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David Rosario (AKA David Peel) with Lower East Side band and Billie Joe White in Washington Square Park. 44 West 4th Street and 1 Washington Square Village (first two buildings on the left) and the Catholic Center at 58 Washington Square South (first building on the right, now demolished) are visible in the background.
Folk musician David Rosario founded the band Lower East Side, which commonly performed in the streets of downtown New York City. He was known as “David Peel” in reference to…
Posted March 3, 2021
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“The Handsomest Square in the City:” Washington Square Park
“The Handsomest Square in the City:” Washington Square Park 2 Just a few short months following the designation of Greenwich Village as a historic district in April of 1969, NYC…
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“The Handsomest Square in the City:” Washington Square Park
“The Handsomest Square in the City:” Washington Square Park Just a few short months following the designation of Greenwich Village as a historic district in April of 1969, NYC Parks…
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Farmers Markets from Gansevoort to Union Square to Abingdon Square
Farmers Markets from Gansevoort to Union Square to Abingdon Square An evening with Greenmarket founder Barry Benepe In 1976, planner and architect Barry Benepe cofounded the Greenmarket program in New…
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Before Washington Square: The Often Forgotten Story of How Washington Square Came to Be
…Square North. The remaining Greek Revival facades of Washington Square North provide the last vestiges of tangible architectural evidence of what was the most fashionable neighborhood of New York City…
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This Day in History: Abingdon Square Becomes a Public Park
…Common Council decided that Abingdon Square should be enclosed as a public park and allotted $3,000 toward this undertaking. On April 22, the City acquired the land and by 1836…
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Union Square: Activism by Design
Union Square is known today as a site of public gathering and for expressions of discontent. This is built upon Union Square’s rich, multi-layered history as a public space in…
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Village Independent Democrats Collection: 1955-1969
…Closing, Housing in the Village Page 7: Roadway through the square Page 8-13: Saving Washington Square park from Roadway, Closing House of detention, Title I redevelopment Page 14: Proposed NYU…
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Cooper Square at East 7th Street, looking northwest, with (l. to r.) 56-62 Cooper Square (Carl Fischer Building), 22-34 Fourth Avenue (now demolished), 770 Broadway, and Cooper Union Foundation Building
For more information on the application to the Landmarks Preservation Commission associated with this image, click here….
Posted June 2, 2020
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Tulip Time at Abingdon Square Park
…and rare, and we need every bit of it, new or old. One of the local favorites is an oldy but goody –Abingdon Square. Abingdon Square Park, by permission of…
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Edith Wharton vs. Washington Square
…Square – author Edith Wharton. Wharton herself was a resident of Washington Square North for a short time in 1882. Although she didn’t live there for long, Washington Square often takes…
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Hudson Square Rezoning/South Village Landmarking Deal FAQ
…does the new Hudson Square rezoning do? The Hudson Square rezoning for the first time allows new residential development in Hudson Square, which will in all likelihood increase the amount…
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Hudson Square Rezoning and the South Village
…Hudson Square and the South Village HERE.) Speaker Quinn Will Decide if Rezoning Preserves or Undermines Character of Hudson Square and the South Village Tenement at 169 Sullivan Street in…
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More Details on Hudson Square Rezoning Decision
…times as many square feet to develop as the square footage of the site they build upon (this is known as floor area ratio, or FAR). If you acquire air…
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2014 Year In Review: GVSHP Programs
…a tour of Washington Square Park and the South Village…Do you know what event the Washington Square Arch commemorates or who’s buried at Washington Square Park? On the South Village…
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South of Union Square
…of Union Square with Photos by Dylan Chandler Preserve + Protect Women’s History Landmarks South of Union Square Recognize and protect more than 20 women’s history sites South of Union…
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The History of Sheridan Square
L: an aerial view of Sheridan Square; R: Sheridan Square Viewing Garden On this day, August 1, in the year 1864 during the Civil War, General Philip Sheridan was appointed…
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From Parking Lot to Car Free Washington Square Park
…of Washington Square Park and slightly beyond. Specifically, this opens up Washington Square North, South, East, West and Waverly Place & West Fourth Street running from the park east to…
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Abingdon Square: 183 years ago…
…purchase farm-fresh produce at such markets at Union Square, Tompkins Square, and Abingdon Square. You can see a video of that program here. Abingdon Square Greenmarket The NYC Parks Department…
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Greenwich Village Historic District 50th Anniversary Celebration and Open House Weekend!
