…Histories are organized chronologically, so our newest releases are easily found. Groundbreakers like Jane Jacobs, Merce Cunningham, David Amram, and dozens more can be found here. Each oral history has…
Read More…seen a great deal, from the protests of Jane Jacobs to throwing parties with very well-known literary figures. Like Otis herself, Otis’s oral history conducted with GVSHP is a treasure…
Read More…Claire Tankel, Edith Lions, and Jane Jacobs on the GVSHP website. While this recreated image captures how the architecture surrounding the Arch at Washington Square Park has stayed relatively the…
Read More…learning more about some other pioneers in the preservation movement, check out GVSHP’s oral history interviews with Margot Gayle, Jane Jacobs, Edwin Fancher and Norman Redlich, among many others, here….
Read More…notable persons in the profession, I was particularly struck by Jane Jacobs’s lack of qualified training in city planning. This revelation sparked a curiosity in the origins of historic preservation…
Read More…galvanized significant public support and organized efforts for the passage of the Landmarks Law. Wood attributed the rise of the city’s preservation movement, with powerful activists such as Jane Jacobs…
Read More…people. Even Jane Jacobs got involved at some point, so there was a lot of activism. But there was a lot of drugs. And that whole, you know, the St….
Read More…Christopher Street. In 1963 Jane Jacobs, on behalf of the West Village Committee, wrote to the newly formed New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1963 (prior to the passage…
Read More…years, including today, many community members, need to be involved. One was Washington Square Park committee member Shirley Hayes, her efforts were also featured by Jane Jacobs in “The Death and Life of…
Read More…the New York School of artists and poets, the “new urbanism” pioneered by Jane Jacobs, among many other trailblazing firsts. Less closely associated with the Village, however, are radical and…
Read More…Greenwich Village Historic District, and only the second new historic district in Greenwich Village since 1969. As early as 1963, Jane Jacobs wrote to the chair of the New York…
Read More…more and more of the old industrial buildings and row houses were being replaced with new glassy condos. As early as 1963, Jane Jacobs wrote to the chair of the…
Read More…houses but pier operations were already withering, creeping blight seemed to destine the whole area to urban renewal by bulldozer and high-rise development. Activists led by Jane Jacobs, the writer…
Read More…number of protests whose participants included architect Philip Johnson, art critic Aline Saarinen (widow of the late architect Eero Saarinen), and urban advocate Jane Jacobs. Its ultimate demise at the…
Read More…get much of the Far West Village downzoned and landmark districts extended to preserve this important heritage, which Jane Jacobs had specifically called out to protect even in the 1960s….
Read More…do its own fair share of parenting. Many times neighbors would return children to the house after they had wandered off through the neighborhood on their own. (Hey, Jane Jacobs…
Read More…our history and helped establish the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC). Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village’s patron saint of preservation, helped lead some of the demonstrations to save Penn Station. The…
Read More…Village Committee, founded by activists including Jane Jacobs to fight Robert Moses’ urban renewal plan. And, as demonstrated here, the archive reveals Village Preservation’s own historic documents, spanning from the…
Read More…of local independent bookstores where you may be able to order these or other fine reading material. THE DEATH AND LIFE OF GREAT AMERICAN CITIES by Jane Jacobs. Perhaps the…
Read More…our oral history collection. It includes a ‘preservation pioneers’ collection consisting of oral histories with Jane Jacobs among others; a Westbeth collection that includes oral histories with Richard Meier and…
Read More…memory and memoir. Penny Arcade’s oral history is one of about 50 in our oral history collection. It includes a Preservation Pioneers collection consisting of oral histories with Jane Jacobs…
Read More…New York City mayor) Ed Koch. © Estate of Fred W. McDarrah. The patron saint of Village Preservation, Jane Jacobs, wearing a ‘Kill the Xpressway Now’ sign at a demonstration…
Read More…Union Square. Jo Baer, Glass Slippers, 1960, Gouache and pencil on paper (recto); Pencil on paper (verso). Courtesy MoMA. Jane Freilicher For nearly four decades beginning in 1965, Jane Frielicher…
Read More…because they were developed in rapid succession once Burr, in cooperation with John Jacob Astor, prepared the land for development. The Bayard House, north of Jane Street The real Bayard…
