…the third floor. Interested in learning more about the St. Mark’s Historic District? Read 1969 NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission designation report for the St. Mark’s Historic District here or read…
Read MoreOn January 14, 1969, the St. Mark’s Historic District was designated. The district was one of the first historic district designations by the newly created Landmarks Preservation Commission. The district…
Read More…private courtyard garden. St. Mark’s Historic District — 1969 The first district to extend protections into a portion of the East Village, the St. Mark’s Historic District includes Manhattan’s oldest…
Read More…the St. Mark’s Historic District Extension. The St. Mark’s Historic District Extension was designated 15 years after the St. Mark’s Historic District on June 19, 1984, and only consists of two…
Read MoreSt. Mark’s Historic District Extension identified here with red lines The St. Mark’s Historic District Extension was designated 15 years after the St. Mark’s Historic District and only consists of…
Read More…of two buildings included in the St. Mark’s Historic District Extension Twenty-eight years ago, on June 19 1984, the St. Mark’s Historic District Extension was designated. This tiny extension to…
Read More…of the St. Mark’s Historic District Extension. Today we are going to look at the Greenwich Village Historic District Extension, designated in 2006. This was the first-ever expansion of the…
Read More…following 1969’s St. Mark’s Historic District, and followed later that year by the designation of the East Village/Lower East Side Historic District, the neighborhood’s third and (so far) final historic…
Read More…the Greenwich Village Historic District Extension and the St. Mark’s Historic District Extension. Today we are going to look at the NoHo Historic District Extension, designated May 13, 2008. Following…
Read More…Weehawken Street Historic District, in 2010 by the South Village expansion of the Greenwich Village Historic District, in 2012 by the East 10th Street Historic District, and again in 2012…
Read More…Village Historic District Video and photos 1/28/19 Learn and experience more online here. And, join us in our celebration of the Greenwich Village Historic District – and all historic districts. …
Read MoreThe new street signs. Click to enlarge. The Sullivan-Thompson Historic District is the Village’s most recently designated historic district, and was designated in record time. We’re happy to report that…
Read More…to begin consideration of our proposed 38-block South Village Historic District, starting with the area west of 6th Avenue. In 2009, the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) holds hearing on first…
Read More…voted unanimously today to landmark the third and final phase of GVSHP’s proposed South Village Historic District, called the Sullivan Thompson Historic District! Landmark designation takes immediate effect, covering nearly…
Read More…Chair, Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC); President, Municipal Art Society (MAS); co-founder Historic Districts Council Ronda Wist, President at Wist Preservation Associates, former LPC Executive Director, and MAS Vice President Frank…
Read More…are often asked why a historic district border looks so jagged. In the case of the new South Village Historic District, the southern border of the district along Houston Street…
Read More…Shrine Church of St. Anthony of Padua 154 Sullivan Street (corner of West Houston Street) The Shrine Church of Saint Anthony of Padua on West Houston and Sullivan Streets in…
Read More…history that permeates its streets.” Greenwich Village Historic District Designation Report You can find a list of all the historic districts and individual landmarks in our neighborhoods with links to…
Read More…celebrations. The Greenwich Village Historic District is one of New York’s oldest historic districts. As we approach the 50th anniversary of its designation, we’re taking time to celebrate the district’s…
Read MoreOn September 9, 2003, the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Gansevoort Market Historic District. GVSHP led the fight to protect the important historically significant buildings in this neighborhood, and…
Read More…that are National Historic Landmarks. As proposed by GVSHP and other groups, the Stonewall District was first listed on the State and National Register of Historic Places in 1999 and…
Read More…local sites that are National Historic Landmarks. As proposed by GVSHP and other groups, the Stonewall District was first listed on the State and National Register of Historic Places in 1999 and…
Read More…the Gansevoort Market Historic District. The first new district to be enacted in the Village since the first Greenwich Village Historic District in 1969, Gansevoort Market was designated as a…
Read More…St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery The most significant structure in the district is the historic St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery. The church was designated an individual landmark earlier, in 1966. At the time, the…
Read More…them can be just as intriguing. Particularly in an area as historically rich as the Greenwich Village Historic District, we find houses steeped in art, literature, music, business, and other…
Read More…Lady of Pompeii Church in the Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II The Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II is located along the southwest boundary of the Greenwich Village Historic…
