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East Village’s Russian Orthodox Cathedral’s Road to Landmark Designation
For those who don’t know it, the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Holy Virgin Protection at 59 East 2nd Street, between 1st and 2nd Avenues, is one of the most…
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: San Isidoro y San Leandro Western Orthodox Catholic Church of the Hispanic Mozarabic Rite
…were established in the area including the Cathedral of the Holy Virgin Protection. Previous to World War I, the Russian Orthodox Church was under the jurisdiction of Russia. Following World…
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All Saints Ukrainian Orthodox Church — A Beacon of Ukrainian Culture in the East Village
…country, St. Volodymyr’s was one of the most important Ukrainian Orthodox churches in North America and the site of some the most significant events in Ukrainian Orthodox church history, including…
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Walking East 3rd Street: Church of the Most Holy Redeemer
…estimated that between 6,000 and 9,000 people attended Sunday Mass on a weekly basis. Indeed, the New York German Catholic community often referred to Holy Redeemer as their “cathedral.” By…
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St. Nicholas of Myra Orthodox Church
Recently, our friends over at EV Grieve posted a great then-and-now of the southwest corner of Avenue A and East 10th Street. This beautiful building, St. Nicholas of Myra Orthodox Church,…
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Following Backlash, City Drops Plan for Hotel Special Permit Requirement South of Union Square – Push for Real Protections
…long overdue protections: Call on City Officials to Support the Real Neighborhood Protections for Greenwich Village and the East Village South of Union Square We Have Proposed — Click Here…
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Ten Years of Progress on Landmark and Zoning Protections — And the Road Ahead
GVSHP is proud to share it’s new report “Ten Years – A Thousand Buildings – One Hundred Blocks: A Decade of Progress on Landmark and Zoning Protections in the Village,…
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Filomena: the thirteen-year-old martyred virgin once celebrated in the South Village
The veneration of a martyred-thirteen-year old virgin once brought residents of the South Village together in celebration every August 11th. A special mass would kick off the event, which was…
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Anything But Orthodox: The Feminists of the Heterodoxy Club
…American Woman Suffrage Association, founded Heterodoxy in 1912. Membership was granted on a single condition: that the prospective member “not be orthodox in his or her position,” a condition that…
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City Council Proposal Threatens Preservation Protections
Next Wednesday, September 9th, a City Council hearing will be held on a bill that will drastically change NYC landmarks preservation protections. Intro. 775, if passed, would give those opposed…
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Another Columbus Day without Landmark Protections for the South Village
…one of America’s oldest and most historic Italian-American neighborhoods, continues to go without landmark protections. South Village Streetscape It was 5 years ago that GVSHP celebrated Columbus Day by releasing a…
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The First Monday in October, Another Day Without Landmark Protections in the South Village
Today, the first Monday in October, is the traditional start of the new United States Supreme Court session. This year the court is expected to have an incredibly full roster,…
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Catholic Churches: Anchor of New York’s 19th Century Irish Community
…cornerstone of the new cathedral’s foundation in 1858. The Cathedral was constructed on donations from wealthy and poor Catholic New Yorkers alike. By the Cathedral’s completion, Tammany Hall was gaining…
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Saving Sacred Spaces
…First, the good news. Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Holy Virgin Protection: Photo by Barry Munger. Olivet Memorial Church/now Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Holy Virgin Protection, (J.C.Cady, 1891) In…
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15 things you didn’t know about the East Village
…turned into an empty entry pylon in front of an NYU dorm. The Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Holy Virgin Protection at 59-63 East 2nd Street was built in 1891 as the…
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St. John’s vs. the Tech Hub — Promises Kept, and Promises Broken
…to have been cherry-picked as sites where development never could take place anyway, thus making landmarking almost irrelevant). As for zoning protections, unlike the comprehensive waterfront zoning protections included in…
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: 30 East 14th Street Artists’ Loft
…Virginia and Janet [Thurman] paint, study acting and dancing, type when they need money […] The setting is fit for Crime and Punishment, but the buoyancy of Virginia and Janet…
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Beyond the Village and Back: Edgar Allan Poe Cottage in the Bronx
…of Southern Gothic Literature, clearly rooted in his time in Virginia. Poe grew up and attended the University of Virginia. As came to be the case with many of his…
