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Help St. Mark’s Bookshop Win a $250,000 Grant
…heard that right, a grant—from Chase Bank, Living Social, and the US Chamber of Commerce. The program is meant to help small businesses grow by awarding 12 small business grants…
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Help a Village small business post-Hurricane Sandy
…worth of business. I was not disappointed. The bagel was crisp on the outside and chewy on the inside, clearly hand rolled, and delicious. Helping out small businesses hurt by…
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Save the East Village’s Historic and Endangered New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, Second Avenue and 13th Street
New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, Second Avenue and 13th Street…
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Carol Greitzer: Helping Defeat Tammany Hall & Saving Greenwich Village
…the primary. In 1959, the club tried again, this time running Gwenn Worth and Charles McGuiness, but still ultimately found themselves unsuccessful. It was not until 1961, when Carol Greitzer…
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Brownstone Quarry That Helped Build New York Closes
…long before it became fashionable to do so in the middle of the 19th century. Trinity Church’s St. Paul’s Chapel (1796) in Lower Manhattan, one of New York’s oldest and…
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Further Proof That Landmarking Does Not Hurt Affordability, and Unfettered Development Doesn’t Help
…The Board has long advocated for reducing landmarking and zoning restrictions on development, saying doing so would actually help with affordability by feeding pent-up demand for new housing and increasing…
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17 LGBT landmarks of Greenwich Village
…South Village Historic District which Village Preservation proposed. 2. Church of the Village/Founding of PFLAG, 201 West 13th Street Google Street View of the Church of the Village The first meeting…
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Shop Local: Help For Your Last-Minute Valentine’s Day Gift
Sunny’s Florist. Taken from @gracealexandrataylor Valentine’s Day is almost here with almost no time left to waste! Due to the predicted below-freezing temperatures for this weekend, we’ve posted a last-minute…
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Mid-Year Appeal: Help Us Do More When It’s Needed Most!
New York is at a pivot point. We’ll soon have a new Mayor, City Council, and leaders of city agencies. We’re emerging from a pandemic, and charting our future. Big…
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How Greenwich Village Helped Save Harry Belafonte
In 1951, Harry Belafonte decided he was finished with singing. For the past few years, he had been taking acting classes at the Dramatic Workshop of The New School with…
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Help Us Celebrate Justus Schwab!
“On Saturdays when I did not have to lecture, we used to visit the saloon of Justus Schwab, the most famous radical center in New York. Schwab was the traditional…
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Womens’ Empowerment and Colonial Evangelism Converge at 11 East 12th Street
…of the Auxiliary shaped the Church’s strategy from the periphery, and the church’s missionary program especially became dependent on the association, and the women within it. Mary Abbot Emery. Photo…
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15 Sites of Critical African American History in Greenwich Village
…Episcopal Church, the founding congregation of the Zion African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church, the very first black church in New York City. Zion AME had a profound effect on African-American…
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11 landmarks of immigration in Greenwich Village
…is the oldest Catholic church building in Manhattan (other older Catholic church buildings were either demolished or burnt down and rebuilt at later dates). The church was built largely to…
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Celebrating the Landmarks of Immigration in the Greenwich Village Historic District
…church building in Manhattan (other older Catholic church buildings were either demolished or burnt down and rebuilt at later dates). The church was built largely to accommodate the expanding population…
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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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23 LGBT landmarks of the East Village and Noho
…Mary Help of Christians Church, via Wiki Commons Beat poet Allen Ginsberg lived all over the East Village and was a permanent fixture in the neighborhood’s bars, parks, and cultural…
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135 East 2nd Street, Then & Now
…St. Nicholas German Catholic Church, built in 1848 to serve the local German population, was demolished in 1960 for the existing parking lot. The above drawing shows what this 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
…church, rectory, and parochial school. The present-day Our Lady of Pompeii church opened in 1927 just a few yards west of the original church at Bleecker and Carmine Streets. Demo…
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10 (more) of the most charming spots in the Greenwich Village Historic District
…The Thirteenth Street Presbyterian Church in 1902, courtesy of the New-York Historical Society, Robert L. Bracklow Photograph Collection The Greenwich Village Historic District is blessed with a number of beautiful churches…
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What’s in a Name?: Father Demo Square
…community were developing in Little Italy, in the South Village — St. Anthony of Padua nearby on Houston Street –and even in the East Village at Mary Help of Christians….
