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Off Broadway Theater Update, Part 3

…striving to make sense out of the constrained circumstances we find ourselves in, and still are finding and creating new ways to keep us thinking and engaged. HB Studios on…

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Edward Hopper’s Village Muses

…studio on Washington Square. That studio remains preserved at 3 Washington Square North, where Edward Hopper lived and worked for 53 years. This is but one of many sites in…

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Edward Hopper’s Greenwich Village: The real-life inspirations behind his paintings

…way for St. Vincent’s Memorial Park and the New York City AIDS Memorial, which now stand in their place. New York Studio School; photo via Wikimedia Hopper’s big break came in…

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History Remembered with Preservation and Plaques

…128 East 13th Street (left), which served as home and studio for influential abstract artist Frank Stella for 27 years The building went through another conversion in the decades to…

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Fingers Crossed for Another: Individual Landmark Designations We’ve Won

…the building, which her predecessors would not do. The building was landmarked on October 28, 2014. Click HERE for the designation report. Former Van Tassell & Kearney Auction Mart/Frank Stella…

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Alex Haley and the Village

The renowned writer Alex Haley was born on August 11 in 1921. In the 1960’s, the Haley rented a writing studio in the back of the Greenwich Village building at…

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Beyond the Village and Back: The Whitney Museum of American Art

…the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture since 1964. Courtesy the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Interior of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s Greenwich Village studio featuring a custom…

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LPC Spotlights Women in the Arts

…sole owner in 1930. During this time, she opened the Whitney Studio galleries and Whitney Studio Club in 1918. As her name suggests, she was born into one of New…

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Making Photographic History #SouthOfUnionSquare

…maintained a studio at 8 East 12th Street, made his name with the image of Bob Dylan called “Dylan With Sunglasses and Cigarette,” while working for a Swedish news agency…

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12 historic Italian-American sites of the East Village

…by Beyond My Ken on Wikimedia 2. Moretti Sculpture Studio 249 ½ East 13th Street Next stop is this incredibly charming little building located just west of 2nd Avenue. Located in the…

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Tour of the Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation with Executive Director Sasha Davis

…Gross Foundation with Executive Director Sasha Davis. The Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit that preserves and interprets the historic home, studio, and art collections of renowned 20th-century…

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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: Chaim Gross

…the 20th century. Chaim Gross in his 63 East 9th Street studio Photo credit- © Alfredo Valente, c. 1938. Throughout the 20th century, the area south of Union Square attracted…

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#SouthOfUnionSquare: The Upcoming Demolition of 813 and 815 Broadway

…studio at this address. Not only was Macnabb highly sought after for his technical skill, the studio’s “central location” was a draw for sitters. By the mid-20th century, 813 Broadway…

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Retracing The East Village’s Historic Little Italy

…constructed in 1891 as a sculptor’s studio at a time when rear stables were frequently converted to artist’s studios. As a result, the building was designed to look like it…

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Lady Gaga’s Greenwich Village

…Hendrix, Electric Lady Studios at 52 West 8th Street was built to provide Hendrix with an affordable studio space that would also meet his specific technical and aesthetic needs. Kicked…

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The Hallowed Music Halls of the Greenwich Village Historic District

…Hendrix opened Electric Lady Studios at 52 West 8th Street. A recording studio that continues to draw in some of the biggest rockstars of the past almost 50 years, the…

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#SouthOfUnionSquare Tour — Pop Culture

…Street? 12 East 12th Street Designed, built and operated by classically trained electronic composer turned studio owner Robert Mason, RPM was one of the first boutique studios in the city,…

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Fulfillingness’ First Finale: A Stevie Wonder Classic Born of Pain, Recovery, and Greenwich Village

On July 22, 1974, Stevie Wonder’s seventh studio album, Fulfillingness’ First Finale, was released by Tamla, a subsidiary of Motown Records. The classic album, considered the fourth of five from…

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My Favorite Things: West Village Edition

…which its name is derived. The building was specifically intended to attract artists, with 10 one-room studios with casement windows, similar to the “artists’ studios” which had been popping up…

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Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti — East Meets West (Village, that is)

…Village. Physical Graffiti was mixed at Electric Lady Studios at 52 West 8th Street, one of the most storied recording studios around. And of course this was not the only…

