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Yoko Ono and the Village
Yoko Ono (born Feb. 18, 1933) and her husband John Lennon lived for a time shortly after they were married at 105 Bank Street in Greenwich Village. As per MoMa:…
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Women’s Work: Celebrating (More) Amazing Female Artists of the Village
…venues of the Village. Yoko Ono Yoko Ono. Photo courtesy of Biography.com. Sure, it’s nearly impossible to talk about Yoko Ono without mentioning her unbelievably famous late husband, but this…
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Business of the Month: Kimono House, 131 Thompson Street
…the store’s selection and complemented vintage kimonos with new ones, led by her interest in kimono fashion and by her training in kimono styling, which she underwent along the way….
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12 social change champions of Greenwich Village
…Ono, via Wikimedia Lennon was almost as well known for his political activism and beliefs as his music and sometimes combined the two. He turned his honeymoon with wife Yoko Ono…
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Local Music History, Mapped Out in the Greenwich Village Historic District
…important names in popular music from the 1850s to the 1980s. John Lennon and Yoko One in New York in the 1970s John Lennon and Yoko Ono, for example, lived…
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Where Hip Vintage in NYC Got its Start: Limbo on St. Marks Place
…Jim Morrison, the New York Dolls, the Velvet Underground, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Andy Warhol, Baby Jane Holzer, Nico, Viva, and Edie Sedgewick. The clothier frequently outfitted musicians playing at…
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The Beatles Arrive in Greenwich Village
…Lennon and Yoko Ono. In marking John Lennon’s 73rd birthday, Off the Grid also highlighted Lennon’s brief time as a resident of the Village shortly after the Beatles broke up….
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May is Jewish American Heritage Month and Asian American/Pacific Islander Heritage Month — Explore Both With VP!
…jewish immigrant peddler-turned American icon Levi Strauss HERE. From left: voting rights activist Mabel Ping-Hua Lee; I.M. Pei’s Silver Towers, in Greenwich Village; and Yoko Ono. Our neighborhoods also contain…
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Happy Birthday, John Lennon!
…of which he was killed on December 8th, 1980. Though less well known, he also lived at 105 Bank Street, an 1846 rowhouse, from 1971 to 1972 with Yoko Ono,…
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The Fab Four in New York: Shea Stadium, Ed Sullivan, Electric Lady Studios, and More
…where he lived with his wife Yoko Ono; Lennon also recorded at Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Lady Studios in collaboration with David Bowie; Ringo Starr performed several times at the (now-closed)…
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Bank Street: The Living Legacy of Jane Jacobs’ Vision
…now Bank Street. Over the years, the street has amassed an impressive roster of residents and travelers. At No. 105, John Lennon and Yoko Ono rented their first New York…
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Finding the Most Impactful Women of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo
…and writer whose chronicles of her time in WW II Japanese American internment camps became the forerunner of the graphic novel. Yoko Ono — Multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, performance artist,…
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Who Were the Most Impactful Women of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo?
…chronicles of her time in WW II Japanese American internment camps became the forerunner of the graphic novel. Yoko Ono — Multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, performance artist, filmmaker, and political…
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Who Were the Most Impactful Women of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo?
…chronicles of her time in WW II Japanese American internment camps became the forerunner of the graphic novel. Yoko Ono — Multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, performance artist, filmmaker, and political…
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Celebrating the Long Life of our Business of the Month Initiative
…of the Month blog, more about this shop, and its owner, Yuko Nose, here! Kimono House at 131 Thompson Street Kimono House at 131 Thompson Street, a small, unassuming storefront…
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New Historic Images Show Ghost Signs, Long Gone Gathering Halls, and More
…former Astor Place Opera House and scene of the infamous 1849 Astor Place Opera Riots; and the former home of John Lennon and Yoko Ono on Bank Street, among many…
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New Historic Images Show Ghost Signs, Long Gone Gathering Halls, and More
…former Astor Place Opera House and scene of the infamous 1849 Astor Place Opera Riots; and the former home of John Lennon and Yoko Ono on Bank Street, among many…
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Women’s History Month — Tell Us Who Means the Most to You!
