Washington Square Park via Wiki Commons; Jane Jacobs via Wiki Commons Jane Jacobs’ birthday on May 4 is marked throughout the world as an occasion to celebrate one’s own city — its…
Read More…Jane Jacobs. Her groundbreaking 1961 treatise Death and Life of Great American Cities announces at the outset its intent to attack current planning and redevelopment practice and then makes good…
Read More…Work of Jane Jacobs From South Village to South Bronx, the Legacy of Jane Jacobs Celebrating Jane Jacobs — 100th Birthday, and lots of programs, approaching Village People: Jane Jacobs…
Read MoreWho says you can’t fight City Hall? During these particularly troubling and divided political times, it is rewarding and inspiring to look to Jane Jacobs for encouragement. Jane redefined urban…
Read More…away. Jane Jacobs courtesy of Getty Images Indeed, the “mothers” won the day with Jane Jacobs as the godmother of them all. We at GVSHP celebrate Jane Jacobs, continue…
Read MoreHere at GVSHP, we have a special connection to Jane Jacobs (May 4, 1916 – April 25, 2006) — not only because she was on our Board of Advisors until her…
Read More…define post-millennial Manhattan. “ And Alice Sparberg Alexiou, the author of Jane Jacobs’ first biography Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary as well as The Flatiron: The New York Landmark and the…
Read MoreThe battle between Village preservation icon Jane Jacobs and Robert “put a highway through every park” Moses is quite storied and well-documented. But for us, understanding it and preserving its…
Read More…2006 was announced as Jane Jacobs Day. In Toronto, 4 May 2007 was Jane Jacobs Day. Her two cities continue to celebrate her, as does the Rockefeller Foundation, which created…
Read MoreJane Jacobs photo credit nypl.org Jane Jacobs, who once lived on Hudson Street in the West Village, wrote the book, “Death and Life of Great American Cities.” Her activism is…
Read More…about Jane Jacobs. The audio is narrated by Rachel Maddow, host of the Emmy Award-winning Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC. Click here to access all 31 Village Voices exhibits. https://soundcloud.com/villagepreservation/jane-jacobs-village-voices-audio?utm_source=clipboard&utm_campaign=wtshare&utm_medium=widget&utm_content=https%253A%252F%252Fsoundcloud.com%252Fvillagepreservation%252Fjane*]}*-jacobs-village-voices-audio…
Read More…unremarkable looking building offered Jane Jacobs a front-row seat to a perpetual performance of what she called the New York City street ballet, her observations of which fundamentally changed notions…
Read More…Carol Janeway. Note the white tile affixed to the brick pillar at the entrance to Patchin Place on the right. Patchin Place tile detail, image courtesy Victoria Jenssen Janeway announced…
Read More…or NoHo: click here to nominate your favorite. Want to help support small businesses? Share this post with friends. Jane’s Exchange Children, some parents feel, grow up too fast. Other parents find…
Read More…legacy. Jane Jacobs – 555 Hudson Street Streetscape showing the former home of Jane Jacobs in 1999. From Village Preservation’s Historic Image Archive, photograph by Linda Yowell. No Greenwich Village…
Read More…kind of human-scaled, historic, mixed-use neighborhoods Jacobs touted have become amongst the ‘hottest’ and most desirable places to live in the country. Read or Listen to Jane Jacobs’ Oral History…
Read More…pending oral history interview with Jane Jacobs for Village Preservation. Additionally, they spoke with Kent about her work with Jane Jacobs and the preservation battles she led during the 1960s…
Read More…has, since its founding in 2015 by Jane Friedman, pursued the noble mission of nurturing the creative culture of the East Village and preserving the rich artistic heritage of the…
Read MoreDoorknobs made by P.E. Guerin In these modern times, it’s hard to imagine that there could be a metal foundry located on the very residential Jane Street. Well, there is,…
Read MoreJane Freilicher. Photo courtesy of Hamptons Art Hub. On November 29, 1924, artist Jane Freilicher was born. Freilicher was a member of the New York School, “an informal group of…
Read More…to present a revised plan for the Jane Street Triangle redesign. DOT hopes to permanently pedestrianize this small piece of West 4th Street which has been closed to traffic for…
Read More…Street retain their historic connection to these 17th century streets. Read more HERE. The City’s proposed redesign of the Jane Street Triangle The Jane Street Triangle redesign, presented by the…
Read More…her family tree. She grew up with abolitionists and suffragists, and watched Jane Jacobs get arrested protesting the proposed Lower Manhattan expressway. She threw literary parties attended by the likes…
Read More…14, 2022, at 6 PM we will be celebrating seven outstanding awardees — RSVP HERE to attend in person and HERE to participate virtually via livestream. Bonsignour at 35 Jane…
Read More…How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World This is the story of four visionaries who profoundly shaped the world we live in today. Together,…
Read More…fortunate enough to add to its digital archive a dozen of the most epochal of Fred McDarrah’s images of downtown icons, including Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, Jane Jacobs, and Allen Ginsberg. And just…
Read More…an obvious reminder that a site is historically significant. Jane Jacobs Jane Jacobs photograph courtesy of the Estate of Fred W. McDarrah The activist and writer Jane Jacobs was instrumental…
Read More…seminars and workshops on subjects of interest to members, and readings of members’ works. Developing an Opera about Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses Composer Judd Greenstein and director Joshua Frankel…
Read More…you knew it was safe. You knew it was safe. Jane [Jacobs] described it best when she said, ‘The eyes of the community were watching.’ We even felt it here….
