We at Village Preservation keep tabs on all different types of preservation, including environmental sustainability. So we’ve been really interested to learn about the expanding opportunities in our neighborhoods for…
Read More…Byron Company, and Jessie Tarbox Beals. The show features historic images of many parks in our neighborhoods, including Tompkins Square, Union Square, Washington Square, and Sheridan Square. The images cover…
Read MoreWe love our landmarks. So we thought we’d show it with our new series: Your Neighborhood Landmark. This series will highlight and celebrate individual landmarks across our neighborhoods that have…
Read MoreThe Whitney Museum of American Art opened its doors at its new location—99 Gansevoort Street—on May 1, 2015. Founded by sculpture and arts patron Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, the museum famous…
Read More…maps, statistics, and short narratives about neighborhoods across the city, all based on the 1940 census. According to the site, “The Center for Urban Research at the CUNY Graduate Center…
Read MoreOn this day in 1950, the Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas arrived in New York City. Born in Swansea, Wales, Thomas left school at age 16 and became a…
Read More…our neighborhoods and their architecture, cultural heritage, small businesses, and vibrant communities. Interns assist our growing, dynamic, community‐oriented team of staff to take on educational, programming, advocacy, research, administrative, and…
Read More…and is eager to explore our neighborhoods’ role as a cradle of modern socio-political movements. Hew received their B.F.A. in Historic Preservation in 2020 from the Savannah College of Art…
Read MoreToday Anna Marcum joins Village Preservation as our Director of Research and Preservation. Anna is an architectural historian and preservationist based in Brooklyn who has worked on historic preservation projects…
Read More…the historic features, structures, and functions of that neighborhood as a historic and affordable amusement destination. His writing about that redevelopment process has been published in numerous academic journals. He…
Read More…Whether you want a quick bit of information or want to spend hours exploring neighborhood history and preservation efforts, VillagePreservation.org is the place to be! Email us at info@gvshp.org with any questions or feedback. …
Read MoreToday we are happy to announce that Lannyl Stephens has joined the team as our new Director of Development and Special Events. On the heels of the 18th Annual Spring…
Read MoreAugust is Black Business Month. So we’re showcasing some of the many amazing Black-owned businesses in our neighborhood. Like all our great independently-owned businesses, you can patronize all year round…
Read More…neighborhoods significantly less socio-economically diverse, with more expensive housing prices, than currently. While the neighborhood currently contains a considerable percentage of high income earners, it also contains a broad diversity…
Read More…Elizabeth Blackwell, America’s first female doctor, established cutting-edge care facilities and practices throughout these neighborhoods, the imprint of which can still be felt to this day in surviving institutions and…
Read MoreIn continuing our celebration of black history, we have a new and exciting entry to our Civil Rights and Social Justice Map: North America’s First Freed Black Settlement. According to…
Read MorePlan would likely only create 1/5 of projected Affordable Housing, push out Asian American and lower income residents would likely destroy more Affordable Housing than it creates….
Read More…to define our neighborhoods and some of its most enduring architectural landmarks, including “The Row” on Washington Square North, Lafayette Street’s Colonnade Row, and beautiful churches like St. Joseph’s, the…
Read More…historic preservation is a key part of that. Sign the petition to Mayoral candidates sponsored by Village Preservation and a coalition of NYC preservation and neighborhood organizations. Sign the Petition…
Read More…in what was then a heavily Italian neighborhood. But by the 1950s it had become one of Greenwich Village’s premiere bohemian hangouts, especially popular with Beat writers and artists. Many…
Read More…works every night shift at the store, is at its helm. It’s not only one of the few 24-hour places in the neighborhood, it’s also an ad hoc community center…
Read MoreCritical Public Meeting on Saving Third & Fourth Avenue Corridors in the East Village TONIGHT — Wednesday, September 13th Anyone who cares about overdevelopment in the area between 3rd and 5th…
Read MoreWe had a huge and united turnout on Wednesday at our press conference opposing the Mayor’s outrageous SoHo/NoHo rezoning plan and the Community Board 2 public hearing that followed. We were…
Read MoreAfrican Landholdings in New Amsterdam According to historian Christopher Moore, the first legally emancipated community of people of African descent in North America was found in Lower Manhattan, comprising much…
Read More80 Fifth Avenue at 14th Street is a building with an incredibly rich civil rights and social justice history, about which we have done a great deal of research as…
Read MoreIf you get GVSHP’s monthly program brochure in your mailbox, you may have noticed something different the last few months. We’ve got a whole new look! The programs brochure went…
Read More…same. Property Shark just released a comprehensive survey of 3rd quarter 2021 housing sales prices across New York City, by neighborhood. The big takeaways: the city’s most expensive neighborhood is…
Read More…work reflects that. We would welcome requirements for affordable housing in new developments in our neighborhood AT THE VERY GENEROUS SCALE WHICH CURRENT RULES ALLOW, and would welcome 100% affordable…
Read More…that name until the late 1960s) was a sea of outdated and underutilized factory buildings, while the neighborhoods of the South Village and Little Italy were working-class neighborhoods formerly populated…
