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Barefoot in Washington Square Park
…Washington Square Park [16:00], not West 10th Street as the film claims. Built in 1902 as a residential hotel and named for its original owner, Earle S. L’Amoureux, the Hotel…
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Washington Square Park, Once the Land of the Lenape
…from the Kintecoying intersection, you will come to what is now Washington Square Park. Land prior to the construction of Washington Square Park, 1807 Bridges Map of New York City…
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Let’s Celebrate Abingdon Square
…that the City of New York acquired the land for what is now Abingdon Square Park. Happy Anniversary, Abingdon Square! We have written before here on Off the Grid about…
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Slavery, Gentrification, and the Last Execution in Washington Square
…Square, New York, 1851, Otto Boetticher. The view depicts the northwest corner of the Washington Square parade ground with New York University in the left foreground. Image courtesy of the…
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On Tompkins Square
The Tompkins Square Library Since it opened in 1904, the Tompkins Square Branch of the New York Public Library has served as an important community resource. Situated on East 10th…
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Organizing for Irish Independence #SouthOfUnionSquare
814 Broadway, once known as Fenian Hall and home to the Fenian Brotherhood in August 2022 In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the neighborhood South of Union Square was…
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What’s in a Name?: Father Demo Square
Father Demo Square Strolling through Father Demo Square at 6th Avenue and Carmine and Bleecker Streets, one might naturally assume that the name of the park has something to do…
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#SouthOfUnionSquare Tour — Libraries and The Formation of the NYPL
…the history South of Union Square and find out how the New York Public Library came to be. Click here to explore the Library Tour and over 30 others in…
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Architecture #SouthOfUnionSquare: the German-American Legacy
…impressive architecture. To learn more about the many prominent German residents and businesses located South of Union Square, explore our German History tour on our South of Union Square map….
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The Last Hurrah for Traffic in the Square
…Washington Square Park, causing much of the park to essentially be an extension to Fifth Avenue. The battle to remove this traffic was hard fought by Greenwich Village residents over…
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After 2 1/2 Year Campaign, City Agrees to Consider 70 Fifth Avenue, South of Union Square, For Landmark Designation
…West 13th Street), a site of tremendous historic significance south of Union Square, which Village Preservation has highlighted and fought to have landmarked, along with the surrounding area, for more than…
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Grove Press: Cuba Libre, Che, and the CIA #SouthOfUnionSquare
80 University Place, one of Grove Press’ five office locations in the neighborhood South of Union Square Grove Press, arguably the 20th century’s “most explosive and influential publishing house,” profoundly…
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Fight to Save Our Neighborhood South of Union Square: From Bowlmor Demolition to the ‘Zero-Help’ Hotel Special Permit
…The existing zoning rules basically guaranteed (and continue to guarantee) that new development in Greenwich Village and the East Village south of Union Square would consist almost exclusively of luxury…
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19th Century Irish Immigrant Community Building #SouthOfUnionSquare
…new layers of history to our interactive South of Union Square map. To send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square, click here….
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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: Minna Citron
“South of Union Square, the Birthplace of American Modernism” is a series that explores how the built environment south of Union Square shaped some of the most influential American artists…
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African-American Music Crosses Genres #SouthOfUnionSquare
…fascinating oral history. Click here to help preserve this area south of Union Square. Click here to explore the history of the area south of Union Square on our interactive map….
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The Storied Collections of Fifty/50 #SouthofUnionSquare
Throughout the second half of the 20th century, the neighborhood South of Union Square was considered the antique furnishing and decorations center of the country. Dozens of such businesses thrived…
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Landmarks50: The New York Public Library Tompkins Square Branch
The New York Public Library Tompkins Square Branch, courtesy of HDC As part of our continuing Landmarks50 celebration, and in honor of Stanford White’s birthday today (he would be a…
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Igal Roodenko: Printer and Civil Rights Trailblazer #SouthOfUnionSquare
…Village — South of Union Square Leftist and Labor Tour, 2021. Igal Roodenko is one of many printers, activists, and leftists who called the neighborhood South of Union Square home….