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Celebrating 51 Years of Landmarking
…which has been made on expanding landmarks protections (as well as zoning protections) in the neighborhood, you can check out Village Preservaiton’s ‘Accomplishments Map’ (you can also just zoom into…
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Pier 40/St. John’s Deal — A Win-Win with Lessons to Learn
On December 15, 2016, the City Council approved a zoning change for the St. John’s Terminal site at West and Houston Streets that included a series of neighborhood protections and…
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City Councilmember Rosie Mendez: 2012 Village Award Winner
…of the proposed East Village/Lower East Side Historic District to include key sites, such as 101 Avenue A and the Russian Orthodox Cathedral on East 2nd Street, which GVSHP has…
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2014 Year In Review: GVSHP Programs
…historic district and landmark protections. Zoning changes could reinforce the residential character of the neighborhood and limit the height, size, and scale of new development. Expanded landmark and historic district…
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Architecture of the Spirit
…the Holy Virgin Protection on East 2nd Street which is set to be heard as part of the larger public hearing on the proposed East Village/Lower East Side Historic District…
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Who’s That Rapping At My Chamber Door? Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” Takes Flight in Greenwich Village
…being drunk on the job. Poe returned to Baltimore where he obtained a license to marry his cousin Virginia Clemm. On May 16, 1836, he and Virginia held a Presbyterian…
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Ten Years Ago: Far West Village Protests, and Progress
…and often historic structures, replacing them (or seeking to) with huge, out-of-scale high-rises. In response, we were calling for new landmark and zoning protections for the neighborhood, and for the…
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A Preservation Agenda For Landmarking’s 50th Birthday
…on University Place and 12th Street, allowed due to lack of landmark protections. 2. Extend Landmark Protections. While a large chunk of the Village, East Village, and NoHo enjoy landmark…
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Important Rally this Saturday: 95% of Neighborhood Around Tech Hub Still Unprotected
…the provision of these protections, we are continuing to push for landmark protections that will preserve this and other buildings in the area. April 2017 rally with then Council Member…
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Politicians, Playwrights, and Parades: The Irish legacy of the East Village and Greenwich Village
…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…
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Politicians, Playwrights, and Parades: The Irish legacy of the East Village and Greenwich Village
…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…
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Celebrating Flag Day!
…part of Virginia was pro-Union and contained many abolitionists. President Lincoln was unsure about dividing Virginia, but he agreed to West Virginia’s admission on the grounds that its action was…
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Celebrating Black-Owned Businesses in Our Neighborhoods
…place. You can check out more about Urban Vegan Kitchen here. Extra Virgin (259 West 4th Street) Extra Virgin is located right in the heart of the West Village, making…
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Rooftop Farms in Our Neighborhoods: It is Officially “A Movement”
…invited to a rooftop farm for a Harvest Party on a beautiful block near Abingdon Square. Virginia Davies and her family are forging the path for West Villagers to embrace…
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Victory! 70 Fifth Avenue Landmarked; Continue the Fight for South of Union Square
…the plan if comprehensive neighborhood protections were also included, we were told that more landmark and zoning protections for the area would be forthcoming. No zoning protections ever materialized, and…
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Op-Ed: Preservation Can Help Affordability
…far western part of our neighborhood. That part of our neighborhood, which until relatively recently mostly lacked landmark protections, also saw the swiftest rise in housing prices over the last…
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Victory!: 3 St. Marks Place Air Rights Transfer Defeated
…lacked landmark protections. Two years after Councilmember Rivera and the City Council’s approval of the Mayor’s 14th Street Tech Hub without promised neighborhood protections for the adjacent neighborhood, we are still seeing inappropriate…
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Critical Public Meeting Tonight to Save Our Neighborhood!
…112-120 East 11th Street, at this Community Board #3 Land Use Committee meeting. GVSHP is proposing and seeking zoning protections for the entire area between 5th and 3rd Avenues, Union…
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Support Our Mid-Year Appeal
…included streets and structures many would consider the heart of our neighborhood, yet lacked protections and were endangered by developers and institutions like NYU. This is just one victory in…
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The Village is our Valentine!
