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Gansevoort Market – Open for Business in 1884

…1884. This was the former site of Fort Gansevoort, and is now the home of the Gansevoort Market Meat Center and the Whitney Museum. Gansevoort Market in 1886 (courtesy of…

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A Decision By the State Was An Important Milestone in Preserving Gansevoort Market

…the Gansevoort Historic District, was named “Sapokanikan,” and served as a Native American trading station. The footpath that was used to get to the riverbank is now Gansevoort Street. This…

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This Day in Preservation History: Save Gansevoort Market Founded

…Preservation League of NY State, naming Gansevoort Market one of the seven most significant and endangered historic sites in New York State. Cobblestones on Gansevoort Plaza, in the heart of…

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On This Day: Gansevoort Market Opens

…the district. In 1949, when the city was in the midst of building a new meat market facility, workers encountered Fort Gansevoort’s foundation, constructed 138 years before. The Gansevoort Market…

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2016 Village Award Winner: Save Gansevoort

…Save Gansevoort, a grassroots organization formed to face a threat to the Gansevoort Market Historic District (you can read the District Designation Report Part 1 here and Part 2 here)….

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Moby Dick: Herman Melville’s Epic Journey Began on Gansevoort Street

…on Gansevoort Street. Originally an Indian trail leading to the Hudson River, later called the Great Kill or Old Kill Road, the street was renamed in 1837 for Fort Gansevoort,…

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Happy 9th Birthday to the Gansevoort Market Historic District

…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…

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Happy Anniversary, Gansevoort Market Historic District!

On September 9, 2003, the Gansevoort Market Historic District was officially designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. The designation not only culminated a three-year effort to protect…

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Happy Birthday, Gansevoort Market Historic District

…in this historic district on Gansevoort Street. You can read more about this and how you can help fight it here. Today, Gansevoort Market/Meatpacking District is no longer a sleepy enclave,…

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Lee Krasner Paints Gansevoort Street

…any of her other works. Gansevoort Number 1 is believed to be the view from her apartment. The painting carefully highlights each individual cobblestone on Gansevoort Street leading up to…

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Views of Gansevoort Market

…of a Gansevoort Market historic district to the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC). By September of 2003, the LPC voted to approve the proposed Gansevoort Market historic district….

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Tracking History: Gansevoort Plaza Then & Now

…have remained remarkably intact. One such location where you can peer back in time is at Gansevoort Plaza, where Greenwich Street/9th Avenue, Gansevoort Street, and Little West 12th Street intersect….

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The Hole in the Highway at Gansevoort Street

…one large dump truck. The West Side Highway after the December 1973 collapse On December 15, 1973, a 60-ft section of the highway between Little West 12th Street and Gansevoort…

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Gansevoort Plaza Designs Revealed

Last night, Community Board 2’s Traffic & Transportation Committee reviewed proposed revised design elements and street furniture for Gansevoort Plaza in the Meatpacking District. The Meatpacking Improvement Association (which will…

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Walking the Meatpacking District With GVSHP’s Historic Image Archive

…1854. Gansevoort Pumphouse at Gansevoort Street and Washington Street. Now the location of the Whitney Museum. From the GVSHP Image Archive. Ca 2000 Read more here about the Gansevoort Market…

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The End of the West Washington Market

…public market. The Gansevoort Market officially opened in 1884 on the enormous paved open-air block between Gansevoort and Little West 12th streets, on the site of the former Fort Gansevoort,…

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‘Seven to Save’: Did It Work?

…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…

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Really, Really, Ridiculously Awful (and probably illegal) Billboards

The Gansevoort Street side of the Hotel Gansevoort Billboards (Image via Google) Nine years ago today, on a freezing cold February day (like today), Village Preservation and hundreds of neighbors…

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What was here before the West Coast (95 Horatio Street)?

