White Horse Tavern and Dylan Thomas. Photo courtesy of newyork.com. On Wednesday, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation will be hosting a walking tour on Dylan Thomas that will culminate…
Read MoreInez Milholland, wearing a white cape while seated on white horse, at the National American Woman Suffrage Association parade, March 3, 1913. (Credit: F A Archive/REX/Shutterstock) The 19th Amendment to…
Read MoreOn January 30, 1968, the Velvet Underground released their second studio album, White Light/White Heat. Following the band’s first album, The Velvet Underground & Nico, released in 1967, the band…
Read More…couple more successful submissions by White to the magazine, its literary editor, Katharine Angell recommended to editor-in-chief and founder Harold Ross that White be hired as a staff writer. White…
Read More…accused White of ruining Nesbit, and he may have even focused his attention on her because of her previous relationship with White. Thaw believed White had hired people to kill…
Read MoreNew York City was powered by horses for almost three hundred years. At its peak, well over 150,000 horses and by some estimates up to 200,000 lived in the city….
Read More…as Beaux Arts architect Stanford White and outsider chronicler Diane Arbus lived next door to each other in the heart of the district. Stanford White (l.), Daine Arbus Stanford White…
Read More…coach horses, including a large group of horses co-owned by Alfred W. Vanderbilt and Robert L. Gerry in 1906.” (Matthew A. Postal, page 4) GVSHP originally submitted a request for…
Read More…6. White Horse Tavern, 567 Hudson Street Via Flickr cc While perhaps most famous as a hang-out for the great literary minds of the mid-20th century, including Dylan Thomas, James Baldwin,…
Read More…partners of McKim, Mead & White. There might just be an interesting back story on why White was brought in to repair 119 Avenue D, but for now I’m assuming…
Read MorePurchase the Book! 20% off with Code FALL20 at Checkout Nothing defines Stanford White, a partner in the legendary architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White, and the master of…
Read More…immigrant community in Greenwich Village include our Lady of Guadalupe Church and “La Nacional,” the Spanish Benevolent Society of New York, located on West 14th Street. 6. White Horse Tavern,…
Read MoreWhen Architecture Could Fashion a Nation: A Lecture on the Architecture of McKim, Mead & White by Professor Mosette Broderick As America matured in the mid 19th century, the architectural…
Read MoreHorsewalks, Stables, and Mews Lecture at Salmagundi For centuries New Yorkers relied on horses as transport, retracing former Native American paths. Past the present-day cacophony of automobiles, this history remains,…
Read MoreDid you know that 128 East 13th Street is believed to be the last surviving horse and carriage auction mart building in New York City? It was threatened with demolition…
Read More…Village Preservation shows that the city’s SoHo/NoHo Rezoning Plan will make these neighborhoods richer, whiter, and more expensive to live in than they are now, and likely create significantly less…
Read More…Museum. But it used to have a home in the White House. Here’s the story of how Christopher Street and Greenwich Village made it into the nation’s First Home. In 1933,…
Read More101-103 Thompson Street Thinking of white glazed brick buildings can conjure images of boxy post-war high rises on the Upper East Side, but almost fifty years before they came into…
Read MoreOn December 13, 1975, Patti Smith’s album ‘Horses’ was released. Simply put, music was never the same again. Iconic album, iconic album cover. Certainly much has been said about the…
Read More…promoting equity, diversity, and affordability. A study produced by Village Preservation shows just how untrue that is. Analysis shows it would make the neighborhood richer, whiter, and more expensive than…
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Folk musician David Rosario founded the band Lower East Side, which commonly performed in the streets of downtown New York City. He was known as “David Peel” in reference to…
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Read MoreThis is one in a series of posts marking the 50th anniversary of the designation of the Greenwich Village Historic District. Click here to check out our year-long activities and…
Read MorePlan would likely only create 1/5 of projected Affordable Housing, push out Asian American and lower income residents would likely destroy more Affordable Housing than it creates….
