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2 Fifth Avenue
APPROVED 10/01/2013 CB2 hearing: 09/16/2013 LPC hearing: 10/01/2013 Greenwich Village Historic District Between Washington Square North and West 8th Street —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the LPC agenda: A…
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40 Fifth Avenue
APPROVED on 06/01/2010 Greenwich Village Historic District Corner of 11th Street Application: A neo-Georgian style apartment house designed by Van Wart & Wein, and built in 1929. Application is to…
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Looking east on south side of 10th Street towards Fifth Avenue
9/6/2016 LPC hearing. For more information about this application, click here….
Posted June 2, 2020
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24 Fifth Avenue
APPROVED with modification 03/15/2016 CB2 hearing: 02/11/2016 LPC hearing: 12/08/2015 – Laid over LPC hearing: 02/02/2016 – Laid over LPC hearing: 03/15/2016 Greenwich Village Historic District Between West 9th Street…
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357 Fifth Avenue, B. Altman Department Store
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Posted June 2, 2020
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Latest Landmarks Applications Available: 276 West 11th Street, 3 East 10th Street, and 39 Fifth Avenue
Village Preservation provides an ongoing record of all applications for changes to landmarked properties in our neighborhoods (Greenwich Village, NoHo, Gansevoort Market, the South Village, and the East Village) that…
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20 Fifth Avenue
LPC meeting: TBD CB2 hearing: 03/24/2014 LPC hearing: 04/01/2014 Greenwich Village Historic District Between West 8th and 9th Streets —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the LPC agenda: A neo-Classic…
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45 Fifth Avenue
APPROVED on 04/07/2015 CB2 hearing: 03/16/2015 LPC hearing: 04/07/2015 Greenwich Village Historic District Between West 11th and 12th Streets —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the LPC agenda: An apartment…
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11 Fifth Avenue
APPROVED: 09/08/2015 CB2 hearing: 08/17/2015 LPC hearing: 09/08/2015 Greenwich Village Historic District Between Between East 8th & East 9th Streets —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the LPC agenda: A…
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24 Fifth Avenue
APPROVED on 03/01/2011 Greenwich Village Historic District Northwest corner of West 9th Street APPLICATION: A Spanish Renaissance style apartment building designed by Emery Roth and built in 1926. Application is…
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Hotel Grosvenor – 35 Fifth Avenue
CB2 hearing: 1/13/2022 LPC hearing: 1/25/2022 LPC public meeting: 4/5/2022 via YouTube and Zoom. Registration information: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/lpc/hearings/hearings.page Greenwich Village Historic District Between 10th Street and 11th Street —- APPLICATION INFORMATION…
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60-62 Fifth Avenue
This eight-story National Registers of Historic Places–listed building was constructed as the headquarters of the prominent publishers Macmillan Co. in 1923-24 by the preeminent architectural firms of Carrere & Hastings…
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2 Fifth Avenue
APPROVED 06/14/2011 Greenwich Village Historic District Between West 8th Street & Washington Square North APPLICATION: A brick apartment house designed by Emery Roth & Sons and built in 1951-52. Application…
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The Meatpacking District Through the Eyes of a Fifth Generation Meat Purveyor’s Daughter
Purchase the Book! Native New Yorker Jacquie Ottman’s family’s meat purveying business Ottman & Company was dubbed the “Tiffany of the Meat Business.” In this talk she will take us…
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39 Fifth Avenue
APPLICATION APPROVED Greenwich Village Historic District Between East 10th and 11th Streets —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the LPC agenda: An apartment house with Spanish Renaissance style details designed…
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33 Fifth Avenue
DENIED on 01/11/2011 Greenwich Village Historic District Southeast corner of 10th Street APPLICATION: A neo-Federal style apartment house designed by Sussman and Hess and built in 1923. Application is to…
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40 Fifth Avenue
APPROVED on 08/03/2010 Greenwich Village Historic District Corner of 11th Street Application: A neo-Georgian style apartment house designed by Van Wart & Wein, and built in 1929. Application is to…
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L-Shape Construction and the Power of Hold Outs: South of Union Square