…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…

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The Flatirons of the Village and the East Village

…Gansevoort Street, built in 1887 and formerly known as the Goelet Building. 53-61 Gansevoort Street; Berenice Abbott’s photo is left. Made famous by Berenice Abbott’s iconic image, thanks to the…

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“Our Village is Star in an Uptown Exhibit” — September 26, 1990

…and dynamic history as a shipping hub, a market district, a font of industrial innovation, and an artist and LGBTQ enclave. Before European settlers colonized the area now called Gansevoort,…

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The Land of Meatpackers, Then Models, Then Moschino

…sought by GVSHP and its allies for several years under the flag of the Save Gansevoort Market Task Force, meant that buildings on Gansevoort, Little West 12th, 13th, 14th and…

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Save Chelsea Market — Hearing tonight, and history

…Market complex and the surrounding Gansevoort Market neighborhood, go to GVSHP’s “Resources” page, click on “designation reports“, then “historic districts”, and go to Gansevoort Market. There you will find links…

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High Line’s Open Views Soon To Disappear

…and fought for the Gansevoort Market Historic District, which stretched from Chelsea Market in the north to Gansevoort and Horatio Streets on the south, from West Street to Hudson Street,…

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Village Award Winners: Past, Present, and Future

…the 2016 Regina Kellerman Award for Outstanding Work In Preservation was Save Gansevoort, a grassroots organization formed to face a threat to the Gansevoort Market Historic District. Following the long tradition…

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Fashion Week Faux Pas

…affixed to the Hotel Gansevoort. Fashion Week Faux Pas – the temporary billboard put up by the Hotel Gansevoort The billboard disappeared almost as quickly as it appeared; apparently the…

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That Hudson River Waterfront

…hear today, and was once given to the only fort ever built in Greenwich Village, Fort Gansevoort, located on the Hudson River in today’s Gansevoort Market / Meatpacking District. Just…

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When Pavement Was Pretty: New York’s Cobblestone Streets

…Gansevoort Street are all paved with historic stones and protected in the Gansevoort Market Historic District. GVSHP successfully proposed that district for landmarking in 2003, and the streets were no…

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A Move To Allow New York City To Save Its Landmarks

…sucker for a building that accommodates an awkwardly shaped lot, attesting to both New York’s multi-layered street and development histories. 53-61 Gansevoort is part of the Gansevoort Market Historic District…

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2014 Year In Review: GVSHP Programs

…Metamorphosis Photos of Gansevoort Market / Meatpacking District by Brian Rose Wednesday, July 9 6:30 – 8:00 P.M. Free; reservations required Washington Square Institute 41 East 11th Street, near University…

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June is Gay Pride Month

…proposed for designation by GVSHP. These include: Gansevoort Market Historic District Designation Report Designated September, 2003, and nominated by GVSHP’s Save Gansevoort Market project, this report includes the history of…

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Welcome to the New Whitney

The Whitney Museum of American Art opened its doors at its new location—99 Gansevoort Street—on May 1, 2015. Founded by sculpture and arts patron Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, the museum famous…

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Bringing Graham’s 19 Poses to Village Voices’ “Monument to Choice”

…Graham and Merce Cunningham as two luminaries with great impact on our neighborhoods. Just a few blocks away, an interactive installation entitled “A Momument to Choice” resides at Gansevoort Plaza,…

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What Was Here Before Bagatelle?

…to a party atmosphere featuring live DJ’s and $15,000 bottles of champagne. 1 Little West 12th Street was built in 1909 and is located in NYC’s Gansevoort Market Historic District….

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Celebrating Our 40th Anniversary – A Strong Start

…of the history of the architecture of the Gansevoort Meat Market. Over fifteen years later, in 2000, we eventually formed the Save Gansevoort Task Force to further research, advocate, and…

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The Old New Guy (gal) at GVSHP

Sarah at the LPC hearing for the Gansevoort proposal Happy New Year! Tomorrow will mark my four month anniversary working for GVSHP and it has been a whirlwind! My…

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Fighting Westway

…No small fight indeed! Elevated West Side Highway at Gansevoort Street circa 1968 photo credit: Steven Zane, Library of Congress The west side of Manhattan has changed many times over…

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The Village is a Small World

…series of poetry readings on the Gansevoort Pier, which were written about in The New Yorker Magazine. Among those who participated in these readings was Magie Dominic, who will be…

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McKim, Mead & White on Avenue D

…commissioned Dunn for several projects, including 53-61 Gansevoort Street (built 1887), which is located in the Gansevoort Market Historic District. All in all, Dunn designed seven buildings that are part…

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Then & Now on Little West 12th Street

…12th Street in 1989. Photograph by GVSHP. On the other side of the High Line, just outside the Gansevoort Market Historic District, sits two old three-story rowhouses at 53 and…

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837 Washington Street – Is the Fifth Time the Charm?