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Folk musician David Rosario founded the band Lower East Side, which commonly performed in the streets of downtown New York City. He was known as “David Peel” in reference to…
Posted March 3, 2021
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Professional photographer Robert A. Ripps took these images of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and of Ground Zero and its surroundings in the days and weeks following…
Posted September 8, 2021
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Professional photographer Robert A. Ripps took these images of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and of Ground Zero and its surroundings in the days and weeks following…
Posted September 8, 2021
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In the months following the destruction of the World Trade Center and on each anniversary of 9/11, crowds gathered at the West Side Highway and Christopher Street to support the…
Posted August 19, 2021
Read More…ale. You may order it either dark or light. White Horse Tavern 567 Hudson Street The White Horse Tavern © Estate of Fred W. McDarrah This West Village haunt opened…
Read More…holes such as the White Horse Inn, Minetta Tavern, San Remo Cafe, and Chumley’s. At these establishments he got to the know the likes of Joe Gould, Allen Ginsberg, Bob…
Read More…up to Halloween. White Horse Tavern White Horse Tavern and Dylan Thomas. Photo courtesy of newyork.com. Located in the West Village and billed as the “2nd oldest continuously run…
Read More…(1969) and 122 Greenwich Avenue (2019) The pleasure of these photos, however, is that they largely show a neighborhood that retains many of its 1969 features. The White Horse Tavern…
Read MorePhoto of White Horse Tavern (bottom left) courtesy of Wikimedia; Photo of the Merchant’s House Museum (bottom right) courtesy of Village Preservation on Flickr For many, celebrating Irish American heritage in March brings one…
Read MorePhoto of White Horse Tavern (bottom left) courtesy of Wikimedia; Photo of the Merchant’s House Museum (bottom right) courtesy of Village Preservation on Flickr For many, celebrating Irish American heritage in March brings one…
Read More…societies specifically, reinforcing these sites as political places. For instance, in the mid-20th century, Whitey Munson, the grandfather of the longtime owner of the White Horse Tavern, James Munson, was a boss…
Read More…with devastating interest rates. White Horse Tavern To learn more about our efforts to protect the Far West Village and landmark the interior of the White Horse Tavern, click HERE….
Read More…market-rate units, this will result in buildings which are 70% white, 10.8% Asian, 5% Hispanic and 9.8% black – a higher percentage white and black than the 7 census tracts…
Read More…had always assumed they were originally made for horses. Horses at fountain, ca. 1913, photo source mcny.org The one at St. Mark’s Church was indeed for horses I have been…
Read MoreVan Tassell & Kearney Auction Mart, Date Unknown Unsure of what to get that special someone for the holidays? How about a horse? A hundred years ago you could have…
Read More…an all-white jury. Those sentences had resulted from bloody riots in Arkansas in 1919 precipitated by a white mob attacking a mass meeting of black farmers trying to organize a…
Read More…taken on many aliases. 7. Dylan owes his name partially to the White Horse Tavern. This bar at 567 Hudson Street was the favorite drinking spot of poet Dylan Thomas…
Read More…that White began writing for the recently founded New Yorker; he became a regular contributor in 1927. White also wrote for Harper’s Magazine, publishing poetry and prose before he began writing for…
Read More…American men sentenced to death and 67 to long prison terms by an all-white jury. Those sentences had resulted from bloody riots in Arkansas in 1919 precipitated by a white mob…
Read More…Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885). 28. E.B. White, 16 East 8th Street and 112 West 13th Street Elwyn Brooks White famed author of the children’s novels Stuart Little and Charlotte’s Web lived in Greenwich Village…
Read More…almost 75,000 horses and 4,500 stables could be found in New York City. Before the mass-adoption of the car and truck, horses played a vital role in the transportation economy…
Read More…suffragists in white and a baby carriage in the center. The estimated participation in the spring demonstration was about 10,000 to 15,000 marchers. 1912 Suffrage Parade marching up Fifth Avenue…
Read MoreMass transit emerged in New York City in 1827 with the omnibus, a large stagecoach pulled by horses that could accommodate about a dozen riders at a time. While horse-drawn carriages had…
Read More…Rouge, and the owners, who collaborated with D’Lugoff on the club’s opening, adopted the old sign as well. Kudos! Illuminated signs of bars like the White Horse Tavern (Hudson and…
Read More…as Bianca Jagger atop a white horse at Studio 54. Known for her ability to gain entrance into any social gathering, and possessed of an uncanny eye for candid shots,…
Read More…attracted many poets and writers including Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound and ee cummings. Minetta Tavern The White Horse became infamous as the very last place Thomas hoisted a few. Eighteen…
Read More…White Horse Tavern was one. White Horse Tavern Chumley’s was a frequent stop. And of course he spent many an hour in his favorite, McSorley’s Old Ale House His longtime…
Read More…and E.E. Cummings’ apartment on Patchin Place. After the tour, quench your thirst at the historic White Horse Tavern. The bar is where Thomas hoisted his last drink, and we’ll…
Read More…very radical step further, welcoming black and white patrons and performers side by side. While “black and tan” bars had long existed in Greenwich Village – establishments where whites and…
Read More…all men are created equal, so all white and black men could vote, right? Unfortunately, no. Not even all white men could vote. It depended on the state, but the…
Read More…York and Harlem railway line along the Bowery and Fourth Avenue. Health concerns about horses following the Equine Influenza outbreak of 1872, the slowness of horse carriages, and new technology led…
Read More…white immigrant family, she [Larsen] had no entrée into the world of the blues or of the black church. If she could never be white like her mother and sister,…
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