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The Architecture South of Union Square

…Square, and call for their preservation through landmark and/or zoning protections. You can help by sending a letter to city officials calling for the enactment of such protections HERE and…

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After 2 1/2 Year Campaign, City Agrees to Consider 70 Fifth Avenue, South of Union Square, For Landmark Designation

Building Has Tremendous Historic Significance, and Site Is Vulnerable to Supertall Development; Push for Broader Landmarks Protections for Area Continues (l. to r.) 70 Fifth Avenue; the NAACP’s flag; The Crisis magazine. We…

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City Votes Unanimously to Landmark Final Phase of GVSHP’s Proposed South Village Historic District!

Ten-block, 160-building district gets immediate protections from developers, incl. Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner; brings to 1,250 total number of buildings landmarked in neighborhood since 2003 The NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission…

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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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CITY VOTES UNANIMOUSLY TO LANDMARK FINAL PHASE OF GVSHP’S PROPOSED SOUTH VILLAGE HISTORIC DISTRICT!

Ten block, 160-building district gets immediate protections from developers, including Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner; brings to 1,250 total number of buildings landmarked in neighborhood since 2003 The NYC Landmarks Preservation…

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After 2 1/2 Year Campaign, City Agrees to Consider 70 Fifth Avenue, South of Union Square, For Landmark Designation

Building Has Tremendous Historic Significance, and Site Is Vulnerable to Supertall Development; Push for Broader Landmarks Protections for Area Continues (l. to r.) 70 Fifth Avenue; the NAACP’s flag; The Crisis magazine. We…

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Make Sure Preservation Has a Future

…With your help, we have secured landmark protections for over 1,250 buildings, and zoning protections for nearly 100 blocks of our neighborhood. With your help, we reach thousands of people…

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CITY VOTES UNANIMOUSLY TO LANDMARKFINAL PHASE OF GVSHP’S PROPOSED SOUTH VILLAGE HISTORIC DISTRICT!

Ten block, 160-building district gets immediate protections from developers, incl. Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner; Brings to 1,250 total number of buildings landmarked in neighborhood since 2003 The NYC Landmarks Preservation…

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Hudson River Park’s Estuarine Sanctuary

…neglected when it comes to landmark status and other protections, though Village Preservation has successfully campaigned to secure some landmark and zoning protections for the area, and continues to rally…

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New Support Rolls in For South of Union Square Landmarking Efforts –ACLU, HDC, and More!

Securing landmark protections for the largely unprotected area of Greenwich Village and the East Village south of Union Square remains one our top priorities. This summer we reached out to…

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Community Meeting on Preserving & Protecting University Place/Broadway Corridors

…about 250 ft. tall). Sadly, this speaks to the almost total lack of landmark or zoning protections for the University Place and Broadway corridors (see MAP), where the zoning allows…

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Fight to Save Our Neighborhood South of Union Square: From Bowlmor Demolition to the ‘Zero-Help’ Hotel Special Permit

…Place and Broadway corridors which lie outside of the protections of the Greenwich Village Historic District. In the years since, the threats to this part of our neighborhood have intensified,…

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A Cast Iron Gem That’s Worn Many Different Hats

…that are unique within these neighborhoods for having almost no landmark protections and inadequate zoning protections. As a result, woefully out-of-scale and out-of-character developments are rapidly rising throughout the area,…

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Testimonials

…nothing short of a miracle how much additional landmark and zoning protection Village Preservation has secured for Greenwich Village. Village Preservation’s thoughtful, sound, and strategic leadership is widely respected in…

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Rallying To Save The South Village

…at the time largely lacking in landmark protections. The proposal was the result of four years of exhaustive research on this 40-block area by GVSHP and a report we commissioned…

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Press Conference Raising Objections & Calling for Changes to Citywide Rezoning Plan

The Mayor’s proposed citywide rezoning proposal, ‘Zoning for Quality and Affordability’ will weaken neighborhood zoning protections. The proposal as currently structured includes many benefits for market rate developments, with some…

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Preservation Alert

PRESERVATION ALERT: New City Proposal Would Slash Neighborhood Zoning Protections; Hard-Fought-For Height Limits Would Be Lifted, Now and In the Future Dear friend, The City has just released a…

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The Beauty of the University Place & Broadway Corridors

…zoning and lack of landmark protections for the area, is likely perfectly legal and requires no public review). GVSHP is following up by soliciting further feedback from area residents and…

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Hudson Square Rezoning/South Village Landmarking Deal FAQ

…this month. However, the commitment on landmark designation is only to vote before the end of the year, so there will likely be nine more months of no landmark protections…

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Westbeth Landmarked!

