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    Lecture and Tour: Over 125 Years of Little Missionary Day Nursery

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Walk Through LGBTQ+ History with Our Civil Rights and Social Justice Map

Every June, New Yorkers and people from around the world gather in our city to celebrate Pride Month and honor the memory of the Stonewall Riots, three nights in 1969 … Continued

Posted June 30, 2022

By David Herman

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Looking Back On Our Civil Rights and Social Justice Map

Village Preservation’s Civil Rights and Social Justice Map was launched on January 3, 2017. This online resource, which marks sites in our neighborhoods significant to the history of various civil … Continued

Posted January 3, 2020

By Ariel Kates

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Washington Square United Methodist Church: Where Identity and Inclusion Collided

The intersection of religion and identity can be potent, or even combustible, mix. For one Greenwich Village church and its congregation, in the late 1970s they came to a head … Continued

Posted June 15, 2022

By Hew Evans

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Washington Square United Methodist Church

Alvin Baltrop: Photographs of a Dystopian Past

Greenwich Village’s Hudson River piers have always held a certain clandestine fascination for some segment of the public. After an automobile crash caused the elevated West Side Highway to collapse … Continued

Posted June 7, 2022

By Hew Evans

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Alvin Baltrop (Graffiti Artist)

The Redstockings: “Rapping” for Reproductive Rights in Greenwich Village

Founded in 1969 by activists Ellen Willis and Shulamith Firestone, the Redstockings were one of the first Women’s Liberation groups, known for their then-radical support of a woman’s right to … Continued

Posted May 9, 2022

By Hew Evans

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Remembering Christopher Moore and Honoring New York City’s Whole History

Christopher Moore (b. January 20, 1952, d. March 13, 2022, of complications from COVID and pneumonia) was a curator, archivist, author, storyteller, researcher, and the longest-serving member of New York … Continued

Posted April 20, 2022

By Anna Marcum

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Celebrating Our Neighborhoods’ Immigrant Heritage

New York is a city of immigrants and, moreover, we are a nation largely of immigrants (Native Americans and the descendants of those brought here as slaves being the main … Continued

Posted April 18, 2022

By Lannyl Stephens

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John Brown and Edmonia Lewis: Civil Rights Crusaders Who Intersected in Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village has long been a mecca and incubator for radical social justice advocates. With Village Preservation’s interactive map of the Greenwich Village Historic District as well as our Civil … Continued

Posted March 24, 2022

By Anna Marcum

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Stormé DeLarverie: Village Guardian

A self-proclaimed “gay superhero,” Stormé Delarverie (≅ December 24, 1920 – May 24, 2014, Pronouns: she/her in public, he/him in performance) was a drag king, bouncer, and neighborhood activist who … Continued

Posted March 23, 2022

By Hew Evans

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Storme DeLarverie in 1986

Local Lesbian Bookstores: Founders of a Feminist Future

Historically, our neighborhoods have hosted many independent and unconventional bookstores. These small institutions have helped define the character of our neighborhoods as a literary capital of the Western world. With … Continued

Posted March 9, 2022

By Hew Evans

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