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This is Radio Clash

…at Electric Lady Studios. So impressed were The Clash with Blaney’s work at Electric Lady Studios that they hired him and the studio to record and produce their next and…

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Happy Birthday, Paul Robeson

…he posed in the artists’ studio overlooking Washington Square. It’s no exaggeration to call Robeson a true Renaissance Man. He’s also one of many prominent figures featured on GVSHP’s Civil…

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The Village, through the lyrics of Taylor Swift

Taylor Swift during a recording session at Electric Lady Studios in 2019, photo courtesy Electric Lady Studios At the age of 24, after spending a decade building her music career…

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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: Yasuo Kuniyoshi

…East 14th Street Artist Studios via Apartments.com. One particularly notable collection of artist studios was located at 30 East 14th Street, a five-story structure built in 1880 as a retail store…

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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: Sonia Gechtoff

…the 20th century. Sonia Gechtoff at Canal Street Studio, New York (1960s). The area south of Union Square, which Village Preservation has proposed be designated an historic district, has attracted…

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“London Calling:” The Clash and the Village

…spent considerable time in the Village, recording their album Combat Rock and the single “This is Radio Clash” at the Village’s iconic Electric Lady Studios, for London Calling it’s the…

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Take a Peek Into Six Greenwich Village Homes

…Studio, 1928 (left). Smithsonian Archives of American Art. Whitney Studio, 2010 (right). Courtesy of the University of Pennsylvania Architectural Conservation Laboratory. Additionally, the New York Studio School, which will serve…

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Westbeth, Punk, and the Golden Age of Hip-Hop: SD50

…Rhymes, with the number 50 coming from the number of their studio in Westbeth. Geeby Dajani at Studio 50 in Westbeth. Source: Dante Ross. Throughout much of the early 1990s,…

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Holiday Cheer, and Gifts, in Greenwich Village

…Studio. Richard walked us down 8th Street to our next stop – the fabulous store and studio of artist Storm Ritter. Graey Studio‘s home on West 8th is a two-story…

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Elvis is in the building: July 2, 1956

…Hall, the recording studio wasn’t set up that way. RCA actually refashioned the space with state-of-the-art technology. Webster Hall was at that time known as RCA’s East Coast recording studio…

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Great NYC Museums Go #BeyondTheVillageAndBack

…School’s home on West 8th Street today, which had been the Whitney’s first site Prior to founding the museum, Whitney founded and hosted the Whitney Studio and Whitney Studio Club…

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Village Preservation Historic Plaques Honoring African Americans in Our Neighborhood

…Studio Located at 57 Great Jones Street, this plaque commemorates the site of the home and studio of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Basquiat forged an innovative and inspiring language that melded…

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127, 129, and 131 MacDougal Street: Architecture, Artists, African Americans, and “Alternative Lifestyles”

…the creation of a roof “studio dormer” by linking its two dormers (pre-1920) and lowering the first-story windows as storefront windows (c. 1950s). The addition of these “artists’ studio” windows and…

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Native American Contemporary Art Sites in our Area

…51 West 10th Street Leon Polk Smith (1906-1996) (Cherokee) had a studio in the 51 West 10th Street Studio Building in Greenwich Village. Smith was a Co-Founder of the New…

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In Death, As In Life, Marcel Duchamp Left Mystery

…when he died in 1968, he left a big, beautiful mystery in his studio at 80 East 11th Street. Marcel Duchamp with one of his readymades. (Courtesy: youtube.com) Conceptual Artist…

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Jean-Michel Basquiat, Michael Stewart, and ‘Defacement’

…Manhattan. Basquiat’s former studio at studio at 57 Great Jones Street In the fall of 1978, Basquiat met fellow downtown artists and scene-makers Keith Haring and Kenny Scharf, both major…

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A Truly Historic House Tour! Village Preservation’s 21st Spring House Tour in the Greenwich Village Historic District

…fascinating pasts. Last year’s tour even included a delightful arc linking two of the locations. The tour began at the New York Studio School, originally Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s studio and…

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Labor Demonstrations Nothing New for Village

…East 13th Street, a remarkable building originally a horse auction mart for the likes of the Vanderbilts and the Belmonts, which served as the studio of artist Frank Stella from…

