…Pearl Street and Cedar Street, where Washington stayed at the William Smith House from April 13-17, 1776 On April 17, 1776, Washington moved his headquarters north to Richmond Hill. Richmond…
Read More…site of Hilly’s Hilly Kristal was born on September 23, 1931 to Jewish immigrants, Bertha and Shamai. Kristal grew up in Hightstown, New Jersey, where he studied music from a…
Read More…Read about other awardees here. Dinosaur Hill at 306 East 9th Street in the East Village Dinosaur Hill, an East Village stalwart for over 30 years, is a toy store which…
Read More…avoid the crowds and relax in a little corner of shade and greenery just around the corner, Sir Winston Churchill Square. “What does Winston Churchill have to do with Greenwich…
Read More…died in 1865. The mansion opened as a museum in 1904. Richmond Hill When the Morris-Jumel Mansion was built, it was a world away from Greenwich Village, literally and figuratively,…
Read MoreHillel (Hilly) Kristal, founder of legendary rock club CBGB, was born on September 23, 1931 in New York City. His early life, well into adulthood, might not have given any…
Read More…available for purchase on March 25th. Visit our Facebook page for the latest on book contributors, release events and readings, and contest information. Dave Hill, comedian, writer, and host…
Read More…Houston Street. It was only the fourth designated historic district in New York City when it was landmarked on August 16th, 1966, and for good reason. The Richmond Hill mansion,…
Read More…still be found today. Ahead, learn about five sites where Burr and Hamilton made history. Richmond Hill – Varick, Charlton, King, VanDam and MacDougal Streets The Richmond Hill mansion, via…
Read MoreThe estate of Richmond Hill was built in what is now the Charlton-King-Vandam Historic District in 1767. Image via the New York Public Library Warm, sunny days in the Village…
Read More…the army as a general which secured its freedom in military battle. That began with General George Washington setting up headquarters in our neighborhood in 1776 in the Richmond Hill…
Read More…a fire in 1840. The “Richmond Hill” mansion was used for many years as a theater and a saloon before being demolished in 1849. Richmond Hill Mansion The other four…
Read More…Bayard’s estate did cover this much broader area. Prior to all of this election drama, Burr bought Richmond Hill, a 26 acre estate, part of which lays within the Charlton-King-Van…
Read More…Richmond Hill, one of Manhattan’s most imposing mansions, built in 1767 by Major Mortier. That grand home was located on a 400-foot-high hill, “surrounded by gardens, meadows and woods, all…
Read More…it was the site of one of the most beautiful mansions ever to grace Manhattan, the famous Georgian-style “Richmond Hill”, built on the top of a 400- foot tall hill…
Read More…They, in turn, sold it to Aaron Burr in 1791, who acquired a portion of the Bayard Farm contiguous to his estate “Richmond Hill”, which stood west of Sixth Avenue….
Read More…against the charge of murdering his fiancé, Elma Sands. Read more about the famous trial and the other prominent Americans who have lived at 54 MacDougal Street HERE. Richmond Hill…
Read More…Landmarks Preservation Commission. A sketch of the Richmond Hill Mansion, published in 1847 The King-Charlton-VanDam Historic District This distinct and neighborhood—separate from Greenwich Village—started in the early 19th Century as…
Read More…ball just around the corner at 54 MacDougal Street was also built on land which was part of the Richmond Hill Estate; you can read more about the history of…
Read More…of Richmond Hill, a colonial mansion built in 1767 that served as George Washington’s headquarters, the official residence of the Vice-President of the United States, and the home of Aaron…
Read More…having tumbled down a rabbit hole into a hidden, magical place. But that is only half of the story. In the rolling hills of Donegal, Ireland, jack hares come out…
Read More…designer and professor of graphic design at Pratt Institute, passed away on Monday. Bert accepted our Village Award in June of 2013 for his work in the Winston Churchill Square…
Read More…one of the first and most successful efforts to breathe new life into old buildings. Dinosaur Hill Owner Pam Pier. Image via localeastvillage.com Dinosaur Hill– Since 1983, Pam Pier, owner…
Read More…the madding crowds. Here are but a few of those special places. Sir Winston Churchill Square This peaceful garden and sitting area borders Downing Street and the west side of…
Read More…On March 11, 1980, Sylvia Robinson organized Sugar Hill Review at The Ritz. Sugar Hill Review was one of the first live shows that connected hip hop emcees & DJs…
