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Greer Lankton: An Artist’s Life in the Village of the Dolls
…a Sculptor who Turned Dolls into Fantasy” for the New York Times (1996) Alina Cohen’s “1980s Icon Green Lankton Explored Clamour and Gender in Her Erie Dolls” for Artsy.net (2019)…
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#SouthofUnionSquare — Grove Press Tour
…Press published the Autobiography of Malcolm X, and Jacqueline Susann’s Valley of the Dolls, among other notable publications. While at 80 University Place, the Evergreen Review published an issue bearing the iconic image of…
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80 University Place
…of Malcolm X and Jacqueline Susann’s The Valley of the Dolls while here. For more information on the history of these and other buildings South of Union Square, click here….
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80, 82, 84, and 86 University Place
…Autobiography of Malcolm X and Jacqueline Susann’s The Valley of the Dolls while here. No. 82 was originally constructed as a three-story Greek Revival row house for owner Masterton &…
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Remembering the boy bar
…Marks place from 1984-1993. It was well known for its regular drag nights and featured drag events such as Valley of the Dolls, Clash of the Titans, It’s a Mod…
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The Humble “Nerve Center” of the City: Gem Spa
…back cover of the New York Dolls’ classic debut album. It also served as the setting for a scene in the movie Desperately Seeking Susan. The New York Dolls Beginning…
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History of the Hudson River in Greenwich VillageA book talk with Vernon Benjamin
History of the Hudson River in Greenwich Village A book talk with Vernon Benjamin The Hudson River valley has been a place of contradictions since its first settlement by Europeans….
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A Look Back at Our January Programs
…part of the history of Greenwich Village. Many of us think of the Hudson River Valley as upstate. But as Vernon says, “When you think of the Hudson River Valley…
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Great Album Covers, Preserved Forever
…included in the proposed South Village Historic District to be voted upon by the city before the end of the year. The New York Dolls exploded onto the scene with…
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The Collapse of the Broadway Central Hotel and the End of the Mercer Arts Center
…its unused spaces to the burgeoning local fringe rock bands of the day. The New York Dolls held some of their earliest shows in the space and soon became regulars,…
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October 26, 1825: The Erie Canal opened. And New York would never be the same.
…made travel and commerce between the East Coast and the Ohio Valley / Great Lakes region difficult and expensive. A more cost-effective water route did not exist naturally, but DeWitt…
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Patti Smith
…Of an aspect bright and fair And my sleeping it was broken But my dream it lingered near In the form of shining valleys Where the pure air recognized And…
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LGBT Historic Sites in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo
…it is said, met his lover Rachel there, a transgender woman who inspired a number of his songs about trans women and East Village nightlife generally. The New York Dolls,…
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Legendary LGBTQ Nightlife of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo
…there, a transgender woman who inspired a number of his songs about trans women and East Village nightlife generally. The New York Dolls, the Stilettos, and a pre-Blondie Debbie Harry…
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Sylvia: A 19th Century Life Unveiled
…Civil War, Sylvia’s journals, mourning jewelry made of human hair, paper dolls, and other ephemera. This event is co-sponsored by Village Preservation, the Village Alliance, and the Merchant’s House Museum….
