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Ellen Emmet Rand, Artist and Villager

…[his] going in and out of the studio with snakes and spiders.” Portrait of Ellen Emmet Rand by Mary Foote She started her career in New York City in a…

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Edward Hopper’s Greenwich Village Historic District

…Edward Hopper and his paintings. Hopper died in 1967 in this studio home two years before the Greenwich Village Historic District was designated. Four sites Hopper featured in his paintings…

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Willem de Kooning Standing on his East 10th Street Stoop, and at the Center of the Art World

On April 5, 1959, Village Voice photographer Fred McDarrah snapped this iconic photo of Willem de Kooning on the stoop of 88 East 10th Street, his home and studio from…

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Women Crush Wednesday: Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, the Baroness Who Shocked Society

…emotional reactivity to her surroundings. Enduring Ornament (1913) Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven The Baroness changed the role of a female body in art through an act of performance in the studio…

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New and Upcoming Programs This May: Open House at the Whitney Study Program, The Many Lives of Greenwich Village, and More

…Wednesday, May 22, 5–7 pm. The 2023–24 ISP Studio Exhibition, At Odds With, will be available for a concurrent viewing at Westbeth Gallery located across the street at 55 Bethune…

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Beyond the Village and Back: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

…and was passionate in his belief that American had a greater role to play in that regard. As with all his beliefs, Jay, who lived at 22 Washington Square North,…

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Robert de Niro, Sr. and the New York School Artists #SouthOfUnionSquare

…he met fellow artist Virginia Admiral, whom he married in 1942. Around this time de Niro, Sr. and Admiral lived and worked in a loft studio in the area South…

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On This Day: Bell Labs Invents the “Talkie”

…to motion pictures. Major studios balked, and didn’t see the point. But Warner Brothers, then a smaller outfit, took a leap of faith. They sank $3 million into the Bell…

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A Streetcar Named Desire — New Orleans Set, Greenwich Village Rooted

…Vivian Leigh in the film), a former Southern Belle who finds herself destitute and moves into the two-room New Orleans flat of her sister Stella (Kim Hunter in both) and…

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Landmark Bid Pays Off at Former Horse Auction Mart!

…historian Andrew S. Dolkart can be found here. (left) GVSHP 128 East 13th Street Campaign Logo; (right) Artist Frank Stella in 1964, photo by Ugo Mulas (click photo for source)…

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

…songwriter Bob Dylan began his stellar career in Greenwich Village in January 1961: His first NYC apartment was at 161 West 4th Street between Jones and Cornelia Streets, and he…

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Telling Our Stories at Jefferson Market Library

…be using COVID-19 protocols for entrance to indoor events. Please note: Village Preservation is following COVID-19 protocols for entrance to indoor events. Village Preservation currently requires everyone to wear a…

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2020 Village Preservation Public Programs Roundup

…And — indulge me — my miscellaneous favorites that didn’t fall into a neat category. If you missed these events, cozy up and enjoy the videos! The crisp, iconic photography…

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GVHD50 Partner Roundup: Restaurant Edition

…the map needed for access to many of the sites, events, and offers, and for notifications about future #GVHD50 events). Map of the Greenwich Village Historic District So, in thanks…

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Labor History in the Village

Image courtesy of 6sqft. Some of the most important events and most prominent figures in the labor movement bear strong connections to the Village and East Village. Without these courageous…

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Village Preservation Brokers Partnership Comedy Night

…events and its Continuing Education series are eye openers for brokers who both work in and love the Village, as are all the great events that the Society presents. Through…

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My Greenwich Village Story

This is the latest installment of the Off the Grid series in which we highlight the people, places and events featured in our new book Greenwich Village Stories, available for…

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Programs Rescheduled Due to Hurricane Sandy

If you’re a regular at our public programs, you know that two of our scheduled November events were cancelled due to Superstorm Sandy. Luckily, though, we were able to reschedule…

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Who is King Juan Carlos I of Spain?

…didn’t know the answer, so, of course, I decided to research it. snapshots of past events held at the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center at NYU Juan Carlos…

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Honor Local Business in November

…film. Explore the meanings they carry through acclaimed photographer and urban documentarian Frank Jump’s lens. For more information on these events and to RSVP to attend, visit GVSHP’s Events Page….