Read More…6th Avenue to Greenwich Avenue, 14th Street to 4th Street (what we might now call the “West Village”), Mapping HOLC, Richmond The West Village. Grade: C1; Yellow Most of what…
Read More…one of the reasons we are seeing neighborhoods clamor for landmark protections throughout the city, from Bedford Stuyvesant to Bay Ridge, Ridgewood to Richmond Hill, the South Bronx to Staten…
Read More…large section of the Bayard property in the late 1790’s. These lands adjoined Burr’s Richmond Hill estate, which was 26 acres bordered by present day Varick, Charlton, King, and MacDougal Streets. The land Burr sold…
Read More…the introduction video and Part 1 of this series. Video This video includes information about the history of Wall Street, English rule of New York, the Richmond Hill Estate, Historic…
Read More…part of Aaron Burr’s estate, Richmond Hill. This individual landmark is located in the third phase of GVSHP’s proposed South Village historic district. 203 Prince Street is one of the…
Read More…there are plenty of sites associated with him here. Burr’s mansion at Richmond Hill was situated where Varick and Charleton Streets now intersect, and his fountain and front gate were…
Read More…203 Prince Street stands (and the rest of the block) had formerly been part of Richmond Hill, the estate of former Vice-President Aaron Burr (who, by coincidence was arrested and charged with…
Read More…interred here before his remains were later moved to Richmond, Virginia. Both the New York City Marble Cemetery and New York Marble Cemetery are NYC Landmarks, and listed on the…
Read MoreJustin Theroux proposed to Jennifer Aniston at Blue Hill Restaurant in Greenwich Village. Photo courtesy of Getty Images. Blue Hill, the one-star Michelin rated restaurant located on Washington Place…
Read More…supplies concern.” Instead, he is a well-known potter, designer, author, and personality. In his Greenwich Village story, author and comedian Dave Hill notes that he lived on a street made…
Read More…accepted our Village Award in June of 2013 for his work in the Winston Churchill Square garden. Anyone who has walked by the small but lush little park located where…
Read More…W. White, editor of the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond, Virginia. Poe became assistant editor of the periodical in August 1835, but White discharged him within a few weeks for…
Read More…their special histories, and reveal their (sometimes hidden) connections to the Village. Richmond, Baltimore, Philadelphia, and Boston all host memorials, museums, or plaques that mark Edgar Allan Poe. The prolific,…
Read More…versa, and Hyman especially had a guiding hand in Ellison’s process writing Invisible Man. First edition cover of The Haunting of Hill House. In 1945, Stanley won a position at…
Read More…Photo courtesy of Tim Tseng. At this time, Penn State University professor Cathleen D. Cahill writes, the largely white American suffrage movement hoped to learn from the recent Chinese Revolution,…
Read More…Historic Image Archive. CBGB opened on December 10, 1973 after biker and dive bar “Hilly’s on the Bowery” venue owner Hilly Kristal switched it up to a music club. CBGB went…
Read More…Winston Churchill Square This peaceful garden area bordering Downing Street is named after Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. His speeches as Prime Minister from his official residence at London’s 10…
Read More…& His Park Winston Churchill Square Garden Winston Churchill Square, outside looking in A Gardening Labor of Love Sir Winston Churchill Square: 2013 Village Award Winner (and one of my…
Read More…a Segno turned over its Staten Island land to the federal government, which eventually built Fox Hills Base Hospital at the site. Fox Hills Base Hospital. NYPL A delegation from…
Read More…albums, such as Talking Heads (“Fear of Music”), Lauryn Hill (“The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill”), and many others. When Rob moved to 12th Street, the loft hadn’t been rented for…
Read More…a chain of sandy hills, Zantberg in Dutch. The English called it Sand Hill Road but later gave its western sections separate names Great Kill Road (most of which became Gansevoort…
Read More…on Manhatta, translated as “the island of many hills.” It was later renamed by the Dutch “Manhattan.” Although there is little documentation about the Lenape, it is believed that they…
Read MoreBefore the creation of Sir Winston Churchill Square, 6th Avenue was much wider. Notice the older advertisement for Avignone Pharmacy in the picture on the right, 1932, via the NYPL….
