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When Broken Zoning Rules Lead to Exhumed Bones
Working in historic preservation you sometimes find yourself dealing with things you never expect. The Trump SoHo ‘Condo-Hotel,’ built on the site of an exhumed 19th century abolitionist church graveyard….
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…the Trump SoHo, which is renamed the Dominick Hotel, in part because of GVSHP’s dogged efforts to enforce zoning restrictions for the site and prevent profiting from illegal residential uses. …
Read MoreA History of the Spring Street Presbyterian Church
…is the fact that this historic edifice stood on the site today occupied by what was known as the Trump SoHo (now renamed the Dominick Hotel). We thought it important…
Read MoreJared Kushner’s (Preservation) Record
…part of his campaign apparatus, and his most intimate advisors. Trump (l.) and Kushner (r.). When the irrepressible Mr. Trump started his campaign last year, we decided to stroll down memory…
Read MoreFacts and Data Continue To Contradict Upzoning Argument
…that super-luxury housing like this at Hudson Yards lowers housing prices for everyone. Data strongly contradicts this. YIMBYs love to point to neighborhoods like Greenwich Village and SoHo and their…
Read MoreVillage Remains Tops for Artists in NYC
From the Center for An Urban Future Report Greenwich Village has long enjoyed a reputation as a mecca for artists. The same can be said of nearby NoHo and SoHo,…
Read MoreNorth America’s First Free Black Settlement In Our Neighborhoods
…boundary near today’s Bond Street toward East 8th Street and Astor Place. 5. Manuel Trumpeter: According to historian Christopher Moore, manumitted slave Manuel Trumpeter once held the designation of “Captain…
Read MoreAn Object Lesson in Lack of Government Oversight
Op-Ed BY ANDREW BERMAN, Executive Director, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation October 2, 2014 The Trump SoHo. Photo via The Villager. The recent news that the Trump Soho Condo-Hotel…
Read MoreThe Forgotten Graveyards of Greenwich Village and the East Village
…is the Trump Soho on Spring Street. This 40+ story glass protrusion was built on the site of a long forgotten radical abolitionist church and its burial ground – a burial ground…
Read MoreA Preservation Agenda For Landmarking’s 50th Birthday
…14th Street corridors. Want to help? Write Mayor de Blasio and other city officials urging them to landmark the remainder of the South Village. The Trump SoHo — Hudson River…
Read MoreRomare Bearden and the Formation of An African American Artistic Identity Downtown
…in April 2021. Photo courtesy James and Karla Murray Photography Blog. Bearden’s first studio downtown was located in a loft in SoHo at 357 Canal Street starting in 1956, From…
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…SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Rezoning Plan Make No Difference In Its Failure to Create Affordable Housing The Many Ways de Blasio’s SoHo/NoHo Plan Encourages Developers to Build Without ANY Affordable Housing Upzoning SoHo…
Read MoreVillage Preservation in the Press
…Turn SoHo Building Into Luxury Housing Blasted by Village Preservation Society, Our Town, October 25 Guess How Many Loft Owners Are Voluntarily Complying With the SoHo/NoHo Zoning Laws Eric Adams…
Read MoreDeveloper Sues GVSHP to Prevent Us from Defending Our Neighborhoods
…refused to enforce the law against the Trump SoHo, and we eventually got hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines levied against it, helping to lead to the withdrawal of…
Read MoreHudson Square Rezoning and the South Village
…Square should be changed – it allows awful buildings of the size and scale of Trump SoHo and mostly encourages hotel development. There has been vigorous debate about how exactly…
Read MoreHudson Square Rezoning/South Village Landmarking Deal FAQ
…roughly the same height as the Trump SoHo (pictured). On major avenues, the Council kept the allowable height of new buildings at 290 feet (the City Planning Commission had lowered…
Read MoreBlack History Month in the Village: Black Churches No Longer Standing
…box company. Site of the Spring Street Presbyterian Church, 246 Spring Street Spring Street Presbyterian Church, 246 Spring Street Now the site (ironically enough) of the Trump SoHo, the Spring…
Read MoreTonight — The Hudson Square Rezoning and You
