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Meet the Interns- Spring 2020
…are paid, and our interns come from all educational and life backgrounds. We work together to tailor internship experiences to fit an intern’s skills and interests. We have two new…
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Meet the Interns
…are paid, and our interns come from all educational and life backgrounds. We work together to tailor internship experiences to fit an intern’s skills and interests. Not to brag, but…
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Meet the Interns — Summer 2022 Edition
Village Preservation’s team is a strong one – we’re lucky to have a group of interns who are looking to gain experience in historic preservation in a non-profit environment. Internships…
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Meet the Interns, Spring 2021!
…are paid, and our interns come from all educational and life backgrounds. We work together to tailor internship experiences to fit an intern’s skills and interests. Not to brag, but…
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Meet the Interns, Fall 2021
…are paid, and our interns come from all educational and life backgrounds. We work together to tailor internship experiences to fit an intern’s skills and interests. New Interns Abraham and…
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Meet the Interns — Fall 2022
Village Preservation’s team is a strong one – we’re lucky to have a group of interns who are looking to gain experience in historic preservation in a non-profit environment. Interns assist…
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Meet the Fall 2023 Interns!
…have one or two new interns at a time, but this September we are excited to welcome five amazing new interns to the team! New 2023 Interns (L. to R.)…
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Welcome to Our 2022 Interns!
…are paid, and our interns come from all educational and life backgrounds. We work together to tailor internship experiences to fit an intern’s skills and interests. Shannen Smiley (l.) and…
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Inside the LPC: Public Hearings vs. Public Meetings
…at the public meeting, which incorporated feedback from the LPC commissioners. At these meetings, the public is allowed to attend, but testimony is not taken. The applicant presents changes to…
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Critical Public Meeting Tonight to Save Our Neighborhood!
…of Community Board #3 (east of 4th Avenue, south of 14th Street) to also speak at the meeting in support of GVSHP’s rezoning proposal at the meeting. We MUST get…
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The Baldwin-Kennedy Meeting of 1963
…fellow artists, academics, and civil rights leaders to meet with Kennedy to discuss the state of racial relations in the United States. As the meeting got underway, Robert Kennedy began…
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Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti — East Meets West (Village, that is)
…rock and roll history as the place where Keith Richards meets Mick Jagger in the video for ‘Waiting on a Friend’ — the two end up meeting the rest of…
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Handy Resource: LPC Hearing/Meeting Videos
…a year ago, the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) began recording its public hearings and public meetings and sharing these videos on its YouTube page. This is quite helpful for those…
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2015 Village Awards and Annual Meeting
Join us on Wednesday, June 17th for the 35th GVSHP Annual Meeting and 25th Village Awards Co-hosted by The New School The Village Awards recognize the people, places, and organizations…
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Speak Up at the Hudson Sq. Rezoning Public Meeting Tonight!
…floor. This meeting will focus on the zoning impacts of the plan. It’s critical that we have a strong turnout tonight (we’ll be ready with our trusty stickers and info…
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First SoHo-NoHo Upzoning+Rezoning Public Meeting Next Monday, October 26, 6-8pm Sign Up To Speak TODAY!
