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Robert de Niro, Sr. and the New York School Artists #SouthOfUnionSquare

…their son, Robert de Niro, Jr. Virginia Admiral and Robert De Niro Sr., c. 1940. Photo courtesy of the Estate of Robert De Niro, Sr. Façade of 30 East 14th…

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With Black Seed, De Robertis Space Moves Forward, Mindful of the Past

On First Avenue near East 11th Street. Like many fans, we at Off the Grid were heartbroken when it really happened, after months and years of rumors: De Robertis Pastry…

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Robert Rauschenberg: Combining Media, Materials, and Movements

The great artist Robert Rauschenberg hailed from a small refinery town in Texas near the Louisiana border. Born on October 22nd, 1925, his early life was confined by a very…

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Robert Fisch Collection: Windows To The Past On The Side Of A Building

…before it became a world-famous park and tourist attraction, and changes to our surrounding architecture over the years. The Robert Fisch collection is our most recent addition to our image…

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Village Preservation East Village Oral History: Robert Zerilli

…posts can be found here, and the entire oral history collection here. Robert Zerilli is the grandson of Veniero’s founder. Robert was born in New Jersey and moved to New…

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This Day in History: Robert F. Kennedy Assassinated

On June 5, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, as he left the ballroom after giving his victory speech following his win in…

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Robert Hogan: Unsung Hero of Irish New York, and Resident of MacDougal Street

…a legacy still quite apparent today, but whose name is little known, is Dr. Robert Hogan. Hogan (b. August 23, 1800, according to the only source we found with this…

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Pioneers Converge on MacDougal Street: Dr. Robert Hogan, Rev. Henry Highland Garnet, and Sarah Smith Garnet

…other was the first African American woman principal in the New York City school system. 175 MacDougal Street, 2019. Dr. Robert Hogan Dr. Robert Hogan (b. August 23, 1800, according to…

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Eras of American Literature: Allen Ginsberg & Robert Lowell

…of his work with another well-known writer, Robert Lowell. The photograph features a 1977 Poetry Project event, in which Lowell and Ginsberg shared the stage for the first time, at…

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The Glittering and Gritty History of 24 Bond

…the Stephen Miller Gallery and was Smith and Mapplethorpe’s only joint exhibition. Patti Smith, taken by Robert Mapplethorpe. It is believed that this photo is taken on Mapplethorpe’s 5th floor…

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Making Photographic History #SouthOfUnionSquare

…The Robert Samuel Gallery opened at 795 Broadway in November 1978, specializing in photography by gay male artists including Robert Mapplethorpe. The Robert Samuel Gallery was committed to featuring both…

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A Dominating Narrative: The Mineshaft and BDSM Culture in the Meatpacking District

…essay about the Mineshaft, an Interview with Wally Wallace, and an essay about his partnership with Robert Mapplethorpe. Footnotes: From information found in Jack Fritscher, “ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE – Fetishes, Faces,…

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The Storied Collections of Fifty/50 #SouthofUnionSquare

…collaboration with Robert Mapplethorpe. The storefront of Fifty/50 opening at 793 Broadway, shared from the collection of Mark McDonald Isaacson and Mapplethorpe worked together on multiple projects. Isaacson’s collection of…

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23 LGBT landmarks of the East Village and Noho

…now the home of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. 4. Robert Mapplethorpe home and studio, 24 Bond Street 24 Bond Street, via Wiki Commons Unlike Rauschenberg, Mapplethorpe, who came of age…

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LGBT History in All Corners: NoHo

…prominent artists who were also gay. Pop artist Robert Rauschenberg lived and worked at 381 Lafayette Street, where his namesake foundation is now located. Just around the corner, photographer Robert Mapplethorpe lived…

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LGBT Historic Sites in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo

…of the school’s arts and culture programming. The school moved here in 1993 from its original location on West Street. Artists Robert Mapplethorpe & Patti Smith NoHo has also served…

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In Fight to Protect LGBTQ+ History, Too Many Landmarks Remain Unprotected South of Union Square

