…city was granted rights to the land at West Washington and Gansevoort Street. It would take another fifteen years to acquire the land at West Bloomfield and Gansevoort. By 1880…
Read More…Street. It would take another fifteen years to acquire the land at West Bloomfield and Gansevoort. By 1880 the former Hudson River Rail Road freight yard on Gansevoort Street, then…
Read More…1884. This was the former site of Fort Gansevoort, and is now the home of the Gansevoort Market Meat Center and the Whitney Museum. Gansevoort Market in 1886 (courtesy of…
Read More…the Gansevoort Historic District, was named “Sapokanikan,” and served as a Native American trading station. The footpath that was used to get to the riverbank is now Gansevoort Street. This…
Read More…Preservation League of NY State, naming Gansevoort Market one of the seven most significant and endangered historic sites in New York State. Cobblestones on Gansevoort Plaza, in the heart of…
Read More…the district. In 1949, when the city was in the midst of building a new meat market facility, workers encountered Fort Gansevoort’s foundation, constructed 138 years before. The Gansevoort Market…
Read More…Save Gansevoort, a grassroots organization formed to face a threat to the Gansevoort Market Historic District (you can read the District Designation Report Part 1 here and Part 2 here)….
Read More…on Gansevoort Street. Originally an Indian trail leading to the Hudson River, later called the Great Kill or Old Kill Road, the street was renamed in 1837 for Fort Gansevoort,…
Read More…to us, The John T. Krawchuk Collection: The West Village Waterfront in the Early 1990s in our historic image archive. Gansevoort Destructor Plant (demolished) on Gansevoort Peninsula, west of West…
Read More…the Gansevoort Market Historic District. The first new district to be enacted in the Village since the first Greenwich Village Historic District in 1969, Gansevoort Market was designated as a…
Read MoreOn September 9, 2003, the Gansevoort Market Historic District was officially designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. The designation not only culminated a three-year effort to protect…
Read More…in this historic district on Gansevoort Street. You can read more about this and how you can help fight it here. Today, Gansevoort Market/Meatpacking District is no longer a sleepy enclave,…
Read More…of a Gansevoort Market historic district to the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC). By September of 2003, the LPC voted to approve the proposed Gansevoort Market historic district….
Read More…any of her other works. Gansevoort Number 1 is believed to be the view from her apartment. The painting carefully highlights each individual cobblestone on Gansevoort Street leading up to…
Read More…have remained remarkably intact. One such location where you can peer back in time is at Gansevoort Plaza, where Greenwich Street/9th Avenue, Gansevoort Street, and Little West 12th Street intersect….
Read MoreLast night, Community Board 2’s Traffic & Transportation Committee reviewed proposed revised design elements and street furniture for Gansevoort Plaza in the Meatpacking District. The Meatpacking Improvement Association (which will…
Read More…one large dump truck. The West Side Highway after the December 1973 collapse On December 15, 1973, a 60-ft section of the highway between Little West 12th Street and Gansevoort…
Read More…1854. Gansevoort Pumphouse at Gansevoort Street and Washington Street. Now the location of the Whitney Museum. From the GVSHP Image Archive. Ca 2000 Read more here about the Gansevoort Market…
Read More…public market. The Gansevoort Market officially opened in 1884 on the enormous paved open-air block between Gansevoort and Little West 12th streets, on the site of the former Fort Gansevoort,…
Read More…Save” fortified our efforts to protect these historic and endangered areas. 2002: GANSEVOORT MARKET The Gansevoort Market Historic District. The Gansevoort Market Historic District is an architecturally and culturally rich…
Read MoreThe Gansevoort Street side of the Hotel Gansevoort Billboards (Image via Google) Nine years ago today, on a freezing cold February day (like today), Village Preservation and hundreds of neighbors…
Read More…Gansevoort Market Historic District Village Preservation was instrumental in achieving landmark status for the Gansevoort Market Historic District in 2003, of which a portion of Little West 12th Street is…
Read More…Street), 104-108 Gansevoort Street (aka 533-535 West Street ), 94-98 Gansevoort Street, 90-92 Gansevoort Street, 84-88 Gansevoort Street, 802-816 Washington Street (aka 76-82 Gansevoort Street and 91-95 Horatio Street), 105-107…
