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2013 Village Award Winner: Jeremiah Shea
…of the neighborhood, will be honored with a 2013 Village Award at GVSHP’s Annual Meeting and Awards Ceremony on Monday, June 17. Santa makes a visit to the East Village…
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Bleecker Street Sitting Area Renovation: 2012 Village Award Winner
…bringing her own vision of the park as a light-filled space that welcomes passersby. The renovation will be presented with a 2012 Village Award at GVSHP’s Annual Meeting on Thursday,…
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From Singing to Sofas: The History of the Burger-Klein Building
…as German community meeting and clubhouses including the landmark German-American Shooting Society Clubhouse at 12 St. Mark’s Place and the Pyramid Club at 101 Avenue A, a site GVSHP successfully…
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Judson Memorial Church: 2011 Village Awardee
…eight recipients of a 2011 Village Award, to be presented at the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation’s Annual Meeting on Monday, June 13th. Because the church has provided a…
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Julia Ward Howe, Feminist Pioneer
…acquainted with the writings of Balzac and Sand, and came to meet people like Longfellow, Dickens, Charles Sumner and Margaret Fuller When their father died in 1839, Julia and her…
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Business of the Month: West 14 Apothecary, 312 West 14th Street
…offer Manny insight into multiple sides of the industry, and inform the choices that would ultimately bring him to West 14th street. Pharmacy programs require students to rotate through internships…
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Remembering Edith Lyons
…in the Times… WEINER: What was discussed at those early meetings? Did you come up with a strategy? LYONS: We came up with the fact that we had to do…
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What’s Lost in a Name: The Bowery and the Lost Mohican Trail
…At the foot of the trail at the meeting point of the two rivers, the East River and Hudson River was the home of the Kapsee chief. A large elm…
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Woman Crush Wednesday: Jane Jacobs
…on the fact that the stenographer had lost her tape so that there would be no record of the meeting. And without a record, the hearing wouldn’t be legitimate. A…
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Three Up, Three Down: Explore Our Greek Revival Heritage in Six Buildings
…the first meeting of what would become the Gay Officers Action League, an organization of LGBT police officers; the first public education program on AIDS ever held in Greenwich Village…
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Neighbors, Elected Officials, and Preservationists Protest Demolition of Nine Landmarked Meatpacking District Houses
…called upon the city to halt all demolition and meet with us to discuss the situation and conditions; Borough President Brewer, State Senator Hoylman, and Assemblymember Glick made a similar…
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35 East 12th Street: A Home for the National Negro Congress
…the workforce, and quickly began working to address a whole range of issues facing African-Americans at the time. The Congress was developed following a meeting held at Howard University in…
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2014 Village Award Winner: Pino Prime Meats
…Meats, one of this year’s Village Award winners. Recently we visited the store to meet brothers Leo and Sal, and the man whose footsteps they follow, their father Pino. Pino…
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Taking a Closer Look at “Fortune and Men’s Eyes”
…gave me the feeling of being trapped in a pit full of cobras.” He flew to Canada to meet with Herbert and offered to fundraise and produce the play at…
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Past Village Awardees Inspire New Nominations
…open until March 15. Each year, Village Preservation honors neighborhood institutions, leaders, business, places and organizations at its Annual Meeting and Village Awards. This fun event highlights and celebrates the…
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Go West! – The Leather & Denim Scene in the Weehawken Street Historic District
…The Greenwich Village Waterfront has long been a destination for queer communities to gather and meet. In the 1970s and 80s, Pier 45 was well-known as a popular cruising ground…
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Fighting for Civil Rights at 80 Fifth Avenue
…the Societies might go about celebrating this history. Milgrom encouraged the National Societies to invite Black leaders or educators to speak at their meetings on current issues, to write articles…
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2022 Village Awardee: Astor Place Hair Stylists, 2 Astor Place
Each year, Village Preservation honors the invaluable people, businesses, and organizations that make a special contribution to our neighborhoods at our Annual Meeting and Village Awards. This year, on June 14th,…
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2014 Village Award winner: Village Community Boathouse
…Trust. Last year, more than 1,500 people took advantage of this unique resource to experience New York from water level, in replicas of the traditional craft that used to meet…
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New Affordable Housing in Soho/NoHo/Chinatown: Loopholes, Exemptions, and Lies, Oh My!
…subsidies. Absent the possibility of profits from market units, there is no logical reason to avoid meeting the affordable housing requirement on site. In projects with market units, those apartments…
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2021 Village Awardee: Pangea Restaurant and Carbaret!