Read More…and Washington Streets, just outside the historic district boundaries. In 2007, we got the entire Meatpacking District placed on the State and National Registers of Historic Places, not just the…
Read More…the National Register of Historic Places. This was the first new historic district in Greenwich Village to be determined eligible for the prestigious State and National Registers of Historic Places…
Read More…Gansevoort Market, the Bronx Terminal Market, and the First Avenue Retail Market. The First Avenue Market was opened by LaGuardia himself in 1938 on First Avenue between East 9th and…
Read More…the State and National designation report for the South Village. GVSHP compiles links to the very useful designation reports for all NYC landmarks, NYC historic districts, and State and National…
Read More…– Edna St. Vincent Millay Edna St. Vincent Millay in Washington Square Park (left) and her home at 75 1/2 Bedford Street Edna St. Vincent Millay lived in “the narrowest…
Read More…2006 Stop 2: Just north, the building 9-19 Ninth Avenue began life as a row of six three-story stables and stores. In 1922, they were reduced to two stories for the…
Read More…of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Council districts. These districts encompass the Village, East Village, and NoHo, among many other downtown and West Side neighborhoods, and each of these districts…
Read More…pictured below. 125-115 7th Avenue South Greenwich Village Historic District Designation Photo ca. 1967 West 11th Street Several buildings along West 11th Street near Seventh Avenue South were included in…
Read More…York Landmarks Conservancy The Oldest Building in the District The oldest building in NoHo Historic District exemplifies the Federal-style. The residence at 58 Bleecker Street, near Lafayette Street, was built…
Read MoreView of Second Avenue and East 5th Street. Photo by Chris Hedick. Last Tuesday, October 9th, the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) designated the East Village/Lower East Side Historic District. Stretching…
Read MoreWeehawken Street Historic District map This is the first part of a three part series on the Weehawken Street Historic District. This small historic district is comprised of only fourteen…
Read MoreThe Greenwich Village Historic District, one of New York City’s oldest and largest historic districts, was designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) on April 29, 1969,…
Read More…architecture make sure to check out our collection of Landmark Designation Reports, including those for the NoHo Historic District, the NoHo East Historic District, and the NoHo Historic District Extension. …
Read More…oldest and largest historic districts, it covers much but not all of Greenwich Village between University Place and Washington Street, 13th Street and West 4th Street/St. Luke’s Place. Its continuing…
Read MoreAvenue of the Americas in the GVHD Extension II This past Wednesday marks six years since the designation of the Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II (click HERE for the…
Read More…in the 1980s, the St. Marks Historic District Extension, was created to include just two houses, Nos. 102 and 104 East 10th Street, which were left out of the original…
Read More…commercial, institutional buildings. Slideshow of buildings included in the East Village/Lower East Side Historic District History of some of the buildings in the East Village/Lower East Side Historic District At…
Read More…Village Historic District (just shy of the Washington Street boundary), the house itself has seen a number of residents, and various incarnations, over its nearly two centuries — first as…
Read More…Save” fortified our efforts to protect these historic and endangered areas. 2002: GANSEVOORT MARKET The Gansevoort Market Historic District. The Gansevoort Market Historic District is an architecturally and culturally rich…
Read More…a historic district by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC). The district was subsequently listed on the National Register of Historic Places and declared a National Historic Landmark…
Read More…Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II, the South Village Historic District, and the Sullivan-Thompson Historic District) and four individual landmark designations, protecting about 650 buildings and more than 30 blocks….
Read More…District Leader, took representatives from the newly formed Landmarks Preservation Commission on a tour of different sites within the West Village, to assess them for potential landmark designation. Members of…
Read MoreOn May 2, 2006, two new historic districts were designated in the Far West Village, the Greenwich Village Historic District Extension and the Weehawken Street Historic District, as part of…
Read MoreWest Washington Market, 1936. Courtesy of NYPL Digital Collection On this day in 1954, the West Washington Market, which stood on the west side of West Street at Gansevoort Street…
Read More…Cupcakes, Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream We walked the streets of the Historic Districts pictured in blue on the map and looked at every location. The St. Marks Historic District…
Read More…such designs approved in the Greenwich Village Historic District. The Greenwich Village Historic District was designated on April 29, 1969 — the city’s largest and one of its first landmarked districts….
