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Memories of the Church of Mary Help of Christians
…That was typical of Father Mancini. Mary Help of Christians School You attended the parochial school at Mary Help of Christians. What do you remember most about being a student…
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The Center of the Italian Community in the East Village: Mary Help of Christians
…Christians. Roman Catholic Church of Mary Help of Christians Construction of Mary Help of Christians at 436 East 12th Street started in 1911 and it was completed in 1917. Its…
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Three Years Ago: Preservationists call for Archeological review of Mary Help of Christians cemetery
…preservationists calling for an archeological review for the former cemetery at Mary Help of Christians site. A Roman Catholic Church formerly located at 440 E. 12th St., Mary Help of…
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2022 Village Awardee: Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis and Middle Collegiate Church, 112-114 Second Avenue
…Collegiate Church of New York is co-affiliated with the United Church of Christ and the Reformed Church in America.” – Quote from Middle Church’s Website: https://www.middlechurch.org/about/ Jerriese Johnson Gospel Choir…
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Remembering Mary Help of Christians
…of The Villager. A Roman Catholic Church formerly located at 440 E. 12th St., Mary Help of Christians was demolished in the summer of 2013 to make way for new…
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15 things you didn’t know about the East Village
…Hungarian Reformed Church, the Christian Orthodox Catholic Church of the Eastern Confession in North America, and the Church of St. Peter & St. Paul Russian Orthodox Church. The San Isidoro y…
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Exploring NYC’s Churches and Synagogues #BeyondTheVillageAndBack
…these churches and synagogues are rooted in (and perhaps owe their existence to) our neighborhoods. Mother A.M.E. Zion Church The Mother African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church at 140-148 West 137th…
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More Evidence of Historic Cemetery Under Endangered Church
Just prior to yesterday’s rally and press conference to save historic Mary Help of Christians Church from demolition (see press release HERE and pictures HERE), GVSHP came upon information that…
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Saving Sacred Spaces
…empty tower of the former church remains standing on the lot in front of the new building. The Church of Mary Help of Christians The Church of Mary Help of…
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Churches of the Greenwich Village Historic District
…Catholic Church in Manhattan. The Church of the Ascension CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION, 36-38 Fifth Avenue This Gothic Revival church was built 1840-41 and serves an Episcopal congregation. It was…
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Beyond the Village and Back: Harlem’s Mother A.M.E. Zion Church
…York City’s very first black church, and the founding church of the A.M.E. Zion Conference of churches. Today, the gorgeous neo-Gothic structure, built in 1923-1925, stands as a symbol of…
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Harlem’s Great Churches and the Struggle for Abolition, Beyond the Village and Back
…churches, including Mother A.M.E. Zion Church, the Abyssinian Baptist Church, and St. James Presbyterian Church established their present-day homes in Upper Manhattan in the 1920s. Yet all three can trace…
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Retracing The East Village’s Historic Little Italy
…site was just up the block from Mary Help of Christians Church. 413 East 12th Street today Mary Help of Christians Church, 440 East 12th Street Mary Help of Christians…
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Beyond the Village and Back: Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church
…other noteworthy black churches including St. Philip’s Episcopal Church and the Mother A.M.E. Zion Church. At this time, some of the black congregations arriving in Harlem decided to purchase late-19th…
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The Forgotten Graveyards of Greenwich Village and the East Village
…Commons A church, Mary Help of Christians, a school, P.S. 60, and a bus depot were built over the former cemetery in the early 20th century. The school remains; the bus…
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: San Isidoro y San Leandro Western Orthodox Catholic Church of the Hispanic Mozarabic Rite
…and mid-twentieth century, as evidenced by the royal seal of the Russian Czars located on the church’s front gates. After 1975, the church housed San Isidoro y San Leandro Western…
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All Saints Ukrainian Orthodox Church — A Beacon of Ukrainian Culture in the East Village
…Street, originally built as the Welsh Congregational church, down the block from our offices, where they remain today. The founding Church Committee of All Saints Ukrainian Orthodox Church of New…
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14 historic sites of the abolitionist movement in Greenwich Village
…Street Presbyterian Church, 246 Spring Street Founded in 1809, Spring Street Presbyterian Church was one of the city’s most prominent and vocal abolitionist churches. The church had a multiracial Sunday…
