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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…1981, the year of her 81st birthday, the theatre was renamed in her honor. HB Theatre 124 Bank Street The HB Studio (the acting studio of renowned theatre artists Herbert…
Read MoreRomare 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)…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read MoreOn 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,…
Read More…community. For over a decade old houses were being transformed to studios and their facades remodeled to Mediterranean, Tudor and other romantic fantasies. In 1927 builders MacKathryn & O’Sullivan purchased No. 93,…
Read More…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….
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…three stories in 1894. Elizabeth Olds’ studio was located here from the late 1930s to the late 1950s. Around 1967, the influential publishing house Grove Press opened an office here,…
Read More…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,…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…disused former Bell Telephone Labs on the block bounded by West, Bethune, Washington, and Bank Streets along the Greenwich Village waterfront into subsidized housing and studios for artists and space…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…“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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More128 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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read More…seen as legitimate among western artists. The Ashcan School, a group of avant-garde realist painters led by Robert Henri focusing on quotidian city life, and Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s Whitney Studio…
Read MorePortraits of Dutch-born American artist Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) in his loft studio at 831 Broadway, New York, by Fred W. McDarrah. In support of Village Preservation’s successful effort to save 827-831 Broadway, the…
Posted June 1, 2020
Read More…buildings in New York.” It was landmarked on July 22, 1975. Both were built at the turn of the last century. And both also bear strong connections to Greenwich Village…
Read More…fellow New School professors, choreographer and dancer Martha Graham, and visual artist Isamu Noguchi. Appalachian Spring was composed in 1944 for the Martha Graham Dance Company, whose first dance studio…
Read More…its bounds — from Washington Square to Abingdon Square, from the New School to the New York Studio School. Historic houses of worship and historic houses, key sites of immigrant…
Read More…1) From the LPC agenda: A transitional Greek Revival Italianate style townhouse built in 1853, altered with the addition of a 4th floor and studio window. Application is to construct…
Read MoreRobert Motherwell (1915-1991), one of the most noteworthy figures of the Abstract Expressionist movement and ‘New York School’ of artists, had a studio during some of his most productive years…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read More…is to renovate an existing single family, non-fireproof townhouse and artist studio to include new interior partitions, layouts, exterior windows and doors and new HVAC system; excavation of existing cellar…
Read More…The Crisis Magazine, to the studio where Billie Holiday made her very first recordings. Our East Village Building Blocks website features an African American history tour with more than two…
Read More…these claims. Edward Hopper’s Studio at One Washington Square North Edward and Jo Hopper’s charming studio on Washington Square North, which is now owned by NYU and houses much of…
Read More…collagist, and musician lived and worked at the height of his career in the 1980’s in a loft studio in NoHo, and his connection to the city was integral to…
Read More…floor became the home and studio of abstract expressionist painter Franz Kline. Franz Kline (1910-1962) was born in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania and moved to New York City in 1938. He…
Read More…a few folks from the neighborhood. Workers dismantle Arnold Bergier’s studio, the facade of which is painted with the slogans ‘Save the Village’ and ‘Wake Up Mr. Mayor!’ “Demolition of…
Read More…Stutzman, Nancy Langsan & Douglas Bernstein, Justine & John Leguizamo, Leslie & Bob Rylee, Judith Stonehill, F. Anthony Zunino & Sally Auer CORPORATE FRIEND Board Packager, Brooklyn Studios, Brown Harris…
Read More…studio, per historian Christopher Gray. The restaurateur also let him live in a small apartment on the site. Every Friday, according to Kilham, the “Four Hour Lunch Club” met, eventually…
Read More…studio. Joann Gedney (March 16, 1925 – June 20, 2013) was a trailblazing Abstract Expressionist painter and sculptor who played an integral role in elevating the cultural prominence of the…
Read More…It was sold to Ceco Studios, LLC. in 1995. Ceco Studios operates the High Line Stages here, in the adjoining 439 West 14th Street, and in several other buildings in the…
Read More…Fifth Avenue 10 East 14th Street 12-16 East 14th Street 22-26 East 14th Street 22-26 East 14th Street 30 and 28 East 14th Street 17 East 13th Street 2, 4,…
Read More…New York, NY They kept meeting on a weekly basis in Bearden’s studio to discuss how their art might relate to current political goals and explore aesthetics that transcended categories…
Read More…as Bianca Jagger atop a white horse at Studio 54. Known for her ability to gain entrance into any social gathering, and possessed of an uncanny eye for candid shots,…
Read More…Street – Margaret Wise Brown’s Writing Studio The incredible Cobble Court (left), and Margaret Wise Brown (right) This most unusual home is also known as Cobble Court; before the house…
Read More…and choreographers, as well as dance studios in the area south of Union Square. Anna Sokolow was placed on this tour due to her many years of studying and practicing…
Read More…techniques of the Renaissance Old Masters. He took a studio at 6 East 14th Street in 1923 and at 30 East 14th Street from 1928 until his death in 1952….