The first public meeting on the city’s proposal to rezone and upzone SoHo and NoHo will be next Monday from 6-8 pm. Register to participate by Zoom and speak/ask questions…
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Annual Meeting and Awards Ceremony Pictures Now Available
Audience members at the GVSHP Annual Meeting. On Thursday, June 7, GVSHP presented its 32nd Annual Meeting and 2012 Village Awards. The 2012 Awardees and a full recap are all…
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Announcing the Arthur A. Levin Internship
…Arthur A. Levin internship focusing on cultural history in his honor. Village Preservation Trustee Art Levin Art led the organization as President of the Board of Trustees through some of…
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Watch the Video: Village Preservation 2021 Annual Meeting and Village Awards
We had a truly heartwarming 41st Annual Meeting and 31st Annual Village Awards last Wednesday, where we looked back upon a year of accomplishment, and celebrated seven inspiring awardees whose…
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Villagers Feted at GVSHP’s Annual Meeting and Awards Ceremony
…accomplishments of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation and eight Village businesses, people, and organizations at GVSHP’s Annual Meeting at The New School’s Tishman Auditorium. Author Calvin Trillin salutes…
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2013 GVSHP Annual Meeting and Village Awards A Great Success
Tishman Auditorium, The New School Thank you to everyone who joined us last night as we celebrated our 33rd Annual Meeting and presentation of the Village Awards at the beautiful…
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The Landmarked New School Auditorium — Home of Village Preservation’s 2019 Annual Meeting and Village Awards
…and Annual Meeting will be held at The New School Auditorium at 66 West 12th Street. The striking 500-seat auditorium, designed in 1931, was designated an interior New York City…
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Coming Up June 16: Our 31st Annual Village Awards and 41st Annual Meeting
Each year, Village Preservation honors neighborhood institutions at the Annual Meeting and Village Awards. This fun event highlights and celebrates the invaluable people, places, and organizations that make our neighborhoods…
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La Vie en Rose: Meet Villager Rose Hartman
Villager and photographer Rose Hartman has, since the 1970s, been known for her candid portraits of the world’s celebrities and non-celebrities as they pass through New York City. Ms. Hartman, who’s…
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Meet the Village’s Newest Landmark!
On Tuesday the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated 154 West 14th Street, at the southeast corner of Seventh Avenue, an official New York City landmark! 154 West 14th Street One of…
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Small Businesses Meeting the Challenges of Today
Some of our favorite local small businesses were recently prominently featured in the New York Times. Longtime neighborhood anchors Veselka (‘rainbow’ in Ukrainian) and (the former) Dinosaur Hill were the…
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Meet the Wolf of SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown!
We have received a piece of art that truly captures the essence of the SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown rezoning and breathes new life into the age-old maxim: never pick a fight with someone…
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Oklahoma! Meets Greenwich Village
On March 31, 1943, the classic musical Oklahoma! opened on Broadway at the St. James Theatre. It ran for five years, setting a record with its 2,212 performances before closing…
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Framing Union Square by Mary Miss: Where Public Art Meets Preservation
The 14th Street/Union Square Station is one of the busiest in the New York City Subway system. It is also one of the oldest, with the station first opening as…
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2014 Year In Review: GVSHP Programs
As we near the end of 2014, we thought we’d look back on the several dozen exciting lectures, book talks, exhibitions, walking tours, forums, panels, and community meetings conducted by…
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17 LGBT landmarks of Greenwich Village
…and asked her to speak to their parents that she decided to hold a meeting for parents struggling with accepting and supporting their gay children. That meeting took place on…
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Beyond the Village and Back: The Brotherhood Synagogue, 28 Gramercy Park South
…has sought to meet the spiritual and cultural needs of its members in a welcoming, progressive community, while working to make religious brotherhood a living reality. It became the first…
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2020 Village Preservation Year in Review: Landmarks Applications
…consider its appropriateness on this basis. Unfortunately, in 2018 it was approved at an LPC public meeting. At an LPC public meeting, as opposed to an LPC public hearing, the…
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Get Involved: Landmarks Review at Community Boards
…& Public Aesthetics Committee meetings as well as Community Board 3 Landmarks Subcommittee meetings. Agendas of the community boards’ committee meetings are posted at the beginning of each month, and…
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Walk Through LGBTQ+ History with Our Civil Rights and Social Justice Map
…that had an impact on this civil rights movement on a national and sometimes global scale. Church of the Village/Site of First PFLAG Meeting, 201 West 13th Street Jeanne Manford…
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Anything But Orthodox: The Feminists of the Heterodoxy Club
…not been profoundly touched by the ideas exchanged at Heterodoxy meetings. Instead, the ideas birthed there lived on in the bright minds who left Heterodoxy meetings with a new, kaleidoscopic…
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The Mattachine Society, and the Post-Stonewall Shift
…announcing a public forum on the topic of “Gay Power.” That meeting—held July 9 at Mattachine’s meeting rooms in Freedom House at 20 West 40th Street—attracted nearly 100 participants who…
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Beyond the Village and Back: Bowne House in Flushing, Queens — Birthplace of Religious Freedom in America
…the Flushing Quaker Meeting House and burial ground on Northern Boulevard. The Meeting House still stands and is one of the oldest Meetings in America. The site is now a…
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Get Involved: Landmarks Review at Community Boards
…must also be presented to the local community board. GVSHP attends all Community Board 2 Landmarks & Public Aesthetics Committee meetings as well as Community Board 3 Landmarks Subcommittee meetings….
