…American history of the East Village is extensively catalogued in our African-American History Tour on our East Village Building Blocks website. A selection of a few of those sites follows:…
Read More…looked to open an actual storefront. The vibrancy of the East Village beckoned, particularly East 7th Street. Co-owner/founder Doug Quint says “East 7th Street between 1st Ave and Ave A…
Read More…Cameos by true historic figures, including East Villager Emma Goldman, dot the movie’s plot, bridging fiction with nonfiction. Filming ‘Ragtime’, East Village, location unknown, 1980. Photo from the Carole Teller Collection…
Read More…German Baptist Church purchased the lot extending from 334 to 338 East 14th Street. On July 3, 1866, the congregation sold the eastern portion of its new lot (338 East…
Read More…with 329 East 9th Street in 1869, followed by 333 and 335 East 9th Street being constructed in 1875, and 331 East 9th Street in 1884. The buildings are very…
Read More…Side Boys’ Lodging House and Industrial School on East Broadway and Gouverneur Street. Extant Vaux-designed Children’s Aid Society buildings include the former Elizabeth House for Girls at 307 East 12th…
Read More…of East 12th Street and 2nd Avenue and witnessed more than a quarter century of transformation in the East Village. The bar’s eponymous owner was Ann Uglialoro, born on April…
Read More…following Vienna and Berlin. Nicknamed Kleindeutschland (“Little Germany”), the area’s boundaries were defined as between 14th and Division streets, and the East River and the Bowery. 323 East 6th Street…
Read More…a carpenter and a printer with the printing business at 22 East 13th Street. By the time that Erskine Press moved into 17 East 13th Street, two of Archibald’s sons,…
Read More…artist who moved to New York’s East Village in 1966, has lived in this townhouse at 166 Avenue A since 1971 and has been carefully documenting the East Village since…
Read More…is leaving palaces to the people.” PS 15, 333 East 4th Street Many of those palaces remain focused on education, including many in the East Village. In 1904, for example,…
Read More…the vast majority of the city’s inhabitants, lived in these buildings. 551 East 12th Street 551 East 12th Street Aerial view of 551 East 12th Street 1940s Tax Photo of…
Read More…and Congregation Mezritch Synagogue at 415 East 6th Street in the newly designated East Village/Lower East Side Historic District. You can see the proposals for these applications and learn more…
Read More…played a big role across the rest of the city. East 10th Street, looking west in present day (left) and east into 1934, courtesy New York Public Library The area…
Read More…scenes from Ukraine but did turn her hand to the East Village. Her illustration of the East Village Ukrainian Festival and a map of the Ukrainian East Village are on…
Read More…also the president of East Village Independent Merchants Association, an initiative that is growing from the East Village Community Coalition. As part of their #EastVillageLoves campaign, they just released the…
Read More…locations are in the East Village and Greenwich Village. Learn all about East Village Jewish historic sites on Village Preservation’s East Village Building Blocks Yiddish Rialto and Synagogues of the…
Read MoreToday is Yom Kippur, so let’s take a look at some East Village buildings that are, or used to be, synagogues. Jewish immigrants to the East Village and Lower East…
Read More…by East 10th and East 7th Streets and Avenues A and B, serves in many ways as the heart of the neighborhood. It started out as swampland and formed part…
Read More…striking and impressive ecclesiastical structures, not only the East Village, but all of New York (their website is here). The Russian Orthodox Cathedral, 59 East 2nd Street. Image c/o Barry…
Read More…Tour on our East Village Building Blocks website — see it here – and read on for a selection of a few of the many sites throughout the East Village….
Read More…psychedelic light shows, click here! We also have East Village Building Block tours on African American History, the Jewish/Yiddish Rialto, Historic East 10th Street, Kleindeutschland, Squats of the East Village, and Places That Matter….
