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East Village Street Art Lives On

…in the East Village. Baby Yoga (Second Avenue subway stop at Houston Street) The newest addition to the East Village’s long list of murals is the closing trend of 2019,…

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12 historic Italian-American sites of the East Village

…the East Village’s once-thriving Italian community are all around. In the second half of the 19th century, the East Village was a vibrant checkerboard of ethnic enclaves. Germans were by far…

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2014 Village Awards Recap

Last evening, as part of Village Preservation’s Annual Meeting, we celebrated the best of Greenwich Village, the East Village and NoHo by presenting our annual Village Awards. Each June for…

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Director Miloš Forman’s Life Takes Us from West to East Village, and Back Again

…when he shot his Academy Award-nominated film Ragtime, itself a Village-related story, on the streets of the East Village. The extraordinary story of this artist and one of his most…

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Immigration and the Village

This map humorously depicts some of the ethnic enclaves of the Village. Greenwich Village To Day. Map drawn by Robert Edwards, 1925. Image via the Harry Ransom Center. With all…

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October 11, 2005: City Approves Far West Village Rezoning

…the Village. Here’s the story: Fighting to save the Far West Village April 2004 In early 2004, following our successful efforts to landmark the Meatpacking District, Village Preservation and allied…

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Have a drink! The historic public drinking fountains of the Village and East Village

I have often noticed these old drinking fountains on historic buildings – there is one at the Jefferson Market Library on the corner of 6th Avenue and 10th Street, one…

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Village Awardee Round-Up!

…on Mar 31, 2023. As a reminder, past awardees, employees or trustees of Village Preservation, and entities located outside of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo are not eligible…

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The Meat Markets of the South Village

…were brought to Greenwich Village by Italian Immigrants and their descendants are still enjoyed by Village residents to this day. Find out more about South Village history and South Village…

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The Legacy of Italian-American Entertainment Venues in the South Village

…here where we see the historic Italian and LGBTQ communitites in the Village meeting, handing off spaces, and likely overlapping to some extent. According to Village Preservation’s “The South Village:…

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Beyond the Village and Back: Federal Hall, 26 Wall Street

In our series Beyond the Village and Back, we take a look at some great landmarks throughout New York City outside of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo, celebrate their…

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Tell Us Your Greenwich Village Story

…15th. Selected Shorts: Greenwich Village Stories will feature Village residents Parker Posey and Jane Curtin reading fiction set in the Village alongside Greenwich Village Stories contributors Dave Hill, Penny Arcade,…

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The Women of Village Preservation’s Online Archives

…deep dive into our archives as we explore Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo through these women’s eyes. Jean Polachek Collection Image Archive Collection Polachek. Children on tricycles and…

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Creating a Historic District in Greenwich Village

…parking. In response, Bergier and several other Greenwich Village residents formed the Save the Village Committee, a community based organization that worked to alter the area’s zoning laws to protect…

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Celebrating the Greenwich Village Historic District’s 50th Anniversary

…to be a caretaker and watchdog for the Greenwich Village Historic District. That mission has since expanded to include the rest of Greenwich Village, the East Village, the Meatpacking District,…

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Roundup of posts on immigration and the Village

…Fire Insurance Company Bowery Building The Synagogues of East 6th Street Looking Up: The Stuyvesant Polyclinic The Libraries of Greenwich Village and the East Village Looking Up: East Village Target…

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Legendary Comedy Clubs of Greenwich Village

…the best comedy club in New York City. The family-owned business was honored as one of Village Preservation’s 2018 Village Awardees. The establishment is also located within the South Village…

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Ed Koch (1924-2013) and the Village

…leader, Koch endeared himself to Village constituents with his strong opposition to “police brutality, air pollution, sidewalk narrowing, the bulldozer approach to urban renewal, the invasion of the Village by…

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Coming Soon — Greenwich Village Stories

…GVSHP will publish Greenwich Village Stories — a collection of personal reminiscences about the Village and East Village by more than sixty great artists, musicians, writers, directors, designers, restaurateurs, and…

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More is More: Greenwich Village Historic District Extension

…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…

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11 landmarks of immigration in Greenwich Village

…credited to the first Irish who settled in Greenwich Village. These first residents largely came to serve as domestic servants or to work on the construction of buildings. Greenwich Village’s…

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Carol Greitzer: Helping Defeat Tammany Hall & Saving Greenwich Village

…activist and longtime member of the Village Preservation Board of Advisors. During her decades-long career, much of which took place within Greenwich Village, Greitzer has had a significant impact upon…

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Three Takeaways from Escape from New York: The 1822 Yellow Fever Outbreak and the Creation of Greenwich Village

…Village from farmland to urban community, crossroads of the world, and home of Village Preservation! In this program, James Nevius took us through a tour of Greenwich Village, the East…

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Beyond the Village and Back: Architecture in Prospect Lefferts Gardens

In our series Beyond the Village and Back, we take a look at some great landmarks throughout New York City outside of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo, celebrate…

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The Village Awards Reaches a Milestone!