Read More…only Democrat elected to the White House between 1860 and 1912. 6. The great urban paradigm shift: Jane Jacobs In post-World War II America (and indeed much of the industrialized…
Read More…Future City credits Jane Jacobs’ work in the Village as creating our road map for the last half-century of preservation. Jacobs’ work gave us a language to discuss how and why historic…
Read More…Jacobs Jane Jacobs was a figure of extraordinary influence on the urban environment in her Greenwich Village community, across the city, and throughout the world. Her most famous work, 1961’s…
Read More…February 3, 1964. (Photo by Fred W. McDarrah/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Jane Jacobs Jane Jacobs at protest outside P.S. 41, 116 West 11th Street, February 3, 1964. Photo by…
Read More…a rally in Washington Square Park organized by none other than Jane Jacobs, (that Jane Jacobs was the organizer for this rally is not exactly historically accurate, but we’ll let…
Read More…architectural journalist, Jane Jacobs, author of the new, acutely perceptive, but highly controversial book, The Life and Death of Great American Cities. Mrs. Jacobs and her Committee fought the City…
Read More…l.: 165 Christopher Street (1961); the Jane Jacobs-inspired West Village Houses; 99 Jane Street, one of the new buildings which replaced the last section of the High Line to be…
Read More…proposed replacing the entire area with high-rise towers surrounded by open space. The neighborhood, including Jane Jacobs who lived in the “blighted” area, rose up and eventually defeated Moses’ urban…
Read More…west side of Manhattan. And began to bring energy right along the street and say, “We’re going to begin to address the water”, the water’s edge, and Jane Jacobs housing…
Read MoreJane Jacobs Way being unveiled in 2009. If you haven’t already read it, the Times reported last week on the recent completion of a catalog of New York City’s ‘honorific’…
Read More…publishing Kurt Vonnegut’s first short story. During her time there, she interacted with some of the Village’s most fascinating and notable figures. Jane Jacobs was one of her storied guests…
Read More…NoHo from the 1960s through the 1980s. A 1972 invitation by The West Village Committee Inc. for a reception in honor of Jane Jacobs This archive is divided into three…
Read More…— how did that come to be? Why wasn’t the district extended all the way west to the Hudson River, as Jane Jacobs wanted? With panelists: Andrew Berman, Executive Director…
Read More…Activists and Other Notables Jane Jacobs Given its location on Hudson Street, it would have been more notable if Jane Jacobs did NOT go to the White Horse. The late…
Read More…quintessential Jane Jacobs Greenwich Village block, the quintessential urban street” (Jacobs herself lived just feet away from Bank Street, on Hudson between Perry and 10th). It is no wonder then…
Read MoreAmerican writer Jane Jacobs (L) and architect Philip Johnson (R) stand with picketing crowds outside Penn Station to protest the building’s demolition, New York City. Placards read: ‘AGBANY is here’…
Read More…and maritime life. Born on September 9, 1859, he was known for his design of key structures like the Ellis Island Immigration Station and what is now called the Jane…
Read More…have been (but was probably not) named for a woman named Jane (not Jacobs). There was a ‘Jane’ who was married to a Dutchman who reportedly named a path for…
Read More…Spot Café, 2 St. Marks Place. Photo by Fred W. McDarrah, used by permission. Go to a protest. Jane Jacobs at protest outside P.S. 41, 116 West 11th Street, February…
Read More…Shirley Hayes, discovered these plans and she, along with early neighborhood activists and preservationists such as Jane Jacobs, vehemently opposed the plan and fought against it. Children Playing in the…
Read More…South Village. Many think of urban renewal in New York City as a phenomenon of the post-World War II era, a battle between government (Robert Moses) and advocates (Jane Jacobs)….
