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Progress on Astor Place Mosaic Lightpoles and Reconstruction
…page. Mosaic pole being installed Photo by Julie Powell Jim Power, aka the Mosaic Man, who is responsible for the mosaics which first began to pop up on lampposts in…
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Astor Place Mosaic Poles Unveiled and Dedicated; One More To Go
…if you have a few friends, or even a stranger, help you. And finally, GVSHP wanted the work mosaic work of Mr. Power restored and returned. From Mosaic Presentation http://www.nyc.gov/html/mancb3/downloads/calendar/2014/Astor%20Place%20Mosaics%20Presentation_20141028%20-%20reduced.pdf…
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Astor Place Reconstruction Recalls Historic Streets, Mosaics & The Alamo
…enhance the entries and doorways of local buildings. Commitments have been made to preserve and reinstall the mosaics, and work is underway to do this. The light poles upon which the mosaics were…
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Unveiling & Dedication for the Mosaic Trail Light Poles
…revitalization of the Astor Place plazas which includes the restoration of Tony Rosenthal’s Alamo sculpture (‘The Cube”), just re-installed. Part of the renowned East Village Mosaic Trail, the mosaic light…
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Wonderful Wednesdays: The Mosaic Man’s Work, and Hudson River Piles, Both Live On
…a collateral effect on beloved East Village folk art: the removal of lightpole mosaics by “Mosaic Man” Jim Power. Lightpoles that Power had decorated with his local, colorful, historical designs…
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Village Preservation Staffers Dana and Elizabeth Stand in Front of a Mosaic Planter Donated by Jim Power
The 9/11 Tiles for America Memorial was created by Greenwich Village community members to honor the memory of those lost on September 11th, 2001, and the destruction of the World…
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Remember The Alamo? The Cube is Back
…of local buildings. The Cube and two of the Mosaic Poles. The mosaic project can be supported by you! Individuals can contribute online here to a fund managed by City Lore…
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Little Tiles, Big Words: The Hess Triangle
Mosaics may conjure up images of the ancient world, or closer to home, of several beautiful artworks in stations across our subway system. But if you zoom in even more…
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All Saints Ukrainian Orthodox Church — A Beacon of Ukrainian Culture in the East Village
…made to the neighborhood has been the intricate mosaic on its facade. Created by Vasyl Barabash with assistance from Phillip Ravensburg, the mosaic jubilantly represents the protection of the Mother…
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East Village Street Art Lives On
…stroll through the East Village you are bound to see the lightpole mosaics by Jim “Mosaic Man” Power. His legendary “Mosaic trail,” an incredible display of his work on over…
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Touring the Churches of the East Village
…the intricate mosaic on its facade. Created by Vasyl Barabash with assistance from Phillip Ravensburg, the mosaic jubilantly represents the protection of the Mother of God. While the mosaic was…
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Walking Together: Findings on the East Village Rock Tour
…important institution on locals and the community at large. MOSAIC MAN Another impromptu point of interest is the light pole decorated by Mosaic Man Jim Power, on the corner of…
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Downtown Underground: A Look at Subway Art
…Throughout this blog series, “Downtown Underground” we will uncover the lovely murals, mosaics and installations that line the subway stations of our neighborhoods. In 1985 the MTA founded what was…
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Discover the Art of the NYC Subway System in the Village with Walk About New York
…the present, art has been a feature of New York’s subway system. In its early years, the art served as directional and identifying signs, composed of mosaic tiles, used because…
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‘Village Angels’ Protect Tiles for America
…Mosaic Man, has created a special planter that sits at the corner of the lot and will be bringing a handmade bench as well. Chris King, a florist in the…
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Art and Suffrage on 14th Street
…weeks ago @pacegallery warehouse.. . Brilliant mosaic work #chuckclose and @instamosaika …I am so humbled to be set in stone…We will see you in just a few days back in lovely Italy at @mar_ravenna Filled with gratitude. thank…
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Remembering the Fillmore East
…Way, and a tile mosaic on the lamppost outside the building. 2nd Avenue at 6th Street is named for Fillmore East owner Bill Graham. The site was originally home to…
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97-99 Seventh Avenue South
…is to modify storefront and remove historic mosaic sign panel and replace with new signage, remove rolldown security gates, replace 3 modern retractable awnings with 3 sets of retractable awnings…
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See You on the Dark Side of the Village!
