…significance of this history. Looking Forward While buildings like 80 Fifth Avenue are unlikely to be demolished any time soon, much of their non-landmarked surroundings are, and buildings like 80…
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 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 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…Force, located at 80 Fifth Avenue in the 1970s and 80s, while the headquarters of the New York Women’s Suffrage League, the leader in the fight for women’s right to…
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…Women’s Council at 80 East 11th Street, Southern Tenant Farmers Union at 50 E 12th Street, Young Pioneers (communist subsidiary) at 80 Fifth Avenue, Defense Committee for Civil Rights for…
Read More…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…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…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 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…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 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 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…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 More…a pioneering dance and arts school got its start. “Virtual Village” Dance Tour, 2020. 80 Fifth Avenue 80 Fifth Avenue, 2020. The International Workers Order (IWO) was located at 80…
Read More…work is the Regent Theatre at 1912 Seventh Avenue, an individual New York City landmark. One of the people that made 49-51 Fifth Avenue their home was Governor Alfred E….
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 More…Avenue and Ninth Street. At the time the article was written, that mansion had already been knocked down some three years prior, and was replaced by the Fifth Avenue Hotel….
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 More…Avenue to west of 5th Avenue, 9th to 14th Streets for which we have proposed and are fighting for landmark designation via a historic district. After 2 1/2 years, this…
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 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 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…occupied three floors of the space, totaling 15,000 square feet. 72 Fifth Avenue today. Source: Google Maps. Philip Morris relocated to 5th Avenue and 19th Street in 1938, where they…
Read More…Avenue). Samuel Weiser Bookstore, 117 Fourth Avenue 113-119 Fourth Avenue, 2018 Samuel Weiser began his career in bookselling as an apprentice at the bookstore Bentano’s. In the 1920s he began…
Read More…also showcased in the documentary film They Shall Not Perish. 80 Fifth Avenue 80 Fifth Avenue, 2020. The International Workers Order (IWO), which originated within the Jewish Workmen’s Circle, was located…
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 MoreWhat follows is first in a series of posts devoted to our research of the fascinating building at 143-145 Avenue D. 145-147 Avenue D Early last year, while surveying Alphabet…
Read More…home on the southwest side of what is today Fifth Avenue and 14th Street. This home was accessed only through a long lane connected to the Bowery Road until the…
Read MoreThe Ukrainian National Home at 140-142 Second Avenue presently. I recently wrote about the rich and interesting cultural history behind the Ukrainian National Home, located at 140-142 Second Avenue just…
Read More…to a total stop shortly after the Second Avenue Station. Unused Center Track at Second Avenue Station Second Avenue Line As originally announced in 1929, the Second Avenue line would…
Read More…of the Ninth Avenue El may have headed west to the Christopher Street Ferry, while others may have turned east for St. Vincent’s Hospital. The Third Avenue line must have…
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…and back on University Place the first woman doctor in America established her home and office. 80 Fifth Avenue 80 Fifth Avenue, 2020. The International Workers Order (IWO) was located…
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…Avenue in 1924. The Playhouse Arguably the first art movie house in America, the Fifth Avenue Playhouse opened at 66 Fifth Avenue on December 16, 1925 showing The Cabinet of…
Read MoreEast Village Gas Explosion Site, 2nd Ave. & 7th St. As we enter July, it’s not hard to notice that some of the dates align with some neighborhood intersections. In…
Read More…31st and 33rd Streets, had recently opened. The newly expanded Seventh Avenue line would allow riders to have seamless trip to and from this hub. Looking north up Seventh Avenue…
Read MoreNew York Eye and Ear Infirmary, Second Avenue and 13th Street…
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…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…80 Fifth Avenue As documented throughout our South of Union Square Map + Tours, for half a century the International Workers Order fought relentlessly for racial equality and solidarity, industrial…
Read More…opportunity to perform at the avant-garde Greenwich Village Theatre heightened West’s hopes. The 500-seat theater was located across from Sheridan Square on the west side of Seventh Avenue South, between…
Read More…of Sixth Avenue at Bleecker Street, looking north up the Avenue toward the elevated train that used to veer east on West 3rd Street. What used to be Max Moscowitz’s…
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…they no longer have a presence in the East Village, is there still a need for the Lesbian Avengers? Have the battles they fought been won? Or have they just…
Read More…quirky but charming building at 23 Third Avenue, also known as 1 St. Mark’s Place. 23 Third Avenue. Painting by Patricia Melvin No. 23 Third Avenue stands alongside two equally…
Read More…they began their project in 2001, over half of their subjects have closed, and many more have been threatened with closure in recent months. James and Karla Murray have been…
Read More…the company was located at 105 Third Avenue until 1958, moving then to 107 Third Avenue for fear of 105 Third Avenue being demolished. Thankfully, this did not happen. The…
Read More…2009. 110 Second Avenue 1940s tax photo via NYC Municipal Archives 112-114 Second Avenue 112-114 Second Avenue This Gothic Revival-style church was built in 1891-92 and designed by architect Samuel…
