…New York City.” Yet another plaque is on the building’s street facade closer to First Avenue. First Houses is thrilled with the new tenant, said Resident Association President Brenda Santiago…
Read MoreCourtesy of New York Marble Cemetery, Inc. Second Avenue entrance. Courtesy of New York Marble Cemetery, Inc. Here’s a neighborhood old-timer for you. The New York Marble Cemetery, which turns…
Read More…sparked enormous controversy, and still do. Some will make you wonder “what were they thinking?” Today we explore a few of these approvals: 224 West 11th Street The first new building…
Read More…its transformation. Randel’s job was to implement the new grid plan, which was met with much pushback from landowners. According to this New York Times article: Beginning in 1808, Randel…
Read MorePhoto via pennyarcade.tv. Penny Arcade has been living the bohemian life in New York City, and making art about it, on and off for more than four decades. She says…
Read MoreThe Modern School, c. 1911-1912, from the Friends of the Modern School website. The East Village was the first home of the Ferrer Modern School of New York City. First…
Read More…the New York City Superintendent of School Buildings in 1891. From the beginning, he sought to improve conditions at New York City schools, which had been likened to factories by…
Read More…the City of New York on both its interior and exterior, the Met is a must-see for any visitor to the city and a staple for any New Yorker with…
Read More…New 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…
Read More…best resources for keeping up to date with changes throughout New York City is the oft-plaintive blog Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York. An exterior sign at the former Howard Johnson’s in…
Read More…several public meeting and dance halls, the Newsboys Athletic Hall, a laundry, and a meatpacking plant. In the late 1960s, however, it was rescued from abandonment by the scrappy new…
Read More…fought for the Americans and 20,000 fought on the side of the British. By 1780, more than 10,000 Black people called New York City home. New York African Free School…
Read More…The school still exists as P.S. 188, and is now known as The Island School. The building is also home to Girls Prep Lower East Side Elementary Charter School. P.S….
Read More…War II, Slavery In New York, The Black New Yorkers: 400 Years of African American History, Standing In the Need of Prayer: African American Prayer Traditions, and more. He was…
Read MoreNew York Central Art Supply Browsing the merchandise at New York Central Art Supply can be a little intimidating for the uninitiated, but that’s just because this store, which has…
Read MoreThe summer of 1978 in New York City has been well documented. The city was a place of joy, grit, and transition, looking for the next big idea — or…
Read More…179. Photo courtesy of the New-York Historical Society Digital Collections. In addition to the annual ball, the new organization relied on annual subscriptions costing five dollars, as well as members’…
Read More…In the months since we have been expanding the map, adding both new tours and new entries to previously existing tours. Now, beyond depicting images of every one of the…
Read More…really there.” James and Karla Murray live in New York City and were awarded the New York Society Library’s prestigious New York City book award in 2012 for their last…
Read More…Socialist party, a number of schools teaching the party’s beliefs began to emerge. The New York Workers School, which developed in October 1923, was first located on University Place near…
Read More…which became known as Changing New York, contained over 1,000 images and was eventually deposited at the Museum of the City Of New York. Abbott expressed that, through the project,…
Read More…early New York skyline, if not the tallest — a title held by Trinity Church at a time when the New York skyline was still dominated by church steeples. While…
Read More…riches of New Amsterdam, c. 1642 This settlement’s status did not remain permanent, however. When the English captured the colony of New Amsterdam and renamed it New York in 1664,…
Read More…The Nation or the New York Review of Books with coffee and a sandwich. At Newsbar, thanks to proprietor Jan Balasack, they make you feel at home in an interactive…
Read More“Brownstones occupy a unique place in the New York psyche, as one of the city’s most prototypical signposts, like yellow cabs and fast walkers, yet are able to stir aching…
Read More…around Union Square began to change. Hearn’s Department Store, 1916 – Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, The New York Public Library: New…
Read More…and how recent changes to election law have impacted our neighborhoods. Election Day on November 8th will offer new challenges and opportunities for New York City voters, such as new…
Read More…after its initial designation. Some were rather hum-drum like a new gas station at 8th Avenue and 13th Street, while others had significantly more drama attached to them, like the new…
Read More…4, 2023, presents a selection of unbound pages from Changing New York, shedding new light on the creative process of one of the great photographic artists of the twentieth century….