A revised iteration of the proposal to build a towering addition atop the 1938 Moderne-style building at 837 Washington Street in the Gansevoort Market Historic District will be shown today…

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Thank You To Our Members — Making 40 Years of Village Preservation Possible

…fire damaged this c.1821 building, sponsoring a study of the Gansevoort Market area in collaboration with Columbia University (which would help lay the foundation for the area’s eventual landmark designation…

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Taking on REBNY and Winning

…the Save Gansevoort Market campaign. The Gansevoort Market Historic District, proposed by GVSHP in 2001 was approved in 2003 as the first new historic district in Greenwich Village in 34…

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New York Biscuit Stables

In the early 2000’s GVSHP conducted research that led to the designation of the Gansevoort Market Historic District. That research included photo surveys of the area. We recently added one such…

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How the Elevated Train and the Streetcar Both Began In Greenwich Village

…onto Ninth Avenue at Gansevoort Street, through Gansevoort Plaza in the heart of the Meatpacking District. This was one of the many curves the route of the Ninth Avenue El…

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The High Line is Dismantled and the West Side is Transformed

…rowhouses and small apartment buildings. Demolition of the High Line north of Bank Street and what is now Westbeth, all the way to Gansevoort Street where the High Line now…

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Great NYC Museums Go #BeyondTheVillageAndBack

…Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort Street The Whitney Museum today The Whitney Museum moved to its new Gansevoort Street home in the West Village in 2011, but it…

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The Village, through the lyrics of Taylor Swift

…Line, image courtesy highline.org “Heartbeat on the High Line…” (“Cardigan,” from the album Folklore, 2020) The base of the High Line is firmly situated along Gansevoort Street at the northern…

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Exploring the New York City Backdrops of Sex and the City

…its industrial and gritty roots, the district was emerging as a trendy and stylish neighborhood. Samantha’s fictional apartment at 300 Gansevoort Street embodies the area’s cultural shift. Opting for a…

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Celebrating the Impact of the Landmarks Law in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo

…Avenue Meatmarket, within the Gansevoort Market Historic District, in 2000. From the Susan De Vries Architecture Collection in Village Preservation’s Historic Image Archive. Huge wins for the protection of the…

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Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s Rich and Varied Legacy

…a greatly expanded and dramatic new home on Gansevoort Street at the terminus of the High Line, where the museum does more than ever to celebrate and showcase American art…

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GVSHP Keeping up the Fight

…urge rejection of the proposal for demolition and large-scale new development at 46-74 Gansevoort Street in the heart of the Gansevoort Historic District. The proposal calls for the demolition of two…

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Look Up! Its the South Village!

…as they are expensive) but the South Village Historic District street signs have started to appear in the western third of the district. Unveiling of the marker for the Gansevoort…

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Few Republicans, And One Big Political Paradox, in the Village

…lowest anywhere in Manhattan or all of New York City. But by contrast, just a few blocks away, Election District 66114, bounded by Gansevoort, Jane, Washington and West Streets, and…

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Trains returning to the High Line

…whole block from Horatio to Gansevoort Street, and its northern facade sits directly across from where the High Line dead-ends. When walking along the elevated park it almost appears as…

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Demo Permit Filed for 437 West 13th Street

…the NYC Gansevoort Market Historic District, as GVSHP had proposed over a decade ago when we first began advocating for the district. Much to our dismay, after heavy lobbying by…

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My Favorite Things: Poets Edition

…to New York in 1917 to work for publishing house P.F Collier in the Meatpacking District (the Collier’s Building on Little West 12th Street was included in the NYC Gansevoort…

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It Happened Here: 80’s Music Videos

…video you can see the view from the 14th Street section of the High Line down to the West Coast Apartments (formerly the Manhattan Refrigeration Company building) at Gansevoort Street….

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A Half Century Since the Passing of ee cummings

…District (the Collier’s Building on Little West 12th Street was included in the NYC Gansevoort Market Historic District which GVSHP proposed and fought for in 2003, and in the Gansevoort…

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A New Year’s Hotspot

The Meatpacking District was a popular neighborhood for New Year’s Eve revelers. The Meatpacking District—or to preservationists the Gansevoort Market Historic District—was the scene of many a New Year’s Eve…

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440 West 14th Street: Then & Now

…Meatpacking District of not too long ago. Historically known as Gansevoort Market, that story has been well documented already, so instead we thought we would focus on the story of…

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High Line, Part 3

…part of our Gansevoort Market Historic District in 2001. Additionally, a few years ago, High Line co-founder Josh David did a program for us about his book, High Line: The…

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Edward Hopper’s Greenwich Village: The real-life inspirations behind his paintings