Read More…Village Preservation’s own “Greenwich Village Stories.” Jane Freilicher. Photo courtesy of Hamptons Art Hub. Jane Freilicher, Twelfth Street and Beyond, 1976, oil on linen, 50 by 60 inches (courtesy Tibor…
Read More…these spaces. 99 Jane Street 99 Jane St. Photo courtesy of Kayden et al. 99 Jane St. is a market rate development in the Far West Village just south of…
Read More…the upscale Jane Hotel, back then it was a seaman’s hotel in a run-down area by the piers (read about the Jane Hotel’s Titanic connections here). TNC helped revitalize the area, and…
Read More…Photo courtesy of parkme.com. Like 11-19 Jane Street, 221 Thompson is another garage structure. However, unlike the one on Jane Street, this garage structure is three-stories as opposed to two. …
Read More…American Seamen’s Friend Society Sailors’ Home and Institute (now the Jane Hotel). Source: Real Estate Record & Guide, July 13, 1907 via LPC Designation Report copy. Jane Hotel before renovation…
Read More…One Chase Manhattan Plaza is part of our Meredith Jacobson Marciano Collection of our Historic Image Archive History and Development of the Site This lot just two blocks north of…
Read More…II, which saw East Sixth Street transformed into 1917 Little Italy. Meredith Jacobson Marciano Image Archive Collection Jacobson Marciano. Meredith, West Side. Charles and West Street. World Trade Center in…
Read More…their special histories, and reveal their (sometimes hidden) connections to the Village. United Palace Theatre. Meredith Jacobson Marciano Tucked into the Meredith Jacobson Marciano New York in the 1970s to…
Read More…of species within the blocks. Let’s zoom in on a block in our neighborhoods and see what it looked like in 1609. Welikia Map, 12th St & Jane St between…
Read MoreJohn Cameron Mitchell in Hedwig and the Angry Inch at the Jane Street Theatre’s Playbill. Property of the Hedwig Archive. The original Off-Broadway production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch…
Read More…Virginia and Janet [Thurman] paint, study acting and dancing, type when they need money […] The setting is fit for Crime and Punishment, but the buoyancy of Virginia and Janet…
Read More…proposal for 11-19 Jane Street Approved proposal for 11-19 Jane Street There may be another addition to the report soon. We are still awaiting the return to the LPC…
Read MoreNote: This is an updated version of a post originally written by Amanda Davis Two recent Landmarks applications at Jane Street (11 Jane and 85-89 Jane) have garnered a lot…
Read More…with one of its parishioners, Janet Bonica. Mary Help of Christians is one of the many magnificent churches in the East Village with rich history and striking architecture that should…
Read More…1890-1891. The first redesign of the original building came in 1966. It was a radical conversion by architect Victor Christ-Janer. The modernist design emphasized the grand scale of this loft-style…
Read More…known as the Thirteenth Street Presbyterian Church. In 1982, it was converted into cooperative apartments by architect Stephen B. Jacobs. The church has a connection to one of the most…
Read More…de Lavapiés, 1985. Photo courtesy of Zarzuela: Spanish Operetta, American Stage by Janet Lynn Sturman, 2000. Other productions by Rincón Taíno included the U.S. premiere of the comedy “Doña Ramona” by…
Read More…that corner was claimed by Marc Jacobs several years ago, Biography didn’t really go away. It just moved down Bleecker Street and changed its name to bookbook. Same owners, similar…
Read More…appealing you couldn’t believe they were remainders. Although that corner was eventually claimed by Marc Jacobs, Biography didn’t really go away. It just moved down Bleecker Street and changed its…
Read More…preserved district. 82 Jane Street Following the infamous duel, Hamilton was brought to the home of his friend William Bayard whose estate was in the what is now the West…
Read More… Barefoot in the Park – Washington Square Park, Greenwich Village (Hulu) Robert Redford and Jane Fonda make our neighborhoods look really quite good On May 25, 1967, the film…
Read More…had fought for and secured for the Far West Village. Click here for more recent news about the Far West Village including updates on proposed developments at 85 Jane Street,…
Read More…most of the plan and leaving the majority of our zoning protections untouched. Strongly opposed plans for 80-90 ft. tall glass and concrete towers at 85-89 Jane Street in the…
Read More…subjects were New Yorker writer Janet Flanner, writer Djuna Barnes, founders of the avant-garde literary magazine Little Review Jane Heap and Margaret Anderson, and poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. Abbott’s…
Read More…whose work she admires. These include designers such as Grannie Morton, Carla Caruso, Jane Diaz, and Rebecca Norman, among others. A custom job in early stages Jane Diaz Grannie Morton…