Read MoreVeniero’s Paticceria at 342 East 11th Street On September 23, 1894, one of the East Village’s longest-running businesses, Veniero’s Pasticceria, opened its doors. This venerable local institution has been serving…
Read More…an exploration of four decades of buildings and properties in the East Village and Lower East Side that are celebrated sites of creativity, community empowerment and resistance. This exhibition was…
Read More…The fifth post in the series, by Alyssa DesRochers, Claire Wolford and Dominique Jean-Louis, focuses on East 3rd Street between Avenues B & C. East 3rd Street between Avenues B &…
Read More123 Third Avenue Retail Space Sells for $11 Million (EV Grieve) Stranded Cat Rescued from East Village (NY Daily News) Foes of Historic District Plan Emerge (The Local East Village)…
Read More…To find out more information on the East Village/Lower East Side and see what you can do to help preserve the rich neighborhood history, visit our East Village Preservation Page….
Read More…recently held a public hearing for a proposed East Village/Lower East Side Historic District at which GVSHP, preservation allies, and local residents testified in support; we hope that the LPC…
Read More…the East Village. The Lower East Side History Project will be presented with a Village Award for researching, documenting, and preserving the distinctive history of the East Village and Lower…
Read MoreJohn V. Lindsay East River Park is a 57+ acre park that stretches along the East River waterfront from Montgomery Street north to East 12th Street. With the pending closure…
Read More…a six-story building in the East Village. To learn more about this history of this and every other building in the East Village, explore our East Village Building Blocks website….
Read MoreOn March 18, 2008, the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) approved the designation of four East Village landmarks, and they were as varied as the East Village itself. They were…
Read More…every building in the East Village we took a look at how this block has changed. 3rd Avenue and East 10th Street in 1937 (courtesy of the New York Public…
Read More…windmill on the roof of 519 East Eleventh Street was a trailblazing victory for residents, the East Village, and urban environmentalists alike. The first of its kind in urban America,…
Read More…such pairings, two people whose paths crossed just around the corner from our offices at 208 East 13th Street. 208 East 13th Street 208 East 13th Street is a fairly…
Read More…of blocks on and around lower Second Avenue: Proposed East Village Historic District The smaller of the districts encompasses the entire blockfront on the north side of East 10th Street…
Read More…features of the East Village aren’t going anywhere. They are included in the East Village/Lower East Side Historic District, meaning that not only are they protected, but any new development…
Read MoreIn 1958, a twenty-five-year-old Philip Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) moved into a basement apartment at 128 East 10th Street in the East Village. The Anglo-Italianate building,…
Read More…East Village/Lower East Side Historic District, meaning that not only are they protected, but any new development that occurs within the district is regulated to complement the existing sense of…
Read More…was unrecognizably transformed a decade ago with the construction of the Avalon Bowery Place apartment complex on its east side. Albert’s Garden with 14 East 2nd Street to its left,…
Read More…East Village/Lower East Side which were experiencing depopulation at that time. The older housing was becoming increasingly less desirable to live in and sometimes required costly updates to conform with…
Read More…display merchandise! To read more about the vernacular buildings click here. Stroll over to the East Side and there are even more unique and historic retail entrances. East 7th Street…
Read MoreTenement architecture of the East Village! Scaffolding Comes Off at the Hyatt Union Square (EV Grieve) Mysterious Arson on East 7th Street (NY Post) A Bargain at 57 Bond Street?…
Read More…an artist. A pioneer without a frontier.” Family History Slugger Ann bar and cocktail lounge was located at 301 East 12th Street/192 Second Avenue at the corner of East 12th…
Read MoreMany people know that the East Village is abundant with Ukrainian restaurants and Eastern European lunch counters. They also know that there are plenty of old-school Italian joints to get…
Read More…Avenue and Avenue B between East 11th and East 12th Street was once a thriving Italian-American community. Our research on each of the thousands of buildings in the East Village…
Read More…Congress and the Southern Negro Youth Congress at 35 East 12th Streetreet. 35, 37, 39 East 12th and 54, 52, 50, 48 East 13th Street (l. to r.), 1940 This…
