Throwback Thursday: Behind the Scenes of 75 ½ Bedford Street
…Bedford Street, New York. Photograph by Jessie Tarbox Beals, c. 1923. The narrow house at 75 ½ Bedford Street is well known in Greenwich Village. Besides being just under ten…
Read More…Bedford Street, New York. Photograph by Jessie Tarbox Beals, c. 1923. The narrow house at 75 ½ Bedford Street is well known in Greenwich Village. Besides being just under ten…
Read More…to the rear yards or stables behind adjacent houses. 75 1/2 Bedford Street, with 75 Bedford to the left, and 77 to the right. No. 75 1/2 Bedford Street stands…
Read More…75 1/2 Bedford Street stands on what was once the court between 77 and 75 Bedford Streets. No. 77 Bedford Street is the Isaacs-Hendricks House, built in 1799 and the…
Read More…rear yards or stables behind adjacent houses. 75 1/2 Bedford Street, with 75 Bedford to the left, and 77 to the right. No. 75 1/2 Bedford Street stands on what…
Read More…the East Village, or NoHo: click here to nominate your favorite. Want to help support small businesses? Share this post with friends. On the corner of Commerce and Bedford, off…
Read More…several to our current Business of the Month, Moustache, at 90 Bedford Street, a thirty year old Greenwich Village institution where you can enjoy a wide array of pan-Middle Eastern…
Read More…Upper West Side. Greenwich Village’s Oldest and Narrowest Houses (l.) 75 1/2 Bedford Street, the narrowest house in the Village, and 77 Bedford Street, the Hendricks-Issac House, the oldest house…
Read More…Village Historic District, which had been in his family since at least 1799. 75 1/2 Bedford Street, with 75 Bedford to the left, and 77 to the right Dr. Gomez…
Read More…Vincent Millay House at 75 1/2 Bedford Street (“the narrowest house in the Village”), the twin houses at 39 and 41 Commerce Street, and Grove Court as the embodiment of…
Read More…Mapped prior to 1799, Bedford Street was named for Bedford Street in London. London’s Bedford Street was named for Francis Russell, the Fourth Earl of Bedford. The Earl of Bedford…
Read More…eighteenth century, the Isaacs-Hendricks House is the oldest extant house in Greenwich Village. 75 ½ Bedford Street 75 ½ Bedford Street is well known for being the narrowest house at…
Read More…the TV world Friends created did (and didn’t) line up with reality. The ‘Friends’ apartment building, 90 Bedford Street The spot in Greenwich Village most associated with Friends, and where…
Read More…“the narrowest house in the Village,” 75 1/2 Bedford Street. Her house, a three-story building with an unusual stepped gable where she lived from 1923 to 1924, is reminiscent of…
Read More…Bedford Street next door, “the narrowest house in Greenwich Village”). 75 1/2 Bedford Street, from the Village Preservation Historic Image Archive And it would be buying real estate in and…
Read More…is nothing more than a stage set in Hollywood. A good chunk of the series took place in Monica’s spacious 2-bedroom apartment. No. 90 Bedford Street, on the southeast corner…
Read More…and more. Bedford Street Methodist Episcopal Church Cemetery and Vaults, Bedford Street between Morton and Leroy Streets When five Methodists formed a new congregation in the carpenter shop of Samuel…
Read More…rich heritage: The Isaac-Hendricks House, 77 Bedford Street It was 1799 – a decade since the Revolution – and Greenwich Village was a quiet place, with farms and rolling hills….
Read More…celebrated in Village Preservation’s public outdoor exhibition, VILLAGE VOICES 2022. VILLAGE VOICES Shadowbox dedicated to Edna St. Vincent Millay displayed in front of her former home at 75 1/2 Bedford…
Read More…men and women, and combined modernist and traditional forms in her poetry. 75 1/2 Bedford Street from our Historic Image Archives “In the immediate post-World War I era…when the Village…
Read More…1/2 Bedford Street, the narrowest house in Greenwich Village. For Grant, then known as Archie Leach, Greenwich Village was a generative and varied stepping stone on his way from West…
Read More…to both historical and contemporary design. July 1948 photograph by Nat Kaufman. Source: Nat Kaufman collection, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation Archives. 75 1/2 Bedford Street This quirky home…
Read More…Edna St. Vincent Millay House at 75 1/2 Bedford Street (“the narrowest house in the Village”), the twin houses at 39 and 41 Commerce Street, and Grove Court as the…
Read More…illicit drinking! Here are just a few speakeasies that were fixtures then, and some of them even now! Chumley’s 86 Bedford Street Chumley’s door on Bedford Street Chumley’s is a…
Read More…Bedford Street, built by the original owner William Hyde, a window sash maker. Both the main house and the former workshop are now single-family residences. 3. Twin Peaks, 102 Bedford…
Read More…built by Peter Stuyvesant’s great-grandson? Google Street View of 17 Grove Street Starting in the westernmost stretches of the Village, the wooden house at 17 Grove Street (at Bedford Street)…
Read MoreL: 90 Bedford Street, which stood in as Monica’s apartment building; R: the cast walking down a “Greenwich Village street,” which is actually a Hollywood stage set. Love them or…
Read More…2. Edna St. Vincent Millay, 75 1/2 Bedford Street Via Wikimedia Few people are as closely associated with Greenwich Village as Millay. Perhaps that’s because the neighborhood appears right in her…
Read More…East India Company, and grandson of the man who built 21 Stuyvesant Street. 77 and 75 1/2 Bedford Street seen in the 1969 designation photo (Greenwich Village Historic District and…
Read More…work and life came to represent the modern, liberated woman of the Jazz age, free of the restrictions of the past…” 75 1/2 Bedford Street from our Historic Image Archives St….
