…the part”. New York, 1939. Photographer: David E. Scherman. Raphael Soyer, “Office Girl,” 1936. Oil on canvas via the Whitney Museum of American Art. Corner of Moses Soyer’s studio. Moses,…
Read More…Soyer, “Artists on WPA” 1935. Oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Moses Soyer. Moses Soyer, 1930: Moses Soyer (December 25, 1899 – September 3, 1974) was…
Read More…we’d take a closer look at the Lucy Moses Awards and see who exactly Lucy Moses was. The 2007 Lucy G. Moses Awards — (l. to r.) Honoree Kent Barwick,…
Read More…this was Jane Jacobs’ turf, and where Moses saw blight, she saw diversity and potential. Jacobs led the successful effort to defeat Moses’ urban renewal plan and preserve this charming…
Read More…Bishop, Arnold Blanch, and twin brothers Raphael and Moses Soyer. Reginald Marsh, In Fourteenth Street, egg tempera on board, 1934. Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2021 Estate of…
Read More…relationship. Jacobs faced Moses three times, and on all three occasions, she prevailed. The most storied episode in their history was Jacobs’ opposition to Moses’ plan to rout Washington Square…
Read More…Moses, the most powerful politician in New York at the time. Moses claimed that theatergoers trampled the grass and Papp needed to charge admission to pay for the replanting. Papp categorically…
Read More…co-founder of the Joint Emergency Committee to Close Washington Square Park to Traffic. Lyons and the JEC led a seven year battle against Robert Moses’ plan to extend Fifth Avenue…
Read More…credits include Sanford and Son and the 1974 movie The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. Moses Gunn October 2, 1929 – December 16, 1993 Moses Gunn was an American actor…
Read More…children to prominent neighborhood residents such as Eleanor Roosevelt. Moses, arguably the most powerful man in New York at the time, having amassed vast bureaucratic powers in the state, planned to…
Read More“You can help save Washington Square Park. Robert Moses can be stopped. A handful of women did it in Central Park. The bird watchers did it in Central Park. The…
Read MoreThis is one of a series of blog posts which highlights the information found in our Village Independent Democrats collection, added to our Preservation History Archive in early 2024. In 1953, Robert Moses announced plans…
Read More…art, featuring paintings by artists such as de Kooning, Chagall, Gorky, Avery, Raphael and Moses Soyer, and others, many of which had been received as gifts. The Foundation has holdings…
Read More…at 23 Bethune Street. The photographer Walker Evans, the painter and photographer Lou Block, and the film critic Jay Leyda intermittently occupied the street-level workshop, and the painter Moses Soyer…
Read More…Ben Shahn and painter Moses Soyer each had an apartment. Evans, painter and photographer Lou Block, and film critic Jay Leyda also occupied the workshop on the ground floor at…
Read More…than Edith Lyons, who shared her own personal perspective and involvement in her oral history with Village Preservation. In 1952, when news broke of Robert Moses’ proposal to develop a…
Read More…This was completed in 1937. Moses’s plan also included a 40-foot wide boardwalk and expansive parking lot. Beach-facing view of the bathhouse, with Robert Moses’ re-designed, incongruous facade Riis Beach…
Read More…ten feet higher. Thank You, Robert Moses East River Park was conceived by Robert Moses in the 1930s as the East River Drive (renamed the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Drive in…
Read More…to realize how extreme Moses was willing to be, to accomplish his vision for New York.” Wood went on to state that Moses’ vision had “energized a generation of civic…
Read More…of as a traditional “slum”, it was an area dense with working class families, a characteristic Robert Moses saw as undesirable. In 1956, Robert Moses acquired three city blocks bound…
Read More…against Robert Moses’ proposed Lower Manhattan Expressway, which would have destroyed the neighborhoods of SoHo, Little Italy, and the South Village. Presently she lives on Charlton Street. According to Douglas:…
Read More…seminars and workshops on subjects of interest to members, and readings of members’ works. Developing an Opera about Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses Composer Judd Greenstein and director Joshua Frankel…
Read More…that night.” Drawing of what Moses’ planned Lower Manhattan Expressway would have looked like cutting across Washington Square Park. Moses and the city had planned to expand 5th Avenue with…
Read More…from “It Took Fifty” (Image courtesy of http://www.ittook50.com) In 1959 in response to Robert Moses-threatened development of the area and slum clearance, Goldin co-founded the Cooper Square Committee with nine…
Read More…Square in our on-line photographic archive. Last car through Washington Square Park, 1958. Tankel Collection, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation Decades ago the “Power Broker” himself, Robert Moses, concocted a…