…History: Abingdon Square Park Join volunteers from the Abingdon Square Park Conservancy to experience and learn about this special neighborhood park. Enjoy the Abingdon Square Greenmarket from 8am-2pm. The first 75…
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If the Washington Square Hotel Could Talk (or Write, or Sing)
…figure at the corner of Waverly Place, MacDougal Street, and Washington Square North, the Hotel Earle – renamed the Washington Square Hotel in 1986 – has plenty of its own…
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My Favorite Things: Washington Square North
…at 18 Washington Square North. In fact, he depicts a nostalgic view of the area around the Square in his 1881 novel Washington Square. Today, the houses belong to NYU….
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An 89-Year Tradition Continues in Washington Square Park
…that famous Christmas tree. But did you know that the tree lighting in Washington Square Park was a tradition that dates back much earlier? The tree in Washington Square Park…
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Sir Winston Churchill Square: 2013 Village Award Winner (and one of my favorite places!)
Sir Winston Churchill Square, spring 2013 If you have ever spent time in the area where Bleecker Street meets Sixth Avenue, then you know it’s a busy place with lots…
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Get your Fruit, Veggies, and Milk in Tompkins Square Park
…and East Villagers were no exception. Tompkins Square Park served as the site of a children’s garden beginning in 1934. A concession stand in Tompkins Square Park. Photo courtesy of…
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Sheridan Square Uncovered
…Bob Dylan images from Sheridan Square. The Ink Pot Magazine office, located off Sheridan Square Sheridan Square & West 4th Street Bob Dylan on a Bench in Sheridan Square, 1965…
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99 Years Ago: The Washington Square Arch Conspiracy, January 23, 1917
Washington Square Arch in Washington Square Park The Washington Square Arch in Washington Square Park is in some ways the heart of the Village. The white marble structure was designed…
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L-Shape Construction and the Power of Hold Outs: South of Union Square
…you can spot in the area South of Union Square is the preponderance of “L-Shaped” buildings. This building footprint gave developers and investors more square footage while still having a…
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Tompkins Square Park on Exhibit
…1870. An 1891 print: Popular concert in Tompkins Square, N.Y. Photo via New York Public Library Concerts took place in Tompkins Square Park during the 1890s. Photo, 1911, courtesy of…
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On the Square
…look at some of the historic retail establishments in our area. Last week we looked at Wanamaker’s huge store and annex near Astor Place. Farther north at Union Square, a…
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“The Ink Pot” on Sheridan Square, Then & Now
…a time when bohemians roamed the Village. Until the early 1920s, the buildings around Sheridan Square were a lot shorter than they are today. With the exception of the eight-story…
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This July, Music fills Washington Square Park
The Washington Square Music Festival in 2012. Photo via The Villager. Last night, the 55th Washington Square Music Festival held its first of four free concerts in Washington Square Park….