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James Varick, the Village, and Zion AME Church
…mother were freed and moved to New York City. The church he helped found, what would grow to be Zion African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, had a profound effect on…
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Standing the Test of Time: Father’s Heart Church
…and services were offered in both languages. Emmanuel Presbyterian Church, demolished 1969 The Methodist Episcopal Church closed the church in 1930 and it became a Russian church in 1931. In…
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Washington Square United Methodist Church: Where Identity and Inclusion Collided
…Church and Parish House “Homosexual Life on View Here Tomorrow” in the New York Times, “AWOL Pacifist Gives Up at Church” in the New York Times, 1968 “Church Steps Back…
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Touring the Churches of the East Village
…Church as the first Episcopal parish independent of Trinity Church in the United States. The church and grounds were designated a New York City Landmark in 1966 and placed on…
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Black History Month in the Village: Black Churches No Longer Standing
…Methodist Protestant Church in 1837, and then sold to the Sullivan Street Methodist Church in 1842. The Bethel AME Church purchased the church in 1862. It is noted on maps…
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East Village Building Blocks Tour: Churches
…church was built in 1892 by architect Samuel B. Reed for the Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church. The present-day Middle Collegiate Church is constructed entirely from Indiana limestone. Its facade…
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St. Brigid’s Church Re-Opens, But the Historic East Village Still Needs Your Help
The newly renovated St. Brigid’s Church. Image via EVGrieve. Yesterday, after years of renovation work, St. Brigid’s church on Avenue B and East 8th Street was re-opened to the public….
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Historic Images and Maps Solve Mysteries of Missing Church and Street
…to know exactly where the church was located, and which streets could be seen in the image. The former Our Lady of Pompeii Church at 210 Bleecker Street; note the…
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The Village Presbyterian Church Helps Gives Birth to an Off-Broadway Spanish Revolution
…Presbyterian Church located at Houston and Thompson Streets. In spite of its noble and dignified appearance, the 13th Street church traveled a rocky path from the beginning. Barely seven years…
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Beyond the Village and Back: Harlem’s St. James Presbyterian Church
…Presbyterian Church, 2016. Photo courtesy of Google. What is now the St. James Presbyterian Church has had lived multiple lives, under multiple names, over the course of its history. Its…
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The Church of the Village: Remembering Injustice Against Gay Clergy Event
…of the Church of the Village On Wednesday, June 21st, the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation attended a plaque unveiling at the Church of the Village to honor former…
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Underground Railroad Church Once Located in Greenwich Village Led Abolitionist Cause
The Shiloh Presbyterian Church is one of many African American churches once found in Greenwich Village, when nearly all the city’s leading African American churches were located in this neighborhood….
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Sacred Sites: Church of the Ascension and St. John’s in the Village
…sermon. The church and adjoining Sunday School building were destroyed. The Dutch Reformed Church at East Ninth Street and Astor Place, east of Broadway, allowed the Church of the Ascension…
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St. Nicholas of Myra Orthodox Church
…Orthodox Church (images courtesy of the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission/ Chris Brazee) The report states that, “This church ceased functioning as the mission church of St. Mark’s Church in 1911…
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12 historic Italian-American sites of the East Village
…originally built by Italian Americans. The site was just up the block from Mary Help of Christians Church. Photo by Village Preservation on Flickr 5. Mary Help of Christians Church 440…
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East 12th Street’s “Ghost Church”: From Pathbreaking House of Worship to NYU Dorm
…and the shrinking resources of another, the United States Postal Service. The church steeple sitting on East 12th Street was part of the 12th Street Baptist Church, built on this…
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2014 Year In Review: GVSHP Programs
…to all awardees! OMG!: Churches and Synagogues of Greenwich Village St. John’s Lutheran Church Thursday, June 12 6:30 – 8:00 P.M. Free; reservations required St. John’s Lutheran Church 81 Christopher…
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Where Once There Was History, A Hole in the Ground
…gone…Mary Help of Christians Church and rectory before and during demolition. The church was completed in 1917 and its design based upon the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians in…
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Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?