Read MoreThe battle between Village preservation icon Jane Jacobs and Robert “put a highway through every park” Moses is quite storied and well-documented. But for us, understanding it and preserving its…
Read More…Robert Moses ordered the large-scale demolition of older sections of cities, to be replaced or bisected by new motorways and identical complexes of “towers-in-a-park.” But one unlikely Greenwich Village resident…
Read More…WPA carried on in this legacy to establish permanent places to support children’s needs, and, somewhat ironically, most of these projects were supervised by the Park Commissioner Robert Moses (who…
Read More…projects in the West Village, Leticia saw first-hand the work Jacobs was doing to ensure her own home, amongst others, were spared from Robert Moses’ wrecking ball. The West Village…
Read MoreIn 1941, an elderly woman with “bright blue eyes and auburn hair” stormed down to City Hall to confront Robert Moses. The fight, reported by The New Yorker, was about…
Read More…23rd Street. He also co-founded the Architectural League of New York. 72 Fifth Avenue 72 Fifth Avenue, 2012. In 1893, Marx and Moses Ottinger, and Isidore and Max Korn, built…
Read More…working in NYC. He regularly worked with Robert Moses during this period, especially during the 1930s when Moses was NYC Parks Commissioner. Surviving examples of Embury’s work in NYC include the…
Read More…Street was consecrated in 1897, Dr. Gomez had the honor of being the first to open the building’s doors, an honor that his great-great-grandfather Luis Moses Gomez had enjoyed in…
Read More…the Greenwich Village Study, which sought to make the community more livable and focused on issues of housing, traffic patterns, and parks. Around this same time, Robert Moses first put…
Read More…Robert Moses, who in the early 1950s approved a plan for a four lane wide sunken roadway through the park as part of the Title-I Redevelopment plan for the area….
Read More…Fritsches photographed, the demolition of the High Line led to a struggle for the soul of the neighborhood. Robert Moses saw the Village west of Hudson Street as blighted, and…
Read More…Street Urban Renewal Project, and SoHo was slated for wholesale demolition by Robert Moses for the Lower Manhattan Expressway. The plans for Moses’ expressway were opposed by activists and ultimately…
Read More…“The youngest of the players in the group he will lead is Josel Schulman, 80-year-old drummer. The oldest are Tobia Wildstein and Moses Moskowitz, both 92. Of these, the first…
Read More…In the early 1950s, Robert Moses put forth plans to extend Fifth Avenue south, through Washington Square, where it would continue into today’s South Village, part of a large-scale urban…
Read More…can access here. In 1959 Fran was involved in founding two organizations that still exist and serve this neighborhood today, the Metropolitan Council on Housing and the Cooper Square Committee. She fought Robert Moses…
Read More…High Line became the subject of a years-long fight between neighbors and Robert Moses. Moses originally planned to demolish nearly all of the West Village west of Hudson Street as…
Read More…more about the community vision and how you can support it with a quick email here. The South Bronx is still addressing the legacy of Robert Moses, often portrayed as…
Read More…for the latest deals. While fellow Fourteenth Street School artists Kenneth Hayes Miller, Reginald Marsh, and Raphael Soyer frequently depicted the “New Women” of Union Square through a highly sexualized…
Read More…in 1930 began to study at the Art Students League under Kenneth Hayes Miller. There she learned alongside Isabel Bishop, Reginald Marsh, Raphael Soyer, and Edward Laning, whom she married…
Read More…Among the artists and actors who lived in Westbeth over the years were Diane Arbus, Paul Benjamin, Robert De Niro Sr., Vin Diesel, Moses Gunn, Hans Haake, Muriel Rukeyser, and…
Read More…Village Committee, founded by activists including Jane Jacobs to fight Robert Moses’ urban renewal plan. And, as demonstrated here, the archive reveals Village Preservation’s own historic documents, spanning from the…
Read More…English language, left-wing political movements, and surprisingly, the tobacco industry. In 1893, Marx and Moses Ottinger (whose son, Albert Ottinger, would become the first Jewish major party candidate for Governor…
Read More…antiquated pre-war city was considered a breeding ground for crime, poor health, decay, and inevitable decline. In response to this, urban planners like Robert Moses ordered the large-scale demolition of…
Read More…as well as Diane Arbus (who killed herself while living there in 1971 shortly after Westbeth opened), Moses Gun, Gil Evans, Bob Gruen, Hans Haake, Vin Diesel, Robert De Niro…
Read More…was intimately involved with documenting the Greenwich Village preservation movement of the 1950s and ’60s, which was battling (and eventually defeated) a slew of proposals by Robert Moses to build…