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South of Union Square: Where Bowlmor Lanes Began
…opened a 90,000 square foot location in Times Square, located in what had formerly been the New York Times Newsroom. This expansion, as well as a series of mergers and…
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The Antique Business District South of Union Square: Charles Cheriff Galleries, 84 University Place
Picture this: fleets of trucks trailing containers full of antiques from all over the world converging in a few dense square blocks. A crowd of dealers from all over the…
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The Hottest Spot on Tompkins Square in 1904
The caption provided reads: “Tompkins Square, waiting their turn to enter the library. The children’s room is already full, 3.30 P.M.” Tompkins Square Library opened at 331 E. 10th Street,…
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The Bubble Man in Washington Square Park
…celebrations. It has been one month since our grand celebration for the Greenwich Village Historic District’s 50th Anniversary in Washington Square Park. This free and open to the public event…
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The Tompkins Square Lodging House for Boys
Former Children’s Aid Society building. On the corner of Avenue B and East 8th Street sits the striking former Tompkins Square Lodging House for Boys and Industrial School, which opened…
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More Than Dizzy and Duke: Jazz Legends South of Union Square
…Union Square. To learn more about the many spots that fostered jazz and other musical styles in the area south of Union Square, check out our online neighborhood Music Tour….
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What NYU Doesn’t Want You to Know About Faculty Housing at Washington Square Village
NYU’s massive, out-of-scale plan to construct 2 million square feet of new buildings within the Washington Square Village and Silver Towers superblocks is touted by the University as being desperately…
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Victory! 70 Fifth Avenue Landmarked; Continue the Fight for South of Union Square
…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,…
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A Tour of Jewish Historic Sites South of Union Square
…a metal shop here. Protect the Area South of Union Square This is just a small selection of many remarkable buildings in the neighborhood South of Union Square that recall the area’s…
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From George Washington to Hudson Square: The history of the Charlton-King-VanDam neighborhood
…radical 20th-century innovators. The most dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker will have trouble telling you if it’s in Greenwich Village, SoHo, or Hudson Square. The tiny Charlton-King-VanDam neighborhood is, as its name…
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Framing Union Square by Mary Miss: Where Public Art Meets Preservation
The 14th Street/Union Square Station is one of the busiest in the New York City Subway system. It is also one of the oldest, with the station first opening as…
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Exploring Women’s History South of Union Square
There’s no better time than Women’s History Month to explore the lives and accomplishments of the many influential women who lived and worked South of Union Square. One of our…
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MTA to Reveal Latest Designs for Mulry Square
Mulry Square Next Tuesday, May 31st, the MTA will present its final proposed designs for an emergency ventilation plant on Mulry Square to the Landmarks & Public Aesthetics Committee of…
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#SouthofUnionSquare — Dance Tour
…Village” tool. To send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square, click here. Explore the “Virtual Village” — South of Union Square…
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The Designers Behind the Architecture South of Union Square
…in the Ladies Mile Historic District, and 7 Great Jones Street in the NoHo Historic District. South of Union Square, Korn designed four remarkable loft buildings: No. 84 University Place,…
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10 (more) of the most charming spots in the Greenwich Village Historic District
…to resist the march of time, and to the idiosyncratic street pattern which defines the Village. 5. “Squares” that aren’t squares Abingdon Square via Wiki Commons Speaking of triangles, one of…
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The Female Trailblazer Who Helped Build New York’s Landmarks #SouthOfUnionSquare
The unprotected area South of Union Square has no shortage of trailblazers in the arts and architecture, in commerce, and in the arena of equality or advancement for women. But…
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Following Backlash, City Drops Plan for Hotel Special Permit Requirement South of Union Square – Push for Real Protections
…Village and the East Village south of Union Square. Village Preservation had led the criticism of the plan, citing the broad range of mistakes and oversights in the City’s environmental…
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Oral Histories of the “Virtual Village” — South of Union Square
…Union Square. In addition to featuring basic information on each one of the two hundred buildings located here, “Virtual Village” includes nearly forty themed tours that showcase the neighborhood’s dynamic…
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The Scopes Monkey Trial and its origins in Greenwich Village, south of Union Square
…Greenwich Village, and specifically the area south of Union Square (which we’re trying to get landmarked). “Scopes Monkey Trial” showing Clarence Darrow (standing) conducting an interrogation of William Jennings Bryan…
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The Oldest Building South of Union Square
Village Preservation’s proposed South of Union Square Historic District was named one of the “Seven to Save” by the Preservation League of NY State for 2022-2023. The area is full…
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City Council Hudson Square Rezoning Vote Postponed
…vote on the Hudson Square rezoning, but they postponed the vote until next Wednesday, March 13th at 9 am so they could hammer out final details with the mayor’s office….