Read More…masonry openings and install new infill, remove studio skylights, construct a rooftop addition, and alter the rear façade. PDF presentation links: LPC Presentation of 4/9/2024 Community Board Presentation of 3/14/2024…
Read More…studio of his grandfather, renowned muralist William de Leftwich Dodge. The elder Dodge raised the roof of the house for his studio as so many artists in Greenwich Village did…
Read MoreHe was one of the most significant, prolific, and versatile artists of the 20th century, and he produced several of his many iconic pieces from a studio located in a…
Read More…scene by establishing his studio at 23 MacDougal Alley (now No. 12) in the Greenwich Village Historic District, with the help of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, whose own studio was also…
Read More…Viola had her own gorgeous, private studio (even though the couple rented rooms across the street). Her spacious hideout was “decorated in true Edwardian style with wicker furniture, Chinese lanterns…
Read More…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 on the top of houses throughout…
Read MorePortraits of Dutch-born American artist Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) in his loft studio at 831 Broadway, New York, by Fred W. McDarrah. In support of GVSHP’s effort to save 827-831…
Posted June 2, 2020
Read MorePortraits of Dutch-born American artist Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) in his loft studio at 831 Broadway, New York, by Fred W. McDarrah. In support of GVSHP’s effort to save 827-831…
Posted June 2, 2020
Read MorePortraits of Dutch-born American artist Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) in his loft studio at 831 Broadway, New York, by Fred W. McDarrah. In support of GVSHP’s effort to save 827-831…
Posted June 2, 2020
Read More…after studying art in Europe. He produced art for the Ziegfield Follies and many Hollywood Studios, the most famous of which is the poster for the 1933 film, The Sin…
Read More…to race upstairs and encourage VID members to ask about the landmark designation of the neighborhood upon Wagner’s arrival. Workers dismantle Arnold Bergier’s studio, the facade of which is painted…
Read More…any home in the Village. In the 1920s, the home had a fourth floor added that includes one of the grandest and most impressive artist studio windows ever constructed, added…
Read More…his studio here at the turn of the last century; Cranmer’s image of the Blizzard of 1888, taken a few blocks away on West 11th Street, is the enduring image of…
Read More…would mingle with the likes of Andy Warhol and hang out at Max’s Kansas City. The interior of the legendary Electric Lady Studios. A year later, he would record his…
Read More…buildings had new lives breathed into them, finding new purpose as artists’ studios and residences. These buildings are highlighted in our new virtual exhibition, “The Architecture South of Union Square”…
Read MoreEvery month, Village Preservation combs through nominations from the public and other resources to choose a special independent store to honor in Greenwich Village, the East Village, or NoHo. Please…
Read More…Surrealist NYC map This interactive tool maps and explores the studios, homes, and collective social spaces of Surrealist artists who took refuge in Greenwich Village after World War II. From…
Read More…psychoanalysis. The play’s main character, Henrietta, living in a studio apartment in Washington Square South, is obsessed with over-analyzing the dreams of her husband, Stephen, and her sister, Mabel. Suppressed…
Read More…1945, as Burke remained at 88 East 10th Street, Eleanor Roosevelt visited her studio to approve the final design. When the First Lady commented on President Roosevelt’s youthful appearance, Farrington cites…
Read More…the Talking Heads, formed by the husband and wife team of drummer Chris Frantz and bassist Tina Weymouth. The band was centered around Compass Point Studios in Nassau, the Bahamas,…
Read More…around her. She lived and performed downtown (still does), and recorded the album at Electric Lady Studios on West 8th Street. Bob Dylan, a close friend since he first saw…
Read More…save. At 10th St and Greenwich Ave, demolishers dismantle a former sculptor’s studio, the facade of which is painted with the slogans ‘Save the Village’ and ‘Wake Up Mr. Mayor!’…
Read More…the time, Belafonte saw the power of music for social and political revolution. Belafonte’s second studio album was released in 1956. In 1952, just a year after its opening, Belafonte’s…
Read More…1884, Demorest purchased the building, as he had so many along 14th Street, inserted a show window in the parlor floor, and converted the upper stories into offices and studios….
