…of Fifth Avenue’s development, Fifth Avenue Old and New 1824-1924. It was published by the Fifth Avenue Association, an organization that was formed in 1907 by residents, property owners, and…
Read More…Broadway. Source: NY Metro Victorian Society of America. https://www.vicsocny.org/castironnyc/popup.php?id=27 422 West Broadway or 130 South Fifth Avenue. Source: https://www.mountainsoftravelphotos.com/USA%20-%20New%20York%20City/27%20SoHo/slides/27%20422%20W%20Broadway%20Has%20Its%20Original%20Street%20Address%20On%20The%20Cast-iron%20Columns%20-%20It%20Used%20To%20Be%20130%20South%20Fifth%20Avenue%20In%20SoHo%20New%20York%20City.jpg In 1896 South Fifth Avenue became part of West Broadway again,…
Read More…“A MAN WAS LYNCHED YESTERDAY” outside their office window on Fifth Avenue following each such act of racist terror. At the same time, 70 Fifth Avenue housed The Crisis Magazine,…
Read More…at 14-16 Fifth Avenue was originally built as two separate Gothic Revival townhouses at a time when this stretch of Lower Fifth Avenue was the most prestigious address in New…
Read MoreStreet View of 70 Fifth Avenue, Map data © 2020 Google; Photo of W.E.B. DuBois in 1918 from Library of Congress, via Wikimedia Commons When we think of great African…
Read More…Fifth Avenue already had but to create an even more beautiful streetscape began to gain steam when he appointed the Fifth Avenue Commission. 72, 74-76, 78, 80 Fifth Avenue (r….
Read More…powerful 20 ft. high installation in the window’s ground floor building facing Fifth Avenue highlighting its remarkable civil rights history. Village Voices Installation at 70 Fifth Avenue The NAACP As…
Read More…Fifth Avenue, and the Sohmer Piano Building at 170 Fifth Avenue. What makes 55 Fifth Avenue even more significant than its architecture, however, is its history as a home to…
Read More…death in 1910. Moving men at 21 Fifth Avenue. Photo from Village Preservation’s Historic Image Archive But that is certainly not the end of the story for 21 Fifth Avenue….
Read More…in at least one surprisingly similar way. 1083 Fifth Avenue (L), Our Lady of Lourdes Church (R), via Wikipedia 1083 Fifth Avenue Originally built in 1901-02 in the Beaux-Arts style…
Read Morec. 1908 view of Fifth Avenue from Washington Square Arch. Courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York Collections Portal. For most, lower Fifth Avenue conjures up images…
Read More…60 Fifth Avenue, the former Macmillan Publishing Company Building/the former Forbes Building 60 Fifth Avenue (l.) ca.1926 and 2015. This eight-story building on the northwest corner of 12th Street and…
Read More…Fifth Avenue. This structure, in the unprotected area south of Union Square for which Village Preservation is seeking landmark protections, housed a large number of progressive organizations that propelled, and collaborated around, some…
Read More…Landmarks Preservation Commission has failed to do so. Today, we take a closer look at 72 Fifth Avenue, and ask: why isn’t this landmarked? History In 1893 Marx and Moses…
Read MoreOne of my favorite things about our neighborhoods is the history that is under our feet and to our side and yet unknown. Case in point is 49-51 Fifth Avenue….
Read More…landmarked. 80 Fifth Avenue, an elaborately-detailed Renaissance Revival style office building constructed in 1907-1908 by the architecture firm of Buchman and Fox, has been a striking presence at the southwest…
Read MoreNew York’s Fifth Avenue rarely conjures up images of radicals or revolutionaries; it’s more commonly associated with high-end shopping, well-heeled cultural institutions, and corporate headquarters. But cross 14th Street, and…
Read More…north of the museum at Fifth Avenue and 85th Street. The Osborns left 59 Fifth Avenue by 1870, but that does not make the contributions of the New Yorkers associated…
Read MoreToday, the building that houses the Salmagundi Club at 47 Fifth Avenue is a bit of an odd duck. At four-and-a-half stories, the 1853 Italianate style rowhouse is sandwiched by…
Read MoreFor its entire existence over twenty years, the International Worker’s Order’s (IWO) New York City headquarters was located at 80 Fifth Avenue. 80 Fifth Avenue, at 14th Street, is located…
Read MoreOn May 11th, 2021, the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission, in a highly unusual split decision, voted to approve the demolition of the historic, landmarked 170+-year-old building at 14-16 Fifth Avenue and replace…
Read MoreYesterday the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously to landmark 70 Fifth Avenue (2-6 West 13th Street), a 1912 Beaux Arts-style office building that is among several critical civil rights sites…
Read More…New York Public Library has been watching over Fifth Avenue between 40th and 42nd Streets, welcoming researchers, scholars, students, and tourists into its hallowed halls by the millions every year….