…artists like Robert Mapplethorpe and Peter Hujar to the fore. 795 Broadway (left); self-portrait of Robert Mapplethorpe 1980 The proposed South of Union Square Historic District encompasses other historic structures…

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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: 30 East 14th Street Artists’ Loft

…Anaïs Nin, Robert Duncan, writer Henry Miller, and playwright Tennessee Williams, among others. Virginia Admiral and Robert De Niro Sr., c. 1940. Photo courtesy of the Estate of Robert De…

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2014 Year In Review: GVSHP Programs

…be unearthed. His son, Ned Otter, who archived the collection, will present a slide lecture that explores both newly discovered and iconic images of Otter’s 1960s Greenwich Village. Robert Otter…

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Patti Smith

…at St. Mark’s in the Bowery. Patti Smith with Sam Shepard One of Smith’s most influential and public relationships was with the photographer Robert Mapplethorp. Smith met Mapplethorpe within days…

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Maybe You Can Save Your Favorite Restaurant Before It Closes

…oppressive, there’s nothing quite like escaping into the cool haven of De Robertis Pasticceria and Caffe for an orzata with lemon ice. Since you’re there, you’ll probably go ahead and…

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My Favorite Things: Archive Edition

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15 Trailblazing Women of Greenwich Village and the East Village

…Mark’s in the Bowery Church, met her lover and lifelong friend Robert Mapplethorpe in Tompkins Square, was photographed by Mapplethorpe (whose iconic image of Smith on the cover of “Horses” helped catapult…

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Jimmy DeSana: Sexuality and Subversion

…is often compared to his better known contemporary, Robert Mapplethorpe, who also explored the BDSM scene of lower manhattan. However, Mapplethorpe’s photography often feels “ceremonial and solemn,” while DeSana’s captured…

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Dec. 13, 1975: Patti Smith’s ‘Horses’ Released; World Never Same Again

…her close friend Robert Mapplethorpe, who lived and worked in a studio at 24 Bond Street in NoHo. Patti Smith and Bob Dylan (and Keith Richards). I’ll personally never forget…

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LGBTQ+ Pride Through The Decades

…27, 1993. Image by Robert Fisch, from the Village Preservation Historic Image Archive. In 2021, longtime Greenwich Village resident Robert Fisch donated his collection of photographs from the 1980s through today,…

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The Baldwin-Kennedy Meeting of 1963

Robert F. Kennedy Getty Images As we reflect upon the life and legacy of Robert F. Kennedy, his central role in the progress of civil rights in America comes immediately…

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Tribute in Light

‘Tribute in Light’ from a rooftop at 6th Ave & 12th Street. Photograph by Robert Fisch, 2010. Since September 11, 2003, twin pillars of light have pierced the Lower Manhattan…

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The April 1950 Artists’ Sessions at Studio 35

…at Studio 35 laid the groundwork for the bold artistic explorations to follow. The idea of the Sessions originated in 1948, when the artists William Baziotes, David Hare, Robert Motherwell,…

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#SouthofUnionSquare: Home to (even more) Trailblazing Artists, Dancers, Labor Leaders, and Birth Control Advocates

…our South of Union Square Map + Tours were first released, they illuminated the amazing artistic and publishing history of 61 Fourth Avenue. Robert Indiana — a preeminent figure in…

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Veniero’s: An East Village Cornerstone Since 1894

…business’ rich history, thanks to an oral history that Veniero’s current co-owner Robert Zerilli, grand nephew of Veniero’s original founder, conducted with us in 2014. Veniero’s is not just a…

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Happy Birthday NoHo Historic District Extension!