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Exploring NYC’s Churches and Synagogues #BeyondTheVillageAndBack
…first Black church in the city. The African Methodist Episcopal Church was dedicated in October 1800, and by March 1801 the church formally incorporated. At a meeting of trustees at…
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The Birth of the NAACP, and Their Deep Roots in Greenwich Village
…headquarters is now located in Baltimore, Maryland, the organization called our neighborhood home for decades, and held its first public meeting here as well. Founded on February 12, 1909, the…
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A Light Plate for Landmarks in August
…public meeting in March the LPC was still not satisfied with the new building proposal and sent the applicant back to the drawing board yet again. Even though the public…
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AIDS Memorial Park Design Closer to Reality
…Landmarks Committee on Monday, July 16th at 6:30pm. The meeting will take place at the NYU Silver Building at 32 Waverly Place, Room 401. This meeting will be held jointly…
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An Update on 27 East 4th Street
…Board 2 (CB2) Landmarks & Public Aesthetics Committee meeting was held on April 30th, after which a second meeting was held on May 14th. About 75 people showed up to…
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GVSHP Landmarks Webpage, A Great Resource!
…is “View the Video.” GVSHP maintains a curated list of LPC videos of the hearing and public meetings from March 2014 onward which can be found on our YouTube page….
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The East Village’s ‘Queen of Bohemia:” Zoe Anderson Norris
…Preservation staff and interns had an opportunity to attend the first of these tours offered specifically to Village Preservation. Find out more about Eve and this exhibition in this recent…
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LGBT History in All Corners of the Village: The West Village
…First PFLAG meeting (201 W. 13th St.) Church of the Village The first meeting of what came to be the organization now known as PFLAG, Parents, Families, and Friends of…
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Come Out to Weigh In on East Village Landmarks
…too! Read more about the meeting after the jump. The two properties that will be presented tomorrow are located at 106 and 110 East 10th Streets. The meeting will be…
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2016 Village Award Winner: Save Gansevoort
Off the Grid is highlighting the 2016 Village Awards winners in the lead up to the June 14th Annual Meeting & Award Ceremony. Click here for more information about the…
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#SouthofUnionSquare — The Social Reform Club at 45 University Place
…meetings, he stated that various speakers of the Social Reform Club would continue to address the movement: they would discuss Columbia University’s research on trades-unionism, the Knights of Labor, and…
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Celebrating 50 Years of PFlag: Birthplace of a Movement of Empathy and Advocacy
…Gays) began with a single meeting, held in a location that would forever be a pivot point in LGBTQ+ history. The first meeting of what would become the group took…
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The Biggest Mural in NYC, On View, For Now, at City-As-School
…struggled in conventional education programs. The alternative offered by City-As-School relies on internships as a primary vehicle for learning. Students spend between sixteen and thirty-two hours per week working for…
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Things I’ll Miss About GVSHP: Part 1
…the first post to one of my absolute favorite parts of my job: interacting with our interns and volunteers. GVSHP’s mighty staff of six – large by preservation standards, exceedingly…
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PFLAG Historic Plaque Unveiling On A Beautiful Day
…hold the meeting. Such a meeting, and the willingness on the part of the church to house it, were radical moves at the time. Bishop Alfred Johnson, known as ‘Bishop…
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The Redstockings: “Rapping” for Reproductive Rights in Greenwich Village
…activists would, seemingly out of nowhere, storm legal proceedings, beauty pageants, corporate meetings and other public gatherings to bring attention to their cause. “Women Break Up Abortion Hearing” in The…
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Sir Winston Churchill Square: 2013 Village Award Winner (and one of my favorite places!)
