We are starting a new blog series entitled Why Isn’t This Landmarked?, where we will look at buildings in our area which are worthy of landmark designation but somehow aren’t…
Read MorePart of our blog series Why Isn’t This Landmarked?, where we look at buildings in our area we’re fighting to protect that are worthy of landmark designation, but somehow aren’t landmarked….
Read MorePart of our blog series Why Isn’t This Landmarked?, where we look at buildings in our area we’re fighting to protect that are worthy of landmark designation, but somehow aren’t…
Read MorePart of our blog series Why Isn’t This Landmarked?, where we look at buildings in our area we’re fighting to protect that are worthy of landmark designation, but somehow aren’t landmarked….
Read MorePart of our blog series Why Isn’t This Landmarked?, where we look at buildings in our area we’re fighting to protect that are worthy of landmark designation, but somehow aren’t landmarked….
Read MorePart of our blog series Why Isn’t This Landmarked?, where we look at buildings in our area we’re fighting to protect that are worthy of landmark designation, but somehow aren’t landmarked….
Read MorePart of our blog series Why Isn’t This Landmarked?, where we look at buildings in our area we’re fighting to protect that are worthy of landmark designation, but somehow aren’t…
Read MorePart of our blog series Why Isn’t This Landmarked?, where we look at buildings in our area we’re fighting to protect that are worthy of landmark designation, but somehow aren’t…
Read MorePart of our blog series Why Isn’t This Landmarked?, where we look at buildings in our area we’re fighting to protect that are worthy of landmark designation but somehow aren’t. 10 East…
Read MoreThis post is part of our blog series Why Isn’t This Landmarked?, where we look at buildings in our area we’re fighting to protect that are worthy of landmark designation,…
Read MorePart of our blog series Why Isn’t This Landmarked?, where we look at buildings in our area we’re fighting to protect that are worthy of landmark designation but somehow aren’t….
Read MorePart of our blog series Why Isn’t This Landmarked?, where we look at buildings in our area we’re fighting to protect that are worthy of landmark designation, but somehow aren’t…
Read MorePart of our blog series Why Isn’t This Landmarked?, where we look at buildings in our area we’re fighting to protect that are worthy of landmark designation, but somehow aren’t…
Read MorePart of our blog series Why Isn’t This Landmarked?, where we look at buildings in our area we’re fighting to protect that are worthy of landmark designation, but somehow aren’t landmarked….
Read MorePart of our blog series Why Isn’t This Landmarked?, where we look at buildings in our area we’re fighting to protect that are worthy of landmark designation, but somehow aren’t…
Read MorePart of our blog series Why Isn’t This Landmarked?, where we look at buildings in our area we’re fighting to protect that are worthy of landmark designation, but somehow aren’t…
Read MoreThis post is part of our blog series Why Isn’t This Landmarked?, where we look at buildings in our area we’re fighting to protect that are worthy of landmark designation,…
Read MorePart of our blog series Why Isn’t This Landmarked?, where we look at buildings in our area we’re fighting to protect that are worthy of landmark designation but somehow aren’t. 53 East…
Read MorePart of our blog series Why Isn’t This Landmarked?, where we look at buildings in our area we’re fighting to protect that are worthy of landmark designation, but somehow aren’t landmarked….
Read MorePart of our blog series Why Isn’t This Landmarked?, where we look at buildings in our area we’re fighting to protect that are worthy of landmark designation, but somehow aren’t…
Read MorePart of our blog series Why Isn’t This Landmarked?, where we look at buildings in our area we’re fighting to protect that are worthy of landmark designation, but somehow aren’t…
Read MorePart of our blog series Why Isn’t This Landmarked?, where we look at buildings in our area we’re fighting to protect that are worthy of landmark designation, but somehow aren’t…
Read MorePart of our blog series Why Isn’t This Landmarked?, where we look at buildings in our area we’re fighting to protect that are worthy of landmark designation but somehow aren’t….
