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Fire Patrol #2

Fire Patrol #2, 84 West 3rd Street Village Preservation asked the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission to landmark the New York Board of Fire Underwriters Fire Patrol House #2…

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Firehouse Facelift Finally Revealed

…1906, and is one of only three remaining fire patrol houses in the entire city (there were originally ten). The Fire Patrol of the New York Board of Fire Underwriters…

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Horsing Around the Village

…fire and water damage…the NYFBU had formed several patrols located throughout the city. Fire Patrol 2, established in 1855, moved into the three-story brick building at 31 Great Jones Street…

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Happy Presidents’ Day

…a district for which GVSHP has long advocated. Illustration of Theodore Roosevelt and Jacob Riis patrolling the streets (from Jacob Riis’ autobiography) Roosevelt played an important role in the reformation…

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The Vice Presidents of the Village

…the New York City Police Department. Roosevelt and his friend, noted journalist Jacob Riis, would often patrol the streets of the Village and other Lower Manhattan neighborhoods in an attempt…

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Operation Underworld Book Talk

…U.S. Naval Intelligence hired notorious Mafioso boss Charles “Lucky” Luciano, in partnership with Meyer Lansky, to serve as government informants, patrolling the vulnerable docks of New York City, and reporting…

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Ten Years ‘Off The Grid’

…Fire Patrol House #2 Joey Rodriguez: In Death, As In Life, Marcel Duchamp Left Mystery Lena Ruben: Angel Hair Press: “A Rush of Poetic Chutzpah” in the East Village Lannyl…

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17 LGBT landmarks of Greenwich Village

…Cochrane’s public declaration was historic and directly followed testimony by the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association opposing the legislation, which included the assertion that there were no gay police officers in the…

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It Happened Here: Taxi Driver

…popular imagination with drugs, prostitution, runaways, murder and mayhem, steeped in the urban decay which many saw as defining New York City in the 1970’s. 226 East 13th Street “dumbbell”…

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Accomplishments

…the East Village’s last operating tenement synagogue and the Village’s last remaining fire patrol house ruled eligible for the State and National Registers of Historic Places. GVSHP launched a first-of-its-kind…

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It Happened Here: Taxi Driver

…popular imagination with drugs, prostitution, runaways, murder and mayhem,  steeped in the urban decay which many saw as defining New York City in the 1970’s. 226 East 13th Street “dumbbell”…

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Megamansions of the Village

…The ground floor of 84 West 3rd Street, pre-renovation. The last on our list is former Fire Patrol Building #2 and the current residence of journalist and TV personality Anderson Cooper. …

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Ghost Sign: 310-312 East 11th Street

…Baylies, who also designed Fire Patrol House #2 at 84 West 3rd Street in the South Village, which GVSHP proposed as an individual landmark and which Anderson Cooper is converting…

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