Read More…of Parks announced the official opening of the new pool and renovated bathhouse on June 10, 1939. The ceremony was attended by Parks Commissioner Robert Moses, Alexander MacGregor of the…
Read More…Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro. This monumental biography chronicles the life and times of the legendary public-works czar, while doubling as an extraordinary history of…
Read More…businesses in the 1950s, were slated for demolition by City Planning, largely controlled by Robert Moses at that time. The Cooper Square Committee formed in resistance to the plan, successfully…
Read More…number of times before it was sold, in 1883, to Sephardic Jewish merchant Moses Lazarus, who made his fortune with the firm Johnson & Lazarus, which imported and sold sugar. Lazarus had…
Read More…to incorporate African culture into the American music scene. Some of his most popular compositions include “Hi-Fly,” “Little Niles,” and “Blue Moses.” Weston and his daughter in Rabat. Weston was…
Read More…most popular compositions include “Hi-Fly,” “Little Niles,” and “Blue Moses.” Weston was also a key political figure in global civil rights activism. As African countries fought for freedom from colonial…
Read More…rallied for years to remove traffic from the park and finally won against Robert Moses’ plan to build a highway through the park. The “Last Car Through the Arch” is…
Read More…Perkins, a young Robert Moses confessed his vision for remaking the city, plans he would undertake decades later. Young Sinclair Lewis also asked Perkins for help editing his manuscript for…
Read More…Jacobs and neighbors to defeat a Robert Moses urban renewal plan that would have destroyed large swaths of the West Village. They re-formed as the West Village Committee in 1962….
Read More…ark which holds the holy Torah scrolls. This same honor was bestowed upon his great-great-grandfather Luis Moses Gomez in 1730, at the consecration of their Mill Street building. The New…
Read More…Landmarks Preservation Commission has failed to do so. Today, we take a closer look at 72 Fifth Avenue, and ask: why isn’t this landmarked? History In 1893 Marx and Moses…
Read More…CHARAS, which was named after the initials of its co-founders–Chino García, Humberto Crespo, Angelo Gonzáles, Roy Battiste, Moses Figueroa, and Sal Becker–was formed in the early 1970s as a division…
Read More…as Bank Street. As Roberta Brandes Gratz, the author of “The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs” wrote, “Bank Street is the…
Read More…her ongoing (at the time) role at Community Board 2. Doris got her start in civic life in 1959 when Robert Moses had designed a plan to phase out the…
Read More…(ultimately successful) battle to prevent Robert Moses’ plan to demolish most of SoHo and a broad swath of Lower Manhattan for the Lower Manhattan Expressway (LOMEX). A.I.R. Signage. Photo courtesy…
Read More…the book, “Death and Life of Great American Cities,” and played a key role in fighting Robert Moses’ plans for an expressway through Washington Square Park. Another conference participant was…
Read More…her home at 18 West 10th Street, an Italianate-style structure built in 1856 that her family moved into earlier in 1883. Descendants of America’s first Jewish settlers, Moses and Esther…
Read More…Excellence in Historic Preservation Award by the Preservation League of NY State and the Lucy Moses Organizational Excellence Award by the NY Landmarks Conservancy, and has been named “Best of…
Read More…those who joined up with Janeway and the others in a grassroots effort to thwart Robert Moses’ plan to demolish the Jefferson Market Courthouse building. They were successful, and today…
Read More…redefined thinking around the functioning of cities, taking on and defeating Robert Moses. Janis Joplin — Blues-inspired and influential rock and roll singer, musician, and performer. Helen Keller —Disability advocate…
Read More…and activist, she redefined thinking around the functioning of cities, taking on and defeating Robert Moses. Janis Joplin — Blues-inspired and influential rock and roll singer, musician, and performer. Helen…
Read MoreIn 2016, we revisited Washington Square Park and the radical fight to go completely “car-free”. At the time, it was a matter of preventing power broker Robert Moses from devastating…
Read More…iron architecture in the world, had been slated for demolition by Robert Moses for his Lower Manhattan Expressway plan, which was only finally laid to rest in 1968. When LaGrassa…
Read More…and expanded several times. In 1927, a wading pool/ice skating rink was constructed. In 1936, a large swimming pool was installed under the direction of then Parks Commissioner Robert Moses…
Read MoreWilliam Moses Kunstler (July 7, 1919 – September 4, 1995) was a giant in the legal profession most well-known for his groundbreaking civil rights and social justice work. While a…
Read More…and the park itself, in the face of proposed urban renewal plans. Like George McAneny and Albert Bard, the proponents of Save the Village directly fought against Robert Moses, and…