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South Village At Stake in Hudson Square Vote Tomorrow, Pt. II
Yesterday, in anticipation of the vote on the Hudson Square rezoning, we took a look at some of the sites currently threatened or recently lost in the South Village. Today,…
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In Fight to Protect LGBTQ+ History, Too Many Landmarks Remain Unprotected South of Union Square
…and many more within our proposed South of Union Square Historic District. 80 Fifth Avenue (left); press conference announcing the formation of the National Gay Task Force, 1973 One of…
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Charlie Parker Lives, This Sunday in Tompkins Square Park
…to life every summer in Tompkins Square Park. The Charlie Parker Jazz Festival has been held annually since 1993, close to Parker’s August 29 birthday. This year’s free concert at…
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Final MTA Mulry Square Vent Plant Designs Unveiled
The MTA’s latest designs for the proposed emergency ventilation plant at Mulry Square Last week, we took readers through the tumultuous history of the MTA’s attempts to design an aesthetically…
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#SouthOfUnionSquare Tour — Pop Culture
Village Preservation just released an incredible new tool, our #SouthOfUnionSquare “Virtual Village” site, which is an interactive map highlighting the architecture and histories of the area South of Union Square….
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Hudson Square Rezoning and the South Village
This Sunday, March 13th, is the three year anniversary of the NYC Council Land Use Committee vote to approve the proposed Hudson Square Rezoning. This vote was a significant milestone…
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The Young Lords Start in Tompkins Square Park
The Young Lords announced the founding of their New York Chapter in Tompkins Square Park on July 26, 1969. The Puerto Rican nationalist group started as a turf gang in…
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LGBTQ History: Cooper Square and Bowery
32 Cooper Square, once Paresis Hall, is to the left of the building where the Village Voice was once housed. In the 1890s, the Bowery, like Bleecker Street, was a…
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The Tompkins Square Park Riots of 1988
…the form of protest and riots in Tompkins Square Park in the East Village. These protests reflected somewhat the shifting nature of the park and the neighborhood at the time….
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On This Day: The Tompkins Square Communist Rally
…A plaque commemorating the events in Martinsburg On July 25, 1877, twenty thousand people gathered in Tompkins Square Park to hear communist orators speak about revolution, the strike, and the…
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Helen Levitt: South of Union Square Poet Laureate of Photography
…95, she died in her sleep in her East 12th Street apartment in 2009, located in the neighborhood South of Union Square for which we are campaigning for landmark protections…
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The Public Square: What’s Your Favorite New Building in the Village?
The Public Square is our new weekly Q & A with the Village, East Village, and NoHo community. We’ll be querying our readers for their opinions about life in the…
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#SouthofUnionSquare — Henry Roth
…was the case when I was recently researching 59 Fourth Avenue, part of the South of Union Square neighborhood for which we are seeking landmark designation and have recently released…
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The Public Square: What’s Your Favorite Neighborhood Small Business?
