…Common Council decided that Abingdon Square should be enclosed as a public park and allotted $3,000 toward this undertaking. On April 22, the City acquired the land and by 1836…
Read MoreUnion Square is known today as a site of public gathering and for expressions of discontent. This is built upon Union Square’s rich, multi-layered history as a public space in…
Read More…Square – author Edith Wharton. Wharton herself was a resident of Washington Square North for a short time in 1882. Although she didn’t live there for long, Washington Square often takes…
Read More…and rare, and we need every bit of it, new or old. One of the local favorites is an oldy but goody –Abingdon Square. Abingdon Square Park, by permission of…
Read More…does the new Hudson Square rezoning do? The Hudson Square rezoning for the first time allows new residential development in Hudson Square, which will in all likelihood increase the amount…
Read More…Hudson Square and the South Village HERE.) Speaker Quinn Will Decide if Rezoning Preserves or Undermines Character of Hudson Square and the South Village Tenement at 169 Sullivan Street in…
Read More…times as many square feet to develop as the square footage of the site they build upon (this is known as floor area ratio, or FAR). If you acquire air…
Read More…a tour of Washington Square Park and the South Village…Do you know what event the Washington Square Arch commemorates or who’s buried at Washington Square Park? On the South Village…
Read More…of Erik Hawkins and Martha Graham, who both had studios in the neighborhood south of Union Square. Lewis founded her company in 1968. Protect the Neighborhood South of Union Square…
Read More…purchase farm-fresh produce at such markets at Union Square, Tompkins Square, and Abingdon Square. You can see a video of that program here. Abingdon Square Greenmarket The NYC Parks Department…
Read MoreL: an aerial view of Sheridan Square; R: Sheridan Square Viewing Garden On this day, August 1, in the year 1864 during the Civil War, General Philip Sheridan was appointed…
Read More…of Washington Square Park and slightly beyond. Specifically, this opens up Washington Square North, South, East, West and Waverly Place & West Fourth Street running from the park east to…
Read More…at 18 Washington Square North. In fact, he depicts a nostalgic view of the area around the Square in his 1881 novel Washington Square. Today, the houses belong to NYU….
Read More…figure at the corner of Waverly Place, MacDougal Street, and Washington Square North, the Hotel Earle – renamed the Washington Square Hotel in 1986 – has plenty of its own…
Read More…that famous Christmas tree. But did you know that the tree lighting in Washington Square Park was a tradition that dates back much earlier? The tree in Washington Square Park…
Read More“South of Union Square, the Birthplace of American Modernism” is a series that explores how the area south of Union Square shaped some of the most influential American artists of…
Read More…neighborhood south of Union Square were recreated for The Gilded Age in Troy, NY. The neighborhood south of Union Square was at the front lines of this demographic shift. From…
Read MoreIsabel Bishop, Virgil and Dante in Union Square, 1932. Image via Radford.edu. “South of Union Square, the Birthplace of American Modernism” is a series that explores how the built environment…
Read More“South of Union Square, the Birthplace of American Modernism” is a series that explores how the area south of Union Square shaped some of the most influential American artists of…
Read More…Union Square. 22 East 12th Street The area south of Union Square was home to many people who changed the course of history with their life’s work. People like Terrance…
Read More…click on the link below that. Explore South of Union Square Map + Tours Send a letter supporting landmark designation of this and other historic buildings south of Union Square…
Read More…of Union Square with Broadway between 10th Street (bottom) and 14th Street (top) in the center, circa late 2021 via Bing Maps. The neighborhood #SouthOfUnionSquare can be characterized as a true crossroads…
Read MoreThe unprotected area south of Union Square for which we are seeking landmark protections lives at the intersection of commerce, bookselling, publishing, leftist politics, African American civil rights efforts, and so much more. One…
Read More“South of Union Square, the Birthplace of American Modernism” is a series that explores how the area south of Union Square shaped some of the most influential American artists of…
Read More“South of Union Square, the Birthplace of American Modernism” is a series that explores how the area south of Union Square shaped some of the most influential American artists of…
Read MoreSir Winston Churchill Square, spring 2013 If you have ever spent time in the area where Bleecker Street meets Sixth Avenue, then you know it’s a busy place with lots…
Read More…and East Villagers were no exception. Tompkins Square Park served as the site of a children’s garden beginning in 1934. A concession stand in Tompkins Square Park. Photo courtesy of…
Read More“South of Union Square, the Birthplace of American Modernism” is a series that explores how the area south of Union Square shaped some of the most influential American artists of…