Sir Winston Churchill Square, spring 2013 If you have ever spent time in the area where Bleecker Street meets Sixth Avenue, then you know it’s a busy place with lots…
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Mad Men’s Village People
…Olson and Abe Drexler meet for dinner at Minetta Tavern on MacDougal Street. Photo by GVSHP. In Season 5, Peggy Olson and her boyfriend Abe Drexler meet for dinner at…
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LGBT History in All Corners: the South Village
…the South Village more than fifty years ago, at 206 Thompson Street, where the Italian restaurant Portofino was located from 1859 until 1975. It was a discreet meeting place frequented…
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Pride on West 13th Street
…website, “Every week, 6,000 people visit the Center, and more than 300 groups meet here. In addition, our myriad meeting rooms are booked months in advance, indicating the community is…
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The Cooper Union’s “Voices from the Great Hall”: Digital Archives Of One Of New York’s Most Historic Spaces
Village Preservation is very excited to hold its first in-person Annual Meeting and Village Awards in three years on June 14. We’re especially excited that event will be co-hosted by…
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AIDS Memorial Design Process Underway
…site. Drawing provided at last night’s meeting Last night’s meeting was a chance for Studio a+i, AIDS Memorial Park, and representatives of the Parks Department to listen to community input…
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Remembering Jeanne Manford and the Founding of PFLAG
…and celebrate Jeanne Manford. Jeanne died earlier this year at 92, but forty years ago this March she held the first meeting of what would become PFLAG at the Church…
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Happy Birthday, Shirley Hayes
…started being outraged immediately…. That night I think there was a meeting of the Planning Board, which was new. So we decided to go down to the Planning Board meeting…
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The Beauty of the University Place & Broadway Corridors
Last week’s community meeting about the need to better preserve and protect the Village’s University Place and Broadway corridors was a great success. Well attended, participants at the meeting were…
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The Former Gay Activists Alliance Headquarters at 99 Wooster Street Has At Last Become a Landmark
…a large meeting space was needed, as well as smaller rooms for offices. Church of the Holy Apostles, original meeting site of GAA GAA leased 99 Wooster Street from April…
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Remembering Jeanne Manford and the Founding of PFLAG
…13th Street and 7th Avenue. Jeanne had died a few weeks earlier at the age of 92, but forty one years earlier in 1972 she held the first meeting at…
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M1-5 What? A Lofty History of Zoning in SoHo and NoHo
…come under scrutiny in recent public meetings hosted by the Mayor’s Department of City Planning, Borough President Gale Brewer, and Councilmember Margaret Chin, are not simply lines drawn on a…
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Plan for 14-16 Fifth Avenue Demolition and Tower Replacement Returns; Hearing Feb. 16
…Community Board 2’s Landmarks Committee on Tuesday, February 16 at 6:30pm. You can register for the Zoom meeting here (be sure to click on the drop-down for the Feb. 16 meeting, NOT the Feb. 11 meeting). …
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When “the Club” Ruled the Art World from East 8th Street
…world and the lives of Village artists. For many, this was more than a meeting place to discuss intellectual and artistic ideas. The Club was a kind of “church” or…
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Dr. Bruce Voeller: Gay Rights and Public Health Pioneer
…and before. National Gay Task Force members after the historic 1977 White House meeting In 1977, the Task Force brokered another historic first – the very first meeting of any…
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The April 1950 Artists’ Sessions at Studio 35
…of the meetings themselves; though a certain pathos and loneliness appears from time to time that was not as evident at the time of meetings as it is on reading…
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Seized During the Red Scare, This Lefty Archive from Our Neighborhood Is Now Available Online
…JPFO’s erstwhile wartime ally, the Moscow-based Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. May Our Tanks Help Beat Hitler Translated Summary: Flyer for a mass meeting. Jewish American Lodge No. 180, I.W.O. Flier for…
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2023 Village Awardee: The Red Door Place, 201 West 13th Street
…at Village Preservation’s Annual Meeting and Village Awards on Tuesday, June 13. Registration is free and open to all! The Red Door Place is an invaluable Greenwich Village institution. It…
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2021 Village Awardee: NewsBar Café, 107 University Place