Read More…twenty-first. One actor plays Jane Snake, a financial analyst newly hired on Wall Street, and also Le-le-wa’-you, a Lenape fur trader; another portrays a chief of mortgage-backed securities at Lehman…
Read More…Gansevoort Market and Greenwich Village Historic Districts. Jane Street in the Greenwich Village district boasts beautiful cobblestone streets. And West 13th, Little West 12th, a stretch of 9th Avenue, and…
Read More…he was about the hottest haircutter anywhere. After cutting Jane Fonda’s hair into the shape we now know so well, it’s said that she nearly fainted. But the world loved…
Read More…Lenz (@dollylenz) on Feb 13, 2016 at 6:21pm PST 85-93 Jane Street 85 Jane Street. Photo courtesy of Curbed. Located between Greenwich and Washington Streets, a new owner has applied…
Read More…she found it more roomy and affordable than other places in New York. Some of her go-to places to visit are Pylos, Nicoletta, Motorino, & Madman Espresso. Jane Curtin is…
Read More…talk from co-authors Leanna Renee Hieber and Andrea Janes for a paranormal expert storytelling event! This broadcast is taken from a book talk held in September at the Salmagundi Club…
Read More…work in the lock. … In “Rhapsody,” 1959, in-between dropping names from Elizabeth Taylor to Jane (usually Jane Freilicher, the Village painter) and landmarks from the Empire State Building to…
Read More…of business, but the elaborate cornice wasn’t added until years later. P.E. Guerin on Jane Street. 21-25 Jane Street is home to a metalworking shop that actually remains active today!…
Read More…11th floor of Westbeth, on West Street and the corner of Bethune Street. I spoke to artistic director Janet Eilber, who told me that the light and space of this…
Read More…work in the lock. … In “Rhapsody,” 1959, in-between dropping names from Elizabeth Taylor to Jane (usually Jane Freilicher, the Village painter) and landmarks from the Empire State Building to…
Read More…not about being barefoot in Central Park;” while Jane Fonda and Robert Redford are honeymooning at the Plaza Hotel, the film then moves to their new apartment in Greenwich Village….
Read More…and Institute (today the Jane Hotel). Here, the first inquisition was held as well as the first unofficial memorial. According to the New York Times, the “company of 100 were…
Read More…1844 when George Schott built and paid taxes on both of them. By 1880, they were both owned by John & Jane McGuaren, who added three-story, L-shaped extensions to their…
Read MoreInside the East Village’s newest sweet-tooth addiction, Jane‘s Sweet Buns A tour of Jane’s Sweet Buns, East Village dessert spot that serves cocktail-inspired pastries (Food Republic) Danny Meyer will operate…
Read More…use feasible and legal, thus paving the way for a slew of similar such conversions in Lower Manhattan and throughout New York that would follow. Stephens B. Jacobs Group, PC,…
Read More…Jacobs (as quoted in the NY Times), a land-use specialist and partner at Belkin Burden Wenig & Goldman who lectures on air rights at the city bar association: “The technology…
Read MoreA film industry location scout with a keen eye for settings, Meredith Jacobson Marciano has been an East Village resident since 1986. An avid photographer with an eye for pop…
Read More…anywhere, to pull out their phones and see our neighborhoods as they have been through time. Our new archive collections Meredith Jacobson Marciano: NYC from the 1970s to 9-11 and…
Read More…Archive, Meredith Jacobson Marciano Collection: New York in the 1970s through 9-11 Stop 4 Located between 3rd and 4th Streets, 357 Bowery is an individual landmark. Built in 1870, the…
Read More…asking 7M …. and Marc Jacobs exec swaps one Village townhouse for another (Curbed) Gothamist has all your Greenwich Village Halloween Parade pics HERE and HERE Village Emigrant Saving Bank…
Read More…Side) Highway visible on the left. From the Meredith Jacobson Marciano Collection: New York in the 1970s through 9-11, this 1978 photo juxtaposes the graffitied Washington Square Arch with the…
Read More…Mountain Restaurant, 2000. Photo from Village Preservation’s Historic Image Archive/Meredith Jacobson Marciano Collection. The Chinese restaurant Jade Mountain opened in 1931 and operated until 2007 following the death of its…
Read More…setback upper stories designed by architect Stephen B. Jacobs in 1971 when the building was converted to residential uses. The 1971 renovation was the first legal conversion of a manufacturing…
Read More…Nathan’s Famous. Image by Meredith Marciano from the Meredith Jacobson Marciano Collection Part 2 of the Village Preservation Historic Image Archive. In the 1960s and early 1970s Greenwich Village had…
Read More…American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Photo by Lewis Jacobs. Gross immigrated to the United States in 1921 as a Jewish refugee of World War I. He was an avid art student….