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Signaling Change: Remembering the Tompkins Square Park Bandshell
The Tompkins Square Park bandshell, constructed in 1966, was the center of cultural and political movements in the East Village during the tumultuous decades of the late 20th century. From…
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Tompkins Square Park Through the Years
Over the years, Off the Grid has featured many posts about Tompkins Square Park, including The Young Lords Start in Tompkins Square Park, The Tompkins Square Park Riots of 1988,…
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Winter Wonderland in Washington Square Park
…feeling a little nostalgic for snowfalls past. Images from the GVSHP archive of Washington Square Park covered in snow offer the perfect solution. The Washington Square Arch framed in snow…
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Washington Square United Methodist Church: Where Identity and Inclusion Collided
…in not just the spiritual but the real world realm in a way that made history. In June of 1978, the the Washington Square United Methodist Church’s Reverend, Paul Abels,…
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South of Union Square: Home of the Abstract Expressionists
The area South of Union Square has drawn artists into its corridors for many decades. From social realist painters of the early twentieth century to contemporary practitioners, this section of…
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Jackson Square Library: An Exquisite Building, and once a church of ‘Exquisite Panic’
At 251 West 13th Street, just east of Greenwich and 8th Avenues, sits one of the most beautiful and interesting structures in our neighborhood. What was once the Jackson Square…
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Cultural Innovation Emanates From One Sheridan Square Throughout the Decades
The theater at 1 Sheridan Square has a long history as a vibrant, varied West Village performance space. Housed in a building constructed in 1834 by Samuel Whitmore, the space…
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The Diversity and Beauty of Loft Buildings South of Union Square
…Explore all the buildings in Dylan Chandler’s “The Architecture South of Union Square” here. Explore more about the history of the area South of Union Square here and support landmark…
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Publishing giants, radical literature, and women’s suffrage: More secrets of Union Square South
Photo by Beyond My Ken / Wiki Commons The area south of Union Square, on the border between Greenwich Village and the East Village, is changing. The approval of the new 14th Street Tech…
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Many Layers of History at 8th Avenue and 13th Street: Jackson Square Park
Jackson Square Park. Photo courtesy of NYC Parks. This post is part of a series about Village blocks that correspond to calendar dates. Once again, another August date corresponds with…
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Tompkins Square tree offers more than good cheer
…Square Park, the Tompkins Square park evergreen is a live tree that lives in the park year-round. The spruce was planted in 1992, as part of a larger renovation of…
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Tonight — The Hudson Square Rezoning and You
…Square neighborhood, is proposing to rezone more than a dozen blocks in Hudson Square, stretching from Houston to Canal Street, Sixth Avenue and Varick Street to Greenwich and Hudson Streets….
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How Edith Wharton and Henry James Struck Up A Friendship Around Washington Square
…there for long, Washington Square often takes a central role in her work, including in her defining work, The Age of Innocence. Washington Square North, Image courtesy of Bob Estremera…
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The Forgotten Fifth Avenue South of Washington Square Park
…iconic stores, incredible museums, and beautiful parks. Beginning here in Greenwich Village at the entrance of Washington Square Park, Fifth Avenue passes the Flatiron Building, Madison Square Park, the Empire…
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The Antique Business District South of Union Square: Seidenberg Antiques, 36 East 12th Street
The area South of Union Square was once the antique center of the country. During the second half of the 20th century, dozens of freight trucks would converge in the…
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Washington Square Arch: Then AND Now
…continuity in his recreation of Last Car Thru Washington Square Park Armed with a printed version of GVSHP’s photo, Last Car Thru Washington Square, 1958, Shawn captured the changes and…
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On this Day: Washington Square Village Found Eligible for State and National Registers of Historic Places
…for Washington Square Village and adjacent block. Washington Square Village is bordered by West 3rd Street, Mercer Street, Bleecker Street, and La Guardia Place. Just below it, between Bleecker Street…
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The Tree of Heaven in Washington Square
Author Henry James. Photo by Bettman/Corbis. I recently read the novella Washington Square for the first time, eager to see how this 1880 work by Henry James might paint the…
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A Times Square Art Excursion with Carole Teller
…home, with about twenty fascinating images of Times Square in the 1990s (scroll down to the bottom of the collection to see where the Times Square images begin, or click…
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Local Landmark: Tompkins Square Library
Note: This is an updated version of a post originally written by Drew Durniak Since it opened on December 1, 1904, the Tompkins Square Branch of the New York Public…
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City Releases “Special Permit” Requirement Proposal For Hotels South of Union Square; Plan Would Promote Office Tower Development and Destruction of Historic Buildings, Expands “Midtown South” to Greenwich Village and East Village, Rewards Mayor’s Campaign Donors and Fails to Deliver on Rivera’s Neighborhood Protection Campaign Pledge
The City is hoping its new hotel special permit requirement will help generate more office tower development in Greenwich Village and the East Village south of Union Square, like these…
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My favorite farmers’ market: Abingdon Square Greenmarket
Back in October, Village PReservation worked with our friends and neighbors at GrowNYC, Abingdon Square Conservancy, and the Abingdon Square Greenmarket on a history and photo project about Abingdon Square….