Read More…Gansevoort Street, built in 1887 and formerly known as the Goelet Building. 53-61 Gansevoort Street; Berenice Abbott’s photo is left. Made famous by Berenice Abbott’s iconic image, thanks to the…
Read More…and dynamic history as a shipping hub, a market district, a font of industrial innovation, and an artist and LGBTQ enclave. Before European settlers colonized the area now called Gansevoort,…
Read More…Market complex and the surrounding Gansevoort Market neighborhood, go to GVSHP’s “Resources” page, click on “designation reports“, then “historic districts”, and go to Gansevoort Market. There you will find links…
Read More…and fought for the Gansevoort Market Historic District, which stretched from Chelsea Market in the north to Gansevoort and Horatio Streets on the south, from West Street to Hudson Street,…
Read More…sought by GVSHP and its allies for several years under the flag of the Save Gansevoort Market Task Force, meant that buildings on Gansevoort, Little West 12th, 13th, 14th and…
Read More…affixed to the Hotel Gansevoort. Fashion Week Faux Pas – the temporary billboard put up by the Hotel Gansevoort The billboard disappeared almost as quickly as it appeared; apparently the…
Read More…the 2016 Regina Kellerman Award for Outstanding Work In Preservation was Save Gansevoort, a grassroots organization formed to face a threat to the Gansevoort Market Historic District. Following the long tradition…
Read More…side of Gansevoort Market Meat Center btw. Little West 12th and Gansevoort Streets. 401 West 14th Street, former location of the “Western Beef” warehouse-style supermarket. When you hear the phrase…
Read More…hear today, and was once given to the only fort ever built in Greenwich Village, Fort Gansevoort, located on the Hudson River in today’s Gansevoort Market / Meatpacking District. Just…
Read More…Gansevoort Street are all paved with historic stones and protected in the Gansevoort Market Historic District. GVSHP successfully proposed that district for landmarking in 2003, and the streets were no…
Read More…sucker for a building that accommodates an awkwardly shaped lot, attesting to both New York’s multi-layered street and development histories. 53-61 Gansevoort is part of the Gansevoort Market Historic District…
Read More…farmland, introduction of transportation technology including maritime and rail, growth of its built forms (streets and infrastructure), the creation of the West Washington and Gansevoort Markets, further development spurred by…
Read More…Metamorphosis Photos of Gansevoort Market / Meatpacking District by Brian Rose Wednesday, July 9 6:30 – 8:00 P.M. Free; reservations required Washington Square Institute 41 East 11th Street, near University…
Read More…proposed for designation by GVSHP. These include: Gansevoort Market Historic District Designation Report Designated September, 2003, and nominated by GVSHP’s Save Gansevoort Market project, this report includes the history of…
Read MoreThe Whitney Museum of American Art opened its doors at its new location—99 Gansevoort Street—on May 1, 2015. Founded by sculpture and arts patron Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, the museum famous…
Read More…Graham and Merce Cunningham as two luminaries with great impact on our neighborhoods. Just a few blocks away, an interactive installation entitled “A Momument to Choice” resides at Gansevoort Plaza,…
Read More…of the Gansevoort Market Historic District, both proposed and advocated for by Village Preservation. The area had a spur of development following the construction of the nearby Miller Elevated Highway…
Read MoreA revised iteration of the proposal to build a towering addition atop the 1938 Moderne-style building at 837 Washington Street in the Gansevoort Market Historic District will be shown today…
Read More…12th Street in 1989. Photograph by GVSHP. On the other side of the High Line, just outside the Gansevoort Market Historic District, sits two old three-story rowhouses at 53 and…
Read More…No small fight indeed! Elevated West Side Highway at Gansevoort Street circa 1968 photo credit: Steven Zane, Library of Congress The west side of Manhattan has changed many times over…
Read More…commissioned Dunn for several projects, including 53-61 Gansevoort Street (built 1887), which is located in the Gansevoort Market Historic District. All in all, Dunn designed seven buildings that are part…
Read More…series of poetry readings on the Gansevoort Pier, which were written about in The New Yorker Magazine. Among those who participated in these readings was Magie Dominic, who will be…
Read More…to a party atmosphere featuring live DJ’s and $15,000 bottles of champagne. 1 Little West 12th Street was built in 1909 and is located in NYC’s Gansevoort Market Historic District….