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Women Crush Wednesday: The Wonder of Villager Judy Holliday

…major studios were more interested in the girl with “the natural gift of comedy” than the group as a whole, and Holliday alone was offered a studio contract. She refused…

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Merce Cunningham: Dance-Maker, Innovator, Teacher, and Villager

…Villager who made a home at 107 Bank Street with his partner John Cage, and whose studio was for many years located at Westbeth Artists Housing. Cunningham’s life and work is celebrated…

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Glass and the Gilded Age: Tiffany Windows in the First Presbyterian Church

…The First Presbyterian Church Isaiah, by Tiffany Studios, located on the northern wall of the church nave. Photo: The First Presbyterian Church. The Scotch Presbyterians, by Tiffany Studios, located on…

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Joan Mitchell’s Village

Joan Mitchell working on Bridge, 1957, in her studio, 60 Saint Marks Place, New York, 1957. Photo: Joan Mitchell and Rudy Burckhardt. Courtesy Artforum. Joan Mitchell (February 12, 1925 – October 30,…

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Happy Birthday Martha Graham

photo source: www.loc.gov Modern dance pioneer Martha Graham was born on this day, May 11, in 1894. In the 1930’s, Martha Graham’s dance studio was located at 66 5th Avenue….

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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: Celebrating Women’s History Month

…8″ x 11 1/2″. Collection of Christiane H. Citron, Denver, CO. Doris Lee Doris Lee in-studio feeding cat portrait, ca. 1935-1937, 3 x 4 in.; National Museum of Women in…

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31 Literary Icons of Greenwich Village

…Brown, who also wrote the best-selling children’s story, The Runaway Bunny, used the house as her residence and writing studio. Throughout the 1940s, she shared the home with her partner, socialite Blanche…

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The Flatirons of the Village and the East Village

…Streets. Also known as 110-118 Greenwich Avenue, the building was constructed in 1882 to the designs of renowned architect George F. Pelham as studio apartments. Originally known as “The Jackson…

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13 places in Greenwich Village where the course of history was changed

…the New York Studio School, once the first home of the Whitney. Via Wiki Commons. Since New York has been the center of the art world for nearly three quarters of…

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Glass and the Gilded Age: Tiffany Windows in the First Presbyterian Church

…The First Presbyterian Church Isaiah, by Tiffany Studios, located on the northern wall of the church nave. Photo: The First Presbyterian Church. The Scotch Presbyterians, by Tiffany Studios, located on…

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Village People: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney

…an adjacent space at 8 West 8th Street was purchased. (This space would become the Whitney Studio.) In 1914, she opened the Whitney Studio Club at 147 West 4th Street,…

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Where Music and Passion are Always in Fashion

…By the end of the 1950s, RCA converted the building into their East Coast recording studio and called it the “Webster Hall Studios.” Elvis Presley, Perry Como, Tony Bennett, Frank…

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Walker Evans & Ben Shahn: American Art of the Great Depression in Greenwich Village

Left: Portrait of Walker Evans, Ben Shahn circa 1930. Right: Portrait of Ben Shahn at 23 Bethune Street, Walker Evans circa 1930 When asked about the studio at 20 –…

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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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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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How Much is that Plaster in the Window? Claes Oldenburg’s ‘The Store’

…legendary artistic pasts. GVSHP’s new online tool East Village Building Blocks contains information about every building in the East Village, many of which were the studios and residences of some…

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Alfred Leslie: Abstraction, the Beats, & Eternal Transformation #SouthOfUnionSquare

…Chris Archer in the Villager, June 6, 1985 Leslie in his studio in 1950 by Walter Silver, courtesy of the New York Public Library Painter, filmmaker, photographer, and bodybuilder Alfred…

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Woodstock: Three Days of Peace, Music, and Greenwich Villagers

…Waverly Place. Richie Havens, the iconic singer and guitarist, passed away in 2013 on April 22 at the age of 72. Though originally from Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, by his late…

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Basquiat and NoHo

…Del Barrio, Creative Time, Marc Jancou Contemporary, Walt Disney Studios, and David LaChapelle studios. Chaédria LaBouvier is a writer, activist and Basquiat scholar. As a contributing writer for Elle, she…

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Business of the Month: Love Child, 9 Patchin Place