…slowly picks up before reaching an apex in beat and tempo in the final two tracks “Brain Damage” and “Eclipse.” Fillmore East Mosaic. The Dark Side of the Moon Album…
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This Week at the Tiles for America Site
…aka the Mosaic Man) the first bench brought to the site took on a new life adorned with flowers The Love Bench “We created out of love in memory of…
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The History of Sheridan Square
…two parks. L: the mosaic in the Christopher Street/Sheridan Square subway station; R: the statue of General Philip Henry Sheridan in Christopher Park Unfortunately, during most of the twentieth century,…
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Seen and Heard Around the Village 7.10.11 – 7.16.11, East Edition
…Opposes Plaza for 51 Astor Place (The Local East Village) Mosaic Man’s Flag Project & the Astor Place Redesign (Bowery Boogie) How Many Walls Does $1.1 Million Buy You on…
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Seen and Heard Around the Village 7.3.11 – 7.9.11, East Edition
…Ray Deter, Owner of d.b.a Passes Away (DNAinfo) The Mosaic Man Joins Facebook & Twitter (Bowery Boogie) East Village Couple Severely Injured in Pennsylvania Shoot Out (NY Daily News) An…
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Seen and Heard Around the Village 6.12.11 – 6.18.11, Part II
The Mosaic Man in action! Lower Second Avenue Now & Then (EV Grieve) In the East Village, Where Have All the Crusties Gone? (NY Times) Giant Mouse Sits Bashful Outside…
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An Architectural Gem in the Village: 2011 Awardee
…the work of Louis St. Gaudens and the two angels in the mosaic were done by D. Maitland Armstrong. See more about La Farge in our blog post for fellow…
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Seen and Heard Around the Village 5.29.11 – 6.4.11
…at Northern Spy Food Co. (NY Times) Fat Black Pussycat Signage Gone (Jeremiah’s Vanishing NY) St. Mark’s Place and Its Mosaics (Forgotten NY) Ice Cream Sandwiches were Born on the…
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Purchase your tickets for GVSHP’s Annual House Tour!
…two-floor retreat featuring a life-sized mosaic tile tree; an extra-wide townhouse with Victorian-era details, once the home of Emily Post; and a traditional townhouse featuring a restored stoop and façade…
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Who Was Jacob M. Felson?
…examples: 1150 Grand Concourse (“The Fish Building”) and 1188 Grand Concourse. The former, built 1936-37, is known for its vibrant mosaic entrance panels of whimsical water plants and tropical fish. …
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East Village Historic District Tour: A Walking Tour with Elizabeth Finkelstein
…melting pot, to a world-renowned Yiddish entertainment district, to a post-war mecca for alternative culture. We’ll stroll the neighborhood’s lively streets, home to a colorful mosaic of small businesses and…
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Native American Contemporary Art Sites in our Area
…York galleries and at the Whitney Museum of American Art. In addition to his cubist and abstract expressionist vocabulary, Morrison created mosaics with found materials of Provincetown on Cape Cod….
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Help Keep GVSHP Strong in 2017!
…City Council bill to make landmarking harder and demolition of historic properties easier. We helped save and bring back to Astor Place the beloved mosaic light poles. But there were…
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2016 GVSHP Year in Review
…Greenwich Village Historic District, leading to their disapproval. Helped get the beloved Mosaic Lamposts returned to Astor Place after they were removed as part of a renovation of that intersection….