Read MoreSarah at the LPC hearing for the Gansevoort proposal Happy New Year! Tomorrow will mark my four month anniversary working for GVSHP and it has been a whirlwind! My…
Read More…of the history of the architecture of the Gansevoort Meat Market. Over fifteen years later, in 2000, we eventually formed the Save Gansevoort Task Force to further research, advocate, and…
Read More…worked as a Customs inspector near the Gansevoort Markets. The important maritime historical connections alone are impressive: the launching of Robert Fulton’s Clermont, the arrival of Isambard Kingdom Brunel’s Great…
Read More…District Gansevoort Market Historic District — 2003 The Gansevoort Market Historic District, for which Village Preservation first proposed designation in 2001, is “distinctive for its architectural character which reflects the…
Read More…whole block from Horatio to Gansevoort Street, and its northern facade sits directly across from where the High Line dead-ends. When walking along the elevated park it almost appears as…
Read More…video you can see the view from the 14th Street section of the High Line down to the West Coast Apartments (formerly the Manhattan Refrigeration Company building) at Gansevoort Street….
Read More…the NYC Gansevoort Market Historic District, as GVSHP had proposed over a decade ago when we first began advocating for the district. Much to our dismay, after heavy lobbying by…
Read More…to New York in 1917 to work for publishing house P.F Collier in the Meatpacking District (the Collier’s Building on Little West 12th Street was included in the NYC Gansevoort…
Read More…lowest anywhere in Manhattan or all of New York City. But by contrast, just a few blocks away, Election District 66114, bounded by Gansevoort, Jane, Washington and West Streets, and…
Read More…District (the Collier’s Building on Little West 12th Street was included in the NYC Gansevoort Market Historic District which GVSHP proposed and fought for in 2003, and in the Gansevoort…
Read MoreThe Meatpacking District was a popular neighborhood for New Year’s Eve revelers. The Meatpacking District—or to preservationists the Gansevoort Market Historic District—was the scene of many a New Year’s Eve…
Read More…Meatpacking District of not too long ago. Historically known as Gansevoort Market, that story has been well documented already, so instead we thought we would focus on the story of…
Read More…part of our Gansevoort Market Historic District in 2001. Additionally, a few years ago, High Line co-founder Josh David did a program for us about his book, High Line: The…
Read More…urge rejection of the proposal for demolition and large-scale new development at 46-74 Gansevoort Street in the heart of the Gansevoort Historic District. The proposal calls for the demolition of two…
Read More…as they are expensive) but the South Village Historic District street signs have started to appear in the western third of the district. Unveiling of the marker for the Gansevoort…
Read More…rowhouses and small apartment buildings. Demolition of the High Line north of Bank Street and what is now Westbeth, all the way to Gansevoort Street where the High Line now…
Read More…a greatly expanded and dramatic new home on Gansevoort Street at the terminus of the High Line, where the museum does more than ever to celebrate and showcase American art…
Read More…the Save Gansevoort Market campaign. The Gansevoort Market Historic District, proposed by GVSHP in 2001 was approved in 2003 as the first new historic district in Greenwich Village in 34…
Read MoreIn the early 2000’s GVSHP conducted research that led to the designation of the Gansevoort Market Historic District. That research included photo surveys of the area. We recently added one such…
Read More…onto Ninth Avenue at Gansevoort Street, through Gansevoort Plaza in the heart of the Meatpacking District. This was one of the many curves the route of the Ninth Avenue El…
Read More…fire damaged this c.1821 building, sponsoring a study of the Gansevoort Market area in collaboration with Columbia University (which would help lay the foundation for the area’s eventual landmark designation…
Read More…Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort Street The Whitney Museum today The Whitney Museum moved to its new Gansevoort Street home in the West Village in 2011, but it…
Read More…Line, image courtesy highline.org “Heartbeat on the High Line…” (“Cardigan,” from the album Folklore, 2020) The base of the High Line is firmly situated along Gansevoort Street at the northern…
Read More…its industrial and gritty roots, the district was emerging as a trendy and stylish neighborhood. Samantha’s fictional apartment at 300 Gansevoort Street embodies the area’s cultural shift. Opting for a…
Read More…Avenue Meatmarket, within the Gansevoort Market Historic District, in 2000. From the Susan De Vries Architecture Collection in Village Preservation’s Historic Image Archive. Huge wins for the protection of the…
Read More…however. Pier 52 in its earlier life as a marine transfer station, 1951. This transfer station was located next to the Gansevoort Destructor Plant. Image: New York Public Library. Gordon…
Read More…know and cherish. Andito will also be helping with preservation initiatives in the South Village, the West Village, NoHo and Gansevoort Market. Andito worked in corporate communications for many years…
Read More…that GVSHP successfully advocated to landmark in 2003 as part of the Gansevoort Market Historic District. We will continue to advocate for the protection of more and more of these…
Read More…area between the newly designated Gansevoort Market Historic District and the Barrow Street (where the West Village Houses, built in the mid-1970’s, began). In 2005, the LPC came back with…
Read More…Gansevoort Street, we find Corporal John A. Seravalli Playground, which commemorates the sacrifice of another young Village resident. John Seravalli served in the Army’s 1st Infantry Division and was killed…
Read MoreBedford Street (photo courtesy of Guney’s Photo Blog, www.guney.org) Gansevoort Hotel’s Pool is the City’s Dirtiest (NY Post) Another British-themed Restaurant Set to Open on Greenwich Avenue (DNAinfo) Waverly Restaurant…
Read More…the West Village (NearSay) Twisty MePa Tower Approved by Landmarks Commission (Curbed) Grass-Covered Walls to Take Over Gansevoort Plaza (DNAinfo) Old Homestead Pays for Lesbian Couple’s Wedding on 1st Day…
Read MoreA remaining meat market in Gansevoort Market (image courtesy of brianrose.com) West Village Cocktail Bar Named Best Bar in the World (NearSay) Part of the Ceiling Fell Down in the…
Read More…neighborhood. Comments will be monitored and selected for featuring throughout the week. We’ve all griped about the worst new buildings in Greenwich Village, the East Village, NoHo and Gansevoort Market….
