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Business of the Month: Cobblestones, 314 East 9th Street

Your input is needed! Today we feature our latest Business of the Month — and we need your help selecting the next. Tell us which independent store you love in…

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Business of the Month: Mercer Street Books, 206 Mercer Street

Your input is needed! Today we feature our latest Business of the Month — and we need your help selecting the next. Tell us which independent store you love in…

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Business of the Month: Three Lives Books, 154 West 10th Street

Your input is needed! Today we feature our latest Business of the Month — help us to select the next. Tell us which independent store you love in Greenwich Village,…

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Business of the Month: Sullivan Street Tea & Spice Company

Your input is needed! Today we feature our second “Business of the Month” — the first one selected by YOUR votes! Now tell us which independent store you love in…

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Business of the Month: Makari

Your input is needed! Today we kick off our new “Business of the Month” feature on independent stores in Greenwich Village, the East Village and NoHo. Tell us which store…

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Business of the Month — Theatre 80, 80 St. Marks Place

Your input is needed! Today we feature our latest Business of the Month — help us to select the next. Tell us which independent store you love in Greenwich Village,…

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Business of the Month: Bergino Baseball Clubhouse, 67 East 11th Street

Your input is needed! Today we feature our latest Business of the Month — help us to select the next. Tell us which independent store you love in Greenwich Village,…

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Business of the Month: The Hat Shop, 120 Thompson Street (now at 148 Sullivan Street)

Your input is needed! Today we feature our latest Business of the Month — help us to select the next. Tell us which independent store you love in Greenwich Village,…

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Business of the Month: Chess Forum, 219 Thompson Street

Your input is needed! Today we feature our latest Business of the Month — help us to select the next. Tell us which independent store you love in Greenwich Village,…

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Business of the Month: Caravan of Dreams, 405 East 6th Street

…small business would you like to see featured next? Just click here to nominate our next one. Thank you! #shoplocalnyc And here is a map of all our Businesses of the Month:…

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Business of the Month: Matt Umanov Guitars

Your input is needed! Today we feature our latest Business of the Month — and we need your help selecting the next. Tell us which independent store you love in…

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Business of the Month: Greenwich Locksmiths

Your input is needed! Today we feature our latest Business of the Month — and we need your help selecting the next. Tell us which independent store you love in…

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Business of the Month: La Bonbonniere

Your input is needed! Today we feature our third “Business of the Month” — and we need your help selecting the next. Tell us which independent store you love in…

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Business of the Month: The Silversmith, 184 3/4 West 4th Street

Your input is needed! Today we feature our latest Business of the Month — and we need your help selecting the next. Tell us which independent store you love in…

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Business of the Month: Integral Yoga Institute, 227 West 13th Street

The welcoming outside of Integral Yoga Institute. Your input is needed! Today we feature our latest Business of the Month — help us to select the next. Tell us which…

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Business of the Month: Casa Adela, 66 Avenue C

Traditional Puerto Rican food at a longstanding neighborhood institution. Your input is needed! Today we feature our latest Business of the Month — and we need your help selecting the…

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#ShopLocal Village Preservation Business of the Month Quiz

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A Celebration of One Hundred Businesses of the Month

…NoHo: click here to nominate your favorite. Want to help support small businesses? Share this post with friends. In November 2014, we started our popular Business of the Month program with the…

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One Street, Many Great Local Businesses: Bleecker Street

…upstate New York. Read more about Village Tannery here. #ShopBleecker is a month-long initiative seeking to revitalize businesses on and adjacent to Bleecker Street. Throughout the month, there will be…

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Small Business, Big History: Celebrating and Advocating

We continue to advocate for small businesses and to add new local independent businesses to our “Small Business/Big History” signage program, in which we are partnering with great local businesses to…

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Supporting Small Business in our Neighborhoods

…on behalf of particular businesses facing unfair evictions; others have consisted of ongoing programs to support all local small businesses. In November 2014, we launched our Business of the Month…

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The Small Business Spring of 2015