Read More…would be changed back into a single family house for a billionaire. Jane Jacobs helped save this neighborhood once from Zeckendorf. I’m not about to do it. So, does that…
Read More…Jane Jacobs, who lived at 555 Hudson Street 555 Hudson Street, where Jane Jacobs once lived with her family Jefferson Market Garden The Jefferson Market Garden was named for the…
Read More…during the 1930s and a crusader for Women’s rights and disarmament). Not-so-strange bedfellows: Lansbury’s neighbors over time at 55 Morton Street included outspoken activist Jane Jacobs and theatrical innovator Charles…
Read More…Hall / Board of Estimate Meeting Like many, Lyons was infuriated by this proposal. One of her first moves was to contact Jane Jacobs, whom she knew through local civic…
Read More…loss of maritime activity during that period left the area susceptible to various urban renewal proposals. During the 1960s, Jane Jacobs’ influence led to several important projects near the waterfront….
Read More…an apartment for$40 on the “other side of Tompkins Square Park”. Jane and Billy Jane first visited India in 1976, on a trip with a large company where she worked as…
Read More…Image of Meredith Jacobson Marciano on the left from 1978 Meredith Jacobson Marciano grew up in Boston, but visited NYC frequently from 1976 to 1986 before moving to the East…
Read More…were the children of Russian-born Yiddish performers Bessie and Joseph Jacobson. Hymie Jacobson at right with fellow performers in 1923. Source: Yiddish Theater Digital Archives Hymie Jacobson born in 1895…
Read More…Greenwich Village, the East Village or NoHo: just click here to vote for your favorite. Want to help support small businesses? Share this post with friends. Li-Lac Chocolates, Jane Street…
Read More…District — thanks, in part, to Village Preservation’s efforts. These conspicuous surviving sailor’s hotel buildings are important remnants of the area’s industrial and maritime history. Jane Hotel Jane Street Hotel,…
Read More…In 1963, the pioneering urban activist Jane Jacobs urged that the then-under-consideration Greenwich Village Historic Landmark District be extended west to West Street, at the edge of the Hudson River….
Read More…to the argument made by Jane Jacobs in her landmark book, “The Death and Life of Great American Cities” in 1961, in which she posited that it was the great…
Read More…da Vinci, such as the golden ratio and the Fibonacci series, which he used as the basis for his architectural proportions. Le Corbusier’s Unite d’Habitation in Marseilles Jane Jacobs was…
Read More…faint odor of honky-tonk and barrelhouse that it has not deserved since roughly 1914?” The noted preservationist Jane Jacobs figures as an influence here as well. Jacob’s idea of a…
Read More…Howe — Leading suffragist, writer, and founder of the highly influential Heterodoxy Club. Elizabeth Irwin — Progressive education reformer, founder of Little Red Schoolhouse. Jane Jacobs — Journalist, author, preservationist…
Read More…suffragist, writer, and founder of the highly influential Heterodoxy Club. Elizabeth Irwin — Progressive education reformer, founder of Little Red Schoolhouse. Jane Jacobs — Journalist, author, preservationist and activist, she…
Read More…Speaking of Jane Jacobs and walking tours don’t forget this Sunday is GVSHP’s Annual House Tour of seven unique homes and sites. If you haven’t already please make your reservations…
Read More…all, of the remainder of the district’s residents live in a section of West Village Houses, also originally an affordable housing complex which resulted from Jane Jacobs and other Villager’s…
Read MoreA 1965 paperback edition of Greenwich Village: 1920-1930 available in the GVSHP library. For those familiar with the history of Greenwich Village, the name of author Jane Jacobs is quite…
Read More…flowers. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney by Robert Henri Jane Jacobs Jane in action! Want more women’s history? Read our Executive Director Andrew Berman’s piece in 6sqft: Fifteen Trailblazing Women…
Read More…and writing his memoir, Coming of Age in Greenwich Village: A Painter, His Paintings, His Life. Explore all of our oral histories here, including Jane Jacobs, Penny Arcade, Wolf Kahn, Jonas Mekas, Marlis Momber, Edwin Fancher, Margot…
Read More…some additional captures of the World Trade Center from our archive: Meredith Jacobson, West Side. Charles and West Street, 1986. World Trade Center in background. From the “Meredith Jacobson Marciano…
Read More…550 West 20th Street. Jane Ballroom of the current Jane Hotel But rather than being sold as originally intended, the building soon became the Seamen’s Relief Center annex, where free…
Read More…Cocteau, Coco Chanel, Eugène Atget, and the American foreign correspondent for The New Yorker, Janet Flanner. Berenice Abbott’s portrait of Jane Flanner Upon her return to New York in 1929, now…
Read More…the beauty parlor. Thomas Beauty Salon, 231 East 14th Street between 2nd & 3rd Aves (now ‘Beauty Bar’), 1995. Photo by Meredith Jacobson Marciano. Paint a mural. Veselka, 144 2nd…
Read MoreThe Far West Village As early as 1963, Jane Jacobs urged that a fledgling NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) protect and designate the Greenwich Village waterfront and the Far West…
Read More…Aline Saarinen (widow of the late architect Eero Saarinen), and urban advocate Jane Jacobs. Its ultimate demise at the hands of the wrecking ball was seen by many as a…
Read More…1969, though as early as the 1960’s Jane Jacobs and other local preservationists had sought to have the area protected. GVSHP picked up the cause again and approached the LPC…
Read More…get much of the Far West Village downzoned and landmark districts extended to preserve this important heritage, which Jane Jacobs had specifically called out to protect even in the 1960s….
