…community. For over a decade old houses were being transformed to studios and their facades remodeled to Mediterranean, Tudor and other romantic fantasies. In 1927 builders MacKathryn & O’Sullivan purchased No. 93,…
Read More…neighborhood were once the homes, studios, and everyday gathering spaces of now-famous artists. A prime example includes the homes and studios (or often studios that inadvertently became homes) of Franz…
Read More…staff member Dr. Joseph O’Dwyer. This method of keeping airways open saved thousands of children from the life-threatening disease diphtheria, an epidemic at the time. Edward Hopper in his studio….
Read More…relation to 20th-century art and the development of New York as the center of the art world after World War II, as the home and studio of artist Willem de…
Read More…the Tenth Street Studio, the first of its kind, purpose-built studio/live-work space for artists, completed in 1858 at 51 West 10th Street. In 1889 a group of accomplished women artists…
Read More…1943-44 — the view looking up Broadway from 12th/13th Street in Greenwich Village, just around the corner from Gee’s home and studio on East 10th Street Nude in Studio, 1952…
Read More…to 2018, the Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation underwent an extensive restoration of Chaim Gross’s studio. Similar work restored Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s studio at the New York Studio School, and…
Read More…Étant donnés, in his New York City studio. After his death on October 2nd, 1968, his close friends and the world were stunned to find, hidden in his studio on…
Read More…three stories in 1894. Elizabeth Olds’ studio was located here from the late 1930s to the late 1950s. Around 1967, the influential publishing house Grove Press opened an office here,…
Read More…the part”. New York, 1939. Photographer: David E. Scherman. Raphael Soyer, “Office Girl,” 1936. Oil on canvas via the Whitney Museum of American Art. Corner of Moses Soyer’s studio. Moses,…
Read More…Sloan maintained a painting studio in the Varitype Building, a tall, Flatiron-shaped loft building at the corner of Sixth Avenue, Cornelia Street, and West 4th Street in Greenwich Village, (built…
Read More…Women’s History Museum, was a celebrated artist, educator, and self-described “people’s sculptor.” Selma Hortense Burke, Untitled (Woman and Child), ca. 1950, painted red oak. While her studio was at 88…
Read More…be told as inseparably as he understood them to be. Alex Haley. Courtesy of Bill Haley https://www.pri.org/programs/studio-360/american-icons-autobiography-malcolm-x Ten years later, the writer Alex Haley was working in the Village, writing…
Read More…disused former Bell Telephone Labs on the block bounded by West, Bethune, Washington, and Bank Streets along the Greenwich Village waterfront into subsidized housing and studios for artists and space…
Read More…major studios were more interested in the girl with “the natural gift of comedy” than the group as a whole, and Holliday alone was offered a studio contract. She refused…
Read More…1981, the year of her 81st birthday, the theatre was renamed in her honor. HB Theatre 124 Bank Street The HB Studio (the acting studio of renowned theatre artists Herbert…
Read MoreRomare Bearden in his Canal Street studio, 1976. (Photo by Blaine Waller) via Queen City Nerve. Groundbreaking artist, intellectual, and activist Romare Bearden (September 2, 1911 – March 12, 1988)…
Read More…into their home and studio. They added a sculpture studio to the ground floor, which is illuminated by an enormous skylight that underwent extensive restoration work in 2017 and 2018…
Read More…the generous homeowners who opened their homes for our tour, a perfect ticket pick up site provided by the Salmagundi Club, and lovely programs and benefit materials designed by Studio…
Read More…occupied the building for studio and living space. 830 Broadway 832 Broadway: The ten-story Renaissance Revival style building at 832-834 Broadway was constructed in 1896 for the Commercial Realty Improvement…
Read More…NYU campus. Three years later he acquired studio space for himself and his students in the newly-built neo-Gothic University Building (demolished in 1894 to make way for the present Silver…
Read More…Village homes at their own pace. The self-guided tour also included a bonus site: the former studio of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney at the New York Studio School at 8 West…
Read More…“Father of Video Art,” played a vital role in our neighborhoods’ rich artistic history. Working out of his studio in Westbeth along with his partner and fellow avant-garde artist Shigeko…
Read More…rooftop Village artists studio additions. Quite unusually, she kept the small Greek Revival side windows of the attic intact as she sensitively inserted a new bay window in the center…
Read More…studio and home of sculptor Chaim Gross and his wife Renee. Gross, whose art can be found in the permanent collections of such institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art…
Read More…foster the artistic development of emerging or established artists by providing them with studio space, time, and materials. Consistent with the Pottery’s early mission, the studio also serves a disadvantaged…
Read More…opened a 60-seat black box theatre now known as the Cherry Lane Studio. A24, the independent film and television studio whose films include the Oscar winner “Everything Everywhere All at Once,”…
Read More…of the architectural features that define an iconic Village artists studio in this 2014 blog post. Artist studios are still extant in the Village landscape and are just one of…
Read More…at his nearby studio in what is now known as NoHo. This temporary studio was located at 643 Broadway, northwest corner of Bleecker Street, before it was demolished and replaced…
Read More…1929 151 Bank Street was constructed in the Moderne style for Bell Labs which served as a pioneering experimental sound and motion picture studio. This complex would be the site…
Read More…demolishers dismantle a former sculptor’s studio, the facade of which is painted with the slogans ‘Save the Village’ and ‘Wake Up Mr. Mayor!’ New York, New York, May 19, 1960….