…we continue to recognize outstanding small businesses through our Business of the Month program and the annual Village Awards – both selected by you! Nominate a favorite business here or…

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Small Businesses Meeting the Challenges of Today

…add new local independent businesses to our “Small Business/Big History” signage program, in which we are partnering with great local businesses to promote neighborhood history and the wonderful services and products…

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Support Small Businesses, Today at City Hall

…Month program seeks to promote local small independent businesses in Greenwich Village, NoHo and the East Village by nomination from the public. Nominate your favorite one here! Formula retail or…

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Small Business EVERY-Day: Mercer Street Books & Records, 206 Mercer Street

…Street Books & Records was a Village Preservation Business of the Month in September, 2015. Read more here or and submit your nomination for your favorite business for Business of…

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Small Businesses in the Historic Image Archive

…focusing on our local storefronts via our Small Business campaign, including the aforementioned Businesses of the Month, our “Welcome to the Neighborhood” series, and our Small Business, Big History map….

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Celebrating Black-Owned Businesses in Our Neighborhoods

August is Black Business Month. So we’re showcasing some of the many amazing Black-owned businesses in our neighborhood. Like all our great independently-owned businesses, you can patronize all year round…

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Celebrating Ice Cream (and small businesses) in our neighborhoods

…in the West (61 Grove Street.) Big Gay Ice Cream was our June 2019 Business of the Month. What special small business would you like to see featured next? Just click here to…

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“Not Another Starbucks” Rally Today

…City Council supporting SBJSA by clicking here. Another way we work to support local shops is with our “Business of the Month” program. Each month, a local, independent business is featured…

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Shop Local; Small Business Saturday

…on that classic strip and are attending the small business forum tomorrow being convened by Senator Holyman. Today we are doing a round up of some of our Business of…

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2022 Small Business Holiday Gift Guide!

…few of the many unique, character-filled businesses our neighborhoods have to offer. To learn what else is out there, check out our Business of the Month and Small Business, Big…

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It’s National Mom and Pop Business Owners Day!

…a full-service locksmith operation from a key-bedecked shack since 1980. Explore the rest of our Business of the Month map and learn about some of the many business owners that…

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Spotlight on Small Businesses: La Sirena, 27 East 3rd Street

…walked on East 3rd Street will recognize is La Sirena. A former Village Preservation Business of the Month in 2017, owner Dina Leor celebrates two decades of being in business….

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Preserving, Adapting, Reusing: Good for Buildings, Good for Clothing, Good for Small Business

…environment. It’s also good for the many small businesses in our neighborhood which sell them, and preserving small businesses is another key part of Village Preservation’s mission. So on National…

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A New Plan to Preserve the Small Businesses We Love and Need

…Business of the Month program and support of the Small Business Jobs Survival Act.) The Economic Development Committee of Community Board 3, encompassing the East Village, has been pursuing a…

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Happy Birthday Romana Raffetto- Support Your Local Small Businesses!

…about the GVSHP Business of the Month program here and nominate your favorite local business here. (Raffetto’s was awarded a GVSHP Village Award in 2004). The Raffetto’s building, located at 144 West…

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Eat Vegan and Support Local Businesses!

…Dreams, 405 East 6th Street Patatas Bravas with Local Fingerlings Our Business of the Month in April 2021, Caravan of Dreams was founded by Spanish ex-pat Angel Moreno in October…

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Celebrating One Hundred Businesses of the Month

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De Blasio’s Plan for SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Small Business: Replace Them With Big Box Chain Stores

…an area would seek to not only preserve existing independent businesses, but also encourage new neighborhood businesses that might serve current and future residents. And the Mayor’s plan claims it…

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Support Local Small Businesses, and Learn Some History While You’re At It!