…Avenue which he was planning to develop. 70 Fifth Avenue, view down East 13th Street. 70 Fifth Avenue, one block down from 74-76 Fifth Avenue and a NYC landmark, was…
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#SouthofUnionSquare — Dance Tour
…died, on October 14, 1994, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Clinton. 55 Fifth Avenue 55 Fifth Avenue, 2020. This 1912 office tower at 55 Fifth…
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Emery Roth (& Sons) in the Greenwich Village Historic District
…Note the Greek Revival mansion to the north 24 Fifth Avenue The Fifth Avenue Hotel, 24 Fifth Avenue Replacing the Brevoort mansion at the northwest corner of Fifth Avenue and…
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The Birth of the NAACP, and Their Deep Roots in Greenwich Village
…street at 69 Fifth Avenue (demolished), if this frequently-cited date is correct, then this powerful campaign began at 70 Fifth Avenue. In 1922, the anti-lynching legislation was finally approved by…
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Beyond the Village and Back: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
…even the slightest interest in art or culture. Its grand Beaux Arts facade, fronted by a sprawling staircase and graceful fountains facing Fifth Avenue, are among the most iconic images…
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The Legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois Reverberates Throughout Our Neighborhoods
…others. 70 Fifth Avenue, 2020. While at 70 Fifth Avenue, the NAACP experienced extraordinary growth, accomplishment, and challenges. It confronted the epidemic of lynchings of African-Americans and race-based violence taking…
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A Tour of Jewish Historic Sites South of Union Square
…Emanu-El moved to Fifth Avenue and 43rd Street in 1868, and in 1927 to its current location at Fifth Avenue and 65th Street — a massive, Romanesque Revival structure which…
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Seized During the Red Scare, This Lefty Archive from Our Neighborhood Is Now Available Online
…as well as places of memory, such as 80 Fifth Avenue. The IWO’s erstwhile headquarters on Fifth Avenue marked a turning point in the visibility of one of the most…
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The Architecture South of Union Square
…78 Fifth Avenue 72 Fifth Avenue 64-66, 68, and 70 Fifth Avenue 64-68 Fifth Avenue 64-68 Fifth Avenue 68-70 Fifth Avenue 70 Fifth Avenue 60-62 Fifth Avenue 59 and 57…
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Building Profile: P.S. 25, now P.S. 751
…preceding three decades. Rewind to 1871, when a row of tenements from 326 to 332 East Fifth Street was converted into a four-story school building long known as the Fifth…
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Many Layers of History at 9th Street and 5th Avenue
…popular in European society. It would set the pace for social events of high society for the rest of the century. 24 Fifth Avenue built as the Fifth Avenue Hotel…
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31 Literary Icons of the Greenwich Village Historic District
…and the Village Vanguard. Streetview of 11 Fifth Avenue; Map data © 2019 Google 14. Henry James, 11 Fifth Avenue Upon returning to New York City from Albany in 1847,…
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‘The Birth of a Nation’ Galvanizes a Movement #SouthOfUnionSquare
…content and rampant misinformation. Interestingly, both organizations were housed at 70 Fifth Avenue, a 1912 12-story Beaux Arts-style office at the southwest corner of Fifth Avenue and 13th Street in…
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked? 64-66 5th Avenue
…and sold the American company in 1890s, resulting in the construction of their Fifth Avenue headquarters. They remained here until they built their new headquarters next door at 60 Fifth…
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Women’s History #SouthofUnionSquare
…still criminalized, and was the only such clinic to use an insurance system. 70 Fifth Avenue 70 Fifth Avenue, 2012. 70 Fifth Avenue was home to the headquarters of many…
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Asian-American History in Greenwich Village and the East Village
…International Workers Order, 80 Fifth Avenue 80 Fifth Avenue. The International Workers Order (IWO) was located at 80 Fifth Avenue for its entire lifetime, from 1930 until 1954. This progressive…
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31 Literary Icons of Greenwich Village
…would often hang out at Marie’s Crisis and the Village Vanguard. Streetview of 11 Fifth Avenue; Map data © 2019 Google 14. Henry James, 11 Fifth Avenue Upon returning to…
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The First Global Economic Crisis, and An Easily-Overlooked Greenwich Village House
…North and the stretch of Fifth Avenue leading from it up to 14th Street. The city’s grandest houses were built on these Lower Fifth Avenue blocks, with mansions constructed by…
