We offer a variety of tools to help you learn more about the history and culture of our neighborhoods.
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Request info about a property from our researchers. Please include the property address and any other relevant information in your request. We look forward to hearing from you.
Maps and Archives
Explore maps and archives that illustrate the historic and culturally significant places, organizations and figures of our neighborhood.
Village Preservation: Advocacy and Accomplishments
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Urban Archives/Village Preservation Maps + Tours
Urban Archive is a location-based mobile app that empowers New Yorkers to learn about history where it happened. The site brings together the digital collections of New York City’s museums, archives, and libraries in an easy-to-use resource built for discovery. Since 2017, Village Preservation has partnered with Urban Archive to increase access to our image archives and resources, including these maps and tours:
All NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission Designations
Village Preservation has catalogued by date and type every one of the 40,000 properties landmarked in New York City. While information on all landmark designations in NYC have been available for some time, there has been no single place where one could see when each designation was made chronologically, to get a clear sense of when and how designations of various types, and in different locations, have taken place. The data derived from our report, Analyzing New York City Landmark Designations: A Review of Mayoral Influence and Policy, 1965 to the Present, which showed how landmark designations have dropped dramatically under Mayor Adams.
This comprehensive list will be updated regularly to include every new designation when they are added.
Village Voices
Village Preservation’s innovative outdoor public art exhibition, VILLAGE VOICES, celebrated and honored the artistic, social, political, and cultural movements of our neighborhoods and the people who gave them voice, via 31 distinct and engaging shadowboxes and two interactive installations that were displayed throughout Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo.
We’ve gathered all the exhibits here for you to visit (or revisit) and learn about the extraordinary people, places, and events within our neighborhoods that have been instrumental in changing our world.
Neighborhood History
Greenwich Village’s known history dates back to the 16th century, when it was a marshland called Sapokanican by Native Americans who camped and fished in the meandering trout stream later known as Minetta Brook…
Greenwich Village’s known history dates back to the 16th century, when it was a marshland called Sapokanican by Native Americans who camped and fished in the meandering trout stream later known as Minetta Brook…
Historic Image Archive
Images from the late 18th to the early 21st century of Greenwich Village and the East Village and environs, and across the five boroughs.
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