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In Memoriam: African American Artists of Westbeth

…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…

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Why Isn’t This Landmarked: 4 & 6 East 12th Street

…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…

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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: Edward Laning

…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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Willem de Kooning at 831 Broadway Image #11

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…

Posted June 2, 2020

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A Real Tour of Greenwich Village for ‘Friends’ Fans

…building was specifically intended to attract artists, with 10 one-room studios with casement windows, similar to the “artists’ studios” which had been popping up on the top of houses throughout…

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Willem de Kooning at 831 Broadway Image #9

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…

Posted June 2, 2020

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The Pepper Pot Inn, “The Realest Thing in Bohemian Atmosphere”

…Viola had her own gorgeous, private studio (even though the couple rented rooms across the street). Her spacious hideout was “decorated in true Edwardian style with wicker furniture, Chinese lanterns…

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The Empress of Blues, South of Union Square

…at the “81” Theatre in Atlanta, Smith began performing her own work. In 1923, she signed to Columbia Records, whose recording studios were located at 55 Fifth Avenue at 12th…

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Cary Grant Before He Was Cary Grant, in Greenwich Village

…Kelly’s artist’s studio at 21 Commerce Street with a tin box containing all his worldly possessions. He promptly moved in. Orry-Kelly wrote that Grant was ill when they first started…

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Jean-Michel Basquiat and the East Village art scene of the 1980’s

…Basquiat died in his studio on Great Jones Street, sadly joining the infamous “27 club.” Village Preservation installed a plaque marking Basquiat’s longtime home and studio on Great Jones Street…

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Exploring Virtual Village Voices, Part 4: Bob Dylan, Martha Graham, and Lorraine Hansberry

…Times They Are a-Changin’” that helped stir the civil rights and anti-war movements, and recorded 40 studio albums. Dylan has also earned a Nobel Prize in literature, a Presidential Medal…

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May He Stay Forever Young: 80 Things We Love About Bob Dylan

…than 500 songs. 2. Dylan has recorded over 39 studio albums. 3. Rough and Rowdy Ways, Dylan’s latest album, was recorded in 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic. 4….

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Patricia Field’s Village Shops

…of Field’s regular clients. The store gained further notoriety for helping put together looks for Studio 54 club-goers, of which Field herself was one of. As a pioneer of the…

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Fall Auction: A First for Village Preservation

There have been countless “firsts” in our neighborhoods: the first cappuccino machine (Café Reggio), the first building constructed specifically to house artists’ studios (The Tenth Street Studios at 51 West…

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Happy Landmark Anniversary to Webster Hall!

…studio and called it the “Webster Hall Studios.” Elvis Presley, Perry Como, Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Harry Belafonte, and Julie Andrews all sang at the studios, and several musicals, including…

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Village People: Isadora Duncan

…and inspiration in the Greek section of the British Museum. The money she made performing allowed her to rent a studio, and begin choreographing large stage performances. She travelled to…

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In the News: 55 Years Ago Today

…Leading the paper was the story of a photographer who was facing threats and possible eviction for posting a political sign in her storefront studio window. The sign supported the…

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Members Only ($50+): Jazz Appreciation Month in the Village

…the 70s. The tour will look at significant venues like Slugs’ Saloon, Artists’ House, Studio Rivbea, Studio We, Tin Palace, Ali’s Alley, Environ, Ladies’ Fort, and 501 Canal, and groundbreaking…

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My mind was really wandering today…

…it.) And so the theme of my morning became “recycling.” I paid a visit to the HB Studios on Bank Street and met with Executive and Artistic Director Edith Meeks….

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Happy Birthday, John Lennon!

…their apartment at 105 Bank Street; (m.) Lennon with Norman Mailer at Barney Rosset’s house; (r.) Electric Lady Studios. Those early years on Bank Street were not the only time…

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VILLAGE VOICES

…& John Leguizamo, Leslie & Bob Rylee, Judith Stonehill, F. Anthony Zunino & Sally Auer CORPORATE FRIEND Board Packager, Brooklyn Studios, Brown Harris Stevens, Corcoran Downtown, Glenn Schiller – Corcoran,…

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Bil Baird and His Marionette Theater

…theater, and filming studio. This was an interesting time in the Village, too, considering discussions for a potential historic district (or districts) here were already underway. (It would not be…

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Happy Birthday NoHo Historic District Extension!

