…this Greenwich Village resident from including the then-revolutionary work of many little-known artists in future displays, helping to forge the world of modern art. Irving Penn, Eight American Artists &…
Read More…(Pennsylvania) High School for Girls and was the only African American in her graduating class. Following her graduation, Fauset received a scholarship to attend Cornell University, and in 1905 made…
Read More…to the era of Boyce & McIntire’s firm, the below image by John Penniman shows a foundry on East 12th street at the foot of the East River, the same location…
Read More…floor became the home and studio of abstract expressionist painter Franz Kline. Franz Kline (1910-1962) was born in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania and moved to New York City in 1938. He…
Read More…has my name on it….Penny Arcade: Politics, Sex, & Reality. Destiny, I suppose.” — Penny Arcade “My first and fondest memories emanate from that most excellent corner of Cornelia and…
Read More…history class. Previously, Du Bois had taught Greek and Latin at Wilberforce University in Ohio, sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, and economics and history at Atlanta University, among other…
Read More…Strand’s 3rd floor Rare Book Room at 828 Broadway at 12th Street). Click here for more details. April 16th at 7:00pm: Reading with musician Lenny Kaye and performance artist Penny…
Read More…and activism to celebrate her work in forwarding the LGBTQ & Femenist movements. Early Life Rita Mae Brown was born November 28th, 1944 in Hanover, Pennsylvania to an unwed, teenage…
Read More…was a teenager, Harnett enrolled in the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1866, then moved to New York in 1869. Here he worked at a silver engraving shop…
Read More…and it was demolished in 2006. This image, taken in 1963, shows Pennsylvania Station undergoing demolition, as seen from Seventh Avenue and 32 Street. The image was taken by…
Read More…signal events in the struggle for the Law, almost on par with the destruction of Pennsylvania Station. If you’ve been involved in a movement for going on 40 years, you…
Read More…the immigrant poor. Starting in 1893, Straus set up a series of “milk depots” throughout Lower Manhattan where safe, pasteurized milk could be made available for just a penny a glass. Mothers…
Read More…York Life Insurance Building in Tribeca at 346 Broadway, which was designed by McKim, Mead, and White (the architects for the Washington Square Arch and the historic Pennsylvania Station). Laurie…
Read More…— the Whitehall Annex (1910), and McKim, Mead & White’s Pennsylvania Train Station (1911), in addition to the Reed & Stern and Warren & Wetmore collaborative project for the Grand…
Read More…Pennsylvania Station, and, of course, 21 Fifth Avenue. It is only a shame that the commission was formed too late to save such beautiful and historically significant structures. Village Preservation…
Read More…of McNally Jackson on West 8th Street with its Goods For the Study stationary store offshoot. McNally Jackson opened its original location in 2004 at 52 Prince St. The bookstore includes a…
Read More…Whitehill as a substation for Consolidated Edison in 1919-20. The building was converted to a multi-use commercial structure in 1963 and subsequently served as the home and studio of famed…
Read More…a very regular presence on the radio waves in the 1950s and 60s thanks to his program that aired on WOR Radio. While his tales were typically stationed in suburban…
Read More…135 Charles Street, c. 1935. MCNY Now a condominium, 135 Charles street used to be the 9th Police Precinct Station House and was built in 1896-97. Designed by John duFais,…
Read More…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…
Read More…entertainment centers. One Fifth Avenue from www.nyc-architecture.com Greenwich Substation 235 Here is just a sampling of Art Deco…
Read More…In addition to the price of gasoline (eight gallons for $1.05 at the ‘Sheridan’ Shell gas station in the photo), some other changes have occurred to the view from this…
Read More…of shops next to the Long Island Railroad Station at 80-20 Austin Street in Kew Gardens, Queens. She was coming home from her shift at the bar at about 3:15…
Read More…storied career was as New York City Police Commissioner beginning in 1895. Among many facets of his notable tenure as Police Commissioner was his commission of new police precinct station…
Read More…at odd angles (think of the Jefferson Market Library). If you look at the 1970s photo, you can see that it replaced an Exxon gas station. According to the Greenwich…
Read More…place for children to play. In 1918, the IRT subway station at Christopher Street/Sheridan Square opened, cementing Sheridan Square’s prominent association with the Village. A bronze statue of General Sheridan…