Read More…the “East Village”). IRT 6th Avenue El The Sixth Avenue El in Greenwich Village, 1935. Photo courtesy of Berenice Abbott. The Sixth Avenue El was constructed during the 1870s by…
Read More…columns worked into each window frame. Detail of 139 Second Avenue. Detail of 141 Second Avenue. 190 Second Avenue This tenement is especially eye-catching due to its chamfered corner, which…
Read MoreLast week we talked about the history of the building at 48 3rd Avenue and left you wondering about the rest of the block of 3rd Avenue between 10th &…
Read More…limb and talked about 2nd Avenue and 2nd Street in honor of February 2nd (2/2), but today, March 2nd (3/2) we’re expanding our focus. Both 3rd and 2nd Avenues run through the…
Read More…for 70 years before moving to Fifth Avenue & 79th street in 1912. That same year, a permit was filed to replace the mansion with a movie theater. Newspaper articles…
Read More…the functioning of the shipbuilding industry that once lined this portion of the East River. 143-145 Avenue D 143-145 Avenue D But by 1848, 143-145 Avenue D had ceased to…
Read More…parts one, two, three and four. 143-145 Avenue D If you’ve been following our forays into the rich and storied history of 143-145 Avenue D, you’re aware of its transformation…
Read More…one of the most exciting corners in New York City show business. It may have been demolished in 1968, but the Loew’s Avenue B Theater provided the surrounding East Village…
Read More…decades as the Dry Dock District. Federal style lintel at 143 Avenue D. By 1848, the Dry Dock Company vacated 143-145 Avenue D, and the building was being used as…
Read MoreIn honor of Small Business Week, we’re delving into the history of Alabaster Books, at 122 Fourth Avenue. Alabaster Books shines as a cultural remnant of Fourth Avenue Book Row…
Read More…First Avenue Estate and Concerned Citizens of E64th and E65thSts-First to York Avenues, two tenant groups who have advocated for the preservation of their homes for more than 25 years,…
Read More…first brewery on this Avenue A property. The brewery in 1858 moved uptown to 55th Street and First Avenue. Until at least the mid-1930s, the ground floor of 101 Avenue…
Read More…story in 1933. As further described in the designation report, “Seventh Avenue was extended southward in 1919 from Greenwich Avenue by cutting through the blocks to the south of it….
Read More…have to ask: why isn’t this landmarked? 112 Fourth Avenue, 2020. Ridabock & Co. First on the long list of noteworthy one-time occupants of 112 Fourth Avenue is Ridabock & Co.,…
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…gravitated towards the blocks just west and north of Tompkins Square. But a linear Italian-American enclave formed along and near First Avenue, broadening at 14th Street. Vestiges of this community…
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…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 MoreThe western blockfront of Fifth Avenue between 13th and 14th Street in the neighborhood South of Union Square. Village Preservation’s proposed South of Union Square Historic District was recently named…
Read More…Street, 1942 First Avenue looking north from East 9th Street, 1942 First Avenue looking south from East 9th Street, 1942 First Avenue looking north from East 12th Street, 1942 For…
Read More…as 102 and 104-06 West 14th Street. 14th Street and 6th Ave Train Station with 523-527 Sixth Avenue/104-106 West 14th Street turret in background circa 1916. 1940s Tax Photo. 523-527…
Read More…oldest building on its blockfront, Second Avenue between East 9th & East 10th Street, and one of the only early houses on the avenue to retain its original stoop and…
Read More…the Pyramid Club.” In 2011, GVSHP successfully pushed to have the city’s proposed East Village/Lower East Side Historic District boundaries expanded to include 101 Avenue A (among other sites), and in…
Read More133 Fourth Avenue as it appears today The following post was originally written five years ago to showcase one of our neighborhood buildings with an interesting history, 133 Fourth Avenue….
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…in recent years that wonderful mix had been threatened by demolitions and out-of-scale new construction — watch his Save the South Village video here or above. Watch the whole Save…
Read More…below the fourth-floor windows, a continuous beltcourse above the fourth floor, and rectangular window lintels and sills. The first-floor storefronts have been mostly altered. 126 Second Avenue A three-story with…
Read More…north to East 23rd Street with the western boundary at the Bowery (4th Avenue) and the eastern boundary in a line between what’s now 1st Avenue and Avenue D. Petersfield,…
Read More…parts one, two and three) 143-145 Avenue D It’s been a while since we’ve shown some love to one of our favorite buildings over at 143-145 Avenue D, the oldest…
Read More…Editor of Architectural Forum Magazine helped lead the successful fights to save Washington Square Park and to save our Hudson Street sidewalks. Dr. Dodelson leads an organization which in 1949…
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…bans on same-sex marriage are unconstitutional. Windsor and Spyer also lived at 2 Fifth Avenue and 43 Fifth Avenue. 206 Thompson Street was landmarked as part of the South Village…
Read More…7th Avenue South, corner of West 11th Street. It will replace a one-story structure. This is the second of two new buildings that the LPC has approved on 7th Avenue…
Read More…Mulry Square,, occupying the former MTA parking lot. Photo courtesy of the Villager. 70-74 Greenwich Avenue/160 West 11th Street 70-74 Greenwich Avenue/160 West 11th Street. Just down Greenwich Avenue at…
Read More…founded and published by a prominent member of the Democratic Socialist Party of Italy. 80 Fourth Avenue, 2020. The eight-story loft building at 80 Fourth Avenue was designed in 1898…
Read More…El train. This track is actually part of the Second Avenue El, which ran from 1875 to 1942; north-bound trains ran along First Avenue from Houston to 23rd Street. Just…
Read More…Avenue) — they were actually built facing the no-longer-extant Hancock Street, and now faced (and used the address of) its much larger replacement, Sixth Avenue (in fact, 270 Sixth Avenue…
Read More…Klein’s Store and the pawn shop? You will have to be patient and read the next part of (what has now become) this series about this block of Third Avenue….
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