It’s that time of year again…time for Village Preservation’s Annual Meeting and Village Awards! The Village Awards recognize and honor some of the businesses, organizations, and institutions that make our…
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Tompkins Square Park, the Summer of Love, the Dead, and a Riot
…this dirty invasion.” Interestingly, on the same page as this article was one detailing a meeting at City Hall between some residents of the Ease Village, city officials, and several…
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Plan To Upzone and Rezone SoHo and NoHo Announced
…potential zoning changes to the area. Details of the proposal have not yet been released, but should be revealed at a virtual public meeting on October 26 (time and details…
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Mutual Aid-Then and Now
…Bowery Mission The Bowery Mission serves homeless and hungry New Yorkers and provides services that meet their immediate needs and transforms their lives from poverty and hopelessness to hope. Lower…
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Business of the Month: La Bonbonniere
…and every single meeting took place here.” “In the blackout we ate here every day,” Wood adds. Elizabeth Wood and Gabriel Nussbaum are Village filmmakers who rely on La Bonbonniere…
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The Hospital for Special Surgery, Born in the East Village
…15, 1862, Hartley held a meeting forming the society for the relief of the Ruptured and Crippled at No. 39 Bible House. Located at Astor Place and East 9th Street…
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Remember ‘The Alamo’: A history of the Astor Place cube
…where Astor Place and 8th Street meet. Though several months before the release of “2001: A Space Odyssey,” the one-ton Cor-Ten steel sculpture shared many qualities with the sci-fi classic’s…
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15 Sites of Critical African American History in Greenwich Village
…delivered his Cooper Union Address on Feb. 27, 1860; photo via Cooper Union 7. First Public Meeting of the NAACP Cooper Union’s Great Hall is the site of many important moments…
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A Victory for a Once (And Future?) Community Center, an Embattled Landmark
…to rescind recently issued permits that would have allowed dormitory construction work to begin. As the letter points out, Singer’s latest proposal does not meet the legal requirements of a…
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14 historic sites of the abolitionist movement in Greenwich Village
…the first public meeting of the NAACP. 8. One of the first free black settlements in North America The first legally emancipated community of people of African descent in North…
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2021 Village Awardee: Linda Pagan
It’s that time of year again…time for Village Preservation’s Annual Meeting and Village Awards! The Village Awards recognize and honor some of the businesses, organizations, and institutions that make our…
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Community Alternative Rezoning Plan For SoHo And NoHo — Public Hearings 12/3 And 12/8
…not think any public review and approval process should take place until in-person meetings can begin again, and a full analysis of the plan’s impacts can take place The analysis…
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Women Crush Wednesday: The Wonder of Villager Judy Holliday
…of the Hollywood mogul Darryl F. Zanuck. Her agent had scheduled her for the notorious ‘4 o’clock meeting’ with Zanuck and ordered her to stuff her bra. At the meeting,…
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Beyond the Village and Back: Cushman Row, 408-418 West 20th Street
…New York as a young man to make his fortune. He ran a successful dry goods business on Pearl Street in Lower Manhattan. He would meet Clement Clarke Moore, the…
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Celebrating the Preservationists of the Greenwich Village Historic District
…Market Courthouse from demolition and to close the Women’s House of Detention on Sixth Avenue. Philip Wittenberg hosted the Committee for a Library in the Jefferson Market Courthouse’s first meeting…
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2022 Village Awardee: Bonsignour, 35 Jane Street
Each year, Village Preservation honors the invaluable people, businesses, and organizations that make a special contribution to our neighborhoods at our Annual Meeting and Village Awards. This year, on June…
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2021 Village Awardee: Bon Yagi
It’s that time of year again…time for Village Preservation’s Annual Meeting and Village Awards! The Village Awards recognize and honor some of the businesses, organizations, and institutions that make our…
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2021 Village Awardee: Casa Magazines, 22 Eighth Avenue
It’s that time of year again…time for Village Preservation’s Annual Meeting and Village Awards! The Village Awards recognize and honor some of the businesses, organizations, and institutions that make our…
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2022 Village Awardee: Pageant Print Shop, 69 East 4th Street
Each year, Village Preservation honors the invaluable people, businesses, and organizations that make a special contribution to our neighborhoods at our Annual Meeting and Village Awards. This year, on June…
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Business of the Month: Moustache, 90 Bedford Street
…marriages that happened at Moustache. They meet at Moustache, and they get married, and they have kids, and their kids come! Asked to reflect on the potential disruption of having…
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2022 Village Awardee: Razom for Ukraine, 140 2nd Avenue
Each year, Village Preservation honors the invaluable people, businesses, and organizations that make a special contribution to our neighborhoods at our Annual Meeting and Village Awards. This year, on June 14,…
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47 West 8th’s Run-In with the Landmarks Law
…that at the January 24, 2012 LPC public meeting, the commissioners denied the proposal outright (you can view it here). The applicant then tried again with a new proposal, but…
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What do the East Village and Bartlesville, OK have in common?
