…landmark designation of MacDougal-Sullivan Gardens, GVSHP held a walk and draw tour of MacDougal Sullivans Historic District. Read more about the district’s history here. Read about some of the most famous…
Read More…February 27, 1790, when the land upon which MacDougal-Sullivan Gardens now stands was first put up for sale as building lots. Of course the history of MacDougal Sullivan Gardens goes…
Read MoreIf you have ever noticed the beautiful row houses along MacDougal Street and Sullivan Street between Houston Street and Bleecker Street, these are part of the MacDougal-Sullivan Gardens Historic District….
Read MoreOn Saturday, GVSHP held a second Walk & Draw event, this time to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the MacDougal-Sullivan Gardens historic district. Artist Nick Golebiewski led participants down the…
Read More…Sullivan’s brilliant juxtaposition of geometric and curvilinear forms of nature. Not even this final burst of brilliance could save Sullivan, however. While the store opened in 1922, Sullivan did not…
Read More…of MacDougal Sullivan Gardens, the entire blockfront of Houston Street between MacDougal and Sullivan Street and are not included in the LPC’s proposed district. While all of these four story…
Read More…6th Avenue, then you’ll cross 3 alphabetical streets: MacDougal, Sullivan, and Thompson…” But by simply crossing these 3 streets you are doing yourself a disservice. Explore them instead! Named for…
Read More(This post is the first of a series on the history of the LGBTQ community in Greenwich Village.) MacDougal Street It is easy to assume, in the aftermath of the…
Read More…blocks, peaked roof, molded cornice, and pedimented double dormers. 127-129 and 131 MacDougal Street 1940s Tax Photos. In 1867, 125 MacDougal Street was significantly altered to four stories from the…
Read More…the adjacent, historic MacDougal Sullivan Gardens. The full-block Vanderbilt Hall on Washington Square South between MacDougal and Sullivan Sts., also excluded, was built in 1950, but quite intentionally looks considerably…
Read More…daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com) Read the 83 Sullivan Street Individual Landmark Designation Report here, the 85 Sullivan Street Individual Landmark Designation Report here, and the Sullivan Thompson Historic District Designation report here. Read…
Read More…Map of Community Gardens, created by LUNGS: Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens One significant challenge faced by Orchard Alley and other community gardens is the issue of ownership and permanence. In…
Read MoreCommunity gardens offer a unique intimacy, and personality, among the city’s green spaces. Not so long ago, there were 57 community gardens sprinkled along the streets of the East Village…
Read MoreThe Sullivan Street Playhouse before (left) and after (right) The final performance of the off-Broadway hit The Fantasticks took place at the Sullivan Street Playhouse at 181 Sullivan Street in…
Read More…MacDougal Street on June 3, 2014. The facades on King and MacDougal Streets were in such distressed condition that the LPC approved a complete rebuilding of both sides. 43 MacDougal…
Read More57 Sullivan Street. Courtesy: Tom Miller As one of the oldest surviving houses in Manhattan, 57 Sullivan Street has born witness to and participated in the story of the evolution…
Read More…1916. 181 MacDougal Street is the building at the corner, 179 MacDougal Street is the building directly to the left, and 175 MacDougal Street is two buildings left of No….
Read More…for every building in the district. So I quickly located the entry for 114 MacDougal. The entry tells me that 114 MacDougal was built in 1900 as a tenement building…
Read MoreEmerging from the quaint MacDougal Alley, one of the first buildings one sees is the four-story row house at 175 MacDougal Street. Tucked between two taller structures, the building stands…
Read More…mid-19th century and known as “Little Africa.” The newly designated Sullivan-Thompson Historic District included part of “Little Africa,” and in looking at the recently published designation report for the Sullivan-Thompson…
Read MoreMacDougal Alley looking west, 1936. No. 33 MacDougal Alley was located at the end of the alley. Photo by Berenice Abbot. Source: Museum of the City of New York. MacDougal…
Read More…their special histories, and reveal their (sometimes hidden) connections to the Village. Is that Flatbush, or is it Greenwich Village? The Prospect Lefferts Gardens Historic District was designated in 1979…
Read More…artist studio attics added on top, and tenements were rehabilitated and joined together to form communal courtyards and gardens (this was partly inspired by nearby MacDougal–Sullivan Gardens, located within the…
Read More…Building is the only Sullivan-designed building in New York City, and expertly manifests the architect’s motto of the skyscraper as a “proud and soaring thing.” Sullivan was an important leader…
Read More…lovely little oasis at 16 East 2nd Street, and is one of the 39 (yes, 39!) community gardens found within the modest confines of the East Village. Per the garden’s website,…
Read More…garden, as well as the Wilmer Jennings Gallery. This past Saturday morning, after a cooling rain shower, a gaggle of curious people went traipsing around a handful of community gardens…
Read More…MacDougal Street has been greatly altered, but, as you can see in the 1910 photograph, when built it resembled its neighbor at 127 MacDougal Street, a federal era rowhouse which…
Read More…at 43 MacDougal Street For more information, view our webpage on 43 MacDougal Street, which chronicles our efforts to urge the City to take action. Or read an article on…
Read MoreA peek at Bleecker Gardens, courtesy Douglas Elliman. We’re excited to announce that individual tickets for our 17th annual house tour are now available for purchase! There are a number…
Read MoreIt’s summer and the flowers are in bloom! We are so lucky to have so many parks and gardens in Greenwich Village and the East Village, where we can enjoy…
Read More…Greenwich Village, the East Village or NoHo: just click here to vote for your favorite. Last December, 208 Sullivan Street became part of the new South Village Historic District. No….