Read More…before it was destroyed, his studio at the World Trade Center. And he was a great and generous friend to GVSHP. GVSHP did some wonderful programming with Peter over the…
Read More…site is 92 Grove Street, where Pulitzer-Prize winning American author, Alex Haley had a writing studio during the 1960’s. Probably best known for his books Roots: The Saga of an American Family…
Read More…live and work until his death in 1967. (NYU owns the studio but has preserved it for visitors and students.) Portrait of Edward Hopper in his studio at 3 Washington…
Read More…Saturday, just two doors down from Jean-Michel Basquiat’s last home and studio, GVSHP and Ayanna Jessica Legros presented a panel exploring the artist, his identity, and his relationship with the NoHo…
Read MoreAlex Haley. Source: Courtesy of Bill Haley https://www.pri.org/programs/studio-360/american-icons-autobiography-malcolm-x Pulitzer-prize winning American author Alex Haley was born this day, on August 11, 1921. GVSHP’s Civil Rights & Social Justice Map highlights…
Read More…Street includes Wanamaker Fire (1956), Old Broadway in Winter (1943-44), and Nude in Studio (1952). “Old Broadway in Winter,” 1943-44 by Yun Gee. Photo courtesy of Christie’s, depicting the view north from Broadway and 12th Street,…
Read More…Joseph, Moretti, both of whom lived in the apartment building at 215 Second Avenue. While Moretti is listed as the original owner of the studio, it was built on the…
Read More…MacDougal Alley studio. While the museum left 8 West 8th St for larger space in the 1950s, it is fitting that the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and…
Read More…Over the years the Steinberg’s store has served the diverse artists that call the village home including Frank Stella, whose studio was formerly nearby at 128 East 13t Street, and…
Read More…defense industries. The building became the proverbial home to “Rosie the Riveter.” The artist Frank Stella, one of the 20th century’s most notable and influential artists, owned 128 East 13th and used it…
Read More…the building was converted to other uses. In 1978, the structure was acquired by the painter, printmaker, and sculptor Frank Stella, who used it as his studio until 2005. Click…
Read More…enjoy these illustrations as well. 126-128 East 13th Street, the former Horse Auction Mart building and studio of artist Frank Stella which GVSHP helped save from demolition and got landmarked….