Read MoreThis post is part of our blog series Why Isn’t This Landmarked?, where we look at buildings in our area we’re fighting to protect that are worthy of landmark designation, but…
Read MorePart of our blog series Why Isn’t This Landmarked?, where we look at buildings in our area we’re fighting to protect that are worthy of landmark designation, but somehow aren’t…
Read MorePart of our blog series Why Isn’t This Landmarked?, where we look at buildings in our area we’re fighting to protect that are worthy of landmark designation, but somehow aren’t…
Read MorePart of our blog series Why Isn’t This Landmarked?, where we look at buildings in our area we’re fighting to protect that are worthy of landmark designation, but somehow aren’t…
Read MorePart of our blog series Why Isn’t This Landmarked?, where we look at buildings in our area we’re fighting to protect that are worthy of landmark designation, but somehow aren’t…
Read MorePart of our blog series Why Isn’t This Landmarked?, where we look at buildings in our area we’re fighting to protect that are worthy of landmark designation, but somehow aren’t landmarked….
Read MorePart of our blog series Why Isn’t This Landmarked?, where we look at buildings in our area we’re fighting to protect that are worthy of landmark designation, but somehow aren’t landmarked….
Read MorePart of our blog series Why Isn’t This Landmarked?, where we look at buildings in our area we’re fighting to protect that are worthy of landmark designation, but somehow aren’t…
Read MoreThis post is part of our blog series Why Isn’t This Landmarked?, where we look at buildings in our area we’re fighting to protect that are worthy of landmark designation…
Read More…(the first phase of which was landmarked in June of 2010). GVSHP first proposed landmark designation of the South Village ten years ago, and submitted a formal landmarking proposal with…
Read MoreOne-third of South Village still not landmarked Op-Ed BY ANDREW BERMAN, Executive Director, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation October 16, 2014 Word that an eight-story building is planned…
Read MoreWe often hear of historic districts, individual landmarked buildings and State and National Register sites. But did you know that there are sixty-two lampposts and four wall bracket lamps that…
Read More…2002 (nine were individually landmarked and one was included in a historic district). Hamilton-Holley House in the 1930’s. Image via NYC Department of Taxes GVSHP has succeeded in helping to…
Read More…Village Preservation proposed and campaigned to have landmarked in the area south of Union Square. The building served as headquarters of the NAACP, the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization,…
Read MoreThe nine landmarked 1840s houses as they appeared before work began (top), and as they were projected to look with approved work and new construction (below). City agencies have continued…
Read More…the city-approved near-complete demolition of nine landmarked 1840s houses at 44-54 Ninth Avenue/351 West 14th Street in the Gansevoort Market Historic District, and to demand these houses be saved. ALL…
Read More…5.8% of its lot area landmarked, but this comes with a very important asterisk. By far the majority of that landmarked area consists of the East Village/Lower East Side Historic…
Read More…Read additional history and see more picture of the space here, and click here toRSVP to attend the awards ceremony which will take place in the New School’s landmarked auditorium….