…in New York City. In addition to Basquiat’s studio, the home and studios of Robert Mapplethorpe and Chuck Close could also be found on the street at 24 and 20…

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Happy 5th Landmark Birthday, East 11th Street Baths!

…public bath ceased to operate here in 1958. As you can see, the building was in need of a little TLC… The Bathhouse Studios website. Today, the metal gates at…

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Business of the Month: Lori McLean, 207 Avenue A

…as a studio arts college major who discovered that she found wax carving — the first step in jewelry making — deeply satisfying. She would come home and produce casts…

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Shining a Light on an East Village Landmark

…today: the Consolidated Edison Company of New York (or Con Ed). In 1963, an alteration permit indicates that the building’s use was changed to accommodate a “photo studio, developing, printing…

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Join Us this Sunday for GVSHP’s House Tour Benefit

…access to view six remarkable private homes in Greenwich Village, plus the former studio of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney on 8th Street at your own pace throughout the afternoon. Those who…

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Patricia Field’s Village Shops

…of Field’s regular clients. The store gained further notoriety for helping put together looks for Studio 54 club-goers, of which Field herself was one of. As a pioneer of the…

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AIDS Memorial Design Process Underway

…of last year. Of nearly 500 submissions, Brooklyn-based Studio a+i was awarded the winning concept in January 2012. There’s been some confusion over how this design will be realized in…

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A Nearly One Century “Encore!” for the Cherry Lane

…the Cherry Lane. She also bought space in a neighboring brownstone and opened a 60-seat black box theatre now known as the Cherry Lane Studio. Click here to see what’s…

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Jo Davidson’s “Plastic History,” Featuring His Village Friends

…scene by establishing his studio at 23 MacDougal Alley (now No. 12) in the Greenwich Village Historic District, with the help of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, whose own studio was also…

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#SouthofUnionSquare: More Photographic History In Our Midst — 60-62 East 11th Street

…Some of those sites which are documented on our Virtual Village map within the photography tour include 8 East 12th Street, studio of the noted photographer, Charles Gatewood; 10 East…

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The Annual Village Awards: Spotlight on the Regina Kellerman Award for Preservation

…façade was thoughtfully and painstakingly restored. 2019: Estate of Fred W. McDarrah Jimi Hendrix with producer/engineer Eddie Kramer (l.) and studio manager Jim Marron in Hendrix’s still under construction Electric…

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Plaque Unveiling for Sculptor Chaim Gross

…building their own. Chaim even designed much of the interior, including elements like the wood floors in the first-floor studio space. They not only raised a family in the neighborhood…

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Happy Birthday Abraham Lincoln!

Photographer Mathew Brady took this portrait of Abraham Lincoln at his studio in New York City on the same day that Lincoln gave his now-famous Cooper Union address. On this…

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Celebrating the Birthday and Legacy of Jean-Michel Basquiat

…his friend and mentor, Andy Warhol. On August 12, 1988, at the age of 27, Basquiat died in his studio on Great Jones Street, sadly joining the infamous “27 club.”…

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History is Alive in Our 23rd Annual House Tour!

…artist’s studio, a distinguishing feature of Greenwich Village during that time. A Federal-style house in Greenwich Village. The John J. Palmer House from the tour is a sleek example of…

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New Image Collections Shows Interiors of One of Our Most Intriguing Houses, and the Village in the 1960s

…studio of his grandfather, renowned muralist William de Leftwich Dodge. The elder Dodge raised the roof of the house for his studio as so many artists in Greenwich Village did…

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276 West 11th Street

…masonry openings and install new infill, remove studio skylights, construct a rooftop addition, and alter the rear façade. PDF presentation links: LPC Presentation of 4/9/2024 Community Board Presentation of 3/14/2024…

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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: Kenneth Hayes Miller

…techniques of the Renaissance Old Masters. He took a studio at 6 East 14th Street in 1923 and at 30 East 14th Street from 1928 until his death in 1952….