Read MoreImage via Gothamist. It was five years ago today at 86 Bedford Street that a chimney separated from an interior wall and collapsed into the world-famous Chumley’s bar in Greenwich…
Read More…– Edna St. Vincent Millay Edna St. Vincent Millay in Washington Square Park (left) and her home at 75 1/2 Bedford Street Edna St. Vincent Millay lived in “the narrowest…
Read MoreThe intersection of Bedford and Grove Streets. Google Street View. It seems like there are countless mentions on the Internet of the apartment building in which Monica, Rachel, Chandler, and…
Read More…with the artists, families, and people that make the Village so special. Chumley’s 86 Bedford Street Chumley’s is a historic pub and former speakeasy at 86 Bedford Street between Grove…
Read More…alterations and additions for more than the last fifty years. 8. 75 ½ Bedford Street/”The narrowest house in the Village” 75 ½ Bedford Street via Wally Gobetz/Flickr 75 ½ Bedford Street was…
Read More…aerial photographer, and Joseph Haynes, a professional engineer, pilot and long-term resident of Bedford-Stuyvesant, later reconnoitered and photographed the historic houses on Hunterfly Road during a flight over the area….
Read More…for sure that it’s one of the most intriguing. Moving along… 77 Bedford Street Even older is the 1799 Isaacs-Hendricks House at 77 Bedford Street, on the corner of Commerce…
Read MoreThe “old” Chumley’s image via New York Magazine Ten years ago today, a chimney at 86 Bedford Street separated from an interior wall and collapsed into the world-famous Chumley’s bar….
Read More…took on the task. Let’s take a look at some of the contenders. 17 Grove Street We’ll start on the west side. On the corner of Grove & Bedford Streets…
Read More…across the street from me. I took that place, and it was astounding what happened. Bedford Street’s kind of backwater. The only people who would ever come in [were] people…
Read More…sure that it’s one of the most intriguing. Moving along… 77 Bedford Street Even older is the 1799 Isaacs-Hendricks House at 77 Bedford Street, on the corner of Commerce Street,…
Read More…1/2 Bedford Street, constructed in 1873. The Narrowest House in New York, 1940s Tax Photo. Courtesy of Municipal Archives. The Salmagundi Club, which is an individual NYC Landmark, is the…
Read More…1795) and laid to rest the debate over whether the narrowest house is in the East or West Village? 75 1/2 Bedford Street (left); 39 St. Marks Place (right) Some…
Read More…from 1926 until 1969. Upon her retirement she received the title of curator emeritus. Mead lived at 75 1/2 Bedford Street with her sister, Elizabeth Mead, and her sister’s husband,…
Read More102 Bedford Street in 2015 (left) via Wiki Commons, and as of today, via Village Preservation. Few buildings capture the whimsy, flamboyance, and bohemian spirit of early 20th century Greenwich Village as…
Read More…Koch represented the Village in the House of Representatives from 1969-77. A resident of Greenwich Village since the 1950’s, Koch lived in at 2 5th Avenue, 81 Bedford Street, 72 Barrow…
Read More…to her job teaching art at P.S. 54 on Sanford Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant from her home in the East Village. This was a HUGE assist. It wasn’t hard to figure…
Read More…on Historic Districts, followed by South Village Historic District, you will find State and National Register Report stating: Carmine Street, north side between Bedford Street and Seventh Avenue South 51,…
Read More…apartment houses. This is one of the few known houses of worship they designed. Sketch of the chapel pre-alteration. Image courtesy of Bedford + Bowery. In 1900-01, architects Jallade and…
Read More…we are proud to honor Kathy Donaldson, the longtime President of the Bedford-Barrow-Commerce Block Association, with our Regina Kellerman Award, named for GVSHP’s first Executive Director. Kathy Donaldson with the…
Read MoreKoch lived in the Village at (clockwise from top left) 2 Fifth Avenue, 81 Bedford Street, 72 Barrow Street, and 14 Washington Place Edward I. Koch served as Mayor of…
Read More…lived at 81 Bedford Street, 72 Barrow Street, and 14 Washington Place, and famously refused to give up his Greenwich Village residence when elected Mayor to move into Gracie Mansion….