Read MoreOur research on the area south of Union Square has revealed treasure troves of rich architecture and history connected to the film, the labor movement, and the arts, among many…
Read More“South of Union Square, the Birthplace of American Modernism” is a series that explores how the area south of Union Square shaped some of the most influential American artists of…
Read More“South of Union Square, the Birthplace of American Modernism” is a series that explores how the area south of Union Square shaped some of the most influential American artists of…
Read More…is the German History Tour, which highlights sites that connect to the story of German heritage, immigrants, and architecture of sites south of Union Square. The area south of Union Square…
Read MoreThe Tompkins Square Park bandshell, constructed in 1966, was the center of cultural and political movements in the East Village during the tumultuous decades of the late 20th century. From…
Read More“South of Union Square, the Birthplace of American Modernism” is a series that explores how the area south of Union Square shaped some of the most influential American artists of the…
Read More…feeling a little nostalgic for snowfalls past. Images from the GVSHP archive of Washington Square Park covered in snow offer the perfect solution. The Washington Square Arch framed in snow…
Read More…look at some of the historic retail establishments in our area. Last week we looked at Wanamaker’s huge store and annex near Astor Place. Farther north at Union Square, a…
Read More…you can spot in the area South of Union Square is the preponderance of “L-Shaped” buildings. This building footprint gave developers and investors more square footage while still having a…
Read MoreWashington Square Arch in Washington Square Park The Washington Square Arch in Washington Square Park is in some ways the heart of the Village. The white marble structure was designed…
Read More…1870. An 1891 print: Popular concert in Tompkins Square, N.Y. Photo via New York Public Library Concerts took place in Tompkins Square Park during the 1890s. Photo, 1911, courtesy of…
Read MoreOver the years, Off the Grid has featured many posts about Tompkins Square Park, including The Young Lords Start in Tompkins Square Park, The Tompkins Square Park Riots of 1988,…
Read More…Bob Dylan images from Sheridan Square. The Ink Pot Magazine office, located off Sheridan Square Sheridan Square & West 4th Street Bob Dylan on a Bench in Sheridan Square, 1965…
Read MoreThe Washington Square Music Festival in 2012. Photo via The Villager. Last night, the 55th Washington Square Music Festival held its first of four free concerts in Washington Square Park….
Read More…a time when bohemians roamed the Village. Until the early 1920s, the buildings around Sheridan Square were a lot shorter than they are today. With the exception of the eight-story…
Read MoreThis is the latest installation of “South of Union Square, the Birthplace of American Modernism,” a series that explores how the area south of Union Square shaped some of the…
Read More“South of Union Square, the Birthplace of American Modernism” is a series that explores how the area south of Union Square shaped some of the most influential American artists of…
Read More…more notable Irish-American figures associated with the neighborhood South of Union Square, as depicted in our interactive map: “Virtual Village” — South of Union Square. These include the celebrated “New York…
Read More“South of Union Square, the Birthplace of American Modernism” is a series that explores how the area south of Union Square shaped some of the most influential American artists of…
Read MorePhoto by Beyond My Ken / Wiki Commons The area south of Union Square, on the border between Greenwich Village and the East Village, is changing. The approval of the new 14th Street Tech…
Read More…there for long, Washington Square often takes a central role in her work, including in her defining work, The Age of Innocence. Washington Square North, Image courtesy of Bob Estremera…
Read More“South of Union Square, the Birthplace of American Modernism” is a series that explores how the area south of Union Square shaped some of the most influential American artists of…
Read More…Explore all the buildings in Dylan Chandler’s “The Architecture South of Union Square” here. Explore more about the history of the area South of Union Square here and support landmark…
Read More…iconic stores, incredible museums, and beautiful parks. Beginning here in Greenwich Village at the entrance of Washington Square Park, Fifth Avenue passes the Flatiron Building, Madison Square Park, the Empire…
Read MoreThe neighborhood #SouthOfUnionSquare can be characterized as a true crossroads — where art, politics, industry, commerce, the New York elite, and the working class collided to create an eclectic built…
Read MoreJackson Square Park. Photo courtesy of NYC Parks. This post is part of a series about Village blocks that correspond to calendar dates. Once again, another August date corresponds with…
Read More…Square neighborhood, is proposing to rezone more than a dozen blocks in Hudson Square, stretching from Houston to Canal Street, Sixth Avenue and Varick Street to Greenwich and Hudson Streets….
