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Landmarks 50: Merchant’s House Museum
photo source: wikipedia All this year we have been celebrating the 50th anniversary of the New York City landmarks law, and today we focus on one of the very first…
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Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Landmarks Law
…(Buildings such as Grand Central Station, and the Merchant’s House Museum on East 3rd Street are individually landmarked.) There are also over 117 interior landmarks and 10 scenic landmarks. Some…
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Business of the Month — Theatre 80, 80 St. Marks Place
…80 St. Marks Place, our December Business of the Month. Theater 80 St. Marks. Photo courtesy of panoramio.com. This unique building is a grand amalgam of space, histories, and uses….
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A Move To Allow New York City To Save Its Landmarks
On April 6, 1965, the New York City Council approved the bill granting the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission the power to designate and preserve New York City’s landmarks.…
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“Hidden Figures” #SouthOfUnionSquare: The Unsung Female Engineers Who Built Some of NYC’s Greatest Landmarks
…annex was connected, both of which are now New York City landmarks. Municipal Building, c. 1910 These women, responsible for the design that made many of our landmarks possible and…
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Lafayette’s Local Legacy: A Street Brimming With Landmarks
…landmarks law in 1965, and they were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. You can read their designation report here. Present day Colonnade Row. Only 4…
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The Female Trailblazer Who Helped Build New York’s Landmarks #SouthOfUnionSquare
…and left behind some of its most beloved landmarks. 78 Fifth Avenue, c. 1940, courtesy of Municipal Archives 78 Fifth Avenue is a Neo-Rennasiance style loft building constructed in 1896…
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2020 Village Preservation Year in Review: Landmarks Applications
This has certainly been a challenging year, to say the least. In spite of that, Village Preservation, the Community Boards, and the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) have…
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47 West 8th’s Run-In with the Landmarks Law
…when we noticed the property had violated the Landmarks Law by not filing for a Certificate of Appropriateness (C of A) application before it made changes to the building. The…
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Where Hip Vintage in NYC Got its Start: Limbo on St. Marks Place
…was first located at 24 St. Mark’s Place, and by 1967, made its home at 4 St. Mark’s Place. This second-hand shop, initially appealing to hippies, rebellious teens, and young…
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Ten Years as Landmarks for Two Nearly Two Hundred Year Old Houses
…Rohr family were designated landmarks by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. These two houses were among thirteen federal houses which GVSHP and the New York Landmarks Conservancy proposed…
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Landmarks of a Capital of Jazz
A sign of the times, present and past. Photo by Dorkys Ramos for the NEA. It’s been a heavy spring so far, with troubling news around the world, the nation,…
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Jackson Square Library: An Exquisite Building, and once a church of ‘Exquisite Panic’
…1879 by a teacher at Grace Church along with a group of other women and teachers. The New York Free Circulating Library was established to serve every New Yorker, especially…
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Richard Upjohn — A Missionary for the Gothic Revival
…Trinity Episcopalian churches he would design over his career. Locally, he designed the Church of the Ascension on 5th Avenue and West 10th Street. Church of the Ascension on 5th…
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The Village Backdrops of Oscar-Winning Films
…Beautiful Mind in front of St. Marks Church Actress Jennifer Connelly winning the Oscar for Actress in a Supporting Role in 2001. One of the most historically significant landmarks in…
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23 LGBT landmarks of the East Village and Noho
…Auden residence, 77 St. Marks Place Google Street View of 77 St. Mark’s Place The renowned poet, another English transplant to the East Village, lived in a tiny apartment here…
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In Fight to Protect LGBTQ+ History, Too Many Landmarks Remain Unprotected South of Union Square
…remain numerous sites that speak to the history yet remain unprotected under our landmarks laws and vulnerable to demolition. Village Preservation has been advocating for landmark designation of these structures…
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Business of the Month: Anthony Aiden Opticians, 42 St. Marks Place
…a genius of a chef and great person.” And he noted that “with Veselka, how could you go wrong?” Anthony and his business continue to thrive at 42 St. Marks Place,…
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Landmarks of New York: First Houses
…First Houses, click HERE for the New York City Landmarks Designation Report. You can find out more about other individual landmarks and historic districts in our neighborhood on the GVSHP…
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Landmarks vs. National Monuments: How Safe is the Stonewall Inn?
…city, state, or nation.” In NYC, there are currently over 36,000 landmarks, including individual, interior and scenic landmarks and sites located within historic districts. Buildings or historic sites that are…
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A Bevy of New Historic Images from Landmarks Applications
…the applications and added them to our historic image archive, which has become quite the treasure trove. The most recent batch of landmarks applications had some fantastic new images we…
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Only Seven Landmarks in One of New York’s Most Historically Rich Areas? What about 37 East 12th Street?