…allows them to stay afloat? This is especially true for sales-based businesses like bookstores. So please consider supporting neighborhood small businesses this time of year, especially during this challenging time…

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Small Business, Big History, and More

…independent businesses to our “Small Business/Big History” signage program, in which we are partnering with great local businesses to promote neighborhood history and the wonderful services and products they offer. Carmine…

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Exploring ‘Queer Money Project’ and Local LGBTQ+-owned Businesses

…LGBTQIA2S+ businesses and businesss owners. The Queer Money Project is a completely free resource. It was born out of its founder Victoria’s experience of life transition and years of making…

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More Small Business With Big History

…our “Small Business/Big History” signage program, in which we are partnering with great local businesses to promote neighborhood history and the wonderful services and products they offer. The Love Child at…

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Village Pride & LGBT Establishments

…during the month of June. You can show some love this Pride Month to our local LGBT establishments by watching their virtual content and patronizing businesses and supporting local organizations….

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The Antique Business District South of Union Square: Seidenberg Antiques, 36 East 12th Street

…dealing has since dispersed, and more than a few of the businesses that once formed the district have moved away or ceased operations, displaced by high rents or brought to…

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Good News on Chain Stores for the New Year

…help? Here are four quick ways: Sign the petition to create an East Village Special Retail District. Nominate a “Business of the Month”, spread the word about our past Businesses of…

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Another Local Institution Will Close, But All Is Not Lost For Small Businesses

…Jobs Survival Act The Small Business Jobs Survival Act will help even the playing field and give small businesses a greater opportunity to remain in place and secure reasonable rents…

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The Small-Business-Saving Squad of the East Village

…models from the Austin Independent Business Alliance to a newly forming merchants association in the Bronx. It’s focused on representing the needs of independently owned businesses in the East Village…

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The Antique Business District South of Union Square: Charles Cheriff Galleries, 84 University Place

…a dozen antique businesses. Very few of them, however, can claim to have lived through the transformation of the neighborhood and of the antique industry over the past hundred years….

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James and Karla Murray Love GVSHP!

…Act, which would provide stability to neighborhoods by helping small business owners attain fair lease renewal terms. We also recognized eleven small businesses as part of our business of the month…

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Advocacy Made Easy On Our New Website

…support, promote, and protect small independent businesses in our neighborhoods. We do this through our Business of the Month Program and our Annual Village Awards. We have advocated for businesses…

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Small Business Roundtable: Support, Protect, and Shop!

Small businesses have been on everyone’s mind, and it’s no secret that Village Preservation is working hard to support our local small businesses — from our Small Business/Big History campaign,…

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Small Business/Big History Program Expands – More Stores, More Stories

…businesses you can support and ways to help small businesses survive in our neighborhoods. CLICK HERE for more information on our small business preservation efforts and some great local businesses…

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Small Business EVERYday

…the big box stores. A few years ago, “Small Business Saturday” was created, to promote the independent retailers and other businesses. That’s nice, but maybe one day is not enough….

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Village businesses step up

…to work. Businesses are not required to pay hourly employees when they are closed for business. So we here at Off the Grid had to applaud the Village businesses we…

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Immigrant Heritage Day – Taking a Walk to the Immigrant East Village

…visiting and supporting GVSHP Businesses of the Month on Immigrant Heritage Day. Learn more about our Business of the Month initiative, and support the Small Business Jobs Survival Act! Tell…

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Shop ’til You Drop on Bleecker Street!

On Saturday, November 23rd, get a jump on your holiday shopping and support small business at this year’s #ShopBleecker Day as part of the month-long promotion of small businesses along…

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Mixed But Positive News on Chain Stores for the New Year

…District this year. Working to preserve small, independent businesses is a top priority for GVSHP in 2017. Want to help? We’ve got lots of ways: Nominate a “Business of the Month”,…

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Honor Local Business in November

New York Originals Promoting and celebrating local, small businesses in the neighborhood has always been a top priority for GVSHP. Such establishments create a valuable and unique presence in our…

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Small Business, Big History: Mapping Neighborhood Stores and Stories, Past and Present

…help you find both, we created the Small Business, Big History map a few years ago. It was intended to help aid local small businesses, and to offer the public…

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2021 Village Awardee: Linda Pagan

…businesses and the history and character of her neighborhood! The one and only Linda Pagan Linda Pagan is the proprietor of The Hat Shop—a 2016 Business of the Month–which opened…

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Explore More Local Small Businesses With Big History!

