…lot behind the building. Fourteenth Ward Industrial School, 1895. Photo Courtesy of Children’s Aid Society Annual Report. The Fourteenth Ward Industrial School served as an industrial and night school until…
Read More…of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. Other notable artist residents of 30 East 14th Street include “Fourteenth Street School”…
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…a leader of the Fourteenth Street School. In 1926, she moved into a studio at 9 West 14th Street (no longer extant) that looked out onto Fourteenth Street and Fifth…
Read More…be landmarked. Read on to find out why. 4 East 12th Street 4 East 12th Street is nearly identical in appearance to 6 East 12th Street, making these two buildings…
Read More…Third Street Music School Settlement”. 1940s Tax Photo of 51-55 East 3rd Street In 1974 the school moved to 233-239 East 11th Street where it remains today (when Third Street…
Read More…Street, 79 Charles Street, and 45 Grove Street At 17 years old, modernist poet Hart Crane moved to New York City from Garrettsville, Ohio. Although he never finished high school,…
Read More…a novella Oh What a Paradise It Seems (1982). Streetview of 54 West 10th Street; Map data © 2019 Google 7. Hart Crane, 25 East 11th Street, 54 West 10th Street, 79…
Read More…1930s when a large group of artists loosely affiliated with the Art Students League and the Fourteenth Street School began renting numerous studios in the building. The Social Realist movement…
Read More…14th Street. The Fourteenth Street School artists depicted the neighborhood in their social realist paintings and rented studios at 30 East 14th Street as well as 240 West 14th Street….
Read More…Street retain their historic connection to these 17th century streets. Read more HERE. The City’s proposed redesign of the Jane Street Triangle The Jane Street Triangle redesign, presented by the…
Read More…explored the connection between 30 East 14th Street and the artists of the Fourteenth Street School as well as its links to artists Virginia Admiral and Robert De Niro, Sr….
Read More…showing the remaining diagonal Stuyvesant Street set against the regular straight street of the 1811 grid plan. Source: NYPL Today Stuyvesant Street is squeezed between Second and Third Avenues, though…
Read More…about the history of Snyder’s schools in Greenwich Village and the East Village. Greenwich Village P.S. 003 – the John Melser Charrette School 490 Hudson Street Status – Extant Public…
Read More…“Hancock Street” between Houston and Bleecker Street, just west of MacDougal Street. The dotted red line shows the route of the Sixth Avenue El, which hooked onto West 3rd Street…
Read More…the 20th century. Façade of 30 East 14th Street Artist Studios via Apartments.com. Facade of 30 East 14th Street in 1959 30 East 14th Street, the middle building of the…
Read More…They are: 324 East 5th Street (113 East 4th Street, currently the Manhattan School for Career Development), PS 122 at 150 First Avenue, 265-275 East 4th Street (currently the George…
Read More…West 10th Street and Greenwich Street. The addition would be attached to their main building at 272 West 10th Street. Garage at 694 Greenwich Street proposed for demolition According to…
Read More…School No. 2 was opened in 1815 on Mulberry Street, serving 500 students. African Free School No. 3 was established on 19th Street near 6th Avenue; however, after objections from…
Read More…our Business of the Month awardees and Village Award winners located on Bleecker Street. 1 Murray’s Cheese- 254 Bleecker Street -Village Award in 2000 These days it seems you can’t…
Read More…which echo the form of the horseshoe arches of the Eldridge Street synagogue. 375 Broome St – Source: Bowery Boogie 166 Henry Street The buildings on East 11th Street…
Read More…was the very first school for blacks in America. Ultimately consisting of seven schools, the system’s third school was located in Greenwich Village, at 120 west 3rd Street, then known…
Read More…who lived and worked on Bank Street: Willa Cather and Lucy Sprague Mitchell. Bank Street Many of our streets are beloved by their residents and have storied and rich pasts,…
Read More…stopped at the West Houston and Greenwich Streets, at Christopher and Greenwich Streets, and finally at West 14th Street and Ninth Avenue. There is evidence of the line at 128 Charles Street,…
Read More…Month: Berber Street Food at 35 Carmine Street, where you can enjoy both unique Afro-fusion street food shaped by culinary influences from around the globe, as well as the restaurant’s…
Read More…now serves as the school’s Manhattan campus.” 22-26 East 14th Street Otherwise known as the Baumann Brothers Furniture and Carpets Store, 22-26 East 14th Street (aka 19-25 East 13th Street)…
Read More…had an enthusiastic group on the tour!) Bleecker Street Tour at Father Demo Square at Sixth Avenue. We started at West 10th Street and Bleecker Street, right in the heart…