…calling for landmark protections for Westbeth and other sites. In 2005 the City promised to extend landmark protections to Westbeth and about 75 other buildings in the Far West Village,…

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Look Up! Its the South Village!

…original proposal, but the last third, below West Houston Street, still remains without landmarks protections and is therefore vulnerable to out-of-scale and inappropriate development, not to mention potential loss of…

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All we want for the holidays is TO SAVE OUR NEIGHBORHOOD!

…building; a vintage 1930s warehouse, an 1832 rowhouse, a 1919 former Nabisco cracker bakery, and former factories and stables. The meeting outlined the landmarking and zoning protections requested in the…

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Landmark Designation Reports

…Church (later Ukrainian Autocephalic Orthodox Church of St. Volodymyr/later Congregation Tifereth Israel and Town and Village Synagogue), 334 East 14th Street First German Baptist Church NYC LPC Designation Report …

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Touring the Churches of the East Village

…demolished synagogue. The entrance is enhanced by long rounded arches and a round window. All Saints Ukrainian Orthodox Church, 206-208 East 11th Street Constructed in 1851–52, the building at 206-208…

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East Village Building Blocks Tour: Synagogues

If you’re walking around the East Village, you’re likely standing on (or near) holy ground. To illustrate this, we’ve created a tour of current and former synagogues in the neighborhood….

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Szia, Nadia! – Immigrant History through the Lens of Netflix’s “Russian Doll”

…and James Renwick Jr. (who also designed Grace Church and St. Patrick’s Cathedral). The chapel was a gift of Rutherfurd Stuyvesant, a descendant of the Dutch governor Peter stuyvesant. St….

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Cemeteries of the East Village, Part I

…foundation said it was a church.” Church of the Most Holy Redeemer Vaults The church circa 1875, before the shortening of the bell tower In the mid-nineteenth century, the block…

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East Village Building Blocks Tour: Churches

…the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. A fire damaged the church in 1978, and the building was not fully restored until 1986. Church of the Most Holy Redeemer,…

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Womens’ Empowerment and Colonial Evangelism Converge at 11 East 12th Street

…(extant); (r.) Church of the Holy Trinity in Harlem at Fifth Avenue and 125th Street (long since demolsihed) According to the report, 25,000 individuals were “served” by the Mission, which…

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East Village Rezoning Passes

…Russian Orthodox Cathedral at 59 East 2nd Street, a building which GVSHP is seeking to landmark. One troubling shortcoming of the rezoning, however, was the exclusion of the 3rd and…

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Solving Mysteries in Historic Photos

…the Union but before Iowa did, and from July 1863 to July 1865, when there were 35 states and stars after West Virginia broke away from Virginia during the Civil…

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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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There’s a Buzz About Urban Beekeeping

…During this fraught time of the past few months, our neighbors have taken up beekeeping for these and a variety of other reasons. Bees have a calming effect Virginia Davies…

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59 Fifth Avenue and a Century of Philanthropic and Cultural Leaders in NYC

…collection and funding for a collection of Egyptian antiquities to the museum. William H. Osborn ca. 1853 and Virginia Reed Sturges Osborn Osborn’s wife, Virginia Reed Sturges Osborn, was another…

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Welcome aboard, Karen Loew

…New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic and Next City. A native Virginian, she studied English Literature at the University of Virginia and got her start covering zoning and…

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The Greenwich Village Home Where Lincoln’s Assassination Might Have Been Averted

…for events connected to one of the most unusual houses in Greenwich Village, which thanks to landmark protections still stands, constructed by one of Greenwich Village’s most prolific builders. 45…

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Happy Birthday, SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District

…which was the center of the dry goods trade, protection against fire was of special urgency.” External or outside hose and sprinkler systems were added to buildings. The loft buildings held flammable…

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Happy Birthday Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II!

