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East Village’s Russian Orthodox Cathedral’s Road to Landmark Designation
For those who don’t know it, the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Holy Virgin Protection at 59 East 2nd Street, between 1st and 2nd Avenues, is one of the most…
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Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Holy Virgin Protection, 59 E. 2nd St Write the LPC and the Mayor Support expanded landmark protections in the East Village Built in 1891 as…
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: San Isidoro y San Leandro Western Orthodox Catholic Church of the Hispanic Mozarabic Rite
…were established in the area including the Cathedral of the Holy Virgin Protection. Previous to World War I, the Russian Orthodox Church was under the jurisdiction of Russia. Following World…
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All Saints Ukrainian Orthodox Church — A Beacon of Ukrainian Culture in the East Village
…country, St. Volodymyr’s was one of the most important Ukrainian Orthodox churches in North America and the site of some the most significant events in Ukrainian Orthodox church history, including…
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City Council Approved Tech Hub Without the Neighborhood Protections Councilmember Carlina Rivera Promised As a Condition for Her Support Upzoning for Project Will Greatly Increase Pressure for Oversized and Out-of-Character Commercial Development in Neighboring Greenwich Village and East Village
…multiple affordable housing, small business, and local community groups called for the protections for the surrounding neighborhoods as a component of the plan. Such zoning or landmark protections are necessary…
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Walking East 3rd Street: Church of the Most Holy Redeemer
…estimated that between 6,000 and 9,000 people attended Sunday Mass on a weekly basis. Indeed, the New York German Catholic community often referred to Holy Redeemer as their “cathedral.” By…
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ONE YEAR LATER, CITY LANDMARKS JUST 3.6% OF HISTORIC BUILDINGS IN ENDANGERED AREA SOUTH OF UNION SQUARE, FAILS TO MOVE AHEAD ON OTHER WEAK “PROTECTIONS” PROMISED AS PART OF TECH HUB DEAL
…14th Street if the Mayor agreed to the comprehensive landmark and zoning protections for the adjacent Greenwich Village/East Village neighborhood, saying “without the needed zoning protections for the neighborhood, [the Tech Hub]…
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St. Nicholas of Myra Orthodox Church
Recently, our friends over at EV Grieve posted a great then-and-now of the southwest corner of Avenue A and East 10th Street. This beautiful building, St. Nicholas of Myra Orthodox Church,…
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Urgent: New State Bill Would Strip Landmark Protections from Historic Churches and Religious Properties — WRITE NOW!
…by real estate front group Open NY, a tech-funded advocacy organization dedicated to stripping away protections for historic properties and neighborhood zoning protections. The innocuously (and misleadingly) named “Faith-Based Affordable…
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Following Backlash, City Drops Plan for Hotel Special Permit Requirement South of Union Square – Push for Real Protections
…long overdue protections: Call on City Officials to Support the Real Neighborhood Protections for Greenwich Village and the East Village South of Union Square We Have Proposed — Click Here…
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Following Backlash, City Drops Plan for Hotel Special Permit Requirement South of Union Square – Push for Real Protections
…long overdue protections: Call on City Officials to Support the Real Neighborhood Protections for Greenwich Village and the East Village South of Union Square We Have Proposed — Click Here…
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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
…landmark protections to these historic properties and greenlight their demolition. The City’s plan specifically envisions historic ca. 1840 rowhouses likes these at (l.) 88 East 10th Street and (r.) 11…
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Accomplishments
…is prevented and plan for condo-tower atop the historic Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Holy Virgin Protection at 59 E. 2nd St is blocked. GVSHP pushes NYU to seek remote…
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Battle for Landmark Protections for South of Union Square Includes Historic NAACP and National Gay Task Force Headquarters
(l.) 70 Fifth Avenue in 1940 (via NYC DOF) and 80 Fifth Avenue today. As part of our ongoing effort to secure landmark protections for Greenwich Village and the East…
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COMMUNITY BOARD 2 JOINS VILLAGE PRESERVATION IN PUSHING BACK ON CITY’S HOTEL SPECIAL PERMIT PLAN, & DEMANDING REAL NEIGHBORHOOD PROTECTIONS Next Hearing TONIGHT at 6:30!
…at all,” and calling for real protections like landmarking for the neighborhood south of Union Square. Village Preservation also blasted the many factual and analytic errors in the City’s environmental review,…
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DOWN TO THE WIRE — State Legislature Negotiating Final Details of Budget Deal Including Supersized Development and Overriding Landmarks Protections for Religious Sites — WRITE NOW!