Read More…of Gracia’s farm was located near what is now the intersection of West Houston Street and Wooster Street, stretching downwards toward Spring Street and eastwards toward Mercer Street. Detail of…
Read MoreElisabeth Irwin founded Little Red School House in 1921. Image via LREI. In 2012, GVSHP spotlighted the work of Little Red School House/Elisabeth Irwin High School on Off the Grid…
Read More…our Greenwich Village Historic District interactive map) The fourth school was an afternoon Hebrew school located at 205 East 27th Street. The school started with 108 students but only 62…
Read MoreWest 14th Street has a multilayered history, preserved in its architecture, which reflects the development of the surrounding area as well as New York City itself. West 14th Street is…
Read More…Washington is the ninth most popular non-numbered street name in America. There are 4,974 streets in the country named Washington. Greenwich Ave & Greenwich Street Greenwich Street was one of…
Read More…looked to open an actual storefront. The vibrancy of the East Village beckoned, particularly East 7th Street. Co-owner/founder Doug Quint says “East 7th Street between 1st Ave and Ave A…
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 More…Carmine Street Guitars, where master luthier Rick Kelly’s creations both have beautiful tones and tell fascinating stories. Carmine Street Guitars is located amidst a row of small businesses, down a…
Read More…and Mercer Street Books & Records at 206 Mercer Street, just south of Bleecker Street and one block east of Broadway — it’s a unique experience you can’t replicate online….
Read More…to have streets named for both his first and last names. 1793-94 Gilbert Stuart portrait of Horatio Gates Gay Street We cannot conclusively determine the origin of Gay Street. Most…
Read More…Standards and Appeals is holding a hearing about illegal penthouse additions at 514-516 East 6th Street, constructed by the same developer who plans to build atop 315 East 10th Street…
Read More…11th Street/304-310 East 12th Street. The street was filled in for the old St. Mark’s cemetery, which had a diagonal boundary which reflected the path of Stuyvesant Street (people were…
Read MoreThe view from E. 10th Street, shot today. The school is a classic “H-plan” (block-through, in the shape of an H from above) created by noted architect and schools superintendent…
Read More…Box, 121 West 3rd Street (c. 1950-72), Mona’s, 135 West 3rd Street (c. late 1940s-early 1950s), Tenth of Always, 82 West 3rd Street (c. 1968-72), among others. Before 82 West…
Read More…a larger adjacent property at 190 Spring Street which it also plans to demolish and develop, air rights from 186 Spring Street could be transferred to the other site allowing…
Read More…Street, the former Tompkins Square Lodging for Boys at 295 East 8th Street, the former Sullivan Street Industrial School at 219 Sullivan Street, and the former Sixth Street Industrial School…
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 MoreSouthward view of Gay Street via Wiki Commons Gay Street is one of the most charming and picturesque streets in Greenwich Village, an icon of the historic neighborhood’s anachronistic character. But…
Read More…Street), 104-108 Gansevoort Street (aka 533-535 West Street ), 94-98 Gansevoort Street, 90-92 Gansevoort Street, 84-88 Gansevoort Street, 802-816 Washington Street (aka 76-82 Gansevoort Street and 91-95 Horatio Street), 105-107…
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 Month here. And most importantly, go visit Wayne and Mercer Street Books & Records at 206 Mercer Street, just south of Bleecker Street and one block east of Broadway…
Read More…Street, 1931 Site Survey, from proposal by Beyer Blinder Belle 59 Bleecker Street parapet 59 Bleecker Street, c. 1940, NYC tax photo. The store along Bleecker Street was…
Read More…at 29 East 14th Street, and soon convinced Eliza Spingler, Mary’s mother, to erect a new mansion at 21 East 14th Street. The mansion they constructed was a five-bay brownstone…
Read More…Street highlights one R. Gay, who The Street Book notes lived in the Bowery and advertised a gelding for sale in a 1775 local newspaper. Downing Street Downing Street was…
Read More…is a special section along Thompson Street between Prince and Spring Streets of quaint locally owned small shops. That is where you will find The Hat Shop, opened over 21…
Read More…Street Mapped in 1799, some believe that Commerce Street was one of four local streets named for French Revolution virtues along with Art Street (now part of 8th Street), Science…
Read More…and built environment that helped shift the center of the global art world to New York City. In addition to its namesake social realist art movement — the Fourteenth Street…
Read More…and artistic folk who choose to live somewhat off the beaten path.” Other middle class apartments were found at 304 West 10th street, 391 West Street, and 392-393 West street….
