…the church and much of this block were actually built upon a long-forgotten 19th century cemetery, New York’s third, and at the time largest, Catholic cemetery. May 22 demonstration to…
Read MoreCourtesy of New York Marble Cemetery, Inc. Second Avenue entrance. Courtesy of New York Marble Cemetery, Inc. Here’s a neighborhood old-timer for you. The New York Marble Cemetery, which turns…
Read More…Prior to 1830, the cemetery was located on what was then known as Milligan Street. However, the extension of Manhattan’s “grid ”in 1830 cut the cemetery into its current fragment;…
Read More…century. This was only the third and at the time the largest Catholic Cemetery in New York. While the graveyard was moved to Calvary Cemetery in Queens in 1909, it…
Read More…at Cypress Hills Cemetery and other cemeteries. Methodist Society Cemetery, aka Stillwell’s Cemetery Just north of the Saint Stephen’s Church Cemetery, the Methodist Society Cemetery, aka Stillwell’s Cemetery, occupied an…
Read More…the Marble Cemetery were most likely influenced by the fear of disease. Second Cemetery of Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue, Shearith Israel Second Cemetery of Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue. Photo courtesy of sideways.nyc. Just west…
Read More…the cemetery began operating. The wooden church sat near the southeast corner of Bedford and Morton Streets, with the cemetery beside it. The church was built with two entrances, one…
Read More…bodies from the actual first cemetery were moved there. When the “First” cemetery began to fill to capacity, a “Second” cemetery needed to be established, and they purchased a much…
Read More…current occupant of the White House. New York Marble Cemetery via Garrett Ziegler/Flickr There are only 11 cemeteries remaining in all of Manhattan, and only one, the New York Marble Cemetery,…
Read More…Cemetery and the New York City Marble Cemetery (yes, it’s confusing) both turn 45 tomorrow. Well, they’re actually a lot older than that (over 180 years and counting), but on…
Read More…exact location is unknown. The Congregation’s “second” cemetery, which is today known as the First cemetery because it is the oldest surviving one, was purchased in 1683. That “First” Cemetery…
Read More…inception. In 2014, GVSHP honored the cemetery with a Village Award. The New York City Marble Cemetery New York City Marble Cemetery The New York City Marble Cemetery (an individual…
Read More…FIRST cemetery because it is the oldest surviving one, was purchased in 1683.” That “First” Cemetery of the Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue, Shearith Israel- also known as Chatham Square Cemetery– was established…
Read More…The “First” Cemetery, located in Chinatown/the Lower East Side, dates to 1682, making it older than any cemetery in Manhattan save the northern section of Trinity Churchyard cemetery on Wall…
Read More…the cemetery. Photo courtesy New York Marble Cemetery. The designation report for the New York Marble Cemetery says: “This obscure and dignified cemetery, once located in a fashionable neighborhood, is…
Read More…place.” Its exact location is unknown. The Congregation’s “second” cemetery, which is today known as the First cemetery because it is the oldest surviving one, was purchased in 1683. That…
Read More…is unknown. The Congregation’s “second” cemetery, which is today known as the First cemetery because it is the oldest surviving one, was purchased in 1683. That “First” Cemetery of the…
Read More…Tavern was demolished to make way for the six-story apartment building which now stands at 78 West 11th Street. Second Cemetery of Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue, Shearith Israel Second Cemetery of Spanish-Portuguese…
Read More…Third Street and the Bowery. The New York City Marble Cemetery (an individual landmark and listed on the State and National Registers), was begun shortly after the NY Marble Cemetery,…
Read More…This was only the third and at the time the largest Catholic Cemetery in New York. While the graveyard was moved to Calvary Cemetery in Queens in 1909, it is not…
Read More…Stuyvesant Street was demapped and absorbed into the infamous grid. In 1864 all remains of the cemetery were moved the Evergreens Cemetery in Brooklyn to make way for development. However,…
Read More…in the early 19th century. This was only the third and at the time the largest Catholic Cemetery in New York. While the graveyard was moved to Calvary Cemetery in…
Read MoreMoving westward across the Village through our Cemeteries of the Village series, today we explore one former cemetery site in NoHo and one just north of the NoHo corridor, both…
Read More…that the green-and-white stillness of the New York City Marble Cemetery, which since 1831 has been nothing but a cemetery, blessedly, will remain through its bicentennial and beyond. …
Read More…either. And that the green-and-white stillness of the New York City Marble Cemetery, which since 1831 has been nothing but a cemetery, blessedly, will remain through its bicentennial and beyond….