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Welcome to the Neighborhood: Archie’s Press, 219 East 10th Street

…this part-studio, part-retail shop, and part-exhibit space, you’ll find a selection of beautiful printed products, as well as printing services that allow you to create your own. The store and…

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Isamu Noguchi: Artist of the Century

He was one of the most significant, prolific, and versatile artists of the 20th century, and he produced several of his many iconic pieces from a studio located in a…

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Great Writers and the Greenwich Village Historic District

…Street – Margaret Wise Brown’s Writing Studio The incredible Cobble Court (left), and Margaret Wise Brown (right) This most unusual home is also known as Cobble Court; before the house…

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VILLAGE VOICES 2022

…Stutzman, Nancy Langsan & Douglas Bernstein, Justine & John Leguizamo, Leslie & Bob Rylee, Judith Stonehill, F. Anthony Zunino & Sally Auer CORPORATE FRIEND Board Packager, Brooklyn Studios, Brown Harris…

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La Vie en Rose: Meet Villager Rose Hartman

…as Bianca Jagger atop a white horse at Studio 54. Known for her ability to gain entrance into any social gathering, and possessed of an uncanny eye for candid shots,…

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Spiral Group: From Greenwich Village to the Brooklyn Museum

…New York, NY They kept meeting on a weekly basis in Bearden’s studio to discuss how their art might relate to current political goals and explore aesthetics that transcended categories…

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The Architecture South of Union Square

…studios became classrooms and laboratories. But in recent years that virtuous cycle has been broken, and buildings that housed great artists, civil rights leaders, and radical thinkers have been threatened,…

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New York Biscuit Stables

…It was sold to Ceco Studios, LLC. in 1995. Ceco Studios operates the High Line Stages here, in the adjoining 439 West 14th Street, and in several other buildings in the…

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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: Joann Gedney

…studio. Joann Gedney (March 16, 1925 – June 20, 2013) was a trailblazing Abstract Expressionist painter and sculptor who played an integral role in elevating the cultural prominence of the…

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(Even More) Artists, Theaters, and Advocates for Civil Rights and Social Justice in Our Neighborhoods

…New York-based African American artists to the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. They kept meeting on a weekly basis in Bearden’s studio to discuss how their art might…

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Beyond the Village and Back: The American Radiator Building

…studio, per historian Christopher Gray. The restaurateur also let him live in a small apartment on the site. Every Friday, according to Kilham, the “Four Hour Lunch Club” met, eventually…

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In Fight to Protect LGBTQ+ History, Too Many Landmarks Remain Unprotected South of Union Square

…home of Columbia Phonograph Recording Studios and Okeh Phonograph Recording Studios from 1926 to 1934. Here, openly LGBTQ+ performers recorded their work, including blues singer Bessie Smith and jazz pianist…

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Jimmy DeSana: Sexuality and Subversion

…of them moved into Jane Kaplowitz’s 547 Broadway studio where the crumbling loft became their home base for artistic experimentation. To make money, DeSana worked as a street photographer, shooting…

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The Glittering and Gritty History of 24 Bond

…art, the spritely statues were permitted to stay. But those sculptures aren’t the only piece of artistic legacy at 24 Bond. Robert Mapplethorpe occupied a studio on the fifth floor…

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Village Preservation Oral History: Merce Cunningham

…Hudson River Park. Photo courtesy Barry Munger. Merce also compared the Westbeth neighborhood from the early 1970s to today and reminisced about the large windows of the dance studio, one…

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Whaam! Pow! Celebrating the Life and Work of Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein In a city filled to the brim with galleries, museums, artists’ studios, and, of course, avid art lovers, we’ve all undoubtedly walked by a display of Pop Art…

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“On the Road” Published

…Cafe, where he was interviewed by Mike Wallace in 1960, and the Artist’s Studio. Jack Kerouac is very much a part of the Village and the Village and its bohemian culture…

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Village Remains Tops for Artists in NYC

…schools in the Village, SoHo, and NoHo, or at least those within the school district within which they are located, have the largest number of visual arts studios, auditoriums, theater…

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John Sloan: Village Visionary

…as being “devotees of the ugly,” these artists believed that beauty could be found in ordinary life. Sloan’s diary described the day he found the studio he rented at 2…

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Happy Birthday, Jane Freilicher!

…she was introduced to Hans Hofmann, an Abstract Expressionist painter who kept a studio on 8th St. “Everyone who was anyone in the art world during the late 1940s seemed…

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The Melodious Sounds Which Emanated from 108 Waverly Place

…and coachman’s apartment were combined, and the roof over the attic floor was raised, and it now has a steeply sloping studio window. The present two-centered arched window at ground floor that replaces…

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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: Reginald Marsh

…the 20th century. Reginald Marsh ( left) and Raphael Soyer (right) in studio at 1 Union Square circa late 1938 – 45. Smithsonian American Art Archives. In the 20th century,…

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Alfonso Ossorio: Artist, Collector, Congregator

…collected many of Pollock’s works and displayed them at the Creeks, his 80-acre estate in East Hampton. Ossorio also owned a studio at 9 MacDougal Alley from 1949 until 1952,…

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Exhibition Tour and Artmaking at the Whitney

…artist’s efforts to create a vision of American life. Then, enter the Whitney’s studio for an hour-long artmaking experience, exploring the exhibition’s themes for ourselves. This event is fully accessible…

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Shop Local and Enjoy the Miracle of Lasagna!

