…The big empty pier (#49) provided a perfect view of the activities of the tugboats moving barges of trap rock down to the World Trade Center area and upstate as…
Read More…and I can still do it. Why not? Why not?” At 75, in 2013, Mr. Williams returned to the stage for an Ailey company New Year’s Eve performance of Rocka…
Read More…a rocket. Leontyne Price after her Met debut It is impossible to speak of Ms. Price’s career without noting that she was the first African American superstar opera singer, and…
Read More…Rocky Twins, brothers and successful drag performers at Webster Hall Webster Hall has hosted a wide range of parties and meetings over its 134 year history. In its early years it…
Read More…The Monkees were a rock/pop musical group active between 1966 and 1971, with tours in the decades that followed. They were a made-for-TV band created for a series that aired…
Read More…Robert Hogan House – 175 MacDougal Street,” Daytonian in Manhattan The Shamrock and the Lily: The New York Irish and the Creation of a Transatlantic Identity, 1845-1921 by Mary C. Kelly…
Read More…wrote Two Gentlemen of Verona, a rock-musical modernization of William Shakespeare’s comedy, which won the Tony and New York Drama Critics Circle awards for best musical of 1971–72. Guare dealt…
Read More…located at Houston and Thompson Streets. In spite of its noble and dignified appearance, the church traveled a rocky path from the beginning. Barely seven years after it opened, it…
Read More…Glad?” by Benny Goodman and his Orchestra. Photo courtesy of 45worlds.com The renowned record-producer, civil rights activist, and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inductee John Hammond made his very first…
Read More…to purge Jews and politically hostile elements from German universities. With the financial support of philanthropist Hiram Halle and the Rockefeller Foundation, The New School obtained funding to provide a…
Read More…Dr. Howard Brown, Martin Duberman, Barbara Gittings, Ron Gold, Frank Kameny, Natalie Rockhill, and Bruce Voeller, knew it was time to create change on a national level. Among its early…
Read More…into the Waverly Theater, where the Rocky Horror Picture Midnight Show was first launched. In the early 2000s, the theater was transformed again into today’s IFC Center. What is now…
Read More…the Rock (1931), a historical fiction novel about a Québécois family in the 1690s. Cather didn’t enjoy living at the apartment hotel, which became an NYU dorm in the 1960s, and…
Read More…Cafe-Au-Go-Go at 152 Bleecker Street. Photo via Rock Cellar Magazine. Bruce was convicted of obscenity charges on November 4, 1964 along with club owner Howard Solomon, who along with his…
Read More…Photo from Village Preservation’s Historic Image Archive From then on, the building had a very rocky path. Finally, in 1954, developers planned to tear down the structure and replace it with…
Read More…in Queens while hobos and bums live in Rockaway beach… So we wrote script, recorded it, and customers listened as they toured each room.” Coultas traces her lineage to the…
Read More…we count the Dalai Lama and David Bowie. If you feel that you are more entitled than a living deity or a rock god I’m afraid we’ll have to disagree.”…
Read More…Theater parade on Bleecker Street looking northwest from Christopher Street, L-R: 95 Christopher Street, 342-346 & 350 Bleecker Street visible, ca. 1980. Photo by Carole Teller. Watch the greatest rock…
Read MoreImage via Wiki Commons. Everyone knows the folk-rock classic “Summer in the City” by the Lovin’ Spoonful, which topped the charts 51 years ago this August in 1966. But fewer…
Read More…its unused spaces to the burgeoning local fringe rock bands of the day. The New York Dolls held some of their earliest shows in the space and soon became regulars,…
Read More…Baraka was still writing poetry into the 1990s, and his work has been lauded and recognized with a PEN/Faulkner Award, a Rockefeller Foundation Award for Drama, the Langston Hughes Award…
Read More…prominence began in 1940, with the completion of a critically acclaimed large scale stainless steel bas relief entitled News for the Associated Press Building in Rockefeller Center. News Shortly thereafter,…
Read More…Phonograph Company and OKeh Records, which eventually merged as Columbia Records, the oldest surviving brand name in the business. Record-producer, civil rights activist, and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inductee…
Read More…of entertainment and quickly became a tourist attraction. Back when it met at Jefferson Market, John D. Rockefeller was said to enjoy the diversion. Greenwich Village’s storied past is filled…
Read More…creatures, and ostentatious furniture. It situated itself among a slew of popular themed restaurants of the ‘90s and aughts, such as Mars 2112, another NYC oddity, located near Rockefeller Center…
Read More…adorned by a sunken Japanese rock and sculpture garden designed by Bunshaft’s frequent collaborator, Greenwich Village artist and sculptor Isamu Noguchi, and later graced by the addition of artist Jean…
Read More…of four to almost seven hundred students and ninety teachers and administrators. Notable alumni include Adam Horvitz (a.k.a. Ad Rock) of the Beastie Boys, rapper and actor Dante Terrell Smith…
Read More…1940s, when patients with a history of serious mental illness (i.e., schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder resistant to conventional treatment) formed a support group at the Rockland Psychiatric Center that they…
Read More…a deep interest in history, literature, and music. Originally from Rockaway, New Jersey, she often visited her extended family in New York City. These interests flourished as she learned about…
Read More…at AICH were recorded, edited, and broadcasted on the Manhattan Neighborhood Network in half-hour segments. This episode features a performance by the Thunderbird American Indian Dancers and blues-rock group ‘Indigenous’….