Read More…Greenwich Village, the East Village or NoHo: just click here to vote for your favorite. Owners Lobsang Tsultrim, left, and Thupten Tenphel inside East Village Cheese. This article was modified…
Read More…and oral historian. The program, “Oral Histories of Extraordinary East Villagers,” was about the concept of oral histories, and new additions to GVSHP’s archive of oral histories from the East…
Read More…today, we take a closer look at 28 East 14th Street, and ask: why isn’t this landmarked? Joseph Little, Builder and William Wheeler Smith, Architect 28 East 14th Street was…
Read More…institutions were demolished on East 6th East 5th and East 4th Streets and Avenue A between 1938 and 1952, to make way for the school. (That’s how we know the…
Read More…at 10 East 14th Street, and ask: why isn’t this landmarked? No. 10 East 14th Street is located within the 14th Street corridor, which underwent enormous shifts in the 1870s,…
Read More…The fourth of five posts in the series, by Kristen Engfors and Yosra Sultan, focuses on East 7th Street between Avenues B & C. East 7th Street between Avenues B…
Read MoreAll Saints Ukrainian Orthodox Church at 206-208 East 11th Street. Village Preservation’s offices are located next to the East Village’s wonderful “Little Ukraine” neighborhood. One of the most eye-catching Ukrainian…
Read More…Club is displaying the full publication run of Zoe’s magazine, the East Side. It was amazing to see Kahn’s dedication to showing the full scope of the East Side’s publication,…
Read More…organized crime web, were all real men who were actually known to have patronized John’s Restaurant in the East Village. In fact, Charles “Lucky” Luciano grew up at 265 East…
Read MoreYour 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, the East Village,…
Read More…are also in the East Village/Lower East Side Historic District we helped get designated in 2012, and so nothing can be built here without approval by the Landmarks Preservation Commission…
Read More…found their home on the Lower East Side and in what we today call the East Village. The Puerto Rican population of the East Village and Lower East Side remained…
Read More…in line among purchasers, ahead of independent businesses like Beasty Feast. Despite these recent difficulties, Dimitri remains undaunted and has full faith in Beasty Feast’s ability to bounce back. Its…
Read More…at what is now 208 East 13th Street in the East Village, built in 1901 to house thirty-six families. There is a plaque dedicated to Goldman on the building, but…
Read More…worked at 88 East 10th Street from 1944 until at least 1949, according to New York City directories. While here, Burke completed “The Four Freedoms,” a 2 ½ by 3…
Read More…reading room in a building on 13th Street just east of Fourth Avenue in the East Village. Though initially open only two hours a week and containing only 500 books,…
Read More…The sixth and final post in the series, by Shannon Elliott, Maggie Lee and Jason Smith, focuses on East 3rd Street between Avenues C & D. East 3rd Street between…
Read More…Landmark in 2014. To see the full tour including many other synagogues of the East Village, click here. To see all our East Village Building Blocks tours, click here….
Read More…Russians. According to the East Village/Lower East Side Designation Report, Ukrainian immigrants tended to settle predominantly on 7th Street in the East Village. It is in this area that Ukrainian…
Read More…located here on the block bounded by Broadway, Fourth Avenue, East 9th Street, and East 10th Street. Wanamaker Annex Building under construction Wanamaker thrived in the Big Apple — so…
Read More…but somehow aren’t landmarked. 32 East 10th Street This beautifully intact c. 1870 building at 32 East 10th Street was designed by W. Field & Son for Henry Naylor and…
Read More…its last physical location on the Lower East Side from 2001 before finally closing its doors in 2007. The landscape of the East Village’s thriving venues for nightlife and music…
Read More…Roman Catholicism in late antiquity and centered in Eastern Europe and in the Eastern Mediterranean. Separate national churches would evolve and these Eastern Orthodox churches would have a major presence…
Read More…The second of five posts in the series, by Eric Montgomery and Heather Wilson, focuses on East 7th Street between 1st & 2nd Avenues. East 7th Street between 1st &…
Read Moreon East 11th Street LUNGS, new neighborhood group, unites community gardeners against development (The Local East Village) Air conditioner fell out of window on 2nd Avenue on Sunday (EV Grive)…
Read MoreWe have just added a new tour to our wildly popular East Village Building Blocks, our online tool which provides invaluable information about over 2,200 properties in the East Village….