…Tech Hub on zoning protections for the adjacent residential neighborhood. Thank Councilmember Carlina Rivera for publicly pledging that she would make her support of the Tech Hub conditional upon protections…
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Uncovering the stories behind downtown’s overlooked synagogues
…and the unification of the Autocephalic Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the United States of America and Ukrainian Orthodox Church in America in 1950. But the demographic winds shifted again after…
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149 Second Avenue
…was a prime residential thoroughfare, No. 149 is nestled between tenements that might have replaced it years ago. Today, The Holy Basil restaurant occupies the parlor floor. Researching this building…
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19th Century Fire at East Village Icon Changed the Skyline, and Safety Rules
…Church of the Most Holy Redeemer that led to the deaths of 16 children. The Roman Catholic Church of the Most Holy Redeemer at 173 East 3rd was built in…
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Beyond the Village and Back: 1083 Fifth Avenue Mansion and Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Harlem
…buildings in New York.” It was landmarked on July 22, 1975. Both were built at the turn of the last century. And both also bear strong connections to Greenwich Village…
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Touring the Churches of the East Village
…demolished synagogue. The entrance is enhanced by long rounded arches and a round window. All Saints Ukrainian Orthodox Church, 206-208 East 11th Street Constructed in 1851–52, the building at 206-208…
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Celebrating Even More Women Artists #SouthOfUnionSquare
…of additional female visual artists who have left their indelible mark: Virginia Admiral Toward the end of 1940, twenty-five-year-old artist Virginia Admiral (1915-2000) moved into a loft apartment that she…
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Village People: Paul Clayton
…Over Now Baby Blue’ and ‘It Ain’t Me Babe’ were written about him, in reference to his infatuation with Dylan.) He established a home base at Brown’s Cove, Virginia, and…
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Suffragette City
…suffrage movement were Villagers. Please see our Civil Rights and Social Justice Map for locations and more details, but a few of them are below: Virginia Woodhull Virginia Woodhull was…
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Delving into the Past & Future of the Greenwich Village Historic District
…groups, and others who weighed in on the key challenges we face and how they can be met. Watch here! Event #4: Continuing the Fight: Expanding Landmark Protections in the…
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‘In America, They Don’t Let You Burn’: The Legacy of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
…of Frances Perkins following the devastating fire. Working with Tammany Hall, Perkins helped create new labor laws requiring fire safety protections, and new requirements for fire escapes on factory buildings….
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City Votes Unanimously to Landmark Final Phase of GVSHP’s Proposed South Village Historic District!
Ten-block, 160-building district gets immediate protections from developers, incl. Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner; brings to 1,250 total number of buildings landmarked in neighborhood since 2003 The NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission…
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Asian-American History in Greenwich Village and the East Village
…and an individual New York City landmark in 1965. On September 22, 1892, a group of 1,000 U.S. citizens and 200 Chinese merchants and laborers gathered at The Cooper Union’s…
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Hudson River Park’s Estuarine Sanctuary
…neglected when it comes to landmark status and other protections, though Village Preservation has successfully campaigned to secure some landmark and zoning protections for the area, and continues to rally…
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After 2 1/2 Year Campaign, City Agrees to Consider 70 Fifth Avenue, South of Union Square, For Landmark Designation
Building 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…
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Press Conference Raising Objections & Calling for Changes to Citywide Rezoning Plan
The Mayor’s proposed citywide rezoning proposal, ‘Zoning for Quality and Affordability’ will weaken neighborhood zoning protections. The proposal as currently structured includes many benefits for market rate developments, with some…
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Westbeth Landmarked!
…calling for landmark protections for Westbeth and other sites. In 2005 the City promised to extend landmark protections to Westbeth and about 75 other buildings in the Far West Village,…
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Hudson Square Rezoning/South Village Landmarking Deal FAQ
…this month. However, the commitment on landmark designation is only to vote before the end of the year, so there will likely be nine more months of no landmark protections…
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Make Sure Preservation Has a Future
…With your help, we have secured landmark protections for over 1,250 buildings, and zoning protections for nearly 100 blocks of our neighborhood. With your help, we reach thousands of people…
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Preservation Alert
PRESERVATION ALERT: New City Proposal Would Slash Neighborhood Zoning Protections; Hard-Fought-For Height Limits Would Be Lifted, Now and In the Future Dear friend, The City has just released a…
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Rallying To Save The South Village
…at the time largely lacking in landmark protections. The proposal was the result of four years of exhaustive research on this 40-block area by GVSHP and a report we commissioned…
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Look Up! Its the South Village!