…lifetime.” Meanwhile, the Whitney Museum, the successor to the Studio Club, has now returned to Greenwich Village on Gansevoort Street after a more than half-century absence, and its collection (“arguably…

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Rare photos of the High Line being demolished in the 1960s tell the story of a changing West Village

…from Westbeth north of Bank Street to Gansevoort Street, where the High Line now terminates, was also dismantled. The planning for these blocks, as well as the ones formerly occupied…

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Latest Landmarks Applications

Village Preservation provides an ongoing record of all applications for changes to landmarked properties in our neighborhoods (Greenwich Village, NoHo, Gansevoort Market, the South Village, and the East Village) that…

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Westbeth Turns 50!

…the High Line) and the crumbling West Side Miller Elevated Highway (which collapsed nearby at Gansevoort Street in 1973, leading to the highway’s closure and eventual dismantling almost twenty years…

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Things We’re Looking Forward To Doing Again, Part 2

…Apple Store and Hugo Boss), late 1980s. From Village Preservation’s Gansevoort Market/Far West Village Collection. Hang some art outdoors. Woman hanging artwork for the Washington Square Art Show, ca. 1950. …

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Beyond the Village and Back: Sailors’ Snug Harbor

…inspector for the Department of Docks in a long-since vanished building on the wharf at the foot of the street named for his grandfather, Gansevoort. According to History of Sailors’…

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The Origins of Greenwich Village Street Names, Part V

…ran the entire length of Greenwich Street, pictured here at Gansevoort Street (image courtesy NYPL digital library) Greenwich Ave was formerly named Greenwich Lane. This path connected Greenwich Village to…

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Beyond the Village and Back: Essex Market

…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…

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Remembering Landmarking Success in the Far West Village

…Historic District which included all historic, non-landmarked buildings in the area between the newly designated Gansevoort Market Historic District and Barrow Street (where the West Village Houses, built in the…

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A Truly Historic House Tour! Village Preservation’s 21st Spring House Tour in the Greenwich Village Historic District

…the first site of the Whitney Museum, and ended with a gorgeous reception at the Whitney’s current location on Gansevoort Street. And tours have offered looks into some other incredible…

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POPS goes the Village!

…Gansevoort Market built in 1997. Kayden describes the space: Occupying the full blockfront on the west side of Washington Street between Jane and Horatio Streets, the space is rectangular, comfortably…

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Happy Anniversary to Far West Village Landmark Victories!

…the newly designated Gansevoort Market Historic District and Barrow Street (where the West Village Houses, built in the mid-1970’s, began). In 2005, the LPC came back with a proposal to…

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13 places in Greenwich Village where the course of history was changed

…Midtown and the Upper East Side, in 2015 the Whitney returned to Greenwich Village with a new home on Gansevoort Street. Since the Whitney’s establishment, dozens of museums now focus…

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2016 GVSHP Year in Review

…MORE preservation battles! Click here to see our Landmarks Application webpage, where we track all applications for work on landmarked properties in Greenwich Village, NoHo, Gansevoort Market, the South Village,…

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Help Keep GVSHP Strong in 2017!

…serious steps backwards too, and some tough challenges up ahead: Over our objections, totally inappropriate new developments were approved by the City on Gansevoort Street and next to the St….

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This Day in Preservation History- October 11, 2005: City Approves Far West Village Rezoning

…and downzoning of the neighborhood from Gansevoort Street to Barrow Street, between West Street and Greenwich Street. Throughout 2004 and 2005, GVSHP relentlessly pursued protections for the area. We held…

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Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Ice Cream In Greenwich Village But Forgot To Ask

Photo courtesy of Pinterest.com This summer, the Museum of Ice Cream opened in Gansevoort Market, allowing visitors to swim in sprinkles and selfie with a scoop in front of ice…

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When NYC collapsed: The rise and fall of America’s largest and grandest hotel

…down just across town on Gansevoort Street in the West Village, leading to the eventual closing and demolition of the entire elevated roadway. 1973 was certainly a good year for…

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What’s Lost in a Name: The Bowery and the Lost Mohican Trail

…mid-1600s, further north along the trail there was a connection to the Sapohannikan Trail. This trail connected to the trading fort of the Sapohannikan commuters at what is now Gansevoort…

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Before the duel: Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton’s NYC haunts

…further north, between present-day Horatio and Gansevoort Streets in the West Village. The Manhattan Well Murder, Spring Street 129 Spring Street today, via Wiki Commons Their infamous July 11, 1804…