Read More…an “everything” store with cards, stationary supplies, cleaning supplies, clothing, kitchen good, toys, and anything else one could need in a pinch. From floor to ceiling, one can find useful…
Read More…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…
Read More…neighborhood, such as the MTA Substation at Greenwich Avenue and 13th Street (see images and info). Thus far, however, the MTA has stubbornly refused. MTA Substation at Greenwich Avenue and…
Read More…artist, was allegedly drawing on the walls of the Brooklyn-bound L train platform at the 14th Street and 1st Avenue subway station in the East Village, when he was approached…
Read More…In keeping with the goal of selling low-waste, plastic-free products, the store has recently added a refillery station, where customers can replenish their cleaning supplies using their own containers, spare…
Read More…wander down Sullivan Street between Houston and Prince Streets and into one of our neighborhood’s most recent additions, India & Purry, a home decor, stationery, and accessory store that will…
Read More…website. Here’s your chance to learn about the Hamilton Fish House (a.k.a. Stuyvesant-Fish House). That seems odd, given that new signs in at least two different subway stations broadcast the…
Read More…were now some people heading in an uptown direction. First there were a few, then dozens, then hundreds, all fleeing the devastation they had just narrowly escaped. Many were desperately…
Read More…in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, to Washington D.C. for burial near his brother, President John F. Kennedy, at Arlington National Cemetery. Thousands of mourners silently lined the train route and stations…
Read More…several much more highly altered buildings that are less old and with much less architectural integrity intact, as well as a gas station at the corner of Houston and Lafayette…
Read More…start of his descent into drugs and alcohol — and into the nearby Christopher Street subway station, jumping the turnstiles to escape on the 1 train. Conway walking to his…
Read More…start of his descent into drugs and alcohol — and into the nearby Christopher Street subway station, jumping the turnstiles to escape on the 1 train. Conway walking to his…
Read More…by bus to challenge the segregation of bus station waiting rooms and restaurants. Kunstler went to a Mississippi bus station, where he watched as five determined young people sat down…
Read More…stores up and down the East Coast (in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Massachusetts, Virginia, North Carolina, Delaware, and Washington D.C.). The first NYC location opened at the Brooklyn…
Read More…others, she moved from Pennsylvania to New York City with her mother, Mary Warner Moore, in 1918. They originally settled in Greenwich Village at 14 St. Luke’s Place where she…
Read More…Bass, Peter Ruta, Richard Meier, Merce Cunningham, Matt Umanov, David Amram, Verna Small, Marlis Mober, Jonas Mekas, Margot Gayle, Wolf Kahn, Lorcan Otway, Frances Goldin, Chino Garcia, Penny Arcade, and…
Read More…East Village of the last half century, from Jane Jacobs to Jonas Mekas, Merce Cunningham to Margot Gayle, Chino Garcia to Penny Arcade. Read or Listen to John Guare’s Oral History HERE Check Out All 60+ Oral Histories HERE…
Read MoreDavid Werner Amram III is an American composer, arranger, and conductor of orchestral, chamber, and choral works, many with jazz flavorings. He plays piano, French horn, Spanish guitar, and pennywhistle, sings, and is passionate about teaching music…
Read More…David Amram, Verna Small, Marlis Mober, Jonas Mekas, Margot Gayle, Wolf Kahn, Lorcan Otway, Frances Goldin, Chino Garcia, Penny Arcade, and James Polshek, among many others. Explore them all HERE. …
Read More…David Amram, Verna Small, Marlis Mober, Jonas Mekas, Margot Gayle, Wolf Kahn, Lorcan Otway, Frances Goldin, Chino Garcia, Penny Arcade, and James Polshek, among many others. Explore them all HERE. …
Read More…preservationists, artists, writers, activists, business owners, and other impactful figures of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo since the mid-1990s. These include Jane Jacobs, Chino Garcia, Penny Arcade, David…
Read More…of Ireland While Carnegie often chose places to construct a library based on a personal connection, such as Braddock, Pennsylvania, where the Carnegie Steel mills had been located, he chose…
Read More…Painter, His Paintings, His Life. Explore all of our oral histories here, including Jane Jacobs, Penny Arcade, Wolf Kahn, Jonas Mekas, Marlis Momber, Edwin Fancher, Margot Gayle, David Amram, Matt…
Read More…by Susan B. Anthony and inspired a new generation of revolutionaries led by Alice Paul. Upon her return from England, Paul finished a Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania and…