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The Scopes Monkey Trial and its origins in Greenwich Village, south of Union Square
…possible. Throughout the early-to-mid 20th century, the 12-story Beaux Arts-style office building at 70 Fifth Avenue was the home of a staggering array of political organizing and social activism. The…
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October Programs: Building Community in our Neighborhoods
…Walk Down Fifth Avenue Pre-order the book from our local bookstore partner. On Tuesday, October 18th, Village Preservation will host author Bill Hennessey for a book talk all about Fifth Avenue below 14th…
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Architecture #SouthOfUnionSquare: the German-American Legacy
…lofts in the area south of Union Square. 72, 74-76, 78, 80 Fifth Avenue (l. to r.), 1940s Tax Photo. Courtesy of Municipal Archives. Wagner designed 78 Fifth Avenue in…
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Village Preservation Resources for African American History Month
…nation. The flag became a key symbol of the group, also flying at its next headquarters location (69 Fifth Avenue) in 1936. During the same period, 70 Fifth Avenue housed…
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Oklahoma! Meets Greenwich Village
…LPC to replace 14-16 Fifth Avenue did grave damage to 10 Fifth Avenue two doors south, an early 19th-century rowhouse built by the Brevoort family which is a near twin…
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Making Beautiful Music Together: The Grammy-Winning Artists #SouthOfUnionSquare
…61 Fifth Avenue Found at 61 Fifth Avenue was New York’s premiere “country” music venue, the Lone Star Café. From 1976 to 1989, this venue was the select spot of…
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Happy (Landmark) Birthday, Salmagundi Club!
…century Anglo-Italianate brownstone mansions that once lined the lower portion of Fifth Avenue. Its dignified, former northern neighbors at 49 and 51 Fifth Avenue were razed to make way for…
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Gettysburg General Daniel E. Sickles’ Complicated Legacy
…many of the most powerful and renowned figures of his era. From 1881 to 1883, Sickles was also a resident of 14-16 Fifth Avenue, a building in the Greenwich Village…
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20 transformative women of Greenwich Village
…City. She lived in a loft here with her partner, the noted art critic Elizabeth McCausland, from 1935 until 1965. 4. Bella Abzug, 2 Fifth Avenue Bella Abzug (center) celebrating the…
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Irish American Heritage Permeates #SouthOfUnionSquare
…States, he moved to 28 East 14th Street. Pearson’s Magazine and Bookstore, 57 Fifth Avenue 57 Fifth Avenue, 2020. In the early 20th century, 57 Fifth Avenue served as the…
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#SouthofUnionSquare — Irish History Tour
…Wilde, as well as several other literary portrayals of Wilde’s life. 49-51 Fifth Avenue 49-51 Fifth Avenue This 16-story Colonial Revival-style apartment building was designed in 1928 by Thomas Lamb….
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Publishing giants, radical literature, and women’s suffrage: More secrets of Union Square South
…Fifth Avenue, photo by Beyond My Ken / Wiki Commons 72 Fifth Avenue, The Appleton & Co. Headquarters This almost perfectly intact late-19th-century masonry structure is not only an outstanding example of the…
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April 2024 Programs: Vanished Mansions, the Birth of Seventh Avenue South, and More
…Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Avenue (at 12th Street) Co-sponsored by the Salmagundi Club Library Committee. Opened in 1824, Fifth Avenue originally vied with several other locations for social supremacy, including…
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The Diversity and Beauty of Loft Buildings South of Union Square
…& Dance Theater, as well as the radical Workers Laboratory Theatre. 74-76 and 78 Fifth Avenue (l. to r.) 74-76 and 78 Fifth Avenue No. 74-76 Fifth Avenue is a…
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Elected Officials, Preservationists, Tenant Advocates Condemn Plan by Madison Realty Capital to Demolish Landmarked 1848 Greenwich Village Building for 244 ft. Tall Pied-a-Terre Tower for Super-Rich
…to demolish a 5-story, 20-unit apartment building at 14-16 Fifth Avenue in the Greenwich Village Historic District constructed in 1848, and replace it with a 244 ft. tall tower with…
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Tour the Musical Sites of Producer John Hammond’s World
…1962, was recorded here. 55 Fifth Avenue 55 Fifth Avenue One of New York’s least well known but most historically significant recording studios was at 55 Fifth Avenue in the…
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John Hammond: Villager & 20th Century’s Most Influential Producer