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Business of the Month: Unoppressive Non-Imperialist Bargain Books, 34 Carmine Street

…aversion to conquering bigger spaces, it has over the years served as a vital cultural and events space. On a personal level, it has operated as a venue for numerous…

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Miguel Algarín and the Nuyorican Poets Café

…and Nicaragua in 1821. Additional events during the month include El Día de la Raza on October 12th. Translated as “Day of the Race,” this anniversary acknowledges the Iberoamerican people,…

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Business of the Month: Namaste Bookshop, 2 W. 14th St.

…whose CD’s are not available anywhere else in the city. Before the Covid pandmeic, Namaste Bookshop also hosted many special events, weekly classes, and a daily roster of readers and…

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A ‘Greenwich Village Stories’ Walking Tour of the East Village

This is the latest installment of Off the Grid’s series, “Greenwich Village Stories,” in which we highlight the people, places and events featured in our upcoming book release Greenwich Village…

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Movie Palace, Music Hall, Dance Club: the Many Lives of the Palladium

…For decades, the Academy of Music mainly operated as a movie theater, occasionally hosting other events such as boxing matches. By the 1960s the hall began to host concerts, including…

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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…

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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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Celebrating Black History — Explore Our Past, Advocate to Honor and Protect It

…Our newly expanded and redesigned Civil Rights and Social Justice Map highlights more than 200 sites in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo connected to important people, events, and…

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This Black History Month, Village Preservation Invites You to Explore, Celebrate, and Advocate for Preserving Significant but Unprotected Black History Sites in Our Neighborhoods

Explore: Our Civil Rights and Social Justice Map highlights more than 200 sites in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo connected to important people, events, or movements in civil…

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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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Publishing giants, radical literature, and women’s suffrage: More secrets of Union Square South

…exploring the connections to Mark Twain and Walt Whitman, Alexander Graham Bell and Leroi Jones (among many others). Now, we’ve uncovered even more history-making people and events connected to this area and its…

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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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The 10 most charming spots in the Greenwich Village Historic District

…a unique treasure trove of rich history, pioneering culture, and charming architecture. GVSHP will be spending 2019 marking this anniversary with events, lectures, and new interactive online resources, including a…

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The HB Playwrights Theatre: A West Village Haven for Theater A lecture with dramatic readings

The HB Playwrights Theatre: A West Village Haven for Theater A lecture with dramatic readings The HB Studio was already a thriving fixture in New York City’s cultural landscape when…

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Samuel F.B. Morse: A Brilliant Artist and Inventor With A Complicated, Troubling Legacy

…NYU campus. Three years later he acquired studio space for himself and his students in the newly-built neo-Gothic University Building (demolished in 1894 to make way for the present Silver…

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South of Union Square: Home of the Abstract Expressionists

…neighborhood were once the homes, studios, and everyday gathering spaces of now-famous artists. A prime example includes the homes and studios (or often studios that inadvertently became homes) of Franz…

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An Intersectional Black History Month Roundup

…be told as inseparably as he understood them to be. Alex Haley. Courtesy of Bill Haley https://www.pri.org/programs/studio-360/american-icons-autobiography-malcolm-x Ten years later, the writer Alex Haley was working in the Village, writing…

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Historic Spaces Open to the Public

…into their home and studio. They added a sculpture studio to the ground floor, which is illuminated by an enormous skylight that underwent extensive restoration work in 2017 and 2018…

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2012 House Tour Highlights

…Village homes at their own pace. The self-guided tour also included a bonus site: the former studio of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney at the New York Studio School at 8 West…

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Only Seven Landmarks in One of New York’s Most Historically Rich Areas?

…occupied the building for studio and living space. 830 Broadway 832 Broadway: The ten-story Renaissance Revival style building at 832-834 Broadway was constructed in 1896 for the Commercial Realty Improvement…

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VILLAGE VOICES: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney

…MacDougal Alley studio. While the museum left 8 West 8th St for larger space in the 1950s, it is fitting that the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and…

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Today in 1860: Lincoln and the Village

…at his nearby studio in what is now known as NoHo. This temporary studio was located at 643 Broadway, northwest corner of Bleecker Street, before it was demolished and replaced…

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Decades of Limbo To Finally End for South Village “Almost-Landmarks”?