Village Preservation’s Annual Village Awards, this year on June 16th, have come to be known fondly as “the Oscars of the Village.” The very first Village Awards were held on…

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Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation Day Declared!

Rose Mendez proclaimed December 2, 2010 to be Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation Day! City Council Member Rosie Mendez recognized the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation in its…

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Naming a Neighborhood: The East Village

…them advertising rooms for “$40 and down” – are increasingly referring to the area as Village East or East Village.” In 1958 the Orpheum Theatre took over the old Player’s…

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Oral History: Calvin Trillin’s ‘West Village’

Calvin Trillin, photo by Richard Drew/AP Village Preservation shares our oral history collection with the public, highlighting some of the people and stories that make Greenwich Village, the East Village,…

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Echoes of Bastille Day in Greenwich Village

…in the Village? The answer is at our very own authentic Parisian bakery and 2017 Village Award Winner, Patisserie Claude. As one of the very few independent patisseries left in…

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Mapping the Italian South Village

…we had already had….. The demarcated section of this 1919 map points out the South Village as an Italian-American enclave Greenwich Village was designated as an historic district in 1969,…

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Announcing the 2017 Village Awardees!

…Village Awards recognize the people, places, and organizations which make a significant contribution to the quality of life in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo. The Awards and Annual…

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Mae West learned “the best way to behave is to misbehave” in Greenwich Village

…14. West would spend her life on the stage and in film, constantly courting controversy and pushing boundaries. Village Vaudeville and the Greenwich Village Theatre Vaudeville is a genre of…

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The Village Independent Democrats Fight NYU

…Greenwich Village Blocks before Demolition. Source: New York Times, 1954. The plan arrived to the dismay of many Village residents, who did not consider the area to be a “slum,”…

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A Five Year Milestone for Far West Village Landmarking

…Village neighborhood in which she lived. However, in 1969, when the LPC did finally designate the Greenwich Village Historic District, it left out the entire Greenwich Village waterfront and almost…

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The Oldest Building in the Village?

…Fortunately for us as we attempt to answer this question, the Village has been well researched. We know the histories of many West Village buildings because a large number of…

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Exploring Virtual Village Voices, Part 4: Bob Dylan, Martha Graham, and Lorraine Hansberry

…of Village Preservation, Greenwich Village resident, and townhouse real estate specialist for Douglas Elliman. https://soundcloud.com/villagepreservation/martha-graham-village-voices-audio?si=711f59832c164ba8bd69613409ab20f6&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Lorraine Hansberry Lorraine Hansberry was a staple of the progressive, creative scene in Greenwich Village…

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Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon: Greenwich Village Edition

…and most of its building demolished over the protests of Village Preservation in 2004). That was almost too easy. Here are some other Kevin Bacon-Greenwich Village connections: Kevin Bacon’s first…

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This Columbus Day, Save the South Village

…out of the Greenwich Village Historic District (read Village Preservation’s history and report, “The South Village: A Proposal for Historic District Designation“). After years of effort, in 2010 the first…

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The Oldest Building in the Village?

…buildings we researched while tracking down the oldest in the Village Fortunately for us as we attempt to answer this question, the Village has been well researched. We know the…

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Jewish History of the Greenwich Village Historic District

…Lower East Side and Upper West Side in close proximity, Greenwich Village, and more specifically the Greenwich Village Historic District, is not one of the first places in New York…

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This Day in 1984: The Pope of Greenwich Village

…York’s criminal underworld. And in the meantime, we get some nice peeks at the Greenwich Village of the mid-1980s. credit: Abe Books The Pope of Greenwich Village began as a…

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John Guare Oral History: a Writer of the Theater, and of Greenwich Village

Village Preservation shares our oral history collection with the public, highlighting some of the people and stories that make Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo such unique and vibrant…

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GVHD50 and Stonewall50 – LGBTQ Sites of the Greenwich Village Historic District

…Greenwich Village Historic District on Village Preservation’s Civil Rights and Social Justice Map, and from the LGBT Historic Sites Project. Village Preservation’s Stonewall50 Programs lineup can be found online here….