Read More…Historically, this neighborhood was predominantly Italian and part of the larger Greenwich Village neighborhood. But in the 1940s, Houston Street was widened to build the IND subway line, effectively creating…
Read More…profession and many beyond it have accepted Jacobs’ assessment of urban virtues. And yet, notwithstanding the assimilation of many of her arguments, neighborhood after neighborhood keeps drifting away from Jacobs’…
Read More…neighborhood, changing its landscape forever. Two families deeply rooted in this neighborhood that particularly embodied the change and contradictions of the Gilded Age were the Renwicks and the Roosevelts —…
Read More…a developer which owns 40 percent of the property in the neighborhood, has proposed a rezoning that has been approved by the borough president and the City Planning Commission, and…
Read More…though the reputation for those neighborhoods is slightly newer (about fifty years, as opposed to well over a hundred for the Village). The list of notable creative types who’ve made…
Read More…Noho neighborhoods. This has created an inevitable tension, because the longer N.Y.U. keeps expanding in these neighborhoods, the more it comes to dominate them. That is why the Greenwich Village…
Read More…far western part of our neighborhood. That part of our neighborhood, which until relatively recently mostly lacked landmark protections, also saw the swiftest rise in housing prices over the last…
Read More…by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, and as a result the neighborhood’s historic architecture can still be appreciated today. Walking through this historic neighborhood, one finds a wide array of beautifully…
Read More…Another hallmark of our neighborhoods is the human scale of its buildings. Thanks to the historic districts and other zoning restrictions, our neighborhoods are able to retain their character through…
Read More…neighborhood, as well as his own. He describes that process thus: I met people from the neighborhood and got to know them. They bring people on a date; then they…
Read More…history you’ll appreciate. A truly New York thing, the name now connotes a small neighborhood or community convenience shop with food, utterly local and yet universally welcoming. There are a…
Read More…neighborhood, or the one with the best shops. In fact, it’s home to a rather uniform group of mid-century apartment houses, with almost no ground-floor retail to contribute to the…
Read More…to buy out or harass tenants of the 700+affordable housing units in the neighborhood so as to eliminate those units, demolish those buildings, and replace them with much larger new…
Read More…tenants had replaced many of the neighborhood’s galleries – a number of which had moved to Chelsea – and buildings in the neighborhood started to routinely house retail on the…
Read More…Manhattan neighborhoods. The report — click to read. This may sound benign enough; there’s no denying New York City in general and these increasingly pricey neighborhoods in particular need affordable…
Read More…world expressing support for our campaign to create a historic district for the neighborhood South of Union Square. To help protect these incredible historic structures and other buildings in this neighborhood, click here….
Read More…seen and experienced in the neighborhood today. From Tompkins Square Park to the Nuyorican Poets Café, here are six of the most significant spots. 1. Tompkins Square Park Tompkins Square…
Read More…to the well-being of our neighborhood. But still, the status of many East Village buildings remains insecure, and the neighborhood is notably under-landmarked. Click here to learn more about our…
Read More…as well. The “Multiple Neighborhoods” category includes issues like our Small Business campaigns, since they affect more than one section of our neighborhood. There are many ways to search for…
Read More…impossible to return. We have in this neighborhood today people of all different incomes. This would not be true in a project neighborhood with its income-class segregation.” “We are 100%…
Read More…zoning protections in our neighborhoods. You can also look through a list of every landmarked site or historic district in our neighborhoods here on our website. The list links to…
Read MoreWelcome to February, and African American History Month! Village Preservation has long documented the stories behind the streets, buildings and people of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo. Those…
Read More…neighborhood was changing again. The 1904 General Slocum ferry disaster, which killed more than 1,000 residents of this neighborhood, devastated the German-American community of Kleindeutschland. World War I’s anti-German fervor drove many…
Read More…fantasizing about the destruction of the neighborhood, here); Edison Properties, a developer that would reap tremendous benefits from the upzoning, and two non-profits (Citizens Housing Planning Council and the Regional Plan…
Read More…blocks between West Broadway and Sixth Avenue. These wide boulevards are now defining elements of the neighborhood.” While this first century of the South Village’s history gave the neighborhood its…
Read MoreFrom the late nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth century, four elevated rail lines ran above the streets of our neighborhoods. The Library of Congress archival collections holds a c. 1881…
Read MoreOur new interactive tool “Virtual Village” brings users on unique and unexpected journeys through the rich historic neighborhood South of Union Square. In addition to featuring basic information on each one…
Read More…special histories, and reveal their (sometimes hidden) connections to our neighborhoods. Along with the houses on Washington Square North, Chelsea’s ‘Cushman Row’ at 408-418 West 20th Street is frequently noted…
Read More…neighborhood. But in fact, Russ & Daughters was one of many storefronts that served a large Jewish community on the Lower East Side at the turn of the twentieth century…
Read More…designation for most of the Meatpacking District, State and National Register of Historic Places designation for the entire neighborhood, and two successful campaigns to prevent construction of a 500 ft….