Read More…anniversary of the designation of the Greenwich Village Historic District, all the homes and the reception site are landmarked structures located within the district. The tour is the main annual…
Read More…Third Council District Democratic Nominee Erik Bottcher for a demonstration and press conference condemning the city and a developer tearing down most of nine city, state, and federal landmarked 1840s…
Read MoreThe New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) just voted unanimously to landmark Westbeth, following through on a promise made seven years ago to the Greenwich Village Society for Historic…
Read More[photo by Stephen Senigo 1979 (LPC)]On August 18, 1970, the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated landmark status to the grand Greek Revival house at 37 East 4th Street. The house was…
Read MoreFront entrance of the Merchant’s House Museum. Photo courtesy of static.panoramio.com. 2016 marked the 80th year in the Merchant’s House Museum’s history. While the museum is also a NYC landmark,…
Read MoreGrace 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…
Read MoreIt was on May 17th, 1966, that the Schermerhorn Building at 376-380 Lafayette was designated a New York City landmark. The grand Romanesque Revival edifice was actually the third on Lafayette Street to be…
Read More…retail vacancy rates in the East Village, covering both landmarked areas and non-landmarked areas . The survey found that the percentage of retail vacancies in landmarked areas of the neighborhood…
Read More…that in the intervening years, we have been able to get nine of the ten buildings Jane called out landmarked or included in historic districts. You can read a partial…
Read More…during the “Gay 90s.” They are among the oldest known places of assemblage of LGBT people in New York City. Both buildings were landmarked in 2013 as part of the…
Read More…buildings in the neighborhood unprotected. While some have cited the neighborhood’s heterogeneity as a reason why it shouldn’t be landmarked, it is clear that the architectural variety and vibrancy in…
Read More…be sold off. Judson Memorial Church and Hall (l.), landmarked in 1966; MacDougal Sullivan Gardens (r.), landmarked in 1967. Judson Memorial Church and Hall, one of the South Village’s great…
Read More…are just as high in the landmarked areas such as Brooklyn Heights and Park Slope as they are in the adjacent non-landmarked ones like Gowanus and Downtown Brooklyn. The borough’s…
Read More…misconceptions about landmarking and historic preservation. Myth #1: Landmarked buildings become frozen in time and cannot be altered Not true, landmarked buildings can be changed. New…
Read More…know what and where every one of those landmarked properties are? Check out the new interactive LPC map which provides information on and links for every landmark designation in New…
Read More…From 1974-1978 over 800 sites in New York City were landmarked by the LPC, but 203 Prince Street in the South Village is one of the very few sites landmarked…
Read More…when Village Preservation waged a successful campaign to have them landmarked and protected. They were landmarked on October 31st, 2017. 817, 826, 830, 832, 836, 840 and 841 Broadway On…
Read More…example, REBNY claims that landmarking makes New York unaffordable, and pushes the working and middle class out of our neighborhoods. In the unlandmarked sections of the Village, working factories and…
Read More…much different standard was applied to the landmarked Louis Armstrong House in Queens, which was much more highly altered. The landmarked Louis Armstrong House, Queens. Highly altered from its original…
Read More…200-202 Bleecker Street (Sixth Avenue/MacDougal Street); these 1826 houses are supposed to be landmarked in December as part of phase II of GVSHP’s proposed South Village Historic District. They are…
Read More…over changes to properties in their area. A common misconception is that landmarked buildings, whether individually landmarked or within a historic district, may not be altered. This is not the…
Read More…over several months looking at retail vacancy rates in the East Village, covering both landmarked areas and non-landmarked areas. The survey found that the percentage of retail vacancies in landmarked…
Read More…in 2016, both of which we proposed for designation and fought to get landmarked. In 2011, Westbeth was landmarked, capping a seven-year advocacy campaign by Village Preservation. Westbeth We also…
Read More…our neighborhoods every day. Won’t you consider a year-end donation, to ensure that historic preservation isn’t just part of our past, but part of a brighter future for our city…
Read More…at: the ten historic districts and district extensions GVSHP helped get landmarked over the last ten years, Page 24 – Colorful “Old Law” tenements at 229-235 Sullivan Street (1886) in…
Read More…of worship GVSHP has been able to help get landmarked over the last ten years. Tifereth Israel Syngogue The buildings range from grand to modest, are located everywhere from the…