The massive Trump SoHo condo-hotel in Hudson Square; Come tonight to learn how to help prevent out-of-scale development like this. Trinity Real Estate, the major property owner in the Hudson…
Read MoreHow to Play a Historic Building
…1930s draws throngs of visitors in its second life as a world-famous public park. And the hollow facades of the Soho-Cast Iron Historic District are now being used as musical…
Read MoreTenements of the South Village
…Street between Sullivan and Thompson Streets, 1933. Courtesy of NYPL. Although it abuts SoHo, the Sullivan-Thompson historic district is quite distinct from its eastern neighbor both historically and architecturally. SoHo…
Read MoreRibbon Cuttings, Reopenings, and Anniversaries Bring Neighborhood History to the Fore
…in 1626, covered much of present-day Greenwich Village, the East Village, NoHo, and SoHo. In many cases, these were the first non-native settlers of what’s now our neighborhoods. Village Preservation…
Read MoreA History of LREI in 10 Objects with LREI Archivist Yukie Ohta
…history of SoHo as a New York City neighborhood. For the past decade, Ohta has been collecting archival materials that document the transformation of SoHo from a declining industrial area to a…
Read MoreWatching GVSHP, and Village Preservation Efforts, Grow
…for this city and led to the designation of the Greenwich Village Historic District and the SoHo Cast Iron Historic District; her efforts in the saving and reworking of Washington…
Read More2021 Village Awardee: Linda Pagan
…the Sullivan Thompson Historic District. Linda and three other store owners within the district launched SoHo Village NYC, a group devoted to educating residents and visitors about local history, as…
Read MoreWoody Guthrie’s New York Comes Alive
…apartment in Coney Island. The family witnessed discrimination and predatory landlord practices by none other than Fred Trump, about whom he wrote a song called “I Ain’t Got No Home/Old…
Read More‘People in Trouble’: A Case Study of the AIDS Crisis in Historical Memory
…“coming to real power and sacrificing the homes, and therefore the lives, of the vulnerable simply for more profit.” The fictionalized villain Ronald Horne is modeled after Donald Trump, inspired…
Read MoreThree Up, Three Down: Explore Our Greek Revival Heritage in Six Buildings
…site. In December 2006, construction of the Trump SoHo began at the site; nine years later, the Trump Organization reported that the $450 million, 46-story hotel condominium was no longer…
Read MoreOn This Day: New York City Draft Riots
…on the site of what is now the Trump SoHo Condo Hotel, the construction of which GVSHP fought; in 2006, Trump’s workers disturbed the former church’s graveyard which was underground…
Read More14 historic sites of the abolitionist movement in Greenwich Village
…2006 the site was purchased for the construction of the highly-controversial Trump Soho (recently rebranded as the Dominick Hotel), and in the process of doing excavation on the site for the…
Read MoreCITY VOTES UNANIMOUSLY TO LANDMARKFINAL PHASE OF GVSHP’S PROPOSED SOUTH VILLAGE HISTORIC DISTRICT!
Ten block, 160-building district gets immediate protections from developers, incl. Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner; Brings to 1,250 total number of buildings landmarked in neighborhood since 2003 The NYC Landmarks Preservation…
Read MoreGreek Revival: Gone But Not Forgotten in Our Neighborhoods
…December of 2006, when the construction of the Trump SoHo began at the site, and the remains of the burial vaults were uncovered. Construction was halted for a time for…
Read MoreCity Votes Unanimously to Landmark Final Phase of GVSHP’s Proposed South Village Historic District!
Ten-block, 160-building district gets immediate protections from developers, incl. Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner; brings to 1,250 total number of buildings landmarked in neighborhood since 2003 The NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission…
Read More2018 Favorites, and Looking to 2019….
…was much of the same back in 2006, when the Trump SoHo Condo-Hotel began marketing units. The advertising clearly showed what we and so many others had been contending all…
Read MoreBusiness of the Month: Dö Kham, 117 First Avenue
…the culture they represent. Dö Kham was originally created by the husband and wife team Anna and Phelgye Kelden. The original small Soho boutique was designed for “bringing treasures from…
Read MoreStories from GVSHP’s Historic Image Archive- “Is That My Mother?”