…First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt? Multimedia artist Yoko Ono? Punk Poet Patti Smith? Explore scores of the most impactful women of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo, and this Women’s…
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Landmarks Preservation Commission Makes Another Disturbing Decision to Legalize Destruction at 105-107 Bank Street
…home of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, except for their facades and party walls. We immediately reported the unpermitted destruction (the developer did have permits to make changes to the…
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Marking Jewish History and Asian American History
…of sites connected to Asian American history. Leading figures such as Mabel Ping-Hua Lee, Isamu Noguchi, Mine Okubo, Yoko Ono, and Yun Gee utilized art and activism to transform our…
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WHEN WOMEN RAN FIFTH AVENUE: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion
…largely lost to history—until now. Featuring vivid photos that illustrate the evolution of fashion over the course of a century and dotted with cameos from such legendary figures as Yoko…
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August 2024 Programs: James Baldwin, Waterfront Walking Tour, and More
…the evolution of fashion over the course of a century and dotted with cameos from such legendary figures as Yoko Ono and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, When Women…
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Faith, Foundations, and Fresh Beginnings: Celebrating the Legacy of St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery
…by the likes of Adrienne Rich, Alice Walker, Yoko Ono, John Cage, and Patti Smith. This tradition continues today, with the church hosting the Poetry Project and Danspace Project (incidentally…
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Oral histories of Artists in the Village
…in the South Village, founded by her father Pat Kenny. This was a place for emerging talent; not for fame, but for voice. Patti Smith, Yoko Ono, the Fugees—names that…
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May is a Great Time to Explore Local History
…on our Civil Rights and Social Justice Map, as well as lots of information about great Asian-American artists you called our neighborhood home, including Isamu Noguchi, Yoko Ono, Yun Gee,…
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Fred W. McDarrah’s Greenwich Village and the East Village of the 1950s and 60s
…new purchase ran on the front page of the Village Voice soon after. John Lennon and Yoko Ono were loyal Voice readers. Tim McDarrah says that John once told his…
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New York 1969
…this new book. For a while in the late 1960s Richard lived on Christopher Street near Seventh Avenue South, in the same building as Yoko Ono. He discovered his love…
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GVSHP Oral History: Maria Kenny
…a result, Kenny’s Castaways was established. Through the years, the venue saw a wide range of performers, including Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, Yoko Ono, Willie Dixon and the Fugees. However, rising…
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Business of the Month: The Hat Shop, 120 Thompson Street (now at 148 Sullivan Street)
…curiosity. Her clients include Yoko Ono and Cyndi Lauper. Fellow Thompson Street shop owner Jessy Levy of Legacy across the street came in for one of her hats, just delivered….
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Private Tour of ‘Inventing Downtown’ Exhibit for GVSHP Members
…and Yoko Ono are among the many artists represented in the beautifully curated show. The exhibition runs from January 10, 2017 through April 1, 2017. Don’t miss it. To…
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Dylan and the Village on Film
…David Bowie, Yoko Ono, John Lennon, Roberta Flack, Mick Jagger, Janis Joplin, Charles Mingus, the Doors, and the Rolling Stones, prints of which are also available for sale in support…
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Judson Memorial Church: A Commitment to the Arts
…Grooms, and Yoko Ono, among many others. Photograph by Peter Moore / VAGA at ARS. © Barbara Moore The Judson Dance Theater was formed in 1962. It nurtured the creative…
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Preserving, Adapting, Reusing: Good for Buildings, Good for Clothing, Good for Small Business
…Yoko Ono, Andy Warhol, Baby Jane Holzer, Nico, Viva, and Edie Sedgewick. The clothier frequently outfitted musicians playing at the nearby Filmore East, and was regularly featured in New York…
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From Willem de Kooning’s loft to the threat of the wrecking ball: The history of 827-831 Broadway
…Niro, Jacqueline Onassis, Woody Allen, Roone Aldridge, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, among many others. But all this history was until quite recently slated to meet the wrecking ball, and…
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John Guare Oral History: a Writer of the Theater, and of Greenwich Village
…he moved in with her there, giving up the apartment on Bank Street that he moved into when John Lennon and Yoko Ono moved out. His anecdotes about taking over…
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The Legacy of Italian-American Entertainment Venues in the South Village
…Smith, Yoko Ono, and more. Now, it’s called Caroll Place, an Italian wine bar and gastropub which also hosts live music. The venue is named in honor of Charles Carroll,…
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Business of the Month: Music Inn, 169 West 4th Street
…children by. This includes Paul Simon and his son picking up an old wind up record player, Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon, and regular local Greenwich Village residents imparting an…
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David Bowie, A Fellow Villager
…renamed the Gershwin Theatre), from left, David Bowie, Yoko Ono, John Lennon, and Roberta Flack. March 1, 1975. © Estate of Fred W. McDarrah. Our special thanks to the Estate of…
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Book Talk: Growing Up Bank Street, A Greenwich Village Memoir by Donna Florio
…Lennon and Yoko Ono, Merce Cunningham, Charles Kuralt, and Marion Tanner – the irrepressible model for Auntie Mame, who babysat Donna as a child. The stories from Donna’s book are…
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David Rosario (AKA David Peel) in Washington Square Park
…reference to a banana peel, which was thought to produce a marijuana-like high. In the early 1970s, David Peel collaborated with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Photo Credit: Pryor Dodge…
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David Rosario (AKA David Peel) with Lower East Side band and Billie Joe White in Washington Square Park
…reference to a banana peel, which was thought to produce a marijuana-like high. In the early 1970s, David Peel collaborated with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Photo Credit: Pryor Dodge…
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David Rosario (AKA David Peel) with Lower East Side band and Billie Joe White in Washington Square Park. 44 West 4th Street and 1 Washington Square Village (first two buildings on the left) and the Catholic Center at 58 Washington Square South (first building on the right, now demolished) are visible in the background.