Read More…Raffetto family came to the United States: “They originated from a little town called Ognio, up in the hilltops outside of Genoa. And this is a pretty cool story, not…
Read More…the monicker “the Sugar Hill Gang” (after the legendary Harlem neighborhood, though they were from Englewood, New Jersey, across the Hudson) were in a recording studio interpolating the unmistakable bass…
Read More…Wilson (“Blue Night ‘Til Dawn”), Moby (“Play”), Maxwell (“Urban Hang Suite”), Meshell Ndegeocello (“Peace Beyond Passion’’), and Lauryn Hill (“The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill”). The list of musicians who recorded…
Read More…the spot where many recording artists created their first prominent albums, such as Lauryn Hill’s Grammy-winning album “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill,” amongst others. Some other Grammy artists that recorded…
Read More…undergraduate at Georgetown, where she majored in peace and justice studies and acted in student productions. One of the plays in which she performed was Cloud 9 by Caryl Churchill,…
Read More…time to read long books.) GREENWICH VILLAGE STORIES: A Collection of Memories, edited by Judith Stonehill. A love letter to Greenwich Village, written by artists, writers, musicians, restaurateurs, and other…
Read More…Orlandersmith (Until the Flood), Adam Rapp (The Hallway Trilogy), Daniel Talbott (Slipping), Lucy Thurber (The Hilltown Plays), Jonathan Tolins (Buyer and Cellar) and Craig Wright (The Pavilion). Dael Orlander Smith…
Read More…really only reached about as far north as 23rd Street or so in Manhattan, and the oldest neighborhoods in Brooklyn closest to Manhattan (Brooklyn Heights, Cobble Hill, Carroll Gardens, Boerum…
Read More…From Meredith Marciano Collection, archive.gvshp.org. Perhaps one of the most familiar names on the tour, Hilly Kristal opened CBGB (originally called Hilly’s) in 1969. Located at 313-315 Bowery, this site…
Read More…with thousands of other migrants looking to escape the horrible conditions and find work. Perhaps it was his “hillbilly” music, which made him popular on WNYC not long after he…
Read More…in this series, we would like to highlight a pair of important and often overlooked landmarks. The Gould Memorial Library and Begrisch Hall are both located in a dramatic hilltop…
Read More…including Lucy Thurber (The Hilltown Plays), Sheila Callaghan (Everything You Touch), Adam Rapp (The Hallway Trilogy), Craig Wright (The Pavilion), Jesse Eisenberg (The Revisionist), Samuel D. Hunter (The Few), and…
Read More…grid. Hills and valleys, streams and ponds, forests and swamps were invisible to the grid; so too were country villages, roads, farms, and estates and generations of property lines. All…
Read More…and Lauryn Hill (“The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill”). There is so much more, from the Rolling Stones to Brian Eno, Tito Puente to Moby, and more, there is a tour…
Read More…Boerum Hill; Jackson Heights, Hamilton Heights (Sugar Hill), and the South Street Seaport, among many others. The Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, Grand Central Terminal, and the Woolworth Building all…
Read More…and state historic preservation offices. Secondly, the National Trust for Historic Preservation approved The Whitehill Report on Professional and Public Education for Historic Preservation in October, 1968. The Whitehill committee…
Read More…Community Task Force Murray Hill Neighborhood Association Lefferts Manor Association Hamilton Heights – West Harlem Community Preservation Organization 404 East 14th Street and the East Village Art Scene A slideshow…
Read More…This fading ad is located on East 6th Street. The sign for both Hygrade Beef and Avignone Chemists is quite visible, since the facade faces into Sir Winston Churchill Square….
Read More…as she spends time with Pete Seeger and begins her life in poetry. Reflect with Dave Hill on how if he had stayed in his native Cleveland, he would have…
Read More…Avignone Chemists, located on Bleecker Street between Downing and Carmine Streets. 2013 Village Award Winner Winston Churchill Square A Village Award also went to the Winston Churchill Square, a small…
Read MoreWall sign probably from the 1950’s Last week I wrote about one of my favorite spots in the South Village, the Sir Winston Churchill Square. If you took my advice…
Read More…ceremony on the evening of June 17. Congratulations to the awardees: Avignone Chemists Block Drug Store New York University Faculty Against the Sexton Plan Jeremiah Shea Sir Winston Churchill Square…
Read More…beautiful flowers, without having to do any of the gardening work. Winston Churchill Square One of my favorites is 2013 Village Award winner Sir Winston Churchill Square. This little oasis…
Read More…and try to persuade him to participate in a “conspiracy to take over the government” including kidnapping President Lincoln, and bring them to Richmond, Virginia. Booth was a strong supporter…
Read More…spread across the site and include the celebrated New York Chinese Scholar’s Garden and the Richmond County Savings Foundation Tuscan Garden, based on an 18th century garden in Florence, Italy….