…original proposal, but the last third, below West Houston Street, still remains without landmarks protections and is therefore vulnerable to out-of-scale and inappropriate development, not to mention potential loss of…
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All we want for the holidays is TO SAVE OUR NEIGHBORHOOD!
…building; a vintage 1930s warehouse, an 1832 rowhouse, a 1919 former Nabisco cracker bakery, and former factories and stables. The meeting outlined the landmarking and zoning protections requested in the…
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A Cast Iron Gem That’s Worn Many Different Hats
…that are unique within these neighborhoods for having almost no landmark protections and inadequate zoning protections. As a result, woefully out-of-scale and out-of-character developments are rapidly rising throughout the area,…
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Fight to Save Our Neighborhood South of Union Square: From Bowlmor Demolition to the ‘Zero-Help’ Hotel Special Permit
…Place and Broadway corridors which lie outside of the protections of the Greenwich Village Historic District. In the years since, the threats to this part of our neighborhood have intensified,…
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The Beauty of the University Place & Broadway Corridors
…zoning and lack of landmark protections for the area, is likely perfectly legal and requires no public review). GVSHP is following up by soliciting further feedback from area residents and…
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Szia, Nadia! – Immigrant History through the Lens of Netflix’s “Russian Doll”
…and James Renwick Jr. (who also designed Grace Church and St. Patrick’s Cathedral). The chapel was a gift of Rutherfurd Stuyvesant, a descendant of the Dutch governor Peter stuyvesant. St….
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East Village Building Blocks Tour: Synagogues
If you’re walking around the East Village, you’re likely standing on (or near) holy ground. To illustrate this, we’ve created a tour of current and former synagogues in the neighborhood….
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Cemeteries of the East Village, Part I
…foundation said it was a church.” Church of the Most Holy Redeemer Vaults The church circa 1875, before the shortening of the bell tower In the mid-nineteenth century, the block…
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East Village Building Blocks Tour: Churches
…the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. A fire damaged the church in 1978, and the building was not fully restored until 1986. Church of the Most Holy Redeemer,…
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Womens’ Empowerment and Colonial Evangelism Converge at 11 East 12th Street
…(extant); (r.) Church of the Holy Trinity in Harlem at Fifth Avenue and 125th Street (long since demolsihed) According to the report, 25,000 individuals were “served” by the Mission, which…
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Walk Through LGBTQ+ History with Our Civil Rights and Social Justice Map
…of the Holy Apostles at 300 Ninth Avenue. In 1976, they began renting space in the Westbeth Artists Community at 55-57 Bethune Street, overlooking that building’s iconic courtyard. It would…
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Solving Mysteries in Historic Photos
…the Union but before Iowa did, and from July 1863 to July 1865, when there were 35 states and stars after West Virginia broke away from Virginia during the Civil…
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There’s a Buzz About Urban Beekeeping
…During this fraught time of the past few months, our neighbors have taken up beekeeping for these and a variety of other reasons. Bees have a calming effect Virginia Davies…
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59 Fifth Avenue and a Century of Philanthropic and Cultural Leaders in NYC
…collection and funding for a collection of Egyptian antiquities to the museum. William H. Osborn ca. 1853 and Virginia Reed Sturges Osborn Osborn’s wife, Virginia Reed Sturges Osborn, was another…
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Robert de Niro, Sr. and the New York School Artists #SouthOfUnionSquare
…he met fellow artist Virginia Admiral, whom he married in 1942. Around this time de Niro, Sr. and Admiral lived and worked in a loft studio in the area South…
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Welcome aboard, Karen Loew
…New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic and Next City. A native Virginian, she studied English Literature at the University of Virginia and got her start covering zoning and…
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The Greenwich Village Home Where Lincoln’s Assassination Might Have Been Averted
…for events connected to one of the most unusual houses in Greenwich Village, which thanks to landmark protections still stands, constructed by one of Greenwich Village’s most prolific builders. 45…
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Hudson Square Rezoning and the South Village
…in 2013, and continues to lack the protections of its surrounding historic districts. This unprotected area of the South Village south of Houston Street includes approximately 175 buildings. Some of…
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: the French Flats at 206-208 East 9th Street
…nor most of their surroundings south of Union Square enjoy landmark protections, and thus could be demolished, altered, or otherwise compromised at any time. The dark red brick of the…
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Want to See Viennese Secessionist Art Deco Architecture? Go No Farther Than the Far East Village
…and architectural history, lacks significant landmark protections east of Second Avenue. Village Preservation has long been working toward greater protection for this storied sprawling neighborhood. Prior to the designation of…
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Happy Anniversary, Gansevoort Market Historic District!
