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(Re-)Remembering Diane Arbus
…passed their test in life. They’re aristocrats.” Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph (New York: Aperture Foundation, 1972) Village Homes of Diane Arbus: Top-left: 130 Charles with entry door to the…
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Strange Bedfellows: Stanford White and Diane Arbus
…as Beaux Arts architect Stanford White and outsider chronicler Diane Arbus lived next door to each other in the heart of the district. Stanford White (l.), Daine Arbus Stanford White…
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Diane Burns: Native American Poet, East Village Prophet
Native American poet Diane Burns was a luminous, integral fixture of the Downtown arts scene beginning in the 1970s until her death in 2006. Her poetic body of work contains…
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Women of the Mimeo Revolution: Diane DiPrima & Anne Waldman
…producing the acclaimed literary magazines Yugen, The Floating Bear, Angel Hair, and Telephone, respectively. Diane DiPrima / Floating Bear 1963 edition of The Floating Bear Poet and Villager Diane DiPrima…
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March 14th — A Big Day for Village Birthdays
…Diane Arbus would have turned 92 tomorrow. Arbus was a mid-20th century photographer whose work largely focused on people marginalized by society, including nudists, ‘transsexuals’ (a term used by her…
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Stormé DeLarverie: Village Guardian
…know. But taking a closer look at Stormé’s life reveals a vibrant performer and outspoken protector. Storme DeLarverie as photographed by Diane Arbus in 1961 Born to an African American…
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LPC Spotlights Women in the Arts
…Yorker Diane Arbus – well-known for her photographs of off-beat subjects – moved to the carriage house at 131 1/2 Charles Street in 1959 and remained there until 1968. Located…
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Who Were the Most Impactful Women of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo?
…vote for your top ten picks, click here. Berenice Abbott — Pioneering photographer whose iconic images defined a changing early 20th century New York. Diane Arbus — Transformative and celebrated…
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Finding the Most Impactful Women of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo
…Blackwell, Brownmiller. To vote for your top ten picks, click here. Berenice Abbott — Pioneering photographer whose iconic images defined a changing early 20th century New York. Diane Arbus —…
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Westbeth – Adaptive Reuse Trailblazer, Home, Studio, and Community for Over 50 Years
…popularly as a “loft conversion.” Merce Cunningham with Carolyn Brown at Westbeth, 1972. Photo by Wendy Perron. Notable residents of Westbeth included journalist Bettye Lane, photographer Diane Arbus, the Martha Graham…
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The Backstory on Backhouses
…stable/backhouse in which the photographer Diane Arbus resided from 1959 to 1967. Some backhouses, however, had less romantic origins and lives. Oftentimes backhouses were built behind tenements or “tenementized” rowhouses…
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A Landmark Anniversary for Westbeth
…park. Since its transformation to artists’ housing, Diane Arbus, Merce Cunningham, Moses Gunn, Hans Haacke, and Gil Evans, among countless other artists, lived or worked at Westbeth. Westbeth remains an…
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Happy Birthday, Richard Meier
…Village waterfront. The complex features 383 residential and work studio units, as well as gallery, performance and commercial spaces and a park. Since its transformation to artists’ housing, Diane Arbus,…
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Fingers Crossed for Another: Individual Landmark Designations We’ve Won
…transformation to artists’ housing, Diane Arbus, Merce Cunningham, Moses Gunn, Hans Haacke, and Gil Evans, among countless other artists, lived or worked at Westbeth. One of the first residential developments…
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The Backstory on Backhouses
…of the building leads to a former stable/backhouse in which the photographer Diane Arbus resided from 1959 to 1967. Some backhouses, however, had less romantic origins and lives. Oftentimes backhouses…
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Westbeth Is Born!
…Among the artists and actors who lived in Westbeth over the years were Diane Arbus, Paul Benjamin, Robert De Niro Sr., Vin Diesel, Moses Gunn, Hans Haake, Muriel Rukeyser, and…
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Westbeth Landmarked!