Read MoreOne of my favorite two-block sections in Greenwich Village may be an unlikely one – East 9th Street between Broadway and 5th Avenue. It’s not the oldest strip in the…
Read More…Historic District. The proposed East Village/Lower East Side Historic District Join GVSHP, local and citywide historic preservation groups, and East Village neighbors to tell the city council to move ahead…
Read MoreThis special two-part post explores the legacy of the energy pioneers who constructed solar collectors and a windmill at 519 East Eleventh Street. In the first installment we will explore…
Read MoreSaul Leiter, American painter and photographer, was part of what was known as the New York school of photography of the 1940s and 50s, and resided on East 10th Street…
Read More…free-love movement, the predominantly Latino Young Lords self-help organization… the Bowery Poets Coop, the Filmore East performance space, the East Village Other, and dozens of other countercultural ‘institutions,’ the poems…
Read More…East Village is Lowered into 9/11 Memorial (CNN) A History of Ices in the East Village (Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York) Remembering Old Times at B&H Dairy (The Local East Village)…
Read MoreFor a few months now, many of you have been following the proposal for a new nine-story hotel at 27 East 4th Street. The site, which currently holds a one-story…
Read More…of painted wooden cornices, typical of the side streets in the East Village. These strategies helped compliment yet further differentiate the styles of the two buildings. 201 East 12th Street…
Read More…Sixth Street Community Synagogue and is included in the proposed East Village/Lower East Side Historic District. Listed on the State & National Register of Historic Places (the full report can…
Read More…Lower East Side Preservation Initiative (LESPI), and the East Village Community Coalition (EVCC) are thrilled to be co-sponsoring an event here. We will be celebrating two of our greatest East…
Read More…The fifth and final post in the series, by Winona Packer and Katelin Lee, focuses on East 7th Street between Avenues C & D. East 7th Street between Avenues C…
Read More…experience some of the East Village’s immigrant history. The walking tour features ten locations and small businesses in the East Village that hold immigrant history. Read on for a sneak…
Read More…resource, East Village Building Blocks. For a more in-depth history of the East Village’s Poetry Project and its associated movements and communities, check out our recent public program with Kyle Dacuyan…
Read More…site of the now-vacant lot really brings to light the fact that the East Village is still gravely unprotected in terms of landmarking. L: 316 East 3rd Street, which stands…
Read More…the East Village. Be sure to check out our stories on eating in the East Village – then and now! We’re explored the eateries of East 7th Street, the Jewish…
Read More…the 20th century. Façade of 30 East 14th Street Artist Studios via Apartments.com. Facade of 30 East 14th Street in 1959 30 East 14th Street, the middle building of the…
Read More…and remodeled rooming-houses” began to appear. Increasing rents in Greenwich Village pushed residents, artists, writers, students and musicians to seek cheaper rents further east. The neighborhood was being rechristened “Village East”…
Read More…in the East Village that you don’t have to feel ambivalent about. Located on the corner of Avenue B and East 3rd Street you’ll find the Lower East Side People’s…
Read More…the former Frank Stella studios at 128 East 13th Street, the Anthology Film Archives, and the Pyramid Club at 101 Avenue A in the proposed East Village/Lower East Side Historic…
Read More…Village we learned about this building’s very interesting past. Historic maps indicate that going back to at least the 1850’s, 310-312 East 11th Street was a livery and stable used…
Read More…photo of East 6th Street all dolled up to look much older – for the filming of the Godfather II! Pretty cool, right? The Oscar-winning sequel used East 6th Street to depict…
Read MoreThe East Village is generally credited with being the birthplace of punk music, which emanated from CBGB in the mid-1970s and the bands who played there, including the Ramones, Television,…
Read More…at 302 East 8th Street, the former St. Ann’s School at 113 East 11th Street, the Hebrew Free School at 624 5th Street (demolished) and St. Anthony’s School at 60…
Read More…built on their land in the East Village. A clear testament to John Jacob Astor’s purchasing power, and to his son William’s legacy as the “Landlord of New York,” these…
Read MoreThis post is the third of a four-part series called Everyday Lives, Ordinary People: A History of East Village Immigrants, a collaboration between GVSHP and the students in NYU’s Fall…
Read MoreEV Grieve sends some sad news from the East Village today, where 326 & 328 East 4th Street – the two remarkably intact 1837-41 Greek Revival buildings the City refused…
Read More…even offers some insight into how the East Village really started being known by that moniker, as opposed to just an extension of the Lower East Side: “…there was a…
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