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Director Nicholas Ray Bookends His Career in Greenwich Village

…the most painfully realized motion pictures ever put on celluloid; his ability to share a fully realized vulnerability through images has rarely been duplicated since. Sources: http://sensesofcinema.com/2002/great-directors/raynick/ https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/17/movies/17ray.html https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2011/09/nray-s12.html https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/film-and-television-biographies/nicholas-ray

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The Defiant Lillian Hellman

Man, Hammett based his resolute female character, Nora Charles, on Hellman). In her politics, Hellman was an outspoken leftist in the 1930s, like many of her friends and colleagues. Her…

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Redefining Downtown: One Chase Manhattan Plaza

…the stereotypical image of a “historic landmark” — One Chase Manhattan Plaza (originally the Chase Manhattan Bank Headquarters and now 28 Liberty Street), an iconic skyscraper of lower Manhattan that…

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German Heritage #SouthOfUnionSquare

…served as a home to many prominent German and German-American businesses, artisans, and residents who shaped New York in the 19th and 20th centuries. Kleindeutschland, or “Little Germany,” spanned the…

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Map It! Manhattan Street

Manhattan Street in 1861. Major & Knapp Engraving, Manufacturing & Lithographic Co. Published in 1864. Source: New York Public Library Last month reader Mike commented on our Lewis Street post…

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Second Avenue Mansions of Yesteryear

…building that housed the theater still stands today: The Keteltas mansion was replaced with a movie theater in 1913 Here’s a view of the mansion from Second Avenue: The Keteltas…

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Village People: Murray Hall

…have identified himself. But whether has was a woman living as a man in order to hold office and vote, or considered himself man, we can be sure that has…

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La Vie en Rose: Meet Villager Rose Hartman

…fashionable for over four decades. Village Photographer Rose Hartman Hartman’s already the subject of a documentary, The Incomparable Rose Hartman by Otis Mass, made in 2016, which outlines her story…

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The Bubble Man in Washington Square Park

…this creativity carrying on. Check out Jack Lichtenstein’s photographs of artist Stephen Duncan, aka the Bubble Man. From a photo by Jack Lichtenstein (jacklichtensteinphotography.com) of Bubble Man NYC (bubblemannyc.com). Anyone…

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Jeanne Manford, PFLAG, and the Village

Manford, center, with her son, Morty Manford, left, at the Christopher Street Liberation March in 1973, the precursor to today’s Annual Gay Pride March. Dr. Benjamin Spock, with glasses, is…

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Village People: Crystal Eastman

…it. Eastman was one of the founders of the Woman’s Peace Party during the First World War, and served as president of the organization’s New York branch. She was also…

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A Woman Can Keep a Home and Build It

…traces of their existence is newspaper articles — often sensationalizing that a woman is doing a man’s job, or that a woman can be smart and beautiful (who knew?)  What…

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Building (809) Broadway: Keep on Manufacturing

…Advertiser, 1905. This advertisement appearing in The Howitzer Advertiser shows that 809 Broadway was the only store location for the Keep Manufacturing Company. We particularly like, “We manufacture all the…

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Newman’s Own Village Home

Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward at home in the Village. Paul Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was one of the most renowned American actors of the twentieth…

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Happy Birthday to the Manhattan Street Grid!

…Grid! Hailed by many historians as “the single most important document in New York City’s development,” the Commissioners’ Plan of 1811, better known as the original Manhattan Street Grid, was…

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Happy Birthday, Truman Capote

Truman Capote photo source: biography.com The writer we know as Truman Capote was born Truman Streckfus Persons on September 30, 1924 in New Orleans. Although he grew up in the…

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Bertram Goodman’s Views of the Village

…whose work we’ve often admired, Bertram Goodman, created a number of works showing Greenwich Village in the mid-20th century with a particularly special quality. 72 Charles Street from Goodman’s apartment…

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Mannahatta: Exploring “Our Good Home”

…12th and Jane Streets, the Lenape gave themselves access to many different species to hunt, therefore never overhunting one particular type of animal. Ironically, in the early 20th century, many…

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2014 Year In Review: GVSHP Programs

…they began their project in 2001, over half of their subjects have closed, and many more have been threatened with closure in recent months. James and Karla Murray have been…

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Rosetta Stones Right in Our Home: Little Germany

…Upper East Side and sold the building to another German-community-focused health service, the German Poliklinik. However, with anti-German sentiment running high during World War I, the Poliklinik changed its name…

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Village People: Henrietta Rodman

…the war, she was a member of the executive board of the Woman’s Peace Party, and wrote and gave lectures on pacifism. By 1923, Rodman had developed a brain tumor….

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James and Karla Murray Love GVSHP!

…been successful for 30, 50, 80 years – until they were lost to the cycle of hyper-gentrification and speculation. James and Karla Murray are influential artists and small business advocates who were awarded…

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Remembering General Slocum, the man

…largest losses of life in NYC history (second only to 9/11), General Slocum the man was also an important figure in his own right, having served prominent in the Civil…

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In Memoriam: The Big Man

On Saturday, at the age of 69, Clarence Clemons, aka the Big Man, passed away in Palm Beach, Florida. Known best for his role as the unbelievably talented saxophonist in…

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Woman Crush Wednesday: Jane Jacobs

…children to prominent neighborhood residents such as Eleanor Roosevelt. Moses, arguably the most powerful man in New York at the time, having amassed vast bureaucratic powers in the state, planned to…

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Welcome Aboard, David Herman

Today, we welcome David Herman to our staff as Communications Manager. David is a graphic designer, editor, and photographer, as well as a longtime activist focusing on livable streets, better…

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