…what was meant to be a downstairs temporary studio where she taught drop-in yoga classes. “When we opened, just as a yoga studio, we found that many expecting or new…

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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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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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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: Lucile Blanch

…and movements like Abstract Expressionism, the Ninth Street Five, and “The Club.” Lucile Blanch at work in her studio at 30 East 14th Street photographed by the WPA Federal Art…

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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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The Ashcan School and the Beginnings of the Whitney

…1914, Whitney established her Studio in Greenwich Village, presenting exhibitions of works that were otherwise disregarded. In 1916 she commissioned Robert Henri, leader of the movement, to paint a portrait…

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#SouthofUnionSquare — Dance Tour

…innovator had her first dance studio at 66 Fifth Avenue beginning in the 1930s, remaining here through at least the 1950s. The studio started off as an all-female dance company,…

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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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Happy Birthday, Richard Meier

…project of subsidized, affordable studio living quarters for artists. This was substantially supported and inaugurated by the J.M. Kaplan Fund and the complex was converted into Westbeth Artists’ Housing in…

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Carol Janeway: Ceramicist and Fierce Village Advocate

…image courtesy Victoria Jenssen Janeway’s first studio was located at 67 West 3rd Street, and by late 1945 she had relocated her studio and associated shop to 46 East 8th…

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Significant Latinx History Sites in the Village

…known for its grassroots activism, and for providing studio space and workshops for countless artists,including John Sayles, Luis Guzman, Todd Haynes, Spike Lee and our narrator, John Leguizamo himself. Unfortunately, the CHARAS organization was evicted in…

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Beyond the Village and Back: Sailors’ Snug Harbor

…Square North is also well known for some famous residents. The Realist painter and printmaker Edward Hopper, along with his wife Josephine Hopper, lived in a studio on the top…

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15 Sites of Critical African American History in Greenwich Village

…Haley via Public Radio International 13. Alex Haley Writing Studio In the 1960s writer Alex Haley conducted over fifty interviews with Malcolm X in a writing studio he rented at 92…

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Tour the Musical Sites of Producer John Hammond’s World

…The 22 homes that are a part of the complex surround a beautiful private garden. The twelve homes along MacDougal Street were built in 1844 on 22 foot wide lots, followed…

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From Greenwich Village To The Moon, and Back

…the process. As colleagues at NYU, Draper and Morse naturally became associated in their daguerreotype experiments, using the glassed-roof studio atop the University’s main building to try their hands in…

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The Artists of the Greenwich Village Historic District

…craft. Many of these artists’ homes and studios were located within the Greenwich Village Historic District, one of the city’s oldest and largest historic districts, established in 1969 with more…

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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: 55 Fifth Avenue

…long after the OKeh Phonograph recording studios occupied the building as well. Some of the most consequential recordings of twentieth century American music were made in these studios, which remained…

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Finding George Spaventa #SouthOfUnionSquare

…84 East 10th Street, just two doors down from Willem de Kooning’s famous 88 East 10th Street studio, there once was a Villager whom Elaine de Kooning called “a master…

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31 Literary Icons of the Greenwich Village Historic District

…the house as her residence and writing studio. Throughout the 1940s, she shared the home with her partner, socialite Blanche Oelrichs, who used the pen name Michael Strange. Brown wrote…

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Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s Rich and Varied Legacy

…and the Village. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney in her studio 1920 Married in 1896 at the age of 21 to Harry Payne Whitney, who hailed from a family of similar wealth…

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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: 815 Broadway

…C. Westervelt. Within this tiny building was located one of the city’s most prominent photographic studios (at a time when photography was still a relatively new and novel invention) and…

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Martha Graham

…her first dance studio at 66 Fifth Avenue beginning in the 1930s and remained there through at least the 1950s. The studio started off as an all-female dance company, and it was…

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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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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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Neighborhood History

…Great Jones Street, Individual Landmark Related Issues: 128 East 13th Street – Frank Stella Studio/Horse Auction Mart Back to Top Immigration in the Village During the early 19th century new…

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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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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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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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Asian-American History in Greenwich Village and the East Village

…and an individual New York City landmark in 1965. On September 22, 1892, a group of 1,000 U.S. citizens and 200 Chinese merchants and laborers gathered at The Cooper Union’s…

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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