Read More…the next of the federal era houses GVSHP and the successfully NYLC jointly proposed for landmark designation; it was designated in 2004. 2-10 Bedford Street, between Houston and Downing Streets….
Read More…Brooklyn, the LPC has also designated about 600 buildings. Park Slope, Brooklyn In Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, the LPC has designated or calendared (the official step preceding designation, which puts some…
Read More…at the New Bedford Whaling Museum. He was playing guitar by the time he was a teenager. While still in high school, he began hosting a weekly series of folk…
Read More…Courthouse, and 75 1/2 Bedford Street; and battles against the Lower Manhattan Expressway, Westway, and many others. We thank Aura Levitas, longtime village resident and former Treasurer of the Association,…
Read More…The narrow house at 75½ Bedford Street According The Millay Society, “…In the immediate post-World War I era, Millay emerged as a major figure in the cultural life of Greenwich…
Read More…Saroyan, Edward Albee, Harold Pinter, Sam Shepard, Lanford Wilson, and David Mamet have had their works presented here. 77 Bedford Street, the Isaacs-Hendricks House Nearby, on the corner of Commerce…
Read More…Historic District, SoHo, and Westbeth, as well as districts as diverse as Bedford-Stuyvesant and the Grand Concourse, Jackson Heights and Park Slope. Without landmark designation, many of these sites and…
Read More…at 37 Union Square. He posed once at the start of his tour in 1882 and again in 1883. William Burroughs — lived on Bedford Street and was a regular…
Read More…“the result is specific, evocative, and understated, showing the public comfort and freedom to which the gay liberation movement aspired.” Edna St. Vincent Millay House 75 ½ Bedford St. NYC, NY…
Read More…her career in Bed-Stuy and eventually finishing it on Governor’s Island. “I taught art in Bedford-Stuyvesant for 26-27 years, and then a friend of mine became a principal on Governor’s…
Read More…described by Bedford+Bowery, “Rosset would stay up all night working on the mural, often painting for four hours at a time without taking a break to eat or drink or…
Read More…passageway or even a tunnel alongside or through the front building which leads to the backhouse behind. The side and rear of this backhouse behind 10 Bedford Street were visible…
Read More…enclave was not always so sought after. First laid out in 1848, Grove Court is set off of Grove Street between Bedford and Hudson Streets. It is entered through an…
Read More…and creates the guitars in his shop. He has scored materials from numerous famous sites including the former Bedford Street speakeasy Chumley’s, which was once a hangout of, among many…
Read More…a writing workshop at the New York State Correctional Facility for Women at Bedford Hills, from which she published a nationally distributed collection, Aliens At The Border. From 1994-1996 she was…
Read More…Waverly Place. Richie Havens, the iconic singer and guitarist, passed away in 2013 on April 22 at the age of 72. Though originally from Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, by his late…
Read More…much as they did when they were originally constructed at the end of the 19th century. Renaissance Revival Maple Street between Bedford and Rogers Avenues (pictured left) in the Prospect…
Read More…of being an integral part of the community, first on Bedford Street in 1969, then 276 Bleecker Street in 1977, and in its current location at 273 Bleecker since 1982. Read the…
Read More…Bedford Street in the east). From its early days, the library served the community of Greenwich Village in many ways. It contained an auditorium, which allowed the library to serve…
Read More…“The address which is now listed over its doorway as ‘177’ Bleecker Street was, in 1965-66, ‘177A’ Bleecker Street,” Thomas told Bedford + Bowery in 2014. “At one time I…
Read More…his life. As described by Bedford+Bowery, “Rosset would stay up all night working on the mural, often painting for four hours at a time without taking a break to eat or…
Read More…with his catchphrase of “How’m I doin’?,” and he reorganized the city’s political environment by assembling a governing coalition that at times included liberals, conservatives, and moderates. Koch received 75%…
Read More…workshop at the New York State Correctional Facility for Women at Bedford Hills from 1989 to 2002. Honoring Baraka’s literary legacy and the influence other Beat poets had on our…
Read More…The sitting area, designed by George Vellonakis, was rebuilt from 1998 to 1999 to incorporate garden spaces, a pedestal mounted armillary, and a decorative, gated iron fence. The Bedford Downing…
Read More…wood-framed house in Greenwich Village. William Hyde, a window sash maker, built the residence and had a shop located in an attached structure at 100 Bedford Street. 17 Grove Street…