…rooftop Village artists studio additions. Quite unusually, she kept the small Greek Revival side windows of the attic intact as she sensitively inserted a new bay window in the center…

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Nam June Paik: Father of Video Art, and Villager

…“Father of Video Art,” played a vital role in our neighborhoods’ rich artistic history. Working out of his studio in Westbeth along with his partner and fellow avant-garde artist Shigeko…

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Community Cornerstones: The Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation

…studio and home of sculptor Chaim Gross and his wife Renee. Gross, whose art can be found in the permanent collections of such institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art…

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Community Cornerstone: Greenwich House Pottery

…foster the artistic development of emerging or established artists by providing them with studio space, time, and materials. Consistent with the Pottery’s early mission, the studio also serves a disadvantaged…

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Looking Back on The Cherry Lane Theatre’s Long History

…opened a 60-seat black box theatre now known as the Cherry Lane Studio. A24, the independent film and television studio whose films include the Oscar winner “Everything Everywhere All at Once,”…

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Oh How Our Houses Have Changed

…of the architectural features that define an iconic Village artists studio in this 2014 blog post. Artist studios are still extant in the Village landscape and are just one of…

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2015 Benefit House Tour A Smashing Success!

…the generous homeowners who opened their homes for our tour, a perfect ticket pick up site provided by the Salmagundi Club, and lovely programs and benefit materials designed by Studio…

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A Landmark Anniversary for Westbeth

…1929 151 Bank Street was constructed in the Moderne style for Bell Labs which served as a pioneering experimental sound and motion picture studio. This complex would be the site…

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A Look Back at 2015 Programs

…demolishers dismantle a former sculptor’s studio, the facade of which is painted with the slogans ‘Save the Village’ and ‘Wake Up Mr. Mayor!’ New York, New York, May 19, 1960….

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Peter Ruta, Acclaimed Artist & Villager, 1918-2016

…before it was destroyed, his studio at the World Trade Center. And he was a great and generous friend to GVSHP. GVSHP did some wonderful programming with Peter over the…

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Black History Month: Alex Haley

…site is 92 Grove Street, where Pulitzer-Prize winning American author, Alex Haley had a writing studio during the 1960’s. Probably best known for his books Roots: The Saga of an American Family…

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Edward Hopper’s Village: Early Sunday Morning on Bleecker Street

…live and work until his death in 1967. (NYU owns the studio but has preserved it for visitors and students.) Portrait of Edward Hopper in his studio at 3 Washington…

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Five Accomplished Writers and Thinkers Discuss Basquiat, NoHo & Identity

…Saturday, just two doors down from Jean-Michel Basquiat’s last home and studio, GVSHP and Ayanna Jessica Legros presented a panel exploring the artist, his identity, and his relationship with the NoHo…

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Romare Bearden and the Formation of An African American Artistic Identity Downtown

Romare Bearden in his Canal Street studio, 1976. (Photo by Blaine Waller) via Queen City Nerve. Groundbreaking artist, intellectual, and activist Romare Bearden (September 2, 1911 – March 12, 1988)…

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Saving the Light: Restoration of Artist’s Spaces in the Village

…to 2018, the Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation underwent an extensive restoration of Chaim Gross’s studio. Similar work restored Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s studio at the New York Studio School, and…

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The Woman’s Art Club: Male Artists Need Not Apply

…the Tenth Street Studio, the first of its kind, purpose-built studio/live-work space for artists, completed in 1858 at 51 West 10th Street. In 1889 a group of accomplished women artists…

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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: Raphael and Moses Soyer

…the part”. New York, 1939. Photographer: David E. Scherman. Raphael Soyer, “Office Girl,” 1936. Oil on canvas via the Whitney Museum of American Art. Corner of Moses Soyer’s studio. Moses,…

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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: 88 East 10th Street

…relation to 20th-century art and the development of New York as the center of the art world after World War II, as the home and studio of artist Willem de…

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Marcel Duchamp in the Village – 50 Years Later Artist Serkan Ozkaya in conversation with poet Robert Fitterman

…Étant donnés, in his New York City studio. After his death on October 2nd, 1968, his close friends and the world were stunned to find, hidden in his studio on…

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Yun Gee: Modern Artist, Inventor, Poet, Villager

…1943-44 — the view looking up Broadway from 12th/13th Street in Greenwich Village, just around the corner from Gee’s home and studio on East 10th Street Nude in Studio, 1952…

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Many Layers of History between 3rd and 2nd Avenues

…unique. In honor of the day, here’s just a brief sampling of some of the embarrassment of riches that can be found between these two numbered streets. 14th Street- 226-240…

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Happy Birthday, Alex Haley!

