10th Street 53 East 10th Street Founded in the Spring of 1967 by John Townley, Apostolic Recording Studios was the first studio to produce 12-track records in the…
Read MoreThere comes a time each spring when one can’t help but marvel at the sights and sounds of our neighborhoods. The blooming magnolias and budding leaves are made even more…
Read More…Street Presbyterian Church, 246 Spring Street Founded in 1809, Spring Street Presbyterian Church was one of the city’s most prominent and vocal abolitionist churches. The church had a multiracial Sunday…
Read More…included in his 1956 H.C. Price Company Tower in Bartlesvile, Oklahoma. Edgar Tafel, standing second from right, with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin, in Spring Green, Wis., in summer 1938….
Read MoreWhen spring arrives, our wonderful neighborhoods are alive with activity. Many more people are out and about, enjoying the unique beauty of our slice of the big city, where you can…
Read MoreOn November 19, 1969, the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated 326 Spring Street, also known as the James Brown House, a NYC Landmark. The James Brown House was built in 1817…
Read More…their home in the 1970s and early 1980s at 186 Spring Street, in what Kantrowitz described as a “gay commune” (a building which Village Preservation sought to save from demolition…
Read MoreThere are very few welcome surprises that have come along in the past months of this pandemic. But Village Preservation’s Spring House Tour Benefit, a much beloved annual event that…
Read More…is the Trump Soho on Spring Street. This 40+ story glass protrusion was built on the site of a long forgotten radical abolitionist church and its burial ground – a burial ground…
Read More…photo was taken from the Butterick building at the corner of Spring Street. Looking from Spring Street south along Sixth Avenue Same intersection, different angle. The clearance in the foreground…
Read More…They officially disbanded in 1981. 186 Spring Street Residence !86 Spring Street. In the era immediately following the Stonewall riots, 186 Spring Street was home to a number of important…
Read MoreThis year’s Spring House Tour Benefit is right around the corner (this Sunday, actually), and features seven exquisite Village properties. In keeping with the storied history of the Village, the…
Read MoreThe rectory of St. Mark’s Church in the snow. After a long, cold, and snowy January and February, Mother Nature decided we weren’t quite ready for spring just because our…
Read More…law in 1916). The Fuller Company, engineers of the iconic 22-story Flatiron Building going up at the same time, also built the Butterick Building. Standing at the head of Spring…
Read More…since. God’s Love We Deliver God’s Love We Deliver’s former headquarters at 6th Avenue and Spring Street, ca. 2000. God’s Love We Deliver (GLWD) was founded in 1986 after Cabrini…
Read More…at all. Two examples: the post-Stonewall center of LGBT and AIDS activism 186 Spring Street and the Provincetown Playhouse and Apartments at 133-139 MacDougal Street (which were of course significant…
Read More…Knight’s first annual report, he made it clear to the board that the newly formed hospital required a much larger facility than his home could provide. By the spring of…
Read More…Dances and the Al Moss Singers in addition to Paul Robeson. Note: Russia was attacked by Hitler on June 22, 1941 but the U.S. was not yet fighting in World…
Read MoreSix and a half years ago, a pitched battle began against the scheme to construct a 454 ft. tall behemoth at 246 Spring Street which came to be known as the “Trump…
Read More…awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 1960 for his work, and on July 22, 1961, he was named poet laureate of Vermont. Although he never graduated from college, he received…
Read More…Springfield, Illinois. The Race Riot of 1908 in Springfield, Illinois, the state capital and President Abraham Lincoln’s hometown, was an explosive catalyst in revealing the urgent need for an effective…
Read MoreOn April 22, 1831, the City of New York acquired the land that is now one of my favorite places in the West Village, Abingdon Square Park. Once part of…
Read More…Smith, Aretha Franklin, Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Ray Vaughn, and, of course, the aforementioned Billie Holiday and Bob Dylan, among many others. Championing artists like Billie Holiday and Count…
Read More…adherents continue to return to the tree to acknowledge its significance. American elm trees are known for their towering canopies, which provide abundant shade through spring, summer, and fall. It…
Read More…The 22 homes that are a part of the complex surround a beautiful private garden. The twelve homes along MacDougal Street were built in 1844 on 22 foot wide lots, followed…
Read More…access to merchandise only available at local foreign markets. In 1985, Springsteen fans from all over the world were in town to hear the Boss play Giants Stadium. Many swung…
Read MoreEarly spring is a magical time in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo. As we recently discussed, the season has long been a source of inspiration for poets, artists,…
Read More…half years starting in the spring of 2020. All the playgrounds, ball fields, tennis courts, basketball courts, and passive recreation areas will be demolished and rebuilt. The art-deco style comfort…
