…Times Square in January, 1967. Portrait of American musician Jimi Hendrix (1942 – 1970) (seated), South African-born American music producer and engineer Eddie Kramer (standing left) and studio manager Jim…
Read More…ideas behind the exhibition. Interior of the 69th Regiment Armory installation (1913), Archives of American Art “Façade of a City Residence,” Raymond Duchamp-Villon model (1913), Archives of American Art In…
Read More…prominent American manufacturers of and dealers in uniforms and equipment of the 19th century. Today, their products are found in several renowned museums and institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of…
Read MoreThe Shiloh Presbyterian Church is one of many African American churches once found in Greenwich Village, when nearly all the city’s leading African American churches were located in this neighborhood….
Read More…Birthday a national holiday — the first-ever honoring an African-American. That successful quest began and was spearheaded by a native son of Greenwich Village. According to New York City records,…
Read More…enduring portraits of prominent figures from FDR to Booker T. Washington. Willa Cather — Pulitzer-prize winning author considered the great chronicler of life on the American Plains. Angela Davis —Political…
Read More…enduring portraits of prominent figures from FDR to Booker T. Washington. Willa Cather — Pulitzer-prize winning author considered the great chronicler of life on the American Plains. Angela Davis —Political…
Read More…art while creating enduring portraits of prominent figures from FDR to Booker T. Washington. Willa Cather — Pulitzer-prize winning author considered the great chronicler of life on the American Plains….
Read More…north and south of the main entrance, built between 1906 and 1926. The American Wing was added in 1922-24 by Grosvenor Atterbury. In 1967 in anticipation of its centennial, the…
Read More…influential art patron of the 20th century. Born into one of the most wealthy and prominent American families, Whitney was dedicated to supporting artists in order to promote distinctly American…
Read More…African-American, who purchased the land from Edward Copeland, who had purchased the land from an heir of John Lefferts. At this time, many African-Americans attempted to gain political and economic…
Read More…African-American population, and several blocks from Minetta Street and Lane and Thompson Street, which in the 19th century were the heart of Greenwich Village’s African-American community. In spite of the…
Read More…widowed mother. Born shortly after the end of World War II, Bon grew up watching American TV, and experienced the help of American GIs in building a new Japan following…
Read More…East Village. Take Our African American History Tour of the Greenwich Village Historic District The Autobiography of Malcolm X was written here. The first Broadway play by an African American woman was…
Read More…first African American authors to protest the treatment of black Americans by white Americans, and would greatly influence an entire generation of African American writers. Iconic works such as Native…
Read More…American, Women’s, LGBTQ, Latinx, Asian American, and other social justice history has been made in our neighborhoods. Recently, we have added the homes of a groundbreaking Black theater company, a…
Read More…Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Philip Guston, Motherwell is considered one of the great American Abstract Expressionist painters. Credited by The American Art Book as being the…
Read More…which reads “Deutsches Dispensary,” or German Dispensary, still remains. German-American Shooting Society Clubhouse German-American Shooting Society Clubhouse. Photo courtesy of Ephemeral New York. Probably the finest example of a bilingual…
Read More…collection of histories. This neighborhood was a critical touchstone in the African American, LGBTQ, and women’s civil rights movements; it was home to the revolutionary “New York School” of artists;…
Read MoreOctober, the month when we mark Columbus Day, is also Italian-American Heritage and Culture Month. That combined with the recent celebrations around the 125th anniversary of Veniero’s inspires a closer…
Read More…to the art of sculpture and to art education; for her highly regarded portrayals of towering African American figures such as Martin Luther King Jr., Booker T. Washington, and Mary…
Read More…was also in charge of the IWO’s involvement in “I Am An American Day” held on the third Sunday in May. The first “I Am An American Day” is believed…
Read More…artists. The sheer number of organizations located investigated by the House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in the 20th century would seem to convey a virtual Bolshevik Revolution brewing right…
Read More…1933. While Goodman is often credited with integrating American music by working with African American musicians and vocalists, Goodman himself would credit Hammond, who made it his personal mission to…
Read More…and 1963, each similar in theme with a focus on emerging artists. “Sixteen Americans” in 1959, for example, introduced such essential postwar American artists as Jay DeFeo, Jasper Johns, Ellsworth…
Read More…17th- to early 20th-century buildings. He currently serves as president of the American Country House Foundation and works with the Classical American Homes Preservation Trust. Click here to register for…
Read More…Square Greenwich Village Historic District: Then & Now Photos and Tours African American History In Memoriam: African American Artists of Westbeth African American Sites in our East Village Building…
Read More…Guild was the mecca of every actor. The Guild was the first to really produce theatrical literature on the American stage; both European plays and those of burgeoning American voices….