…of local history, and while you’re at it, support a local business that needs your patronage now more than ever.Are you a local business interested in placing a sign in…

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Next Month, Everyone’s a Historian

…to individuals and organizations in the East Village, Little Italy, Chinatown, and surrounds, to participate in the first-ever Lower East Side History Month, the response grew and grew. (Maybe being…

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Pride Month in NYC: More Historic LGBT sites to visit in our neighborhoods

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month (LGBT Pride Month) is currently celebrated each year in the month of June to honor the 1969 Stonewall Riots in Greenwich Village. The…

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Black History Month 2018 – Learn and Celebrate with Us!

…for all this month has to offer. Black History Month was created by historian Carter G. Woodson, starting off as Negro History Week in 1925. Woodson’s hope was to raise awareness…

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Join Us: Support the ‘Save Our Storefronts’ Campaign and Legislation for Small Business Relief

The plight of local small businesses and non-profit institutions right now is devastating. Forced to close or limit access due to the pandemic, many have lost income and shut down permanently. Storefronts…

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Preserving Small Businesses with the Murrays

…preserved scores of Village locales (and thousands of NYC locales). Over 80% of the businesses featured in their first book have gone out of business since its publication in 2008. Their photographs…

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Explore Local Small Businesses and Discover Big Local History

…and updated Small Business/Big History Map, your guide to some incredible local small businesses and the fascinating history connected to their buildings, blocks, and vicinities. The map allows you to…

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Buy a Book Locally on Small Business Saturday

“Small Business Saturday” is this coming Saturday, a day to promote the independent retailers and other businesses that enrich our neighborhoods. To help you help our local small businesses, we’ve…

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Pride Month in All Corners of the Village

June is Pride Month, which makes it especially exciting time to be in the Village. LGBT history is closely tied with the Village and environs, and throughout the course of…

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February: GVSHP celebrates African-American History Month

undated photo Since 1976, the United States has celebrated Black History Month, also called African-American History Month, in February. Some of our upcoming public programs will join in this celebration….

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A Preservation Agenda For Landmarking’s 50th Birthday

…heard. GVSHP ‘Business of the Month’ La Bonbonniere. 5. Saving Small Businesses. Local, independent businesses are under pressure like never before. Rapidly rising rents and the spread of chain stores…

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Mostly Good News on Chain Stores in Our Neighborhoods

…Working to preserve small, independent businesses is a top priority for GVSHP in 2020. Want to help? We’ve got lots of ways: Nominate a “Business of the Month”, spread the…

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Help a Village small business post-Hurricane Sandy

…worth of business. I was not disappointed. The bagel was crisp on the outside and chewy on the inside, clearly hand rolled, and delicious. Helping out small businesses hurt by…

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Village Businesses of the 1930s

…also recognize outstanding local businesses as part of our Annnual Village Awards ceremony every June. Today we thought we’d take a look at some local businesses in our neighborhoods from…

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June is Gay Pride Month

This year’s Gay Pride Month certainly got off to an auspicious start with the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission finally agreeing to consider the Stonewall Inn for individual landmark…

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Small Business, Big History: Tudor Rose Antiques

…beautiful brick building featuring patterned brickwork that dates to the 1930s, while parts of the building date to nearly a century earlier. As a great local independent business surrounded by…

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Ideas for Preserving Our Small Businesses and Creative Spaces

…to define “legacy businesses” and create financial incentives for property owners who help keep those businesses in place. The report, a well-written and interesting read, helps to explain the problem…

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My Favorite Things: Women’s History Month Edition

…Month! We have several exciting programs in store for the month long celebration. The Cherry Lane Theater On Monday, March 26th, we will host and evening of Women Poets of…

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An Intersectional Black History Month Roundup

Black History is Village history, and while many are celebrating Black Futures Month, as a historic preservation organization, we’re glad to amplify a history that often goes unnoticed in the…

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LPC Honors Charlie Parker and Others During Black History Month

