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The New York Orphan Asylum
…and Amanda Foote 1842 map of the West Village Before it was called West 4th Street, the northwestern section of this street between Gansevoort Street and Seventh Avenue was called…
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Seen and Heard Around the Village 9.28.11: For Food Lovers
…the Road) On October 9th in Gansevoort Plaza, the Good Food Fest will be held Eater takes an early look at Frankies 570 on Hudson Street Newcomers Coppelia and Miss…
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Welcome to 1940s Greenwich Village
…of New York University is located in this district. From 12th Street and Greenwich Avenue west to Miller Highway, we find the Gansevoort and West Washington markets- a wholesale meat,…
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Adaptive Reuse in Chelsea
…R: Westbeth; L: Jefferson Market Library Just outside of the Gansevoort Market Historic District lies another big example of such developement- Chelsea Market, which is currently in danger of losing…
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What’s Happening Here? Eighth Avenue and 13th Street
…actively monitors DOB permit activity in the West Village, Gansevoort Market, NoHo and the East Village so we will continue to see how this site evolves in the coming months….
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First Avenue Retail Market: Then & Now
…Market Complex, the Gansevoort Market, the Bronx Terminal Market, and the First Avenue Retail Market. a 1938 photo of the interior of the First Avenue Retail Market (courtesy of the…
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Happy (Almost) Birthday Off the Grid!
…advocate for – Greenwich Village, NoHo, Gansevoort Market, the East Village and the South Village. A large part of starting Off the Grid was to share the vast knowledge and…
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Map It! Bleecker at Christopher Street
…look at the streets of Gansevoort Market, the Far West Village, the South Village, NoHo and the East Village. Bird’s Eye View of Bleecker Street, provided by Bing Maps Streetside…
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A Sign That Tells More Than Just Street Names
…the Landmarks Preservation Commission for a Far West Village/Greenwich Village Waterfront Historic District, HERE). The Ninth Avenue/Greenwich Street El, shortly after it was first constructed, pictured here at Gansevoort Street…
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The Public Square: What’s Your Favorite New Building in the Village?
…neighborhood. Comments will be monitored and selected for featuring throughout the week. We’ve all griped about the worst new buildings in Greenwich Village, the East Village, NoHo and Gansevoort Market….
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A Photo Here, A Map There
…Photo from the SR/NR report, but provided by the LPC (1979). Our site includes photos in reports for countless individual landmarks as well as these SR/NR districts: Bowery Charlton-King-Vandam Gansevoort…
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Seen and Heard Around the Village 7.24.11 – 7.30.11, West Edition
A remaining meat market in Gansevoort Market (image courtesy of brianrose.com) West Village Cocktail Bar Named Best Bar in the World (NearSay) Part of the Ceiling Fell Down in the…
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Seen and Heard Around the Village 7.17.11 – 7.23.11, West Edition
…the West Village (NearSay) Twisty MePa Tower Approved by Landmarks Commission (Curbed) Grass-Covered Walls to Take Over Gansevoort Plaza (DNAinfo) Old Homestead Pays for Lesbian Couple’s Wedding on 1st Day…
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Seen and Heard Around the Village 7.10.11 – 7.16.11, West Edition
Bedford Street (photo courtesy of Guney’s Photo Blog, www.guney.org) Gansevoort Hotel’s Pool is the City’s Dirtiest (NY Post) Another British-themed Restaurant Set to Open on Greenwich Avenue (DNAinfo) Waverly Restaurant…
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Memorial Day in the Village
…Gansevoort Street, we find Corporal John A. Seravalli Playground, which commemorates the sacrifice of another young Village resident. John Seravalli served in the Army’s 1st Infantry Division and was killed…
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A Five Year Milestone for Far West Village Landmarking
…area between the newly designated Gansevoort Market Historic District and the Barrow Street (where the West Village Houses, built in the mid-1970’s, began). In 2005, the LPC came back with…
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Former Macy’s Building Proposed for Landmark Designation!
…that GVSHP successfully advocated to landmark in 2003 as part of the Gansevoort Market Historic District. We will continue to advocate for the protection of more and more of these…
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Welcome Andito Lloyd, Our Newest Staffer!
