…an exploration of four decades of buildings and properties in the East Village and Lower East Side that are celebrated sites of creativity, community empowerment and resistance. This exhibition was…
Read More…composer; and jazz critic Howard Mandel. Lee will also sign and sell his books. Chalk Up The East Village-Lower East Side! Part of Lower East Side History Month This program…
Read More…protections for the East Village. That campaign also involved the launch of our East Village Building Blocks website with the history of each of 2,500 buildings in the East Village, from date of…
Read MoreEvery 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…
Read More…Village Voice Page 5: Gretizer letter to The Villager Regarding Misleading information from Gerald Ullman Page 6: Greitzerl letter to Village Voice regarding false information on the VID’s stance Correspondence…
Read More…were supposed to take place in turn-of-the-last-century Little Italy were actually filmed in front of 520-530 and 521-531 East 6th Street in the East Village. And the East Village served as a stand-in for the…
Read More…West Coast. And while nearby neighborhoods like Chinatown or the Lower East Side may have been much more prominent hubs for Asian-Americans, Greenwich Village and the East Village nevertheless can…
Read MoreP&T Knitwear, in conjunction with the Lower East Side Preservation Initiative (LESPI), East Village Community Coalition (EVCC), and Village Preservation is pleased to welcome Ada Calhoun for a discussion of her books St. Marks is Dead and Also A Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father, and Me, along with…
Read More…for the East Village rezoning. Our proposal to the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) included 112-120 East 11th Street, 113 East 11th Street (formerly St. Ann’s Parochial School), 125 East 11th…
Read MoreIt’s time to dive into our beloved neighborhoods of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo as they’re seen through the movie camera lens. Presented in no apparent order, this…
Read More…as abundant and gritty as the East Village itself. Lady Bunny, Larry T, RuPaul, and Lahoma Van Zandt celebrate in the East Village Allen Ginsberg Residence, 174 East 2nd Street…
Read MorePreservation History Archive This archive contains printed materials from organizations and individuals involved in historic preservation and other local community efforts, particularly those connected to Greenwich Village, the East Village,…
Read More…view it at www.gvshp.org/civilrightsmap. East Village Building Blocks: LGBTQ Sites Tour Want to explore more East Village LGBTQ history? Village Preservation offers an online guided tour of LGBTQ Sites on our East Village…
Read More…the West Village, East Village, South Village, and NoHo. All of these sites can also be found on our Village Preservation Civil Rights and Social Justice Map, and we encourage…
Read MoreThe East Village Eye was only in publication for eight years, but the magazine left a huge mark on the neighborhood it chronicled. The East Village Eye, nicknamed the Eye,…
Read MoreEast Village: Lens on the Lower East Side – A book talk with East Village photographers LESPI’s mission is to preserve the Lower East Side through historic district designation; the…
Read More…A crucial part of the East Village/Lower East Side Historic District, which was landmarked in 2012, the Anthology Film Archies became a Village Preservation Village awardee in 2018. In 2017…
Read More…list in reference to the Village. Here, we look at the East Village through 10 objects, first recounting a few of the New York Times’ East Village mentions in their…
Read More…career. Smith continues to live in Greenwich Village today. To find out about more sites associated with women’s history in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo, see GVSHP’s Civil Rights…
Read MoreVillage Preservation is excited to share our oral history collection with the public, and hope they will shed more light on what makes Greenwich Village and the East Village such…
Read MoreVeniero’s Owner Robert Zerilli Village Preservation is excited to share our oral history collection with the public, and hope they will shed more light on what makes Greenwich Village and…
Read More…American history to be found in Greenwich Village and the East Village. While both neighborhoods became better known for different kinds of communities in later years – Italians, Ukrainians, gay men…
Read More…American history to be found in Greenwich Village and the East Village. While both neighborhoods became better known for different kinds of communities in later years – Italians, Ukrainians, gay men…