Read More…most are owned and occupied by NYU. Edward Hopper’s home and studio was located in 3 Washington Square North from 1913 until his death in 1967, in one of those…
Read More…embodied the mindset of the neighborhood, he named his new art gallery after it. Barrows and Savard created the Civilian Warfare Gallery as a live/work studio, supporting individual artists and…
Read MorePortraits of Dutch-born American artist Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) in his loft studio at 831 Broadway, New York, by Fred W. McDarrah. In support of GVSHP’s effort to save 827-831…
Posted June 2, 2020
Read MorePortraits of Dutch-born American artist Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) in his loft studio at 831 Broadway, New York, by Fred W. McDarrah. In support of GVSHP’s effort to save 827-831…
Posted June 2, 2020
Read MorePortraits of Dutch-born American artist Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) in his loft studio at 831 Broadway, New York, by Fred W. McDarrah. In support of GVSHP’s effort to save 827-831…
Posted June 2, 2020
Read MorePortraits of Dutch-born American artist Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) in his loft studio at 831 Broadway, New York, by Fred W. McDarrah. In support of GVSHP’s effort to save 827-831…
Posted June 2, 2020
Read More…collected many of Pollock’s works and displayed them at the Creeks, his 80-acre estate in East Hampton. Ossorio also owned a studio at 9 MacDougal Alley from 1949 until 1952,…
Read MorePortraits of Dutch-born American artist Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) in his loft studio at 831 Broadway, New York, by Fred W. McDarrah. In support of GVSHP’s effort to save 827-831…
Posted June 2, 2020
Read MorePortraits of Dutch-born American artist Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) in his loft studio at 831 Broadway, New York, by Fred W. McDarrah. In support of GVSHP’s effort to save 827-831…
Posted June 2, 2020
Read MorePortraits of Dutch-born American artist Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) in his loft studio at 831 Broadway, New York, by Fred W. McDarrah. In support of GVSHP’s effort to save 827-831…
Posted June 2, 2020
Read More…her own right, kept studios in and around Union Square throughout their working life. Notably, Edward Laning kept a studio at 30 East 14th Street at the mid-century. The list…
Read More…sexuality. Lankton first came to the East Village when she was 18 or 19, commuting to the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn to gain a bachelor’s degree in Studio Art. Originally…
Read More…artists and the arts hold in the Village – and everywhere. Rosemarie Beck in her studio at 6 East 12th Street in New York City 1966, from the Rosemary Beck…
Read More…of Modern Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the Art Institute of Chicago. “For Benny there was no line where his activism…
Read More…to the studio where Billie Holiday made her very first recordings: Our East Village Building Blocks website features an African American history tour with more than two dozen sites connected…
Read More…restaurant in the city. You can learn more about Awash here. AYON Studio (41 Union Square West, Suite 516) AYON Studio provides experienced services in the fields of architecture and…
Read More…been home to a Blink fitness studio, the MLB Fan Cave, and most recently Build Studio, which closed during the pandemic. Beyond the structure’s name, nothing remains on the outside…
Read More…the building was born in 1925 as a radical remodeling of an 1830 rowhouse into a five-story artists’ studio apartment building. In the mid 20th-century, the building became even more iconic…
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