Read More…buried there until 1851, and in 1864 all remains of the cemetery were moved the Evergreens Cemetery in Brooklyn). The outline of the apartment building which replaced it, along with…
Read More…and housing model since 1988. New York City Marble Cemetery On East 2nd Street between 1st and 2nd Avenues is the Marble Cemetery, a 2014 Village Award winner. One of only two…
Read More…Emma Lazarus. Second Cemetery of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue In 1492, Spain ordered all Jews living within the kingdom to either convert to Christianity or be expelled. Portugal did…
Read More…eastern end which will protect an elm tree there and provide better visual access to the cemetery for the public. Congregation Shearith Israel Cemetery 72-76 West 11th Street 1990s This…
Read More…Awards went to: LaMaMa; New York Central Art Supply; New York Marble Cemetery, Inc; Pino Prime Meats; Unoppressive Non-Imperialist Bargain Books; Village Community Boathouse; and the Regina Kellerman Award went…
Read More…He first became aware of the burial ground in 1991 after receiving a phone call from his mother who learned that the cemetery, which was started by Moore’s Native American…
Read More…earlier reports often do not include photos; as such, these SR/NR reports are great resources for easily accessing historic images. Second Avenue entrance gate to the New York Marble Cemetery….
Read More…landmark in its own right until it closed in 1990.) Mori himself passed away in 1943, and his gravesite in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx is marked with a memorial…
Read More…Greenwich Village the best neighborhood in the world. This year’s Village Awards winners have been selected: LaMaMa New York Central Art Supply New York Marble Cemetery, Inc. Pino Prime Meats…
Read More…riots of 1834, only to be defiantly rebuilt each time. The church also had a cemetery on its grounds, where members of its multi-racial congregation were laid to rest. The…
Read More…and B Community Garden These two community gardens, along with Albert’s Garden, adjacent to the Marble Cemetery on Bond Street, provide a quite respite from the often tumultuous urban landscape….
Read More…to be more long lasting than early skeptics thought. In celebration, the Washington Parade Ground (now Washington Square Park) was created. This former potter’s field and cemetery becoming a center…
Read More…with the Spanish and Portuguese Congregation Shearith Israel, whose “Second Cemetery” (it was actually their third, but the first was destroyed) is located on West 11th Street east of 6th…
Read More…at taxpayer expense. The park boasts an interesting history, not unlike its namesake. From 1812 to 1895 it served as Trinity Church’s St. John’s Cemetery. NYC parks bought the cemetery…
Read More…the block faced a Trinity Church cemetery. The architectural beauty of St. Luke’s Place was carefully detailed in a report by Evelyn G. Haynes, a preservationist and a pioneering member…
Read More…Cemetery in Middle Village, Queens. The toddler dropped her doll as her mother held her up to pull the cord to reveal the sculptures of four figures symbolizing despair, grief,…
Read More…Eye and Ear Infirmary; and serving as a Trustee or Director of the Society for the Prevention for Cruelty to Children, Roosevelt Hospital, Green-Wood Cemetery, the American Museum of Natural…
Read More…When renamed in 1851, the 15 historic rowhouses on the north side of the block faced a Trinity Church cemetery (now James J. Walker Park). Interesting fact: St. Luke’s Place…
Read More…land around Weeksville was further developed. The street grid expanded east, often running through existing Weeksville buildings and lots. Weeksville’s cemetery was demolished to make way for Eastern Parkway. The…
Read More…Thomas Gallaudet (1885-1889) at Gallaudet College in Washington D.C.; the Milmore Memorial (1889-1893) at the Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain, MA; the John Boyle O’Reilly Memorial (1892-96) in the Fenway…
Read More…terms were four years). Cooper passed away in 1883 and was interred at Green-Wood Cemetery. Looking north at Cooper Square and the Great Hall ca. 1917. Image via the Village…
Read More…New York City Marble Cemetery What is an historic district? An historic district is an area where a group of buildings and…
Read More…of it also having been home to a large cemetery where there was reason to believe human remains still lay. For more information about Mary Help of Christians Church, see…
Read More…2014 that the remains were finally placed in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. Today, we honor the brave congregants of the Spring Street Church and the history of the venerable institution….
