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W.P.A. Anniversary
WPA Mural from Greenwich Village’s Women’s House of Detention (demolished 1974) On April 8, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act. This act granted the President…
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New Addition to Our Preservation History Archive Sheds Light on Charlton King VanDam Historic District on Its Anniversary
VanDam Street from the Evelyn B. Haynes Collection of Village Preservation’s Historic Image Archive. Fifty-four years ago this week, the Charlton King VanDam Historic District was designated, only the fourth historic district…
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Pete Seeger Anniversary
A young Pete Seeger on the cover of Sing Out, a still publishing folk music magazine Seeger founded in 1950. Today marks the two year passing of folk music legend…
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Happy Anniversary St. Mark’s Historic District!
On January 14, 1969, the St. Mark’s Historic District was designated. The district was one of the first historic district designations by the newly created Landmarks Preservation Commission. The district…
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Happy Landmark Anniversary to Webster Hall!
…real estate development pressure grew exponentially in the East Village during the 2000s, and historic sites like St. Ann’s church just one block north were lost to out-of-scale developments, GVSHP…
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Speakers Announced for Tuesday 6 pm Plaque Unveiling at 70 Fifth Avenue Honoring the NAACP and Early 20th Century Social Justice Organizations
Please join Village Preservation and The New School at 6 pm next Tuesday, May 10, for the unveiling of our 20th plaque at 70 Fifth Avenue, the former headquarters of…
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New Oral History Celebrating Westbeth’s 50th Anniversary — Puppeteer Ralph Lee, “Father” of the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade
Puppeteer and theater artist Ralph Lee has lived in Westbeth since its opening in 1970. A veteran of The Open Theatre and LaMaMa Etc., among Ralph’s many claims to fame…
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Lucky Seventh Anniversary for Some Lucky Federal Houses
Seven years ago today, on July 24th, 2007, two very lucky federal rowhouse survivors on Greenwich Street were landmarked, thus insuring their nearly 200 year run of good luck would…
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Happy Anniversary, Gansevoort Market Historic District!
On September 9, 2003, the Gansevoort Market Historic District was officially designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. The designation not only culminated a three-year effort to protect…
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December Is the First Annual South Village Month!
Village Preservation kicked off its campaign to honor, document, and seek landmark designation for the South Village and its remarkable immigrant and artistic histories in December 2006, and completed the…
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URGENT ALERT: Mayor Announces Plans To Change Zoning + Development Rules in Neighborhoods
Yesterday Mayor Adams announced a three-part plan to change the way zoning and development are regulated in New York City. While short on particulars, the goal as he stated is…
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Fall Continuing Education Classes Announced
…courses range from 3.5 hours of credits to the full 22.5-hour course that fulfills all of the new July 2021 and September 2022 legal requirements. Courses include walking tours and…
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Happy 50th Landmark Anniversary St. Mark’s-in-the Bowery Church!
…Avenue A and 12th Street, and St. Ann’s on East 12th Street where 10 years ago the 160 year old church was demolished to build a 26-story NYU dorm, although the church facade…
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Announcing the 2018 Village Awardees
Over the past 28 years, GVSHP has honored the unique and outstanding people, organizations, places, and business that make the Village what it is with our Village Awards. You can RSVP…
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President Announces Resignation
On August 8, 1974, President Richard Nixon announced his resignation, effective noon the following day. Following months of impeachment proceedings, Nixon could read the writing on the wall that his…
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Dog Day Anniversary
…immortalized in one of the most acclaimed and iconic American films of the 1970’s. The wedding of John Wojtowicz and Ernest Aron (later Elizabeth Eden). On August 22, 1972, John…
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View of Lower Manhattan from 6th Ave & 12th Street on the first anniversary of 9/11
Robert Fisch documented 9/11 and the World Trade Center from various locations. Click here to see the original Robert Fisch Collection….