Read More…in the East Village. Born in 1867 in Ohio, Wald and her family moved to Rochester, New York in 1878. In 1889 she attended the New York Hospital’s School of…
Read MoreJust in time for the upcoming Black History Month, Village Preservation has developed a new, four-part course on African American history for middle school students as part of our Children’s Education…
Read MoreJust in time for the upcoming Black History Month, Village Preservation has developed a new, four-part course on African American history for middle school students as part of our Children’s…
Read More…Clinton knew that the most logical place to create one was upstate New York. The canal began at Lake Erie in Buffalo, carving its way through central New York State,…
Read More…moved to New York City, where he joined the New York Herald Tribune as a general assignment reporter. Like many writers, Wolfe’s experiences in New York City shaped and influenced…
Read More…what would be one of the most iconic buildings in New York City, the Flatiron Building at 23rd Street and Broadway. That building is of course both a New York…
Read More…without the longtime support of this stalwart New Yorker who understood the power of good ideas and the importance of making them into reality. Join the New York preservation community…
Read More…Draft Riots. These civil disturbances rocked New York City and revealed a deep racial and class divide that existed in New York City in 1863, one that was particularly visible…
Read More…similar profiles. Original sales brochure via New York Real Estate Brochure Collection, Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University. Original sales brochure via New York Real Estate Brochure Collection,…
Read More…New School, with influential German director Erwin Piscator. He first stayed with his sister who lived near Patchin Place. In his autobiography, he talked about the “ecstasy of sleeping on…
Read More…Apartment In season three, Samantha’s search for a new living space away from nosy neighbors brought her to the Meatpacking District in downtown New York. Undergoing a significant transformation from…
Read More…became the bar’s first female customer on August 10th, 1970. McSorley’s boasts that it is the oldest bar in New York City. Founder John McSorley claimed that it opened its…
Read More…filmmaker, has recently taken to the streets of New York to document what he describes as “Disappearing New York.” A native New Yorker who grew up on the Upper West…
Read More…are inside, the new building’s transparency and visibility interact with visitors, neighboring buildings and spaces, and the outside world at large. The new building’s strikingly asymmetrical form responds to the…
Read More…of Finance) took advantage of the sponsorship opportunities presented by the New Deal. Various Tax Photo Outtakes, 1940s Tax Department photographs, 1939-1951; Municipal Archives, City of New York Instituted during…
Read MoreFoods of New York tour-goers enjoy Joe’s Pizza, a stop on the company’s original Greenwich Village Tour. Foods of New York Tours was unofficially launched in 1998 by Todd Lefkovic,…
Read More…often a new film-maker with so much promise comes on to the scene. There are several things that are good about Goldman. First, the mastery and feeling that he managed…
Read MoreThe New York Public Library Tompkins Square Branch, courtesy of HDC As part of our continuing Landmarks50 celebration, and in honor of Stanford White’s birthday today (he would be a…
Read More…lodging houses*, and working as newsies was how they survived the tough streets of New York City. Newsgirl & Boy Selling around saloon entrances. Bowery. Location: New York, New York….
Read MoreThe New York Eye and Ear Infirmary ca. 1904, courtesy the Museum of the City of New York Village Preservation wrote to the Landmarks Preservation Commission with yet another clear…
Read More…brings down prices quite simply belied the facts. Who knew that a new, even more detailed analysis would come out just a few days later, even more emphatically showing the…
Read MoreIt’s no secret that we are big fans of the New York City Municipal Archives digital collection of all 720,000 of its tax photos of most building in New York…
Read More…been founded in 1870 under the original name of the New York City Woman Suffrage Society, just a year after the New York State Woman Suffrage Association was founded in…
Read MoreNew York City was powered by horses for almost three hundred years. At its peak, well over 150,000 horses and by some estimates up to 200,000 lived in the city….