Read More…David Attie. David Moses Attie (1920-1983) photographed Hansberry to accompany a 1960 Vogue magazine article. One of the images in the series is part of the collection of the National…
Read More…A New Dealer and favorite of President Franklin Roosevelt, La Guardia was able to secure large amounts of federal money for public works in New York. Working with Robert Moses…
Read More…City some twenty years before Robert Moses would convince Mayor LaGuardia to use Gracie Mansion. In 1920, Wanamaker purchased his home, 12 Washington Sq North, a beautiful row house that…
Read More…Street 13 Gay Street, 1969 (left) and 2019 (right). 1969 photo courtesy of the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission. William Moses Kunstler (July 7, 1919 – September 4, 1995), who owned,…
Read More…Square Village For the first several seasons of the show, Ross is shown to live at Washington Square Village, the modernist superblock of apartments built by Robert Moses in the…
Read More…own neighborhood. Robert Moses, whom she had criticized before, had already built the Cross Bronx Expressway and other highways, often over fierce neighborhood opposition. He now planned to build the…
Read More…City Planning under Robert Moses. At the time, these buildings housed manufacturing and small businesses and were purchased by the city and federal government through eminent domain. The residents on…
Read More…and sailed from Georgia to St. Petersburg. The voyage was the first trans-Atlantic steam voyage and Captain Moses Rogers commanded the ship for its voyage. Between 1830 and 1840, many…
Read More…South Village. Many think of urban renewal in New York City as a phenomenon of the post-World War II era, a battle between government (Robert Moses) and advocates (Jane Jacobs)….
Read More…extend 1,000 feet into the river, a sunken two-tiered highway, parks and new real estate for development. New Yorkers, still weary from fighting the Robert Moses highway proposals a generation…
Read More…the 8th Street alleyway. The owners welcomed designation as a New York City Landmark in 2000, and won a New York Landmarks Conservancy Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award in 2008….
Read More…thinkin’ about us.” The poor, immigrant housing in the East Village and the former location of Hard Luck Town would eventually be razed as per Robert Moses’ vision. Interestingly, the…
Read More…Community Board 2, and chairperson of its Parks Committee. He opposed Robert Moses’s plans for extending Fifth Avenue through Washington Square Park, and for the proposed Lower Manhattan Expressway. source:…
Read More…time reviewing three important sites. Last car through Washington Square Park, 1958. Tankel Collection, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation. 1935 Redesign of Washington Square Park: Robert Moses would face…
Read More…Emergency Committee to Close Washington Square Park to Traffic. This explicitly named group successfully fought a Robert Moses-led plan to create an expressway through the park. The interview explores the…
Read More…victory against Robert Moses’ high-rise urban renewal plans for the West Village, substituting modestly-scaled “infill housing”). GVSHP has a long history with Westbeth, including working to get it landmarked in…
Read More…park. Since its transformation to artists’ housing, Diane Arbus, Merce Cunningham, Moses Gunn, Hans Haacke, and Gil Evans, among countless other artists, lived or worked at Westbeth. Westbeth remains an…
Read More…Robert Moses’ plans to extend 5th Avenue through Washington Square Park and build a Lower Manhattan Expressway, which would have wiped out a large piece of SoHo. Among his neighborhood…
Read More…the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. It’s been quite a month for Michelangelo and DMAC, as last week they received a Lucy G. Moses Award for their restoration of the…
Read More…renewal schemes of the 1950’s and 1960’s and watershed in moving cities away from Robert Moses-type planning. Still from Koyaanisqatsi While it would probably be wrong to try to project…
Read More…constructed for Moses Weil who was leasing it from St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery. Throughout the Village there are buildings that are connected to the pre-automobile era of New York, among…
Read More…health care system at former St. Vincent’s site (DNAinfo) Who should play Robert Moses in Oliver Stone’s new HBO movie? (Gothamist) NYU plans renovations to 3 Washington Mews houses (Curbed)…
Read More…its transformation to artists’ housing, Diane Arbus, Merce Cunningham, Moses Gunn, Hans Haacke, and Gil Evans, among countless other artists, lived or worked at Westbeth. One of the first residential…
Read More…much-under-protected South Village, 68 Thompson was especially significant for its intact cast iron storefront. In 1965, this building was one of many slated for demolition by Robert Moses’ plan for…
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