Read More…the Road) On October 9th in Gansevoort Plaza, the Good Food Fest will be held Eater takes an early look at Frankies 570 on Hudson Street Newcomers Coppelia and Miss…
Read MoreLooking back at Gansevoort Plaza (Forgotten NY) MTA misspells “Bleecker Street” (Gothamist) Greenwich Village duplex feels like something more uptown …. a former Today Show host’s Butterfield House penthouse is…
Read More…the Landmarks Preservation Commission for a Far West Village/Greenwich Village Waterfront Historic District, HERE). The Ninth Avenue/Greenwich Street El, shortly after it was first constructed, pictured here at Gansevoort Street…
Read More…look at the streets of Gansevoort Market, the Far West Village, the South Village, NoHo and the East Village. Bird’s Eye View of Bleecker Street, provided by Bing Maps Streetside…
Read More…advocate for – Greenwich Village, NoHo, Gansevoort Market, the East Village and the South Village. A large part of starting Off the Grid was to share the vast knowledge and…
Read More…Market Complex, the Gansevoort Market, the Bronx Terminal Market, and the First Avenue Retail Market. a 1938 photo of the interior of the First Avenue Retail Market (courtesy of the…
Read More…actively monitors DOB permit activity in the West Village, Gansevoort Market, NoHo and the East Village so we will continue to see how this site evolves in the coming months….
Read More…R: Westbeth; L: Jefferson Market Library Just outside of the Gansevoort Market Historic District lies another big example of such developement- Chelsea Market, which is currently in danger of losing…
Read More…of New York University is located in this district. From 12th Street and Greenwich Avenue west to Miller Highway, we find the Gansevoort and West Washington markets- a wholesale meat,…
Read More…CB2 Landmarks hearing is Monday, November 5th at a location TBD. Applications that will be presented include: 421-425 West 13th Street in the Gansevoort Market Historic District 14 St. Luke’s…
Read More…Photo from the SR/NR report, but provided by the LPC (1979). Our site includes photos in reports for countless individual landmarks as well as these SR/NR districts: Bowery Charlton-King-Vandam Gansevoort…
Read More…serving up steaks in the Gansevoort Market neighborhood. Recently, they hosted a dinner for those affected by Hurricane Sandy. advertisements for neighborhood religious institutions were included in the section of…
Read More…it was known as Sapokanikan through today on the GVSHP website. Or read GVSHP’s report on the more recent history of the Meatpacking District, or its other name, Gansevoort Market….
Read More…proposed South Village Historic District, in the end they voted to designate about 80% of it. In Gansevoort Market, they designated about 70% of what we proposed. There is no…
Read More…sites GVSHP fought to have landmarked, such as the Gansevoort Market Historic District, the Weehawken Street Historic District, and the South Village extension of the Greenwich Village Historic District. But…
Read More…applications being heard tomorrow are within recently designated historic districts that GVSHP proposed and/or helped bring about, including the Gansevoort Market Historic District, the NoHo Historic District Extension, and Phase…
Read More…Robin Shulman and her book Eat The City, which has chapters on both the meat and sugar industries that once dominated the Gansevoort Market area.) Over the years, landfill was…
Read More…from the report’s section on “Industrial Monuments:“ 439-445 West 14th Street 439-445 West 14th Street (Thomas Jackson,1892), Gansevoort Market Historic District, designated 2003. Originally stables for Nabisco (headquartered in the…
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