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VILLAGE VOICES II Launches September 18th

…with The New School, The Meatpacking District Management Association, Doyle Partners, and MADE Design/Build. A Monument to Choice will be on display in Gansevoort Plaza. It is a physical and…

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The American Seamen’s Friend Society Sailors’ Home and Institute

…new sailors’ home was acquired at the northeast corner of West and Jane Streets for $70,000. This site was close to the new Gansevoort Piers (built 1894-1902) and Chelsea Piers…

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Veterans in the Village

…for him. On Hudson Street between Gansevoort and Horatio Streets we find Corporal John A. Seravalli Playground, which commemorates the sacrifice of another young Village resident. John Seravalli served in the Army’s…

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Hudson River Park’s Estuarine Sanctuary

…waterfront on the west side of Manhattan. Approximately one quarter of that frontage extends from the southern end of Greenwich Village to the top of the Meatpacking District (Gansevoort Market),…

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Ghost Signs Abound in Our Historic Image Archive

…from view. Hand-painted signs are an advertising tool still used in certain locations today, especially in historically manufacturing areas such as Gansevoort, NoHo, and SoHo; perhaps those signs, too, will…

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Celebrating Arthur A. Levin on this National Honor Our LGBT + Elders Day

…helping to realize our installation “A Monument to Choice,” conceived and designed by our amazing friends at Doyle Partners in honor of Art Levin, and mounted in Gansevoort Plaza in…

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Jazz and Jewelry: The Life of Art Smith

…in Queens in 1990, Sculpture to Wear: Art Smith and His Contemporaries at the Gansevoort Gallery in 1998, and From the Village to Vogue at the Brooklyn Museum in 2008….

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Women Crush Wednesday: The Power of Martha Graham

…exhibition VILLAGE VOICES, will host a free public workshop in Gansevoort Plaza at A Monument to Choice. Dancers from the Graham Company will teach the 19 Poses to the public!…

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Village Cemeteries Part V, NoHo Edition

…a chain of sandy hills, Zantberg in Dutch. The English called it Sand Hill Road but later gave its western sections separate names Great Kill Road (most of which became Gansevoort…

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When Four “Els” Ran Overhead On Our Streets

…courtesy of NYPL Digital Collections. The Ninth Avenue El came up into Greenwich Village along Greenwich Street, then turned onto Ninth Avenue where the two met near Gansevoort Street. It…

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Remembering Christopher Moore and Honoring New York City’s Whole History

…two decades as a member of the commission. Moore was also a friend to Village Preservation in many ways, overseeing and enthusiastically supporting the designation of the Gansevoort Market, Weehawken…

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Neighbors, Elected Officials, and Preservationists Protest Demolition of Nine Landmarked Meatpacking District Houses

Last Thursday, Village Preservation was joined by Borough President Gale Brewer, Assemblymember Deborah Glick, the Historic Districts Council, Save Chelsea, Save Gansevoort, a representative of State Senator Brad Hoylman, and…

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Image Archive Collection: The High Line in 1979 — Noah Greenberg’s “Manhattan Promenade” Proposal

…to transform old rail lines into recreational areas. Around 1990, the segment of the High Line between Bethune and Gansevoort Street was torn down (though the section embedded in Westbeth…

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Rally To Save Nine Landmarked Houses in the Meatpacking District

…the city-approved near-complete demolition of nine landmarked 1840s houses at 44-54 Ninth Avenue/351 West 14th Street in the Gansevoort Market Historic District, and to demand these houses be saved. ALL…

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Weehawken Street Historic District, Part II

…the Hudson waterfront was the construction of the Gansevoort Piers (1894-1902) and Chelsea Piers (1902-10). These long docks accommodated the enormous trans-Atlantic steamships making this area a hub of frenetic…

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The Village Awards Reaches a Milestone!

…Florent Morellet operated a much loved bistro, Restaurant Florent, at 69 Gansevoort Street which he opened in 1985. Mr. Florent and his vibrant restaurant were awarded a Village Award in…

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2020 Village Preservation Year in Review: Landmarks Applications

…Street This was probably one of the more controversial applications of the year. Located at the northeast corner of the Gansevoort Market Historic District, this site has two distinct rows…

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GVSHP Landmarks Webpage, A Great Resource!

Ever wonder what is going on with the construction of the landmarked building next door, or anywhere in Greenwich Village, NoHo, Gansevoort Market, the South Village, and the East Village?…

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