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Read More…1956 from New York Young Democratic Club News. View PDF. VID voted to form out of the Village Committee for Stevenson-Kefauver-Wagner 1956 Newspaper Clippings. View PDF. Page 1: Heard Around…
Read More…and Presentation of the Village Awards Co-sponsored by The New School Monday, June 16 6:30 – 8:00 P.M. Free; reservations required The Auditorium at The New School 66 West 12th…
Read MoreWhat is New is Old: A History of The New School A lecture and slideshow with Julia Foulkes, Associate Professor of History, The New School In 1919, the New School…
Read MoreDylan Goes Electric: From New York to Newport Part of Folk City: New York and the Folk Music Revival at the Museum of the City of New York Fifty years…
Read More…Rights and Social Justice Map. Want to learn about more civil rights and social justice sites in our neighborhoods? Check out our map. Sources: https://www.nyhistory.org/web/africanfreeschool/history/ https://www.nyhistory.org/web/africanfreeschool/history/philosophy.html http://cdm16694.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15052coll5/id/31512 http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/african-free-school-opens-new-york-city https://www.jstor.org/stable/274931?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents http://maap.columbia.edu/place/9…
Read More…and 186 Spring Street in the South Village. The New School’s new main building topped out at 14th Street and 5th Avenue at roughly half the size and height originally…
Read MoreThe NEW New York: 19th Century Immigration – Kleindeutschland: Little Germany in New York City This talk will explore a detailed history of the development of the German American community…
Read More…adjoining lot. The New School for Social Research Auditorium. Image via LPC designation report, Carl Forster The New School desired a building whose architecture would reflect the institution’s progressive philosophies….
Read More…and the old seal of New Amsterdam to the right of it to indicate that it was a public school in New York City. The E-shaped school was without a…
Read More…Bois was a natural to teach the first African-American history class at a university, and The New School (then known as The New School for Social Research) was the natural…
Read More…a Grid: How New York became New York You either love it or hate it, but nothing says New York like the street grid of Manhattan. Created in 1811 by…
Read MoreThis was originally posted by Amanda Davis, GVSHP’s former Director of Preservation & Research. It has been updated with new information. New law tenement at 151 Bleecker Street in the…
Read More…review. The New School‘s University Center under construction at 5th Avenue and 14th Street (image courtesy of Curbed.com) The comparison is quite telling… First, The New School’s (TNS) University Center…
Read More…Public Library. African Free School, No. 2, New York. 11. African Free School No. 3, 120 West 3rd Street This was one of seven schools dedicated to the education of the…
Read More…that we haven’t heard before. The NEW New York: Immigration, 1820s to 1880s – An Overview SJ Costello’s “NEW New York” Lecture SJ Costello wowed us with information focused on…
Read More…world of schools designed by master school architect C.B.J. Snyder; explore them all. Learn about the African Free Schools located in our neighborhoods; pioneering progressive educational institution Little Red School…
Read More…Exhibition, which was largely considered the public’s introduction to the work of the New York School Painters. Studio 35 was named as such for its location at 35 East Eighth…
Read More…lot behind the building. Fourteenth Ward Industrial School, 1895. Photo Courtesy of Children’s Aid Society Annual Report. The Fourteenth Ward Industrial School served as an industrial and night school until…
Read More…News Today, July 10 Angelina Jolie is renting Jean-Michel Basquiat’s last New York apartment, The Art Newspaper, July 10 Angelina Jolie to Preserve Andy Warhol/Jean-Michel Basquiat’s 57 Great Jones Street…
Read More…New Amsterdam’s name was changed to New York, in honor of the Duke of York, who organized that colonial mission. Leon Ferris, The Fall of New Amsterdam. From a 1932…
Read More…the New York Public Library. The Public Theater today, photo by Ajay Suresh via Wikimedia Commons The Astor Library remained the new system’s flagship branch until a grand new central library opened on…
Read MoreNew law tenement at 151 Bleecker Street in the South Village. Photo by GVSHP. The 20th century had hardly begun when the New York State legislature signed into law a…
Read More…constructed in 1885-86 as Primary School No. 7 and redesignated as Public School 107 in 1897. Following demographic changes, the school was closed in June 1930 and was acquired by the New…
Read More…of New York. New York: Appleton, 1865. Illustration from the Report of the Council of Hygiene and Public Health of the Citizens’ Association of New York. New York: Appleton, 1865….