…in New York City. In addition to Basquiat’s studio, the home and studios of Robert Mapplethorpe and Chuck Close could also be found on the street at 24 and 20…

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Berenice Abbott’s Changing New York

…Art is Berenice Abbott’s New York Album, 1929. The exhibition, made possible by The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, Inc. and on view until September 4, 2023, presents a selection of unbound…

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‘Catholic Boy’ Jim Carroll and The Downtown Scene

…Street (as long as he wore long sleeves), lived with Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe, and hung out with Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Bob Dylan, and The Velvet Underground. He…

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Go West! – The Leather & Denim Scene in the Weehawken Street Historic District

…Tom of Finland, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Peter Hujar pulled the community into political discourses about obscenity, LGBTQIA+ rights, and freedom of expression. Throughout its history, openly queer figures like Glenn…

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Alvin Baltrop: Photographs of a Dystopian Past

…art scenes. While contemporaries like David Wojnarowics, Peter Hujar, and Robert Mapplethorpe grew more popular during the 1990s and 2000s, Baltrop’s work remained in obscurity on his apartment floor for…

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The Humble “Nerve Center” of the City: Gem Spa

…Dolls (whose guitarist, Johnny Thunders, would reputedly get his sugar fixes there in between sets at CBGBs). Artists Robert Mapplethorpe and Jean-Michel Basquiat were also fans. As would befit an…

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More is More: The NoHo Historic District Extension

…for some of the late-twentieth century’s best known American artists, including Robert Mapplethorpe, Chuck Close, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, upon whose home and studio GVSHP placed a plaque in 2016. For the…

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Gem Spa: An 80 Year Old Institution Fighting for its Survival

…lately. Gem Spa has been a touchpoint in the East Village for everyone from anonymous locals to internationally-recognized creative luminaries. Robert Mapplethorpe bought Patti Smith an egg cream there on…

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St. Mark’s Playhouse and the Negro Ensemble Company

Robert Hooks and Douglas Turner Ward outside of St. Mark’s Playhouse (133 Second Avenue) The 1960s saw immense change as calls for civil rights and racial justice transformed our cultural…

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Retracing The East Village’s Historic Little Italy

…the family ever since. Current proprietor Robert Zerilli grew up in New Jersey, but began working in the store at the age of 18 and lived over the shop for…

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The Village Backdrops of Oscar-Winning Films

…Leading Role, Robert de Niro (1980) for Raging Bull – Webster Hall, 119-125 East 11th Street Robert De Niro at the 53rd Academy Awards The main stage of Webster Hall, recently…

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Celebrating the Preservationists of the Greenwich Village Historic District

…Robert Moses ordered the large-scale demolition of older sections of cities, to be replaced or bisected by new motorways and identical complexes of “towers-in-a-park.” But one unlikely Greenwich Village resident…

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New York School Painter Janice Biala’s “Pendulating Spirit”

Beginning in 1948, the artists William Baziotes, David Hare, Robert Motherwell, and Mark Rothko held a public lecture series entitled Subjects of the Artist. Regularly attracting a crowd of around…

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#SouthOfUnionSquare Tour — Pop Culture

…1976 Speaking of the Academy Award-winning actor, producer, and director Robert De Niro, Jr., his ties to the area go even deeper. His parents, artists Robert De Niro Sr. and…

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Beyond the Village and Back: Bowne House in Flushing, Queens — Birthplace of Religious Freedom in America

…events of both regional and national significance. The Bowne House as it appears in 2020. Robert Bowne (b. 1744), the great-grandson of John Bowne, was both an early and prominent…

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(Even More) Civil Rights and Social Justice Champions in Our Neighborhoods

…— February 20, 2021), producer/actor Robert Hooks (b. April 18, 1937) and theater manager Gerald Krone (February 25, 1933 — February 20, 2021) developed the Negro Ensemble Company (NEC). This New…

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May He Stay Forever Young: 80 Things We Love About Bob Dylan

…more than 100 shows a year – every year – all around the planet. 6. Dylan’s given name was Robert Allen Zimmerman. He changed it officially, but he has always…

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12 historic Italian-American sites of the East Village

…the family ever since. Current proprietor Robert Zerilli grew up in New Jersey, but began working in the store at the age of 18 and lived over the shop for…

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2021 Village Preservation Public Programs Round-Up