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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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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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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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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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One Summer in 1888, Three Milestones for the Italian-Americans in the South Village
…“splendid ceremonies.” The church, which continues to serve the community, is the oldest existing Italian church in the Americas. Tiro a Segna Established on August 14, 1888, Tiro a Segna…
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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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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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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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The St. Mark’s Historic District: Tiny, But Packed With History
…21 Stuyvesant Street, which dates to 1803-04. St. Mark’s Church is built on the site of Peter Stuyvesant’s church, thus making it the oldest site of continuous religious worship in…
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Business of the Month: Madame Matovu – 240 West 10th Street
…for travel and things of beauty help to inspire and stock her unique West Village shop. www.instagram.com/madamematovu Open since September 2007 when Rosemary was living nearby, the shop has thrived…
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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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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
…courtesy of Judson Memorial Church. Moody’s legacy can be seen in programs offered today at Judson Church, including an immigrants rights task force working to help those immigrants in the…
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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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Prohibition is Back
…of Christians, the Roman Catholic Church on 12th Street and Avenue A about which GVSHP recently did some reporting. The church’s surrounding environs were once a thriving Italian-American community. Not…
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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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Cemeteries of The East Village, Part III
…gone St. Mark’s Cemetery. These two cemeteries both belonged to St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery. The vaults beneath the Church still exist and remain the final resting place for many prominent…
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A Tour of Jewish Historic Sites South of Union Square
…unions, and social security programs; and a local liberal Jewish congregation was developed. 120 East 12th Street 120 East 12th Street, 2011. The church steeple sitting in front of NYU’s…
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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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Many Layers of History between 3rd and 2nd Avenues
…Church-in-the-Bowery, as it is known today, was designed in a simple Beaux-Arts style by renowned architect Ernest Flagg in 1900 for the Episcopal congregation at the church. The three-story house…
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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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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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Seeing Wright in the Village
…the East Village at 11th Street and 2nd Avenue just behind the historic church (next to the church’s rectory, which also happens to be the current home of Village Preservation)….
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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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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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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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Finding the Most Impactful Women of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo
…and helped introduce the masses to underground forms she mined and popularized. The Widow Marycke — One of a pioneering group of African Americans who formed the first free black…
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Who Were the Most Impactful Women of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo?
…of the Harlem Renaissance,” writer, and educator, as literary editor of The Crisis magazine she helped launch the career of countless African American writers and artists. Betty Friedan — Writer…
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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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Elizabeth Blackwell In Our Neighborhood: The historic sites where America’s first female doctor made her mark
…infirmary which began its life here. The building which housed the dispensary has since been demolished. New York Infirmary for Women and Children, 58 Bleecker Street 58 Bleecker Street, courtesy…
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Remembering Jeanne Manford and the Founding of PFLAG
…of the Village (then Duane United Methodist Church). With this meeting, Jeanne helped launch a worldwide movement, and a national organization which now has over 350,000 members. Jeanne Manford, center,…
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A Tale of Two Forgotten Alexander Jackson Davis Mansions
…and after her passing both buildings were taken over by the First Presbyterian Church, becoming their parsonage. However, in 1958, the church, in need of a modern church house, made…
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Mountaintop
…Off the Grid archive. Abyssinian Baptist Church, 166 Waverly Place The Abyssinian Baptist Church The Abyssinian Baptist Church was located here in Greenwich Village at 166 Waverly Place and had…
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Beyond the Village and Back: Cushman Row, 408-418 West 20th Street
…deeply religious man, and a generous beneficiary to the Episcopal Church. He was intimately involved with the construction in 1822 of St. Luke’s in the Field Church at Hudson and…
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Beyond the Village and Back: Bowne House in Flushing, Queens — Birthplace of Religious Freedom in America
…Church is built on the site of Peter Stuyvesant’s former private church, thus making it the oldest site of continuous religious worship in New York City. On December 27, 1657,…
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Baking on Broadway — Then and Now
…landmark long gone. Today that space directly to the south of the church building houses a churchyard and the Grace Church School playground, but during the late 19th century, that…
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Tragedy on Second Avenue
On December 5, 2020 at about 5:00am, a fire broke out at 116 Second Avenue, a neo-Grec tenement. The six-alarm blaze spread to the 1892 Middle Collegiate Church next door…
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Uncovering the stories behind downtown’s overlooked synagogues
…the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Matthew for Dutch, German and English Lutherans. In 1857 it became home to the German Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Mark, established to serve…
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Celebrating the Beginnings of a Beloved Village Landmark
…Grace Church was consecrated at Broadway and 10th Street. The year 1846 was an exciting year for the Gothic Revival. James Renwick Jr.’s design of Grace Church, along with that…
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Intersectionality and the Past, Present, and Future of Activism in Our Neighborhoods
…to 1892, but the Collegiate Church dates to 1628. We got centuries of stuff. We have, honestly, being the Dutch Reformed Church that “bought Manhattan from the Lenape,” lots of…
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Celebrating 50 Years of PFlag: Birthplace of a Movement of Empathy and Advocacy
…the early meetings of PFLAG. The church publicized PFLAG meetings in the church bulletin and sometimes on the marquee on 7th Avenue. Ed Egan was already a long-time leader of…
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Black History Month 2018 – Learn and Celebrate with Us!
