…the offices of The New York Times About Ada Louise Huxtable Huxtable was born Ada Louise Landman on the Upper West Side, at a time when architectural criticisms was not…
Read MoreAda Louise Huxtable on Park Avenue in the 1970s. Photo by Bernard Gotfryd. Ada Louise Huxtable (March 14, 1921 – January 7, 2013) was arguably the most formidable critical voice…
Read MoreAda Louise Huxtable, photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt for Life Magazine, 1974. (image courtesy of Dwell) Yesterday, legendary architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable died at the age of 91 at Memorial…
Read MoreRick Kelly of Carmine Street Guitars gives new meaning to the term adaptive reuse The term adaptive reuse is used by architects and preservationists to describe the process of adapting…
Read More…studio in which to write and paint. Portrait of Louise Bryant by John Henry Trullinger By 1915, Louise was a star in Portland, but was dissatisfied living a bourgeois life…
Read MoreSimply put, adaptive reuse is defined as the process of adapting old structure for new uses. From a preservation perspective, adaptive reuse is often a wonderful way to preserve historic…
Read More…and relive some of our favorite moments of 2021 with us! Top Attended Ada Louise Huxtable Ada Louise Huxtable’s New York with Lucie Levine: Over 600 people joined us last…
Read More…the film we have produced, “Adaptive Enchantment,” will premiere October 18th, running through October 24th. We cannot wait to share the surprises that lay in store for our audience! But…
Read More…life through creative processes of thinking and building for adaptive re-use. It made me think how lucky we are that there are some prime examples of this right here in…
Read More…once a labyrinth, a home, an arts community, and a pioneer in adaptive reuse of industrial space. It was rare and precious, but in 1968 it was nothing less than…
Read More…added to our Historic Image Archive; the full original 1979 proposal for adaptive reuse, with text, map, and pictures, has been added to our Preservation History Archive. View Images from the High…
Read More…Christopher Marte and several other local elected officials. Mayor Adams now has the opportunity to veto this legislation. Call on Mayor Adams to VETO the Punitive + Draconian Intro 2443A…
Read MoreWe here at Village Preservation are in the business (so to speak) of trying to help ensure historic buildings are preserved and, when necessary, adapted and reused rather than destroyed….
Read More…were forced to temporarily close or drastically adapt their operations. For an unfortunate number of businesses, the changes, combined with an adverse retail climate, led to their permanent closure. Some…
Read More…the city’s more notable white elephants, fated to go the way of Penn Station and the Brokaw mansion”, in the words of well-known critic Ada Louise Huxtable in a fascinating…
Read More…lived for a period in 1973 with his Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen on East 10th Street. L: Ada Louise Huxtable circa 1960s. Photo credit Garth Huxtable; R: a…
Read More…Art opened in September 1966, New York Times architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable noted that the inverted ziggurat-like Brutalist structure had quickly become “the most disliked building in New York.”…
Read More…Times architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable noted that the inverted ziggurat-like structure had quickly become “the most disliked building in New York.” However, Huxtable also wrote that the building was…
Read More…well-known critic Ada Louise Huxtable in a fascinating 1966 New York Times article. Entitled “A Landmark Saved: Historic Building Scheduled for Razing Is Rescued With Aid of City’s New Law,” the article describes…
Read More…the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to give it that status on October 26, 1965. In the words of well-known critic Ada Louise Huxtable in a fascinating 1966 New York Times…
Read More…while saving the Astor Library. Indeed, the building stands today as a testament to the early years of the landmarks law. In the words of well-known critic Ada Louise Huxtable…
Read More…alter 65 E. 3rd Street from a tenement to a synagogue Beth Haknesseth und Chevra Chochmath Adam M’Plinsk (Synagogue and Association of Chochmath Adam of Plinsk, Poland) was a congregation…
Read More…Adams ran Eve Adams Tea Room on MacDougal Street in the South Village. Adams’ work caught the attention of the young U.S. Bureau of Investigation, leading to her surveillance, arrest,…
Read More…Penn Station, New York Times architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable notably wrote “Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately deserves. Even when we had Penn Station,…
Read More…New York, Ada Louise Huxtable described the Federal style as refined and decorous, “the architecture of good breeding and good manners.” To help understand and appreciate the Federal style and…