…or “Crossroads of Three Nations,” as it was the central meeting ground of the three different Lenape nations of Lower Manhattan, who spoke three different languages; it was where their…
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Let’s Make 2012 a Year to Remember
…and this first month of the new year is chock-full of public meetings where you’ll have a chance to voice your concerns. The first meeting — a town hall that…
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Welcome Amanda Davis – Village Preservation’s Newest Staff Member
…many others, Amanda’s projects will include design review for projects in our historic districts, historic buildings research for undocumented buildings, and attending public hearings and community meetings on behalf of…
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FABulous East 4th Street
…on the front, which was recently restored beautifully by the City. The building was built in 1889 as a dance and catering hall with restaurants on the bottom floors, meeting…
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What’s Up With that Rotting School on East 9th Street?
…After the CB3 vote on Tuesday at its monthly meeting, CHARAS co-founder Chino Garcia was smiling. (The name CHARAS comes from initials of his name along with those of his…
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Lost Neighborhoods of New York: Goulash Row
…atmosphere of Budapest nights, Little Hungary also served as an important place in the community. Its meeting halls could accommodate large numbers and often held meetings of community groups and…
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Hudson Square Rezoning/South Village Landmarking Deal FAQ
…the LPC will send letters to every owner in the district they are contemplating, letting them know they are considering landmarking their property. Then they hold an “owner’s meeting,” which…
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Young in Age, but Not in Spirit: 2011 Village Awardee
…performers who graced the stage of the notable venue, which was opened in 1958 by Art D’Lugoff. D ‘Lugoff also nurtured a “Salsa Meets Jazz” program, which paired the best…
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East 4th Street and its Political Past
…4th Street where socialist journalist Abraham Cahan addressed the members of the union. 64 East 4th street was by no means a random meeting point. It was the home of…
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City’s Rezoning Plans Won’t Improve Affordability or Quality
…so, meeting the legal requirement for allowing a “reasonable return” which zoning must meet. By contrast, linking MIH to large-scale increases in the allowable amount of market-rate development might undermine…
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Village Preservation East Village Oral History: Marilyn Appleberg
…much more substantial—probably small one-bedrooms or studios. But then he became resigned and started renting the apartments again. So it was filled with young people. And we used to meet…
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One Year in the Life of the East Village/LES Historic District
…four of them still live and/or work in the neighborhood. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting some incredibly interesting people over the years. I think the landmark designation not only…
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Landmarking 101: Just what is calendaring and why should I care?
…date to its public meeting calendar (this does not mean that the date of the hearing has been set, but merely that the LPC has officially decided that it will…
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Take a Virtual Walk! Visit the Homes of Greenwich Village’s Social Change Champions
…the first meeting of the Thursday Evening Club at the family’s home at 22 Washington Square North, one of the first women’s clubs in New York. Inez Milholland, 9 East…
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Where Music and Passion are Always in Fashion
…Hall as “a big, bare, dingy place, where all the year round discontented men meet to discuss their wrongs and sympathize with one another, and where secret societies and political…
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Disappeared LGBT Sites: Oscar Wilde Bookshop and St. Vincent’s Catholic Medical Center
…shelves with literature by gay and lesbian authors, refusing to stock any pornography despite having a limited selection of materials. The bookstore also became a meeting place for the LGBT…
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2022 Village Awardee: Rev. Dr. Jacqui Lewis and Middle Collegiate Church, 112-114 Second Avenue
…the power of love well beyond its geographic location. “Middle Church is where therapy meets Broadway; where art and dance meet a gospel revival; where old time religion gets a…
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2023 Village Awardee: Essex Card Shop, 47 Avenue A
…Preservation’s Annual Meeting and Village Awards on Tuesday, June 13th. Registration is free and open to all! Essex Card Shop is an example of so many of the wonderful things…
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2022 Village Awardee: Jane Friedman and Howl! Arts
Each year, Village Preservation honors the invaluable people, businesses, and organizations that make a special contribution to our neighborhoods at our Annual Meeting and Village Awards. This year, on June…
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The First Ever Village Awards!
