…espoused a social consciousness. Yun Gee – San Francisco. Source: www.yungee.com Where is my Mother (1926-1927) Between 1926 and 1933, Gee explored a number of styles. One of his earliest…
Read More…Women” tour of the Greenwich Village Historic District: T hen & Now Photos and Tours map). Yun Gee. Photo courtesy of YunGee.com. While living at 51 East 10th Street, Gee taught…
Read More…Read Part I of this series covering The Chinese Equal Rights League, The Chinese Consulate and Chinese Mission, The Chinese Guild,and Jade Mountain. Yun Gee, 51 East 10th Street Yun…
Read More…51 East 10th Street includes Wanamaker Fire (1956), Old Broadway in Winter (1943-44), and Nude in Studio (1952). Yun Gee’s “Old Broadway in Winter,” 1943-44. Photo courtesy of yungee.com Gee…
Read More…An undeniable effect of Star Wars though was its legacy on “Nerdom” and geek culture. Many Star Wars fans are also invested in other fictional stories and universes, across the…
Read More…paper cups, not champagne. In 1943 the great Chinese-American modernist artist Yun Gee staged an exhibition to raise funds for the Music Box Canteen. The Canteen’s administrator was Minna Regina…
Read More…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,…
Read More…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…
Read More…a rich array 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…
Read More…discover the fate of a thousand alternate universes! At this legendary seedbed and disseminator of geek culture, you can immerse yourself in a vast collection of graphic novels, games, science…
Read More…Esai’s Table by Nathan Yungerberg, a former participant in the amazing Mentor Project. Cherry Lane’s marquee program is the Obie Award-winning new play series Mentor Project, dedicated to launching the…
Read More…were located in Westbeth’s basement. One such group was Frontline, which featured band members John Gamble and Geeby Dajani, both of whom were raised in Westbeth. While Frontline is not…
Read More…62, and 64 3rd Avenue. All four were built as three-story buildings and had a fourth story added around the turn of the 20th century. The merchant tailor Frederick Yung…
Read More…Street, in the area South of Union Square for which we are seeking landmark designation. Smith married Jack Gee, a security guard, in 1923, before she rose to fame. After…
Read More…Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, and James Agee were among her cohort of admiring contemporaries and friends, but Levitt stood out from the crowd with her warm and discerning photographs. Depicting…
Read More…genocide killed 90 percent of Polish Jews. Right after the War, a new Jewish refugee population appeared in Poland since some of the Polish Jews who survived the War in the former Soviet…
Read More…In 1935, Evans started photographing rural victims of the Great Depression for the Farm Security Administration; these images were published in American Photographs (1938). He collaborated with James Agee to…
Read More…States as a refugee in 1936. He served in the U.S. Army in World war II, surviving being shot four times by a Japanese soldier during a nighttime raid on…
Read MoreFrom The Villager Newspaper, February 14, 2013 Op-Ed: Quinn Holds the Cards on Hudson Square Rezoning and South Village Landmarking http://www.thevillager.com/?p=10221 By Andrew Berman, Katy Bordonaro, Zack Winestine, Micki McGee,…
Read MoreAt the EVIMA meeting on Feb. 24, L-R: Business owners Richard Green of Love Shine, host Kevin Miceli of Ciao for Now, Peggy Yunque of The Shape of Lies, Gayle…
Read More…Photo courtesy of Chinese American Voices edited by Judy Yung, Gordon H. Chang, and H. Mark Lai The family turned the third and fourth floors into lodging for Chinese students who were…
Read More…restaurant is known for its Korean version of ramen, known as ramyun. It’s also known as one of NYC’s most affordable Michelin-starred restaurants. Two Hands Corndog, 147 Avenue A Korean…
Read More…punk band, the Ramones, who died in 2001 at the age of 49. Born Jeffrey Ross Hyman in 1951 in Forest Hills, the gawky geek founded the Ramones in 1974…
Read More…up.” Desperately looking for somewhere she belonged, Larsen moved to Denmark for a time, then to Nashville’s Fisk University, and briefly visited Tuskegee University in Alabama before settling in New…
Read More…Ginsberg, Rudy Burckhardt, Saul Leiter, Ruth Orkin, and Weegee, among many others. In September, GVSHP and our allies get the City to overturn Buildings Department approvals for a ‘dorm-for-hire’ in…
Read More…available for purchase on his website. This is a very special and rare print and proceeds from the sale will go directly to Ukraine relief, specifically the United Nations Refugee…
Read More…is now Southern Vietnam. As a child during the late 1980s, she lived in a refugee camp, where she would spend weekend afternoons in a landfill, hunting for plastic bags…
Read More…American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Photo by Lewis Jacobs. Gross immigrated to the United States in 1921 as a Jewish refugee of World War I. He was an avid art student….