Read MoreBuilding Has Tremendous Historic Significance, and Site Is Vulnerable to Supertall Development; Push for Broader Landmarks Protections for Area Continues (l. to r.) 70 Fifth Avenue; the NAACP’s flag; The Crisis magazine. We…
Read More…and Asian-Americans. Here’s a look at the IWO and some of its extraordinary accomplishments during its time at 80 Fifth Avenue: 80 Fifth Avenue, 1937. Photo courtesy of MCNY Digital…
Read More…(MPPC), headquartered at 80 Fifth Avenue, in the area South of Union Square which was the center of that center of the film industry, from 1909 until its dissolution in…
Read More…at 80 Fifth Avenue for its entire lifetime, from 1930 until 1954, this progressive mutual-benefit fraternal organization was a pioneering force in the U.S. labor and civil rights movements. The…
Read MoreToday we take a look back at a piece written by former GVSHP staffer Dana Schulz about an interesting piece of history on Fifth Avenue involving scandal, cigarettes, and urban…
Read More…a leather dresser and owned and profited from the work of several enslaved people. Through this, he purchased 22 acres of land from the Breevort estate and constructed a sizable…
Read More…November 9th, 2010 This will be fifth time the LPC has seen a proposal for this building over the course of nearly three years, and we’re wondering how things will…
Read MoreThe plan to demolish the 172 year old historic former townhouses at 14-16 Fifth Avenue in the Greenwich Village Historic District, and replace them with a high-rise tower, has returned and will…
Read More…Avenue which he was planning to develop. 70 Fifth Avenue, view down East 13th Street. 70 Fifth Avenue, one block down from 74-76 Fifth Avenue and a NYC landmark, was…
Read More…died, on October 14, 1994, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Clinton. 55 Fifth Avenue 55 Fifth Avenue, 2020. This 1912 office tower at 55 Fifth…
Read More…Note the Greek Revival mansion to the north 24 Fifth Avenue The Fifth Avenue Hotel, 24 Fifth Avenue Replacing the Brevoort mansion at the northwest corner of Fifth Avenue and…
Read More…street at 69 Fifth Avenue (demolished), if this frequently-cited date is correct, then this powerful campaign began at 70 Fifth Avenue. In 1922, the anti-lynching legislation was finally approved by…
Read More…even the slightest interest in art or culture. Its grand Beaux Arts facade, fronted by a sprawling staircase and graceful fountains facing Fifth Avenue, are among the most iconic images…
Read More…as well as places of memory, such as 80 Fifth Avenue. The IWO’s erstwhile headquarters on Fifth Avenue marked a turning point in the visibility of one of the most…
Read More…Emanu-El moved to Fifth Avenue and 43rd Street in 1868, and in 1927 to its current location at Fifth Avenue and 65th Street — a massive, Romanesque Revival structure which…
Read More…others. 70 Fifth Avenue, 2020. While at 70 Fifth Avenue, the NAACP experienced extraordinary growth, accomplishment, and challenges. It confronted the epidemic of lynchings of African-Americans and race-based violence taking…
Read More…preceding three decades. Rewind to 1871, when a row of tenements from 326 to 332 East Fifth Street was converted into a four-story school building long known as the Fifth…
Read More…popular in European society. It would set the pace for social events of high society for the rest of the century. 24 Fifth Avenue built as the Fifth Avenue Hotel…
Read More…content and rampant misinformation. Interestingly, both organizations were housed at 70 Fifth Avenue, a 1912 12-story Beaux Arts-style office at the southwest corner of Fifth Avenue and 13th Street in…
Read More…and the Village Vanguard. Streetview of 11 Fifth Avenue; Map data © 2019 Google 14. Henry James, 11 Fifth Avenue Upon returning to New York City from Albany in 1847,…
Read More…still criminalized, and was the only such clinic to use an insurance system. 70 Fifth Avenue 70 Fifth Avenue, 2012. 70 Fifth Avenue was home to the headquarters of many…
Read More…and sold the American company in 1890s, resulting in the construction of their Fifth Avenue headquarters. They remained here until they built their new headquarters next door at 60 Fifth…
Read More…possible. Throughout the early-to-mid 20th century, the 12-story Beaux Arts-style office building at 70 Fifth Avenue was the home of a staggering array of political organizing and social activism. The…
Read More…North and the stretch of Fifth Avenue leading from it up to 14th Street. The city’s grandest houses were built on these Lower Fifth Avenue blocks, with mansions constructed by…
Read More…would often hang out at Marie’s Crisis and the Village Vanguard. Streetview of 11 Fifth Avenue; Map data © 2019 Google 14. Henry James, 11 Fifth Avenue Upon returning to…