Read More…While walking along West 4th Street between Bank Street and West 11th Street, one probably wouldn’t think twice about the contextual, historic-looking structures at 293 and 295 West 4th Street….
Read More…named after St. Vincent de Paul, a seventeenth-century French priest, St. Vincent’s became NYC’s third oldest hospital. It was originally located on 11th St. between 7th Ave. and Greenwich. In…
Read More…Flemish-style structure of 1888, which still stands at 251 West 13th Street, and is now a private residence. Christopher Park, where Christopher and Grove Streets meet in Sheridan Square, dates…
Read More…Place Numbers 3-9 St. Luke’s Place, via Wiki Commons The southernmost street in the Greenwich Village Historic District is no doubt also one of its most picturesque. The one block of…
Read More…included in the landmarked district. For four decades it was the city’s largest historic district, covering hundreds of buildings in one of New York’s oldest neighborhoods. Greenwich Village Historic District…
Read MoreHistoric Homes of the Charlton-King-Vandam Historic District On August 16th, 1966, the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Charlton-King-Vandam Historic District. This small but distinct neighborhood is part of the…
Read More…get their way, and the Greenwich Village Historic District, still one of the city’s oldest, largest, and arguably most thriving and successful historic districts, was designated in 1969. This is…
Read More…Designation as a New York City landmark or historic district is a type of local regulation for historic structures. The Landmarks law came into being in 1965 and subjects locally…
Read MoreNoHo East Historic District map. Source: Landmarks Preservation Commission. Today, the Landmarks Preservation Commission will be holding a public hearing on the proposed South Village Historic District. Yesterday, the NoHo…
Read More…in 1965, more than half of our city’s landmarks would not have been designated. In our area, this includes the entire Greenwich Village Historic District,MacDougal Sullivan Gardens, the St. Mark’s…
Read More1904 Sanborn Map Source: NYPL This is the second part of a three part series on the Weehawken Street Historic District. This small historic district is comprised of only fourteen…
Read More…the East Village/Lower East Side Historic District has it all. Our study is consistent with a just-released report by the NYC Comptroller that shows greater retail square footage in landmarked properties…
Read More…historic districts to be designated in our area, prior to even the Greenwich Village Historic District in 1969 (only the Charlton-King-Vandam Historic District was designated earlier, in 1966). The twelve homes along…
Read More…East Village/LES Historic District. Encompassing 325 buildings and 15 blocks, centering along Second Avenue and stretching between East 2nd Street and St. Mark’s Place, it is by far the largest…
Read More…also produced a historic district report, describing the 2,000 or so buildings and the broader neighborhood included in the landmarked district. For four decades it was the city’s largest historic…
Read More…included in the landmarked district. For four decades it was the city’s largest historic district, covering hundreds of buildings in one of New York’s oldest neighborhoods. Greenwich Village Historic District…
Read More…it designated as the Cast Iron Historic District. Those are really great highlights to look back on fifty years ago.” The Greenwich Village Historic District, designated in 1969 Levine earned…
Read MoreThe Weehawken Street Historic District (designated May 2, 2006) consists of a small area on three blocks around West, Christopher, and 10th Streets. Although primarily known for its relation to…
Read More…As you can see in the above historic district map, the extension connects the NoHo Historic District and the NoHo East Historic District. For the most part, the 56 buildings…
Read More…After a hard-fought, ten-year campaign led by GVSHP, three new historic districts were created including the Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II in 2010, the South Village Historic District in 2013, and the Sullivan-Thompson Historic District…
Read More…share a little history about the district. Designated August 16, 1966, the Charlton-King-Vandam Historic District is unique in its concentration of early Federal-style homes and is well known as the…
Read More4 Weehawken Street, 1929. Source: NYLP This is the third part of a three part series on the Weehawken Street Historic District. This small historic district is comprised of only…
Read More…still owned and maintained by the Shearith Israel congregation, now located on the Upper West Side. Blauvelt House, 232 W. 10th St. Blauvelt House, 232 W. 10th St. Photo…
Read More…district in the East Village. Today the original Greenwich Village Historic District has been expanded twice, the St. Mark’s Historic District expanded once, and new historic districts added in the…
Read More…an overall timeline and map of the buildings making for a comprehensive study of a historic district which is nearly as old as the New York City Landmarks Law itself,…
Read More…and abuts the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District, which was designated on August 14, 1973. But the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District, our historic neighbor to the south and east, is nevertheless a…
Read More…4th Earl of Bedford. Painted by Henry Bone R.A. 1836 Click here to read more about Bedford Street. Charles Street, Christopher Street, and Christopher Park Charles Street, Christopher Street, and…
Read More…the Charlton King Vandam Historic District, Greenwich Village, and New York’s earliest landmarks. Go here and click on “Charlton King VanDam Historic District” to learn or see more about the district’s history….