Read More…October Uprising of 1848 in Vienna. After it was brutally crushed, he fled to the United States as a political refugee. Though educated in law and a linguist, he did not speak…
Read More…and 1940 In 1939, Time Magazine said, “The best Italian refugee and Italian-American brains in the U.S. last week launched in New York City a new anti-Fascist paper, Il Mondo (“An Italian Daily with…
Read More…his customers included Historically Black Colleges and Universities such as Atlanta, Fisk, Howard, and Tuskegee Universities. In the 1950s, Goldwater issued a new edition of W.E.B. Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction. …
Read More…baseball fields, and perhaps the finest views of aquatic birds to be found in Lower Manhattan. Frequent sightings of well-known mallards and Canada geese are complemented by flashes of rust…
Read More…for being able to raise money and build community for the early trickle of refugees. At a time when the United States didn’t have refugee visas, but where something needed…
Read More…celebrate the continuing cultural oasis that Forbidden Planet offers generations of geeks, sci-fi aficionados, and future writers and artists. Learn more about and register to attend the Village Awards here….
Read More…exodus that spared millions from persecution. He offers insights into the American experience, connecting banking, shipping, politics, immigration nativism, and war, and delivers a crucial perspective into the burgeoning refugee…
Read More…rappers from New Jersey. Just weeks after the hit was released, on August 12, 1979, “Big Bank Hank” Jackson, “Wonder Mike” Wright, and “Master Gee” O’Brien, who collectively went by…
Read More…beams may have been the apogee of Bunshaft’s corporate modernism. The first postwar development in the Financial District, it would unleash the flood of office towers that would soon wash…
Read More…here to do yoga classes with you, too. The Climax The food journey reaches its apogee when it enters your mouth. Travelers Poets & Friends offer a wide variety of…
Read More…blues led her to write unforgettable hit songs ‘Me and Bobby McGee,’ ‘Mercedes Benz,’ and ‘Piece of My Heart.’ Though her life was tragically cut short at age 27, her musical…
Read More…Renowned figures in the photographic and literary communities — such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Walker Evans, and James Agee — were in her cohort of admiring contemporaries and friends, but Levitt…
Read More…geek culture here. And swing by. And remember that there is a good chance that the first thing that catches your eye when you get there might just be traceable,…
Read More…As a little girl, during the late 1980s, she lived in a refugee camp, where she would spend weekend afternoons in a landfill with other kids, hunting for plastic bags,…
Read More…Jack Kerouac, Dylan Thomas, James Agee, Frank O’Hara, Miles Davis, and Allen Ginsberg. Styron would go on to write the award-winning but controversial novels The Confessions of Nat Turner and Sophie’s Choice. 27….