…area South of Union Square. Watch the event recording today! Robert Motherwell’s Abstract Expressionism South of Union Square: Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), one of the most noteworthy figures of the Abstract…

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The Lives of Writers #SouthOfUnionSquare

…Verses and included his poems in its house publication The New Order. Robert B. Roosevelt and Pearson’s Magazine, 57 Fifth Avenue No. 57 Fifth Avenue was built by James Lenox,…

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Ghost Signs Abound in Our Historic Image Archive

…designated in 2008. 62 Cooper Square – From the Robert Fisch Collection Carl Fischer Building and painted sign, 62 Cooper Square, as seen from Astor Place. Photograph by Robert Fisch,…

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Doris Diether Oral History: Activist and Zoning Maven

…her ongoing (at the time) role at Community Board 2. Doris got her start in civic life in 1959 when Robert Moses had designed a plan to phase out the…

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Leticia Kent Oral History: Revisiting Her Unique Window on History

…their support of Village Preservation. Leticia was a known collaborator and pupil of Jane Jacobs, meeting her and husband Robert Jacobs when she was eighteen years old. Jane and Leticia…

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Picturing the World Trade Center

…by Robert Fisch. The Robert Fisch collection of our historic image archive includes images primarily of the Greenwich Village of his youth in the 1980s, landmarks and familiar sights of…

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Oral History Highlight: Colette Smith Douglas

…against Robert Moses’ proposed Lower Manhattan Expressway, which would have destroyed the neighborhoods of SoHo, Little Italy, and the South Village. Presently she lives on Charlton Street. According to Douglas:…

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Barbara Kahn: Playwright With Impact Beyond The Stage

…performances from Barbara herself as well as her longtime collaborator, Robert Gonzales Jr. The performances of monologues and a song were followed by conversations about Barbara’s process and her work…

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31 literary icons of Greenwich Village

…10. Robert Frost, 107 Waverly Place American poet Robert Frost made his home at 107 Waverly Place in 1920. While living in the building, Frost met another poet, Percy MacKaye. It was…

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East Village Building Blocks Tour: Theaters!

…Lanford Wilson, Harvey Fierstein, and Terrence McNally; directors including Tom O’Horgan, Joseph Chaikin, Robert Wilson, and Richard Foreman; and such actors as Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Richard Dreyfuss, Bill…

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Jane Jacobs’ NYC: The sites that inspired her work and preservation legacy

…Jane and her husband Robert raised their family and she wrote the epic tome “The Death and Life of Great American Cities.” In 2009, Village Preservation got the block co-named…

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Bleecker Bob’s

…Village Historic District. It was in the late 1960’s that two men, Robert Plotnik, an attorney, and Al Trommers, a record collector, opened a record store at 149 Bleecker Street….

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Superblock Sleuthing

…of as a traditional “slum”, it was an area dense with working class families, a characteristic Robert Moses saw as undesirable. In 1956, Robert Moses acquired three city blocks bound…

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The Ashcan School and the Beginnings of the Whitney

…realism. Founded by the artist Robert Henri, the original group including George Luks, John Sloan, Everett Shinn, Maurice Prendergast, Ernest Lawson, Arthur B. Davies, William J. Glackens, later joined by…

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Remembering Edith Lyons

…co-founder of the Joint Emergency Committee to Close Washington Square Park to Traffic. Lyons and the JEC led a seven year battle against Robert Moses’ plan to extend Fifth Avenue…

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The East River Park’s Past and Future

…ten feet higher. Thank You, Robert Moses East River Park was conceived by Robert Moses in the 1930s as the East River Drive (renamed the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Drive in…

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The Birth of The Committee to Save the West Village, Led By Jane Jacobs

The 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…

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“No Jim Crow in the IWO!”, the rallying cry heard from 80 Fifth Avenue for a quarter century

…Free?” was written by Langston Hughes, whose “Revolutionary Verses” chapbook and other poems were also published by the Order. Robert Earl Jones in Langston Hughes’ “Don’t You Want to be…

