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Daytonian in Greenwich Village

…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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Celebrating Immigration in Greenwich Village

…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. The map includes pictures of the 2,200+ buildings…

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Legendary Comedy Clubs of Greenwich Village

…utilize the stage to make their mark. The Duplex is located within the Greenwich Village Historic District, which turned fifty this year; click here to learn more about Village Preservation’s…

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Village Firehouses Past and Present

…buildings within the Greenwich Village Historic District, including this one, on our Greenwich Village Historic District 1969-2019 Map and Tour at www.gvshp.org/GVHD50tour). Fire Patrol No. 2, 31 Great Jones Street

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Paul Cadmus’ Greenwich Village

…1999. Greenwich Village Cafeteria, 1934 The Bath, 1951 by Paul Cadmus Bar Italia, 1953-55 In April of 2019, we launched our new interactive map, Greenwich Village Historic District, 1969-2019: Photos…

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Echoes of Bastille Day in Greenwich Village

…(200 14th Street) Jeanne d’Arc building. Image courtesy of skyscrapercity.com Located on the upper border of the Village, the Jeanne d’Arc Building is the earliest surviving example of a French…

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Even More Daytonian in Greenwich Village

…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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The Greenwich Village Follies

…almost 100 years ago right across the street from The Duplex, in a long-lost performance space known as the Greenwich Village Theatre. The Greenwich Village Theatre in 1929 The 500-seat…

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Lady Gaga’s Greenwich Village

…performance here.  Cornelia Street Café Since its debut in 1977, this Greenwich Village restaurant and bar was a place for artists, especially singer-songwriters, to showcase their work. Gaga waitressed at…

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Village Remains Tops for Artists in NYC

…of the equations and we were just comparing Community Board #2 (Greenwich Village, SoHo, NoHo, Little Italy) to Community Board #7 (Upper West Side), or even just Greenwich Village vs….

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Spring Inspires Poetry in Greenwich Village

…early, fleeting days of spring than poets, so many of whom have lived in Greenwich VillageVillage Preservation’s “Homes and Haunts of Great Writers” tour on our “Greenwich Village Historic…

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What’s in a name? Gay Street

Southward view of Gay Street via Wiki Commons Gay Street is one of the most charming and picturesque streets in Greenwich Village, an icon of the historic neighborhood’s anachronistic character. But…

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My Greenwich Village Story

This is the latest installment of the Off the Grid series in which we highlight the people, places and events featured in our new book Greenwich Village Stories, available for…

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Touring Bleecker Street’s Diverse History

…of the Greenwich Village Historic District. In total, we traversed four New York City historic districts including the Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II, the South Village Historic District, the NoHo…

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A Greenwich Village Artifact in Texas

…now is a modern one, built in 1960, nine years before the Greenwich Village Historic District, which includes the site, was designated. Site of the Greenwich Village Bookshop today  …

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Kerouac and Catholicism in Greenwich Village

…the Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II, which Village Preservation helped secure landmark designation for as part of our South Village campaign. Thanks to that effort, at least one of…

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The Firsts of Greenwich Village

…To find out more about some of these historic firsts that came out of Greenwich Village, check out Pioneers of Greenwich Village with author Laurie Lewis on Thursday, July 27….

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Howard Johnson’s in Greenwich Village

The show Mad Men reminded us all that Howard Johnson’s, that slice of mass-produced Americana, had a home in Greenwich Village in the mid-20th century, even as Greenwich Village was…

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Berenice Abbott’s Greenwich Village

…City this winter. Berenice Abbott’s Greenwich Village is on display at the Marlborough Gallery, 545 West 25th Street, from January 24 through March 11, 2023. And Berenice Abbott’s New York…

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Richard Wright in Greenwich Village

…daughter, they purchased a house at 13 Charles Street in Greenwich Village using their lawyer as an intermediary to circumvent racial discrimination. While living in the Village, Wright was a…

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E.B. White and his Greenwich Village

…back to Greenwich Village to a furnished apartment on West 11th Street. Within a week of being back in his beloved Village, he wrote Village Revisited (A Cheerful lament in…

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