Activist Liz Christy in what would become the Liz Christy Garden, 1974. In the East Village, community gardens began growing when neighborhood activists threw “seed-bombs” into empty, trash-strewn lots. Tomorrow,…
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Celebrate the beauty of Grace Church! Landmarked March 15, 1966
Grace Church 1905 Today we celebrate the glorious structure on the corner of Broadway and East 10th Street: Grace Church in New York. On this day in 1966, Grace Church…
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Grace Church Choir Celebrates its 125th Anniversary with a Free Concert
…and Leonard Bernstein, among others. While we have written previous posts about the glorious Grace Church, here is a brief refresher on its history. Grace Church has been an important…
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Greek Revival: Gone But Not Forgotten in Our Neighborhoods
…as to their significant others, friends, and care-partners. Third Unitarian Universalist Church/St. Benedict the Moor Roman Catholic Church/Our Lady of Pompeii Church, 210 Bleecker Street at Hancock Street The Greek…
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Saved from the Wrecking Ball: St. Brigid’s Church
…Image via NYPL On December 2, 1849, the Church of St. Brigid on the corner of Avenue B and 8th Street was dedicated by Bishop John Hughes. The church was one of…
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Catholic Churches: Anchor of New York’s 19th Century Irish Community
…Mary’s Church, the third Catholic Church built in NYC (a wooden structure), was burnt down. This violence prompted the diocese to raise the wall around the old St. Patrick’s Cathedral…
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Greenwich Village’s Oldest Church — Originally “in the field”
On October 22, 1820, a group of Greenwich Village residents gathered at the home of Catherine Ritter to found a new Episcopal Church. Two hundred years later, the church they…
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Interior Artwork of Our Lady of Pompeii Church
…the Church of St. Benedict the Moor. Established in 1883 as the first northern church for black Roman Catholics, in 1892 St. Benedict the Moor moved into a beautiful Greek…
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More Than A Century of Dance at A More Than 225 Year Old Church
…Ruth St. Denis to dance in the sanctuary of the church. Through the church’s history, dance has been a consideration in the church’s growth and even in the built space….
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Politicians, Playwrights, and Parades: The Irish legacy of the East Village and Greenwich Village
…Photo by Tony Hisgett on Flickr Churches Greenwich Village and the East Village contain no shortage of historic churches rooted in the Irish American experience. St. Joseph’s Church at 365 Sixth Avenue (Washington Place), built…
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Politicians, Playwrights, and Parades: The Irish legacy of the East Village and Greenwich Village
…Photo by Tony Hisgett on Flickr Churches Greenwich Village and the East Village contain no shortage of historic churches rooted in the Irish American experience. St. Joseph’s Church at 365 Sixth Avenue (Washington Place), built…
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Irish Churches of the Village
…is quite evident in the churches that were built to accommodate the growing number of Irish immigrants that settled in the neighborhood. St. Veronica’s Church on Christopher Street. Photo via…
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Judson Memorial Church: A Commitment to the Arts
Judson Memorial Church Judson Memorial Church is an extraordinary institution for countless reasons; its architecture, its dedication to inclusion, its history of providing free healthcare, its outspoken advocacy on issues…
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Happy 50th Landmark Anniversary St. Mark’s-in-the Bowery Church!
