…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…
Read More…in the cultural fabric of our neighborhoods. Robert Rauschenberg designing a unicorn costume for his sister Janet for a Mardi Gras celebration, from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Why his legacy…
Read MoreOn 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read More…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…
Read More…Lafayette to this day. Narrating the audio is actor and comedian Alec Baldwin. https://soundcloud.com/villagepreservation/robert-rauschenberg-village-voices-audio-1?utm_source=clipboard&utm_campaign=wtshare&utm_medium=widget&utm_content=https%253A%252F%252Fsoundcloud.com%252Fvillagepreservation%252Frobert-rauschenberg-village-voices-audio-1 Click here to read more about Robert Rauschenberg. Click here to access all 31 VILLAGE VOICES….
Read More…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 York…
Read MoreOn 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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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,…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…among other works, lived nearby at 90 University Place during the height of his career in the late 1950s. 795 Broadway (left) and a self-portrait of Robert Mapplethorpe ca. 1980…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…general population. Caffe Reggio, c. 1965. Robert Otter, photographer © 2012 Ned Otter. This second image, “Caffe Reggio, 1965” is also a favorite from the Robert Otter archive. Caffe Reggio…
Read More…From the “Robert Fisch World Trade Center and 9/11 Collection” in Village Preservation’s Historic Image Archive. Robert Fisch grew up in South Queens and became interested in photography when the…
Read More…of Union Square Historic District. Read more about our efforts to protect this history. Robert Motherwell Robert Motherwell, 1952 Influential artist Robert Motherwell had his studio in this building from…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read MoreRobert 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…
Read More…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,…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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,…
Read More‘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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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 establishment that has catered…
Read More…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…
Read More…appears in 2020. Robert Bowne (b. 1744), the great-grandson of John Bowne, was both an early and prominent abolitionist active in the anti-slavery movement. In 1785, he joined with Alexander…
Read More…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…
Read MoreBeginning 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…
Read More…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…
Read MoreRobert 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…
Read More…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…
Read More…Teasdale, undated (near the end of World War I) Robert Frost, 107 Waverly Place L: Robert Frost in 1958, photo by Yousuf Karsh. R: 107-111 Waverly Place in 2019 and…
Read More…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 a while. In…
Read More…— 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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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….
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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,…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…a landscape of early 20th-century American culture. Streetview of 107 Waverly Place; Map data © 2019 Google 10. Robert Frost, 107 Waverly Place American poet Robert Frost made his home…
Read More…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:…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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,…
Read More…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,…
Read More“You can help save Washington Square Park. Robert Moses can be stopped. A handful of women did it in Central Park. The bird watchers did it in Central Park. The…
Read More…new husband and fellow artist Robert De Niro, Sr. (and perhaps, for a short time, with their infant, the movie actor Robert De Niro, Jr., who was born their final…
Read MoreThis is one of a series of blog posts which highlights the information found in our Village Independent Democrats collection, added to our Preservation History Archive in early 2024. In 1953, Robert Moses announced plans…
Read More…of early 20th-century American culture. Streetview of 107 Waverly Place; Map data © 2019 Google 10. Robert Frost, 107 Waverly Place American poet Robert Frost made his home at 107 Waverly…
Read More…LGBT Center), 208 West 13th Street, June 1983, from the Robert Fisch Collection. A good number of the LGBTQ+ tagged images feature, unsurprisingly, people! This photograph was taken in June…
Read More…Moore’s photograph of (from left) Robert Rauschenberg, Joseph Schlichter (hidden), Sally Gross, Tony Holder, Deborah Hay, Yvonne Rainer, Alex Hay, Robert Morris (behind), and Lucinda Childs performing Rainer’s We Shall Run,…
Read MoreJames Lenox was born in New York City on August 19, 1800 to Robert and Rachel Lenox. Robert had immigrated to the United States from Scotland during the Revolutionary War,…
Read More…NY. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York Accessed via MOMA Judson began in the classes of Robert Ellis Dunn, musical accompanist for choreographer Merce Cunningham. Dunn, encouraged by Cunningham’s life…
Read MoreThe New York City Landmarks Law was signed into law on April 19, 1965 by Mayor Robert Wagner. Since then, about 38,000 NYC properties have been protected under the law….
Read More…1982. View image in archive here. On August 14th, 1982, photographer Robert Fisch documented his friends on the West Village waterfront. Born and raised in Queens, Fisch become interested in…
Read More…offer a visual history of the city, documenting the very neighborhoods where she lived and worked. Helen Levitt, New York City, 1952. Courtesy Whitney Museum of American Art. Robert Motherwell…
Read More…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 a while. In an…
Read More…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…
Read MoreThe Landmarks Preservation Commission’s (LPC) response to pleas to consider the entire proposed South Village Historic District for landmark designation, as LPC Chair Robert Tierney promised to do in 2009,…
Read More…not about being barefoot in Central Park;” while Jane Fonda and Robert Redford are honeymooning at the Plaza Hotel, the film then moves to their new apartment in Greenwich Village….
Read More…Chairman Robert B. Tierney 1) Take it from the top: Appoint a chairperson with a background in historic preservation. The Commission is composed of 11 members chosen by the mayor,…
Read MoreGreenwich Village To Day. Map drawn by Robert Edwards, 1925. Image via the Harry Ransom Center. Geography has never been my forte. I’ve been lost more times than I can…
Read More…Money, says Robert Perl, the president of Tower Brokerage on East 10th Street. Around the East Village, Perl owns a passel of residential buildings, many with commercial on the ground…
Read More…favorite dining establishments from disappearing. Panelists scheduled to participate include former New York Times restaurant critic Mimi Sheraton, Eater.com restaurant critic Robert Sietsema, Columbia University assistant professor of urban planning…
Read MoreRobert Henri, “Snow in New York” (1902) The Ashcan School refers to a loosely knit group of urban realist painters based in New York City during the early 20th century….
Read More…Square in our on-line photographic archive. Last car through Washington Square Park, 1958. Tankel Collection, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation Decades ago the “Power Broker” himself, Robert Moses, concocted a…
Read More…632-634 Broadway- between Bleecker and E. Houston. Photo Courtesy of the Skyscraper Museum. Built in 1900 by architect Robert Maynicke. Coe Estate Building- between Bleecker and E. Houston. Photo courtesy of the Skyscraper…
Read More…She famously faced the political titan Robert Moses on three occasions; their battles so epic in proportion that an opera, entitled A Marvelous Order, has been created about their legendary…
Read More…owners: Abraham Witherup and Milton W. Armstrong, partners in a building firm and their heirs, and real estate operator Robert I. Brown and his family. In the 20th century, the…
Read More…the Village and the role he played in the art scene there, attending salons, renting half his apartment to Robert De Niro Sr., and spending time with Willem de Kooning…
Read More…and running on the Republican ticket, defeated Tammany Hall candidate Robert Moran for the office of the President of the New York City Board of Alderman. In 1922 La Guardia…
Read More…National Park Service. Bathhouse collonade After the bathhouse was completed, Robert Moses got involved in 1934, with a series of renovations that demolished the parts of the bathhouse that sat…
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