Read More…neighborhood South of Union Square’s connection to labor and leftist politics made an indelible mark on Elizabeth Olds’ artistic practice. By renting a studio in this neighborhood, she was able…
Read More…for our campaign to create a historic district for the neighborhood South of Union Square. To help protect these incredible historic structures and other buildings in this neighborhood, click here….
Read More…the early 1960s it was a thoroughly modern addition to the neighborhood, but somehow it managed to fit in soon-to-be-landmarked Greenwich Village. Creating new buildings in historic neighborhoods or officially…
Read More…been discussed ad nauseam by planners, developers, preservationists, community leaders, neighborhood residents, and even gentrifiers themselves. It’s an incredibly dense issue – one dense enough for me to have the…
Read More…about change and the state of the neighborhood as a place for artists. As a historic preservationist, I worry about insensitive changes to the neighborhood’s historic architecture. As a historian,…
Read More…for our campaign to create a historic district for the neighborhood South of Union Square. To help protect these incredible historic structures and other buildings in this neighborhood, click here….
Read MoreEach 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…
Read More…neighborhood, read part 2 in our series of posts devoted to 143-145 Avenue D, which played a critical role in the early development of the neighborhood). The streets in Alphabet…
Read More…the Neighborhood Preservation Center in which we are located, and the front door to our offices, are located right over the guy with the fishing rod’s left shoulder! One of…
Read More…of Erik Hawkins and Martha Graham, who both had studios in the neighborhood south of Union Square. Lewis founded her company in 1968. Protect the Neighborhood South of Union Square…
Read More…that sent New Yorkers to venture out from the tip of Lower Manhattan to seek out the healthier, more sparsely settled areas to the north that became our neighborhoods. Mix…
Read More…to welcome its new owners to the neighborhood and see what whimsical toy catches your eye, there’s no need to ask the fairy. You should. What special small business would…
Read More…of maintaining the neighborhood feel of B & H. Challah por favor! Image via GOLES Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES)– “Good Old Lower East Side” is an apt name for this…
Read More…couple of streets away from their original one. Thrilled with the relocation, Suzi finds in 9th Street the same neighborhood feel that drew the Cerneys to the neighborhood decades ago…
Read More…and new construction on landmarked sites in our neighborhoods (Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo). It also lets you know how you can weigh in on the decision of…
Read More…now a neighborhood-wide coalition of arts and community groups supporting neighborhood development while preserving the LES’ rich heritage and creative energy. The East Fourth Street Cultural District is the only…
Read More…Square neighborhood as a whole. Still, it is just one of many sites we have identified as part of the booksellers, leftist, and African American histories of the neighborhood South of…
Read More…many remarkable extant buildings in the neighborhood South of Union Square that recall the area’s expansive history. Given the increased pressure on the neighborhood exacerbated by the construction of the 14th Street Tech…
Read MoreGreenwich Village lost one of its most eloquent voices with the passing of food critic and author Mimi Sheraton (1926-2023). She was a champion of her neighborhood, where she lived…
Read More…historic district designation in the neighborhood, and encompasses much of the rich artistic, immigrant and religious fabric that makes this neighborhood so special. Coupled with the designation of the East…
Read More…world expressing support for our campaign to create a historic district for the neighborhood South of Union Square. To help protect these incredible historic structures and other buildings in this neighborhood, click here….
Read More…it will produce much needed affordable housing in wealthy neighborhoods that have too little of it. For the City, the prospect of new affordable housing has served as both shield…
Read MoreThe Mayor’s proposed citywide rezoning proposal, ‘Zoning for Quality and Affordability’ will weaken neighborhood zoning protections. The proposal as currently structured includes many benefits for market rate developments, with some…
Read More…support for our campaign to create a historic district for the neighborhood South of Union Square. To help protect these incredible historic structures and other buildings in this neighborhood, click…
Read MoreThe neighborhood #SouthOfUnionSquare can be characterized as a true crossroads — where art, politics, industry, commerce, the New York elite, and the working class collided to create an eclectic built…
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