Read More…years of the landmarks law. In the words of well-known critic Ada Louise Huxtable in a fascinating 1966 New York Times article entitled “A Landmark Saved: Historic Building Scheduled for…
Read More…In the words of well-known critic Ada Louise Huxtable in a fascinating 1966 New York Times article entitled “A Landmark Saved: Historic Building Scheduled for Razing Is Rescued With Aid…
Read More…“After the Revolution,” wrote Ada Louise Huxtable in Classic New York, “in the time of the new republic, Georgian [style architecture] becomes Federal.” Within that Georgian framework, “there are decorative…
Read More…from Greenwich Village. Another image from Robert Frish, this one from 1993. On April 5. 1973, the day following the WTC’s Grand Opening, NY Times architectural critic Ada Louise Huxtable…
Read More…Jean Dubuffet. Architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable praised the design in the New York Times: “These are ambitious structures of character and quality, surrounded by the most expensive urban luxury…
Read More…public space” in the words of architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable. Today, with that portion of Astor Place pedestrianized, the island is part of a public plaza that affords even…
Read More…The forgotten mama of Dada, the eccentric poet, performance artist, and sculptor Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven was certainly one of the most important feminists and avant-garde artists of the early…
Read More…Eve Adamson Though she continued to direct plays at Cocteau, Adamson stepped down as artistic director in 1989. Her replacement was Robert Hupp, who held the position until 1999, when…
Read More…Provincetown Studio, 1945. Louise Bourgeois with her sculpture The Visitors Arrive at the Door, on the roof of her apartment at 142 East 10th Street, ca. 1944. Louise Nevelson, Girl,…
Read MoreA poster advertisement for the 1971 film adaptation of Fortune and Men’s Eyes. Image Courtesy of IMDb. Telling the stories of incarcerated young men in the 1960s, Fortune and Men’s…
Read More…also home to the Scovill & Adams Company and its publication, The Photographic Times. Scovill and The Photographic Times are credited with being “largely responsible for the birth and progress of photographic commerce…
Read More…1925, Adams risked all to write and publish a book titled Lesbian Love. In a repressive era, when American women had just gained the right to vote, Adams’ association with…
Read More…his mansion before he died in 1919. His wife, Louise Carnegie, remained in the mansion until she died in 1946. Louise left the mansion to the Carnegie Corporation, which leased…
Read More…the center of the park was the site of the birth of the Hare Krishna movement in the United States in 1966. Srila Prabhupada (1896-1977). As the New York Times…
Read More…coming to the United States in September of 1965, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896–1977), the Indian spiritual leader, founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness in New York. He worked…
Read More…They planned and undertook a series of raids from American soil against British Canada and Ireland itself to end British rule through armed rebellion. John O’Mahony circa 1865 John O’Mahony…
Read More…disappointed you over the past year. As George Costanza’s father Frank eloquently stated: In that spirit, we present the 2024 Village Preservation Airing of Grievances! Mayor Eric Adams Mayor Adams…
Read More…and local: The most sustainable building is the one that’s already standing. A prime example of adaptive reuse, Westbeth was formerly a Bell Labs building. Photo courtesy Barry Munger. Old…
Read More…perplexing paradox emerges — one which would seem to imply that historic preservation and, more specifically, adaptive re-use, may both repel, and attract, registered Republicans. Looking at the WNYC map,…
Read More…was offered the opportunity to direct an adaptation of Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. The film was a smashing success, winning the Oscar for best picture…
Read More…were decommissioned following World War II, and the question then became what to do with these still relatively young, sizable, City-owned structures. There were various favored solutions. Several were adapted…
Read More…Change) and lobbied her father for the passage of a constitutional amendment granting women the right to vote. Louise Bryant Louise Bryant and Patchin Place Louise Bryant was a fearless…
Read More…which were eventually donated to Cornell by New York State: https://digital.library.cornell.edu/collections/iwo-jpfo Cartoon depicting Hitler cringing before a company of tanks labeled “American Jews,” “Soviet Jews,” “Canada Jews” “English Jews,” and…
Read More…shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” 6. Louise Bryant, 1 Patchin Place Via Wikimedia Bryant was known as a daring and pathbreaking…
Read More…Novelist Henry Miller even described him once as “The stratospheric Colossus of Sound.” During his time in our neighborhoods, he resided with his wife Louise at 188 Sullivan Street. Isamu…