The church in 1936, image via Historic American Buildings Survey 50 years ago tomorrow, on April 19, 1966, the LPC landmarked St. Mark’s-in-the-Bowery Church. The Church is the oldest site of…
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GVSHP African American History Month Series: Revisiting Spring Street Presbyterian Church
…Presbyterian Church on the unique history of the former Spring Street Presbyterian Church. Erected in 1810 on the corner of Spring Street and Varick, the Spring Street Presbyterian Church was…
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Glass and the Gilded Age: Tiffany Windows in the First Presbyterian Church
…The First Presbyterian Church Isaiah, by Tiffany Studios, located on the northern wall of the church nave. Photo: The First Presbyterian Church. The Scotch Presbyterians, by Tiffany Studios, located on…
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St. Benedict the Moor Church and the South Village’s Little Africa
St. Benedict the Moor was the first Church for Black Roman Catholics in the North, dedicated on November 18th, 1883 at 210 Bleecker Street. St. Benedict the Moor Church opened…
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Carolee Schneemann’s Kinetic Theater at Judson Memorial Church
…1950s, the Judson Memorial Church at 55 Washington Square South began a radical arts ministry that made space available for artists in all media for exhibitions, rehearsals, and performances. The church encouraged artists to experiment freely in…
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A History of the Spring Street Presbyterian Church
…Wall Street Presbyterian Church, including timbers, pews, and the pulpit. The cornerstone was laid on July 5, 1810, and the completed church was opened on May 6, 1811. Reverend Samuel…
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The Origins of St. Mark’s-in-the-Bowery Church
…church stood on Governor Peter Stuyvesant’s farm, or bouwerie, and was replacing another church built in 1660 at that exact location. It’s location on that sprawling farm is the reason…
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Glass and the Gilded Age: Tiffany Windows in the First Presbyterian Church
…The First Presbyterian Church Isaiah, by Tiffany Studios, located on the northern wall of the church nave. Photo: The First Presbyterian Church. The Scotch Presbyterians, by Tiffany Studios, located on…
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The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary’s Rich History
…A Scene in the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, 1875. Dispensary Waiting Hall, Christmas Eve 1917. The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary is a rare site that is…
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The Greenwich Village church that threw a presidential election
The Thirteenth Street Presbyterian Church in 1902, courtesy of the New-York Historical Society, Robert L. Bracklow Photograph Collection The stately church building at 141-145 West 13th Street in the West Village…
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Judson Memorial Church: 2011 Village Awardee
…“The Ascension of Our Lord,” hangs above the main altar of the Church of the Ascension on Fifth Avenue (the Church of the Ascension, which we were fortunate enough to…
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Peter, Paul and Mary: All Over This Village
…she came into contact with singer Pete Seeger. Together with a few of her classmates, Mary sang a number of songs with Seeger in 1955. Mary later lived in an…
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Irish Churches of the Village
…shipbuilding was the primary industry and the Church of St. Brigid’s was so named because Brigid was the patron saint of boatmen. Most recently, the church, in need of serious…
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Landmarks50: Saint Mark’s-in-the-Bowery Church
Saint Mark’s-in-the-Bowery Church, 19th Century We continue the Landmarks50 celebration by taking a deeper look at Saint Marks-in-the-Bowery Church at 131 East 10th Street. This landmark represents construction over a…
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When was the cornerstone laid for St. Mark’s-in-the-Bowery Church?
…The cornerstone for the church was laid on April 25, 1795, and the church we know and love today isn’t even the first structure of worship at that location. Back…
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Three Up, Three Down: Explore Our Greek Revival Heritage in Six Buildings
…elegant style. Let’s take a look at a few examples of what you’ll find on the map. Still Here: St. Joseph’s Church, 365 Sixth Avenue St Joseph’s Church, Sixth Avenue,…
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Community Cornerstone: Maryhouse
…newspaper. Day, who was a journalist before she entered the Catholic Church, edited the paper until her death at Maryhouse in 1980. Maryhouse continues to be a center for social…
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Cemeteries of Greenwich Village, Part II
…the church in 1839 and were a staple of the Bedford Street M. E. Church for decades. It worked with its neightbor, the African M. E. Zion Church nearby at…
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Sneak a Peek Inside Four Village Churches This Weekend
…Church-in-the-Bowery St. John’s in-the-Village Episcopal Church 224 Waverly Place Open May 21st from 12pm-2pm Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright protégé Edgar Tafel, St. John’s in-the-Village was constructed in 1972-1974 after…
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Local Landmark: Church of the Immaculate Conception and Clergy House, 406-412 East 14th Street
…clergy house were constructed in 1894-1896 by Grace Church, one of the most prominent Episcopal churches in the city at the time. The church was a free chapel – meaning there was no pew rent….