…in the early 1980s when Carole Teller took this photo of crowds milling about in a still semi-deserted SoHo, with this woman perched on the cast-iron storefront steps selling clothing….
Read MoreAsian-American History in Greenwich Village and the East Village
…art wasn’t well regarded in the art world. According to his NYT obituary, Wong showcased at the Blinderman’s Semaphore Gallery spaces in SoHo (462 West Broadway) and the East Village (157…
Read MoreGreenwich Village: Birthplace of Modern American Drama part 4 in a series
Believe it or not, the Soho Playhouse is actually within the Charlton-King-Vandam Historic District, which was designated 50 years ago this week, a district which is part of the larger…
Read MoreIt’s Festivus: Time for Our Airing of Grievances!
…as with the SoHo/NoHo Upzoning, the demolition of 14-16 5th Avenue, 116-120 East 11th Street, and more, we have seen affordable housing put at risk, or worse, demolished, to build…
Read MoreNoHo Historic District Becomes a Reality
…into use in order to distinguish it from SoHo, the adjacent neighborhood to its south. Previously, NoHo, SoHo, and the eastern part of Tribeca were known collectively as the “warehouse…
Read MoreHandouts to Big Real Estate, and a Festivus for the Rest of Us!
…decision was her vote granting NYU unprecedented allowances to overdevelop wide swaths of the Village. More recently, Chin supported the illogical rezoning of SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown. Our 2011 Halloween contest entry. We…
Read MoreMake Sure Preservation Has a Future
…the public, and decision-makers. Education programs and fundraisers went virtual. But COVID-19 wasn’t the only source of challenges we faced. The Mayor put forward an unprecedented upzoning plan for SoHo…
Read MoreJane Jacobs’ NYC: The sites that inspired her work and preservation legacy
…late 1950s, cars were banned from the park on a trial basis, and in the 1960s the ban was made permanent. Saving Soho, the South Village, and Little Italy Had…
Read MoreWhat the Preservation Movement Needs Now
…we’re battling Donald Trump, and Donald Trump doesn’t do what you want him to do, we’re not surprised. When you’re in a preservation battle, and you reach out to a…
Read MoreBusiness of the Month: Music Inn, 169 West 4th Street
…can name it, they most likely have it. They also sell strings, accessories, and drum heads for a wide variety of instruments. Fortunately, I carried my sterilized trumpet mouthpiece with…
Read MoreThe long road to landmark: How NYC’s Stonewall Inn became a symbol of civil rights
…to LGBT history and rights. After the Trump administration’s arrival and their pronouncement that National Monument and other conservation designations by the Obama administration were being reviewed and potentially reconsidered,…
Read MoreNow That’s a Beautiful Wall!
…of the messages are anti-Trump and some are pro-Trump, the majority of the messages call for love, hope, peace and equal rights. Whether I agreed with the messages or not,…
Read MoreBusiness of the Month: Exit9 Gift Emporium, 51 Avenue A
…bags or hats, or a Trump coloring book? At Exit9 Gift Emporium, 51 Avenue A– our August Business of the Month. Exit9 founder Charles rocking a hat available in the…
Read MoreCITY VOTES UNANIMOUSLY TO LANDMARK FINAL PHASE OF GVSHP’S PROPOSED SOUTH VILLAGE HISTORIC DISTRICT!