…“New King Porter Stomp” at 55 Fifth Avenue. 55 Fifth Avenue Hammond continued to champion the cause of racial integration in the music world throughout his life. Providing opportunities for…
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“Hidden Figures” #SouthOfUnionSquare: The Unsung Female Engineers Who Built Some of NYC’s Greatest Landmarks
…72, 74-76, 78, 80 Fifth Avenue We have previously written about one of those two women, Marion Sara Parker. Parker graduated from the University of Michigan in 1895 and was…
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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: Isabel Bishop
…the daily life of their immediate surroundings. Fourteenth Street at this time was referred to as “The Poor Man’s Fifth Avenue.” It was a bustling center for bargain shopping and…
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The Female Trailblazer Who Helped Build New York’s Landmarks #SouthOfUnionSquare
…and left behind some of its most beloved landmarks. 78 Fifth Avenue, c. 1940, courtesy of Municipal Archives 78 Fifth Avenue is a Neo-Rennasiance style loft building constructed in 1896…
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Walk Through LGBTQ+ History with Our Civil Rights and Social Justice Map
…the AIDS activist group ACT UP, and GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation). Read more about the building’s history here. National Gay Task Force Headquarters, 80 Fifth Avenue 80…
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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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Terrance McNally Offers Wonderful Window Into The Rich History #SouthOfUnionSquare
…first national gay rights organization in the country, which was headquartered at the striking 80 Fifth Avenue. You’ll see some of the writers who lived here while writing controversial and…
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Politicians, Playwrights, and Parades: The Irish legacy of the East Village and Greenwich Village
…to Fifth Avenue for the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade, or perhaps a visit to St. Patrick’s Cathedral. But for those willing to venture beyond Midtown, there’s a rich Irish…
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#SouthOfUnionSquare Tour — Libraries and The Formation of the NYPL
…this building at 55 Fifth Avenue. The Lenox Mansion at 55 Fifth Avenue. His father Robert, a Scottish immigrant, became one of the most successful real estate investors and developers…
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Jesús Colón Writes and Fights for Puerto Rican New Yorkers
The progressive mutual-benefit organization the International Workers Order (IWO) was located at 80 Fifth Avenue for its entire lifetime, from 1930 until 1954. A pioneering force in the U.S. labor…
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Oral History: Dining in Greenwich Village with Mimi Sheraton
…Avenue, the one-time Fifth Avenue Hotel There was also 24 Fifth Avenue — then the Fifth Avenue Hotel, today a condo building — that “had, in summer, a wonderful sidewalk…
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Why Aren’t These Landmarked? Black History Month Edition
…designation for 285-287 East 3rd Street 80 Fifth Avenue 80 Fifth Avenue; photo by Dylan Chandler in his Architecture of Union Square portfolio Our proposed South of Union Square Historic…
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Battle for Landmark Protections for South of Union Square Includes Historic NAACP and National Gay Task Force Headquarters
(l.) 70 Fifth Avenue in 1940 (via NYC DOF) and 80 Fifth Avenue today. As part of our ongoing effort to secure landmark protections for Greenwich Village and the East…
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Battle for Landmark Protections for South of Union Square Includes Historic NAACP and National Gay Task Force Headquarters
(l.) 70 Fifth Avenue in 1940 (via NYC DOF) and 80 Fifth Avenue today. As part of our ongoing effort to secure landmark protections for Greenwich Village and the East…
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Speaker Johnson, Scholars, and Press Support South of Union Square Civil Rights Landmarking Effort, But City and Rivera Still Resist
…or reached new heights. Read more here. (l. to r.) 80 Fifth Ave., 17 East 13th Street, 70 Fifth Ave., 10 East 14th Street, and 55 Fifth Ave., where remarkable advances in…
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Before Salmagundi: Part Two
…iconic Fifth Avenue and a revered NYC Landmark, pursuing clues to 47 Fifth Avenue’s fascinating transformation over the years prior to Salmagundi is a grand saga in itself — if…
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The Lives of Writers #SouthOfUnionSquare
…poets, painters, dancers, and musicians. International Workers Order, 80 Fifth Avenue The International Workers Order (IWO) was located at 80 Fifth Avenue for its entire lifetime, from 1930 until 1954….
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