Read More…Christopher Street which hovers over the bend in the street when viewed from the south, all add to the street’s picturesque and romantic feel. While the street is located just…
Read MoreWest 14th Street has a multilayered history preserved in its architecture which reflects the development of the surrounding area as well as New York City itself. West 14th Street is…
Read More…arguably the nexus of the LGBT universe. 1. The Black Rabbit and the Slide, 183 and 157 Bleecker Street Google Street View of 157 Bleecker Street, today a restaurant/bar called…
Read More…East Village today, in the empty lot next to 220 East 4th Street. Above the entrance-way to the lot a large sign was erected reading “Carmine Street Garage.” When the…
Read MoreFollowing the death late last year of Edith O’Hara, the founder of the 13th Street Repertory Theatre, Village Preservation urged the Landmarks Preservation Commission to consider landmark designation of 50 West 13th Street, the…
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…society went on to establish offices on Wall Street, Nassau Street, Maiden Lane, Merchants’ Exchange, and Fulton Street — close to the city’s commercial center. Dr. Hogan served as the…
Read More…this scene is East 7th Street. With our program tomorrow evening on the social history of East 7th Street, we thought it only made sense to explore this street and…
Read More…it: Mercer Street Books and Records, our Business of the Month for September. “It’s like a little oasis for your brain. Or like a temple,” says Wayne Conti, who has…
Read More…Lafayette Street. A recent landmarks application at 363 Lafayette Street shows just such a design challenge. Located on the east side of Lafayette Street between Great Jones Street and Bond…
Read More…well as the history of Gay Street. Neat and thin. Charming and musical. But gay? Gay Street is one of a handful of one-block long streets in Manhattan, located just…
Read More…Greenwich Streets,” 1936, courtesy New York Public Library Digital Collections The Christopher Street express station at Greenwich Street — the route the Ninth Avenue line followed in Greenwich Village —…
Read More…West Third and Fourth Streets were also home to a number of ‘gay’ establishments, particularly where they intersected MacDougal Street. In 1955-1956, the FBI made a list of places of…
Read More…designed by Joseph-Francois Mangin and constructed in 1796-97. The four acre site was bounded by Christopher Street, Washington Street, Perry Street and the North (Hudson) River. The prison was comprised…
Read MoreThe distinctive H plan of many NYC schools that Snyder designed, here the former P.S. 64/CHARAS building. Each year, New York City’s 1 million public school students return to school…
Read More…The mural, located on Hudson Street between West Houston Street and Clarkson Street, decorates the western wall of City-As-School High School, the oldest alternative public high school in the city….