Read MoreSpring is here, and people are gaping at the blossoms and stopping for selfies in front of the dogwood and magnolias and tulips. In our city, green space is precious…
Read MoreVillage Preservation’s 21st Annual Spring House Tour on Sunday, May 5th is right around the corner, and this year’s homes are really special. Additionally, they are all in the Greenwich Village …
Read More…on preservation issues, some of which we take for granted today and probably can’t imagine living without. To illustrate, this Throwback Thursday we’re zooming in on our Spring, 1982 issue, where you…
Read More…corner of West 10th Street and Bleecker Street. Its building no longer stands. First AME Zion Church The Spring Street Presbyterian Church was built in 1810 on the corner of…
Read More…My Park Day” in the fall, which paid off in a riot of tulips, daffodils and irises this spring. The color is the difference your average passer-by would notice, says…
Read More…organizing around lesbian and gay rights. Just a few blocks away stood 186 Spring Street, an 1824 rowhouse which housed a “gay commune” of sorts where many important figures of…
Read More204 Spring Street in the South Village One facet of the streetscapes that we encounter each day but may not give much thought to are the fire escapes that weave…
Read More…purchase tickets for our spring house tour, taking place this Sunday, May 1st from 1:00 to 5:30 P.M., rain or shine! The forecast is predicting a lovely day, when seven…
Read MoreThe renovated Bleecker Street Sitting Area, which opened this spring. Completed in the spring of this year, the spectacular renovation of the small park at the corner of Bleecker and…
Read More…entire building. Provincetown Playhouse after demolition Today, almost three years later yet another site in the South Village is threatened with demolition, 186 Spring Street, which you can read about…
Read More…meriting landmark designation. 186 Spring Street As GVSHP members and readers of Off the Grid know, we have not been sparing in our criticisms of the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission…
Read More…considered for city landmark designation this spring. On the first day of October, East Villagers awoke to the news that Tifereth Israel, the Town & Village Synagogue at 334 E….
Read More…market forces. (The City Lore program Place Matters, by the way, welcomes restaurateurs and patrons alike to add their favorite establishments to its list.) Manatus closed this spring after a…
Read More…there were any significant archeological resources underground. Of course, this is exactly what there turned out to be. The graveyard of the Spring Street Presbyterian Church was located on this…
Read MoreDora, left, mothers her young in spring of 2014 atop an air conditioning unit on the south-facing side of Christodora House. That’s the “nestcam” inside the window. Photo by Laura…
Read More…from 34th Street all the way to Spring Street, in the process of being dismantled and demolished in the West Village. Crane with wrecking ball mounted on the High Line…
Read More…hands, as the case potentially carries tremendous precedence in terms of how public land must be treated and protected. 200 year old house at 186 Spring Street; the city refused…
Read MoreExterior of 3 Washington Square North, February 2011. Photograph by Christine Joosten This year’s Spring House Tour Benefit is right around the corner and features seven exquisite Village properties. In…
Read More…location information in this post!) lists the location as 51 Spring Street. Two separate storefronts are listed at that address, and one of them looked familiar to me: A lot…
Read More…in the Rattlestick production of Until the Flood Daniella had some big shoes to fill when she was hired to take the reins in the spring of 2016. Initially attracted…
Read More…Fifth Avenue at 12th Street. Hammond would go on to play a significant role in launching the careers of Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Harry James, Count Basie, Big Joe Turner,…
Read MoreA sign of the times, present and past. Photo by Dorkys Ramos for the NEA. It’s been a heavy spring so far, with troubling news around the world, the nation,…
Read More…is a special section along Thompson Street between Prince and Spring Streets of quaint locally owned small shops. That is where you will find The Hat Shop, opened over 21…
Read More…Village Historic District Extension II. Though the victory was sweet, there was still much to do. 83 Thompson/182 Spring Street was slated for demolition and new development. The Children’s Aid Society had also begun…
Read More…coma, is a recurring West Village production every summer. Washington Square at the AXIS Theatre Company The company has embarked upon a new endeavor this spring: a new stage version…
Read More…Elaine de Kooning, and Pollock’s wife, Lee Krasner. Krasner & Pollock in Springs The area south of Union Square was a center of much of this activity. 49 East 10th…
Read More…1869 in Saratoga Springs. Lillie Devereux Blake was the leader of both the state and city organization. At the time the League moved to 14th Street, only Wyoming and Colorado…
Read More…company on the 6th floor thought of it….” Although Greenwich Village was a hotbed of creativity, the studio nevertheless faced some skepticism: When we opened in the spring of ’67,…
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