…dance interpretation of the poem by Abe Meeropol was performed by trailblazing dancer, choreographer, and anthropologist Pearl Primus at Cafe Society in April 1943, only four years after Billie Holiday’s…
Read More…only racism but sexism. (L to R) Count Basie, Teddy Wilson, Hazel Scott, Duke Ellington and Mel Powell at Café Society (ca. 1940) Café Society welcomed some of the biggest…
Read More…taken at the Cafe Society, courtesy of Josh White Jr. The Café Society jazz nightclub opened in 1938 in the basement of 1 Sheridan Square by Barney Josephson as the…
Read More…was best known for founding the Greenwich Village Historical Society; however, the society was one of many causes she would take on throughout her life. Catherine started her career as…
Read MoreWomen’s History Month Walking Tour: Jefferson Market to Café Society You’ll have three chances to join Village Preservation as we take a walk through history in our own backyard. Co-sponsored…
Read MoreWomen’s History Month Afternoon Walking Tour: Jefferson Market to Café Society You’ll have three chances to join Village Preservation as we take a walk through history in our own backyard….
Read MoreWomen’s History Month Midday Walking Tour: Jefferson Market to Café Society You’ll have three chances to join Village Preservation as we take a walk through history in our own backyard….
Read More…home for the N-YHS built upon it was designed by the firm of Mettam & Burke to house the Society’s museum and library. New-York Historical Society at 170 Second Avenue…
Read More…impact this location has had on women’s history in New York City. We’ll end at Café Society, celebrating Billie Holiday and her courageous performance of Strange Fruit at that location….
Read More…end at Café Society by celebrating Billie Holiday and her courageous performance of Strange Fruit at that location. (Meeting location will be shared upon registration.) In between, we’ll learn about…
Read More…Mission.” The men then officially chartered the Children’s Aid Society (CAS) in February of 1853. Charles Loring Brace. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. From its beginnings, the Children’s Aid Society…
Read More…the purchase of the lot, provided it be used for the erection of the Society building. Lithograph by George Hayward of the New-York Historical Society Building, ca. 1862. On October…
Read More…uncovered it; but we learned of the journey that led to their confection. The story of Café Panino Mucho Giusto begins with the chance encounter between a longstanding local café…
Read More…chartered the Children’s Aid Society (CAS) in February of 1853. The first institution of its kind, the Children’s Aid Society instigated the development of social services across the country. From…
Read More…groundbreaking venues within the Historic District – Café Society. Café Society, remembered as the first racially integrated nightclub in New York City, opened in 1938 at One Sheridan Square and…
Read More…the area for generations. One of these is the Italian cafe, which brought new varieties of coffee and a relaxed social atmosphere to the bustling city. These cafes extended onto…
Read More…the more unapologetic Stonewall activists, which in its way was a death knell for the Society. Already, the once-radical work of the Society, the respectful, carefully-crafted demands of the Sip…
Read More…and includes a full lifetime – 81 years – in Greenwich Village. With libraries in mind, we say: keep reading! The New York Society Library’s Founding The New York Society…
Read MoreOn March 22, 1841, the Irish Emigrant Aid Society was established “to afford advice, information, aid and protection to emigrants from Ireland and generally to promote their welfare.” The Society…
Read More…Poets Cafe became a cultural and creative beacon of hope. It has served as a home for poetry, music, theater, and visual arts. A multicultural and multi-arts institution, the Cafe…
Read MoreRose Mendez proclaimed December 2, 2010 to be Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation Day! City Council Member Rosie Mendez recognized the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation in its…
Read More…archive. MacDougal Street night scene of Cafe Wha?, June 25, 1966 (Photo by Fred W. McDarrah/Getty Images) In the 1960s, Cafe Wha? was where some of the first performances were…
Read More…June 16, 2021 at 6:00pm — reserve your spot by registering HERE. Meet one of our 2021 Village Award winners, NewsBar Café, the old-fashioned coffee shop where everybody knows your…
Read More…from Chealsea Hartney before the current situation touted the independent nature of the cafe: Newsbar is an amazing local gem of a cafe. It’s always bustling and provides a great…
Read MoreThe Cornelia Street Cafe which opened its doors in July 1977 needs your help. In 1998, the Cafe was one of the restaurants recognized by GVSHP with one of our…
Read More…special character of the Village. For more information on the Cafe Royal: Sunset on Yiddish Empire, NY Post, October 29th, 2010 OSCAR SZATHMARY.; Owner of the Cafe Royal Dies After…
Read More…around Latin culture largely in the late 20th century. Some of these historic sites are still functioning as they were in the sixties or seventies, including, the Nuyorican Poets Café,…
Read More…performed on a more intimate stage in the Village at Cafe Society alongside other future stars. Ella Fitzgerald. Ella Fitzgerald was born in Newport News, Virginia on April 25, 1917….