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Beyond the Village and Back: Sailors’ Snug Harbor

…Revolutionary War hero and ship captain Robert Richard Randall, who died in 1801. In his will, he designated his property — then in what was mostly farmland north of New…

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In Death, As In Life, Marcel Duchamp Left Mystery

…Years Later In 2018, Village Preservation hosted a program Marcel Duchamp in the Village- 50 Years Later with Artist Serkan Ozkaya in conversation with poet Robert Fitterman at, where else,…

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Ferlinghetti and Rosset: Censorship-Battling Superheroes

…Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William S. Burroughs, as well as poets like Frank O’Hara and Robert Duncan. Rosset and Grove also published the Evergreen Review between 1957 and 1973, a literary magazine whose contributors included Bertolt…

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Architecture #SouthOfUnionSquare: the German-American Legacy

…Revival Style. It features an elaborately detailed cast-iron storefront also typical of Wagner’s style. Robert Maynicke Robert Maynicke was born in Germany in 1849; his parents brought him to New…

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Theater Thursday Round Up

…three men: “father of the atomic bomb” J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), American serial killer H. H. Holmes (1861-1896), and fictional scientist Victor Frankenstein. Featuring original music and sound design by…

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Woman Crush Wednesday: Jane Jacobs

…a citizen who had little power and who wasn’t considered an expert, however, she faced down Robert Mosses not once, but twice in order to maintain the integrity of the…

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Carolee Schneemann’s Kinetic Theater at Judson Memorial Church

…such as Claes Oldenburg, Jim Dine, Robert Rauschenberg, and Yoko Ono, among others. Judson Dance Theater began in 1962 and became a pioneering force in postmodern dance. Artist Carolee Schneemann (1939-2019) was a founding member…

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Bernard Malamud: Evocative Novelist, and Villager

…become one of Malamud’s best remembered works, and was made into a 1984 movie starring Robert Redford Robert Redford starred in The Natural, a 1984 film adaption of Malamud’s 1952…

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Angel Hair Press: “A Rush of Poetic Chutzpah” in the East Village

The poets and New York natives Anne Waldman and Lewis Warsh met at the Berkeley Poetry Conference in 1965, while absorbing the Zen-influenced poems of San Francisco-based writer Robert Duncan….

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“Secret Banned Rites”: Poets at Café Le Metro

…readings at Café Le Metro set important precedents for the downtown avant-garde poetry scene. Here, Allen Ginsberg and Robert Lowell shared the stage for the first and only time. Among…

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#SouthOfUnionSquare Tour — Musical Heritage and History

…Pete Seeger, Babatunde Olatunji, Aretha Franklin, Leonard Cohen, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, as well as in reviving the music of delta blues artist Robert Johnson. At 55 Fifth Avenue, Hammond…

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How the New York Public Library got its start in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo

…was the product of eccentric Gilded Age millionaire James Lenox. His father Robert, a Scottish immigrant, became one of the most successful real estate investors and developers in New York…

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Visual AIDS Day Without Art

…an AIDS-related illness. Visual AIDS was founded that same year to address the global HIV/AIDS epidemic’s impact on the artistic community. Founded by art critic and writer Robert Atkins, curators…

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11 landmarks of immigration in Greenwich Village

…have included economists Adolph Lowe and Robert Heilbroner, political scientists Arnold Brecht and Aristide Zolberg, sociologists Emil Lederer and Peter Berger, psychologists Max Wertheimer and Jerome Bruner, historian Charles Tilly,…

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Before the duel: Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton’s NYC haunts

…succumbed the following day. The Bayard house has long since been demolished, though Bayard’s son Robert’s house, built in 1854, still stands at 83 Jane Street, on the grounds of…

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17 LGBT landmarks of Greenwich Village

…the New School in the Village, and began writing for the black newspaper Freedom. In 1953, she married Robert Nemiroff, and they moved to Greenwich Village. It was during this…

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Publishing giants, radical literature, and women’s suffrage: More secrets of Union Square South

…de Sade. Grove was also known for publishing most of the American Beat writers of the 1950s, including Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs, as well as poets like Frank O’Hara and Robert Duncan. He published…

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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: MORE Artist Studios at 30 East 14th Street

…explored the connection between 30 East 14th Street and the artists of the Fourteenth Street School as well as its links to artists Virginia Admiral and Robert De Niro, Sr….