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Few Republicans, And One Big Political Paradox, in the Village

…almost the entirety of the neighborhoods GVSHP covers — the Village, East Village, Hudson Square, NoHo, and the Meatpacking District — are a broad swath of the lightest pink, which…

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The Oldest Building in the Village?

…we researched while tracking down the oldest in the Village Fortunately for us as we attempt to answer this question, the Village has been well researched. We know the histories…

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Michael E. Levine Oral History: How the Greenwich Village Historic District, SoHo, and Stonewall Happened

Village Preservation shares our oral history collection with the public, highlighting some of the people and stories that make Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo such unique and vibrant…

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Estate of Fred W. McDarrah, 2019 Village Awardee

On June 12th, 2019 we will be celebrating seven outstanding awardees at our Annual Village Awards — RSVP here. Read blog posts about each of our 2019 Village Awardees here. Each year, Village Preservation…

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The 10 most charming spots in the Greenwich Village Historic District

…the Greenwich Village Historic District. Click here to check out our year-long activities and celebrations. The Greenwich Village Historic District literally oozes with charm; so much so, it’s virtually impossible…

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The Village, through the lyrics of Taylor Swift

…date, and Greenwich Village and the East Village are among the few, if not the only, New York City neighborhoods she references explicitly in her music. No matter your musical…

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A Poet, A Bookseller, and the Father of Social of Social Security: New Additions to the Greenwich Village Historic District 1969-2019 Photos and Tours Map

…celebrations. On April 29th, 2019, we launched our new interactive map, Greenwich Village Historic District, 1969-2019: Photos and Tours, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Greenwich Village Historic District….

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Village Pride & LGBT Establishments

…2016, Julius’ also received a Village Awardfrom Village Preservation. Check out more about our upcoming Village Awards here. Julius’ is closed at this time due to COVID precautions, but that may change…

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2022 Village Awardee: Zinc Bar, 82 West 3rd Street

Zinc Bar: A Historic Greenwich Village Venue Village Preservation is very proud to honor Zinc Bar as a Village Awardee in 2022. Join us in recognizing Zinc Bar and these…

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James Baldwin Leaves an Enduring Legacy in Greenwich Village

…which he had begun in 1948. The book, set in late 1950s Greenwich Village, included vivid descriptions of life in the Village: “They reached the park. Old, slatternly women from…

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Even More Charm Added to Greenwich Village Historic District Tour

…we launched our new interactive map, Greenwich Village Historic District, 1969-2019: Photos and Tours, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Greenwich Village Historic District. In the months since we…

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The East Village’s ‘Queen of Bohemia:” Zoe Anderson Norris

…New Yorker profile. Eve Kahn shares the private spaces of The Grolier Club’s with Village Preservation guests. Over the course of 4 sessions, Eve has brought Village Preservation members and…

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Preserving the Past for the Future: A Journey Through the Greenwich Village Historic District

…Village Preservation, we celebrate April as “Greenwich Village Historic District Month,” since it was on April 29, 1969 that the district was landmarked, culminating a years-long battle to achieve this…

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Echoes of Silence: New American Cinema’s Take On Life in Greenwich Village

In 1965, Village Voice writer Jonas Mekas — founder of the Anthology Film Archive, Village Awardee, and subject of a Village Preservation oral history — wrote: “It is not very…

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The Italian Cafés of the South Village

…in the South Village, an area which in the early 1900s was a predominantly Italian neighborhood, and one near and dear to Village Preservation’s heart, as we led the successful…

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Village Firehouses Past and Present

…beautiful historic buildings in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo. Empire Hose Company No. 40, 70 Barrow Street One of the oldest firehouses in New York, this structure was…

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Exploring Virtual Village Voices, Part 6: Larry Kramer, Helen Levitt, and Edna St. Vincent Millay

In 2021 and 2022, Village Preservation developed an innovative outdoor public art exhibition that was displayed throughout Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo. VILLAGE VOICES featured photographs, artifacts, and…

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City Councilmember Rosie Mendez: 2012 Village Award Winner

…Greenwich Village. GVSHP’s 2012 Annual Meeting will also honor seven other awardees for their contributions to the Village. Check out Off the Grid’s posts on all the 2012 Village award winners….