…know and cherish. Andito will also be helping with preservation initiatives in the South Village, the West Village, NoHo and Gansevoort Market. Andito worked in corporate communications for many years…
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Get Involved: Landmarks Review at Community Boards
…CB2 Landmarks hearing is Monday, November 5th at a location TBD. Applications that will be presented include: 421-425 West 13th Street in the Gansevoort Market Historic District 14 St. Luke’s…
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Newest Library Acquisition
…serving up steaks in the Gansevoort Market neighborhood. Recently, they hosted a dinner for those affected by Hurricane Sandy. advertisements for neighborhood religious institutions were included in the section of…
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A Look Back at 2015 Programs
…Street. After relocating to the Upper East Side in 1966, the Whitney returned to Greenwich Village this year with much fanfare, on the site of the historic Gansevoort Market. In…
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Sanitation on the Hudson River Waterfront
…and sanitation. Currently there is a very busy sanitation facility on the Gansevoort Peninsula, aka Pier 53, which happens to be surrounded by the Hudson River Park. A lot of…
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The Village Seen: Painter Patricia Melvin
…matched with her environment. A great friend and supporter of GVSHP, Melvin was happy to talk with us about her work. “Evening, Gansevoort Street.” Oil on linen. How did you…
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It Happened Here: 80’s Music Videos, Part Deux
…hometown) are interspersed throughout the video, most of the video is shot on and just off the western end of 14th Street, almost entirely within the Gansevoort Market Historic District…
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Program Recap: The Origins of Little Spain and The Whitney Museum
…American Art has been in the news a lot lately, due to the opening of its new location at 99 Gansevoort Street, where the High Line begins. Since 1966, the…
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Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Landmarks Law
…of our local historic districts include the Greenwich Village Historic District, NoHo Historic District, Gansevoort Market Historic District, East Village/Lower East Side Historic District, and the South Village Historic District)….
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The Art of Frederick Brosen
…vernacular landscape of Greenwich Village. By Frederick Brosen. Gansevoort Street. Frederick Brosen’s first solo exhibition took place over twenty years ago at the Staempfli Gallery in New York, and today,…
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New York 1969
…in various neighborhood venues, including Judson Memorial Church. He also founded a poetry reading group that met on the Gansevoort Pier in the Far West Village on the Hudson River….
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Looking Back and Looking Ahead
…of them either proposed or supported by GVSHP. These include the Gansevoort Market Historic District (2003), Greenwich Village Historic District Extension I (2006), Weehawken Street Historic District (2006), NoHo East…
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Before & After in the Meatpacking District
…there, but not as many as in years past.) Many of the buildings on 14th Street, 13th Street, Little West 12th Street, Gansevoort Street, Washington Street, and Greenwich Street had…
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What’s In a Name? Neighborhood Edition
…it was known as Sapokanikan through today on the GVSHP website. Or read GVSHP’s report on the more recent history of the Meatpacking District, or its other name, Gansevoort Market….
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Ten Years Ago: Far West Village Protests, and Progress
…the Gansevoort Market (Meatpacking District) Historic District by the City was 848 Washington Street, the old Swift Meatpacking Plant site. There, a developer had sought a zoning variance for a…
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Berenice Abbott and the Legacy of the New Deal
…help historians, artists, and more picture a changing New York. An enduring legacy for a controversial piece of New Deal legislation. Gansevoort Street, No. 53, Berenice Abbott. Via the NYPL….
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Old Buildings, New Forms: Creative adaptive re-use in the built environment
…The former elevated railway converted to a beautifully landscaped public park winds its way from Gansevoort Street in the Far West Village up to 30th Street. This is a stunning…
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Captains of Industry
…from the report’s section on “Industrial Monuments:“ 439-445 West 14th Street 439-445 West 14th Street (Thomas Jackson,1892), Gansevoort Market Historic District, designated 2003. Originally stables for Nabisco (headquartered in the…
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October 26, 1825: The Erie Canal opened. And New York would never be the same.
…Robin Shulman and her book Eat The City, which has chapters on both the meat and sugar industries that once dominated the Gansevoort Market area.) Over the years, landfill was…
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Smorgasbord of Landmark Applications Tomorrow Run The Gamut
…applications being heard tomorrow are within recently designated historic districts that GVSHP proposed and/or helped bring about, including the Gansevoort Market Historic District, the NoHo Historic District Extension, and Phase…
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Landmarks Preservation Commission Celebrates Gay Pride, Doesn’t Designate Gay Landmarks
…sites GVSHP fought to have landmarked, such as the Gansevoort Market Historic District, the Weehawken Street Historic District, and the South Village extension of the Greenwich Village Historic District. But…
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Hudson Square Rezoning/South Village Landmarking Deal FAQ
…proposed South Village Historic District, in the end they voted to designate about 80% of it. In Gansevoort Market, they designated about 70% of what we proposed. There is no…
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The Original World Trade Center, Memorialized in our Historic Image Archive
…Gansevoort Street and its closure in 1973. The World Trade Center is often in clear view in the background. “The Sphere” by Fritz Koenig sculpture at World Trade Center, 1984….
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