…to rezone any neighborhood to as dense as it likes) and to override landmarks protections to allow construction on the site of landmarked churches and other religious properties. However, the…
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New Research Uncovers More Incredible History to Power Our Push for Landmark Protections for Greenwich Village and the East Village South of Union Square
Village Preservation continues our research efforts to demonstrate the incredible history of the area south of Union Square which lacks landmark protections, and to fight for its preservation. Our latest…
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Ten Years of Progress on Landmark and Zoning Protections — And the Road Ahead
GVSHP is proud to share it’s new report “Ten Years – A Thousand Buildings – One Hundred Blocks: A Decade of Progress on Landmark and Zoning Protections in the Village,…
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Down to the Wire on State Allowing Supersized Residential Construction and Sidestepping Church Landmarks Protections
…family, and neighbors to do so — CLICK HERE A new state bill being considered would, unless amended, overrule landmark protections to allow historic religious properties to be built upon,…
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New Landmarks Chair has Extensive Preservation Background; GVSHP Urges Her to Extend Landmark Protections in Endangered ‘Tech Hub’ Area; Rally Tomorrow at Noon to Save our Neighborhood
…need for expanded landmark protections in the area south of Union Square between 3rd and 5th Avenues, which faces increasing development pressure resulting in demolitions and out-of-scale and out-of-character new…
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Filomena: the thirteen-year-old martyred virgin once celebrated in the South Village
The veneration of a martyred-thirteen-year old virgin once brought residents of the South Village together in celebration every August 11th. A special mass would kick off the event, which was…
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Anything But Orthodox: The Feminists of the Heterodoxy Club
…American Woman Suffrage Association, founded Heterodoxy in 1912. Membership was granted on a single condition: that the prospective member “not be orthodox in his or her position,” a condition that…
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Left Bank New York, Artists Off Washington Square 1890s to 1920: A lecture with Virgina Budny
Left Bank New York, Artists Off Washington Square 1890s to 1920: A lecture with Virgina Budny After training in Europe, some of America’s most famous painters and sculptors transformed stables…
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Another Columbus Day without Landmark Protections for the South Village
…one of America’s oldest and most historic Italian-American neighborhoods, continues to go without landmark protections. South Village Streetscape It was 5 years ago that GVSHP celebrated Columbus Day by releasing a…
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City Council Proposal Threatens Preservation Protections
Next Wednesday, September 9th, a City Council hearing will be held on a bill that will drastically change NYC landmarks preservation protections. Intro. 775, if passed, would give those opposed…
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Battle for Landmark Protections for South of Union Square Includes Historic NAACP and National Gay Task Force Headquarters
(l.) 70 Fifth Avenue in 1940 (via NYC DOF) and 80 Fifth Avenue today. As part of our ongoing effort to secure landmark protections for Greenwich Village and the East…
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New Research on 86 University Place Powers Our Push For Landmark Protections for Greenwich Village and the East Village South of Union Square
…New York. Read all about it here. TO HELP: Write City Officials Urging Them To Support Landmark Protections For The Endangered Area of Greenwich Village and the East Village South of…
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Pier 40/St. John’s Deal, With All Neighborhood Protections, Approved!
…neighborhood protections made by GVSHP and thousands of neighborhood residents who participated in the public review process! This includes: Landmark designation for the third and final phase of GVSHP’s proposed…
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Mayor Adams’ Latest “City of Yes” Proposal Could Strip Zoning Protections and Allow Vastly Increased Air Rights Transfers in Our Neighborhoods
…you to do the same. Areas of our neighborhoods where we fought for contextual rezonings that would be affected by the proposal. First, the plan would eliminate some zoning protections…
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The First Monday in October, Another Day Without Landmark Protections in the South Village
Today, the first Monday in October, is the traditional start of the new United States Supreme Court session. This year the court is expected to have an incredibly full roster,…
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Closeup of NYC Environmental Protection Van
Tribeca resident Richard Corman documented the horrific destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, from his roof at 335 Greenwich Street, and the surrounding area in the…
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Catholic Churches: Anchor of New York’s 19th Century Irish Community
…cornerstone of the new cathedral’s foundation in 1858. The Cathedral was constructed on donations from wealthy and poor Catholic New Yorkers alike. By the Cathedral’s completion, Tammany Hall was gaining…
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Saving Sacred Spaces
…First, the good news. Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Holy Virgin Protection: Photo by Barry Munger. Olivet Memorial Church/now Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Holy Virgin Protection, (J.C.Cady, 1891) In…