It’s that time of year again…time for Village Preservation’s Annual Meeting and Village Awards! The Village Awards recognize and honor some of the businesses, organizations, and institutions that make our…
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2022 Village Awardee: Zinc Bar, 82 West 3rd Street
…other worthy awardees at Village Preservation’s Annual Meeting and Village Awards on Tuesday, June 14th. Registration is free and open to all! Terry Waldo’s Gotham City Ragtime Band at Zinc…
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Revisiting Kleindeutschland, the East Village’s Little Germany
…part of life within the cramped streets of Little Germany, offering showy structures that gave residents wonderful room for weddings, dances, political meetings, and other key life moments as well…
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Union Square: Activism by Design
…a space where mass demonstrations, rallies and protests took place. The Union Mass Meeting in Union Square New York. April 20, 1861. Illustration from NYPL. The above illustration displays a…
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Upscale Makeover Planned for Former Animal Hospital and Women’s Shelter, 348 Lafayette Street
…the applicant make changes to the plan and return to present a revised plan at a public meeting (see article in NY Yimby). The meeting was held yesterday. The applicant…
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Celebrating & Remembering Margot Gayle
…to be on.” They said, “Well, Margot, I hate to tell you, but you probably can’t come to our meetings because we meet at the Century Club for lunch and…
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Community Board Public Hearing on GVSHP’s University Place/Broadway Corridor Rezoning Proposal Jan. 14
…December, GVSHP held a standing room-only community meeting on the threat of overdevelopment and the need for better preservation and planning measures for the University Place and Broadway corridors between…
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Eating Fire: A Brief History of the Lesbian Avengers in NYC
…lesbian visibility and survival. The first meeting took place in July at the New York Lesbian and Gay Community Center in the West Village at 208 West 13th Street, with…
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Win Some, Lose Some in the East Village
…(in the late 19th & early 20th centuries this was an extremely vibrant block, filled with meeting halls & social clubs to service the immigrant community). But 62 East 4th…
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Kintecoying
…now call Astor Place was the central meeting point of the groups, called Kintecoying (“Crossroads of Three Nations”) where three major trails intersected. In keeping with tradition for meeting places,…
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The Annual Village Awards: Spotlight on the Regina Kellerman Award for Preservation
2023 Annual Meeting and Village Awards One of Village Preservation’s most beloved traditions is our Annual Meeting and Village Awards, in which we celebrate our achievements of the past year,…
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All we want for the holidays is TO SAVE OUR NEIGHBORHOOD!
…building; a vintage 1930s warehouse, an 1832 rowhouse, a 1919 former Nabisco cracker bakery, and former factories and stables. The meeting outlined the landmarking and zoning protections requested in the…
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The Small-Business-Saving Squad of the East Village
At the EVIMA meeting on Feb. 24, L-R: Business owners Richard Green of Love Shine, host Kevin Miceli of Ciao for Now, Peggy Yunque of The Shape of Lies, Gayle…
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Julia Ward Howe, Feminist Pioneer
…acquainted with the writings of Balzac and Sand, and came to meet people like Longfellow, Dickens, Charles Sumner and Margaret Fuller When their father died in 1839, Julia and her…
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From Singing to Sofas: The History of the Burger-Klein Building
…as German community meeting and clubhouses including the landmark German-American Shooting Society Clubhouse at 12 St. Mark’s Place and the Pyramid Club at 101 Avenue A, a site GVSHP successfully…
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LGBTQ History: MacDougal Street
…her actions to the club when she decided to marry a male.) Rodman rented out a space for the club to meet at No. 135, establishing a pattern for LGBTQ…
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GVSHP South Village Oral History: Peter Longo
…the street, you meet customers, you meet local Villagers, you’re the ‘Longo boy.’ All your behavior, all your private life, is on public display. It’s one of the reasons we…
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Judson Memorial Church: 2011 Village Awardee
…eight recipients of a 2011 Village Award, to be presented at the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation’s Annual Meeting on Monday, June 13th. Because the church has provided a…
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