Posted September 5, 2023
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When Little Italy Annexed the East Village
Earlier this year, we were gifted with a truly extraordinary set of photographs from a photographer and longtime East Villager. There’s still some work to be done before we can…
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Announcing the Arthur A. Levin Internship
…any president in the organization’s history. We are proud to announce the board had welcomed Art as President Emeritus, the first in Village Preservation history, and the establishment of the…
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6th Annual Village Preservation Comedy Night
…estate community. Full lineup to be announced! Emcee: James Mattern Performers include: Ophira Eisenberg, Phil Hanley, Tanael Joachim, Sam Morrison, Cailin Peluffo, Michael Somerville , and more to be announced!…
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The Salmagundi Club’s 150th Anniversary: A Panel Discussion of its Past, Present, and Future
Tuesday, December 7, 6:00pm Founded in 1871, Salmagundi is New York’s oldest artist’s club and a national center of the academic realism revival. In 1917 the Club purchased 47 Fifth…
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9/11 ‘Tribute in Light’ memorial as seen from a 6th Ave & 12th Street rooftop marking second anniversary
Robert Fisch documented 9/11 and the World Trade Center from various locations. Click here to see the original Robert Fisch Collection….
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Partners in Preservation Sites Announced
…their annual Partners in Preservation program. This program seeks to increase the public’s awareness of the importance of historic preservation. This year, the program is focusing on preservation in New…
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Bittersweet Anniversary for Provincetown Playhouse
On November 22, 1918, the first performances were staged at the Village’s renowned Provincetown Playhouse in the theater company’s permanent home. Founded in 1915 in Massachusetts as the Provincetown Players…
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Share Your Photos For Upcoming September 11th 20th Anniversary
Photos from our historic image archive This September will mark 20 years since the deadly attacks on the World Trade Center. Few New Yorkers were left untouched by this devastating…
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Happy Anniversary, Charlton-King-Vandam Historic District
…and a Queen Anne style former school. This four-block district includes King Street, Varick Street, Vandam Street, MacDougal Street, Houston Street, and 6th Avenue. It is located on the site…
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Happy Anniversary to the Sullivan-Thompson Historic District!
…of styles including Italianate, Neo-Grec, Queen Anne, and Renaissance Revival. Read more here about the tenements of the South Village, check out our South Village oral history collection, and watch our Save the South Village…
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Tomorrow Marks an NYU Anniversary, But Come to the Rally TODAY!
On April 21, 1831, New York University was chartered as the University of the City of New York by a group of prominent New York residents who believed the city…
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A Vicious Anniversary
…Anne Beverly, a fellow addict, had heroin delivered to the party that night. This supply was 80% pure and at midnight, Sid started shooting up again. According to BBC, “Shortly…
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Announcing the 2017 Village Awardees!
Join us on Tuesday, June 6th at 6:30 pm for the 37th GVSHP Annual Meeting and 27th Village Awards — RSVP required; click here. Co-hosted by The New School The…
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Bridge of Progress Between 784 Broadway (Wanamaker’s Department Store) and 770 Broadway (Wanamaker’s Annex)
For more information on the application to the Landmarks Preservation Commission associated with this image, click here….
Posted June 2, 2020
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Jackie Curtis: East Village Superstar, “Pioneer without a Frontier”
…of Italian immigrants. Ann had two daughters, Josephine and Jenevieve Uglialoro. Jenevieve was the mother of performance artist Jackie Curtis. Slugger Ann mostly raised Jackie. Slugger Ann and her husband behind…
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Angel Hair Press: “A Rush of Poetic Chutzpah” in the East Village
The poets and New York natives Anne Waldman and Lewis Warsh met at the Berkeley Poetry Conference in 1965, while absorbing the Zen-influenced poems of San Francisco-based writer Robert Duncan….