…Abyssinian Baptist Church, New York’s second black church, and St. Benefict the Moor Church, the first black Catholic church in the north, as well as and integrated, abolitionist churches such…
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What do the East Village and Bartlesville, OK have in common?
…the church grounds, on land now occupied by old dwellings and tenements, Warren Matthews, a representative of the church body explained.” Wright’s towers surrounding St. Mark’s Church. Source: Architizer. Ultimately…
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Two Big Anniversaries on Carmine Street
…It wasn’t until 1930 (after 5 years of destruction and construction), that 6th Avenue was extended to Canal Street and connected to Church Street in Lower Manhattan, and that church…
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A Big Week in History for South Village Landmarking
…Village landmarking efforts. Let’s see what good fortune mid-May has brought to us in years gone by… Judson Memorial Church, with the Campanile and part of the Hall at right…
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A Stroll Down West 14th Street: Religious Architecture
…needs of that population. St. Bernard’s at 420 West 14th Street St. Bernard’s Roman Catholic Church (now Our Lady of Guadalupe at St. Bernard’s Church) located at 330 West 14th…
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An Architectural Gem in the Village: 2011 Awardee
Church of the Ascension, Fifth Avenue at 10th Street While many of our 2011 Village Awardees are located within NYC historic districts, the Church of the Ascension holds the distinction…
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NYU vs. the East Village
…majestic elk, shot and stuffed.” Facade of St. Ann’s in front of Founders Hall First constructed in 1847 as the 12th Street Baptist Church, the church was rebuilt under the…
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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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The Founding of Our Lady of Pompeii
Our Lady of Pompeii Church in the Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II On March 7th, 1898, Our Lady of Pompeii Church was incorporated as a separate parish. This South…
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Kitty Genovese and the Village
…were urged to yell “fire” rather than “help” to avoid bystander syndrome. And more constructively, the crime is credited with helping to spur the establishment of the 911 system (at…
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Seized During the Red Scare, This Lefty Archive from Our Neighborhood Is Now Available Online
…guide for an evening program that has educational material for schools and lodges. See heavily redacted shorter and longer English versions. Translated Summary: A six-page summary description by Ruth Rubin….
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Beyond the Village and Back: The Children’s Aid Society’s Fourteenth Ward Industrial School on Mott Street
…philanthropic organizations. Carmine Street Church. Photo courtesy of The New York Farmer and Mechanic, 1846. In an attempt to provide institutional support to these children, the Carmine Street Church began…
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Election Day 2022: Getting Out the Vote with the League of Women Voters of New York City
…order to vote in a primary election, you must be registered to vote with the party holding the primary. So when you register, you will need to choose a party…
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Pioneers Converge on MacDougal Street: Dr. Robert Hogan, Rev. Henry Highland Garnet, and Sarah Smith Garnet
…again from 1873 to 1882, Henry Highland Garnet served as the leader of the Shiloh Presbyterian Church, one of many African American churches once found in Greenwich Village, when nearly…
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#SouthOfUnionSquare Master Architect: James Renwick, Jr.
…area, The Grace Church, Grace Church Rectory, and Grace Church Memorial House, are all within feet of one another. This cluster of Renwick works provides an unrivaled example of the…
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The Children’s Aid Society’s Deep Roots in Greenwich Village and the East Village
…this time the Carmine Street Church, also known as the West Presbyterian Church, housed in a structure built in 1832, decided to act. Under the leadership of Reverend A.D.F. Randolph,…
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Napoleon LeBrun — Firehouse Architect and So Much More
…church was built behind the facade of an 1847 church which was incorporated into the new church. In late 2005, NYU announced plans to build a 26-story mega-dorm on the…
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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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Many Layers of History at 7th Street and 2nd Avenue
East Village Gas Explosion Site, 2nd Ave. & 7th St. As we enter July, it’s not hard to notice that some of the dates align with some neighborhood intersections. In…
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Ithiel Town: It’s All Greek (and Gothic) to Him
…solely to Davis. (top) The original nine houses of Colonnade Row; Colonnade Row’s remaining houses today. Carmine Street Church, Carmine Street and 6th Avenue — This church was designed in…
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Beyond The Village and Back: Temple Emanu-El, Reform Movement Builder and Shaker
…New York.” I couldn’t agree more. Andrew continues: The church steeple sitting on East 12th Street was part of the 12th Street Baptist Church, built on this site in 1847……
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Revisiting Kleindeutschland, the East Village’s Little Germany
…In 1847, the German St. Matthew’s Evangelical Lutheran Church built a one-story Greek Revival–style church on East 6th Street between First and Second Avenues. Ten years later, it became St….
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