Page from LPC’s List of 25 African-American Sites. Courtesy of LPC website. In honor of Black History Month, the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) has released a list of 25 designated…

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GVSHP African American History Month Series: Revisiting Spring Street Presbyterian Church

Old Spring Street Presbyterian Church. New York Public Library Collection. Exterior (1927). In celebration of Black History Month, the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation will host several public programs…

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Black History Month in the Village: The South Village and Little Africa

GVSHP’s Civil Rights & Social Justice Map February is Black History Month. We here at GVSHP want to celebrate it by highlighting different sites of significance to the African-American community…

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LGBTQ Pride+History Month with Village Preservation

LGBTQ+ Pride and History Month may be in June, but at Village Preservation, we’re working to document, celebrate, and protect the incredibly rich LGBTQ+ history of our neighborhoods, which played…

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Back and Better than Ever: Linda Pagan and the Hat Shop, Now at 148 Sullivan Street

…back ourselves and provide some context for that development. Linda operated The Hat Shop (our December 2016 Business of the Month) at 120 Thompson Street for twenty-seven years. During that…

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Disappearing New York: The Case of the Missing Watch Repair Shop

…Business Jobs Survival Act (SBJSA) and Help Small Businesses by sending a letter to city officials in support. Off the Grid is filled with great stories about our neighborhoods’ small businesses. …

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A family business lives on at 15 8th Avenue

Harry Yormark took over his family’s shoe business at 15 8th Avenue from his uncle Jacob Yormark sometime after 1907. In September of 2011, Off the Grid reported the discovery…

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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: Celebrating Women’s History Month

…York City. The neighborhood South of Union Square was also home to several important events in women’s history. And so this Women’s History Month, we are celebrating the many female…

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Village Preservation Resources for African American History Month

Welcome to February, and African American History Month! Village Preservation has long documented the stories behind the streets, buildings and people of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo. Those…

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Black History Month in the Village: African-American & LGBT Historic Sites

February is Black History Month. We here at GVSHP are celebrating it by highlighting different sites of significance to the African-American community within our neighborhoods. We’re focusing on sites found on…

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Women’s History Month: Saluting Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt 1933 (Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons) On this last day of Women’s History Month, we would be remiss if we didn’t salute one of my favorite 20th century female…

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Women’s History Month: Celebrate, Honor, Preserve Women’s History

March is Women’s History Month, and we’re celebrating, honoring, and advocating, and you can too!…

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Marking African-American History Month in the Village

…February is African-American History Month, now seems like an especially appropriate time to highlight the African-American history of the South Village, the subject of a separate chapter in the South…

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Celebrate African American History Month and the Elizabeth Blackwell Bicentennial and Join Us in Fighting to Protect This Critical History

This February is African American History Month, a time to highlight and celebrate the rich history of African American struggle, success, and life in our neighborhoods over the last four…

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Black History Month in the Village: The NAACP and Martin Luther King Jr.

February is Black History Month. We here at GVSHP are celebrating it by highlighting different sites and locations of significance to African-American history in the Village. A great source for…

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Black History Month in the Village: Black Churches No Longer Standing

February is Black History Month. We here at GVSHP are celebrating it by highlighting different sites and locations of significance to African-American history in the Village. A great source for this is…

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Black History Month in the East Village: Black Arts Movement

February is Black History Month. We here at GVSHP are celebrating it by highlighting different sites of significance to the African-American community within our neighborhoods, including those on our new Civil Rights…

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Black History Month: Alex Haley

February is Black History Month. We here at GVSHP are celebrating by highlighting different sites and locations of significance to African-American history in the Village. A great source is our recently-released Civil…

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New Podcast for LGBT History Month

October is LGBT History Month, and we’ve got a great new episode of our Off the Grid podcast on our Soundcloud page to help celebrate. Explore some of the many…

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Hispanic Heritage Month: Celebrating Nuyorican Poets Cafe

…Hispanic Heritage Month in our neighborhood would be complete without highlighting the legendary Nuyorican Poets Café on East 3rd Street. Founded in 1973 by Algarin and many others, the Nuyorican…

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