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Village Independent Democrats Collection: 1955-1969
…JPG. (l. to r.) Sarah Schoenkopf and Mary Jean Chilcote 1964. View JPG. Undated Images, 1950s and 1960s Carol Greitzer making announcement on bus, no date. View larger image as…
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Accomplishments
…and returned to a community use. We staged our beloved Annual Spring House Tour for the first time since 2019. We unveiled plaques honoring honoring jazz icon Charles Mingus and…
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Business of the Month: Dö Kham, 117 First Avenue
…Anna spent time visiting Tibetan settlements and communities in Nepal and India, photographing Tibetans in exile and Tibetan Buddhist ceremonies previously undocumented in the West. In 1979, Anna was designated…
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Village Awards: Your Nominations Help Celebrate Our Neighborhoods
…the Village Preservation Annual Village Awards, we hope you will take a few minutes to nominate your favorites from the East Village, NoHo, and Greenwich Village for a 2023 annual…
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The Children’s Aid Society’s Deep Roots in Greenwich Village and the East Village
…Society Annual Report. Former Sixth Street Industrial School, 2017. Photo courtesy of Google Streetview. According to the 1895 Annual Report, the CAS’ German Industrial School was located at 272 Second…
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Baking on Broadway — Then and Now
…plot actually housed a large bakery building and café/restaurant. Fleischmann’s Model Vienna Bakery was built on this location by Charles Louis Fleischmann, who, following the success of his company’s Vienna…
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13 places in Greenwich Village where the course of history was changed
…each year marked the anniversary of what is now often referred to as an uprising. Literally, thousands of cities across the globe now celebrate the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots…
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2013 Village Award Winner: Jeremiah Shea
…Shea and the other five fantastic awardees on Monday, June 17th at 6:30 pm at the GVSHP Annual Meeting and 23rd Annual Village Awards. E-mail us to RSVP for this…
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Three Up, Three Down: Explore Our Greek Revival Heritage in Six Buildings
…St. Ann’s In 2006, NYU announced plans that led to construction of the dorm facility, a plan Village Preservation rallied against. The Landmarks Preservation Commission never granted St. Ann’s landmark…
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Beyond the Village and Back: The Children’s Aid Society’s Fourteenth Ward Industrial School on Mott Street
…Industrial School, 1897. Photo courtesy of the Children’s Aid Society Annual Report. The former Sixth Street Industrial School. Finally, according to the 1895 Annual Report, the CAS’ German Industrial School…
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Great Writers and the Greenwich Village Historic District
… 116 Waverly Place – Ann Charlotte Lynch (Botta) Ann Charlotte Lynch Botta and 116 Waverly Place Ann Charlotte Lynch (Botta) was an American poet, writer, teacher, and socialite whose…
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East 11th Street, a Slice of East Village History
…built in the Queen Anne style, and the annex in the Renaissance Revival style. Responding to the local need for a community center and gathering place, Webster Hall has operated…
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What a Top Chef Loves About the Village
Chef Anita Lo. Anita Lo serves two of the things people need most: food and stories. Chef and owner of the esteemed Village restaurant Annisa, Lo is also a contributor…
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Many layers of history at the corner of 4th and 12th
…Lord & Taylor (their first department store commission, which is now a designated New York City Landmark). Site of St. Ann’s Church, 110-124 E. 12th St. Facade of St. Ann’s…
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East 12th Street’s “Ghost Church”: From Pathbreaking House of Worship to NYU Dorm
…occupant of the 12th Street structure was St. Ann’s Catholic Church, which arrived in 1870. Rather than re-use the existing structure as the synagogue did, the entire building was demolished,…
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2014 Year In Review: GVSHP Programs
…of some of what we learned. This walking tour is one of the many events of the inaugural Lower East Side History Month, an annual celebration of the rich, diverse…
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9/11 In Memoriam — Point Thank You
…beam was removed from Ground Zero in May 2002. They also returned on many anniversaries of 9/11. This intersection became known as “Point Thank You.” On this first anniversary of…
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Kitty Genovese and the Village
…was a lesbian. And the home she was retunring to was the one she shared with her partner, Mary Ann Zielonko. In fact, Zielonko was at home that night asleep…
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Stonewall Landmarked! Continue the Fight for LGBT History
…to LGBT history here. Learn more about the Village’s LGBT history here. Landmarks Preservation Commission Takes Better Route on “De-Calendaring” In an important victory for preservation efforts, the Landmarks Preservation Commission has announced that…
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Business of the Month – The Ink Pad, 37 7th Avenue