Read More…request for New York neighborhoods where they can find that “old cobblestone street feel.” So, where can we find those old cobblestone streets? To start, most of New York was…
Read More…area as well as the organizing work New Economy Project is doing with the New York City Community Land Initiative (NYCCLI), we will learn about successful, ongoing, and contemplated efforts…
Read More…our past programs, click here. Former “Colored” School No. 4: A Newly Designated City Landmark Wednesday, November 8 6:00pm Zoom Webinar Pre-Registration Required Free Neighboring Chelsea and Greenwich Village share…
Read More…made school design what it is today. During his tenure as the Superintendent of School Buildings for the NYC Board of Education from 1891 to 1923, Snyder transformed school building…
Read More…Street School movement. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Bishop moved to New York in 1918 to study illustration at the New York School of Applied Design for Women. After two years,…
Read More…art. Sculptor Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney opened a museum dedicated to modern American art on West 8th Street, now the New York Studio School. The New School for Social Research, on…
Read More…you, learn about the pigments, flourishes, details, and more! Join us! On Tuesday, October 9th GVSHP welcomed Philip, Jeremy, and Ezra to a book talk program at the New School….
Read More…Owls, Mommy Is Coming, and United in Anger, among others). Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Slate, and many other outlets. She is a…
Read More…and purchasing a print to provide you with a much improved user experience: New Map Our new new map groups images by geographic area. Each numbered icon indicates how many…
Read More…On this extended tour, Evan Pritchard, author of Native New Yorkers: The Legacy of the Algonquin People of New York, will take you on a journey through the history of New York’s…
Read More…On this extended tour, Evan Pritchard, author of Native New Yorkers: The Legacy of the Algonquin People of New York, will take you on a journey through the history of New York’s…
Read MoreIn 1754, there was no library in New York. Can you believe it? Today we are taking a wonderful journey through our neighborhoods to trace the beginnings of the New…
Read MoreOn April 6, 1965, the New York City Council approved the bill granting the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission the power to designate and preserve New York City’s landmarks….
Read More…dreadfulness. And though it disastrously affected this community, it also helped unite and galvanize it. Not long ago, The New-York Historical Society will staged exhibition called AIDS in New York:…
Read More…Woman and the New Negro Woman, and the growth of urban centers like New York City in the 1920s and 30s gave rise to a new voice of women’s humor…
Read More…block of East 7th street was made up primarily of newly-constructed tenements. By the turn of the century 70 percent of New Yorkers lived in tenements. The block’s first inhabitants…
Read More…hitchhiked from California to New York. Marjorie fell for him anyway and learned that Woody Guthrie was a lot of things. A Villager was one of them. New to New…
Read MoreSeven late 19th and early 20th century buildings are now under consideration for landmarking by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. They are all located along Broadway south of…
Read More…over 3 million, according to 2011 figures in The Newest New Yorkers report from the Department of City Planning. (The percentage of foreign-born residents has been higher, however, as you’ll…
Read More…of January 3, 1912, these were “Artists in Revolt,” seeking to “Form [A] New Society.” The New York Times, 1912. Calling themselves the Association of American Painters and Sculptors, they…
Read More…On this extended tour, Evan Pritchard, author of Native New Yorkers: The Legacy of the Algonquin People of New York, will take you on a journey through the history of New York’s…
Read More…name! The news may have seldom offered much comfort in recent years, but the food, service, and steadying presence of NewsBar Café–a recent Business of the Month–certainly have for well…
Read MoreThe League of Women Voters of the City of New York joined Village Preservation to discuss all that one needs to know about the 2022 General Election. Know your rights…
Read More…In New York City, Charles B. J. Snyder almost singlehandedly made school design what it is today. During his tenure as the Superintendent of School Buildings for the NYC Board…