Read More…Movement, 1940-Present 3.5 Greenwich Village LGBTQ History Exploring the Village Trailblazing Women of the Village Bob Dylan Map Neighborhood Surveys Far West Village Tour Historic Gansevoort Market Walking Tour South…
Read MoreChalk Up The East Village-Lower East Side! Part of Lower East Side History Month In honor of Lower East Side History Month, join Village Preservation staffers as we fan out…
Read More…the British Museum’s BBC radio series and book.” Of course, we couldn’t resist compiling our own list in reference to the Village. Here, we look at the East Village through…
Read More…York home, living in the nearby East Village until his death in 1997. Over the years Fred McDarrah took many of the images of Allen Ginsberg which came to define…
Read More…the voiceless. 23. Allen Ginsberg Residences – 404 East 14th Street, 170 East 2nd Street, 406-408 East 10th Street, 206 East 7th Street, and 437-439 East 12th Street The now-demolished…
Read MoreTheater for the New City: A history from the West Village to the East Village, with founder Crystal Field From its early West Village days in the 1970s to present…
Read More…WALKING DOWN EAST 11th STREET A part of Part 1 of the East Village Rock Tour includes a two block walk along East 11th street where Village Preservation’s offices are…
Read More…Preservation Commission. And in the past decade or so alone, Village Preservation has helped to achieved protections for significant portions of the East Village and South Village, with the East…
Read More…the East Village’s once-thriving Italian community are all around. In the second half of the 19th century, the East Village was a vibrant checkerboard of ethnic enclaves. Germans were by far…
Read More…East Village. Send a letter to City officials saying this scheme offers zero protections for Greenwich Village and the East Village, and we demand more be done! The city’s south of…
Read MoreThe East Village Preserved: Breakfast Walking Tours of the Proposed East Village Historic Districts Join Village Preservation’s Director of Preservation & Research Elizabeth Finkelstein for a breakfast walk around the…
Read MoreVillage Preservation is excited to share our oral history collection with the public, and hope they will shed more light on what makes Greenwich Village and the East Village such…
Read More…found on our East Village Building Blocks website. “The Black Madonna” of East 13th Street An original Black Madonna of Tindari statue In the early 20th century East 13th Street…
Read More…locations are in the East Village and Greenwich Village. Learn all about East Village Jewish historic sites on Village Preservation’s East Village Building Blocks Yiddish Rialto and Synagogues of the…
Read More…of civil rights and social justice movements in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo. In addition to LGBT history, the map also covers African-American, Women’s, Hispanic, and immigrant history,…
Read More…landscape and character of Greenwich Village.” – Caroline Benveniste, 30-year Village Resident and Steering Committee member, Protect the Village Historic District (PVHD) “Village Preservation protects our neighborhood’s beautiful buildings and…
Read More…is amazing! And so are their homemade blintzes. Ukrainian East Village Restaurant is located in the back of the Ukrainian National Home at 140-142 Second Avenue in the East Village….
Read More…Greenwich Village and one of the oldest continuously operated art cinemas in the city. And this year it is one of our Village Awardees! Cinema Village, 22 East 12th Street…
Read More…Washington Square Arch. 10am Walking Tour: Christopher Street Tours: LGBTQ History in Greenwich Village A fun and informative LGBTQ History Walking Tour! On this tour around Greenwich Village, we will visit…
Read More…on-line store here. To open a vintage store in the East Village was a life-long dream of Maegan Hayward, the driving force behind East Village Vintage Collective. She was always…
Read More…Rock n’ Roll history is the rich history of architecture in our neighborhoods. We’ll discover both the history of those who impacted music, as well as the architectural history of…
Read MoreBlack History in Greenwich Village: Session 1 – The Geography and History of Early Manhattan 1600 – 1860 Join Village Preservation for the kick-off of our new Black History in…
Read More…District and East 10th Street Historic District were designated. See all designation reports here. To explore the East Village in even greater detail, explore our East Village Building Blocks website….