Read More…up conventional ideas of art and aesthetics. Together they would bring the Dada movement to new intellectual heights. Many think of Man Ray as a photographer. In fact, from his…
Read More…sorts of cookies. One of the most interesting things La Newyorkina serves is a Chamoyada. Chamoyada are made with different fruit “ices”, pickled plum sauce called chamoy, salted chile and…
Read More…loft housing for artists. They dramatically altered the city’s relationship to and accommodation of its artist population, and put in place a strong mechanism for adaptive reuse of historic buildings,…
Read More…2nd Avenue, west side between 2nd & 3rd Streets, looking south in 1969. In the late 1960s, spiritual leader Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada arrived in New York to spread his…
Read More…and immigrants from every corner of the world, is what makes this unique cuisine so tasty, and full of exotic flavors and ingredients. @casabrazilianrestaurant Brazilian feast. #caldinhodefeijao #moqueca #feijoada #frangoapassarinho…
Read More…Richmond Hill became the Vice-Presidential mansion and home of John Adams. After the capitol was moved, Aaron Burr (who would eventually succeed Adams as the country’s third Vice-President) bought the mansion and…
Read More…de Blasio administration released details of their planned upzoning of SoHo and NoHo — and it’s even worse than we imagined. Tell City Officials You Adamantly Oppose This Plan — CLICK…
Read More(l to r): Mayor Eric Adams; Councilmember Christopher Marte; SoHo We are thrilled to report that late Friday Mayor Adams vetoed a draconian, punitive measure we opposed introduced by (now…
Read More…The diversity of empanada options is fortunately on full display in our neighborhoods. While this is a far from comprehensive list, Columbian restaurant Nadas at 48 Greenwich Street is one…
Read More…in Los Angeles, California, Meier had some of his earliest commissions right here in our neighborhood, involving adapting historic, industrial spaces for use by artists. One we got landmarked in…
Read More…women. This included Ada Clare, who was known as “Queen of Bohemia,” and Adah Isaacs Menken, both of whom belonged to his inner clique at Pfaff’s. Both were fond of…
Read More…In this gorgeous adaptation of the James Baldwin story of the same name, director Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) brings Baldwin’s characters to life. Tish and Fonny’s life in the Village is…
Read More…adaptive reuse rather than demolition, and the building was restored and converted between 1965 and 1967. The former police court on the first floor became the Children’s Room; the civil…
Read More…stated that the Hastings Historical Society had a societal archive “equal or superior to the finest village or county archive in this country or Canada.” The landmarked Observatory Cottage in…
Read More…quite a few remain and offer a unique case study into adaptive reuse—the repurposing of buildings or infrastructure for a new, updated use—in our neighborhoods. As a facet of historic…
Read More…quite a few remain and offer a unique case study into adaptive reuse—the repurposing of buildings or infrastructure for a new, updated use—in our neighborhoods. As a facet of historic…
Read More…colors. All pieces are traditional or modern adaptations the Dö Kham folks have designed. And in a time when awareness of cultural appropriation is especially heightened, Kunsang says of their…
Read More…newfound fame, Macmillan’s President Brett quickly started to explore adapting the novel’s plot into a screenplay. Back in the 1930s, books were not commonly adapted into motion pictures, and Brett…
Read More…others. Jack Kerouac narrated the script, which was adapted from part of his 1957 play, Beat Generation. 108 Fourth Avenue, the set of Pull My Daisy. L. to R. Alice…
Read More…The 2nd Birthplace Hip hop music and culture is a powerful mash-up of social consciousness and creative expression. Now globally accepted, hip hop adapts to the environment it encounters. Almost…
Read More…Pistols, Adam and the Ants, and Bow Wow Wow. The Rock Steady Crew. Image via The Hip Hop Museum. Holman is a New York-based artist, writer, filmmaker, and musician. He was an early…
Read More…know, the real thing. Like as Ada Huxtable said way back in the ‘60s, and you feel it. Like I said, the 19th century is palpable. It’s as if the…
Read More…insurance companies. IWO vice president and Harlem resident Louise Thompson Patterson was one of many notable activists to fight for racial equality as part of the IWO. Louise Thompson Patterson,…
Read More…time to address racism and the challenges facing African Americans. Louise Thompson Paterson, 1960. Eight blocks away, from 1930 until 1954, the progressive mutual-benefit fraternal organization the International Workers Order…
Read More…a kind of Muncken paper. And to help get your winter on, he has Marcopoulos’ Transitions and Exits: Photography / Snowboarding / Youth Culture with an Interview by Louise Neri….