The Public Square is our new weekly Q & A with the Village, East Village, and NoHo community. We’ll be querying our readers for their opinions about life in the…
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From Mark Twain and the Lovin’ Spoonful to Tech Hub: The overlooked history of Union Square South
Photo of 801 Broadway by Jim Henderson via Wikimedia Commons Straddling Greenwich Village and the East Village, the neighborhood south of Union Square between Fifth and Third Avenues was once a center of…
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The WPA’s Hudson Square Home
…Hudson Square but had traditionally been part of Greenwich Village. 110 King Street, ca 1939. Source: Museum of the City of New York. Federal Art Project The Federal Art Project…
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South Village at Stake in Hudson Square Rezoning Vote
With the important vote on the Hudson Square rezoning by the City Council’s Zoning Subcommittee this Wednesday, we will find out if the City Council will approve or deny the…
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Making Photographic History #SouthOfUnionSquare
Today we’re celebrating the accomplishments of some historic lenspeople who made their mark in the neighborhood South of Union Square. Photography was one of the many creative industries shaped and…
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Looking Up: The Washington Square Arch
…gaze above the sidewalk, the storefront, and the second floor. The Washington Square Arch is something that many people who live in the neighborhood can easily take for granted. It’s…
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Contextual Rezoning South of Union Square: A Vision Worth Revisiting
On January 28, 2014, Village Preservation submitted a request for consideration of a contextual rezoning of the University Place and Broadway corridors south of Union Square. This proposal, which followed…
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Finding George Spaventa #SouthOfUnionSquare
…to the Whitney Museum’s archive of annual exhibition catalogs, spanning from 1932 to the present, while furthering our work to protect and recognize the area South of Union Square. At…
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Tompkins Square Park Landmarks QUIZ!
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What A Difference GVSHP Makes! Preserving Vanderbilt Hall and Washington Square
This series shines a light on the important things we’re achieving together in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo. Each month, we’ll be exploring a new site or topic…
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Socialists, Communists, and Revolutionaries on Fifth Avenue #SouthOfUnionSquare
…all that changes, especially if you step back into the 20th and 19th centuries, when Fifth Avenue south of that great dividing line (and South of Union Square) was one…
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Birth Control as Health Care: The Legacy of the International Workers Order #SouthOfUnionSquare
…medical and public health necessity. One fraternal organization located South of Union Square in our neighborhood blazed that trail — seeing it as such a necessity that they covered it…
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The Lives of Writers #SouthOfUnionSquare
Today we’re celebrating the accomplishments of some historic writers and authors who made their mark in the neighborhood South of Union Square. Writing is one of the many creative professions…
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Alfred Leslie: Abstraction, the Beats, & Eternal Transformation #SouthOfUnionSquare
…area South of Union Square. Leslie studied painting at the Art Students League, New York University, and Pratt Institute, posing for the classes of other local artists, including Reginald Marsh,…
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Quinn holds the cards on rezoning and landmarking
…Hudson Square for the first time. All sides agree this will result in a good deal of new development in Hudson Square that would not otherwise take place. But under…
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Village Parks and Gardens Round-Up
…a ‘Gateway to the West Village’ Tompkins Square Park The Hare Krishna Tree in Tompkins Square Park. Image via edenpictures on Flickr. The Tompkins Square Park Riots of 1988 Get…
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The People, United, Will Never Be Defeated
…on this topic over the years. Let’s take a look: A 1933 march against Nazism. https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/tag/protest-marches-in-washington-square-park/ Union Square – Designated an official public space in 1831, Union Square’s large footprint…
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Checkmate! : Street Chess in the Village
…as Bobby Fischer at a Washington Square Park Chess Table in the 1993 film “Searching for Bobby Fischer” Chess games in Union Square Park Because of construction in Washington Square…
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Celebrating Shirley Hayes, Village Activist
…Washington Square Park Committee has helped hold back the steamrollers in Washington Square Park for six years. BUT an all out effort must be made now to stop Mr. Moses…
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The 10 most charming spots in the Greenwich Village Historic District
…historic quarter–from good-old classics like the famous stretch of brick rowhouses on Washington Square North to more quirky findings like the “Goodnight Moon” house. 1. Washington Square North Washington Square…
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A Walk in the Park Leads to Our Village House Tour!
…there! Since one of the homes on the tour is located a stone’s throw from Washington Square Park, we thought we’d feature former staffer Dana Schulz’s post on the park….
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Watching GVSHP, and Village Preservation Efforts, Grow
…to Greenwich Village. One article is headlined “”Lost” Square to be Regained” and it is about how Christopher Park and the real Sheridan Square were mistaken for half a century….