…around.” That’s just one of many reasons why the store, located at 37 7th Avenue just south of 13th Street, is our October Business of the Month. Owner Anna Chiang in…
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Village Awards – Recognizing the Places That Make Our Neighborhoods Special
…at its Annual Meeting and Village Awards. This fun and free public event highlights and celebrates those that make our neighborhoods some of the most interesting and exceptional in the…
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New April and May 2024 Programs: Walking Tours, Histories of Fifth Avenue and The Village Voice, and More
…first and only structures to have ever been built on their sites. Join us for this fascinating talk on the 200th anniversary of Fifth Avenue’s beginnings with one of the…
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Celebrating 50 Years of PFlag: Birthplace of a Movement of Empathy and Advocacy
Fifty years ago, a groundbreaking movement was born—a movement that would forever change the landscape of LGBTQ+ rights, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We marked the fortieth anniversary of…
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Robert Hogan: Unsung Hero of Irish New York, and Resident of MacDougal Street
…the First Annual Ball of the Irish Emigrant Society, 1844. Image courtesy of MCNY Digital Collections. According to the Society’s 1845 annual ball ticket, the organization’s mission was multifaceted, systematically…
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Jefferson Market Garden
Jefferson Market Garden On Monday evening I attended the Jefferson Market Garden Friends’ Annual Garden Party. If you are already familiar with the Jefferson Market Garden (a 1991 Village Award…
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Oscars, Opera and Orson Welles at Onyx Court
…shot on East 13th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues, a block away from Hermann’s boyhood home. Bernard Hermann and Alfred Hitchcock, Source: Bernardhermann.org If you want to learn about…
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Womens’ Empowerment and Colonial Evangelism Converge at 11 East 12th Street
…American communities. Charlotte Augusta Astor served as the president for the organization, which, according to its Second Annual Report in 1873-1874, held regular meetings on the second Thursday of each…
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Tulip Time at Abingdon Square Park
…attending their 7th Annual Tulip Celebration on May 7th. (Just 2 days after our annual Spring House Tour Benefit.) The history of the “square” (which is really a triangle) is…
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What’s In A Name?: Stewart House, 70 East 10th Street
…over 9th Street between the original Wanamakers (l.) and the Warehouse Annex (r.), 1924, from Broadway, looking east. In fact, if you look at the old Wannamaker Annex today (also…
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The Cooper Union’s “Voices from the Great Hall”: Digital Archives Of One Of New York’s Most Historic Spaces
…The Cooper Union and held in The Great Hall. Village Preservation’s 2022 Annual Meeting and Village Awards Announcement The Great Hall is a wonderfully appropriate setting for this important annual…
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Preservation History Archive
…25-Jan-94 65-66 Newsletter and Meeting Notice 22-Feb-94 67-68 Newsletter and Meeting Notice 22-Mar-94 69-70 Newsletter and Meeting Notice 26-Apr-94 71-72 Newsletter and Meeting Notice 24-May-94 73 West Village Committee Press…
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A Truly Historic House Tour! Village Preservation’s 21st Spring House Tour in the Greenwich Village Historic District
…corner. The actual anniversary is April 29th, when we will be rolling out some truly fantastic online tours of the district, and our 21st Annual Spring House Tour on May…
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October 15th: A Community Conversation with Andrew Berman!
…couple of years the Village will be celebrating many more 50th anniversaries: the Astor Place Cube, the Stonewall Uprising, and, most exciting to us at GVSHP, the 50th anniversary of…
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Robert de Niro, Sr. and the New York School Artists #SouthOfUnionSquare
…Annual, the Stable Annual and shows at the Jewish Museum. He received a Longview Foundation Purchase award in 1958 and was awarded the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship in 1968. De Niro…
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Lost Saints of the Village
…Anne’s Church, 110-124 E. 12th St. St. Ann’s Church and rectory, pre-demolition. On 12th Street, between 4th and 3rd Aves., sits the site of the former St. Ann’s Church. In…
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Landmarks50: 56 West 14th Street
…Street Annex, owned by the Straus family until 1939 and internally connected to the 13th Street Annex through the 20th century, housed a variety of firms over subsequent decades.” Look…
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20 transformative women of Greenwich Village
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the designation of the Greenwich Village Historic District on April 29, 1969. One of the city’s oldest and still largest historic districts, it’s…
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When Maxfield Parrish’s Magic Came to Greenwich Village
…Warehouse/Annex, 770 Broadway (8th Street) But by 1896, when Parrish began working for them, Wanamakers had expanded to New York City, with a grand department store (formerly the A.T.Stewart Store)…
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