…Federal Style houses built in 1828-29 that were landmarked following a joint campaign by Village Preservation and the NY Landmarks Conservancy. By 1920, it contained the studios of Nickolas Muray,…

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Greenwich Village Historic District TheaterJam

…actor Kathleen Chalfant, James Scruggs’ “A Voluptuary Life,” and Peculiar Works’ “In Her Words: 2 Jane Jacobs,” and works from Cherry Lane Theatre, HB Studio, HERE, New Ohio Theater, and…

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9/11 Tiles For America Collection — Memorial at Mulry Square

…of the public. After the tragic events of that day, Greenwich Village resident Lorrie Veasey, owner and operator of Our Name is Mud ceramic studio, created tiles of American flags, doves, and angels…

Posted September 8, 2021

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The Many Lives of Greenwich Village: Collective Memory and Preservation

…in recent issues of Carve, Ploughshares, The Hudson Review, and The Sun. She’s a devoted teacher at The Writers Studio, a developmental editor, award-winning translator of Jacques Brel songs, columnist at The Village Sun and LitHub, and…

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Billie Holiday: Jazz Legend & Greenwich Village Icon

…Studios at 55 Fifth Avenue (extant — today the Cardozo Law School building) to cut what would be her very first recordings. She joined Hammond for three recording sessions at…

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Louise Bryant

…studio in which to write and paint. Portrait of Louise Bryant by John Henry Trullinger By 1915, Louise was a star in Portland, but was dissatisfied living a bourgeois life…

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Behind Building Blocks: 285 East 3rd Street, home of Steve Cannon and Gathering of the Tribes

…at the Studio Museum in Harlem in the 1960’s Steve Cannon has been instrumental in the founding of many of the Lower East Side’s and East Village’s cultural institutions such…

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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: Mabel Dwight

…as a satirist and lithographer. In 1938, Mabel Dwight rented a studio at 55 East 10th Street, a 1929 fifteen-story Gothic Revival former apartment hotel designed by Victor Farrar, now…

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A Vibrant Tapestry: African American History in Our Neighborhoods

…Square Historic District contains dozens of unprotected sites connected to African American history, from the studio where some of the first integrated musical recordings were ever made, to the site…

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East Village Building Blocks Tour: the LGBTQ East Village

…lot with different partners, spending time in bars, studios, clubs, and more. As a poet, Ginsberg was a major part of one of the most important literary movements in this…

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Dr. Simon Baruch and the Bathhouse Movement

…became a warehouse and garage until 1995, when time photographer Eddie Adams purchased the space and converted it into a high-end fashion and corporate photography studio. Though it doesn’t serve…

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Remembering a Big Day for East Village Landmarking

…and warehouse until 1995 when Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Eddie Adams purchased the building and converted it into a fashion and photography studio. Click here to read more about this building….

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Viewers Choice: Top 5 Village Preservation Program Videos of 2018

…cover a diverse range of areas including rock and roll, restoring artists’ studios, terracotta mosaics in the subways, street photography, women’s poetry, and so much more. Recording our programs and…

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James Renwick, Jr., 19th Century Architect Extraordinaire!

…donnés. After Duchamp’s death on October 2, 1968, his close friends and the world were stunned to find this work hidden in his studio in Suite #403. The St. Denis…

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World War I Centennial and the Village

…Martiny, whose studio was located on MacDougal Alley. It shows a foot soldier – nicknamed doughboys – striding into battle, with a gun and a flag. The monument was a…

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FABulous! Walking Tours of the Fourth Arts Block (FAB)

…district in Manhattan and one of only two in the entire city. This one block contains 12 theaters, eight dance/rehearsal studios, three film-editing suites, and a large screening room, most…

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South of Union Square: Birthplace of American Modernism Walking Tour AFTERNOON

…showcase the homes, studios, and important institutions related to these movements. Walk Location: Between 14th Street and 9th Street, bounded by 5th Ave to the west and 3rd Ave to…