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The Gilded Village: the Renwicks and the Roosevelts
…on display than in the area of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and the neighborhood South of Union Square. Here in the last decades of the 19th century, we saw…
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Tales from the Crypt: Greenwich Village as seen through its burial sites
…the history of community migration in and around the Village and the factors that lead to the establishment of these different sites in the area. Washington Square Park Washington Square…
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Carole Teller’s ‘Changing New York’ captures the city’s 20th-century transformation
Washington Square Arch wrapped by artist Francis Hines, 1980 © Village Preservation/Carole Teller Change in New York is an expected norm, sometimes so constant it almost goes unnoticed. It’s such…
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Veterans in the Village
…before eventually becoming today’s Washington Square Park. Washington Square Park and Arch (with Washington Place theoretically running through the center of it) On the hundredth anniversary of Washington’s swearing in…
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World War I Centennial and the Village
…their lives. The Village also lost many to the war, and today in Abingdon Square Park in the West Village, the Abingdon Square Doughboy statue remembers those lost in WWI….
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Lincoln and Memorial Day
…the statue of Lincoln presently located in the northern section of Union Square. Unveiled in 1871, it was originally located at the corner of Union Square West and 14th Street….
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Edith Lyons’ Oral History: Protecting the “Jewel” of Greenwich Village
…living room. Washington Square Park, ca. late 1950s, New-York Historical Society The goal of the group was simple: to protect and preserve Washington Square Park, considered one of the most…
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Quinn and City Must Not Omit Three Key Sites From South Village Landmarking
…is the result of a campaign calling upon the City Council not to approve the recent Hudson Square rezoning — which would increase development pressure upon the neighboring South Village…
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Three Up, Three Down: Explore Our Greek Revival Heritage in Six Buildings
…the nearly 200 years of flux and churn going on around them. Gone but Not Forgotten: Genius Row, Washington Square South 58-61 Washington Square South, 1936 Amid the row of…
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Superblock Sleuthing
…more information on how you get involved in opposing NYU’s massive expansion plan for the Village that would greatly affect Washington Square Village. NYU’s proposals for Washington Square Village …
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Preservation Before Penn Station’s Demolition
…time reviewing three important sites. Last car through Washington Square Park, 1958. Tankel Collection, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation. 1935 Redesign of Washington Square Park: Robert Moses would face…
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Beyond the Village and Back: Sailors’ Snug Harbor
…who lived at 18 Washington Square North. In fact, James depicts a nostalgic view of the area around the Square in his 1881 novel Washington Square. Today, the houses belong…
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23 LGBT landmarks of the East Village and Noho
…and queers of every feather.” 21. Tompkins Square Park Tompkins Square Park via Flickr cc Tompkins Square Park was the original location of the annual Wigstock Festival when it began…
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NYU’s Twenty Year Expansion Plan, Twenty Years From Now
…square feet of space N.Y.U. wants to add in and around the Village into the Washington Square and Silver Towers complexes — where there is currently open space or low-rise…
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‘Seven to Save’: Did It Work?
The western blockfront of Fifth Avenue between 13th and 14th Street in the neighborhood South of Union Square. Village Preservation’s proposed South of Union Square Historic District was recently named…
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Beyond the Village and Back: NY Foundling Hospital
…Hopper, lived in a studio on the top floor of 3 Washington Square North. The second home of the New York Foundling Hospital at 3 Washington Square North. Ca. 1899….
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Pier air rights may open a Pandora’s box of development
…— are about 200,000 square feet each. So 1.6 million square feet would be the equivalent of eight more of these towers that currently dominate the skyline of the Village….
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Artists Homes of the Greenwich Village Historic District
…the remainder of the 19th century. The building was commissioned by James Boorman Johnston and designed by Richard Morris Hunt. Twenty-five studios, from 300 to 600 square feet each, were…
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Farewell to Our Friend Bert Waggott
…the renovation of Washington Square Park, negotiated with the local district manager at the Parks Department to recycle the materials for use in Churchill Square. Now, plants and stones have…
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