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Explore Jewish History on Our Greenwich Village Historic District Map

…reputation as an outspoken reformer. In 1919 he resigned his congressional seat, and defeated Tammany Hall candidate Robert Moran for the office of the president of the New York City…

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April in the Archives

…the public and taken by Village Preservation staff over the years. Ralph Lauren Mural, 99 University Place This photo from the Robert Fisch Collection was taken on April 22nd, 2014….

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Open House New York in Greenwich Village: The history of three unique sites

…city’s landmarks law existed, this was no easy task. But in a signature moment for the preservation movement, in 1961 Mayor Robert Wagner was convinced to accept their plan for…

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O Pioneers! Two Remarkable Women of Bank Street: Willa Cather and Lucy Sprague Mitchell

…as Bank Street. As Roberta Brandes Gratz, the author of “The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs” wrote, “Bank Street is the…

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David Bowie, A Fellow Villager

David Bowie outside Tea and Sympathy at 108 Greenwich Avenue, ca. 1997. Born David Robert Jones on January 8th, 1947, the cultural and rock icon David Bowie navigated his way…

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Dorothy Canning Miller: Champion of Abstract Expressionism

…Kelly, Louise Nevelson, Robert Rauschenberg, and Frank Stella to a larger audience from MoMA’s stage. In addition to being a beacon for these artists, she was friends with many of…

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Jewish, Hispanic, and Historic Preservationist: the Maritime Pioneers of Greenwich Village

…to its history of nautical innovation. The first regularly scheduled shipping routes, the ocean liners, were born here, and Robert Fulton would build and operate some of the first steam-powered…

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Alfred Leslie: Abstraction, the Beats, & Eternal Transformation #SouthOfUnionSquare

…short Pull My Daisy (1959), which he co-directed with his neighbor, photographer Robert Frank. It was filmed inside Leslie’s studio at 108 Fourth Avenue. The cast included Allen Ginsberg and…

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Tour the Musical Sites of Producer John Hammond’s World

…by choice, during his prodigious 55-year career he was responsible for discovering none other than Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Robert Johnson, Bessie Smith, Aretha Franklin, Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Ray…

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New Historic Image Collection Captures Four Decades, Lost Institutions, 9/11, LGBT Celebrations

Today we are proud to share the first part of a collection of hundreds of photos donated by longtime Greenwich Village resident Robert Fisch, primarily of the Greenwich Village of…

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Joe Papp Created a Theater By and For The People

…was born—free Shakespeare in the Park—drawing thousands for every performance, then and now. After two successful seasons of free Shakespeare in Central Park, Papp ran afoul of the infamous Robert…

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The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary’s Rich History

Robert Williams Gibson Building, 1893-1903 in April 2022. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary at 2nd Avenue and 13th Street, 1904. Photo by Irving Underhill. Courtesy MCNY. The New York…

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Celebrating Flag Day!

…Center on 9/11. This photo from the Robert A. Ripps Collection was taken in the weeks following 9/11 on the northeast corner of East 9th Street and 4th Avenue. Also…

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How The Tredwell House Became The Merchant’s House Museum

…serious water damage, the Decorators concluded that extensive structural repairs were needed. They called upon New York University Architect Joseph Roberto to offer advice. Funds were raised and Joseph Roberto…

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Village Preservation Plaques Highlight LGBTQ+ History Throughout Our Neighborhoods

…Harlem in 1951 and lived much of her life here. In 1953, she married Robert Nemiroff and they moved to Greenwich Village, where she wrote A Raisin in the Sun,…

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