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A Star Is Born: Barbra Streisand Live At The Bon Soir

…a studio recording and sat mostly-unreleased in Streisand’s archives for 60 years. Now, it serves as a welcome reminder of a unique moment in Greenwich Village history and a portrait…

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P.S. 122: Performance Space with Lots of Fame

…Keith Haring’s P.S. 122 studio What is now Performance Space 122 at 150 First Avenue was originally built as Public School 122 in 1885 by the prolific school architect and…

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Left Bank New York, Artists Off Washington Square 1890s to 1920: A lecture with Virgina Budny

…and townhouses north of Washington Square into artists’ studios. There they created works of art and permanently changed the areas as they socialized. Prominent among them were Thomas Wilmer Dewing,…

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BREAKING: CITY MOVES TO LANDMARK ENDANGERED 1866 CAST-IRON BUILDINGS AT 827-831 BROADWAY WHICH GVSHP FOUGHT TO SAVE!

Buildings once housed Willem de Kooning home & studio, faced wrecking ball & planned replacement by 300 ft. tall office tower We’re thrilled to report that after a year-and-a-half campaign…

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Ralph Lee, 2018 Village Awardee

…attend our Annual Meeting and Village Awards here. Read about the other awardees here. Read more about Ralph Lee here. Lee at his Westbeth studio with one of his creations….

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24 East 10th Street

…remain intact, however, they were unanimous that the studio light should remain even if it needs to be modified. All thought that the mass of the proposed rear addition should…

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Growing up Alongside the West Village Waterfront of the 1990s

…through. West Village Houses on the left (red brick building), and Roy Lichtenstein’s home and studio out of frame to the right. Some of the photographs in this collection seem…

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The social and cultural Puerto Rican history of the East Village

…Ballet Workshop, New Music Series, Visual Arts/ Media Programs, and Teatro Charas; housed an art gallery, La Galeria en El Bohío, and a theater, Teatro La Terraza; provided studio space…

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Pressing Mayoral and City Council Candidates on Upzoning and SoHo/NoHo

…not for the Community Alternative Plan. Maya Wiley “did not give an affirmative whether or not she supported lifting the manufacturing and artist studio zoning on [SoHo and Noho] which…

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The Pathfinder Mural: Public Political Art in the Far West Village

…million+ studio apartment in New York, and possibly the world (which may be less uncommon now, but in the early 2000s was a shocking emblem of escalating real estate prices…

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7 Macdougal Alley

APPROVED on 04/20/2010 Greenwich Village Historic District Application: A studio building designed by John Bayley Day, built in 1899, and altered by C. R. Lamb in 1901. Application is to…

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302 West 13th Street

…on rooftop addition, and re-designed the proposed addition to resemble an artist studio window. Additionally applicants must work with staff to refine the design and massing of the cornice, to…

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Westbeth Turns 50!

…housing and workspace for hundreds of artists, as well as space for arts and cultural organizations, including the Merce Cunningham and Martha Graham Dance Studios, a theater for the New…

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Webster Hall

…emerging Latin artists and folk musicians, and then a recording studio used by Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, and Julie Andrews, and for the recording of soundtracks for Hello Dolly and Fiddler on the…

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Why Isn’t This Landmarked? 64-66 5th Avenue

…choreographer whose name became synonymous with modern dance” by the New York Times, the great American modern dance innovator Martha Graham had her first dance studio at 66 Fifth Avenue…

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Cherry Lane Theatre: More Than Just An Off-Broadway Theater

…known as the Cherry Lane Studio, which serves as a creative space for emerging playwrights to test and nurture their works, carrying on the traditions set by St. Vincent Millay…

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Fathers Riccardo Lorenzoni, Antonio Demo, Carlo Delbecchi and Bartolomeo Marenghino (aka Marenchino)

The pastoral staff of Our Lady of Pompei. Taken at Bostwick, a photo studio at 98 Sixth Avenue. For more information about Father Antonio Demo, visit http://gvshp.org/blog/2012/03/09/whats-in-a-name-father-demo-square/…

Posted June 2, 2020

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Christian Brother, possibly Eliphus Victor I

Taken at Wendel Studio, 13 Avenue A. The Christian Brothers ran an educational institution (now Manhattan College) on Second Avenue.

Posted June 2, 2020

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12 MacDougal Alley

…originally built c. 1854 and converted to studios in 1909. Application is to increase the height of the parapet and install a railing and rooftop mechanical equipment. 2) LPC Designation…

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