Alex Haley. Source: Courtesy of Bill Haley https://www.pri.org/programs/studio-360/american-icons-autobiography-malcolm-x Pulitzer-prize winning American author Alex Haley was born this day, on August 11, 1921. GVSHP’s Civil Rights & Social Justice Map highlights…

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Beyond the Village and Back: NY Foundling Hospital

…staff member Dr. Joseph O’Dwyer. This method of keeping airways open saved thousands of children from the life-threatening disease diphtheria, an epidemic at the time. Edward Hopper in his studio….

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Celebrating Even More Women Artists #SouthOfUnionSquare

…Women’s History Museum, was a celebrated artist, educator, and self-described “people’s sculptor.” Selma Hortense Burke, Untitled (Woman and Child), ca. 1950, painted red oak. While her studio was at 88…

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Elevated rails, rooftops, and McSorley’s: How painter John Sloan captured 20th-century Manhattan

…Sloan maintained a painting studio in the Varitype Building, a tall, Flatiron-shaped loft building at the corner of Sixth Avenue, Cornelia Street, and West 4th Street in Greenwich Village, (built…

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Rob Mason

Robert Mason, 2018 (Taorimina, Italy). For more than a quarter century, Robert Mason (b. 1946) operated RPM studios from his live/work loft on 12th Street south of Union Square, one…

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‘Friends’: Greenwich Village Fantasy vs. Reality

On September 22, 1994, the TV show ‘Friends’ premiered on NBC. Airing ten seasons, it was consistently one of the most popular shows on television, and after decades of syndication,…

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Community Open House at the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program

…the program’s curatorial exhibition Not Everything Is Given, on Wednesday, May 22, 5–7 pm. The 2023–24 ISP Studio Exhibition, At Odds With will be available for a concurrent viewing at Westbeth Gallery located…

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128 East 13th Street

128 East 13th Street—former Frank Stella Studios / Horse Auction Mart Read Blog Posts about 128 E 13th St. 128 East 13th Street is believed to be the last surviving…

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Dorothy Canning Miller: Champion of Abstract Expressionism

…Kelly, Louise Nevelson, Robert Rauschenberg, and Frank Stella to a larger audience from MoMA’s stage. In addition to being a beacon for these artists, she was friends with many of…

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Our Epic Greenwich Village and East Village Watch-List

…lauded Hitchcock film takes place. Ocean’s 8 – Veselka!, East Village (Hulu) We love you, Veselka! With Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Mindy Kaling, and a stellar ensemble…

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2022 Village Awardee: Zinc Bar, 82 West 3rd Street

…City Band at Zinc Bar on Wednesday, May 25th. Sketched on site, painted at studio. Community Engagement During the Pandemic Zinc Bar is one of the many small businesses that kept the…

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Join Us This Thursday at 6pm to Celebrate Roy Lichtenstein’s 100th Birthday and Unveil Our Latest Plaque

The transformative pop artist Roy Lichtenstein would have turned 100 this Friday. In anticipation of that milestone and to mark the opening of his former home and studio as the…

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Charles Mingus Plaque Unveiling and Performance

…figures from Jane Jacobs to James Baldwin and Jean-Michel Basquiat; Allen Ginsberg to Alex Haley; Frank O’Hara to Frank Stella; and Martha Graham to Lorraine Hansberry. Register today to secure…

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Saul Leiter Plaque Unveiling

…Baldwin and Jean-Michel Basquiat; Allen Ginsberg to Charles Mingus; Frank O’Hara to Frank Stella; and Martha Graham to Lorraine Hansberry, as well as historically significant sites such as the former…

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The New York City Work Horse

…this building, which was also an assembly-line training center for women during World War II and the long-time studio of Frank Stella. Click here to read more about the history…

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Ghost Sign: 310-312 East 11th Street

…them the former horse and carriage auction that was artist Frank Stella’s studios at 128 East 13th Street. In 2006 GVSHP got the City to intercede and prevent a plan…

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Landmarks50: Van Tassell & Kearney Auction Mart

…to the Delehanty Institute. From 1978 to 2005, 126-128 East 13th Street served as the studio of highly-influential 20th century artist Frank Stella. Today, the building recalls the era when…