Read More…Mohawk, Hopi, Winnebago, and San Blas tribes. Founding members included Josephine Mofsie-Tarrant, Gloria Miguel, Jonathan Williams, Swift Eagle, Jack Preston (Seneca, deceased); and Rosemary Richmond (Mohawk, deceased); and others. They…
Read Moresource: richmondhillhistory.org On May 3, 1849, Jacob August Riis was born in Denmark. At age 21, he immigrated to New York, arriving June 5, 1870. He immediately felt the need…
Read More…Check out all our past posts on Riis and his legacy. source: richmondhillhistory.org On May 3, 1849, Jacob August Riis was born in Denmark. At age 21, he immigrated to New York,…
Read More…once in her life and in the GOLDEN GRIFFIN I get a little Verlaine for Patsy with drawings by Bonnard although I do think of Hesiod, trans. Richmond Lattimore or Brendan Behan’s…
Read More…acquired Kraft. In 2003 the name Philip Morris disappeared when Altria Group, Inc. took over the company. Five years later the entire company was relocated to Richmond, Virginia. Today 72…
Read More…the University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus (where it is called “Endover’), in the Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park in Hamilton, Ohio, and in private collections in Miami and Southampton. But…
Read More…Cinemart Cinemas in Forest Hills, Queens. Nick said, “I only kept theaters that I think should mean something to people in New York.” Cinema Village’s ticket prices are deliberately kept…
Read More…Sitney, Jerome Hill, Stan Brakhage, and Peter Kubelka. Its first location was at the Public Theater at 425 Lafayette Street; a few years later, it moved to 80 Wooster Street….
Read More…created custom ice cream flavors for notables like Hillary Clinton and Jay-Z, and garnered national coverage from leading publications including The New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine, Essence and New York Magazine.”…
Read More…created custom ice cream flavors for notables like Hillary Clinton and Jay-Z, and garnered national coverage from leading publications including The New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine, Essence and New York Magazine.”…
Read More…and looks as though it should be at the center of Italian hill town. Created in 1923 by the leftover open space from the demolition of multiple buildings for the…
Read More…oral history with Village Preservation, Zerrilli discusses customers as varied as Mario Cuomo, Joey Ramone, and Hillary Clinton. Veniero’s is famed for its cheesecake, biscotti, cannoli, tiramisu, and sfogliatelle. While food is its…
Read More…converted to apartments, and while listed on the State and National Registers of Historic Places, is not landmarked. Photo by hill10003 / Wikimedia 45 East 9th Street Hugh Ferriss and Harvey Wiley Corbett…
Read More…cultivate rugged, hilly, swampy land. ‘Marycke’ was not only the first independent female settler of the ‘land of the blacks’ (a second widow was granted land four years later), but…
Read More…to see King’s birthday become a national holiday. He faced an uphill battle on many fronts, including tepid support from some African-American leaders in Congress and vigorous opposition from those on…
Read More…of property on today’s Upper East Side (the neighborhood now known as Lenox Hill). But by 1845, James Lenox was done with business and retired to pursue his passions of…
Read More…Dr. Howard Brown, Martin Duberman, Barbara Gittings, Ron Gold, Frank Kameny, Natalie Rockhill, and Bruce Voeller, knew it was time to create change on a national level. Among its early…
Read More…Harper’s, Rust Hills of Esquire, and Aaron Asher of Meridan Books. 1959 New York City Directory. Photo courtesy of Ancestry.com. On March 14, 1959, The New Yorker published Roth’s story…
Read More…on the incline of a hill looking eastward over Harlem. The commanding, 1904 neo-Gothic structure boasts an ornate bell tower, visible from the nearby St. Nicholas Park and the City…
Read More…4th Street. After another period of neglect, Anthology Film Archives, founded by Jonas Mekas, P. Adams Sitney, Jerome Hill, Stan Brakhage, and Peter Kubelka in 1969, purchased the building in…
Read More…the Expanded Carnegie Hill Historic District (landmarked December 21, 1993) between 89th and 90th Streets on “Museum Mile,” and Our Lady of Lourdes Church, a Venetian Gothic style Catholic Church…
Read More…War of 1812 and the Civil War, and the NYC Subway. Bank of New York, watercolor by John William Hill, The Phelps Stokes Collection, New York Public Library Want to…
Read More…musicians, spent part of their lives touring around the country with their three children. During this time, Seeger discovered the banjo and folk (or hillbilly) music, which he would pursue…
Read More…Whitehill as a substation for Consolidated Edison in 1919-20. The building was converted to a multi-use commercial structure in 1963 and subsequently served as the home and studio of famed…
Read More…Thomas Gallaudet (1885-1889) at Gallaudet College in Washington D.C.; the Milmore Memorial (1889-1893) at the Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain, MA; the John Boyle O’Reilly Memorial (1892-96) in the Fenway…
Read More…for the Ramones, CBGB had been operating for two years. The venue was opened in 1973 by Hilly Krystal as CBGB’s & OMFUG, which stood for “Country Bluegrass Blues and…
Read More…rich heritage: The Isaac-Hendricks House, 77 Bedford Street It was 1799 – a decade since the Revolution – and Greenwich Village was a quiet place, with farms and rolling hills….
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