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Beyond The Village and Back: Gould Library and Begrisch Hall, Bronx Community College
…stone, mosaic, wood, bronze, and Tiffany glass. It features a rotunda with Greek sculptures and a coffered dome. The landmark includes the first Hall of Fame in the country, which…
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One Track Mind: Drawing the New York Subway
…the terracotta mosaics, the friezes, and the embellishments of the subway entryways, nameplates, and other details are art from another time. Philip Asforth Coppola is the champion of this art,…
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Buy a Book Locally on Small Business Saturday
…terracotta mosaics, faience, and tile patterns that millions of riders pass by every day. Coppola’s drawings are what Hyperallergic calls “the most encyclopedic history of the art and architecture of…
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Interior Artwork of Our Lady of Pompeii Church
…set he placed the statues of the Blessed Mother and Saint John in their present positions, before the mosaic of the Crucified Christ and the Souls in Purgatory. The painting…
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Viewers Choice: Top 5 Village Preservation Program Videos of 2018
…cover a diverse range of areas including rock and roll, restoring artists’ studios, terracotta mosaics in the subways, street photography, women’s poetry, and so much more. Recording our programs and…
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Accomplishments
…opposition led by Village Preservation. The Society helps get the beloved Mosaic Lamposts returned to Astor Place after they were removed as part of a renovation of that intersection. After a fourteen-year…
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Retracing The East Village’s Historic Little Italy
…Like other fellow nearby Italian eateries, DeRobertis’ appeal was equal parts delicious menu and irreplaceable decor and atmosphere. The pasticceria was renowned for its original ornately tiled floors, hand-cut mosaic…
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AIDS Memorial Design Process Underway
…up Abingdon Square Park, also in the Village, and the Imagine mosaic in Central Park’s Strawberry Fields as examples of successful memorial designs. A local artist suggested having a rotating…
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One Track Mind: Drawing the Village Subways
…typography, terra-cotta mosaics, faiences, and tile patterns that millions of riders see every day but rarely notice. Ezra Bookstein and Jeremy Workman have drawn from those sketches to create One-Track…
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Seen & Heard Around the Village: East Edition, 3.10.12
EV Grieve puts together a 1st Avenue penthouse striptease and reveals the new Retina mural on the Bowery You can now buy creations by the Mosaic Man on Etsy (Gothamist)…
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Publishing giants, radical literature, and women’s suffrage: More secrets of Union Square South
…commercial and artistic character of this area. This included Heinigke and Bowen, producers of architectural stained glass and mosaics. Owen J. Bowen was a former associate of both Tiffany and…
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Historic Station Sequel
…(fine tin-glazed pottery) plaques, marble wainscoting, ceramic cornices, and mosaic tablets. A 1986 replica of an original IRT Budapest-style kiosk serves as the Uptown entrance. Budapest has the second oldest…
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Book Talk: Stanford White in Detail
…in Detail, author, architect, and White’s great-grandson Samuel G. White examines the innovative and intricate decorative web of carved wood and marble, metalwork, mosaic and tile that was his ancestor’s signature. Samuel…
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East Village Historic District Tour: A Walking Tour with Elizabeth Finkelstein – 7/31
…an immigrant melting pot, to a world-renowned Yiddish entertainment district, to a post-war mecca for alternative culture. We’ll stroll the neighborhood’s lively streets, home to a colorful mosaic of small…
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9/11 Tiles For America Collection — Memorial at Mulry Square
…September of that year, community members helped Dusty rebuild the memorial, in grand fashion. Jim Power, the “Mosaic Man” donated a planter at the corner of 7th Avenue South and…
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East Village Historic District Tour: A Walking Tour with Elizabeth Finkelstein – 7/11
…an immigrant melting pot, to a world-renowned Yiddish entertainment district, to a post-war mecca for alternative culture. We’ll stroll the neighborhood’s lively streets, home to a colorful mosaic of small…
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Graphic Designer Extraordinaire, Milton Glaser
…the original ceramic patterns of 1904 station mosaics—and made installations at the station’s underground level. To learn more about the history and architecture of the Astor Place station, click here….