…to honor the invaluable people, businesses, and organizations that make a special contribution to our neighborhoods at our Annual Meeting and Village Awards. Outgoing Board President Richard Barnett receiving a…
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October Programs: Building Community in our Neighborhoods
…program includes opportunities to meet your fellow community members in the parlor of the Salmagundi Club, followed by the presentation at 6:30pm. You may not know, but members of the…
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Election Day 2022: Getting Out the Vote with the League of Women Voters of New York City
…official I will join a community action group I will attend a public meeting or demonstration I will attend a community board meeting Stay Active with Village Preservation And you…
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Village Awardee Round-Up!
…at our Annual Meeting in June to present these amazing people, places, and institutions with a Village Award and celebrate their unparalleled contributions to the culture and character of our…
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Abingdon Square: 183 years ago…
…operates there on Saturdays all year long. We had so much fun meeting people and sharing historic photos of the neighborhood. And in February we presented a program featuring the…
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La MaMa ETC to Receive Village Preservation’s Coveted Regina Kellerman Award
Each year at our Annual Meeting and Village Awards ceremony, Village Preservation presents one unique award: the Regina Kellerman Award, named in honor of Village Preservation’s first Executive Director. Regina…
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Happy Birthday, Tom Bernardin!
…most charming, smart, and gracious people” he recalled meeting. Her organization, the Friends of Cast Iron, inspired in Tom decades of work in historical preservation and restoration, and working with…
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2023 Village Awardee: Yara Arts Group
…Meeting and Village Awards on Tuesday, June 13. Registration is free and open to all! Established in 1990 by Virlana Tkacz, Wanda Phipps, and Watoku Ueno, the Yara Arts Group…
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Bright Lights, Big Village
…(Kiefer Sutherland). Meanwhile, the rest of his life is falling apart, as he gets fired from his fact-checking job and loses his creativity as a writer. He meets Tad’s cousin…
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Bright Lights, Big Village
…(Kiefer Sutherland). Meanwhile, the rest of his life is falling apart, as he gets fired from his fact-checking job and loses his creativity as a writer. He meets Tad’s cousin…
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The Diversity and Beauty of Loft Buildings South of Union Square
The area South of Union Square, where Greenwich Village meets the East Village, is a dynamic blend of history, commerce, and culture. It’s where great leaps forward in social movements,…
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Business of the Month: A Sustainable Village, 318 East 9th Street and 50 University Place
…product line and discovering the many challenges that such an endeavor would entail. And then the pandemic hit. The various business meetings that Em and Jaclyn held around town may…
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It Happened Here: Album Covers
…to occupy the building, including lead-singer Robert Plant in drag. The buildings earn double notoriety in rock and roll history as the place where Keith Richards meets Mick Jagger in…
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The Animal Rights Movement’s Origins (and still-visible legacy) in Greenwich Village
…the Astor Place Subway Station But lo and behold, the A.S.P.C.A. got its start in our neighborhood. The organization’s founding meeting took place at Clinton Hall, located in the since…
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Remembering Japanese Internment Through East Village Experimental Theater
…my story, and I documented every step. I had just three meetings with Lee Breuer, but the one I remember was him comparing me to another one man show which…
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Our Epic Greenwich Village and East Village Watch-List
…cast, we meet Danny Ocean’s estranged sister, Debbie. Along with her team, she attempts to pull off the heist of the century at New York City’s star-studded annual Met Gala….
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Arturo’s: 2012 Village Award Winner
…we recognize Arturo’s with a 2012 Village Award at GVSHP’s Annual Meeting on Thursday, June 7th. The coal-oven at Arturo’s. Currently owned by sister and brother team Lisa and Scott…
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Celebrate Good Times … At Webster Hall
…as a place for celebrations, protests, balls, dances, concerts, and more ever since. Greek Americans meet in front of Webster Hall to prepare for return home from Balkan War, October,…
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The Mystery Behind Henington Hall
…of Henington Hall was to be occupied as stores, a restaurant, a hall, meeting rooms, and lofts. Designed by architect Herman Horenburger for Solomon Henig, the community space was likely…
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James Baldwin, born August 2, 1924
…felt at home in the Village, where he was able to meet and interact with other writers and artists. He had lived uptown in a strict religious family and knew…
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2013 Village Award Winner: NYU Faculty Against the Sexton Plan
…“Village Award” at GVSHP’s Annual Meeting on June 17th, and just how much they have managed to accomplish in a short period of time. According to NYU FASP’s website, NYU…
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Block Drug Store: 2013 Village Award Winner
…Meeting and Awards Ceremony on Monday, June 17. Whelan’s Drug Store, 44th Street and Eighth Avenue, Manhattan. Berenice Abbott, 1936. Photo via the New York Public Library. Carmine Palermo Sr….