Read MoreThe recently landmarked Sullivan-Thompson Historic District is one of the first historic districts in New York City so designated almost exclusively based upon its immigrant history and working-class architecture. As…
Read More…videos, 134 Sullivan Street (Architect Unknown, Owner Mills & Ryerson, built c. 1826) Photo: c. 1940 tax photo from the Sullivan-Thompson Designation Report The area experienced tremendous growth through the early…
Read MoreGVSHP photo taken on December 9, 2013. Many longtime residents of the Village have wondered about the fate of 43 MacDougal Street, which has sat vacant for decades. Located at…
Read More…big city where you can see the blue sky instead of towers and the greenery of gardens and trees. Here are two special walking tours we recommend. Our own –…
Read More…Gardens Preservation Includes Community Gardens, and More Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow? Flowers and books for a summer day When Greenwich Village was farmland This Weekend,…
Read More…our neighborhoods. MacDougal Sullivan Gardens Hammond moved to MacDougal Sullivan Gardens when he was 21. Life in Greenwich Village in the late 20s was a hotbed of bohemianism and leftist…
Read More…Revival style in 1844 and is part of MacDougal Sullivan Gardens. In the forward of the 1973 anniversary edition of her collection of stories, Averill recounts that they are based…
Read More…de riguer. Mamoun’s Falafel at 119 MacDougal Street is our January 2020 Business of the Month. Opened in 1971 by Syrian immigrant Mamoun Chater on the street to which his…
Read MoreFive years ago we wrote about the terrible, deteriorating conditions at 43 MacDougal Street, a landmarked, 1846 Greek Revival townhouse at the corner of King Street in the King-Charlton-VanDam Historic…
Read More…neighborhood by creating gardens and green spaces. She and the Green Guerillas pioneered the ‘seed bomb’ method of taking over vacant and abandoned lots––tossing balls of soil, fertilizer, and seeds…
Read MoreChristmas is coming early this year! We have been told by the Landmarks Preservation Commission that the designation report for the newly landmarked Sullivan-Thompson historic district, aka phase III of…
Read MoreNeighbors, elected officials and fellow preservation groups turned out in droves yesterday at LPC with GVSHP to speak in favor of the designation of the Sullivan-Thompson historic district, the third…
Read MoreGVSHP and neighbors have long suspected that there might be squatters living inside 43 MacDougal Street, the deteriorating, 1846 landmarked building about which we’ve blogged before. Yesterday neighbors woke up…
Read More…their retail space. Although she initially wanted to stay on Thompson Street, a landlord on Sullivan Street won her over by offering to build out storage space in the basement…
Read More…240 Sullivan Street. Fany Gerson at La NewYorkina 240 Sullivan Street in the South Village Fany recently, and very graciously, offered to give a talk to some of the supporters…
Read More…his first cobbler shop on Sullivan Street a few years later, moving into the current location just a few years after that. He has six older brothers, all of whom…
Read MoreJust when we thought things couldn’t get any worse at 43 MacDougal Street, after reading Monday’s post on the building an anonymous neighbor sent us the following photos, which are…
Read More…wander down Sullivan Street between Houston and Prince Streets and into one of our neighborhood’s most recent additions, India & Purry, a home decor, stationery, and accessory store that will…
Read More…the 116 Sullivan Street landmark designation report HERE). 116 Sullivan Street, with close up of door details on right. 116 Sullivan Street, like 83 and 85 Sullivan Street, originally had…
Read More…arrangements, as hats are displayed nine to a rack. Linda was knowledgeable about and excited for the proposed Sullivan-Thompson Historic District, noting how this area is a “real neighborhood.” Everyone…
Read More…it as “that crummy hotel over Washington Square.” In 1970, just after Woodstock, Dylan moved into the townhouse at 94 MacDougal Street, in the then recently-landmarked MacDougal Sullivan Gardens. L…