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The Church of the Nativity & Landmarking the East Village!
…Church interior, image courtesy HABS Church interior, image courtesy HABS Church interior, image courtesy HABS Church interior, image courtesy HABS This is all part of our ongoing research on the…
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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: Mary Fife Laning
…Place in the Sun. Archive of sketches, studies and other materials created or collected by Edward Laning and Mary Fife. Mary Fife Laning (August 26, 1900 – December 1990) was…
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All Saints Ukrainian Church
…Church, which continued to operate out of the building until well into the 20th century. In 1944 the building was sold to the Free Magyar Reformed Church of New York…
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Walking East 3rd Street: Church of the Most Holy Redeemer
…1870, the church’s treasury was large enough to enable the parish to loan $40,000 to a new church in Boston. Its wealth and grandeur, however, sometimes made it the subject…
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Beyond the Village and Back: 1083 Fifth Avenue Mansion and Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Harlem
…the Expanded Carnegie Hill Historic District (landmarked December 21, 1993) between 89th and 90th Streets on “Museum Mile,” and Our Lady of Lourdes Church, a Venetian Gothic style Catholic Church…
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An East Village Story — From German Church, to Synagogue, to Landmark
…tells us: “It’s a textbook on ethnic succession, originating as a German Baptist church in Kleindeutschland days. It then became, in 1926, a Ukrainian Autocephalic Orthodox church, at a time…
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Cemeteries of the East Village, Part I
…recent burial here occurred in 1941. East Eleventh Street/Old Calvary Roman Catholic Cemetery Church of Mary Help of Christians prior to demolition A Roman Catholic Church formerly located at 440…
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Two Churches with Irish Heritage in Greenwich Village
…two seminal Irish institutions in Greenwich Village, The University Parish of St. Joseph’s and the Church of St. Veronica-In-the-Village. Both churches were built to accommodate increasing Catholic immigrant populations in…
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St. John’s in the Village Episcopal Church, Honoring their Open Door
…occupied a classical revival church on this site. After a fire destroyed this neighborhood landmark on March 6, 1971, the current church building, designed by Edgar Tafel, a colleague of…
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Three Cheers for Father’s Heart Church!
…of the Methodist-Episcopal Church, was formally dedicated to the service of God, yesterday…”- New York Times, Jan. 13, 1868 The handsome Gothic revival style Father’s Heart Church and its former…
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Archive Spotlight: First Presbyterian Church in Winter
…First Presbyterian Church in winter. The image is taken at 12th Street and Fifth Avenue, looking south. Indeed, the Church of the Ascension, at 10th Street, is visible as well….
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Op-Ed: Preservation Can Help Affordability
…in their communities. Landmark designation, in helping to preserve the buildings these residents and businesses call home, give them a fighting chance to stay as well, and can help ward…
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The Shrine Church of St. Anthony of Padua
This Thursday evening, September 25, we will present the third program in our series “OMG!: Churches and Synagogues of Greenwich Village.” Father Joseph Lorenzo, O.F.M., pastor at the Shrine Church…
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The Portico of St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery
…still in evidence as Stuyvesant Street across from the church. On the exact site of the present day church, Stuyvesant built his personal Dutch Reform Chapel and, in 1672, was…
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Sir Winston Churchill Square: 2013 Village Award Winner (and one of my favorite places!)