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South Village Landmark Proposal — What’s In?
…the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s draft proposed boundariess. As promised, in anticipation of Monday’s night’s public property owner’s meeting on the draft proposal, today we are looking at what’s in. Hint:…
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South Village Landmark Proposal — What’s Out?
Last week the Landmarks Preservation Commission revealed their draft proposed boundaries for Phase II of our proposed South Village Historic District, and announced that the public “property owner’s” meeting to…
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Small But Important Changes from the AIDS Memorial Team
Last week the design team behind the AIDS Memorial in St. Vincent’s Park presented some design changes at a public meeting held at the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC). Off the…
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The Truth About Open Space & The NYU Plan
Although NYU’s massive Village expansion plan was modestly reduced at this week’s City Council Land Use Committee meeting (the university would still get over 80% of what it proposed), if…
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City Councilmember Rosie Mendez: 2012 Village Award Winner
…her public service to our community, Rosie will be presented with a 2012 Village Award at GVSHP’s Annual Meeting tonight at The New School’s landmarked Tishman Auditorium. Rosie Mendez protesting…
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The Lower East Side History Project: 2012 Village Award Winner
…History Project. The project will be presented with a 2012 Village Award at GVSHP’s Annual Meeting on Thursday, June 7th. The Lower East Side History Project (LESHP) provides educational programming…
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Who ya gonna call?! Happy anniversary Ghostbusters
…stroll under the arch! The Ghostbusters are cheered on by crowds as they arrive to meet the Mayor. Another Ghostbusters-Greenwich Village connection? Well, a 14 year old New York City…
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A Specialty Food Shop in the Village: 2011 Village Awardee
…Village Award at our Annual Meeting on Monday, June 13th. In the twenty years since GVSHP began presenting Village Awards, many nods have gone out to small specialty food markets….
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A First for Recognizing LGBT History in the South Village
…South Village more than fifty years ago at “Portofino, 206 Thompson Street (c. 1959-75)…an Italian restaurant that was a discreet meeting place frequented on Friday evenings by lesbians. The recent…
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Foods of New York Tours: 2012 Village Award Winner
…GVSHP’s Annual Meeting on Thursday, June 7th. A Foods of New York participant enjoys a Faicco’s rice ball, with the Greenwich Village store in the background. The company, which serves…
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Manhattan’s Only Designated Cultural District: 2011 Village Awardee
…of a 2011 Village Award, which will be presented at the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation’s Annual Meeting on Monday, June 13th. FAB is being given the award for…
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LREI: 2012 Village Award Winner
…citizenship, and community service. The Little Red School House/Elisabeth Irwin High School (LREI) will be presented with a 2012 Village Award at GVSHP’s Annual Meeting on Thursday, June 7th in…
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A Foundry on Jane Street: 2011 Village Awardee
…century, and will be presented at the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation’s Annual Meeting on Monday, June 13th. 21-31 Jane Street Even more remarkably, Guerin is the oldest decorative…
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Historic Preservation 101: What is a Landmark?
…site meet to be designated a New York City landmark? A building or site must be more than 30 years old and have historical or architectural significance as determined by…
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6th and B Garden: 2012 Village Award Winner
…the neighborhood. The garden will be presented with a 2012 Village Award at GVSHP’s Annual Meeting on Thursday, June 7th in recognition of its contributions to the neighborhood. The fence,…
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Save Chelsea Market — Hearing tonight, and history
Those wanting to fight the plan to build massive additions atop the historic Chelsea Market complex might be interested in an important community meeting tonight, and some history about this…
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On This Day: The Tompkins Square Communist Rally
…and the working man) had obtained permission from Parks Commissioner Martin to hold this public meeting so long as it remained peaceful. David Conroy, Chairman of the WMO in NYC,…
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