Read More…help establishment of the Gansevoort Farmers’ Market and the West Washington Market. This helped lay the groundwork for what would become one of the most vibrant and essential markets in…
Read MoreThis blog post was originally published August 8, 2024, and is one of our favorites among the more than 200 we’ve published over the last year. To stay current on…
Read MoreEast 5th Street Building in the proposed East Village/Lower East Side Historic District On Tuesday, June 26 the Landmarks Preservation Commission will hold a public hearing on the proposed East…
Read More…Here is an exhaustive survey of every church in the Greenwich Village Historic District. St. Lukes-in-the-Fields ST. LUKE’S-IN-THE-FIELDS, 479-485 Hudson Street Starting with the oldest and the farthest west, this…
Read MoreGreenwich Village is a community rich with Jewish history, especially within the area that in 1969 was designated as one of the city’s first and largest historic districts. That legacy…
Read More…East Village through East Village Building Blocks. Today we’re venturing west into the Greenwich Village Historic District for another musical tour. Map of the Greenwich Village Historic District Village Vanguard…
Read More…57th Street, and the St. George Hotel in Brooklyn Heights, the Greenwich Village Historic District has several notable buildings designed by Roth, and one by his sons. Emery Roth Emery…
Read More…original proposed South Village Historic District. This was followed by the East Village/Lower East Side Historic District designation in 2012 (strongly supported by GVSHP), and then the South Village Historic…
Read MoreEast 10 Street Historic District. Photo courtesy of the Landmarks Preservation Commission. Last week, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to landmark East 10th Street, from Avenue A…
Read More…who came to voice the many reasons why this historic district should be designated. Second Avenue between East 6th and East 7th Streets in the proposed East Village/Lower East Side…
Read More…in the Greenwich Village Historic District. Grove Street row of dormers. Dormer windows perch elegantly on some of the older buildings in the district. A dormer is a small structure…
Read More…to urge the LPC to make this a first, rather than a final, step in considering landmark designations in the East Village. Significant historic streetscapes, such as East 2nd Street…
Read More…learn about the story behind more street names in the Greenwich Village Historic District, or more interesting facts about and sites within the Greenwich Village Historic District? Check out our…
Read More…married again, this time to Frances McClernan. In 1924, finding the Village too commercialized, Kemp moved to 232 East 11th Street, the Rectory of St. Mark’s-Church-in-the-Bowery (where Village Preservation’s offices…
Read More…picturesque streets of Greenwich Village, people stop and stare” at this house. You too can stare at this landmark of the Aesthetic Movement in American architecture just off Fifth Avenue….
Read More…left). “Drug Store” (1927), 154 West 10th Street While Hopper never revealed what building inspired this painting, considerable evidence points to 154 West 10th Street/184 Waverly Place as the most…
Read More…among the earliest extant structures in the area. 58 Bleecker Street in 1996, photograph by Susan De Vries from Village Preservation’s Historic Image Archive. The oldest building on the tour…
Read More…Leroy Street and St. Luke’s Place are in the historic district. The three blocks of Leroy Street west of Hudson Street are not part of the historic district. Interesting Fact:…
Read More…Market Historic District in 2005 Images of the front and back of the Gansevoort Market Historic District Marker As background, ten years ago at the end of 2006, GVSHP…
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