Read More…neighborhood. To send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square, click here. Explore the Virtual Village – South of Union Square Map…
Read MoreThe area South of Union Square has drawn artists into its corridors for many decades. From social realist painters of the early twentieth century to contemporary practitioners, this section of…
Read More…in not just the spiritual but the real world realm in a way that made history. In June of 1978, the the Washington Square United Methodist Church’s Reverend, Paul Abels,…
Read MoreThe theater at 1 Sheridan Square has a long history as a vibrant, varied West Village performance space. Housed in a building constructed in 1834 by Samuel Whitmore, the space…
Read MoreThe area South of Union Square was once the antique center of the country. During the second half of the 20th century, dozens of freight trucks would converge in the…
Read MoreAt 251 West 13th Street, just east of Greenwich and 8th Avenues, sits one of the most beautiful and interesting structures in our neighborhood. What was once the Jackson Square…
Read More…Square Park, the Tompkins Square park evergreen is a live tree that lives in the park year-round. The spruce was planted in 1992, as part of a larger renovation of…
Read MoreThis installment of Village Preservation’s “South of Union Square, the Birthplace of American Modernism” series explores how the Mexican Muralists shaped some of the most influential American artists via their…
Read More“South of Union Square, the Birthplace of American Modernism” is a series that explores how the area south of Union Square shaped some of the most influential American artists of…
Read More…of those have their roots or connections in the area of Greenwich Village and the East Village South of Union Square, an endangered but historically rich area for which we…
Read More“South of Union Square, the Birthplace of American Modernism” is a series that explores how the area south of Union Square shaped some of the most influential American artists of…
Read More“South of Union Square, the Birthplace of American Modernism” is a series that explores how the area south of Union Square shaped some of the most influential American artists of…
Read More“South of Union Square, the Birthplace of American Modernism” is a series that explores how the area south of Union Square shaped some of the most influential American artists of…
Read More…buildings south of Union Square. The Hotel Albert – 65-67 University Place The Hotel Albert is one building South of Union Square with an especially impressive history of musical residents. This magnificent…
Read More“South of Union Square, the Birthplace of American Modernism” is a series that explores how the area south of Union Square shaped some of the most influential American artists of…
Read MoreOur South of Union Square map offers an interactive look into this area of Greenwich Village and the East Village that is so rich in history, but also so lacking…
Read MoreCRITICAL PUBLIC HEARING TOMORROW ON PROPOSED HUDSON SQUARE REZONING AND IMPACT ON THE SOUTH VILLAGE Tomorrow, Wednesday, November 28th, the City Planning Commission will hold its SOLE public hearing…
Read More…to the area of our neighborhood South of Union Square. Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She and her siblings busked on the…
Read More…continuity in his recreation of Last Car Thru Washington Square Park Armed with a printed version of GVSHP’s photo, Last Car Thru Washington Square, 1958, Shawn captured the changes and…
Read More…incredibly talented and notable people who have lived and worked in the area south of Union Square. To share our research on historically significant figures in the area like Anna…
Read More…protect in our proposed South of Union Square Historic District, and a focus of one of the many tours in our series of South of Union Square Map + Tours….