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Preserving, Adapting, Reusing: Good for Buildings, Good for Clothing, Good for Small Business
…Limbo became not just the place to shop, but the place to be. Clientele included Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, the New York Dolls, the Velvet Underground, John Lennon,…
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Development dispute over P.S. 64 in the East Village continues, two decades later
…Mankiewicz, the Academy Award-winning director, producer, and screenwriter of classic films such as All About Eve, The Philadelphia Story, and Guys and Dolls; Morris Greene, who produced Eugene O’Neill’s Desire Under the Elms on Broadway…
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When NYC collapsed: The rise and fall of America’s largest and grandest hotel
…just a Bowery biker bar. The Modern Lovers, Suicide, and most famously the New York Dolls found a home there, with their raucous performances reverberating within the cavernous spaces throughout 1972…
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23 LGBT landmarks of the East Village and Noho
…different character as it began to attract a glam rock crowd, including Lou Reed, David Bowie, the New York Dolls, and the Stilettos (Debbie Harry’s pre-Blondie band). Harvey Fierstein performed…
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Where Hip Vintage in NYC Got its Start: Limbo on St. Marks Place
…Jim Morrison, the New York Dolls, the Velvet Underground, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Andy Warhol, Baby Jane Holzer, Nico, Viva, and Edie Sedgewick. The clothier frequently outfitted musicians playing at…
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Gem Spa: An 80 Year Old Institution Fighting for its Survival
…also one of the most photographed in the East Village. It’s on the back cover of the New York Dolls’ 1973 debut. And the words Gem Spa feature in a…
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A Complete Guide to the Charles B.J. Snyder Schools in Our Neighborhoods
…Guys and Dolls on Broadway, all graduated from this school. In 1977, at the height of the city’s fiscal crisis when waves of drugs, crime, arson, and abandonment swept through…
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Oral History: Maria Kenny of Kenny’s Castaway
…to really shock the neighborhood was the New York Dolls, a band quite unlike anything else the area had seen before. The venue – with “a lover of all types…
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Tour the Meccas of East Village Punk via Our Building Blocks Website
…Richard Hell and the Voidoids, and the Dictators. The music’s roots also can be found in the neighborhood, especially from bands like the Velvet Underground and the New York Dolls,…
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Hip Hop’s 2nd Birthplace, Part 3: Webster Hall
…Bow Wow Wow at the Ritz. McLaren was an early promoter of punk subculture as the promoter and manager of numerous punk and new wave bands such as the New York Dolls, the Sex…
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Business of the Month: Kimono House, 131 Thompson Street
…homeware and antique dolls. When that owner’s personal circumstances changed and he could no longer operate the store, mutual friends approached Yumiko to gauge her interest to take it over….
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West Village Rock and Roll Tour A: Focus on Folk
…Gilded Age and acts like Patti Smith, The New York Dolls. Traveling from MacDougal Street to Broadway, we’ll learn how the folk and punk scenes were intertwined and interrelated. We’ll…
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Alfonso Ossorio: Artist, Collector, Congregator
…his congregations. These works, which resemble Dubuffet’s assemblages, were often composed of objects like shells, bones, driftwood, nails, dolls’ eyes, cabinet knobs, dice, costume jewelry, mirror shards, and children’s toys….
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Storied Village Music Venue to Close
…of “his favorite undiscovered local musicians as ‘castaways,’ hence the name.” The club has featured such performers as Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, Yoko Ono, the New York Dolls, and the…
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East Village Building Blocks Tour: the LGBTQ East Village
…Rachel there, a transgender woman who inspired a number of his songs about trans women and East Village nightlife generally. The New York Dolls, the Stilettos, and a pre-Blondie Debbie…
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The Civilian Warfare Gallery: Artists in Combat
…artists the freedom to express what they were experiencing.” It was here that trans artist Greer Lankton exhibited her anthropomorphic dolls that commented on society’s views of the human body…
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April 23, 1976: Ramones Debut Album Released; Music Changed Forever
…the immortal invocation “Hey, ho, let’s go,” grew straight out of the ferment of the downtown music scene, particularly that of CBGB’s. Inspired by fellow downtowners the New York Dolls,…
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Business of the Month: Love Child, 9 Patchin Place
…library as well as hand-made dolls of fabric Neelu imports from her hometown of Hyderabad, along with lavender oil and a poster of a series of yoga poses curated by Neelu…
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Walk on the Wild Side’s Birth of Punk Virtual Tour
From Greenwich Village and the East Village, we’ll see how punk rock developed — from forebears like the Velvet Underground and the New York Dolls to it’s commercial peak in…
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GVSHP Oral History: Maria Kenny
…like Doc Pomus, who served a guiding role for some of music’s greats: “Here’s the Dolls and the Smithereens…Doc Pomus was such an amazing character and really liked my dad….
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Margaret Sanger’s 1916 Clinic
…progressive movements centered in Greenwich Village at the time. In 1911, Margaret moved with her husband William Sanger to New York City from the Hudson River Valley. She worked as…
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GVSHP 2016 Book List & Holiday Gift Ideas
…grid. Hills and valleys, streams and ponds, forests and swamps were invisible to the grid; so too were country villages, roads, farms, and estates and generations of property lines. All…
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A Tale of Two Forgotten Alexander Jackson Davis Mansions
…remain of his dreaming on paper when the Twelfth Street mansions go down in rubble…will be a few villas up in Hudson River Valley.” First Presbyterian Church House. Photo courtesy…
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Business of the Month: Heermance Farm Purveyors, 183 Christopher Street
…salads, and daily made cookies, while showcasing an amazing grocery section featuring Hudson Valley dairy, soda, oils, flour, pasta, chocolate, fresh ground nut butters, and fresh frozen yogurt. They primarily…
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Hey, Hey, It’s the Monkees — on Thompson Street!