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…State Legislature Gut Landmark Protections A new bill in the State Legislature would for the first time remove landmark protections for churches and other religious properties, allowing structures of national…
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15 things you didn’t know about the East Village
…turned into an empty entry pylon in front of an NYU dorm. The Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Holy Virgin Protection at 59-63 East 2nd Street was built in 1891 as the…
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St. John’s vs. the Tech Hub — Promises Kept, and Promises Broken
…to have been cherry-picked as sites where development never could take place anyway, thus making landmarking almost irrelevant). As for zoning protections, unlike the comprehensive waterfront zoning protections included in…
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: 30 East 14th Street Artists’ Loft
…Virginia and Janet [Thurman] paint, study acting and dancing, type when they need money […] The setting is fit for Crime and Punishment, but the buoyancy of Virginia and Janet…
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Beyond the Village and Back: Edgar Allan Poe Cottage in the Bronx
…of Southern Gothic Literature, clearly rooted in his time in Virginia. Poe grew up and attended the University of Virginia. As came to be the case with many of his…
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Celebrating 51 Years of Landmarking
…which has been made on expanding landmarks protections (as well as zoning protections) in the neighborhood, you can check out Village Preservaiton’s ‘Accomplishments Map’ (you can also just zoom into…
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Pier 40/St. John’s Deal — A Win-Win with Lessons to Learn
On December 15, 2016, the City Council approved a zoning change for the St. John’s Terminal site at West and Houston Streets that included a series of neighborhood protections and…
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Four Years Later, Tech Hub Promises Still Broken
…again pledge to fight for such protections in her time on the Council. Four years later, she has not only not secured a single additional neighborhood protection, she has failed…
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“Preservationists Call REBNY’s Bluff On Landmarking and Affordability”
…opponent of landmark preservation and as well as affordable housing protections, recently released a report claiming that landmark protections make New York City neighborhoods unaffordable and less diverse. Speakers representing a broad…
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City Councilmember Rosie Mendez: 2012 Village Award Winner
…of the proposed East Village/Lower East Side Historic District to include key sites, such as 101 Avenue A and the Russian Orthodox Cathedral on East 2nd Street, which GVSHP has…
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2014 Year In Review: GVSHP Programs
…historic district and landmark protections. Zoning changes could reinforce the residential character of the neighborhood and limit the height, size, and scale of new development. Expanded landmark and historic district…
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South of Union Square
…South of Union Square that lack landmark protections. Send a message that we must protect or support protections for this incredibly important and underrepresented history Tell Councilmember Rivera to Keep…
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Architecture of the Spirit
…the Holy Virgin Protection on East 2nd Street which is set to be heard as part of the larger public hearing on the proposed East Village/Lower East Side Historic District…
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Who’s That Rapping At My Chamber Door? Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” Takes Flight in Greenwich Village
…being drunk on the job. Poe returned to Baltimore where he obtained a license to marry his cousin Virginia Clemm. On May 16, 1836, he and Virginia held a Presbyterian…
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Ten Years Ago: Far West Village Protests, and Progress
…and often historic structures, replacing them (or seeking to) with huge, out-of-scale high-rises. In response, we were calling for new landmark and zoning protections for the neighborhood, and for the…
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A Preservation Agenda For Landmarking’s 50th Birthday
…on University Place and 12th Street, allowed due to lack of landmark protections. 2. Extend Landmark Protections. While a large chunk of the Village, East Village, and NoHo enjoy landmark…
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Important Rally this Saturday: 95% of Neighborhood Around Tech Hub Still Unprotected
…the provision of these protections, we are continuing to push for landmark protections that will preserve this and other buildings in the area. April 2017 rally with then Council Member…
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Historic Victory: Far West Village landmark districts unanimously approved!
…protections for the Far West Village, the City agreed to substantially downzone the area (i.e. reduce the size and height of allowable new development) and to extend landmark protections to…
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Politicians, Playwrights, and Parades: The Irish legacy of the East Village and Greenwich Village
…to Fifth Avenue for the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade, or perhaps a visit to St. Patrick’s Cathedral. But for those willing to venture beyond Midtown, there’s a rich Irish…
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Politicians, Playwrights, and Parades: The Irish legacy of the East Village and Greenwich Village
…to Fifth Avenue for the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade, or perhaps a visit to St. Patrick’s Cathedral. But for those willing to venture beyond Midtown, there’s a rich Irish…
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Celebrating Flag Day!