…designation report),which was Phase I of GVSHP’s proposed South Village Historic District from 2006. This 235-building, 12 block designation was at the time the largest expansion of landmark protections in…

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Far West Village

Far West Village Read Blog Posts about the Far West Village The Far West Village was almost entirely lacking in landmark or zoning protections in the early 2000s, as high-rise…

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GVHD50 Panel: Landmark Expansions

…(GVHD) designated in 1969, they did what no one had ever done before – securing landmark protections for over 2,200 buildings and nearly 100 blocks. As expansive and impressive as…

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Hudson Square Rezoning and the South Village

…to Canal Street, 6th Avenue to Greenwich Street) will have an enormous impact not only on the future of that 22 block, largely commercial area, but on the adjacent low-rise,…

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Quinn holds the cards on rezoning and landmarking

…the rezoning doing more good than harm, is also very much contingent upon the city putting in place long-promised landmark protections for the adjacent South Village neighborhood. The South Village…

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Quinn and City Must Not Omit Three Key Sites From South Village Landmarking

…impossible to expand them further. So the next few weeks are critical to ensure that all sites in need of landmark protections are included, and due to the exclusion of…

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The Eclectic Streetscapes #SouthOfUnionSquare

…as America’s cultural capitol and melting pot. Since 2014, Village Preservation has been advocating for greater landmark protections for the area South of Union Square. However, Mayor Bill de Blasio’s…

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East Village Street Art Lives On

…campaign to seek expanded landmark protections in the neighborhood. To help push for expanded landmark protections in the East Village, click here. You can read more about our small business…

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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: the French Flats at 206-208 East 9th Street

…nor most of their surroundings south of Union Square enjoy landmark protections, and thus could be demolished, altered, or otherwise compromised at any time. The dark red brick of the…

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Greek Revival Gone Wrong

…Preservation Commission (LPC) to designate both structures in order that they would have landmark protections. GVSHP made the case for their designation based on their significant history reflective of the…

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NOW MORE THAN EVER, CITY MUST RECOGNIZE AND PROTECT LGBT HISTORIC LANDMARKS

…connections to LGBT history. In 2015, after a year and a half campaign led by Village Preservation, the Stonewall was landmarked by New York City, offering the concrete protections National Register listing…

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Delving into the Past & Future of the Greenwich Village Historic District

…groups, and others who weighed in on the key challenges we face and how they can be met. Watch here! Event #4: Continuing the Fight: Expanding Landmark Protections in the…

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This Day in Preservation History- October 11, 2005: City Approves Far West Village Rezoning

…developments were built where only low-rise buildings had been found for generations along the waterfront. In response, GVSHP and other local community groups banded together to push for landmark protections…

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Beyond the Village and Back: NY Foundling Hospital

…Historic District, near University Place and Broadway, still do. (1. to r.) 11, 13, 15, and 17 East 12th Street. But because of a lack of landmark protections, they may…

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The Birth of the NAACP, and Their Deep Roots in Greenwich Village

…the Landmarks Preservation Commission as part of our ongoing campaign to win landmark protections for this and other buildings south of Union Square. In January of 2021, the LPC voted…

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2016 GVSHP Year in Review

…year, and what we have to look forward to in 2017. In 2016, GVSHP: Helped lead the opposition against the Mayor’s plans to roll back neighborhood zoning protections, successfully blocking…

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Happy Anniversary to Far West Village Landmark Victories!

…GVSHP’s on-going campaign since 2001 to secure protections for this historically, architecturally and culturally rich area. The Greenwich Village Historic District Extension was the first-ever expansion of the Greenwich Village…

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LGBTQ History

LGBTQ History Village Preservation has led the charge for recognition and protection of sites connected to LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) history, especially LGBT civil rights efforts, in our neighborhoods. …

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BREAKING: CITY MOVES TO LANDMARK ENDANGERED 1866 CAST-IRON BUILDINGS AT 827-831 BROADWAY WHICH GVSHP FOUGHT TO SAVE!

…vote to calendar the buildings on Tuesday at 9:30am, affording them preliminary protections against demolition or alteration. A public hearing and vote on landmark designation will follow at a later…

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Censorship, Socialism, and Synagogues – The Rich Legacy of Jewish History South of Union Square

…neighborhoods, securing landmark protections for over 1,250 buildings, and zoning protections for nearly 100 blocks. Andrew has often focused that advocacy on protecting sites connected to great artists and artistic…

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‘In America, They Don’t Let You Burn’: The Legacy of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

…of Frances Perkins following the devastating fire. Working with Tammany Hall, Perkins helped create new labor laws requiring fire safety protections, and new requirements for fire escapes on factory buildings….

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Hudson Square Rezoning and the South Village

…in 2013, and continues to lack the protections of its surrounding historic districts. This unprotected area of the South Village south of Houston Street includes approximately 175 buildings. Some of…

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Happy Anniversary, Gansevoort Market Historic District!