Read More…and Mel Powell at Cafe Society Café Society, the first racially integrated nightclub in New York City, was a groundbreaking institution. Opened in 1938 on Sheridan Square, the existence of Café Society was possible…
Read MoreDavid Rothenberg and Tom Duane. Last night, GVSHP and the Fortune Society hosted a celebration in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Fortune Society’s founding by David Rothenberg, and…
Read MoreAs Village Preservation prepares to unveil a plaque commemorating the “Sip-In” at Julius’ Bar on April 21, 1966, one might wonder about the Mattachine Society of New York, which organized…
Read MoreAmerican Seamen’s Friend Society Sailors’ Home and Institute, 1940s tax photo By the early nineteenth century New York City had developed as the largest port in the United States and…
Read More…Bus Stop Café at 597 Hudson Street at Bethune Street, our June Business of the Month. In 1995 Georgia Damalis opened this now-classic spot. Her brothers ran the restaurant Manatus,…
Read MoreCafé Le Metro, now the 13th Step Sports Bar, was located at 149 Second Avenue. A four-story Greek Revival row house, it is the oldest on its block front and…
Read MoreChildren’s Aid Society, Elizabeth Home for Girls We continue celebrating Landmarks50 with a look at individual landmarks in our neighborhood. Yesterday we learned about the Children’s Aid Society, Tompkins Square…
Read More…places that are contemporary, modest, and commercial. These are among the paradoxes that you encounter at our October 2022 Business of the Month, Gaia Italian Cafè at 226 East 3rd…
Read MoreActor Montgomery Clift, far left, and Kevin McCarthy (along with several other unidentified diners), eat at the San Remo Cafe. San Remo Collection, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation Off…
Read More…some of her old Village haunts. Southeast corner of Bleecker and Thompson Streets where the Cafe Au Go Go once stood mid-block. 1940. Source: NYPL. According to one source, her…
Read More…Greenwich Village — or at least it did not until now. Through the wonders of immigrant entrepreneurialism, our January Business of the Month, CafeDelia at 59 East 8th Street (at…
Read MoreVillage Preservation is very proud to honor Bus Stop Cafe as a 2024 Village Awardee! Join us in recognizing Bus Stop Cafe and five other remarkable awardees at Village Preservation’s Annual…
Read More…from the Cornelia Street Café.” Volume I is out from Mosaic Books, with illustrations by longtime Village resident Pat Preble. “After their heyday in the fifties and sixties,” writes Hirsch, “cafés…
Read More…the Cornelia Street Café” and other writings. “After their heyday in the fifties and sixties,” writes Hirsch, “cafés and coffeehouses, a staple of New York life, began to fall by the…
Read More…and lyrics, and would go on to offer him his first recording contract. Cafe Society Cafe Society at 1 Sheridan Square Hammond was an investor in Café Society, Barney Josephson’s club…
Read MoreThe Fortune Society’s Village Roots David Rothenberg is one of Greenwich Village’s most influential political activists. Originally drawn to the neighborhood’s open and accepting culture, he quickly became interested in…
Read More…Village, or NoHo: click here to nominate your favorite. Want to help support small businesses? Share this post with friends. More than ever, the comfort and convenience of a local cafe, where…
Read MoreSan Remo Café Plaque Unveiling Please join us as we unveil our latest historic plaque marking the site of the legendary San Remo Café, located at 189 Bleecker Street/93 MacDougal…
Read More…for press coverage in the 21st century. 4. First racially integrated nightclub in New York Al Casey and Eddie Barefield at Cafe Society, between 1946 and 1948. Via Wiki Commons. Café…
Read MoreOn December 14, 1911, four artists assembled to discuss the world of new possibilities open to their field. They resolved to “[organize] a society for the purpose of exhibiting the…
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Cafe Bizarre was one of the early Greenwich Village folk clubs, opened by Rick Allmen in 1957 with folk singer Odetta as the headliner. It came to also host renowned…
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Cafe Bizarre was one of the early Greenwich Village folk clubs, opened by Rick Allmen in 1957 with folk singer Odetta as the headliner. It came to also host renowned…
Posted June 2, 2020
Read More…stands up for these rights even when the cause is unpopular. The ACLU has become so ingrained in American society that it is hard to imagine an America without it….
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The 9/11 Tiles for America Memorial was created by Greenwich Village community members to honor the memory of those lost on September 11th, 2001, and the destruction of the World…
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Professional photographer Robert A. Ripps took these images of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and of Ground Zero and its surroundings in the days and weeks following…
Posted September 8, 2021
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Professional photographer Robert A. Ripps took these images of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and of Ground Zero and its surroundings in the days and weeks following…
Posted September 8, 2021
Read More…– at a basement venue called Cafe Society. (Several history students at NYU wrote a great history of the cafe for Off the Grid just a year ago.) When owner…
Read More…speech following the Emancipation Proclamation. Billie Holiday singing “Strange Fruit” for the first time at Cafe Society; photo via Library of Congress 8. The First Racially-Integrated Nightclub in New York City/First…
Read More…1980s the New York Times reported that the Society received an award for the excellence of its local history archive from the American Society of State and Local History. Theirs was the…
Read MoreHave you heard of the incomparable Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Lorinhoven? Interestingly, many may not have, yet. But her star is on the ascent at long last! A German-born provocateur, fashion…
Read MoreFifth Avenue, which begins at Washington Square, was born in 1824, and quickly became New York’s premiere residential address. Its development began at its southern end, where the grandest mansions…
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