Read MoreElisabeth Irwin founded Little Red School House in 1921. Image via LREI. In 2012, GVSHP spotlighted the work of Little Red School House/Elisabeth Irwin High School on Off the Grid…
Read More…York School artist who painted in a style that deftly blended European Modernism and Abstract Expressionism. Born in Syracuse, New York in 1922, de Niro, Sr. attended Black Mountain College…
Read MoreAs Village Preservation prepares to unveil a plaque commemorating the “Sip-In” at Julius’ Bar on April 21, 1966, one might wonder about the Mattachine Society of New York, which organized…
Read More…for the Jewish community. The New York Hebrew Free Schools By 1868, New York’s Hebrew Free School Association consisted of 4 schools. The first two were housed at 36 Avenue…
Read More…to list all the tangible New Deal contributions to New York City: bridges, highways, tunnels, airports, schools, public buildings, housing, parks, playgrounds, pools, beaches, marinas, piers, art, and other creations that…
Read More…and iconic emblems of what can only be called “classic New York,” the New-York Historical Society is firmly ensconced not only in the cream of New York’s cultural crop but…
Read More…1964, the New York Studio School has been an innovator in arts education, prioritizing daily continuity of study for artists through work in the studio. In 1965, the school moved…
Read More…Greenshields Foundation Grant and the Hohenberg Travel Grant. Bee is an alum of the New York Studio School’s MFA program and has also studied at Mount Gretna School of Art….
Read MoreNew School Building, 14th Street & 5th Avenue Village Preservation led the effort to change plans by The New School to build a dramatically out-of-scale, out-of-context new facility on this…
Read More…The Past Two Decades” and heralded as “One of the period’s most successful New York books.” New York Nights was the winner of the prestigious New York Society Library’s 2012 New York…
Read More…of Footprints in New York: Tracing the Lives of Four Centuries of New Yorkers and Inside the Apple: A Streetwise History of New York City, which is now in its…
Read MoreNew York Studio School Tour SOLD OUT In our historic neighborhoods, each day we pass by fascinating buildings rich in culture. Do you ever pause and wonder “what’s behind those…
Read MoreSite-Specific Works at The New School Art Collection: A talk and slideshow with curator Silvia Rocciolo Learn about the history of The New School through the lens of important site-specific…
Read MoreThe NEW New York: 19th Century Irish Immigration and the Revolution This talk will look at archbishops, saints-in-waiting, gangsters, rogues, jesters and other colorful characters. There will be a special…
Read MoreRamblers and Strugglers: Old Time Music in the Big City Part of Folk City: New York and the Folk Music Revival at the Museum of the City of New York…
Read More…York history at New York University and the New School. A contributor to the Encyclopedia of New York, she is the author of From Windmills to the World Trade Center:…
Read More…New York’s landmarks law and the creation of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. Carole captured a hollowed out Penn Station; the Richard Morris Hunt-designed New York Tribune Building…
Read More…museums, galleries, and textbooks. Its objective is to inspire a new generation of women artists. Learn more about this amazing new project and the light it shines on trailblazing women…
Read MoreThe East Village’s Marble Cemeteries: A Tour of the New York Marble Cemetery and the New York City Marble Cemetery Join Village Preservation for an afternoon celebrating the East Village’s…
Read More…of the Chains, 2015, which is their yearly survey of the number and location of chain stores in New York City. https://nycfuture.org/pdf/State-of-the-Chains-2015-5.pdf The good news: in the past year, the growth…
Read MoreThe tenth annual ranking of national retailers in New York City by the Center for an Urban Future (CUF) just came out, and it reveals a 1.8 percent increase in…
Read MoreThe Chintz Age: Tales of Love and Loss for a New New York A book talk with author Ed Hamilton In seven stories and a novella, Ed Hamilton takes on…
Read MoreOld Buildings, New Forms: New Directions in Architectural Transformations A new book by architect Françoise Bollack Join architect, preservationist and author Françoise Bollack as she talks about the inspiration for…
Read MoreThe New Ohio Theatre: A visit to the New Ohio Theatre in the historic Archive Building The Ohio Theatre was founded on Wooster Street in Soho in the 1980s and…
Read More…122, now Performance Space New York Built in 1893, this former school (previously known as P.S. 122, as in Public School 122) is one of many in New York designed…
Read MoreVillage Preservation & The New School Present: Artists and Greenwich Village Series – Keith Haring and the Streets of the Village In 1978, 19-year-old Keith Haring (d.1990) moved to New…
Read MoreVillage Preservation & The New School Present: Greenwich Village Artists Series “I and the Village:” Jackson Pollock’s Downtown Years, A Lecture by Larissa Bailiff Jackson Pollock moved to New York by…
Read MoreVillage Preservation & The New School Present: Artists and Greenwich Village Series Jean-Michel Basquiat: Graffiti and Glory Brooklyn-born Jean-Michel Basquiat (d. 1988) began spray-painting graffiti art on New York City…
Read More…School of Architecture. When living and working in New York 25 years ago, he started researching urban interactions, principally between New York, Paris, and London. He holds a PhD degree…