Ten block, 160-building district gets immediate protections from developers, including Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner; brings to 1,250 total number of buildings landmarked in neighborhood since 2003 The NYC Landmarks Preservation…
Read MoreThe Lower East Side People’s Federal Credit Union
…recently in the news when it sued President Trump and Michael Mulvaney over their management of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), which they claimed to be “a naked, illegal…
Read MoreSpring Street Presbyterian Church
…the beginning of the Trump Soho 46-story “condo-hotel.” Soon after digging began, a backhoe uncovered human remains in four early 19th century burial vaults. Construction was halted and archaeologists were…
Read MoreBlack History Month: Alex Haley
…site of what is now (ironically enough) the Trump SoHo. The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, one of New York’s first black churches and the site of historic celebrations of…
Read MorePaulo d’Angola: the Former Slave Who Became One of Greenwich Village’s First Landowners
…bit further south, in what would today be called the Lower East Side, SoHo, and Tribeca. This made d’Angola the very first non-Native American settler in the heart of what…
Read MoreHudson Square
…in the area and the loss of its historic buildings. Landmark Applications 32 Dominick Street More information on: Far West Village Hudson River Park Air Rights South Village Trump SoHo…
Read MoreGVSHP African American History Month Series: Revisiting Spring Street Presbyterian Church
…years later, the church building was destroyed by fire and subsequently razed. In December 2006, construction crews began working on the Trump Soho 46-story “condo-hotel”, to be located on the…
Read MoreTales from the Crypt: Greenwich Village as seen through its burial sites
…the church had stood was in the process of being cleared to make way for the Trump SoHo condo hotel. Yet, during this process, bodies were uncovered; the workers on…
Read MoreA Look at Past and Upcoming Programs
…was demolished in the 1960’s, but stood on the site of the present Trump SoHo condo-hotel. These are just a few of the programs from January and February. You can…
Read MoreFew Republicans, And One Big Political Paradox, in the Village
…affluent homeowner blocks of the King-Charlton-VanDam Historic District to the Trump SoHo (where the City claims no one “lives,” because it would violate the zoning, but we know better) and…
Read MoreSpeak Up at the Hudson Sq. Rezoning Public Meeting Tonight!
…rejected. While GVSHP and community groups agree that a rezoning of the area is needed, the proposal as it is now allows for incredibly buildings (as big as the Trump…
Read MoreQuinn holds the cards on rezoning and landmarking
…Square’s current zoning should be improved. The current zoning allows out-of-scale development like the Trump Soho condo hotel, and makes hotels the most attractive kind of development. Trinity Real Estate,…
Read More2013: The Year In Review
…their commitments regarding the Trump SoHo and had never asked the developer to supply legally required independent audits to prove that zoning regulations were not being violated in the occupancy…
Read MoreGone But Not Forgotten: The Tunnel Garage, 1922-2006
…The Tunnel Garage, 1922-2006. The Tunnel Garage, at Broome and Thompson Streets, where the South Village meets SoHo, was no ordinary parking garage. Built in 1922, it was a thing…
Read MoreOpponents Vastly Outnumber Supporters At Rezoning Hearing; Village Preservation Releases Study Showing City Projections for Neighborhood Rezonings Are ‘Less Reliable Than Flipping a Coin’
Jena Hinton of Village Preservation testifying at the City Council hearing. Yesterday’s City Council hearing on the Mayor’s proposed SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Upzoning/Displacement plan lasted about seven hours, with opponents — many…
Read MorePatricia Field’s Village Shops
…“Hotel Venus” at 382 West Broadway in SoHo that had opened in 1997. Field closed the SoHo store in 2006, moving the store to a larger location at 302 Bowery….
Read MorePatricia Field’s Village Shops
…“Hotel Venus” at 382 West Broadway in SoHo that had opened in 1997. Field closed the SoHo store in 2006, moving the store to a larger location at 302 Bowery….
Read MoreThe Forgotten Fifth Avenue South of Washington Square Park
…Broadway. Source: NY Metro Victorian Society of America. https://www.vicsocny.org/castironnyc/popup.php?id=27 422 West Broadway or 130 South Fifth Avenue. Source: https://www.mountainsoftravelphotos.com/USA%20-%20New%20York%20City/27%20SoHo/slides/27%20422%20W%20Broadway%20Has%20Its%20Original%20Street%20Address%20On%20The%20Cast-iron%20Columns%20-%20It%20Used%20To%20Be%20130%20South%20Fifth%20Avenue%20In%20SoHo%20New%20York%20City.jpg In 1896 South Fifth Avenue became part of West Broadway again,…
Read MoreJudge Accepts Our Motion to Intervene Over the Objections of Both NYU and NYC
We’re thrilled to report that our motion to intervene has been accepted in NYU’s lawsuit seeking to overturn the provision in the SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown rezoning that prohibits most private university expansion…
Read MoreBack and Better than Ever: Linda Pagan and the Hat Shop, Now at 148 Sullivan Street
…a platform for mutual support among hat-making peers; co-launching SoHo Village NYC, a group that promotes the history of the neighborhood; and helping found Save Our Storefronts, a state-wide group…
Read MoreNikola Tesla: Retracing the Visionary’s Lost Legacy in Our Neighborhoods
…and SoHo neighborhoods, then in Greenwich Village at 33-35 South 5th Avenue (now LaGuardia Place between Bleecker and West 3rd Streets), and his last in what we today call NoHo…
Read MoreURGENT: Hochul Plan to Lift Residential Density Limit in NYC Advances to State Budget; Write Legislators in Opposition TODAY!