…its transformation to artists’ housing, Diane Arbus, Merce Cunningham, Moses Gunn, Hans Haacke, and Gil Evans, among countless other artists, lived or worked at Westbeth. One of the first residential…
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Stanford White’s Murder and the “The Trial of the Century”
…lived until 1947. Click here to read about Stanford White’s connection to Diane Arbus. Click here to read about McKim Mead and White’s New York Public Library Tompkins Square Branch….
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“Our Village is Star in an Uptown Exhibit” — September 26, 1990
…cooperative of artists’ housing where a number of successful writers and artists lived: poet Galway Kinnell, actor Robert DeNiro, dancer Merce Cunningham, photographer Diane Arbus, journalist Bettye Lane, actor Vin Diesel, and…
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Open House New York in Greenwich Village: The history of three unique sites
…as well as Diane Arbus (who killed herself while living there in 1971 shortly after Westbeth opened), Moses Gun, Gil Evans, Bob Gruen, Hans Haake, Vin Diesel, Robert De Niro…
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Memorializing Our Neighborhoods’ Remarkable Past One Plaque At A Time!
…Diane Arbus, Merce Cunningham, and Ralph Lee, who launched and for many years ran from his studio one of the neighborhoods more exuberant public celebrations, the Halloween Parade. (Check out…
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The Artists of the Greenwich Village Historic District
…influencing photographers Helen Levitt, Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, and Bernd and Hilla Becher. He died in 1975. Roy Lichtenstein, 745 Washington Street Although raised on the Upper West…
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A Few Favorite Federal Houses
…home to groundbreaking photographer Diane Arbus from 1959 to 1968. After a two-year push by a new owner to significantly alter this highly intact and rare home, the Landmarks Preservation…
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Saul Leiter, Artist, Photographer and East Villager
…photographers as Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, William Klein, and Richard Avedon. Street Scene, 1959 by Saul Leiter ©Saul Leiter Foundation/Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery Leiter had begun to experiment with color…
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Election Day 2022: Getting Out the Vote with the League of Women Voters of New York City
…can view the entire presentation, from Diane Burrows of the League, below or on our YouTube page. All You Need To Know To Vote Diane shared the components of making…
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Revolutionaries on East Second Street: The STAR House
…on the NYU sit-ins (Arthur Bell papers, New York Public Library [courtesy of Tourmaline]). Marsha P. Johnson handing out flyers in front of NYU (Diane Davies, NYPL Digital Collections). The…
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Celebrating National Great Poetry Reading Day
…here to read more. Diane Burns: Native American Poet, East Village Prophet Native American poet Diane Burns was a luminous, integral fixture of the Downtown arts scene beginning in the…
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The Art and Archives of the American Indian Community House
…crucial resource for Native visual and performance artists, offering support to emerging talents, like Diane Burns, a key figure in the 1980s poetry scene whose first performance was at AICH….
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“Secret Banned Rites”: Poets at Café Le Metro
…many, many other luminaries, the cafe hosted Robert Duncan, Anne Waldman, Ted Berrigan, the UMBRA Collective, John Ashbery, Diane Di Prima, and Patti Smith. Newsday reported in 1963 on artists…
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Even More on the Mob
…at his funeral at Lanza-Provenzano Woody Allen famously used the restaurant to film a scene in his 1993 film, Manhattan Murder Mystery. Characters played by Diane Keaton and Allen himself…
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Native American Contemporary Art Sites in our Area
…our area which are significant within the Native American Arts community, and we thought we would share them with you today. AMERINDA founder, Diane Fraher (Osage/Cherokee) Wilmer Jennings Gallery at…
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“An Intimate and Unconventional Space:” Caffe Cino
…colleagues at Caffe Cino included Edward Albee, Diane Di Prima, Doric Wilson, Sam Shepherd, and many others who went on to great acclaim. A group of actors and patrons at…
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A Decision By the State Was An Important Milestone in Preserving Gansevoort Market
…were Diane von Fürstenberg, Christian Louboutin, Alexander McQueen, Stella McCartney, Moschino, and a handful of others. GVSHP was watching this progress in our area, and in 2001 we hired historian Thomas…
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Business of the Month: Screaming Mimi’s, 382 Lafayette Street