…reference to a banana peel, which was thought to produce a marijuana-like high. In the early 1970s, David Peel collaborated with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Photo Credit: Pryor Dodge…
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Storied Village Music Venue to Close
…of “his favorite undiscovered local musicians as ‘castaways,’ hence the name.” The club has featured such performers as Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, Yoko Ono, the New York Dolls, and 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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46-74 Gansevoort Street
…existing building (‚ÄòNo Style Covering’ in the LPC HD Report) and construction of a new three-story plus cellar building clad in buff brick with steel-and-glass storefront infill and steel windows…
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The Meat Markets of the South Village
…retailer in New York, known for offerings of wild game and exotic meats. Onofrio Ottomanelli learned the trade from his paternal grandmother in Bari, Italy. Although born in Manhattan in…
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2021 Village Awardee: Bon Yagi
…a degree, he decided to take the next ship to America. The next ship from Yokohama was six months or more away, so he got a job at an American…
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Exploring NYC’s Churches and Synagogues #BeyondTheVillageAndBack
…space that he offered his design services to renovate the space as a synagogue pro bono. The sanctuary preserves much of its design roots and heritage, sticking to Rabbi Block’s…
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Business of the Month
Every month, Village Preservation combs through nominations from the public and other resources to choose a special independent store to honor in Greenwich Village, the East Village, or NoHo. Please…
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The East Village, (Em)Powered: Part Two
…a wealth of support in their legal battle. Former United States Attorney General Ramsey Clark approached them with an offer to argue their case pro bono. With Clark’s help, and…
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Exploring Jewish Heritage, Beyond the Village and Back
…of Architecture, Planning and Preservation — took notice of the sale and was so impressed by the space that he offered his design services pro bono in order to renovate…
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The Road to Harlem: The Forgotten History of Black Manhattan Part 1 — Free, “Half-Free,” and Enslaved: Black Life in New Amsterdam
…that came before us, and understanding Harlem not just as a destination — but as part of a much longer road. Ann Haddad is the Museum Historian pro bono at…
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“The Bells” – Poe’s Poetry and Ochs’ Folk Music in the Village
…frequently see when you look up “onomatopoeia” in the dictionary as this linguistic device’s most celebrated illustration. In four parts, Poe explores the various uses of bells – moving from…
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2013 Village Award Winner: NYU Faculty Against the Sexton Plan
…and neighbors worked so hard to get landmarked in 2008. NYU FASP’s Bo Riccobono protesting the NYU plan. NYU faculty had always spoken out against the university’s more objectionable development…
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The Restaurant Toolbox: Menu Options for Saving Important Food Establishments
…city’s free services. Small Business Services offers a “business acceleration team” for those opening restaurants, plus pro bono legal help to all, among other tools. “Anyone who comes in should…
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The Little-Known Commission Behind the City Beautiful
…other streetscape elements; and design, installation and conservation of artwork. The Design Commission is composed of 11 members, who serve pro bono, and includes an architect, landscape architect, painter and…
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This Day in History: NYU Incorporated
…of the plan. We are represented on a pro bono basis by the law firm Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, with Randy Mastro as lead attorney. The outcome in this case…
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Village Preservation East Village Oral History: Marilyn Appleberg
…pro-bono architect helping us, so we took photographs of the whole district and showed how the roof lines changed all through the district. They were also two of the oldest…
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Viewers Choice: Top 5 Village Preservation Program Videos of 2018
…himself a music world rock-star writer. Of his biography Lou Reed: A Life, U2’s Bono wrote: “a sublime and subtle book… Anthony is a great storyteller, a writer’s writer, turning pain into…
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Retracing The East Village’s Historic Little Italy
…against exploitation are believed to be the work of poet and sculptor Onorio Ruotolo. In the 1920s, after Mussolini’s takeover of Italy, the Center was a hub of anti-Fascist organizing…
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Robert Sanfiz
…returned to the Village in 2005 and is raising his family here. Sanfiz first became involved with La Nacional as their pro bono attorney. This oral history focuses on the…
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Business of the Month: Lovewild Design, 136 Avenue C
…Matter by printing their tote bags pro bono, selling them, and having all proceeds go to the organization; she routinely sends bundles of soaps and toothbrushes to disaster victims; and…
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12 historic Italian-American sites of the East Village
…exploitation are believed to be the work of poet and sculptor Onorio Ruotolo. In the 1920s, after Mussolini’s takeover of Italy, the Center was a hub of anti-Fascist organizing in…
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Beyond the Village and Back: The Brotherhood Synagogue, 28 Gramercy Park South
…space that he offered his design services pro bono in order to renovate and reconstruct the building as a synagogue. The interior of the Brotherhood Synagogue. The sanctuary preserves much…
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Remembering Joey Ramone
On April 15, 2001, Rock and Roll lost a true legend. On that day, Joey Ramone died of lymphatic cancer. That night, U2’s Bono told the audience at a concert…
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