…that song, it’s probably the case. It’s a pretty strange song (listen here), definitely deviating from some of their more well-known hits such as Pleasant Valley Sunday, I’m a Believer,…
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Beyond the Village and Back: Edgar Allan Poe Cottage in the Bronx
…Point Academy was what first brought Poe to New York State, but less than a year later Poe was on the move again. From the Hudson Valley he went to…
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Vintage Neon Signs of the West Village Walking Tour
…and co-author of Hudson Valley Ruins: Forgotten Landmarks of an American Landscape. His photos have been exhibited and published broadly, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN Online,…
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Roots of Jazz Run Deep in Greenwich Village
…of live albums have been recorded at (Le) Poisson Rouge, including an improvised album by J. Spaceman, and Grand Valley State University’s New Music Ensemble recording of Terry Riley’s In…
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Lena Rubin
…programs and office running. Born in Manhattan, Lena maintained a deep connection to the city while growing up in the Lower Hudson Valley region of New York State. They graduated…
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Woman Crush Wednesday: Beatrix Farrand
…natural and manufactured world. Journal of the New York Botanical Garden, volume 51 number 612, August 1916. Farrand’s design for this garden nestles peacefully into a valley and provides ample…
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Celebrating 150 Years of Emery Roth, Architect of Our City
…Naugatuck Valley and their history, and he began photographing the men at their work, traveling back in time, and learning how it all came to be. Roth is a family…
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Literary Rebels: Five Banned Book Authors Connected to the Village
…socioeconomic hardship. The novel was banned in Prince William County, Va. in 1988 and in Hudson Valley, N.Y. in 1994 over its language, sexual themes, violence, and depiction of degrading…
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Remember ‘The Alamo’: A history of the Astor Place cube
…confluence of at least six different streets, in an unusually open valley amidst the canyons of New York City. Of course, the intersection was considerably more open 50 years ago, when…
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Village People: Frederic Church
…the Hudson River and Hudson River Valley, which now reside in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Art Museum, the National Gallery of Art, etc. ‘Niagra Falls, from the…
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Hard Luck Town: A 1930s Shantytown in the East Village
…City was home to several large Hoovervilles during the 1930s. Some of the most notable ones were: “Hoover Valley” on what is now the Great Lawn in Central Park, “Packing…
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Landmarks Preservation Commission Celebrates Gay Pride, Doesn’t Designate Gay Landmarks
…are two openly-gay City Councilmembers from Queens, an openly-gay State Assemblymember from Staten Island, and an openly-gay Congressman from the Hudson Valley — changes probably unimaginable at that time. Jim…
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Beyond the Village and Back: Ukrainian Institute of America
…of place in the Loire Valley, yet seems just as comfortable on the Upper East Side. It’s been home to the Ukrainian Institute of America for nearly seven decades, but…
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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: MORE Artist Studios at 30 East 14th Street
…representational style, below we explore the work of two women involved in printmaking and abstraction who kept studios in this building in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Moon Valley,…
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Beyond the Village and Back: Hamilton Fish Park
…and Glen Clyffe, the Fish family estate in the Hudson River Valley, until his death in 1884. Bone Alley, as captured by photographer Jacob Riis in 1895. Photograph sourced from…
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The Linda Yowell Image Collection: Capturing the West Village’s Charm and Evolution Over the Decades
…award-winning architect and preservationist, Linda has worked on townhouses, apartments and loft buildings, and educational institutions throughout New York City and in the Hudson Valley and the Berkshires. She has…
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JANE JACOBS: CHAMPION OF CITIES, CHAMPION OF PEOPLE
…from Booklist. Her print and digital work has appeared in the New York Times for Kids, Teen Vogue, Highlights Magazine, and elsewhere. She runs workshops in the Lower Hudson Valley…
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2024 Village Award Winner: Sixth Street Community Center
…the very first in New York City, has given low-income community members access to fresh produce through their partnership with Hepworth Farms in the Hudson Valley. And they haven’t stopped…
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Business of the Month: Lovewild Design, 136 Avenue C
…the Zapotec valley of Oaxaca to Lovewild and, finally, to your bath. In addition to offering a wide array of products, Lovewild has also offered a variety of DIY classes….
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Welcome Aboard, Lena Rubin
…events. photo credit Clio Walton. Born in Manhattan, Lena maintained a deep connection to the city while growing up in the Lower Hudson Valley region of New York State. She…
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