Read More…Shrine Church of St. Anthony of Padua 154 Sullivan Street (corner of West Houston Street) The Shrine Church of Saint Anthony of Padua on West Houston and Sullivan Streets in…
Read More…the West Village might be known as the heart of the neighborhood, the area south could be called its soul. Sullivan Street, Thompson Street, MacDougal Street, Washington Square, and the…
Read More…only way in which 57 Sullivan Street is unique. Unlike the other South Village landmark-limbo sites, 57 Sullivan Street is not within the northern section of the proposed South Village…
Read More…Street. “Old law” tenements on Sullivan Street; note the “1886” in the cornice on the left. This collection of tenements probably built around 1858 at 224-228 Sullivan Street were renovated,…
Read More…center of literary and musical innovation in the United States. MacDougal Street, between Bleecker and West 3rd Streets. From the 1920’s through the 1960’s, this stretch of MacDougal Street…
Read More…want to visit some of these gardens, right? You can! Joins us for a free Walking tour of East Village Community Gardens. Celebrating Lower East Side History Month and co-sponsored…
Read More…and New York many times. They took up residence at 74 MacDougal Street at a time when MacDougal-Sullivan Gardens was home to well-educated, middle-class families. The family had a maid,…
Read More…Minetta Lane (South Village Historic District — designated 2013; Sullivan Street (Sullivan Thompson Historic District — designated 2016) Village Preservation kicked off its campaign to honor, document, and seek landmark…
Read More…help, plan to attend the meeting on April 5 (we’ll share the location when available). This map indicates 51 MacDougal Street and the portion of MacDougal Street we propose to rename In…
Read More…at 175 MacDougal Street (which still stands today), and owned the two buildings to the north stretching to Eighth Street. 175 MacDougal Street, 2019 175 MacDougal was completed in 1837….
Read More…East Village Building Blocks further here. Click here to read more about our neighborhood’s gardens. Click here to see photos from our 2018 summertime East Village Community Gardens walking tour….
Read More…Loan hired Louis Sullivan, who had recently completed the Guaranty Building in Buffalo, and on September 17, 1897, plans were filed to begin construction of this architectural marvel. Louis Sullivan…
Read More…W 3rd Street), Bleecker Street, Laurens Street (now LaGuardia Place), MacDougal Street, Thompson Street, and Sullivan Street. Lined with residential buildings and institutions like the Minetta Lane Theater and Italian…
Read More…church and its surroundings were landmarked as part of the Sullivan-Thompson Historic District. Google Street View of 77 MacDougal Street Tiro A Segno, 77 MacDougal Street This private club established in…
Read More…for since our founding in 1980. Colorful row houses of MacDougal-Sullivan Gardens, courtesy Ephemeral New York. Among the earliest historic districts to be designated throughout all five boroughs were the…
Read More…the newly designated Sullivan Thompson Historic District as well as an individually designated townhouse on Prince Street between MacDougal and Sullivan Streets. Built in 1834, this home was primarily constructed…
Read More…in Beaux Arts, Classical Revival, Gothic or Romanesque, Sullivan was an architect who looked instead to the present – or the future. Sullivan’s Bayard-Condict Building, photo courtesy of NYPL The…
Read More…Spina from his fire escape at 225 Sullivan Street. The alternating arched and straight terra cotta window surrounds of 240 Sullivan Street across the way are visible here from a…
Read More…and West 3th Street and MacDougal Street and Sullivan Street was razed to accommodate the new building project. The image is part of the Nat Kaufman Collection, which was generously…
Read More…Street, at the corners of MacDougal and Sullivan Streets, respectively. 100 west 3rd is painted a sharply contrasting brown and yellow, while 116 is all a sandy beige. 100 West…
Read More…Village Historic District, designated in 2013; the listing of the larger National Register of Historic Places “South Village Historic District”; and several individual landmark designations on MacDougal and Sullivan Streets….
