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Ruth Cushman was the granddaughter of Don Alonzo Cushman (1792-1875), the developer behind the elegant Greek Revival rowhouses on West 20th Street known as Cushman Row (1839-40), which you can…

Posted June 2, 2020

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You Can Rent Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Apartment and Art Studio—For $60,000

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Angelina Jolie Takes Over Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Former NYC Studio

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Angelina Jolie Will Rent Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Former Studio

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Basquiat’s former NYC studio renting for $60K-a-month

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How One Building Turned Greenwich Village Into an Artists’ Mecca

…one another and the world. Bernice Abbott’s 1938 photo of the Tenth Street Studio Building. MCNY The Tenth Street Studios building, located at 51 West 10th Street, was built in…

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Accomplishments

…exhibition celebrating historic change-makers and trailblazers of our neighborhoods. Our newest plaques were unveiled, marking the former studio of artist Frank Stella at 128 East 13th Street and the personal…

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Artists Homes of the Greenwich Village Historic District

…lived here. 10th Street Studio Berenice Abbott photographed the building in 1938. Photograph from the collection of Museum of the City of New York The Tenth Street Studio Building 51…

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Fred W. McDarrah’s Greenwich Village and the East Village of the 1950s and 60s

…the time) artist-run recording studio at 52 West 8th Street after experiencing cost overruns and creative frustration at traditional commercial studios. While Electric Lady Studios would go on to become one of the…

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#SouthOfUnionSquare Tour — Musical Heritage and History

…recording studios. The renowned record-producer, civil rights activist, and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inductee John Hammond made his very first recordings at the Columbia Phonograph Recording Studios at 55…

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Making Beautiful Music Together: The Grammy-Winning Artists #SouthOfUnionSquare

…of the first boutique studios in the city, RPM Studios was founded in 1976 by classically trained electronic composer turned studio owner Robert Mason. The studio was known for being…

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Very Superstitious…

…the best gear available. Electric Lady Studios established the precedent of artists owning their own studio space rather than relying on studios owned by recording companies. The building at 52…

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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: 30 East 14th Street Artists’ Loft

…he added another room, Studio O, on the fifth floor. Howard Daum “Studio with Black Cat,” 1954 of the artist’s studio at 30 East 14th Street. Photo courtesy of the…

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Village Preservation in the Press

…Village Vexation (Letter to the Editor), New York Post, Village home and studio of Roy Lichtenstein opens after renovation, honored with historic plaque, 6sqft, October 27 Plan to Turn SoHo…

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October 2023 Programs: Native New Yorkers Walking Tour, Book Talks, and More

…(1909-2005). In 1963, the Grosses converted a four-story art storage warehouse in Greenwich Village into their home and studio. They added a sculpture studio to the ground floor, which is…

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The Painters of 108 through 114 Waverly Place

…the purpose of the studio changed. In 1912, Shinn had a stage installed converting the cottage studio into a 55 seat theater for his newly founded theater group, the Waverly…

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#SouthofUnionSquare: Home to (even more) Trailblazing Artists, Dancers, Labor Leaders, and Birth Control Advocates

…American assemblage art, hard-edge painting, and Pop Art — moved into his studio here in 1955. While living here, Indiana claimed, he could see into Willem de Kooning’s studio at…

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Recording Pioneer Rob Mason’s Life on 12th Street

…member of the band worked for Rob in the studio at the desk, as an assistant, gopher, or even an intern. Rob intended to use the studio for his own…

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2021 Village Preservation Public Programs Round-Up

…event recording now! Tour the South of Union Square 128 East 13th Street, Frank Stella’s Studio, as taken by Hew Evans of Village Preservation Virtual Plaque Unveiling: Frank Stella’s East…

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10 (more) of the most charming spots in the Greenwich Village Historic District

…Artist Studios Artist’s studios on Bleecker Street, via Village Preservation Greenwich Village may not be the only place in New York with artist studio windowsinserted into old buildings. But no place…

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Chaim Gross on LaGuardia Place, and “The Family” on Bleecker

…Whitney Studio Club at 10 West 8th Street, and – his first solo exhibition – at Gallery 144 in New York City. Also in 1932, Gross married Renee Nechin (1909-2005),…

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Greenwich Village Historic District 50th Anniversary Celebration and Open House Weekend!

…Full details online here. 12pm- 3pm Special Tour: The Edward Hopper House The Edward Hopper Studio was the home and studio of Edward Hopper from 1913 until his death in…

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Commemorating a Favorite Concert Hall, the Fillmore East

…with a plaque on it is how much has actually gone on in the background. Plaque-placers like us know that the building owner must be located and communicated with: an…

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Village Preservation 2019 House Tour — See You There!

…York Studio School Located along MacDougal Alley, the former studio of heiress and artist Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney served as our ticket pick-up location in 2018. The studio’s most arresting feature…

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The Clay Club: Shaping Sculptural Legacies in Greenwich Village

…artist Isamu Noguchi’s first studio was located at the Clay Club. His studio and residence, listed as 33 MacDougal Alley, was located at the rear of 4 West 8th Street…

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Uta Hagen: Actor, Teacher, Author, and Human Rights Advocate

…Village-based HB Studio, founded by her husband Herbert Berghof. Hagen was also a an uncompromising human rights advocate. Though she was placed on the Hollywood blacklist for a number of…

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The Church of the Village: Remembering Injustice Against Gay Clergy Event

…culminated in the unveiling: a facsimile of the future plaque to Rev. Egan was revealed, as the actual plaque had not yet been received from the manufacturer. Everyone was then…

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Historic Station Sequel

…The other most recognizable design feature of the Astor Place subway station is the Beaver plaque. According to the S&NR Report: Each plaque features a yellow beaver in honor of…

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Happy Birthday Woody Guthrie!