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Naming a Neighborhood: The East Village
…connected to two of New York’s most well-known neighborhoods, the East Village combined the character of each to forge its own identity in the mosaic that is New York. Today,…
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Lee Krasner Paints Gansevoort Street
…Kasmin Gallery. Two of Lee Krasner’s art works still exist in situ in New York: a pair of large mosaics adorning the entrance of 2 Broadway in the Financial District. They…
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Three Stops on Christopher Street
…Providers, Bohemians, and Rebels — that honor the community’s history of artistic and political activism. Art in the Christopher Street station: mosaic depicting the Newgate State Prison (l.), and a…
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The Guerilla Gardeners of El Sol Brillante
…cultivation by members. Plot-tending members can choose what they grow, literally transforming the land into a living mosaic of community members’ environmental values. Community members enjoying El Sol Brillante. Date…
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538-540 East 11th Street
…Application is for the removal of blue glazed mosaic tile on entryway walls and ceilings and replacement with hardwood cladding 2) View the application: Available in PDF. 3) View CB3…
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The Legacy of Italian-American Entertainment Venues in the South Village
…mosaic of different traditions.” This includes other theaters, also on the Bowery, that hosted theater in Yiddish, German, English, and Italian. “In a period of immigration for the most part…
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2014 Year In Review: GVSHP Programs
As we near the end of 2014, we thought we’d look back on the several dozen exciting lectures, book talks, exhibitions, walking tours, forums, panels, and community meetings conducted by…
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Go inside 7 landmarked houses in Greenwich Village this weekend
…by the muralist and mosaicist William de Leftwich Dodge. That window includes leaded glass which is echoed by a stunning chandelier in the room behind it. And Dodge is not…
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12 historic Italian-American sites of the East Village
…renowned for its original ornately-tiled floors, hand-cut mosaic wall tiles, and pressed-tin ceilings. Customers over the years (often there for film shoots) included Woody Allen, Jennifer Beals, Spike Lee, Sarah…
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The Whole World Passes Through: Stories from the Cornelia Street Cafe
…from the Cornelia Street Café.” Volume I is out from Mosaic Books, with illustrations by longtime Village resident Pat Preble. “After their heyday in the fifties and sixties,” writes Hirsch, “cafés…
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Ribbon Cuttings, Reopenings, and Anniversaries Bring Neighborhood History to the Fore
…property in New York City. The charming, quixotic, approximately 2 ft x 2 ft x 2 ft mosaic-tile sidewalk installation grew out of the ongoing struggle between the idiosyncratic tangle…
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German Heritage #SouthOfUnionSquare
…and art which was so characteristic of this area. This included the German firm Heinigke and Bowen, producers of architectural stained glass and mosaics around the neighborhood and city at…
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Defiance in the Village: The History of the Hess Triangle with historian James Nevius
Zoom Event. Free. One hundred years ago this summer, on July 27, 1922, a small mosaic triangle was unveiled at the corner of Seventh Ave South and Christopher Street. The…
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Terrance McNally Offers Wonderful Window Into The Rich History #SouthOfUnionSquare
…one shining piece of the brilliant mosaic which is the incredibly rich cultural history of this area South of Union Square — a history we have gone to great pains…
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Seen and Heard Around the Village 9.1.11: East Edition
…a loss of a tree (City Room)….as EV Grieve notes, there is even a memorial set up The man behind the Mosaic Man’s & Ray’s Twitter reveals himself (The Local…
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Hess Triangle: What was Once the Smallest Piece of Property in New York City
…the smallest piece of property in New York City history, a triangle measuring around 27½” x 27½” x 25½”. On July 17, 1922, the Hess family installed a mosaic reading…
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This May: A Crowdsourced History of the Lower East Side
…Judith Malina. There are several annual festivals now happily linked to this monthlong fest, each one celebrating another piece of our immigrant mosaic: the Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage…
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Jews: A People’s History of the Lower East Side
…for discussion with this panel include the Stanton Street Shul, Julian Beck and The Living Theatre, Cartoon Jews, Dr. Dave, Mosaic Tattoos, and more. Books will be available for purchase…
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