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Public Hearing Tomorrow on Proposed Hudson Square Rezoning and Impact on the South Village
CRITICAL PUBLIC HEARING TOMORROW ON PROPOSED HUDSON SQUARE REZONING AND IMPACT ON THE SOUTH VILLAGE Tomorrow, Wednesday, November 28th, the City Planning Commission will hold its SOLE public hearing…
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Tompkins Square Park, the Summer of Love, the Dead, and a Riot
…hippy. The New York Times, June 3, 1967 The scene at Tompkins Square Park on Memorial Day, 1967. Image via lorenbliss The scene at Tompkins Square Park on Memorial Day, 1967. Image…
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July 9, 1819: Slavery, Gentrification, and the Last Execution in Washington Square
…Seventh Regiment on Review, Washington Square, New York, 1851, Otto Boetticher. The view depicts the northwest corner of the Washington Square parade ground with New York University in the left…
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The Empress of Blues, South of Union Square
…to the area of our neighborhood South of Union Square. Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She and her siblings busked on the…
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Bookstores Long Gone Live On via South of Union Square Tour
…protect in our proposed South of Union Square Historic District, and a focus of one of the many tours in our series of South of Union Square Map + Tours….
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Sheridan Square Dig 38
…lovely viewing garden. The genesis of this project came in July of that year when a group of Sheridan Square neighbors, the Sheridan Square Triangle Association, convinced the Parks Department…
Posted June 2, 2020
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After 2 1/2 Year Campaign, City Agrees to Consider 70 Fifth Avenue, South of Union Square, For Landmark Designation
…West 13th Street), a site of tremendous historic significance south of Union Square, which Village Preservation has highlighted and fought to have landmarked, along with the surrounding area, for more than…
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Sheridan Square Dig 35
…lovely viewing garden. The genesis of this project came in July of that year when a group of Sheridan Square neighbors, the Sheridan Square Triangle Association, convinced the Parks Department…
Posted June 2, 2020
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Sheridan Square Dig 15
…lovely viewing garden. The genesis of this project came in July of that year when a group of Sheridan Square neighbors, the Sheridan Square Triangle Association, convinced the Parks Department…
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Sheridan Square Dig 26
…lovely viewing garden. The genesis of this project came in July of that year when a group of Sheridan Square neighbors, the Sheridan Square Triangle Association, convinced the Parks Department…
Posted June 2, 2020
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Sheridan Square Dig 27
…lovely viewing garden. The genesis of this project came in July of that year when a group of Sheridan Square neighbors, the Sheridan Square Triangle Association, convinced the Parks Department…
Posted June 2, 2020
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Barefoot in Washington Square Park
…Washington Square Park [16:00], not West 10th Street as the film claims. Built in 1902 as a residential hotel and named for its original owner, Earle S. L’Amoureux, the Hotel…
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Sheridan Square Dig 39
…lovely viewing garden. The genesis of this project came in July of that year when a group of Sheridan Square neighbors, the Sheridan Square Triangle Association, convinced the Parks Department…
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Sheridan Square Dig 25
…lovely viewing garden. The genesis of this project came in July of that year when a group of Sheridan Square neighbors, the Sheridan Square Triangle Association, convinced the Parks Department…
Posted June 2, 2020
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Victory! 70 Fifth Avenue Landmarked; Continue the Fight for South of Union Square
…Village Preservation proposed and campaigned to have landmarked in the area south of Union Square. The building served as headquarters of the NAACP, the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization,…
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Sheridan Square Dig 33
…lovely viewing garden. The genesis of this project came in July of that year when a group of Sheridan Square neighbors, the Sheridan Square Triangle Association, convinced the Parks Department…