Read More…Patricia Field outside of her store on 8th Street 1987. Source: Harpers Bazaar The store attracted celebrity clientele starting in the late 1970s, when poet-turned-rock musician Patti Smith stumbled into…
Read More…Patricia Field outside of her store on 8th Street 1987. Source: Harpers Bazaar The store attracted celebrity clientele starting in the late 1970s, when poet-turned-rock musician Patti Smith stumbled into…
Read More…in the room that was formerly a bookstore into which The Monster expanded in 1985. Entertainment ranges from all-female country-rock-indie bands to drag performers, DJs, and more. Part of that…
Read More…prior to STOMP include Little Shop of Horrors in 1982, Sandra Bernhard’s Without You I’m Nothing in 1988, The Lady in Question in 1989, Eric Bogosian’s Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll in 1990, John Leguizamo’s Mambo Mouth in 1991, and David Mamet’s Oleanna in…
Read More…for the “Rocky Horror Picture Show,” which played every Friday and Saturday night there for 11 years. The theater closed in 1992 and is now the site of a medical practice. 3….
Read More…her love of poetry with rock-n-roll, and essentially launched her career as a performer. Some of the work she read that night would become the songs on her first album, Horses. The…
Read More…of Freedom, an Academy Award, and induction into the Rock and Roll and Songwriters Halls of Fame. This exhibit, presented in augmented reality, allows the viewer to “enter” this historic…
Read More…manufacturing building was meant to harmonize with the adjacent historic Grace Church. The building was home to notable publishers connected to the likes of Norman Rockwell, and to clothing manufacturers….
Read More…Riveter was painted by Norman Rockwell, who was, incidentally, a long-standing member of the Salmagundi Club. The emergence of “Rosie the Riveter” marked a significant shift in societal attitudes toward women’s work and gender…
Read More…of jazz, blues, and rock ‘n’ roll. The spirit of experimentation and innovation that has long defined Greenwich Village continues to thrive, making it a dynamic and ever-evolving hub of…
Read More…Fisch World Trade Center and 9/11 Collection” in Village Preservation’s Historic Image Archive. First proposed by David Rockefeller to spur urban renewal in lower Manhattan in the 1940s, the World…
Read More…politically hostile elements from German universities. With the financial support of philanthropist Hiram Halle and the Rockefeller Foundation, The New School obtained funding to provide a haven in the United…
Read More…prior to STOMP include Little Shop of Horrors in 1982, Sandra Bernhard’s Without You I’m Nothing in 1988, The Lady in Question in 1989, Eric Bogosian’s Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll in 1990, John Leguizamo’s Mambo Mouth in 1991, and David Mamet’s Oleanna in…
Read More…Fellowship, a Philippines Heritage Award, a Poetry Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, and a Shelley Memorial Award. In 1973 he was named…
Read More…became known as the longtime venue for the “Rocky Horror Picture Show,” which played every Friday and Saturday night there for 11 years. The theater closed in 1992 and is now the…
Read More…in the hopes of increasing subscriptions. One of the first musicals staged under Fuller’s direction was The Cradle Will Rock during the 2000-2001 Season. In addition to staging productions, the Cocteau sought…
Read More…programming projects along the way. She has collaborated with our full-time staff to conduct research for our Rock n’ Roll History tours and document historical building records to support our…
Read More…unknown crime, and his interactions with Rocky (an older teen incarcerated for stealing a car from his male lover), Mona (who was falsely accused of making a homosexual pass at…
Read More…world-renowned for its beauty and status as a New York City icon, but it is also a marvel of construction. However, the building got off to a rocky start when…
Read More…jewelry, and other valuables of some of New York’s most prominent citizens, including Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and Jay Gould. It was also famed for its vaults and security…
Read More…of Rev. Dr. Lewis’ dreams and prayers, “a multiethnic rainbow coalition of love, justice, and worship that rocks her soul.” Middle Church facade after the fire. “The Fire: This Time”:…
Read More…the design of the apartment towers featured an organic “tap-root” structural system with a central load-bearing core extending to the subterranean bedrock. This freed the interior from intrusive load-bearing walls…
Read More…More Resources to Explore: “The Redstockings: ‘Rapping’ for Reproductive Rights in Greenwich Village” on our Blog, Off the Grid “Vasant Rai: Guru of Gaga-Rock” on our Blog, Off the Grid…