Read More…East 12th Street dates to 1890. Nos. 126-128 East 13th Street housed a vocational school for women during World War II and was the studio of noted artist Frank Stella…
Read More…needed in defense industries.” From 1978-2005, the building was owned by Frank Stella, one of the 20th century’s most notable and influential artists, who used it as his studio. The…
Read More…of the Stonewall Inn and other LGBTQ+ landmarks, the designation of Phases 2 and 3 of our proposed South Village Historic District, saving the homes of Frank Stella and Willem De Kooning from…
Read More…its greatest triumphs, including the designation of Phases 2 and 3 of our proposed South Village Historic District, saving the homes of Frank Stella and Willem De Kooning from the…
Read More…the Belmonts and the Vanderbilts. More recently, from 1976-2006, it was the studio of Frank Stella, one of the 20th century’s most notable and influential artists. In 2006 we discovered…
Read More…long been home to artists. Steven even remembers making bicycle deliveries to Franz Kline and Willem de Kooning as a child. More recent customers include Frank Stella, Kiki Smith and…
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Portraits of Dutch-born American artist Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) in his loft studio at 831 Broadway, New York, by Fred W. McDarrah. In support of GVSHP’s effort to save 827-831…
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Portraits of Dutch-born American artist Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) in his loft studio at 831 Broadway, New York, by Fred W. McDarrah. In support of GVSHP’s effort to save 827-831…
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Portraits of Dutch-born American artist Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) in his loft studio at 831 Broadway, New York, by Fred W. McDarrah. In support of GVSHP’s effort to save 827-831…
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Portraits of Dutch-born American artist Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) in his loft studio at 831 Broadway, New York, by Fred W. McDarrah. In support of GVSHP’s effort to save 827-831…
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Portraits of Dutch-born American artist Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) in his loft studio at 831 Broadway, New York, by Fred W. McDarrah. In support of GVSHP’s effort to save 827-831…
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Portraits of Dutch-born American artist Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) in his loft studio at 831 Broadway, New York, by Fred W. McDarrah. In support of Village Preservation’s successful effort to save 827-831 Broadway, the…
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Read More…these claims. Edward Hopper’s Studio at One Washington Square North Edward and Jo Hopper’s charming studio on Washington Square North, which is now owned by NYU and houses much of…
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Portraits of Dutch-born American artist Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) in his loft studio at 831 Broadway, New York, by Fred W. McDarrah. In support of GVSHP’s effort to save 827-831…
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Read More…a few folks from the neighborhood. Workers dismantle Arnold Bergier’s studio, the facade of which is painted with the slogans ‘Save the Village’ and ‘Wake Up Mr. Mayor!’ “Demolition of…
Read More…1) From the LPC agenda: A transitional Greek Revival Italianate style townhouse built in 1853, altered with the addition of a 4th floor and studio window. Application is to construct…
Read More…The Crisis Magazine, to the studio where Billie Holiday made her very first recordings. Our East Village Building Blocks website features an African American history tour with more than two…
Read More…is to renovate an existing single family, non-fireproof townhouse and artist studio to include new interior partitions, layouts, exterior windows and doors and new HVAC system; excavation of existing cellar…
Read MoreThe HB Playwrights Theatre: A West Village Haven for Theater A lecture with dramatic readings The HB Studio was already a thriving fixture in New York City’s cultural landscape when…
Read More…collagist, and musician lived and worked at the height of his career in the 1980’s in a loft studio in NoHo, and his connection to the city was integral to…
Read MoreRobert Motherwell (1915-1991), one of the most noteworthy figures of the Abstract Expressionist movement and ‘New York School’ of artists, had a studio during some of his most productive years…
Read More…its bounds — from Washington Square to Abingdon Square, from the New School to the New York Studio School. Historic houses of worship and historic houses, key sites of immigrant…
Read More…fellow New School professors, choreographer and dancer Martha Graham, and visual artist Isamu Noguchi. Appalachian Spring was composed in 1944 for the Martha Graham Dance Company, whose first dance studio…
Read More…in 1854. Thomas Cummings also had his studio there during that time. He was the Vice President of the academy and ran the school starting in 1856. 58 East 13th…
Read More…seen as legitimate among western artists. The Ashcan School, a group of avant-garde realist painters led by Robert Henri focusing on quotidian city life, and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s Whitney Studio…
Read More…floor became the home and studio of abstract expressionist painter Franz Kline. Franz Kline (1910-1962) was born in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania and moved to New York City in 1938. He…
Read More…and choreographers, as well as dance studios in the area south of Union Square. Anna Sokolow was placed on this tour due to her many years of studying and practicing…
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Portraits of Dutch-born American artist Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) in his loft studio at 831 Broadway, New York, by Fred W. McDarrah. In support of GVSHP’s effort to save 827-831…
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Read More…sexuality. Lankton first came to the East Village when she was 18 or 19, commuting to the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn to gain a bachelor’s degree in Studio Art. Originally…
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Portraits of Dutch-born American artist Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) in his loft studio at 831 Broadway, New York, by Fred W. McDarrah. In support of GVSHP’s effort to save 827-831…
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Read More…any home in the Village. In the 1920s, the home had a fourth floor added that includes one of the grandest and most impressive artist studio windows ever constructed, added…
Read More…1884, Demorest purchased the building, as he had so many along 14th Street, inserted a show window in the parlor floor, and converted the upper stories into offices and studios….