Posted June 2, 2020
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Washington Square Park, Once the Land of the Lenape
…from the Kintecoying intersection, you will come to what is now Washington Square Park. Land prior to the construction of Washington Square Park, 1807 Bridges Map of New York City…
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Sheridan Square Dig 1
…lovely viewing garden. The genesis of this project came in July of that year when a group of Sheridan Square neighbors, the Sheridan Square Triangle Association, convinced the Parks Department…
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Sheridan Square Dig 18
…lovely viewing garden. The genesis of this project came in July of that year when a group of Sheridan Square neighbors, the Sheridan Square Triangle Association, convinced the Parks Department…
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Sheridan Square Dig 22
…lovely viewing garden. The genesis of this project came in July of that year when a group of Sheridan Square neighbors, the Sheridan Square Triangle Association, convinced the Parks Department…
Posted June 2, 2020
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Sheridan Square Dig 19
…lovely viewing garden. The genesis of this project came in July of that year when a group of Sheridan Square neighbors, the Sheridan Square Triangle Association, convinced the Parks Department…
Posted June 2, 2020
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Let’s Celebrate Abingdon Square
…that the City of New York acquired the land for what is now Abingdon Square Park. Happy Anniversary, Abingdon Square! We have written before here on Off the Grid about…
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Sheridan Square Dig 21
…lovely viewing garden. The genesis of this project came in July of that year when a group of Sheridan Square neighbors, the Sheridan Square Triangle Association, convinced the Parks Department…
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Sheridan Square Dig 14
…lovely viewing garden. The genesis of this project came in July of that year when a group of Sheridan Square neighbors, the Sheridan Square Triangle Association, convinced the Parks Department…
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Sheridan Square Dig 34
…lovely viewing garden. The genesis of this project came in July of that year when a group of Sheridan Square neighbors, the Sheridan Square Triangle Association, convinced the Parks Department…
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Slavery, Gentrification, and the Last Execution in Washington Square
…Square, New York, 1851, Otto Boetticher. The view depicts the northwest corner of the Washington Square parade ground with New York University in the left foreground. Image courtesy of the…
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Sheridan Square Dig 29
…lovely viewing garden. The genesis of this project came in July of that year when a group of Sheridan Square neighbors, the Sheridan Square Triangle Association, convinced the Parks Department…
Posted June 2, 2020
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Sheridan Square Dig 12- Manhattan Borough President Andrew Stein (in suit on right) cuts the ribbon. From its founding in 1980 until 1984, Village Preservation was known as the Greenwich Village Trust, as noted on the sign.
…lovely viewing garden. The genesis of this project came in July of that year when a group of Sheridan Square neighbors, the Sheridan Square Triangle Association, convinced the Parks Department…
Posted June 2, 2020
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Sheridan Square Dig 32
…lovely viewing garden. The genesis of this project came in July of that year when a group of Sheridan Square neighbors, the Sheridan Square Triangle Association, convinced the Parks Department…
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Fight to Save Our Neighborhood South of Union Square: From Bowlmor Demolition to the ‘Zero-Help’ Hotel Special Permit
…The existing zoning rules basically guaranteed (and continue to guarantee) that new development in Greenwich Village and the East Village south of Union Square would consist almost exclusively of luxury…
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Sheridan Square Dig 3
…lovely viewing garden. The genesis of this project came in July of that year when a group of Sheridan Square neighbors, the Sheridan Square Triangle Association, convinced the Parks Department…
Posted June 2, 2020
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