…generous rules allow. The recent SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Upzoning, for example, allowed new development at up to the legally allowable limit of 12 FAR. Had it not been for the limit, the…
Read MoreOral History Highlight: Colette Smith Douglas
…against Robert Moses’ proposed Lower Manhattan Expressway, which would have destroyed the neighborhoods of SoHo, Little Italy, and the South Village. Presently she lives on Charlton Street. According to Douglas:…
Read MoreFrom George Washington to Hudson Square: The history of the Charlton-King-VanDam neighborhood
…radical 20th-century innovators. The most dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker will have trouble telling you if it’s in Greenwich Village, SoHo, or Hudson Square. The tiny Charlton-King-VanDam neighborhood is, as its name…
Read MoreMore Evidence that Upzoning Makes New York Less Affordable, Not More, and the Reality Deniers
…current SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown upzoning, claiming it will help make our city more equitable and affordable, when the exact opposite is true. Village Preservation is committed to fighting back against this 21st…
Read MoreMid-Year Appeal: Help Us Do More When It’s Needed Most!
…social progress. DONATE! We’re doing that in so many ways — leading the effort to: Stop a disastrous upzoning of SoHo and NoHo, intended as a blueprint for similar changes…
Read MoreMy Favorite Things: Gone But Not Forgotten Edition
…the future. The Tunnel Garage, 1922-2006. The Tunnel Garage, ca. 1940. The Tunnel Garage, at Broome and Thompson Streets, where the South Village meets SoHo, was no ordinary parking garage….
Read MoreThe South Village Historic District Makes the National Register of Historic Places
The South Village is an area rich in architectural, cultural, and historic resources, distinct from (though connected to) those of its surrounding historic communities, such as Greenwich Village, Soho, and…
Read MoreBeyond the Village and Back: Congregation Shearith Israel
…built as a synagogue. Next, they moved to 60 Crosby Street, in today’s SoHo. That synagogue was completed in 1834. From there they moved to 5 West 19th Street, just…
Read MoreBuilding Broadway: Incredible Photographs from 1920
…a future Building Broadway feature! You can also catch the buildings of SoHo in the background; they now form part of the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District. See how this stretch…
Read MoreGay Activist Alliance Headquarters Bombed
Gay Activist Alliance Firehouse. On October 15, 1974, the Gay Activist Alliance Firehouse, located in SoHo at 99 Wooster Street, was bombed. One of the most highly influential LGBT groups…
Read MoreLandmarking 101: Determining Historic District Borders
…erected for industry, while residential tenement buildings dominate the eastern side of Thompson Street. In fact, an extension of the SoHo Cast-Iron District in May of 2010 extended that Cast-Iron…
Read MoreThis Day in 1984: The Pope of Greenwich Village
…on what GVSHP refers to as the South Village – specifically an area below Houston Street, between 6th Avenue and West Broadway, that many people now consider part of SoHo….