Read More…that continually drew in younger musicians. Dave Van Ronk, ‘The Mayor of MacDougal Street. Early in 1957, Izzy Young opened the Folklore Center at 110 MacDougal Street, selling records, books,…
Read More…VP’s proposed South Village Historic District as the Sullivan-Thompson Historic District. Looking East from 15 Charlton Street with the corner of Prince and MacDougal Streets in the background. Nicosia Graziano,…
Read More…York City apartment was at 161 West 4th Street. 12. Dylan originally played backup harmonica for singer Fred Neil at Café Wha? at 115 MacDougal Street. 13. Gerde’s Folk City,…
Read More…Landmark Designation Report Designated June, 2004, nominated by GVSHP and the NY Landmarks Conservancy. This report includes the history of early lesbian and gay establishments on MacDougal Street. 129 MacDougal…
Read More…has us reflecting back on Village history and preservation related to the famed New Yorker (and his rival, Aaron Burr). 54 MacDougal Street, pre-demolition 54 MacDougal Street Located in the…
Read MoreOn March 13th, 1964, Kitty Genovese was brutally raped and murdered in Kew Gardens, Queens. The crime, and Kitty Genovese’s name, became symbols of much more than this one savage…
Read More…across Manhattan. In response, the City created Operation Green Thumb to legalize and regulate community gardens. GVSHP has spotlighted just a few of the many community gardens in the area…
Read More…Ludovicus Viele shows the path of Minetta Creek with the then-current street grid superimposed. In Greenwich Village, white residents found entertainment through the theater and “pleasure gardens” or tea gardens. The…
Read More…artistic connotations was commonplace in the area at the time, and pioneered by the nearby MacDougal Sullivan Gardens (more here and here) in 1921. Tudor Rose Antiques is on the…
Read More…in 1965, more than half of our city’s landmarks would not have been designated. In our area, this includes the entire Greenwich Village Historic District,MacDougal Sullivan Gardens, the St. Mark’s…
Read More…Sullivan Gardens, the St. Mark’s Historic District, SoHo, and Westbeth, as well as districts as diverse as Bedford-Stuyvesant and the Grand Concourse, Jackson Heights and Park Slope. Without landmark designation, many…
Read More…MacDougal Sullivan Gardens, at the age of 21 to write about music. His first producing gig was self-funding the recording of gay African American jazz pianist Garland Wilson. The songs…
Read More…for 134 W. Houston St., next to the MacDougal Sullivan Gardens, has refocused attention on the unfinished fight to preserve the historic South Village, and to protect it from overdevelopment….
Read More…Street between Sullivan and Thompson Streets, 1933. Courtesy of NYPL. Although it abuts SoHo, the Sullivan-Thompson historic district is quite distinct from its eastern neighbor both historically and architecturally. SoHo…
Read More…mid-century, presumably to symbolize cleanliness. 132-136 Thompson Street 150-152 Sullivan Street For the latest news on the South Village including the newly calendared Sullivan Thompson Historic District, click HERE….
Read More…lettering: This business, at 152 Sullivan (you can even see the address number painted on the glass in the above image), is the home of Zampieri Brothers Bakery. This Sullivan…
Read More…architect Louis Sullivan’s only work in New York, the Bayard-Condict Building, is located at 65 Bleecker Street in NoHo. Sullivan is considered the “father of modernism,” and is a key figure…
Read More…former Perkins student Anne Sullivan, herself visually impaired. It was the beginning of a 49-year-long relationship during which Sullivan evolved into Keller’s teacher and companion. Young Helen Keller with Alexander…
Read More…Historic District. 3. Eve Adams’ Tea Room, 129 MacDougal Street Circa 1940 tax photo of 129 MacDougal Street, courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives In 1925, Eve Kotchever (better known by…
Read More…Dylan wrote “A Hard Rains A-Gonna Fall”. The Black Rabbit was at 183 Bleecker Street (between MacDougal St and Sullivan St) which in the 1890’s offered live sex shows as…
Read More…The demolition of Washington Square South, between MacDougal and Sullivan Street, adjacent to Genius Row. From the GVSHP Historic Image Archive www.archive.gvshp.org. In fact, the struggle to preserve Genius Row…
Read More…feel the history, and enjoy the sights and sounds – and the food and the drinks, too! Start at the southwest corner of West 3rd Street and MacDougal Streets. A…
Read More…Spring Street, between Thompson and Sullivan Streets, in the South Village. Like the nearby 54 MacDougal Street, 186 Spring Street had some interesting recent pop cultural history — for many…
Read More…part of the two men’s lives. 54 MacDougal street before demolition 54 MacDougal Street Located in what is now the Sullivan-Thompson Historic District, this nearly 200 year old three-story house…
Read More…and memoir. Isamu Noguchi Studio and Residence, 33 MacDougal Alley MacDougal Alley. 33 MacDougal Alley was demolished and replaced with the building pictured at the end of the alley, 2…
Read More…center of gay life shifted somewhat to MacDougal, West 3rd and West 4th Streets, with a swath of lesbian and gay-oriented establishments including “Eve’s Tearoom” at 129 MacDougal Street, The…
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