Recently we looked at seven late 19th and early 20th century buildings now under consideration for landmarking by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (read about them here,) They…
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The Village’s Twin Peaks: From a quirky ‘Swiss-chalet’ to a landmarks controversy
…with a cream and brown paint job that mimicked its Alpine cottage inspiration. However, a more recent paint job stripped away this history, resulting in a controversial landmarks battle. At Twin…
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Victory!: 3 St. Marks Place Air Rights Transfer Defeated
…St. Marks Place to 3 St. Marks Place (at 3rd Avenue), which would have increased by 20% the size of a planned office tower there. This more or less guarantees that the…
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Skyscraping and River-Spanning Landmarks of Midtown Manhattan Go #BeyondTheVillageAndBack
…Landmarks Preservation Commission in its 1974 designation report. He “initiated a new trend in skyscraper design … with its bold cubic massing of forms — often associated with the Art…
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Cemeteries of the East Village, Part I
…Church moved to 48 St. Marks Place in 1902. Our research indicates that the building was then the location of The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of…
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SoHo’s Cast Iron Landmarks: 1969 and Today
…the Little Singer Building here. The E.V. Haughwout Building, 490 Broadway Designated an individual landmark by the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission on November 25, 1965, this building was designed by…
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Mayor Proposes to Slash Staff and Budget for Landmarks Preservation Commission
Photo: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office Mayor Adams’ recently released draft proposed budget includes a steep cut to the funding and staffing of the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC). The LPC is…
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New Historic Images Added to Archive From Landmarks Applications –Ninth Avenue El demo, and Pre-PS 41
We’ve just added over a dozen wonderful new images to our historic image archive culled from recent landmarks applications in our neighborhoods. Some highlights include the old Ninth Avenue Elevated…
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Latest Landmarks Applications
…when the Community Board and NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission public hearings will take place, and how you can weigh in before decisions are made. You can also sign up for…
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Tomorrow Marks an NYU Anniversary, But Come to the Rally TODAY!
On April 21, 1831, New York University was chartered as the University of the City of New York by a group of prominent New York residents who believed the city…
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Sign The Petition to NYC Mayoral Candidates: Our Next Mayor Must Value Preserving Landmarks and Neighborhoods
The campaign for Mayor of New York City is in full swing, with primary elections June 22. The next Mayor needs to know that historic preservation makes for a better…
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Hearing for St. Marks Office Tower Air Rights Transfer This Thursday
…REJECT the St. Mark’s Place air rights transfer – CLICK HERE Send a letter thanking Councilmember Rivera for stating her opposition to the St. Mark’s Place air rights transfer and…
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Tompkins Square Park Landmarks QUIZ!
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Historic Preservation 101: What is a Landmark?
…nation. New York City has more than 23,000 landmarks including individual, interior and scenic landmarks and historic districts. Individually-designated landmarks get some special treatment under the NYC Zoning Code in…
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Historic Preservation 101: What is a Landmark?
…of a number of individual landmarks and historic districts. To learn more about landmarks in the Village, please click here. For more resources and information about landmarks please visit GVSHP’s Resources page. …
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Saving Sacred Spaces
…once perhaps the most significant Jewish community in America. St. Veronica’s Roman Catholic Church St. Veronica’s Roman Catholic Church, 155 Christopher Street (John Deery, 1889), Greenwich Village Historic District Extension…
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The Forgotten Graveyards of Greenwich Village and the East Village
…while some gravesites remain carefully maintained and hallowed ground, such as the those at St. Mark’s in the Bowery Church on Stuyvesant Street, Trinity Church on Wall Street, and St Paul’s…
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15 Sites of Critical African American History in Greenwich Village
…relocated church on West 53rd Street was built in 1965; photo via Wikimedia 5. First Black Catholic Church in the North, St. Benedict the Moor Church On November 18, 1883, the…
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Beyond the Village and Back: Bowne House in Flushing, Queens — Birthplace of Religious Freedom in America
…Church. Both John Bowne and Peter Stuyvesant were buried underneath their respective houses of worship, Bowne at the Meeting Burial Ground and Stuyvesant underneath what is now St. Mark’s church….