…avoid the crowds and relax in a little corner of shade and greenery just around the corner, Sir Winston Churchill Square. “What does Winston Churchill have to do with Greenwich…
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Matthew Del Gaudio, architect of Our Lady of Pompeii Church
…Pompeii Church, which stands on the corner of Bleecker and Carmine Streets. Our Lady of Pompeii Church, source forgotten-ny.com The building that stands today was constructed in the years 1926…
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Open House New York in Greenwich Village: The history of three unique sites
…architecture for much of the next 30 years. Looking up Broadway to Grace Church in 1900, via Wiki Commons Grace Church is also noteworthy for its exceptional siting. In 1847, when the…
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The (Potential) Familiar Future of the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary
On the corner of Second Avenue and 13th Street, the New York Eye & Ear Infirmary (NYEEI) has stood for over 200 years. One of the oldest specialized hospitals in…
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Let Freedom Ring: The East Village’s (Older) Liberty Bell
…to its historic neighbor, the Middle Collegiate Church, with devastating impact: a sanctuary roof collapsed, a dozen stained-glass windows and a skylight dome by Tiffany blown out, a church gutted….
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Village Awards: Your Nominations Help Celebrate Our Neighborhoods
…nominating someone for an award, you can help to bring attention to their accomplishments and raise awareness about the issues and challenges facing our neighborhoods. This can help to generate…
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Village People: Frederic Church
Frederic Church was a central figure of the Hudson River School, and kept a studio at the 10th Street Studio Building. (This post is part of a series called Village…
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St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery’s Pride Ribbon Project
…Moody as an assistant minister at Judson Memorial Church to found a theater in the sanctuary with playwright Robert Nichols. His Bible study group grew into the Rauschenbusch Memorial United Church of Christ,…
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Landmarking Helps, Not Hurts, Property Values
…what can, or cannot, get built, and where. Historic districts help prevent jarring juxtapositions like this, which may also help preserve property values. Landmark designation has a similar beneficial effect. …
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The Cornelia Street Cafe: Nearing 40, And In Need of Help
The Cornelia Street Cafe which opened its doors in July 1977 needs your help. In 1998, the Cafe was one of the restaurants recognized by GVSHP with one of our…
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Richard Upjohn — A Missionary for the Gothic Revival
…Trinity Episcopalian churches he would design over his career. Locally, he designed the Church of the Ascension on 5th Avenue and West 10th Street. Church of the Ascension on 5th…
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Fight to Save Our Neighborhood South of Union Square: From Bowlmor Demolition to the ‘Zero-Help’ Hotel Special Permit
…and recent plans by Mayor Bill de Blasio and Councilmember Carlina Rivera to address the community’s concerns with a hotel special permit continue to offer zero help. Rally on 11/14/2015….
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The Female Trailblazer Who Helped Build New York’s Landmarks #SouthOfUnionSquare
…acknowledgment of her accomplishments in the designations of these buildings. Help us landmark and protect the area South of Union Square To help landmark 78 Fifth Avenue and other buildings…
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Framing Union Square by Mary Miss: Where Public Art Meets Preservation
…Lee Harris Pomeroy, who had also completed the restoration of several other New York City Subway Stations. Through the MTA’s Art and Design department, Pomeroy worked with artist Mary Miss…
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Jackson Square Library: An Exquisite Building, and once a church of ‘Exquisite Panic’
…1879 by a teacher at Grace Church along with a group of other women and teachers. The New York Free Circulating Library was established to serve every New Yorker, especially…
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#SouthofUnionSquare — James Renwick, Jr. Tour
…Village” — South of Union Square, 2020. Grace Church The French Gothic Revival-style Grace Church, built in 1846-47, is noteworthy for several reasons. First, it was Renwick’s first major commission,…
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Help us Solve Some Historic Photo Mysteries
Can you help us identify where this photo was taken? Likely in lower Manhattan… Over 80 new historic photos taken by Carole Teller were recently added to the GVSHP Image Archive….
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