Read More…and one of his famous “H”-plan schools. Architect CBJ Snyder was a prolific designer of New York public school buildings, completing more than 350 schools in the late 19th…
Read More…New York after serving in World War II to pursue his writing career. He studied under author and editor Hiram Haydn at the New School for Social Research. Haydn would…
Read More…followed by 31 West 8th Street around 1940. He was born in Quincy, Massachusetts and despite struggling in school (reportedly he was ultimately expelled from high school), Cheever was a self-taught writer…
Read MoreThe Landmarks Preservation Commission recently released a new interactive map. The map shows all exterior, interior, and scenic landmarks, historic districts, and properties calendared for designation. According to LPC Chair Meenakshi…
Read More…As the first full-time architecture critic at a major American Newspaper (The New York Times created the position specifically for her in 1963), she won the first Pulitzer Prize for…
Read MorePaul Newman & Joanne Woodward at home in the Village. Paul Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was one of the most renowned American actors of the twentieth…
Read MoreFirst Houses today On December 3, 1935, First Houses were dedicated and opened, the first housing project undertaken by the then-recently established New York City Housing Authority and the first…
Read MoreNative New Yorkers Walking Tour One might assume that New York’s streets are as old as Dutch settlement, but many of the thoroughfares we use today actually began long before…
Read More…He’s launched a new podcast called “Wrecking Ball” in association with the Historical Society of the New York Courts to do just that, in which he brings in legal and…
Read More…which profiles classic small businesses in New York City. He is also the author of a new book based on the series titled New York Originals — A Guide to…
Read MoreOn August 2nd, 1967, MacDougal-Sullivan Gardens was designated a New York City historic district. These 22 homes surround a beautiful private garden oasis, and this was one of the first…
Read More…awards. Their work has been exhibited around the world and in the New York Times, London Telegraph, Wall Street Journal, New York Post, New York Magazine and The New Yorker….
Read More…In the months since we have been expanding the map, adding both new tours and new entries to previously existing tours. Now, beyond depicting images of every one of the…
Read More…at the northeast corner of West 10th Street and Bleecker Street, where 213 West 10th Street currently stands. The congregation worshipped here from 1864-1904. This was exciting and new news…
Read More…Annual Awards, along with fighting for legislation and regulations that help support small businesses. But now we’ve launched a new program aimed at welcoming and supporting new small independent businesses…
Read More…tablets, small canned foods that can be easily opened, individually packed nuts or cookies, new cotton socks, new men’s underwear and t-shirts, new men’s heavy-duty gloves, baby diapers, baby formula….
Read More…for Lower Manhattan and all of New York City. An interior and exterior New York City Landmark within an impeccably preserved 1832 house, the museum is New York’s only 19th century family…
Read More…the fabric of the city…in a new and refreshing way” –Richard Berenholtz, photographer and author of “Panoramic New York” “…a fresh perspective…to challenge you to look at locations that you…
Read More…include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New-York Historical Society, and the main branch of the New York Public Library, to name just a…
Read MoreWalk About New York’s Greenwich Village Walking Tour Thursday, September 1st 6:00pm ET start time. In-Person Outdoor Walking Tour. Free. Greenwich Village is New York City’s most storied neighborhood. It has…
Read More…published by Frederick Douglass and Horace Greeley in the New York Tribune. This led to a massive protest from New York’s African American community, and beyond. As published in the…
Read More…ways that were not found elsewhere during that time. This area was eventually developed for wealthier, white New Yorkers to “escape New York” into the “better air” that was seen…
Read More…announcements was the grand opening of the New York State WorldPride Welcome Center. Where? Greenwich Village, of course. Located at 112 Christopher Street, the new Center is steps from the…
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