Read More…the time, Belafonte saw the power of music for social and political revolution. Belafonte’s second studio album was released in 1956. In 1952, just a year after its opening, Belafonte’s…
Read More…save. At 10th St and Greenwich Ave, demolishers dismantle a former sculptor’s studio, the facade of which is painted with the slogans ‘Save the Village’ and ‘Wake Up Mr. Mayor!’…
Read More…around her. She lived and performed downtown (still does), and recorded the album at Electric Lady Studios on West 8th Street. Bob Dylan, a close friend since he first saw…
Read More…the Talking Heads, formed by the husband and wife team of drummer Chris Frantz and bassist Tina Weymouth. The band was centered around Compass Point Studios in Nassau, the Bahamas,…
Read More…1945, as Burke remained at 88 East 10th Street, Eleanor Roosevelt visited her studio to approve the final design. When the First Lady commented on President Roosevelt’s youthful appearance, Farrington cites…
Read More…Surrealist NYC map This interactive tool maps and explores the studios, homes, and collective social spaces of Surrealist artists who took refuge in Greenwich Village after World War II. From…
Read More…after studying art in Europe. He produced art for the Ziegfield Follies and many Hollywood Studios, the most famous of which is the poster for the 1933 film, The Sin…
Read MoreEvery month, Village Preservation combs through nominations from the public and other resources to choose a special independent store to honor in Greenwich Village, the East Village, or NoHo. Please…
Read More…buildings had new lives breathed into them, finding new purpose as artists’ studios and residences. These buildings are highlighted in our new virtual exhibition, “The Architecture South of Union Square”…
Read More…would mingle with the likes of Andy Warhol and hang out at Max’s Kansas City. The interior of the legendary Electric Lady Studios. A year later, he would record his…
Read More…his studio here at the turn of the last century; Cranmer’s image of the Blizzard of 1888, taken a few blocks away on West 11th Street, is the enduring image of…
Read More…to race upstairs and encourage VID members to ask about the landmark designation of the neighborhood upon Wagner’s arrival. Workers dismantle Arnold Bergier’s studio, the facade of which is painted…
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Portraits of Dutch-born American artist Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) in his loft studio at 831 Broadway, New York, by Fred W. McDarrah. In support of GVSHP’s effort to save 827-831…
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Read More…most are owned and occupied by NYU. Edward Hopper’s home and studio was located in 3 Washington Square North from 1913 until his death in 1967, in one of those…
Read More…psychoanalysis. The play’s main character, Henrietta, living in a studio apartment in Washington Square South, is obsessed with over-analyzing the dreams of her husband, Stephen, and her sister, Mabel. Suppressed…
Read More…embodied the mindset of the neighborhood, he named his new art gallery after it. Barrows and Savard created the Civilian Warfare Gallery as a live/work studio, supporting individual artists and…
Read More…classrooms for studios. The Department of Cultural Affairs bought the building from the Board of Education, and then leased it for $1 a year to the P.S. 122 Community Center,…
Read More…the building was born in 1925 as a radical remodeling of an 1830 rowhouse into a five-story artists’ studio apartment building. In the mid 20th-century, the building became even more iconic…
Read More…been home to a Blink fitness studio, the MLB Fan Cave, and most recently Build Studio, which closed during the pandemic. Beyond the structure’s name, nothing remains on the outside…
Read More…restaurant in the city. You can learn more about Awash here. AYON Studio (41 Union Square West, Suite 516) AYON Studio provides experienced services in the fields of architecture and…
Read More…to the studio where Billie Holiday made her very first recordings: Our East Village Building Blocks website features an African American history tour with more than two dozen sites connected…
Read More…of Modern Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the Art Institute of Chicago. “For Benny there was no line where his activism…
Read More…artists and the arts hold in the Village – and everywhere. Rosemarie Beck in her studio at 6 East 12th Street in New York City 1966, from the Rosemary Beck…
Read More…her own right, kept studios in and around Union Square throughout their working life. Notably, Edward Laning kept a studio at 30 East 14th Street at the mid-century. The list…
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