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Translation and Transformation: Carl Jung, Beatrice Hinkle, and Greenwich Village Bohemia

…Voices from Greenwich Village: Carl Jung’s Visit to the Village,” with the historian Jay Sherry from Village Preservation’s program archives. For more information about the radical topography of the Village,…

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A Rebuilt Corner, a Carpenter House, and an Art Deco Beauty: New Additions to Our Greenwich Village Historic District Map

…celebrations. On April 29th, 2019, we launched our new interactive map, Greenwich Village Historic District, 1969-2019: Photos and Tours, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Greenwich Village Historic District….

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Business of the Month: Village Works, 12 St. Mark’s Place

Your input is needed! Today we feature our latest Business of the Month — help us to select the next. Tell us which independent store you love in Greenwich Village, the East Village,…

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15 Sites of Critical African American History in Greenwich Village

…Greenwich Village in “Notes of a Native Son,” among other pieces, and was a regular at Greenwich Village literary haunts like the San Remo Café on MacDougal Street. Jean-Michel Basquiat…

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Exploring Virtual Village Voices, Part 6: Larry Kramer, Helen Levitt, and Edna St. Vincent Millay

…Co-Chair of the Benefit Committee, and Curator of Village Voices. https://soundcloud.com/villagepreservation/edna-st-vincent-millay-village-voices-audio?utm_source=clipboard&utm_campaign=wtshare&utm_medium=widget&utm_content=https%253A%252F%252Fsoundcloud.com%252Fvillagepreservation%252Fedna-st-vincent-millay-village-voices-audio Click here to read more about Edna St. Vincent Millay. Click here to access all 31 Village Voices exhibits….

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Great Modernist Thinker and Critic Kenneth Burke Calls Ten Village Addresses Home

…on Burke himself. To learn more about the history of writers in Greenwich Village, check out the “Homes and Haunts of Great Writers” tour in our interactive map: Greenwich Village…

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VILLAGE VOICES II Launches September 18th

Village Preservation is pleased to announce the 2nd year of VILLAGE VOICES, an outdoor public art exhibition produced by Village Preservation that celebrates and illuminates the artistic, social, political, and cultural…

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New York in Four Maps – Walking the Village of the Past

…East Village and New York history by including the dry dock district along the East Village waterfront. The docks of the East Village are shown in orange and reflect the…

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A Village Song: “Bazooka Joe Don’t Live There Anymore”

…Cecere’s Something Special. Something Special, legendary South Village shop Of the song, Marshall said: “Bazooka Joe” was inspired by a neighborhood hero I knew in New York’s Greenwich Village back…

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A First for Recognizing LGBT History in the South Village

…And to the surprise of many, the South Village was once the center of the world for LGBT New Yorkers. In fact, a century ago, the South Village one of…

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Exploring Virtual Village Voices, Part 5: Billie Holiday, Edward Hopper, and Jane Jacobs

In 2021 and 2022, Village Preservation developed an innovative outdoor public art exhibition that was displayed throughout Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo. VILLAGE VOICES featured photographs, artifacts, and…

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Decades of Spooky Splendor: Celebrating the Village Halloween Parade

…Village Halloween parade history? Check out Village Halloween Parade founder Ralph Lee’s first-person accounting of the event’s beginnings in his Village Preservation oral history, video of our program with Ralph…

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Edward Hopper’s Village Muses

…the Village intimately connected to Edward Hopper and his paintings, some of which also still stand today. Map showing Hopper-related sites throughout Greenwich Village Edward Hopper was born in Nyack,…

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Exploring Virtual Village Voices, Part 7: Joan Mitchell, Joe Papp, and Charlie Parker

…Place. Narrating the audio is Leslie Mason, a member of Village Preservation’s Board of Trustees and co-curator of VILLAGE VOICES. https://soundcloud.com/villagepreservation/joan-mitchell-village-voices-audio?utm_source=clipboard&utm_campaign=wtshare&utm_medium=widget&utm_content=https%253A%252F%252Fsoundcloud.com%252Fvillagepreservation%252Fjoan-mitchell-village-voices-audio Click here to read more about Joan Mitchell. Joe…

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Wayne Shorter: a jazz legend who will be missed in Greenwich Village and beyond

…Greenwich Village, it is only right to memorialize this legend by learning more about his background, ties to Greenwich Village, and his enduring legacy. As Shorter’s bandleader, collaborator, and influence,…

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The Beatles Arrive in Greenwich Village

…Dylan’s connection to this area in past Off the Grid posts and in the designation report for the South Village Historic District. Another Beatles/Village connection comes in the form of…

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‘Friends’: Greenwich Village Fantasy vs. Reality

…Square Village For the first several seasons of the show, Ross is shown to live at Washington Square Village, the modernist superblock of apartments built by Robert Moses in the…