…part of Virginia was pro-Union and contained many abolitionists. President Lincoln was unsure about dividing Virginia, but he agreed to West Virginia’s admission on the grounds that its action was…
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Celebrating Black-Owned Businesses in Our Neighborhoods
…place. You can check out more about Urban Vegan Kitchen here. Extra Virgin (259 West 4th Street) Extra Virgin is located right in the heart of the West Village, making…
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Rooftop Farms in Our Neighborhoods: It is Officially “A Movement”
…invited to a rooftop farm for a Harvest Party on a beautiful block near Abingdon Square. Virginia Davies and her family are forging the path for West Villagers to embrace…
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East Village
…immigrant history, and its tradition of trailblazing innovation. Village Preservation has helped secure expanded landmark protections in the neighborhood and contextual zoning to ensure new development is more in character…
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NAACP and National LGBTQ Task Force Come Out in Support of South of Union Square Landmarking Effort; New Research Submitted
As part of our ongoing effort to secure landmark protections for Greenwich Village and the East Village south of Union Square (roughly Fifth to Third Avenues, 9th to 14th Streets), Village…
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Critical Public Meeting Tonight to Save Our Neighborhood!
…112-120 East 11th Street, at this Community Board #3 Land Use Committee meeting. GVSHP is proposing and seeking zoning protections for the entire area between 5th and 3rd Avenues, Union…
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Stonewall Landmarks Hearing Next Tuesday at 10AM
…Find out more and read GVSHP’s Op-Ed on this issue HERE HOW TO HELP: · Write City officials urging them to save our existing zoning protectionsand urging them to expand zoning protections to…
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Op-Ed: Preservation Can Help Affordability
…far western part of our neighborhood. That part of our neighborhood, which until relatively recently mostly lacked landmark protections, also saw the swiftest rise in housing prices over the last…
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The Village is our Valentine!
…Tech Hub on zoning protections for the adjacent residential neighborhood. Thank Councilmember Carlina Rivera for publicly pledging that she would make her support of the Tech Hub conditional upon protections…
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Victory! 70 Fifth Avenue Landmarked; Continue the Fight for South of Union Square
…the plan if comprehensive neighborhood protections were also included, we were told that more landmark and zoning protections for the area would be forthcoming. No zoning protections ever materialized, and…
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Victory! 70 Fifth Avenue Landmarked; Continue the Fight for South of Union Square
…promise to only approve the plan if comprehensive neighborhood protections were also included, we were told that more landmark and zoning protections for the area would be forthcoming. No zoning…
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Victory!: 3 St. Marks Place Air Rights Transfer Defeated
…lacked landmark protections. Two years after Councilmember Rivera and the City Council’s approval of the Mayor’s 14th Street Tech Hub without promised neighborhood protections for the adjacent neighborhood, we are still seeing inappropriate…
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Victory!: 3 St. Marks Place Air Rights Transfer Defeated
…lacked landmark protections. Two years after Councilmember Rivera and the City Council’s approval of the Mayor’s 14th Street Tech Hub without promised neighborhood protections for the adjacent neighborhood, we are still seeing inappropriate…
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Support Our Mid-Year Appeal
…included streets and structures many would consider the heart of our neighborhood, yet lacked protections and were endangered by developers and institutions like NYU. This is just one victory in…
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City Planning Commission To Vote On South of Union Square Hotel Special Permit Plan Next Wed.; City Council Hearings To Follow
…Mayor’s Tech Hub. But neither offers virtually any protections for an area facing rampant demolitions and out-of-scale and out-of-character new development, and we must demand the REAL protections Councilmember Rivera promised…
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Uncovering the stories behind downtown’s overlooked synagogues
…and the unification of the Autocephalic Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the United States of America and Ukrainian Orthodox Church in America in 1950. But the demographic winds shifted again after…
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19th Century Fire at East Village Icon Changed the Skyline, and Safety Rules
…Church of the Most Holy Redeemer that led to the deaths of 16 children. The Roman Catholic Church of the Most Holy Redeemer at 173 East 3rd was built in…
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149 Second Avenue
…was a prime residential thoroughfare, No. 149 is nestled between tenements that might have replaced it years ago. Today, The Holy Basil restaurant occupies the parlor floor. Researching this building…
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Beyond the Village and Back: 1083 Fifth Avenue Mansion and Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Harlem
…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…
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Village People: Paul Clayton
…Over Now Baby Blue’ and ‘It Ain’t Me Babe’ were written about him, in reference to his infatuation with Dylan.) He established a home base at Brown’s Cove, Virginia, and…
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Celebrating Even More Women Artists #SouthOfUnionSquare
…of additional female visual artists who have left their indelible mark: Virginia Admiral Toward the end of 1940, twenty-five-year-old artist Virginia Admiral (1915-2000) moved into a loft apartment that she…
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Suffragette City
…suffrage movement were Villagers. Please see our Civil Rights and Social Justice Map for locations and more details, but a few of them are below: Virginia Woodhull Virginia Woodhull was…
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