…Diane Keaton. It featured men’s Vintage tweed jackets for women, men’s ties worn as belts, and other looks inspired by the Woody Allen movie. Laura admits the shop wasn’t a…
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The Historic South Village, home of the Beats and Bob Dylan
…places “…where Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Peter Orlovsky, Diane DiPrima, Gregory Corso and William S. Burroughs made literary history.” Dylan’s second album, cover photo with Suze Rotolo shot…
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The Beauty of the University Place & Broadway Corridors
…most prominent names in American arts, literature, music, and radical politics. This includes writers Robert Louis Stevenson, Hart Crane, Thomas Wolfe, Richard Wright, Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka, Diane di Prima, Horton…
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2014 Village Award Winner: Kathy Donaldson
…way. Kathy, holding her proclamation from the Manhattan Borough President, with fellow BBCer Diane Widowski. One of BBC’s most prominent accomplishments under Kathy’s leadership has been Ye Olde Village Fair,…
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My mind was really wandering today…
…Archives building, to some private homes, to Westbeth, and to the Diane von Furstenberg headquarters. And let’s not forget the High Line Park. Which reminded me of gardens, and another…
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440 West 14th Street: Then & Now
…ten years later: the windows of the Diane von Furstenberg Studio have been re-opened with single-pane glass (perhaps not the best contextual choice), a perforated glass canopy running the length…
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Patricia Field’s Village Shops
…the movie “Lady Beware” starring Diane Lane. Field continued her work in film and TV, and in 1995 sheoutfitted the movie Miami Rhapsody, which is where she first met Sarah…
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Comedy Night at the Village Underground
…playing his dad, Annie Potts will play his mom and Diane Guerrero from Orange is the New Black will be playing his wife. Robert Kelly: plays Louis CK’s brother on…
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The Public Theater’s Manahatta and the Confluence of Three Nations at Astor Place
…arts and history in our neighborhood, check out these links: Contemporary Native American Art Sites Native American Poet, Diane Burns The Native American Community House Art and Archives of the…
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Patricia Field’s Village Shops
…the movie “Lady Beware” starring Diane Lane. Field continued her work in film and TV, and in 1995 sheoutfitted the movie Miami Rhapsody, which is where she first met Sarah…
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Renwick Row: Decorating 19th Century Architecture
…and worked with architectural features. Clay was so skilled he worked with such notable clients as Tom Wolfe and Diane Von Furstenburg. He was commissioned to reconstruct the fence that…
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: The Hotel Albert on University Place
…who have stayed at the Albert (or St. Stephens) include Robert Louis Stevenson, Harte Crane, Richard Wright, Anais Nin, Diane di Prima and Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka. Political radicals stayed at…
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Image Archive Collection: The High Line in 1979 — Noah Greenberg’s “Manhattan Promenade” Proposal
…with his wife Diane, her dog Dinky, and their daughter Becca, took these photographs. Noah Greenberg and his family at their home at 529 Huston Street Noah and Dinky used…
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From Mark Twain and the Lovin’ Spoonful to Tech Hub: The overlooked history of Union Square South
…and artistic crowd from the beginning, hosting writers including Robert Louis Stevenson, Hart Crane, Thomas Wolfe, Richard Wright, Leroi Jones, Diane di Prima, Horton Foote, Anais Nin, Mark Twain, and…
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Angel Hair Press: “A Rush of Poetic Chutzpah” in the East Village
…the Village Voice with little luck. Anne had also met, and been greatly inspired by, the late Diane di Prima at the Albert Hotel, a legendary artists’ residence in Greenwich…
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The Umbra Collective: “The Downtown Poets Stayed Downtown”
…Café Le Metro on Second Avenue. Le Metro hosted Monday and Wednesday night readings throughout the 1970s. On the rotation alongside Denise Levertov, William S. Burroughs, Diane DiPrima, and Allen…
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Business of the Month: Namaste Bookshop, 2 W. 14th St.
…for decades. Karma? You tell us. As Diane S wrote on Yelp: “When iconic East West books closed about a year ago, it left a void in the metaphysical community. I’m happy…
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149 Second Avenue
…poets of that era that were known to have frequented Le Metro were Allen Ginsberg, Diane di Prima, Peter Orlovsky, John Weiners, Amiri Baraka, and William S. Burroughs. Grand parlor…
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