Read More…International Workers Order, 80 Fifth Avenue 80 Fifth Avenue. The International Workers Order (IWO) was located at 80 Fifth Avenue for its entire lifetime, from 1930 until 1954. This progressive…
Read More…lofts in the area south of Union Square. 72, 74-76, 78, 80 Fifth Avenue (l. to r.), 1940s Tax Photo. Courtesy of Municipal Archives. Wagner designed 78 Fifth Avenue in…
Read More…Walk Down Fifth Avenue Pre-order the book from our local bookstore partner. On Tuesday, October 18th, Village Preservation will host author Bill Hennessey for a book talk all about Fifth Avenue below 14th…
Read More…nation. The flag became a key symbol of the group, also flying at its next headquarters location (69 Fifth Avenue) in 1936. During the same period, 70 Fifth Avenue housed…
Read More…61 Fifth Avenue Found at 61 Fifth Avenue was New York’s premiere “country” music venue, the Lone Star Café. From 1976 to 1989, this venue was the select spot of…
Read More…LPC to replace 14-16 Fifth Avenue did grave damage to 10 Fifth Avenue two doors south, an early 19th-century rowhouse built by the Brevoort family which is a near twin…
Read More…century Anglo-Italianate brownstone mansions that once lined the lower portion of Fifth Avenue. Its dignified, former northern neighbors at 49 and 51 Fifth Avenue were razed to make way for…
Read More…States, he moved to 28 East 14th Street. Pearson’s Magazine and Bookstore, 57 Fifth Avenue 57 Fifth Avenue, 2020. In the early 20th century, 57 Fifth Avenue served as the…
Read More…City. She lived in a loft here with her partner, the noted art critic Elizabeth McCausland, from 1935 until 1965. 4. Bella Abzug, 2 Fifth Avenue Bella Abzug (center) celebrating the…
Read More…many of the most powerful and renowned figures of his era. From 1881 to 1883, Sickles was also a resident of 14-16 Fifth Avenue, a building in the Greenwich Village…
Read More…72, 74-76, 78, 80 Fifth Avenue We have previously written about one of those two women, Marion Sara Parker. Parker graduated from the University of Michigan in 1895 and was…
Read More…& Dance Theater, as well as the radical Workers Laboratory Theatre. 74-76 and 78 Fifth Avenue (l. to r.) 74-76 and 78 Fifth Avenue No. 74-76 Fifth Avenue is a…
Read More…1962, was recorded here. 55 Fifth Avenue 55 Fifth Avenue One of New York’s least well known but most historically significant recording studios was at 55 Fifth Avenue in the…
Read More…Fifth Avenue, photo by Beyond My Ken / Wiki Commons 72 Fifth Avenue, The Appleton & Co. Headquarters This almost perfectly intact late-19th-century masonry structure is not only an outstanding example of the…
Read More…“New King Porter Stomp” at 55 Fifth Avenue. 55 Fifth Avenue Hammond continued to champion the cause of racial integration in the music world throughout his life. Providing opportunities for…
Read More…the daily life of their immediate surroundings. Fourteenth Street at this time was referred to as “The Poor Man’s Fifth Avenue.” It was a bustling center for bargain shopping and…
Read More…and left behind some of its most beloved landmarks. 78 Fifth Avenue, c. 1940, courtesy of Municipal Archives 78 Fifth Avenue is a Neo-Rennasiance style loft building constructed in 1896…
Read More…Wilde, as well as several other literary portrayals of Wilde’s life. 49-51 Fifth Avenue 49-51 Fifth Avenue This 16-story Colonial Revival-style apartment building was designed in 1928 by Thomas Lamb….
Read More…the AIDS activist group ACT UP, and GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation). Read more about the building’s history here. National Gay Task Force Headquarters, 80 Fifth Avenue 80…
Read More…we further honored the building with a historic plaque for Frank Stella’s accomplishments there. 70 Fifth Avenue The impressive 12-story Beaux Arts–style office building at 70 Fifth Avenue (West 13th…
Read More…to Fifth Avenue for the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade, or perhaps a visit to St. Patrick’s Cathedral. But for those willing to venture beyond Midtown, there’s a rich Irish…
Read More…designation for 285-287 East 3rd Street 80 Fifth Avenue 80 Fifth Avenue; photo by Dylan Chandler in his Architecture of Union Square portfolio Our proposed South of Union Square Historic…
Read More…New York Public Library No. 4 West 8th Street was originally a former stable for 8 Fifth Avenue. Built in 1856, 8 Fifth Avenue was a marble-faced building that used…
Read More…poets, painters, dancers, and musicians. International Workers Order, 80 Fifth Avenue The International Workers Order (IWO) was located at 80 Fifth Avenue for its entire lifetime, from 1930 until 1954….