Read MoreSeven years ago today, on July 24th, 2007, two very lucky federal rowhouse survivors on Greenwich Street were landmarked, thus insuring their nearly 200 year run of good luck would…
Read More…2016, the LPC finally landmarked it. Click HERE for the designation report. Silver Towers/505 LaGuardia Place: On November 18, 2008, the City voted to designate the I.M. Pei-designed Silver…
Read More…GAA Firehouse is one of ten buildings in our neighborhood Village Preservation fought to have landmarked which were landmarked in June of this year, all of which, like the firehouse, have LPC…
Read More…waves — on June 11, seven buildings were landmarked on Broadway between 12th and 13th Streets, and on June 18th, three buildings in our neighborhood were landmarked for their significance…
Read More…street houses, once so abundant in New York City.” In 2006 Village Preservation got the house doubly landmarked, along with dozens of surrounding buildings, as part of the Far West Village…
Read More…from 1974-1978, the first woman to hold that position. Today we look at some of the important sites throughout the city and our neighborhoods that were landmarked during her tenure…
Read More…of the word ‘gay.’ Take A Sip: Stonewall isn’t the only important historic gay watering hole in NYC, nor even the only one to contribute to gay activism or LGBT…
Read More…new glassy condos. In 2004, GVSHP submitted a proposal to the LPC for a single Far West Village/Greenwich Village Waterfront Historic District which included all historic, non-landmarked buildings in the…
Read More2 Fifth Avenue Like all other applications for work on landmarked properties in Greenwich Village, GVSHP has been keeping tabs on the progress of the recently-approved plans to re-clad the…
Read MoreCredit: Berenice Abbott, 1937. Source: Museum of the City of New York. Are you an owner of a landmarked building or someone that files applications through the Landmarks Preservation Commission?…
Read MorePerhaps one of the most frequent questions we here at GVSHP get from the public regarding landmarked sites or sites within designated historic districts is “what can they do here?”…
Read More…our neighborhood landmarked that day which became the very first landmarks in New York City were the Merchants House Museum, the Stuyvesant Fish House, and the remaining houses of Colonnade…
Read MoreGould Library Exterior. Landmarked 1966. Image via Preservation League of New York State In our new series Beyond the Village and Back, we’ll take a look at some great landmarks…
Read MoreGVSHP just added 29 new historic images to our archive taken from current public applications to the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) for significant changes to landmarked buildings in our neighborhoods….
Read More…840 Broadway is one of ten buildings in our neighborhood Village Preservation fought to have landmarked which were landmarked in June of this year, all of which, like 840 Broadway,…
Read MoreOne of our most recently landmarked buildings, the Roosevelt Building at 841 Broadway, has an exciting application for alterations which includes the restoration of its piers at the storefront level….
Read More…services in landmarked surroundings. Those surroundings contribute to and inspire their distinctive shopping experience. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-7S16YftZo&list=PLOUarB7JkpZJ0Hl_Bdifi_vY5-7Af7pKd Multiple studies show that retail vacancy rates actually tend to be lower in landmarked or…
Read More…this matter? The LPC’s designation reports are the documents which guide the regulation of landmarked properties, and reflect the Commission’s official findings of significance for designated sites. Without recognition of…
Read More…continued to review and process permit applications for the landmarked properties in our neighborhoods. Interestingly, in the virtual environment that we have been operating in, there is in many ways…
Read More…New York City landmark in 1982, just as it hit the required 30 years of age to be considered for landmark designation — the youngest building to ever be landmarked…
Read More…structures. Here’s a sampling of our efforts. Landmarked: The Jacob Day Residence, 50 West 13th Street 50 West 13th Street (l.) and Sarah Smith Tompkins Garnet In October 2024, the…
Read More…explore how these designations evolved over time. Today, we continue our exploration of the Landmarks60 map by taking a look at the history and architecture of the landmarked churches and…
Read More…more who have a stake in the city’s lucrative real estate market. REBNY isn’t a big fan of landmarking, because those pesky protected historic buildings can get in the way…
Read More…historic district” “a failure in that it is not contextual” “On the whole, it is a good use of space” “The building isn’t a startling example of great architecture but…
Read More…time; after the community board members ask questions, there is an opportunity for the public to raise any questions or concerns. A prepared statement isn’t necessary. Following a Community Board…
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