Read More…Village until the 2012 designation of the East 10th Street and East Village/Lower East Side Historic Districts for which GVSHP fought. Of course there are many other “little Flatirons” scattered throughout…
Read More…of The Village Voice, Is Dead at 100, The New York Times, September 28 Village Preservation Launches A Hip-Hop History Map, Village Alliance, September 26 ‘The Untouchables’: How Columbia and…
Read More…Photo courtesy of Village Preservation. For more information on the rich, complex history of the Children’s Aid Society and the Civil Rights and Social Justice history of the East Village,…
Read More…display merchandise! To read more about the vernacular buildings click here. Stroll over to the East Side and there are even more unique and historic retail entrances. East 7th Street…
Read More…The Village and East Village, which were once country north of New York City, have more than their fair share of former burial grounds. Many New Yorkers are aware that…
Read More…vintage resellers within the Greenwich Village, East Village, and NoHo: The East Village: The East Village has more vintage, secondhand, and thrift stores than anywhere in New York City (maybe…
Read More…Geography and History of Early Manhattan 1600 – 1860. Monday, February 27, 2023 6:00pm ET Join Village Preservation for the kick-off of our new Black History in Greenwich Village Series….
Read More…she did not return. Years later, Kessler still remembers the pink and cream bird and “how she chose the East Village for her sanctuary.” Finish your East Village walking tour…
Read More…in the East Village. Baby Yoga (Second Avenue subway stop at Houston Street) The newest addition to the East Village’s long list of murals is the closing trend of 2019,…
Read MoreThere’s no shortage of sites in the Village and East Village where great makers of popular music lived or performed. Less well known, however, are the multitude of sites that…
Read More…found in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and Noho. The main antecedents of the NYPL which formed the foundation of today’s system— the Astor Library, the Lenox Library, and the…
Read MoreThe City is hoping its new hotel special permit requirement will help generate more office tower development in Greenwich Village and the East Village south of Union Square, like these…
Read More…in the genre’s history, Greenwich Village and the East Village can boast of being the neighborhoods where all four hip hop elements were presented together for the first time and becoming…
Read More…shaped LBGT culture in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo over the last century and a quarter — some clandestine and illicit, others shiny and open. The Saint, 105…
Read MoreEast Village Building Blocks/ Morrone Report Talk at Little Missionary Day School Learn about Village Preservation’s effort to raise awareness and appreciation of the East Village’s rich history, and to…
Read More…Village, East Village, and NoHo’s cultural heritage and built environment. And last week, as part of our free public programs, we started a series about theaters of Greenwich Village and the…
Read More…the East Village/Lower East Side Historic District and the East 10th Street Historic District in 2012, there was very little landmark designation in the East Village. Two unusual exceptions were…
Read More…of freed blacks in North America ran up the center of the island, covering parts of today’s Tribeca, Soho, Chinatown, the Lower East Side, the East Village, and Greenwich Village….
Read More…East Village Explore East Village Oral Histories Research East Village LPC Applications Explore East Village Building Blocks Information on Individual East Village Initiatives: 101 Avenue A 3 St. Mark’s Place…
Read MoreVillage Preservation Does Jane’s Walk A Walking Tour of the East Village Just as Jane Jacobs fought to save her beloved Greenwich Village, so too is Village Preservation working to…
Read MoreDesignation Celebration: East 10th Street and East Village/Lower East Side Historic Districts Join us for refreshments and camaraderie with East Village/Lower East Side neighbors and supporters as we celebrate the…
Read More…Garnet and the Village A History of the Spring Street Presbyterian Church Thaddeus Hyatt: Trailblazing Greenwich Village Abolitionist and Inventor 14 Historic Sites of the Abolitionist Movement in Greenwich Village…
Read More…Cameos by true historic figures, including East Villager Emma Goldman, dot the movie’s plot, bridging fiction with nonfiction. Filming ‘Ragtime’, East Village, location unknown, 1980. Photo from the Carole Teller Collection…
Read More…East 9th Street, the former P.S. 79 at 38 East 1st Street, and the former Grammar School 47/now the Police Athletic League at 34 1/2 East 12th Street. With all…
Read More…to tackling the area’s healthcare needs. These efforts were recognized in 2001 when Village Apothecary was presented the Legends of the Village Award by Village Care. To date, Village Apothecary…
Read More…and GVSHP has long touted the neighborhood’s LGBT history, along with its African-American history, Italian-American and immigrant history, artistic and bohemian history, and incredible architecture, as a reason for it…
Read More…looking at their significance to African-American history and the Civil Rights Movement. Little Africa undated photo Probably the area most associated with Black History in the Village is the former…
Read More…in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo, as downtown and uptown mixed, to help launch the ubiquitous genre we know today. To salute and celebrate that history, Village Preservation…
Read More…East Village and Lower East Side, hence the name. It made its own breads, buns, and multi-colored cookies. In the early 90s, it was taken over by a family of…
Read More…South Village Historic District which Village Preservation proposed. 2. Church of the Village/Founding of PFLAG, 201 West 13th Street Google Street View of the Church of the Village The first meeting…
Read More…10th Street Historic District NYC LPC Designation Report East 10th Street Historic District NYC LPC Map East Village/Lower East Side Historic District East Village-LES Historic District NYC LPC Designation Report…
Read More…East Village Building Blocks further here. Click here to read more about our neighborhood’s gardens. Click here to see photos from our 2018 summertime East Village Community Gardens walking tour….