Read More…the second of its kind in New York City. This designation came after legendary activism by Jane Jacobs and fellow activists when the city proposed a series of over a…
Read More…the Meatpacking District goes back to at least Jane Jacobs’ days, when advocates sought landmark designation for all of Greenwich Village, including the Hudson River waterfront, the Meatpacking District, and…
Read More…Claire Tankel, Edith Lions, and Jane Jacobs on the GVSHP website. While this recreated image captures how the architecture surrounding the Arch at Washington Square Park has stayed relatively the…
Read More…learning more about some other pioneers in the preservation movement, check out GVSHP’s oral history interviews with Margot Gayle, Jane Jacobs, Edwin Fancher and Norman Redlich, among many others, here….
Read More…notable persons in the profession, I was particularly struck by Jane Jacobs’s lack of qualified training in city planning. This revelation sparked a curiosity in the origins of historic preservation…
Read More…galvanized significant public support and organized efforts for the passage of the Landmarks Law. Wood attributed the rise of the city’s preservation movement, with powerful activists such as Jane Jacobs…
Read More…people. Even Jane Jacobs got involved at some point, so there was a lot of activism. But there was a lot of drugs. And that whole, you know, the St….
Read More…Christopher Street. In 1963 Jane Jacobs, on behalf of the West Village Committee, wrote to the newly formed New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1963 (prior to the passage…
Read More…years, including today, many community members, need to be involved. One was Washington Square Park committee member Shirley Hayes, her efforts were also featured by Jane Jacobs in “The Death and Life of…
Read More…do its own fair share of parenting. Many times neighbors would return children to the house after they had wandered off through the neighborhood on their own. (Hey, Jane Jacobs…
Read More…Greenwich Village Historic District, and only the second new historic district in Greenwich Village since 1969. As early as 1963, Jane Jacobs wrote to the chair of the New York…
Read More…more and more of the old industrial buildings and row houses were being replaced with new glassy condos. As early as 1963, Jane Jacobs wrote to the chair of the…
Read More…houses but pier operations were already withering, creeping blight seemed to destine the whole area to urban renewal by bulldozer and high-rise development. Activists led by Jane Jacobs, the writer…
Read More…number of protests whose participants included architect Philip Johnson, art critic Aline Saarinen (widow of the late architect Eero Saarinen), and urban advocate Jane Jacobs. Its ultimate demise at the…
Read More…seen a great deal, from the protests of Jane Jacobs to throwing parties with very well-known literary figures. Like Otis herself, Otis’s oral history conducted with GVSHP is a treasure…
Read More…our history and helped establish the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC). Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village’s patron saint of preservation, helped lead some of the demonstrations to save Penn Station. The…
Read More…our oral history collection. It includes a ‘preservation pioneers’ collection consisting of oral histories with Jane Jacobs among others; a Westbeth collection that includes oral histories with Richard Meier and…
Read More…Village Committee, founded by activists including Jane Jacobs to fight Robert Moses’ urban renewal plan. And, as demonstrated here, the archive reveals Village Preservation’s own historic documents, spanning from the…
Read More…New York City mayor) Ed Koch. © Estate of Fred W. McDarrah. The patron saint of Village Preservation, Jane Jacobs, wearing a ‘Kill the Xpressway Now’ sign at a demonstration…
Read More…memory and memoir. Penny Arcade’s oral history is one of about 50 in our oral history collection. It includes a Preservation Pioneers collection consisting of oral histories with Jane Jacobs…
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