Read More…opposed to religious pluralism, and as such made life quite hard for the Jewish refugee founders of Congregation Shearith Israel (as well as for Lutherans, Roman Catholics, and Quakers). When…
Read More…an art student and a Jewish refugee of WWI in 1921. Through his art and his foundation – the wonderful Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation – he remains here with…
Read More…afraid to express their inner-geek. Forbidden Planet Going further East, we come to our last stop, 10 Thousand Steps Bookstore. Distinguished not by the genre of book that it sells,…
Read More…gay-friendly neighborhoods. I’ll admit — I’m a bit of a census geek (see prior post HERE, and full disclosure — I was a census worker in 1990). But some recently-released…
Read More…William S. Burroughs on the left. In addition to Vidal, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Dylan Thomas, James Agee, Frank O’Hara, Miles Davis, William Styron, Jackson Pollack, James Baldwin and…
Read MoreAs most everyone knows, we’re kind of map and statistics geeks here at Off The Grid. Thus it’s no surprise that a handy little tool put together by WNYC in…
Read More…were actually two screens: the main auditorium that seated 171, and the smaller 78-seat James Agee Room. source: hollywood-elsewhere.com But after Geffen died in 1986, his widow had difficulty keeping…
Read More…Marsh show he would like; here was a shop to order slipcovers for his furniture; here was the refugee shirt-maker she had recommended to him. A recent photo of Dawn…
Read More…one of many musicians who lived and/or performed there in the early 1940’s, along with Huddie “Lead Belly” Ledbetter, Alan Lomax, Burl Ives, and Will Geer. Almanac House, 130 west…
Read More…(l.) to 178 Bleecker Street, btw. Sullivan and MacDougal Streets — a row of mid-19th century houses with artist’s studios added around 1920. Writer James Agee lived and wrote “The…
Read More…Bill Graham – who came to America alone as a child, a German orphan refugee from the Holocaust who grew up to shape the popular music business – opened it…
Read More…Abbott, Saul Leiter, Ruth Orkin, and Weegee. Paintings depict elegant red-brick facades and raffish Hudson River piers, now restored; theater posters spotlight Karen Finley and John Leguizamo. This is a…
Read More…the Manhattan Theatre Club’s The Green Heart by the late Rusty Magee. A look backward at “the little theater that could” is a lovely trip down memory lane. For more…
Read More…1920. Writer James Agee lived and wrote “The African Queen” in the studio at #172. Sadly, #178 has since been demolished. First, for those who might not be familiar, artist’s…
Read More…know if I’m really at home in the Village. But then, having been a refugee, you’re never at home anywhere when it comes right down to it… It’s so hard to…
Read More…towers on Perry St. represent the apogee of this unfortunate, neighborhood-destroying trend. The ill effects of this unchecked development on our neighborhood have been great. Map and details of Far…
Read More…a socially prominent family. Her father was a respected surgeon. Married at the age of 19 to William Magee Seton, a wealthy businessman in the import trade, Elizabeth and William…
Read More…efforts, Té Company consistently lures a diverse and interesting cross-section of the city: the wealthy as well as the not-at-all wealthy; long standing residents as well as tourists; tea geeks…
Read More…present, the Tuskegee Industrial School’s Dr. Robert Russa Moton, was censored. Still, in 1939 and 1963, respectively, Marian Anderson and Martin Luther King Jr. appeared at this memorial, reclaiming the…
Read More…made life quite hard for the Jewish refugee founders Congregation Shearith Israel. For context, Stuyvesant also sowed conflict with Lutherans, Roman Catholics, and Quakers as they sought to practice their…
Read More…by a wide range of photographs by iconic figures such as Allen Ginsberg, Rudy Burckhardt, Berenice Abbott, Saul Leiter, Ruth Orkin, and Weegee. Paintings depict elegant red-brick facades and raffish…
Read More…Cherry Lane Theatre’s Director of Community Engagement, Mary Geerlof Situated in a landmark building in Greenwich Village, Cherry Lane Theatre serves as a vital lab for the development of new…
Read More…agenda: A Greek Revival style townhouse with a two-story Corinthian colonnade, attributed to Seth Geer, and built in 1832-33. Application is to install a marquee, signage and lighting. 2) View…
Read More…Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” This year marks the 75th Anniversary of the HB Studio. In 1945 Herbert Berghof, a noted Austrian Broadway actor and director and refugee from the Nazis,…
Read More…to some very not-quiet and reserved types over the years, including Frank Serpico, Margaret Mead, James Agee, Margaret Sanger, and Dawn Powell. Appropriately enough, the street’s namesake was also someone…
Read More…its launch in 1939, Time Magazine said, “The best Italian refugee and Italian-American brains in the U.S. last week launched in New York City a new anti-Fascist paper, Il Mondo (“An Italian Daily with…
Read More…Village, joining Gore Vidal, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Dylan Thomas, James Agee, Frank O’Hara, Miles Davis, and Allen Ginsberg. Styron would go on to write the award-winning but controversial…
Read MoreIf you are a research geek like me, you’ll understand that coming across a piece of relatively unknown history that is associated with our area can be very exciting. This…
Read More…in our neighborhood. Spingarn spread the word about Goldwater’s store and connected the bookseller with public libraries and Historically Black Colleges and Universities such as Atlanta, Fisk, Howard, and Tuskegee…
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