Read More…an instrumental part of the women’s suffrage movement. Rose O’Neill with her sister Callista O’Neill was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania on June 25, 1874. Her family relocated by covered wagon…
Read More…as the street is spelled today—was a New York merchant who eventually succeeded Benedict Arnold in command of defenses of West Point; William Thompson, of Pennsylvania; David Wooster, of Connecticut;…
Read More…An image of this was captured by Pennie Smith, and would later be used on the cover the band’s London Calling Album. The Palladium, 1979. Source: Cinema Treasures The Clash…
Read More…Rights and Black Power movements while tracking and encouraging the movement. Cover of the February 1968 Evergreen Review featuring Che Guevara. Evergreen Review published radical political pieces penned by Che…
Read More…Pennsylvania, and Delaware was for many years inhabited by Native Americans known as the Lenape (“the people”). Referred to as “the Delaware” by English-speaking colonists, the group had a strong…
Read More…vacant storefront with a for-rent sign while walking through her neighborhood. Shortly thereafter, in April 1987, Le Fanion was born, named after the French word for pennant, a flag used…
Read More…storefront windows provided the ample lighting that Franz Kline (May 23, 1910 – May 13, 1962) required for his creative process. Kline was born in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania and moved…
Read More…after Anderson, Theodore Dreiser (August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945) took up residence at 16 St. Luke’s Place. Dreiser, known for his contributions to left-wing periodicals, penned his acclaimed…
Read More…visit, but at Holiday time, it is extra special! The stately building was initially constructed for Irad Hawley, the president of the Pennsylvania Coal Company. The coal company had yards…
Read More…the group took to Shanksville, Pennsylvania in 2002. Click here to see the full collection. Do you have unique photos of Greenwich Village, the East Village, NoHo, or other NYC…
Read More…of two people in lower manhattan. But the portrayal of the Lenape person is also not inaccurate, according to David Penney, the associate director of museum scholarship at the Smithsonian’s…
Read More…release, he was granted the opportunity to study at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania. During his studies, he became deeply interested in the medical field; determined to finish his education, he…
Read More…others, she moved from Pennsylvania to New York City with her mother, Mary Warner Moore, in 1918. They originally settled in Greenwich Village at 14 St. Luke’s Place where she…
Read More…including a trip the group took to Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where Flight 93 was brought down by its passengers on September 11, 2001, in an effort to free the plane and…
Read More…Astor Place, Photograph by Robert Fisch, May 27, 2000. While Carl Fischer vacated in 1999, and now divides its operations between Wall Street and Pennsylvania, the Cooper Square building, now…
Read More…Margot Gayle, Wolf Kahn, Lorcan Otway, Frances Goldin, Chino Garcia, Penny Arcade, and James Polshek, among many others. Explore them all HERE. For more, check out… The full transcript of…
Read More…the most important authors of his own day, penning such works as Babbitt, Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, and Dodsworth (which was written at least in part while Lewis lived on West…
Read More…death in 1831, he relocated to the United States, where he continued his education at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Beginning in 1839, he became a professor of…
Read More…of Islam must get every penny that might come to me.’”* Starting in 1963 Haley began over 50 interviews with Malcolm X over a 2-year period and to tell…
Read More…increase its classroom space by 25 percent without spending a penny. But city officials refused to ask N.Y.U. to even consider these alternatives. Rally calling upon Borough President Stringer to…
Read More…foggy Virginia hills to hear the Jerry Garcia Band at the very same “Hampton Coliseum” that I’d penned onto so many cassette jackets. And so it is with Fillmore: a…
Read More…American Foundation. Read had graduated from Smith College and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and had been active in the women’s suffrage movement in the 1910s. She typified the…
Read More…Penn South Houses in Chelsea. He graduated from Hunter College and the Bronx High School of Science before that, and has a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from Baruch. At…
Read More…hand-cut wall tiles, round “penny tiles” on the floor (which aren’t made anymore) are all staying – but where those elements are missing or damaged, they will not be replaced…
Read More…newspapers for 50 cents each day. They would then spend hours shouting out headlines in order to persuade those passing by to purchase a newspaper for one penny. A newsie…
