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A Celebration of One Hundred Businesses of the Month

…of their craftsmanship (Carmine Street Guitars, Lori McLean, Village Tannery, Greenwich Letterpress), the clarity of their vision (Elephant & Castle, Berber Street Food), or their single-minded focus (videogamesnewyork, Jane’s Exchange). …

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Ida Rauh

…With Jane Adams and other female advocates for working women, Rauh found at the Women’s Trade Union League, chairing its legislative committee. The League educated women about the advantages of…

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Susan Brownmiller

…she wrote her first piece for the Village Voice, where she worked as a reporter. In 1966, Brownmiller moved to Jane Street in Greenwich Village. What Brownmiller has called her…

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The ACLU: Hope for uncertain times

…included Roger Baldwin, Crystal Eastman, Walter Nelles, Morris Ernst, Albert DeSilver, Arthur Garfield Hays, Jane Addams, Felix Frankfurter, and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. Among the founders, Crystal Eastman and Arthur Garfield Hays were…

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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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Coming Soon — Greenwich Village Stories

…Ralph Lee, and fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi reading alongside other well-known Village residents Jane Curtin and Parker Posey as part of the Selected Shorts series. Click here to learn more…

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Community Cornerstone: Greenwich House Pottery

…carving studio. Greenwich House Pottery has made its home in the building since 1948. The Pottery offers classes for adults, children, parent/children classes, and teens.  The Jane Hartsook Gallery (named…

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President William McKinley Assassinated

…“Squeaky” Fromme and Sara Jane Moore, and Ronald Reagan by Jon Hinckley Jr.). McKinley’s death broadcast McKinley’s assassination shocked the nation, and led to the Secret Service being charged with…

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The Titanic & The Village

…claimed over 1,500 lives. GVSHP has highlighted many of these connections over the years: The Jane Hotel at 507 West Street, was in 1912 the American Seamen’s Friend Society Sailors’…

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Oscars, Opera and Orson Welles at Onyx Court

…Company, Teatro Municipal in Rio De Janeiro and Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires. In addition to classical opera, Belarsky performed and recorded Yiddish folk songs including, “Dem Milners Trern” (“The…

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On Saving the Soul of New York City and Yourself

…book, Greenwich Village Stories, which collects both written remembrances and artwork from dozens of accomplished local figures including writer Calvin Trillin, actor Patricia Clarkson, and painter Jane Freilicher. Arcade’s body…

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First Avenue Retail Market: Then & Now

…moved to the Jane Hotel In 1977, TNC moved East to the Tabernacle Baptist Church at 156 2nd Avenue where it continued its tradition of presenting radical works and experimental…

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Which Building is Greenest?

…by exposing the flaws in the argument that building new is the best way to go green. The documentary producer, Jane Turville, examines how adaptive reuse and rehabilitation of historic…

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Abingdon Square: 183 years ago…

…Gala on Wednesday, April 30, 7-9 pm at the same location as last year, 632 On Hudson (Hudson Street between Jane and Horatio Streets). A host of neighborhood businesses will…

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Memphis on the Hudson

…for other earlier large residential buildings like 2 Fifth Avenue or the Rembrandt on Jane Street, it certainly stands out and is clearly of its time. As we mentioned in…

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Shop Local; Small Business Saturday

…Perry. Li-Lac Chocolates, 162 Bleecker Street and 40 8th Avenue (at Jane Street) The holiday season is a time for family, treats, and lots of sweets, and what better way to…

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Happy Birthday, Tom Bernardin!

Jane Street, and the Mine Shaft, and the Anvil—and, oh god, the Dugout and the bath houses. And it was fabulous! It was terrific… I loved it. I found it…

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Remembering Mary Help of Christians

…You can read more about Mary Help of Christians as the center of the Italian community here, as well as memories of the church by former parishioner Janet Bonica here….

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Help Keep GVSHP Strong in 2017!

…the number of blocks in our neighborhood for which we have secured zoning protections. We stopped plans for an inappropriate, out of scale development at 85-89 Jane Street with glass…

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Westbeth Announced: August 7th, 1967

…(1958); large superconducting magnets (1961); satellite communications (1962); and the picturephone (1964). Read more about the Bell Telephone history of the complex here. Westbeth from the Jane Street pier, in…

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Business of the Month: La Bonbonniere

…Greenwich Village, the East Village or NoHo: just click here to vote for your favorite. The facade warms many a heart on Eighth Avenue between West 12th and Jane Streets….

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