East Village

Village Preservation has worked to document, celebrate, and protect the special cultural heritage and built environment of the East Village, particularly it’s human scale, its working-class architecture, its immigrant history, and its tradition of trailblazing innovation. Village Preservation has helped secure expanded landmark protections in the neighborhood and contextual zoning to ensure new development is more in character with its surroundings and continues to advocate for more such protections.

Campaign Links

Press

The end of New York City icon: How Gem Spa became a mecca for misfits and musicians and counted Beat poets, Madonna and Patti Smith among its regulars before gentrification and coronavirus ended its 80-year reign in the city's East Village, Daily Mail

06/19/2020

Frances Goldin, a Crusader for the Lower East Side, Dies at 95, New York Times

05/18/2020

Ticker Tape Follies, Splice Today

04/22/2020

Pubs, parades, and politicians: The Irish legacy of the East Village and Greenwich Village, 6 Sqft

03/10/2020

The history of how the New York Public Library got its start Downtown, 6 Sqft

01/31/2020

Developer paid de Blasio-linked lobbyist, lawyers for East Village petition, New York Post

01/14/2020

14 historic sites of the abolitionist movement in Greenwich Village, 6 Sqft

12/19/2019

Making the case to landmark this unique church on 4th Street, EV Grieve

12/09/2019

12 historic Italian-American sites of the East Village, 6 Sqft

10/03/2019

Moxy hotel opens in East Village; ‘A monstrosity,’ activist sneers, The Villager

09/17/2019

Elevated rails, rooftops, and McSorley’s: How painter John Sloan captured 20th-century Manhattan, 6 Sqft

08/22/2019

Village Preservation decries 14th St. Tech Hub, again, 6 Sqft

08/08/2019

Anonymous buyer behind $32M purchase of the Boys’ Club’s East Village building is a billion-dollar hedge fund manager, NY Daily News

08/06/2019

Gem Spa news flash: They’re struggling, The Villager

08/06/2019

The social and cultural Puerto Rican history of the East Village, 6 Sqft

07/25/2019

Preservationists to pols: Protect Village from 'tech spread', The Villager

07/16/2019

Before the duel: Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton’s NYC haunts, 6 Sqft

07/11/2019

P.C. Richard is gone on 14th Street; preservationists want answers about tech-hub commitments, EV Grieve

07/09/2019

East Village board backs zoning limiting chain stores, The Villager

06/28/2019

Landmarks Commission Defies Protesters, Rules St. Marks Place Office Project Is 'Harmonious' With Historic Block, Gothamist

06/19/2019

23 LGBT landmarks of the East Village and Noho, 6 Sqft

06/17/2019

East Villagers Protest Office Tower; Developer Hires Blaz Donor as Lobbyist, The Jewish Voice

05/29/2019

Preservation group wants developer and de Blasio lobbyist out of its East Village backyard, NY Daily News

05/28/2019

Efforts under way to revive Yiddish Theater Walk of Fame, South Florida Media Network

05/24/2019

Report: Landmarking equals healthier retail, The Villager

04/17/2019

Jay-Z to reopen New York City's iconic Webster Hall with B-sides show, CBS News

04/15/2019

Tour E. Village squatter buildings online, The Villager

04/12/2019

Landmarks Commission Debates St. Mark's Place Office Building, East Village Patch

04/09/2019

Developer Poised To Demolish Sunshine Cinema Building, Gothamist

04/04/2019

Acker Awards to honor D’town’s avant-garde, The Villager

03/19/2019

The Strand Bookstore, a New York City Icon, Fights Landmark Designation, Politico

02/19/2019

'You Don't Need More': East Village Residents Fight Expansion Of St. Marks Place Office Development, Gothamist

02/15/2019

St. Mark’s Place Air Rights Deal Panned by Preservationists, NY Curbed

02/15/2019

St. Mark's Place Office Building Voted Down By CB3 Landmarks, East Village Patch

02/14/2019

Raising Awareness of the Vacant Storefronts in the East Village, EVGrieve

02/12/2019

Concern Over Potential Air-Rights Transfer for New Office Building on St. Mark's Place and 3rd Avenue, EVGrieve

02/12/2019

15 Things You Didn’t Know About the East Village, 6 Sqft

01/25/2019

East Village: Un-hyped History, Pricey Properties, The Villager

01/25/2019

Secrets of the St. Mark’s Historic District: From Peter Stuyvesant’s Grave to the Only Real East-West Street, 6 Sqft

01/10/2019

Find the History of Every Neighborhood Building with East Village Building Blocks, EVGrieve

01/10/2019

Explore the History of Every East Village Building with this Tool, NY Curbed

01/09/2019

Find Out the History of Every Building in the East Village with GVSHP’s New Research Tool, 6 Sqft

01/07/2019

Open House New York in Greenwich Village: The History of Three Unique Sites, 6 Sqft

10/11/2018

LPC Calendars 7 Buildings on Broadway Near Recently-Approved Tech Hub in Union Square, 6 Sqft

09/26/2018

Union Square Tech Hub Spurs LPC to Consider 7 Buildings for Protection, NY Curbed

09/24/2018

The YIMBY Movement Comes to New York City, Curbed

09/17/2018

Columbia and Normandy to Develop Office Building at 799 Broadway, Globest

09/14/2018

Activists Slam City Council Member for Approving Tech Hub Without Zoning Restrictions, New York Post

09/01/2018

Union Square Tech Training Center Developer Slammed Over Lobbying Fees, AM New York

08/29/2018

Post Tech Hub NYCC Vote w/GVSHPs Andrew Berman Seg 8 20 18 MGH, WBAI

08/21/2018

Images & Graphs

Video, pictures, and press release of “Don’t Turn our Neighborhood into Another Silicon Alley” Rally

11/15/2017

Photos of “No More Starbucks” Rally [photos by Dalton Helms]

07/13/2017

Photos and video of “No More Starbucks” Rally

07/13/2017

Video of Rally to Save 264 East 7th Street

11/04/2016

Video of Rally to Save 112-120 East 11th Street – Part 1 and Part 2

08/22/2016

Photos of Rally to Save 112-120 East 11th Street

08/22/2016

Photos of Rally to Save Mary Help of Christians Church

05/22/2013

Map of Village Preservation, Historic Districts Council, and LESPI’s proposed additions to the proposed East Village historic districts

05/10/2011

Maps of the Landmarks Preservation Commission proposed East Village Historic District and proposed East 10th Street Historic District

04/26/2011

Selected Images of Buildings Excluded from the LPC’s Proposed East Village Historic District

Selected Images of Buildings Included Within the Boundaries of the LPC’s Proposed East Village Historic District

Images of the rally to save 35 Cooper Square

01/28/2011

Images of the City’s proposed redesign of Astor Place and Cooper Square

01/20/2011

Video of Village Preservation Director of Preservation and Research Elizabeth Finkelstein on block-by-block architectural research on the East Village – Part I & Part II

10/27/2010

Preserve NY East Village Historic Survey Grant Ceremony Photo Set on Flickr

11/20/2008

Letters & Docs

Lower East Side/East Village Environmental Impact Study

“Request for Evaluation for Amato Opera House, 319 Bowery” 1/28/2009 01/28/2009

138 Second Avenue LPC Research File

Letter to LPC requesting re-calendaring of 206 Bowery 02/14/2018

“History of and Landmark Proposal for 101 Avenue A/the Pyramid Club”

Congregation Mezritch Synagogue landmarking proposal & history 08/08/2008

Letter about a Department of Buildings Permit Filed for 80 East 2nd Street 07/16/2012

Emergency RFE for 264 and 258-266 East 7th Street 09/07/2016