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The East Village’s Own, Allen Ginsberg

…the former Frank Stella studios at 128 East 13th Street, the Anthology Film Archives, and the Pyramid Club at 101 Avenue A in the proposed East Village/Lower East Side Historic…

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Exploring ‘Queer Money Project’ and Local LGBTQ+-owned Businesses

…exciting zoom webinar, visit our events page and register here. Those who register will also get alerts when new tours post, as well as access to this exclusive interview on…

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Join Us To Explore, Celebrate, and Advocate to Preserve Women’s History in March

…events that made it possible. Suffragist, educator, and civil rights leader Sarah Smith Garnett, who lived at 175 MacDougal Street, from our Civil Rights and Social Justice Map — click…

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Jessie Redmon Fauset: The Unsung Heroine of the Harlem Renaissance

…Book (1920–1921). This magazine featured historical biographies of notable black people such as Denmark Vesey and Sojourner Truth, articles about Africa, current events, games, riddles, and music. Jessie Fauset left…

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Signaling Change: Remembering the Tompkins Square Park Bandshell

…many legendary events that took place on its stage. However, the bandshell also worked as a key symbol in the evolution of Tompkins Square Park as a hub for sociopolitical…

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Business of the Month: Record Runner, 5 Jones Street

…shoplifting. At the time, many of John’s competitors found Duran Duran too uncool to care about. But John liked the surprising turn of events at his store and decided to…

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Welcome to the Neighborhood: Hex & Co., 801 Broadway

…progress and at the change they noticed in their kids. In addition to structured after-school programs and summer camps, the Brooklyn Strategist also holds a range of events, leagues, and…

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Celebrate Black History Month and Protect the Rich But Endangered History in Our Neighborhoods

…Our proposed South of Union Square Historic District, which contains dozens of unprotected sites connected to African American history, from the studio where some of the first integrated musical recordings…

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March 2024 Programs: Black History in Greenwich Village, Berenice Abbott, Jane Jacobs, and More

…1917. The program will take a look at important historic sites and events in our communities, such as the establishment of the headquarters of the NAACP at 70 Fifth Avenue….

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Women’s History Month: Celebrate, Explore, Preserve Women’s History

…struggle for women’s suffrage, and the people, organizations, and events that made it possible. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who lived at 3 Bedford Street, from our Civil Rights and…

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Marking Jewish History and Asian American History

…and events in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo — CLICK HERE Explore sites connected to prominent Asian American historic figures and events in Greenwich Village, the East Village,…

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Black History in Greenwich Village – Winter 2023 Series

…1880 – 1960 (NOTE CHANGE IN DATE TO WEDNESDAY) May 22 (third Friday): Session 4 – Evolution of Arts, Culture, Activism and The Fight for Civil Rights 1954 – 2020…

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April Programming at Village Preservation

(l. to r.) Unoppressive Non-Imperialist Bargain Books, Book Club Bar, and Printed Matter. Join Village Preservation in April for a range of events that focus on our rich culture in…

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History through the eyes of a photographer: Alex Harsley’s oral history

…great artists, activists, business owners, community leaders, and preservation pioneers of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo. It captures and preserves their first-person perspective on the important events they…

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Village Voices 2022 Unveiled, Ongoing through October 30

…soundscape recordings that tell the story of some of the incredible history-making people and events connected to sites throughout our neighborhoods. This includes 22 place-based “shadow boxes,” a 20-ft-high window…

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Penny Arcade: Art Creator, and Conservator

…meet people at these events who are like you who are interested in more or less the same kinds of things, and that’s the underground. And that’s always been the…

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Celebrating Flag Day!

…it. 9/11 Flags Following the tragic events of 9/11, American flags seemed to be everywhere. Below are just a few examples from various 9/11-related collections in our historic image archive….

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Book Talk: Dorothy Day in Greenwich Village

…Greenwich Village. Masks are strongly recommended at all NYPL locations. Please note: Village Preservation is following COVID-19 protocols for entrance to indoor events. Village Preservation currently asks everyone to wear a mask at…

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The Cooper Union’s “Voices from the Great Hall”: Digital Archives Of One Of New York’s Most Historic Spaces

…ContemporaryCooper Union’s Great Hall; photo by Ryan Brenzier/Cooper Union In order to make the space ideal for these types of events, Frederick Petersen, the Foundation Building’s original architect, and Peter…

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