…end of a thirty-four year logjam during which there had been no new historic district protections added in Greenwich Village, and the beginning of a decade of landmarking successes by…

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More Support Rolls in For South of Union Square Landmarking

We’re proud to report that we’ve continued to secure significant new support for the landmark protections for Greenwich Village and the East Village south of Union Square we’ve been campaigning for. New…

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Bowery Alliance of Neighbors: 2013 Village Award Winner

…protections that much of the west side of the Bowery enjoys. BAN has had some incredible accomplishments in their efforts to preserve and honor the history of one of New…

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Doris Diether Oral History: Activist and Zoning Maven

…1961, new protections were put in place regarding the bulk and configuration of new buildings in the Village. However, Village streets would not see these protections for another year. In…

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The Artistic Tradition in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo

…Director of Village Preservation for over twenty years, since January 2002. During that time, the organization has focused on expanding landmark and zoning protections throughout their neighborhoods, securing landmark protections…

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An East Village Story — From German Church, to Synagogue, to Landmark

…tells us: “It’s a textbook on ethnic succession, originating as a German Baptist church in Kleindeutschland days. It then became, in 1926, a Ukrainian Autocephalic Orthodox church, at a time…

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All Saints Ukrainian Church

…building’s run as a theater was short-lived, however, and by 1971 it resumed use as a church operated by the All Saints Ukrainian Orthodox Church of NYC, Inc, which still…

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Beyond the Village and Back: The Brotherhood Synagogue, 28 Gramercy Park South

…1828, the Hicksites and Orthodoxes, was suddenly being revisited. In 1956, The New York Times reported on a movement towards the reconciliation between the Orthodox and Hicksite groups—the latter having just built…

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Beyond the Village and Back: “Becoming Visible” and The Legacy of Stonewall at the NYPL

…outside of our neighborhoods, finding the sometimes hidden connection to the Village. Today we take a slightly unorthodox approach of looking back at a groundbreaking exhibit which took place on…

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Jodie Lane’s Place

…an “unorthodox naming.” Jodie Lane wasn’t the sort of person who usually gets a street sign: she wasn’t a hero in the usual sense — like a police officer or…

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Lecture: The Ancient Magic of the Pysanka

…Ukrainian Orthodox clerical family. Her great grandfather Metropolitan John Theodorovich founded what is now the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA (https://uocofusa.org/). She has practiced the art of pysanky, the…

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Workshop: Ukrainian Pysanky 101

…a Ukrainian Orthodox clerical family. Her great grandfather Metropolitan John Theodorovich founded what is now the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA (https://uocofusa.org/). She has practiced the art of pysanky,…

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Native American Contemporary Art Sites in our Area

…advancement of tribally-enrolled Native Arts community. This incredible organization has its headquarters in the East Village at the St. Nicholas of Myra Orthodox Church at 288 East 10th Street. St….

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Beyond the Village and Back: Congregation Shearith Israel

…ark which holds the holy Torah scrolls. This same honor was bestowed upon his great-great-grandfather Luis Moses Gomez in 1730, at the consecration of their Mill Street building. The New…

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Beyond the Village and Back: Assyrian Revival on West 30th Street

…provide some of the only free progressive High Holy Day services in New York, hosted every year at the Jacob Javits Center. Members of CBST marching in the first Pride…

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The Former Gay Activists Alliance Headquarters at 99 Wooster Street Has At Last Become a Landmark

…many events, organized well-attended marches and demonstrations, and held protests and sit-ins to shape public opinion and government policy. Early GAA meetings took place at the Church of the Holy…

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Walk Through LGBTQ+ History with Our Civil Rights and Social Justice Map

…of the Holy Apostles at 300 Ninth Avenue. In 1976, they began renting space in the Westbeth Artists Community at 55-57 Bethune Street, overlooking that building’s iconic courtyard. It would…

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Small Stores Thrive in Landmark Districts

…Sufrir Orthodox, or Cathedral Second Avenue Church. If a place was not in operation, but there were work permits and signs of work by a retail tenant, we did not…

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Small Stores Thrive in Landmark Districts

…for our purposes, such as St Stanislaus Church, Middle Collegiate Church, CityLight Church, Sixth Street Community Synagogue, Middle Collegiate Church, Iglesia De Sufrir Orthodox, or Cathedral Second Avenue Church. 118…

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

…The pagan ritual was complemented by the sprinkling of holy water by Archbishop William Henry Francis of Chicago, and actresses Helen Hayes and Minnie Madern Fisk tossed flowers from above onto onlookers…

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The backstory on backhouses: How NYC’s hidden rear residences came to be

…of the backhouse behind 275 Mott Street, visible over the wall of the old St. Patrick’s Cathedral So how do you get to see a backhouse, if you’re not lucky…