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Exploring the New York City Backdrops of Sex and the City
…Preservation Commission designated it as the Gansevoort Market Historic District. St. Marks Church-In-The-Bowery The historic St. Marks Church-In-The-Bowery, situated in the East Village, provides the setting for Lexi Featherston’s funeral…
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Walk Through LGBTQ+ History with Our Civil Rights and Social Justice Map
…Catholic Church at 371 Sixth Avenue. In the 1980s, the church became known as one of the most welcoming and accepting Catholic churches in the city for gay congregants; to…
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10 (more) of the most charming spots in the Greenwich Village Historic District
…Church of St. Saviour in Bath, England, while the tower is modeled on the Magdalen Tower in Oxford. The church’s ample grounds surrounded by its 19th-century iron fence maintain the…
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135 East 2nd Street, Then & Now
…carrying those from St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church located nearby. You can read more about the General Slocum in an Off the Grid post from last summer. St. Nicholas Church…
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PFLAG Historic Plaque Unveiling On A Beautiful Day
…then Duane United Methodist Church (since merged with the former West Fourth Street United Methodist Church to form The Church of the Village) gave Jeanne the space in which to…
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The South Village’s Italian Heritage
…St. Anthony of Padua Church, 155 Sullivan Street Built in 1886, St. Anthony’s is the very first and oldest church built in America for an Italian-American congregation. The grand and impressive Romanesque…
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The St. Mark’s Historic District: Tiny, But Packed With History
…the third floor. Interested in learning more about the St. Mark’s Historic District? Read 1969 NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission designation report for the St. Mark’s Historic District here or read…
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Celebrating 51 Years of Landmarking
…century old, but a significant amount of progress has been made in the last decade and a half. City, such as St. Mark’s-in-the-Bowery Church, which celebrated its 50th landmarks anniversary…
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A Young Italian Immigrant Who Almost Didn’t Make It Into America
…of Pompeii Church, 1907. Copyright Center for Migration Studies, www.archive.gvshp.org. But this historic (and now landmarked) church is actually the new Our Lady of Pompeii Church, constructed in 1926-27. The…
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Celebrating the 15th Amendment on Bleecker Street
…AME Zion sold the church on Church Street and purchased the former Dutch Reform Church at 10th and Bleecker Streets, in close proximity to the area that was known in…
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Retracing The East Village’s Historic Little Italy
…in early September in the space to mark the day of the feast. The Festival of St. Lucy (La Fiesta de Santa Lucia) on East 12th Street This painting by…
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A Big Week in History for South Village Landmarking
…One of the Village’s earliest designated individual landmarks was Judson Memorial Church, Campanile, and Hall, designated May 17, 1966. This incredible ensemble of buildings at #51-55 cover the entire blockfront…
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Happy 47th Birthday, St. Mark’s Historic District
…St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery The most significant structure in the district is the historic St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery. The church was designated an individual landmark earlier, in 1966. At the time, the…
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Tales from the Crypt: Greenwich Village as seen through its burial sites
…Street Presbyterian Church Although not in Greenwich Village, the Spring Street Presbyterian Church was a bit of an anomaly in terms of its views, which is also reflected in their…
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Womens’ Empowerment and Colonial Evangelism Converge at 11 East 12th Street
…Mrs. Mills, a delegate from the Holy Trinity Church in Harlem, and Miss E. McVickar, a delegate from St. George’s Church. “Map of Indian Reservations” from the Second Annual Report…
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Cemeteries of The East Village, Part IV
…National Register of Historic Places. The New York City Marble Cemetery Second Avenue Presbyterian Church and the Church of the Nativity Vaults The original church built in 1832 In 1832,…
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Kerouac and Catholicism in Greenwich Village
…to be designated as an individual landmark for the past year. Our Lady of Guadalupe Church bears enormous significance as New York City’s very first church for a Spanish-speaking congregation,…
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Village Cemeteries Part V, NoHo Edition
…1810 the pastor and congregation joined the Episcopal Church and the land was transferred to Zion Church, which was incorporated on March 10, 1810 with a stipend from Trinity Church….