Read More…the American holiday calendar as we know it today. Holidays such as Thanksgiving and Memorial Day and celebrations of individuals like Lincoln helped unite the country and give Americans a…
Read More…African American figures, from some of the first black churches in New York to the home of author Richard Wright: Our South of Union Square Map contains an African American history tour with nearly…
Read More…fifty years after their publication. Considered classics of American literature which inspired generations of American writers, these were among the first books to use American vernacular speech, and transport the…
Read More…it offered non-discriminatory rates to immigrants, to miners, and to Black Americans.” 31 pages. ALP (American Labor Party) candidates pamphlet [1944] “Security with FDR” by 7 term Congressman Vito Marcantonio…
Read More…Ada Calhoun- St. Marks Is Dead: The Many Lives of America’s Hippest Street A vibrant narrative history of three hallowed Manhattan blocks―the epicenter of American cool. St. Marks Place in…
Read More…largest chapter of the American Federation of Teachers), and the NAACP. 70 Fifth Avenue, 2012 While located here, leaders of the American Union Against Militarism (AUAM) founded the National Civil…
Read More…this exciting, free program. Established in 1892, the mission of the American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS) is to foster awareness and appreciation of American Jewish heritage and to serve as…
Read More…Birthday a national holiday — the first-ever honoring an African-American. That successful quest began and was spearheaded by a native son of Greenwich Village. Howard Bennett was born in 1911…
Read More…Americans. 128 East 13th Street Over 16 million Americans served in WWII, and over one million were killed or wounded. To fill the labor gap, millions of women entered the…
Read More…National Museum of the American Indian, and curator of a 2020 exhibit on “native New Yorkers.” The Native American’s dress in the relief sculpture is typical of a Plains Native…
Read More…from Fenian Brotherhood. The Brotherhood believed his support of the Candian uprising cost Irish-American lives and money; the Americans also began to focus on the issues facing Irish-Americans here rather…
Read More…specialize in American art and is historically important for exhibiting work by many American artists well-known to us today, including Glackens, Henri, Sloan, Winslow Homer, and Andrew Wyeth. The show…
Read More…he worked closely with the architect William Van Alen (1882-1954) on the design. In the Chrysler Building, Van Alen was able to apply the tenets of modernism slowly gaining ground…
Read More…African-American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism whose themes ranged from black liberation white racism. Many within the African American community compare him to James Baldwin and…
Read More…played an incredible role in championing African American and women’s rights. Garnet was the first African American woman principal in the New York City school system, for which she worked…
Read More…came in 1933 when it helped draw and save intellectuals fleeing Nazi persecution, transforming and vastly expanding American academia and intelligentsia. When Hitler came to power in 1933, he began…
Read MoreMiné Okubo was a Japanese-American artist born in Riverside, California, in 1912. She is best known for her 1946 book Citizen 13660, in which she recounts her experience in a Japanese-American internment…
Read More…eight national book awards. He is a former Chair of the Board of the American Constitution Society and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2014,…
Read More…where the museum does more than ever to celebrate and showcase American art and artists. The new Whitney Museum of American Art at Gansevoort Street designed by Renzo Piano …
Read More…among others. However, the American version, founded in 1899, began to diverge in its content and focus more on American writers and issues, especially under the editorship of Frank Harris…