Read More…these historic structures can be found at 80 Fifth Avenue, an exquisitely detailed Renaissance Revival–style building dating to 1908. From 1973 to 1986, 80 Fifth was the home of the…
Read More…Avenue, the one-time Fifth Avenue Hotel There was also 24 Fifth Avenue — then the Fifth Avenue Hotel, today a condo building — that “had, in summer, a wonderful sidewalk…
Read More…by hosting American roots music concerts in their basement social hall. The Conservative Synagogue of Fifth Avenue, 11 East 11th Street Conservative Synagogue of Fifth Avenue The Conservative Synagogue…
Read More…joined the firm John B. Snook & Sons. By 1892, he started his own firm, designing many buildings which would become New York City landmarks, such as 91-93 Fifth Avenue…
Read More…at the “81” Theatre in Atlanta, Smith began performing her own work. In 1923, she signed to Columbia Records, whose recording studios were located at 55 Fifth Avenue at 12th…
Read More…to Fifth Avenue for the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade, or perhaps a visit to St. Patrick’s Cathedral. But for those willing to venture beyond Midtown, there’s a rich Irish…
Read More…this building at 55 Fifth Avenue. The Lenox Mansion at 55 Fifth Avenue. His father Robert, a Scottish immigrant, became one of the most successful real estate investors and developers…
Read MoreThe progressive mutual-benefit organization the International Workers Order (IWO) was located at 80 Fifth Avenue for its entire lifetime, from 1930 until 1954. A pioneering force in the U.S. labor…
Read More…Off Washington Square, 1900-1950, 33 MacDougal Alley was located at the back of 4 West 8th Street, a two-story brick purpose-built stable that sat at the rear of 8 Fifth…
Read More61 Fifth Avenue under construction. As recently reported, the condo construction project at 61 Fifth Avenue (at 13th Street) has been getting closer and closer to completion. The condo site…
Read More…first national gay rights organization in the country, which was headquartered at the striking 80 Fifth Avenue. You’ll see some of the writers who lived here while writing controversial and…
Read More…but none quite so special as the Salmagundi Club at 47 Fifth Avenue, when the wreaths are hung and the tree is lit! It is always a special place to…
Read More…most people don’t know that the first editions of the book were published right here in Greenwich Village. The Forbes Building, 60-62 Fifth Avenue, the former headquarters of Macmillan Publishing…
Read More…Lenape. 80 Fifth Avenue Kalmia latifolia “Mountain Laurel”, Jacob Bigelow, (ca. 1817) Known as the headquarters for both the International Workers Order and the National LGBTQ Task Force, the Renaissance…
Read More…next literary journey. Dauber & Pine Bookshop 66 Fifth Avenue in the 1940s, with Dauber and Pine in left storefront (courtesy NYC Municipal Archives) and as New School building Samuel…
Read More…1 Fifth Avenue L: Sara Teasdale in 1920, photo by Jessie Tarbox Beals/The New York Historical Society/Getty Images. R: One Fifth Avenue in 1969 and 2019. Sarah Teasdale (1884-1933) was…
Read More…in the country, was located at 66 Fifth Avenue, right next to 70 Fifth Avenue. The company’s work during this period reflected many of the political preoccupations in the immediate…
Read More…accomplished pianist and an innovative master bass player, Mingus often collaborated with such famed musicians as Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Dizzie Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and even Joni Mitchell. 55 Fifth…
Read More…surroundings of their namesake street, a center for shopping and bawdy entertainment for average and working-class New Yorkers, known as “the Poor Man’s Fifth Avenue.” Fife Laning brought with her…
Read MoreThe inspirational and unforgettable Anna Sokolow (February 9, 1910 – March 29, 2000) danced with the Martha Graham Dance Company at 64-66 Fifth Avenue between 1930 and 1939 before going…
Read More…under their health insurance, becoming the first insurer to do so. 80 Fifth Avenue, 1937 In 1936, the International Workers Order (IWO) became the first insurer to offer birth control….
Read More…was planned for the northwest corner of Washington Square North and Fifth Avenue. Replacing a half-block of Greek Revival townhouses, the massive plan mobilized Villagers. This new generation of Villagers were…
Read More…noted on this map fall in our proposed South of Union Square historic district which has yet to be protected with landmark designations. On Fifth Avenue, No. 80 Fifth Avenue…
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