Read MoreThe original New-York Historical Society building on the corner East 11th and Second Avenue. In 1804, New York City had already celebrated 190 years since its founding. Comparatively, the United…
Read MoreNew Yorkers have elected a new mayor, but it’s important to note that any mayor of any city does not operate in a vacuum. A mayor selects many individuals to…
Read MoreJacob A. Riis: Revealing New York’s Other Half A private guided tour at the Museum of the City of New York Jacob Riis (1849-1914) was a pioneering newspaper reporter and…
Read MoreThe eleventh annual ranking of national retailers in New York City by the Center for an Urban Future (CUF) just came out, and it reveals a 0.3 percent decline in the…
Read MoreWith everything going on in the world, you may have missed a great new resource DNAinfo recently released: an incredible interactive 3D rotatable map,called How Tall Will New Buildings in My…
Read More…brackets. The current New York Society Library, with its new awning The building was a residence until 1937 when the New York Society Library purchased the building and made updates…
Read MoreThe NEW New York: Fighting Anti-Asian Discrimination in 19th Century Greenwich Village Following the passage of the 1882 Exclusion Acts, thousands of Chinese Americans moved to New York City to…
Read More…swept the country during the 70s and 80s, popularizing the Deweyan school-without-borders model. From the start, City-As-School operated as a “transfer school,” a school designed to re-engage students who have…
Read More…and adaptability would be a trait required of all schools built under the new superintendent of school buildings, Michael Radoslovich. Under Radoslovich, many outside architecture firms were brought in to…
Read MoreThe distinctive H plan of many NYC schools that Snyder designed, here the former P.S. 64/CHARAS building. Each year, New York City’s 1 million public school students return to school…
Read More…Missionary Baptist Church. Its school, Colored School No. 2, was the first school in the country to integrate both students and staff. It had one of the first if not…
Read More…institution opening to the public almost three months later. The 1895 document that birthed the New York Public Library actually created a new corporation called “The New York Public Library,…
Read MoreThe NEW New York: Immigration, 1820s to 1880s – An Overview Immigration in the 19th century brought diverse cultures together, illuminated global struggles, triumphs, and movements, and made our neighborhoods…
Read More…books of 2023 and reviewed by The New York Times, Washington Post, Elle, and many more. Click here to register for this in-person event. NEW! December 2023 Programs Out My…
Read MoreThe Lowline: An introduction to New York’s newest and most innovative park with James Ramsey The Lowline is a plan to use innovative solar technology to illuminate the one-acre former…
Read More…the early 20th centuries, Greenwich Village had, along with nearby Little Italy and East Harlem, the largest Italian immigrant community in New York. 3. The New School for Social Research’s…
Read More…time when “the Board of Education had 271 schools under its jurisdiction, including 95 grammar schools, 101 primary schools, 14 ‘colored’ schools, 29 evening schools for working children, 3 normal…
Read More…Studies and Women’s Studies The New School today via Wiki Commons Founded 100 years ago, The New School broke new ground from the very beginning. “Frustrated by the intellectual timidity of traditional…
Read More…Irish immigrants faced crowding, inadequate sanitation, and the threat of disease in this impoverished neighborhood.” Source:New-York Historical Society New York City didn’t have a Roman Catholic Church until 1785 when…
Read More…School for Social Research’s “University in Exile,” 66 West 12th Street Via Wiki Commons The New School was founded in 1919 by progressive intellectuals “looking for a new, more relevant model of education,…
Read More…the pedestal that got a Greenwich Village resident named Emma Lazarus involved. Emma Lazarus, born on July 22, 1849, in New York City, was the fourth of seven children in…
Read MoreRobert Williams Gibson Building, 1893-1903 in April 2022. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary at 2nd Avenue and 13th Street, 1904. Photo by Irving Underhill. Courtesy MCNY. The New York…
Read More…grown up during that time period (I was born in 1969) in the Bronx, it was a phase of New York’s life I knew well. And everything about this picture…
Read More…another settlement house located nearby. The College and University Settlements then combined music schools to form the Music School of the University and College Settlements. This new school was located…
Read MoreJuilliard School at Lincoln Center In our series Beyond the Village and Back, we take a look at some great landmarks throughout New York City outside of Greenwich Village, the…
Read More…LaGuardia High School of Music & Performing Arts Also in 1936, Mayor LaGuardia opened the High School of Music and Art, as a place for New York City public school…
Read More…and composer Charles Mingus (1922 – 1979) (in white shirt) and his band perform at the Five Spot Cafe (2 St. Marks Place), New York, New York, August 22, 1962….
Read More…New York and Other Sketches. A series of vignettes, the book chronicles his experience finding jobs and housing in New York City, and offers a portrayal of Puerto Rican New…
Read More…12, 1901 marks the date when the New York State Legislature passed the Tenement House Act of 1901, more commonly known as the “New Law” or “New Tenement Law.” This…
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