Read More…moving to the nation’s capital in 1986. The founding members of the task force, including Dr. Howard Brown, Martin Duberman, Barbara Gittings, Ron Gold, Frank Kameny, Natalie Rockhill, and Bruce…
Read More…rock musical Hair. Joe Papp believed great art was for everyone and he could engage what he called ‘the culturally dispossessed’ through theater. He argued that we have public libraries, why…
Read More…Hitler came to power, he began to purge Jews and political opposition from German universities. With the financial support of philanthropist Hiram Halle and the Rockefeller Foundation, The New School…
Read More…their favorite memories of concerts at the Fillmore East on our East Village Rock Tour, or gathering at a local school to learn about historical figures who helped shape our…
Read More…her love of poetry with rock-n-roll, and essentially launched her career as a performer. Some of the work she read that night would become the songs on her first album, Horses. The…
Read More…against Governor Orval Faubus, the Arkansas leader known for sending the National Guard to prevent integration at Little Rock High School. His music was also known for the wide range…
Read MoreAs a young girl born and raised on the rugged coast of Rockland, Maine, few could have guessed Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was…
Read More…time since COVID. In-person tours are back! Our East Village Rock Tour was a huge hit! * Serve an all-time high of 2,734 students in our children’s education program, 90% of which were…
Read More…Village, including luminaries in the fields of modernist poetry, realist painting, and hard hitting rock ‘n roll. We invite you to use our map as a way to explore some…
Read More…area South of Union Square. The renowned record-producer, civil rights activist, and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inductee John Hammond made his very first recordings at the Columbia Phonograph Recording…
Read More…publications to partake in muckraking journalism. One prevalent example of its work included the piece written by Ida Tarbell in 1903 about John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company….
Read More…Jesse and Javi have found in the afterglow of the East Village’s rock ‘n roll past. If you would like us to welcome another independent business to the neighborhood, please…
Read More…Best Rock Instrumental Performance for his album “Jazz From Hell,” and the winner of Best Country Vocal Performance for his song “Lucille,” Kenny Rogers. Kenny Rogers accepting his 1977 Grammy…
Read More…building regulation, heavy 70s’ rock, and much more. Along the way, you can snack on a french cruller, play a game of chess, and get decked out in French-vintage-style. The…
Read More…and stories on Afrikaa Bambaataa, Fab Five Freddy, Run DMC, and the Rock Steady Crew. The Eye even boasts being the first publication ever to define the term “hip hop,”…
Read More…her passion for social justice, her love of classic jazz and rock music (with deep connections to the area), her serious interest in historical research, and most of all, her…
Read More…those who experienced it and those who wish they did. You can read more about the Fillmore East here and more about our recent program about rock music in the…
Read More…Barbara Gittings, Ron Gold, Frank Kameny, Nathalie Rockhill, and Bruce Voeller. They were inspired by the Stonewall uprising and the burgeoning LGBTQ rights movements in the Village. Among the Task…
Read More…the design of John D. Rockefeller’s Riverside Church on Riverside Drive and 120th Street… “…In 1949 Christodora [the settlement] moved into the new Jacob Riis Houses on Avenue D. The…
Read More…corner of the Village is represented in the book: recollections of jazz clubs and existentialism on Bleecker Street to rock music on St. Mark’s Place and folk singers in Washington…
Read More…“As I came of age in the Sixties, at the height of sex, drugs, and rock and roll, it was always a dream of mine to inhabit the neighborhood where…
Read More…to protect himself, and purchased a gun. You may know his name from Jacob Riis Park on the Rockaway Peninsula, or from the Jacob Riis Houses in the East Village,…
Read More…degrees) who got his break performing in the rock musical review “Lemmings” (3 degrees) which ran at Greenwich Village’s Village Gate Theater (4 degrees) at Bleecker and Thompson Streets (right…
Read More…Building, the McGraw Hill Building, and Rockefeller Center. Soon thereafter and for much of the 1920′s the house was occupied by the very bohemian daughter of the 28th U.S. President,…
Read More…‘gay’ world. (Gay New York, 40-41) The Slide was closed by the police in 1892. From 1976 to 2012, No. 157 housed a rock club called Kenny’s Castaways. The large…
Read More…folk and protest movements, however, and 1964 and 1965 saw a rapid change in his musical style. After a rocky start, Simon and Garfunkel also found mainstream success in 1965….