Read More…Research in Black Culture. He published numerous books on African American, Native American, and New York City history such as Fighting For America: Black Soldiers, The Unsung Heroes of World…
Read More…indignities faced by over 100,000 Japanese-Americans during World War II, and is considered to this day one of the most affecting pieces about that chapter in American history. After the…
Read More…rights. While Native American and Chinese American women and men nationwide, and African American women and men in many parts of the country, still could not vote, sex was no…
Read More…in protecting and preserving Greenwich Village in the face of post-war “urban renewal.” With her seminal text The Death and Life of Great American Cities, she changed the way we built, planned,…
Read More…the 1870’s Greenwich Village was known as being the “American ward.” It was called this because of its prominent native white Protestant community of higher economic status; this ideal American…
Read More…been prescient in sensing that Ginsberg’s poem would upset Eisenhower-era mores. The American Civil Liberties Union had assured Ferlinghetti that they would defend him should any objections to the drug…
Read More…with Edward Augustus Brackett. She worked for most of her career in Rome, Italy, eventually becoming the first African-American and Native American sculptor to achieve national or international prominence. She began…
Read More…W.E.B. DuBois, the African-American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, and author taught the first course in African-American history and culture ever taught at a university at the New School for…
Read More…after this significant reduction in worldwide purchases of American food crops, it failed. This sent shockwaves through American markets. Less than two weeks later, the Ohio Life Insurance and Trust…
Read MoreGVSHP’s Civil Rights & Social Justice Map February is Black History Month. We here at GVSHP want to celebrate it by highlighting different sites of significance to the African-American community…
Read MoreApril is National Poetry Month! Launched by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, the month of April marks a marvelous opportunity to celebrate the expressiveness, delight, and pure charm…
Read MoreEast Villager and Harlemite Nellallitea “Nella” Larsen (neé Walker, 13 April 1891 – 30 March 1964) was an American novelist who contributed to the Harlem Renaissance and American Modernism literary…
Read MoreLouis Sullivan, 1895 On April 14, 1924, the architect Louis Sullivan, the “father of modernism,” key figure of the Chicago and the Prairie Schools of Architecture, progenitor of the skyscraper…
Read More…an animal-protection society. The new organization, the first of its kind in the Western Hemisphere, was called the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The A.S.P.C.A.’s sponsors…
Read More…an animal-protection society. The new organization, the first of its kind in the Western Hemisphere, was called the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The A.S.P.C.A.’s sponsors…
Read More“American Pie” is perhaps one of the most compelling, beloved, (and cryptic) songs in the American songbook. Written by Don McLean in 1970, the song sprang from the Folk Music…
Read More…lying, skewing the data, and purposely including poorer and more Asian-American blocks in Chinatown directly east of the rezoning area, as if we determine the boundaries of census tracts (none…
Read More…when it expanded to America, then housing one of the most influential movie houses in American history, and later as home to “the Picasso of Dance,” where that art form…
Read More…of every important American literary, artistic, and political movement of the period. As part of this milieu, Millay’s work and life came to represent the modern, liberated woman of the…
Read More…author of Rebels on Eighth Street: Juliana Force and the Whitney Museum of American Art, as well as many other books, catalogues, reviews and essays on early twentieth-century American art….