Read More…They are decadent enough already. Then again, need has nothing to do with it. Moustache (90 Bedford Street; but soon at 29 7th Avenue South) The inspiration behind the pizza…
Read More…the Second Circuit. During this time, Sotomayor also taught at NYU and Columbia Law Schools. In 1998, Sotomayor moved to 3 Bedford Street. Even after being appointed to the Supreme…
Read More…white). Earlier in her career, in 1998, she moved to 3 Bedford Street around the time she joined the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Even after being…
Read More…between Barrow and Bedford Streets, the three-story brick theatre is one of New York’s greatest treasures. The Cherry Lane Theatre, photo courtesy of The Cherry Lane Theatre archives The building…
Read More…Note, also, the payphone booth in the foreground, once so common in our streetscapes. South side of Morton Street between Hudson and Bedford Streets (undated) And then there are the…
Read More…and Bedford Streets, has the distinction of being New York City’s oldest, continuously operating Off-Broadway theatre. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel pays its respects to this iconic performance space in Season…
Read More…the Civil Rights Movement. She also ran a writing workshop at the New York State Correctional Facility for Women at Bedford Hills from 1989-2002. Her husband, LeRoi Jones was an…
Read More…Dream (DNAinfo) The Trouble with Eighth Street (A/N Blog) Fedora One Year Later (Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York) 84 Bedford Street’s Nine Units Now Officially on the Market (Curbed) The Country’s…
Read More…mansion actually served as the official Vice-President’s residence for a time. There was a pond from the Minetta Creek at the foot of the hill at today’s intersection of Bedford…
Read More…one of the reasons we are seeing neighborhoods clamor for landmark protections throughout the city, from Bedford Stuyvesant to Bay Ridge, Ridgewood to Richmond Hill, the South Bronx to Staten…
Read More…not always so sought after. First laid out in 1848, Grove Court is set off of Grove Street between Bedford and Hudson Streets. It is entered through an iron gate…
Read MoreBedford Street (photo courtesy of Guney’s Photo Blog, www.guney.org) Gansevoort Hotel’s Pool is the City’s Dirtiest (NY Post) Another British-themed Restaurant Set to Open on Greenwich Avenue (DNAinfo) Waverly Restaurant…
Read More…to Alec Baldwin? Want to live in a cruise-themed Perry Street pad? (Curbed) Photos of Saturday’s Lightsaber Battle in Washington Square Park (Gothamist) 88 Bedford townhouse goes rental and asks…
Read More…Detention, and 75 ½ Bedford Street, to name a few — places that I have come to know and love. From the Nat Kaufman Collection, c. 1950, Greenwich Village Society…
Read More…through the front building which leads to the backhouse behind. The side and rear of this backhouse behind 10 Bedford Street were visible to the public from Downing Street because…
Read More…order to maintain symmetry and balance on the facade of a building, but which were never actually real windows. 37 Bedford Street and detail. These seem especially common on tenements,…
Read More…hundred fifty buildings around Bleecker, Carmine, Bedford, and Downing Streets. But there’s still about two thirds of the neighborhood (see the map) that has been left unprotected from demolitions and…
Read More…away from the bustle of the city along tree-lined Commerce Street between Barrow and Bedford Streets, the three-story brick theatre features 6-over-1 wood windows and an arched double-door entryway covered…
Read More…aging population; Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant had some of the highest concentrations of poverty in the city and among its most deteriorated housing stock. Each of these neighborhoods, synonymous in many…
Read MoreRichie Havens at Woodstock in 1969. Richie Havens, the iconic singer and guitarist, passed away yesterday at the age of 72. Though originally from Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, by his late…
Read More…the post card seen above. Source: NYPL. When Bil and Cora Baird bought the building on Barrow Street (between Bedford and Bleecker Streets), it was not without some difficulty, as…
Read More…and the countercultural lifestyle of that era, Fitzgerald often gravitated to the Village. A favorite was Chumley’s, the speakeasy on Bedford Street that opened in 1926. Legend has it that…
Read More…insight into the tactics used to clear long-term, lower-rent paying tenants out buildings. by: Daniel Maurer of Bedford & Bowery. Crowd anticipating Kanye West at Webster Hall gather in front…
Read More…the Bedford Historic District. I found it interesting, especially the strong feelings that longtime residents had on both sides of the issue. The article contained two long sidebars: one giving…
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