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Have a drink! The historic public drinking fountains of the Village and East Village
…at St. Mark’s Church, on the corner of 2nd Avenue and 10th Street, and one at Judson Memorial Church at the corner of Washington Square South and Thompson Street. I…
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In Memoriam: Howard R. Moody
…Memorial Church and in the Greenwich Village community today. The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation presented Judson Memorial Church a 2011 Village Award for taking meaningful action for social…
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Lost Saints of the Village
…Anne’s Church, 110-124 E. 12th St. St. Ann’s Church and rectory, pre-demolition. On 12th Street, between 4th and 3rd Aves., sits the site of the former St. Ann’s Church. In…
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New Evidence of 19th Century African American Life in Our Neighborhoods
…church might be changing that understanding. The history of Mother AME Zion Church, now located on West 137th Street, stretches back to the late 18th century. Incorporated in 1801, Mother…
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One Summer in 1888, Three Milestones for the Italian-Americans in the South Village
…St. Anthony of Padua On March 16, 1834, the Archdiocese of New York celebrated the dedication of St. Joseph’s Church at Sixth Avenue and Waverly Place to serve all Catholics…
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East Village’s Russian Orthodox Cathedral’s Road to Landmark Designation
…an 8-story tower atop the church impossible. The LPC entered into a “standstill agreement” with the church whereby the church would not proceed with any plans to change the exterior…
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New Historic Images Show Italian Immigrant Life in the South Village
Originally erected by the Third Unitarian Universalist Church in 1833 on the corner of Downing and Bleecker Streets, in 1883 this church was sold to the African-American Roman Catholic congregation…
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323 East 6th Street: Religious Centers Bookend a City Disaster
…the St. Matthews Church until 1857 when enough funds were secured ($8,000) to purchase the church. Between 1904 and 1939, the building remained home to the St. Mark’s Church. By…
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PFLAG Plaque Unveiled
…a permanent worship space within the church every Sunday evening. Both men were openly-gay within a church that clearly then discouraged homosexuality. Two plaques within the United Methodist Church of…
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12 historic Italian-American sites of the East Village
…and friends have held a reunion of sorts each year in early September in the space to mark the day of the feast. 4. The Festival of St. Lucy (La…
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What’s in a Name?: Father Demo Square
…church on Bleecker Street found itself in the path of the new thoroughfare. Faced with demolition, Demo organized the campaign to move and construct a new church and school at…
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Pride Month in NYC: More Historic LGBT sites to visit in our neighborhoods
…Episcopal Church, 135 West 4th Street, NYC, NY 10014 The Church was commonly referred to as “Peace Church” especially for its activism against the Vietnam War, but it was also…
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Celebrating the Beginnings of a Beloved Village Landmark
Grace Church as seen from East 10th Street Today we pause to celebrate the anniversary of the consecration of one of the Village’s most beloved landmarks: on March 7th, 1846,…
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First Avenue Estates Win A Big Victory for Preservation Everywhere
…be relieved of those landmarks requirements, i.e. allowed to demolish an existing building or build a new one which the Landmarks Preservation Commission had disapproved. The standard for proving “hardship”…
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Szia, Nadia! – Immigrant History through the Lens of Netflix’s “Russian Doll”
…Myra Church. The church was built in 1883 as the Memorial Chapel of St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery and designed in the Gothic Revival style by W. H. Ryssell…
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Eleventh Street Methodist Episcopal Chapel Landmark Designation
…Revival style door. In 1901, the mission reopened with the new name of People’s Home Church and Settlement. The Methodist Episcopal Church closed the church in 1930 and sold the…
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The Supposed Streets of Little Africa
…in the church, one that discriminated against its growing Black congregation, eventually leading to separate services. In 1799 the African American leadership decided to form a separate church, the African…
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Seeing Wright in the Village
…Frank Lloyd Wright. St. Mark’s Tower project, New York, NY (Model). 1927–1929. Frank Lloyd Wright. St. Mark’s Tower project, New York, NY (Model). 1927–1929 (detail). Rooted in Wright’s Usonian vision,…
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East Village Building Blocks Tour: Synagogues
…Church, and then later St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church. The church was originally constructed to serve the growing German population of what was known as Kleindeutchland in the 19th century….
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Centers of History: Our Lady of Pompeii, and Guadalupe
…the Italian-American community of Greenwich Village, with over 81.5 percent of parishioners hailing directly from Northern Italy in the earliest years of the church. The church functioned as a center…
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Deadly History
…remains were most likely from the burial ground of the Spring Street Presbyterian Church, a staunchly abolitionist church built in 1811 on the site. The Church of St. Luke in…
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Beyond the Village and Back: The Brotherhood Synagogue, 28 Gramercy Park South
…no place to preach, Rabbi Block turned to the Village Presbyterian Church. Village Presbyterian Church on West 13th Street The Brotherhood Synagogue would use the Village Presbyterian Church as their…
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Sacred Sites Open House Weekend Coming Up!
…sacredsites@nylandmarks.org or call 212.995.5260. clockwise from top left: Interiors of Grace Church, St. Luke in the Fields, St. Brigid-St. Emory, and Church of the Ascension. The event includes several great…
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Expanding Preservation Under Beverly Moss Spatt
…first reform Democratic club. She served on the City Planning Commission from 1966-1970 and the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission from 1974-1982. She served as the Landmarks Commission’s Chair…
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June is Gay Pride Month
…but unwilling to designate gay landmarks, and in 2012, the double-standard the LPC applied in evaluating potential landmarks with connections to LGBT history, as compared to other kinds of history….
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Fingers Crossed for Another: Individual Landmark Designations We’ve Won
We had a promising hearing last Tuesday at the Landmarks Preservation Commission on our proposed landmark designation of 827-831 Broadway, with a vote planned for this coming Tuesday, October 31st.…
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