…end of a thirty-four year logjam during which there had been no new historic district protections added in Greenwich Village, and the beginning of a decade of landmarking successes by…
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East Village Street Art Lives On
…campaign to seek expanded landmark protections in the neighborhood. To help push for expanded landmark protections in the East Village, click here. You can read more about our small business…
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Bowery Alliance of Neighbors: 2013 Village Award Winner
…protections that much of the west side of the Bowery enjoys. BAN has had some incredible accomplishments in their efforts to preserve and honor the history of one of New…
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2016 GVSHP Year in Review
…year, and what we have to look forward to in 2017. In 2016, GVSHP: Helped lead the opposition against the Mayor’s plans to roll back neighborhood zoning protections, successfully blocking…
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Doris Diether Oral History: Activist and Zoning Maven
…1961, new protections were put in place regarding the bulk and configuration of new buildings in the Village. However, Village streets would not see these protections for another year. In…
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The Eclectic Streetscapes #SouthOfUnionSquare
…as America’s cultural capitol and melting pot. Since 2014, Village Preservation has been advocating for greater landmark protections for the area South of Union Square. However, Mayor Bill de Blasio’s…
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The Birth of the NAACP, and Their Deep Roots in Greenwich Village
…the Landmarks Preservation Commission as part of our ongoing campaign to win landmark protections for this and other buildings south of Union Square. In January of 2021, the LPC voted…
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Beyond the Village and Back: NY Foundling Hospital
…Historic District, near University Place and Broadway, still do. (1. to r.) 11, 13, 15, and 17 East 12th Street. But because of a lack of landmark protections, they may…
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Happy Birthday, SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District
…which was the center of the dry goods trade, protection against fire was of special urgency.” External or outside hose and sprinkler systems were added to buildings. The loft buildings held flammable…
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Happy Anniversary to Far West Village Landmark Victories!
…GVSHP’s on-going campaign since 2001 to secure protections for this historically, architecturally and culturally rich area. The Greenwich Village Historic District Extension was the first-ever expansion of the Greenwich Village…
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This Day in Preservation History- October 11, 2005: City Approves Far West Village Rezoning
…developments were built where only low-rise buildings had been found for generations along the waterfront. In response, GVSHP and other local community groups banded together to push for landmark protections…
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Greek Revival Gone Wrong
…Preservation Commission (LPC) to designate both structures in order that they would have landmark protections. GVSHP made the case for their designation based on their significant history reflective of the…
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Hudson Square Rezoning and the South Village
…to Canal Street, 6th Avenue to Greenwich Street) will have an enormous impact not only on the future of that 22 block, largely commercial area, but on the adjacent low-rise,…
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Quinn and City Must Not Omit Three Key Sites From South Village Landmarking
…impossible to expand them further. So the next few weeks are critical to ensure that all sites in need of landmark protections are included, and due to the exclusion of…
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Quinn holds the cards on rezoning and landmarking
…the rezoning doing more good than harm, is also very much contingent upon the city putting in place long-promised landmark protections for the adjacent South Village neighborhood. The South Village…
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Happy Birthday Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II!
…designation report),which was Phase I of GVSHP’s proposed South Village Historic District from 2006. This 235-building, 12 block designation was at the time the largest expansion of landmark protections in…
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An East Village Story — From German Church, to Synagogue, to Landmark
…tells us: “It’s a textbook on ethnic succession, originating as a German Baptist church in Kleindeutschland days. It then became, in 1926, a Ukrainian Autocephalic Orthodox church, at a time…
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Beyond the Village and Back: The Brotherhood Synagogue, 28 Gramercy Park South
…1828, the Hicksites and Orthodoxes, was suddenly being revisited. In 1956, The New York Times reported on a movement towards the reconciliation between the Orthodox and Hicksite groups—the latter having just built…
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Native American Contemporary Art Sites in our Area
…advancement of tribally-enrolled Native Arts community. This incredible organization has its headquarters in the East Village at the St. Nicholas of Myra Orthodox Church at 288 East 10th Street. St….
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