Read More…1799 by St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery. From the New York City Cemetery Project: During the 18th century, the chapel fell into a state of dilapidation, until little remained except the foundation…
Read More…Widowed thirteen years later, she returned to New York where she died in poverty. She and Dr. Burdell are buried at Green-Wood Cemetery. 31 Bond Street was one of the…
Read More…Church and its now-gone cemetery are drawn in greater detail. And a street called Stuyvesant Street bisects the Village. The five streams of the East Village The Museum of the…
Read More…situation and in every individual, have created around her an atmosphere of sunshine that adds to the happiness and well being of every member of the large family. Eden Cemetery…
Read More…his John S. Bussing & Company. Bussing lived at 4 East 12th Street for nearly 20 years until his death. He was buried in Greenwood Cemetery. In addition to his…
Read More…Byrne. The lyrics describe a post-apocalyptic landscape where a revolutionary hides out in a deserted cemetery, surviving on peanut butter. ‘I wrote this in my loft on Seventh and Avenue…
Read More…Green-Wood Cemetery, Trinity Church, Pratt Institute, and the Player’s Club, Archigrafika provides graphics and design for some of New York’s premier institutions of arts, history, and culture. This summer, Archigrafika…
Read More…working with our members. Chelsea comes to us from the Green-Wood Historic Fund, where she promoted the 178-year-old Green-Wood Cemetery through innovative programs, membership, and other cultural projects. During her…
Read More…courtesy of nycemetery.files.wordpress.com. On 10th Street, steps away from the GVSHP office, St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery was once part of the property owned by Peter Stuyvesant and also…
Read More…park across the street, a cemetery in the 19th century, is now named) lived at no. 6 in 1926 when he was elected Mayor. The celebrated poet Marianne Moore lived at…
Read MoreAs we near the end of 2014, we thought we’d look back on the several dozen exciting lectures, book talks, exhibitions, walking tours, forums, panels, and community meetings conducted by…
Read More…New York, on April 14, 1894. He was interred at Green-Wood Cemetery. Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. While the steamship General Slocum is remembered as a terrible tragedy in the…
Read More…on that verdant farm is why even today the church does not face either Second Avenue or 10th Street – neither existed at the time. St. Mark’s Cemetery on the…
Read More…Genovese is buried in a family plot in Lakeview Cemetery in New Canaan, Connecticut. Winston Moseley remains in New York State Prison. Retired since 1997, Mary Ann Zielenko lives in…
Read More…destroyed by a fire. The site was excavated in 2006 in the process of being cleared for the new Trump SoHo condo hotel, and the church’s former cemetery was uncovered….
Read More…lead it. Part of their task was to establish the Diocese’s first cathedral; Kohlmann chose the site of St. Paul’s Cemetery on the corner of Mott and Prince Streets. Joseph…
Read More…the arts.” A couple of things are interesting to note about the garden. The stone wall in the back is connected to the New York Marble Cemetery. Along the side…
Read More…development named “The Steiner” was built on the site, in spite of it being home to a large cemetery, which many believe human remains still lay. © Village Preservation 6. John’s of…
Read More…487 Hudson Street, Greenwich Village’s oldest church, after a devastating fire. We also supported efforts to restore the Congregation Shearith Israel Cemetery on West 11th Street, the oldest green space…
Read More…2004 and a small annual ceremony at the cemetery monument in Queens, but more needs to be done to make up for one hundred years of forgetting rather than remembering….
Read More…(also known as St. John’s Burial Ground), a melancholy setting, which must have appealed to his moody, romantic nature. St. John’s Cemetery c. 1895 In 1844, Poe relocated to 85…
Read More…given a new home in Green Wood Cemetery in 2014. In November of 2017, the Trump Organization reported that the $450 million, 46-story hotel condominium was no longer going to…
Read More…was buried in the Hungarian Jewish cemetery in Queens Amidst the upheaval and changes of WWII, the asylum moved to Far Rockaway in 1944, where the Hartmans had a summer…
Read More…preserve additional parts of the Lower East Side, including the New York Marble Cemetery and the Bowery, which is NYC’s oldest thoroughfare and the birthplace of tap dance, streetcars, vaudeville,…
Read More…tours. On that tour you’ll find the former homes of great baseball players, French Prime Ministers, spies, civil libertarians, and many more, as well as the cemetery of the first…
Read More…are reflective of history and convey significance, including building interiors, cemeteries, bridges and landscapes. Historic Streetlight New York City Marble Cemetery …
Read More…where he resumed his landscape painting career. He died at age 81, and is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery. To learn more about historic design and architecture in Greenwich Village, check…
Read More…in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, to Washington D.C. for burial near his brother, President John F. Kennedy, at Arlington National Cemetery. Thousands of mourners silently lined the train route and stations…
Read More…in the legacy of vandalisms of the Church as a cast of thieves taken by the architecture and its shadows: the rumored slave gallery balconies and its cemetery grounds.” Quote…
Read More…size, it evokes a distinctly Dutch feeling. The churchyard and cemetery of St. Mark’s, 1852 (Dripps 1852) Many more dutch influences and connections can be seen in our neighborhoods, such…
Read More…Stuyvesant Manor House. Following the destruction by fire of the Manor House in October 1778, ownership of the land also began to change hands. The chapel and adjacent cemetery were…
Read More…1868, to honor those who died in the Civil War. Flowers were placed on the graves of both Union and Confederate soldiers in Arlington National Cemetery. In 1873, New York…
Read More…East Village. L: a mock cemetery?; R: Theater for the New City had a Halloween costume ball that kicked off with an outdoor concert And now let’s head over to…
Read More…East Village) Did you miss the Marble Cemetery funeral procession?? (EV Grieve) As NYU Students Move into Palladium, “Limelight” Recalls its Days as Den of Depravity (The Local East Village)…
Read More…the NYC Marble Cemetery, and various other downtown nightlife and performance venues of the early-to-mid-1990s. Her pictures capture a golden age of LGBTQ+ nightlife and performance, as well as an…
Read More…that congregation has been located on Central Park West and 70th Street since 1897, its “Second Cemetery” has been located on West 11th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in…
Read More…church. However, neither that argument, nor the finding by GVSHP that the church (though not the yard) was built on the site of a former catholic cemetery, and that in…
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