Read MoreJeremiah’s Vanishing New York has more on disappearing newsstands High Line gets record $20 million gift (DNAinfo) Marc Jacobs exec sells Bank Street townhouse for $7 million (IBT) OWS protests…
Read More…11th Street, photo by Carole Teller There are scores more photos of local businesses throughout our Historic Image Archive, including collections from Carole Teller and Meredith Jacobson Marciano. And Village…
Read More…(Grub Street) Greenwich Mews Townhouse for Sale (Curbed) ‘Love is Love’ for Marc Jacobs in West Village (Racked) Amy Sedaris Shares her Favorite Offbeat Stores in West Village (NY Daily…
Read More…on East 7th Street (NearSay) CB2 Meeting Highlights Furor Over St. Vincent’s Re-Development (Village Confidential) Mark Jacobs Shuffles His Bleecker Street Stores Again (The Shophound) First Blueberries of the Season…
Read More…by John F. Kennedy (though attempts were made on Gerald Ford by Charles Manson follower Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme and Sara Jane Moore, and Ronald Reagan by Jon Hinckley Jr.). Since…
Read More…15 St. Mark’s Place in 1965 and began giving clients what came to be known as a “shag” haircut for its messy, multi-layered appearance. Celebrities such as Jane Fonda, Warren Beatty,…
Read More…Yoko Ono, Andy Warhol, Baby Jane Holzer, Nico, Viva, and Edie Sedgewick. The clothier frequently outfitted musicians playing at the nearby Filmore East, and was regularly featured in New York…
Read More…Jim Morrison, the New York Dolls, the Velvet Underground, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Andy Warhol, Baby Jane Holzer, Nico, Viva, and Edie Sedgewick. The clothier frequently outfitted musicians playing at…
Read More…businesses around him. He was quick to list his own favorites, including the Istanbul Grill on 14th Street, Tavern on Jane, Bonsignour, and Hudson Bar and Books and its owner…
Read More…fest and a special celebrity pride broadcast featuring Janelle Monáe, Billy Porter, and many more. The Stonewall50 Consortium offers a useful calendar of LGBT events and programming that can be accessed virtually during…
Read More…country held in Washington D.C., which resulted in the formation of the Woman’s Peace Party by Jane Addams, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Fanny Garrison Villard (the daughter of Henry Lloyd…
Read More…said Americans had a “right to privacy” under the fourteenth amendment, and that Jane Roe’s right to privacy was violated by the Texas statute that banned abortions except to save…
Read More…Bayard whose home was near what today is Jane Street where Alexander Hamilton died after being shot in the infamous duel with Aaron Burr in 1804. Finally, there is Peter…
Read More…(Blackfeet); Geraldine Keams (Navajo); Deborah Key (Southern Cheyenne); Jane Lind (Aleut); Grace Logan (Osage); Gerald Bruce Miller (Skokomish/Yakimah 1944-2015); David Montana (Papago); Marie Antoinette Rogers (Mescalero Apache unknown – 1996);…
Read More…from the Howl Arts director, Jane Friedman. I really like teaching people who don’t write professionally and some who have never thought about writing! it’s exciting! Read more about Hettie…
Read More…bugs. Another memorable occasion was when they served beverages in test tubes with dry ice around. The locals from West 12th and Jane Street can often be seen in the…
Read More…1912 Goldman was indeed a Jane-of-all-trades, and for a time after her arrival on the Lower East Side, she worked as a nurse and midwife to the poor and working…
Read More…included Roger Baldwin, Crystal Eastman (also a Villager), Walter Nelles, Morris Ernst, Albert DeSilver, Jane Addams, Felix Frankfurter, and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. Their stated mission was “to defend and preserve…
Read More…take out in to-go cups as well. Mark Greenberg was inspired to open the shop by demand for the teas sold at Grounded, the Jane Street coffeehouse that he and…
Read More…she did, joining a theater group in Harlem. She studied dance with Katherine Dunham, Geoffrey Holder, and Janet Collins. She danced with the Venezuela Jones Negro Youth Group, and took…
Read More…most notorious involved a 1921 case in which Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, publishers of the small avant-garde Greenwich Village literary magazine “The Little Review,” were hauled into court and…
Read More…& Daughters, from our post My Favorite Things: Calvin Trillin/Photograph © by Jill Krementz; All Rights Reserved. Eventually, he located an apartment at 70 Jane Street, next to the Éclair…
Read More…in the formation of the Woman’s Peace Party by Jane Addams, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Fanny Garrison Villard (the daughter of Henry Lloyd Garrison), of which the Woman’s Peace Party…
Read More…route started at the theater on Jane Street, cut through Westbeth’s courtyard and over to Bleecker Street, then zigzagged to end at Washington Square. Its success allowed a second year…
Read More…or with his mother back in Washington D.C. The 1940s brought him back to Greenwich Village where Nugent lived on Jane Street with his friends, Warren Marr II, a publicist…
Read More…of the cutting edge artists of the early 1980s, such as Keith Haring, Dondi White, Futura 2000, Kenny Sharf, SHARP, Jane Dickson, and Lady Pink. Click here to read more…
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