Read MoreKeith Haring in the Village
…his breakthrough exhibition at Tony Shafrazi’s SoHo space in 1982. According to a New York Magazine review, during these years Haring was “merely one of the crowd hanging out in…
Read MoreThe Former Gay Activists Alliance Headquarters at 99 Wooster Street Has At Last Become a Landmark
…1971 until October 1974. During this era SoHo was a lively hub of creative energy and activity. Loft living in former commercial buildings by certified artists was legalized by the…
Read MoreDeadly History
…uncovered during continued renovations. Remains were also unearthed during excavation for the Hudson Square Trump Residential Hotel in 2006, a project which GVSHP opposed due to numerous zoning issues. The…
Read MoreThe Ukrainian National Home’s Surprising History
…play with at the venue, was also a regular. So was revered trumpeter Hot Lips Page, who recorded a version of the 1924 classic “When My Sugar Walks Down the…
Read MoreLPC Honors Charlie Parker and Others During Black History Month
…the height of his career, having achieved considerable success and renown as the co-founder of bebop, the modern jazz style that he and trumpeter Dizzy Gillispie created in New York…
Read MoreAlice Paul: An Architect of the 19th Amendment
…Sentinels, including Alice Paul, began to be attacked by angry mobs. Police began arresting the suffragists on the trumped-up charge of “obstructing traffic.” Many women were jailed when they refused…
Read MoreSneak Preview of September Village Preservation Events (and Some August Programs Still Open)
…and East Village, and will be expanding to SoHo, the Lower East Side, Chelsea, TriBeCa, Midtown, Upper East Side, Upper West Side, and Harlem. On This Spot NYC aims to…
Read MoreBook Talk: Swimming to Jerusalem with Author Seth Bornstein
…called Swimming to Jerusalem, “A great novel of New York in the Trump era and a tender look at the way the progression of time makes immigrants of us all.”…
Read MoreJazz and Jewelry: The Life of Art Smith
…saxophone or trumpet. He first met Talley Beatty, a modern dancer, who introduced him to black artists like writer James Baldwin, painter Charles Sebree, and singer Lena Horne, among many…
Read MoreCharles Mingus Plaque Unveiling and Performance
…on trumpet with Lionel Hampton, and on bass sax with the New York City Opera, as well as alongside artists as diverse as Anthony Braxton, Ruby Braff, Ella Fitzgerald, Clark…
Read MoreAlbany’s Decision on Allowing Supersized Residential Development in NYC This Week; Rallying with State Legislators to Oppose
Some huge NYC residential buildings constructed under the existing cap; lifting it would allow developers to go even bigger: (clockwise from top l.) Trump Palace; Central Park Tower; The Greenpoint;…
Read MoreAda Louise Huxtable: Democratizing Architectural Discourse in Greenwich Village and Beyond
…a community. Huxtable analyses here the important modern interventions that made this project so extraordinary. “No trumpets sounded when Westbeth triumphed over the system, but they should have…Important ground has…
Read MoreCritical State Decision on Allowing Supersized Residential Development in NYC Expected Soon
Some huge NYC residential buildings constructed under the existing cap; lifting it would allow developers to go even bigger: (clockwise from top l.) Trump Palace; Central Park Tower; The Greenpoint;…
Read MoreWayne Shorter: a jazz legend who will be missed in Greenwich Village and beyond
…new ideas and sounds. It was where we could really experiment with our music and see what worked and what didn’t.” – Miles Davis, jazz trumpeter and composer. This quote…
Read MoreAfrican-American Music Crosses Genres #SouthOfUnionSquare
…11, joining the band of leading hard bop trumpeter Donald Byrd and subsequently that of epochal jazz chameleon Miles Davis, and ultimately carving his own path as critically acclaimed and…
Read MoreKlezBiGay 2021 Pride Concert and Chat
…of Klezbos sextet: Debra Kreisberg clarinet/saxophone Pam Fleming trumpet Melissa Fogarty vocals Shoko Nagai accordion/piano Saskia Lane double bass Eve Sicular drums/bandleader Co-hosted by Jews for Racial and Economic Justice…
Read More31 Literary Icons of Greenwich Village
…professor William Strunk Jr., and published Trumpet of the Swan in 1970. White received the National Medal for Literature in 1971, and two years later was elected to the American Academy of…
Read MoreThe Historic Fire Patrol House No. 2: Not Your Average Firehouse
…that include fireman’s trumpets supporting an entablature that says “1906” in the cornice, as well as a head of Mercury symbolizing speed over what had been the fire patrol entrance….
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