Read More…a leading venue for rock shows in New York City. The roster of Ritz performers included, Madonna, Tina Turner, Eric Clapton, Prince, Sting, Guns N’ Roses, KISS, among many others….
Read More…neighborhood change from “kind of a rock scene, to Europeans looking at art galleries, and now it’s like a school campus, very young. Compared to how it was, it accommodates…
Read More…premier jazz, rock, and folk music venues of the mid-20th century. Bob Dylan wrote “A Hard Rain’s A Gonna Fall” here. Today Le Poisson Rouge offers a variety of music…
Read More…of the PDF). Prior to the removal of the high line In 1980, West Coast Co. (Rockrose Development Corp.) purchased the properties – seven of the nine from the Manhattan…
Read More…Boerum Hill; Jackson Heights, Hamilton Heights (Sugar Hill), and the South Street Seaport, among many others. The Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, Grand Central Terminal, and the Woolworth Building all…
Read More…Dylan, the Grateful Dead, Itzhak Perlman, Bill Monroe and Jesse McReynolds. Bassist Jim Whitney, who has toured around the world, appears in the country-rock group Miller’s Farm and is a…
Read More…Chrysler Building, or Rockefeller Center. However Greenwich Village and the East Village boast some of their own Art Deco gems, also worth examining. Art Deco was known by several names…
Read Morephoto source: Van Vechten Collection at Library of Congress Edna St. Vincent Millay was born on February 22, 1892 in Rockland, Maine. But the Village was always in her blood;…
Read More…the much-missed icon of 1960’s rock music, the Fillmore East (105 2nd Avenue). Leadbelly [photo from www.youtube.com]Well, it turns out we are not the only ones: last month, a group…
Read More…her coworkers in a video, and lauding the fashion sense of the Noho store, even as she rocketed to super-stardom. Owner Laura became her fashion stylist for the next 15 years,…
Read More…greatest rock venue in history. These tours will run every Saturday at 3 pm, year round. Learn more here. Each participant gets a keepsake multi-postcard set of classic McDarrah images…
Read More…bygone era of the neighborhood. And it is the quintessential repository for rockers who’ve just finished a gig in a nearby club. The beer is cold, the food is, well,…
Read More…a look at the part of the report that details the South Village’s contribution as a creative center of the mid-twentieth century folk and rock music scene. Many regard the…
Read MoreThe tree lighting ceremony at Washington Square Park will take place on Wednesday, December 11. Photo via Flickr/kbedell. Last week, all eyes were on Rockefeller Center for the lighting of…
Read More…MacDougal Street, Dylan originally played backup harmonica here for singer Fred Neil. Stop by to help rock in 2017! The Fat Black Pussycat 11-13 Minetta Street in the 1960’s…
Read More…Of course, most were in the Financial District, the Rockaways, Coney Island, and Staten Island. We were surprised, though, to see several in the Village make the list. L: Cedric…
Read More…the former townhouse of a rock-and-roll legend, or prominent literary figure? This weekend, you can! A backyard treehouse is featured on this year’s house tour It’s not too late to…
Read More…six year old? How did pre-reconstruction Seravalli Park in the West Village look with a gang of neon spandex-clad dancers descending upon it? And if you were the greatest rock…
Read More…to all Americans. There are 2,500 such sites that meet this high standard. The Statue of Liberty, Rockefeller Center and the Metropolitan Museum of Art are examples of local sites…
Read More…Draft Riots. These civil disturbances rocked New York City and revealed a deep racial and class divide that existed in New York City in 1863, one that was particularly visible…
Read More…May 1, 1980 as The Ritz nightclub, and until its relocation in 1986, it was a leading venue for rock shows in New York City. The roster of Ritz performers…
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