Read More…a small Pennsylvania town in the Allegheny foothills, the daughter of two lawyers, she witnessed hard times from the safety of her back porch. She was mesmerized by stories of…
Read More…the skyscraper and stripping architecture down to its most essential elements nevertheless found a distinct and remarkable home in Greenwich Village. When Sullivan died, he was a penniless alcoholic, his…
Read More…included artist Lorrie Goulet; poets Ron Padgett, Elaine Equi, Charles Bernstein, and Simon Pettet; modern poetry scholar Al Filreis, founder of Kelly Writers House at University of Pennsylvania; and critics…
Read MoreThis is an updated re-posting of a piece originally penned by GVSHP staff member Drew Durniak. President Lincoln’s funeral march reaches Union Square after its trip up Broadway. It was…
Read More…and federal penitentiaries in New York, Pennsylvania, and the Midwest) to design the civic structure, which was originally conceived as a 14-story “skyscraper-type” courthouse and prison in 1913. Hopkins substantially…
Read More…upstate and in Pennsylvania, Riis returned to New York City and worked as a police reporter at The New York Tribune. This work brought him to some of the most…
Read More…to a whole new level. Born in Pennsylvania on May 4, 1958, Keith Haring came to New York in 1978 to attend the School of Visual Arts. He quickly became a…
Read More…the Nation of Islam must get every penny that might come to me.’”* Starting in 1963 Haley began over 50 interviews with Malcolm X over a 2-year period to…
Read More…a reading room, a penny provident society, and numerous clubs. Additionally, the church had an extensive mission that catered to Italian immigrants and even offered services, meetings, and bible classes…
Read More…years. They were both influential activists for women’s suffrage and founders of the League of Women Voters. Read graduated from Smith College and the University of Pennsylvania Law School and…
Read More…be a hefty sum, but wouldn’t it be worth every penny to live in this quiet, secluded oasis? We can all dream, right? a close-up of the lovely window boxes…
Read More…has long called for the City Council to hear and pass this bill which would help small businesses to be able to negotiate long-term leases with landlords. GVSHP recently penned…
Read More…working, now living in Pennsylvania, and was most recently honored at the Brooklyn Museum in February 2018. From Sanchez’ 1999 book of poems, Shake Loose My Skin. Credit: Beacon Press…
Read More…the Commission, Mrs. Kellerman was instrumental in the saving of SoHo. In the 1970s, while a doctoral candidate at Pennsylvania State University, she was field director of an architectural and…
Read More…Please add them in Comments. Further resources: Maybe You Can Save Your Favorite Restaurant Before It Closes, Off the Grid San Francisco – and Sean Penn – show a city’s…
Read More…New York’s poor led to changes in city government health and building codes. After working several odd jobs in different locations upstate and in Pennsylvania, Riis returned to New York…
Read More…Manhattan, first working as a clerk, then moving into the print world, serving as publisher, editor, pressman, and distributor. In one such publication, Life Illustrated, Whitman penned opinion pieces on…
Read More…in shaping his character and facilitating his accomplishments. Rustin lived his later years in Penn South Houses in Chelsea, a limited-equity non-profit cooperative built by unions, and following his death…
Read More…can be found at the Electronic Poetry Center of the University of Pennsylvania here. Continue to delve into the literary and artistic heritage of the East Village through our interactive…
Read More…case and sledgehammer. Also on display were artifacts found when the backyard was excavated, including an 1863 “New York City Penny,” a plastic methadone bottle, and segments of clay pipes….
Read More…in his day — he was President of the Pennsylvania Coal Company, and served on the boards of Bank of America, the New York Life Insurance Company, and the Metropolitan…
Read More…The queerest looking specimens of ragamuffins waylaid the pedestrian in droves, and many thousands of pennies found their way into the hands of the little nondescripts.” But if the practice…
Read More…Court its Flowerbox Award. $4.2 million may be a hefty sum, but wouldn’t it be worth every penny to live in this quiet, secluded oasis? We can all dream, right?…
Read More…Ray Deter, Owner of d.b.a Passes Away (DNAinfo) The Mosaic Man Joins Facebook & Twitter (Bowery Boogie) East Village Couple Severely Injured in Pennsylvania Shoot Out (NY Daily News) An…
Read More…one of the most prolific writers of the Beat Generation, lived and worked in the East Village. The poem above was penned by Allen Ginsberg from his apartment at 437…
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