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Why Isn’t This Landmarked? 53 East 10th Street, Home of Apostolic Studios

…the architect of the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark, N.J., one of the largest Gothic Cathedrals in the United States. Sachs, a successful fur manufacturer and importer,…

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“The Bells” – Poe’s Poetry and Ochs’ Folk Music in the Village

…residence in a no-longer-standing house at the corner of Sixth Avenue and Waverly Place with his wife Virginia and her mother. They did not have an auspicious start to their…

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Cemeteries of The East Village, Part IV

…interred here before his remains were later moved to Richmond, Virginia. Both the New York City Marble Cemetery and New York Marble Cemetery are NYC Landmarks, and listed on the…

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Shop Local; Small Business Saturday

…on that classic strip and are attending the small business forum tomorrow being convened by Senator Holyman. Today we are doing a round up of some of our Business of…

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Great Writers and the Greenwich Village Historic District

…Allan Poe (1809-1849). In February of 1837 Poe arrived in New York and took up his residence at the corner of Sixth Avenue and Waverly Place with his wife Virginia…

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Franz Kline’s Last Studio at 242 West 14th Street

Outside view of Franz Kline’s 242 West 14th Street studio, 1961. Photograph by Virginia Dortch. It is no secret that the New York School Artists were deeply rooted in and…

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On This Day: The Tompkins Square Communist Rally

…July of 1877, workers received their second wage cut of the year by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. On July 14, railroad employees in Martinsburg, West Virginia, began what came…

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Off Broadway Theater Update, Part 3

…Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” This year marks the 75th Anniversary of the HB Studio. In 1945 Herbert Berghof, a noted Austrian Broadway actor and director and refugee from the Nazis,…

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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: MORE Artist Studios at 30 East 14th Street

…explored the connection between 30 East 14th Street and the artists of the Fourteenth Street School as well as its links to artists Virginia Admiral and Robert De Niro, Sr….

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Bringing Graham’s 19 Poses to Village Voices’ “Monument to Choice”

…Under the direction of Virginie Mécène, Graham 2 performs Graham’s repertory as well as works of guest choreographers. Director of Graham 2, Virginie Mécène. Photo by Kimberlee Hewitt. Its mission…

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

…22 Bethune Street in Greenwich Village he shared with Ben Shahn, Walker Evans told the Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art “This is all interesting. This is what I say:…

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Edward Albee: Icon of American Theatre

…(1994). In 1963, following his successful Broadway debut with Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Albee took over the SoHo Playhouse in the South Village. Realizing that the future of theater…

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31 Literary Icons of the Greenwich Village Historic District

…Congressional Gold Medal in 1960 for his work, and on July 22, 1961, he was named poet laureate of Vermont. Although he never graduated from college, he received 40 honorary…

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Literary Rebels: Five Banned Book Authors Connected to the Village

…self-discovery that sees her awaken to her own potential and empowerment. In 1997, sixty years after its publication, parents in Brentsville, Virginia attempted to ban the novel from their child’s…

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31 Literary Icons of Greenwich Village

…awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 1960 for his work, and on July 22, 1961, he was named poet laureate of Vermont. Although he never graduated from college, he received…

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Neighborhood History

…8th Street, coffee houses on MacDougal Street, and storefront theaters on Bleecker Street. “Happenings” and other unorthodox artistic, theatrical, and musical events were staged at the Judson Memorial Church. During…

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A Poet, A Bookseller, and the Father of Social of Social Security: New Additions to the Greenwich Village Historic District 1969-2019 Photos and Tours Map

…have been located since 1999). In 1925, he moved again to 288 East 10th Street, the Saint Nicholas of Myra Orthodox Church, also owned by St. Mark’s. During this time,…

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Seized During the Red Scare, This Lefty Archive from Our Neighborhood Is Now Available Online

…Dances and the Al Moss Singers in addition to Paul Robeson. Note: Russia was attacked by Hitler on June 22, 1941 but the U.S. was not yet fighting in World…

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Beyond the Village and Back: The Empire State Building

…Greenwich Village”. Hoffman skipped bail and underwent plastic surgery. After six years in hiding, sometimes dressing as an Orthodox Jew, Hoffman surrendered and was sentenced to three years, of which…

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Frances Perkins: From Greenwich House to the White House

…Labor Standards Acts. Francis Perkins, 1936. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Frances Perkins was born on April 10, 1880 in Boston, Massachusetts. After attending Mount Holyoke College, where she majored…

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