Read More…neighborhoods, were the site of a number of urban renewal projects that rearranged the density and placed additional strain on already overcrowded schools. Plus the school serving the area, PS…
Read More…Aid Society Annual Report. Former Sullivan Street Industrial School, 2017. Photo courtesy of Google Streetview. The Sixth Street Industrial School at 630-634 East 6th Street was built in 1889 by…
Read More…Public Library. African Free School, No. 2, New York. 11. African Free School No. 3, 120 West 3rd Street This was one of seven schools dedicated to the education of the…
Read MoreManhattan Street in 1861. Major & Knapp Engraving, Manufacturing & Lithographic Co. Published in 1864. Source: New York Public Library Last month reader Mike commented on our Lewis Street post…
Read MoreWest 14th Street has a multi-layered history, preserved in its architecture, which reflects the development of the surrounding area as well as New York City itself. West 14th Street is…
Read More…the numbered streets directly above them. Starting at 207th Street, you stop at 125th Street in Harlem, 59th Street welcomes you to Midtown, and 14th Street is the station before…
Read More…Officers Action League, an organization of LGBT police officers. 9. The Chinese Consulate and Mission, 26 West 9th Street Google Street View of 26 West 9th Street today In the…
Read More…you read about the heroic age of the New York School in painting, the 1940s and 1950s, you will repeatedly see mention of the “Tenth Street artists,” the “Tenth Street…
Read MoreNext in the Map It! series is 7th Street Place, aka Leandert’s Place and St. Bridget’s Street, a long-lost alleyway on the Avenue B side of Tompkin’s Square Park between…
Read More…West Street. Peter Rabbit operated from 1972-’88 at 396-397 West Street. Dugout operated from 1985-2006 at 185 Christopher Street. And, not far away, the Keller Bar, New York’s oldest Leather…
Read More…Tenth Street artist enclave, which was central to the Abstract Expressionist school of the 1940s and 1950s. 88 East 10th Street today is nearly intact to its appearance during de…
Read More…Don Alonzo Cushman Cushman moved to Hudson Street in Greenwich Village in 1815, after he married and achieved success with his Pearl Street dry goods business. It was in many…
Read More…time when “the Board of Education had 271 schools under its jurisdiction, including 95 grammar schools, 101 primary schools, 14 ‘colored’ schools, 29 evening schools for working children, 3 normal…
Read More…28 East 14th Street — Smith had recently made his mark on Fourteenth Street with his design for the (still-extant) cast-iron building at 40-42 West 14th Street. Known as an…
Read More…first school for Blacks in America, the African Free School African Free School No. 3 was located at 120 West 3rd Street (formerly 120 Amity Street). This was one of…
Read More…Cemetery on 11th Street operated until 1829; during that time the establishment of the Manhattan street grid cut 11th Street through the cemetery, dislodging most of it (many of those…
Read More…reveals a number of street names that have since been changed. As mentioned earlier, Bleecker Street was once Herring Street, a name change that occurred sometime after the street widening….
Read More…we look at a few along the western edge of the neighborhood. Bethune Street Bethune Street is one of the few streets in our series that is named for a…
Read More…George Ukrainian Catholic School on 6th Street in the late 00’s. The 2nd Street space has been taken over by the World Class Learning Academy, a U.K. based independent school….
Read More…significance in LGBTQ+ history: The LGBT Community Center at 208 West 13th Street and the former Gay Activists Alliance (GAA) Firehouse at 99 Wooster Street. 99 Wooster Street – Gay…
Read More…GVSHP. The Hudson River Railroad was constructed along West Street in the 1850’s, with a depot in what is now the Weehawken Street Historic District. By the early nineteenth century…
Read More…at 10 East 14th Street, and ask: why isn’t this landmarked? No. 10 East 14th Street is located within the 14th Street corridor, which underwent enormous shifts in the 1870s,…
Read More…streets in the city, but did you know at one point it was much longer? Stuyvesant Street is one of the oldest streets in New York City. Named for Petrus…
Read More…this section of the street running northwest to Abingdon Square is changed from Herring Street to Bleecker Street. More about old Greenwich Village street names can be found on the…
Read MoreWe have posted a number of times about the origins of the names of various streets in our area, nearly all of which honor men. Bethune Street, barely three blocks…
Read More…Cage.’ A game draws in spectators from the street. Image: New York Daily News It’s almost impossible not to stop and watch a game at West 4th Street. While players…
Read More…at 128 Charles Street saying ‘Greenwich Street’ and ‘Charles Street’? It’s so high up you can barely see it — what good would it have possibly done?” Good (and timely)…
Read More…the mid-twentieth century. The abstract expressionists deliberately rejected the quaint streets of the West Village, and established their galleries and homes along the then-gritty thoroughfare of East 10th Street and…
Read More…and the people behind the names. In 2009, the stretch of Hudson Street between Perry and West 11th Street was named for pioneering preservation activist Jane Jacobs. The street is…
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