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Retracing the Stories and Homes of Early Village Preservationists

…efforts in Greenwich Village. They met in college, traveled around Europe together after graduation, and then moved to the Village: first to 68 Carmine Street, and later settling at 37…

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Edward Hopper’s Village: Early Sunday Morning on Bleecker Street

…1969 and the subsequent landmarking of the Greenwich Village Historic District Extension I in 2006, the Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II in 2010, and the South Village Historic District…

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Top Five Greenwich Village Moments in Fourteenth Amendment History

…Friedan joined forces with Villager Bella Abzug, congresswoman and leader of the Women’s movement, who lived at 2 Fifth Avenue in the Village. Together with Gloria Steinem and Shirley Chisholm,…

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Tales from the Crypt: Greenwich Village as seen through its burial sites

…vault by Washington Square Park, we here at the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation would like to take some time to discuss how different burial sites are reflective of…

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Beyond the Village and Back: Hamilton Fish Park

…landmarks throughout New York City outside of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo, celebrate their special histories, and reveal their (sometimes hidden) connections to our neighborhoods. Explore our Beyond the Village…

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Pride Month in All Corners of the Village

…this month we’re focusing on four areas of our neighborhood — the West Village, East Village, South Village, and NoHo — to highlight important locations, either long gone or still…

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Lady Gaga’s Greenwich Village

…Preservation’s 2019 Village Awards. The establishment is also located within the South Village Historic District. Learn more about our work to protect the South Village here. Electric Lady Studios …

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Saving the South Village — ‘Seven to Save’

…Park. Read other blog posts about the South Village here and here to read about GVSHP’s efforts to protect the South Village. Click here to access GVSHP’s South Village Oral History Project….

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April Programming at Village Preservation

…Greenwich Village, NoHo, and the East Village. You will have an opportunity to learn more about the history of arts and culture in our neighborhoods, as well as participate in…

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Theaters of the Greenwich Village Historic District

…Commerce Street, a cul-de-sac in the heart of Greenwich Village, was the brainchild of poet, playwright, actress, and Villager Edna St. Vincent Millay. While most famous as a poet, Millay…

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St. John’s in the Village Episcopal Church, Honoring their Open Door

…St. John’s in the Village Episcopal Church, home of the Open Door. I sat down with Fr. Graeme Napier, newly arrived in the Village from Oxford, England, who told me…

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If Beale Street Could Talk’s West Village Scenes

…townhouse on Bank Street. Fonny moved here when he decided to leave his family in Harlem and join the artistic community in the West Village. Fonny’s West Village Apartment Set…

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The Folk Music Revival Scene: A South Village Tour

December is South Village Month – join us in celebrating this vibrant neighborhood all month long! The South Village in the 50s and 60s was a hotbed of creativity and activism. Where…

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South Village Preservation Passion, on YouTube

…of why the South Village is so special to so many people. Some wonderful individuals with strong connections to the South Village allowed us to record some of their thoughts…

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Greenwich Village Is Both the Obstacle and the Solution in Neil Simon’s Romantic Romp, Barefoot in the Park

…between the two lovebirds, but it is the colorful Village neighbors who truly further the tension between the newlyweds. The Village offers a number of fantastic, colorful characters who paint…

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The oldest house in the Village? It’s not what you think

…Here at the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, a perennial question we’re asked is “which is the oldest house in the Village?” It’s a great question, with a complicated…

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WWI and the Village

…the publication as a product of the new Greenwich Village that began to emerge at this time: The birth of The Masses coincided with the birth of ‘Greenwich Village’ as…

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Past Village Awardees Inspire New Nominations

…resilience of our communities of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo, Village Preservation encourages residents and visitors to take a few moments to visit Village Preservation’s website and submit…

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2021 Village Award Winner: Mercer Street Books and Records, 206 Mercer 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 16th,…

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Marking African-American History Month in the Village

…Village designation report entitled “Little Africa.” The South Village’s “Little Africa” community was the largest African-American settlement in New York throughout much of the 19th century, and lasted through the…

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John Sloan: Village Visionary

…from Greenwich Village – with the Sixth Avenue Elevated careening across the sky. Village Preservation was successful in obtaining landmark designation of that building along with its surroundings. You can read…

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Next Stop, Greenwich Village: 1953 Was a Good Year for Leaving Home

…in Greenwich Village, check out our “Film and TV Locations” tour on our Greenwich Village Historic District map at www.gvshp.org/GVHD50tour. Click here for video clips of Next Stop, Greenwich Village….

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