…Street, just east of 7th Avenue. Although GVSHP did not place the plaque on 74 Charles Street, we have placed eight (and counting) plaques throughout the neighborhood to honor our…

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Veterans in the Village

…and its Veteran’s memorial plaque An even larger plaque honoring an even larger community can be found at St. Jospeh’s Church at Sixth Avenue at Washington Place. There a bold…

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Groundbreaking Artist and Educator Selma Hortense Burke’s Home at 88 East 10th Street

…produce a relief plaque of the President. Burke had two sittings to sketch the President in person, and completed the plaque while living at 88 East 10th Street. In March…

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Spring House Tour Benefit Surprises and Delights

…once ubiquitous in this area and now rare. The infamous “flame” fireplace in Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s studio. The tour began at the original Whitney, now the New York Studio School,…

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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: Atelier 17

…influential art studio to make a home in the environs around South of Union Square was Atelier 17, a printmaking studio founded in Paris circa 1927 by Stanley William Hayter….

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2015 Village Award Winner The Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation

The ground floor studio of sculptor Chaim Gross. Image courtesy of the Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation Off the Grid is highlighting the winners of GVSHP’s 2015 Village Awards, in…

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23 LGBT landmarks of the East Village and Noho

…Keith Haring’s studio. 1. Pfaff’s, 647 Broadway Pfaff’s beer cellar in 1857 with Walt Whitman seated, via Wiki Commons This beer and wine cellar in the lower level of what…

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New York School Painter Janice Biala’s “Pendulating Spirit”

…Sessions at Studio 35 (Biala background left). From The Artists’ Sessions at Studio 35 (1950), edited by Robert Goodnough. One memorable passage in the conference transcripts concerns the question: “How…

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Remembering Jimi Hendrix

…and its acoustics, said he recalled Hendrix living in a cottage at 50 West 8th Street one wall away from Electric Lady Studios. Jimi and producers at Electric Lady Studios….

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House Tour Preview

…North, the long time home and studio of painter Edward Hopper. 8 West 8th Street has served as home to the New York Studio School since 1964. The buildings were…

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Khalil Gibran: An Immigrant Artist on 10th Street

…Khalil Gibran’s Studio on West 10th Street Gibran’s Studio Apartment at 51 West 10th Street The now-demolished 10th Street Studios were built in 1857 by James Boorman Johnson and…

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#SouthOfUnionSquare, Mexican Muralists Remake American Art: David Alfaro Siqueiros and the Experimental Workshop

…studios and workshops in the area South of Union Square. Siqueiros (center) and members of the Experimental Workshop in front of portraits of American Communist Party Candidates for president and…

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My Favorite Things: Andrew Berman Edition

…from 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…

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New April and May 2024 Programs: Walking Tours, Histories of Fifth Avenue and The Village Voice, and More

…the New York school of photography. This is our 24th plaque unveiling. Our plaque program has honored and marked the homes of local figures from Jane Jacobs to James Baldwin…

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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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From Mark Twain and the Lovin’ Spoonful to Tech Hub: The overlooked history of Union Square South

…be similarly converted and saved. Photo by Beyond My Ken / Wiki Commons 128 East 13th Street From 1975 to 2005, this former horse auction mart housed the studio of artist Frank Stella….

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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: Chaim Gross

…former townhouse and studio of Chaim and Renee Gross, at 526 LaGuardia Place. The plaque placed by Village Preservation at the Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation at 526 LaGuardia Place…

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The Star Spangled Banner and the Village

…August 26th, 1970, Hendrix opened his Electric Lady Studios at 52 West 8th Street. It was the only recording artist-owned studio at the time, and it provided Hendrix with affordable studio space that…

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Hans Hofmann and the Village

…October of 1936 Hofmann moved the school to 52 West 9th Street in Greenwich Village (and the GVHD), a still-extant rowhouse with a dramatic two-story studio window within a setback…

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Village People: Frederic Church

Frederic Church was a central figure of the Hudson River School, and kept a studio at the 10th Street Studio Building. (This post is part of a series called Village…

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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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Remembering Willem de Kooning

…central to the Abstract Expressionist school of the 1940’s and 1950’s. He had previously had a studio on Fourth Avenue but the space at 88 East 10th Street served as…

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Jazz and Jewelry: The Life of Art Smith

…at her studio in Greenwich Village, even trusting him to run the shop for months when she was away. At Mason’s studio, Smith cultivated his personal style. Alexander Calder was…

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Willem de Kooning at Home

On March 23, 1962, Village Voice photographer Fred McDarrah took a group of photos of Abstract Expressionist artist Willem de Kooning in his studio and home at 831 Broadway. De…

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African-American Music Crosses Genres #SouthOfUnionSquare

…connection to the culturally rich but endangered area of Greenwich Village and the East Village South of Union Square, home of (among other great sites) the legendary RPM Recording Studios…

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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: Isabel Bishop

…– 14th Street” New York Public Library Digital Collections. 74-76 5th Avenue circa 2019 via Google Maps. Isabel Bishop’s 9 West 14th Street Studio (no longer extant) highlighted in red,…

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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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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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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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