Read More…Heterodoxy’s original members, the list of which includes some of the most recognizable figures in American feminism. Crystal Eastman, the distinguished suffragist and eventual co-founder of the American Civil Liberties…
Read More…The New School at 66 West 12th Street. Du Bois’s idea was to look at American history and stories through the lens of the Black experience. Since American history was…
Read More…the “old Swamp church,” where it stayed for the next two decades. During this time, from the 1830s to 1847, Theodore Wright, a founding member of the American Anti-Slavery Society,…
Read More…that a new kind of American theater had arrived — deliberately experimental, savagely funny, politically aware, and critical of standard American life, its institutions and values.” Mr. van Itallie’s prolific…
Read More…Glad?,” with Hammond at 55 Fifth Avenue in 1934. While Goodman is often credited with integrating American music by working with African American musicians and vocalists, Goodman himself would credit…
Read MoreExploring African American history in our neighborhoods, today we look at Elizabeth Jennings Graham, a woman who, in her simple quest to get to her church on East 6th Street…
Read More…study of American social movements, including a discussion of the many American fascist groups in the 1930s. She is one of a very few historians who won the Bancroft prize for best…
Read More…Street. It has been at this location since 1924 and has served the Italian American community since its founding on August 14, 1888. Tiro a Segno calls itself “the oldest…
Read More…young Chinese American student, rode on horseback at the helm of the parade. She was outspoken in her passion for equal rights for women and Chinese Americans, and had recently…
Read More…was home to Irish and German immigrants and African Americans. In five days of rioting, mobs lynched at least a dozen African American men, destroyed draft offices, burned and looted…
Read MoreNovelist Bernard Malamud is considered by many critics to be one of the finest American novelists of the 20th century. Born on April 26, 1914, in Brooklyn to a poor…
Read More…German-American Shooting Society Clubhouse, 12 St. Mark’s Place German-American Shooting Society Clubhouse NYC LPC Designation Report German Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Mark, 323 East 6th Street German Evangelical…
Read More…eight national book awards. He is a former Chair of the Board of the American Constitution Society and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2014,…
Read More…filled with residents of what was then called Kleindeutschland, or Little Germany. This German-American enclave in today’s East Village was then the largest German-speaking community in the world outside of Berlin…
Read More…previous condition of servitude” by state or federal government. This was of course meant to ensure that African-American men could vote, though that right was frequently and in some parts…
Read MoreFebruary is Black History Month. We here at GVSHP are celebrating it by highlighting different sites and locations of significance to African-American history in the Village. A great source for this is…
Read More…friendship… Henry James. Photo courtesy of the New Yorker. Henry James was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism; he is considered…
Read More…that we must look for the real birthplace of the American drama.” To read our series about the roots of American drama in the Village click here, here, and here….
Read More…contributions made by Italian-Americans to our country. Our “Save the South Village” video campaign began as an effort to highlight the incredible history (Italian-American and so much more) of the…
Read More…with Latin American descent.) Naiomy spoke specifically about Basquiat as a mixed-race artist; his identity as an African-American artist is very visible, but the full picture is that his father was…
Read MoreIn the years following World War I, Americans feared communist infiltration of our country following the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. As we continue to see today, when fear outweighs rational…
Read More…had a brief existence, was a major leader in the American Arts & Crafts and Art Nouveau movements. Detail Christopher Gray wrote in the New York Times, “Even on the…
Read More…worked hard to fight for himself and the African-American community, eventually becoming the first African-American to address the United States House of Representatives. He also at one time resided at…
Read More…prime revolutionary in the arts of this century and the American dancer and choreographer whose name became synonymous with modern dance” by The New York Times. This great American modern dance…
Read MoreIra Frederick Aldridge is today remembered as one of the most renowned actors of the nineteenth century, one of the highest-paid actors of his time, and the first Black American…
Read More…Harris poll, only the Bible fared more popular in the eyes of American readers. While many are familiar with the novel’s story depicting the misadventures of southern belle Scarlett O’Hara,…
Read More…in American history, spreading throughout Manhattan. Hundreds of people were killed in these Draft Riots and many more were seriously injured; African Americans were the frequent target of the rioters’…
Read More…which examine African American theories of law and justice and meditate on the color blue in Black life. She earned her Ph.D. in American Studies from Harvard University, a J.D. from…
Read More…area was settled by a free Black community and became a rich hub of African American culture. Sanitary & Topographical Map of the City and Island of New York (1865) by Egbert…
Read More…to when the East Village was a German-American community. Click here to view the whole tour. Enjoy this tour? We also have East Village Building Block tours on African American…
Read More…was designed by Richard Morris Hunt (1827-1895), the great American architect who was also the first American to attend the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and became the center of…
Read More…19th century. His work supported American interventionism and deployed simplistic stereotypes unfortunately common at the time. In addition to covering the Spanish American War, he also corresponded on the Second…
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