Read MoreAuthor Henry James. Photo by Bettman/Corbis. I recently read the novella Washington Square for the first time, eager to see how this 1880 work by Henry James might paint the…
Read MoreNote: This is an updated version of a post originally written by Drew Durniak Since it opened on December 1, 1904, the Tompkins Square Branch of the New York Public…
Read More…for Washington Square Village and adjacent block. Washington Square Village is bordered by West 3rd Street, Mercer Street, Bleecker Street, and La Guardia Place. Just below it, between Bleecker Street…
Read MoreIn the later years of the 19th century, the area South of Union Square became a hub of consumerism, bringing in department stores like Macy’s to entertain a new wave…
Read More…Seventh Regiment on Review, Washington Square, New York, 1851, Otto Boetticher. The view depicts the northwest corner of the Washington Square parade ground with New York University in the left…
Read More…home, with about twenty fascinating images of Times Square in the 1990s (scroll down to the bottom of the collection to see where the Times Square images begin, or click…
Read MoreBack in October, Village PReservation worked with our friends and neighbors at GrowNYC, Abingdon Square Conservancy, and the Abingdon Square Greenmarket on a history and photo project about Abingdon Square….
Read More…of Union Square. Check out our South of Union Square” Film History Tour, African American History Tour, and Civil Rights and Social Justice Tour to learn more about the extraordinary…
Read More…of history to this interactive tool. To send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square, click here. Explore South of Union Square…
Read More…hippy. The New York Times, June 3, 1967 The scene at Tompkins Square Park on Memorial Day, 1967. Image via lorenbliss The scene at Tompkins Square Park on Memorial Day, 1967. Image…
Read More…Union Square, as shown on our interactive map South of Union Square Map. These figures and organizations include one of the largest and most influential women’s groups in the country,…
Read More…buildings and area south of Union Square, and our preservation efforts in the area, click here. To explore our film history tour of the area South of Union Square, click…
Read More“South of Union Square, the Birthplace of American Modernism” is a series that explores how the area south of Union Square shaped some of the most influential American artists of…
Read More…South of Union Square. To learn more about the neighborhood, check out our new and frequently updated South of Union Square Map and Tours. Village Preservation has recently received a…
Read More…two buildings are in the heart of Village Preservation’s proposed South of Union Square Historic District. While 813 and 815 are some of the smaller buildings on this stretch of…
Read More…Village” tool. To send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square, click here. Explore the “Virtual Village” — South of Union Square…
Read More…impressive architecture. To learn more about the many prominent German residents and businesses located South of Union Square, explore our German History tour on our South of Union Square map….
Read More…Washington Square Park [16:00], not West 10th Street as the film claims. Built in 1902 as a residential hotel and named for its original owner, Earle S. L’Amoureux, the Hotel…
Read More…Square, New York, 1851, Otto Boetticher. The view depicts the northwest corner of the Washington Square parade ground with New York University in the left foreground. Image courtesy of the…
Read More814 Broadway, once known as Fenian Hall and home to the Fenian Brotherhood in August 2022 In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the neighborhood South of Union Square was…
Read More80 University Place, one of Grove Press’ five office locations in the neighborhood South of Union Square Grove Press, arguably the 20th century’s “most explosive and influential publishing house,” profoundly…
Read More…round had an intriguing one of Astor Place/Cooper Square from 1925 which shows how many of the striking historic buildings remain from that time (largely thanks to landmark designation), and…
Read More10 Sheridan Square in (l.) 1929, image courtesy of NYPL, and (r.) today. The intersecting streets at Sheridan Square and 7th Avenue South are some of the most well-known and…
Read More…new layers of history to our interactive South of Union Square map. To send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square, click here….
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