Read More…avant-garde art. Before it moved uptown to Madison Avenue, the gallery exhibited one of Louise Bourgois’s first exhibitions. Marc Blitzstein at the piano in his apartment at 4 East 12th…
Read More…But a key part of its history is the immigrants who were the original occupants of these quaint cottages. Long before poet ee cummings, journalists John Reed and Louise Bryant,…
Read More…of its history is the immigrants who were the original occupants of these quaint cottages. Long before poet ee cummings, journalists John Reed and Louise Bryant, authors Charles Platt and…
Read More…alternative than the adaptive reuse and rehabilitation of historic buildings. So, which building is greenest? The Greenest Building movie A new documentary, “The Greenest Building,” seeks to answer that question…
Read More…adaptive re-use of historic buildings (which, to me anyway, is also recycling.) (You can see pictures and video of this lecture if you missed it.) Last June, Françoise took some…
Read More…and three-bedroom apartments, gallery, theater, and commercial spaces, and large landscaped park and courtyard, occurred in 1967-70, at a time when the adaptive reuse of buildings was in its infancy…
Read More…when the neighborhood was known as Kleindeutschland, or Little Germany. Ada Calhoun’s book, “St Marks is Dead” On Monday, January 25th GVSHP will present a free public program with author…
Read More…Ada Calhoun- St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America’s Hippest Street A vibrant narrative history of three hallowed Manhattan blocks―the epicenter of American cool. St. Marks Place in…
Read More…of affordable housing in new developments. The plan has been endorsed by local elected officials, the community board, and an overwhelming majority of residents. But the mayor has adamantly refused…
Read More…and in part upon the trailblazing conversion and adaptive re-use of the complex into Westbeth artists housing in the late 20th century. We’ve written about Westbeth several times on Off…
Read More…you can see from the above letter which we recently stumbled upon, REBNY was an adamant opponent of designation of the Greenwich Village Historic District when it was first proposed…
Read More…Ada Calhoun on her newly released book St. Marks is Dead. Watch her full, very entertaining presentation here. Calhoun, a St. Marks native, has been a crime reporter for the New York Post, a…
Read More…Live has created the biggest stars in film and television including Adam Sandler, Robert Downey Jr., Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and many more. SNL may have launched the careers of its cast…
Read More…Reverend Adam Clayton Powell Sr. and his son Reverend Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the church organized a “People’s Committee” to help individuals find employment, an Employment Bureau, a Free Food…
Read More…Canada. Windsor met Speyer at Portofino Restaurant at 206 Thompson Street in Greenwich Village in 1963. In the 1950s and ’60s, Portofino was a popular meeting place and hangout for…
Read More…by offering her a key part in their film Adam’s Rib, in which she nearly stole the movie from Hepburn and Tracy. She garnered so much praise and attention that…
Read More…Currier & Ives, c. 1876 On March 17, 1776, the British evacuated Boston for Canada, where they would plan for the expected invasion of New York. Washington left Boston for…
Read More…the business of our nation’s government was run out of Federal Hall, Richmond Hill became the Vice-Presidential mansion and home of John Adams. After the capitol was moved, Aaron Burr (who would…
Read More…early student as well) and took advanced playwriting classes at New York University. He eventually became a freelance writer for the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), where he wrote several adaptations…
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