Read More…Read about other awardees here. The East Village Meat Market was opened in 1970 by Julian Baczynsky as a meat market but quickly morphed into an Eastern European community center. The…
Read MoreExploring Village Preservation’s East Village Building Blocks Village Preservation celebrates the release of East Village Building Blocks with a special talk by Village Preservation’s Director of Research and Preservation Sarah…
Read More…Village played in relation to African American history. The neighborhood was home to North America’s earliest free Black settlement in the 17th century, to some of America’s first black churches…
Read More…go birding in our neighborhoods! East River Park Red-throated loons East River Park This park on the waterfront of the East River boasts a track, a tennis complex, softball and…
Read More…these sites, we’re sharing this East Village Theater Tour on our East Village Building Blocks website — see it here, and read on for a selection of theaters throughout the East Village,…
Read More…world. With your input, we’re going to select the 25 most impactful. Below are 70 extraordinary women of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo, who made their marks in…
Read More…world. With your input, we’re going to select the twenty-five most impactful. Below are seventy extraordinary women of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo, who made their marks in…
Read More…With your input, we’re going to select our Top 25 list. Below are seventy of the most impactful women of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo, who made their…
Read More…Session 3 of our Black History in Greenwich Village series will focus on how the demographic changes of the Great Migration fueled Greenwich Village’s role as a hotbed for the…
Read More…We hope you can join us as we honor Bob Holman and the other awardees at our Village Awards and Annual Meeting tonight at 6:30 at the Village Community School….
Read More…in the streets for long-overdue reform and change. One milestone in that history took place 50 years ago when several Puerto Rican activists gathered in the East Village to found…
Read More…club and learn more about the history that impacts our neighborhoods in Greenwich Village, NoHo, and the East Village throughout the Club’s collection, library, and archives. Zoe Anderson Norris (from…
Read More…in 1950 from the Ukraine and settled in the East Village/Lower East Side, which was a hub for Eastern European immigrants. He then opened the East Village Meat Market in…
Read MoreVillage Preservation & The New School Present: Artists and Greenwich Village Series – Keith Haring and the Streets of the Village In 1978, 19-year-old Keith Haring (d.1990) moved to New…
Read More…a marvelous example of adaptive reuse. A reminder of Kleindeutschland — once the largest German-speaking community outside of Berlin and Vienna, found in what is today the East Village —…
Read More…Village children to Harlem (which the Board of Education has said it will not do). It is housing integration — which in the Village at least, most of us have…
Read More…Village LGBT historic sites here, and those in the East Village here. The South Village and nearby areas are home to some of the oldest pieces of LGBT history in…
Read More…Month and Women’s History Month. So central to the history of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo, these subjects are near and dear to Village Preservation. Today we take…
Read MoreVillage Preservation continues our research efforts to demonstrate the incredible history of the area south of Union Square which lacks landmark protections, and to fight for its preservation. Our latest…
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