…photography collections. While it is tempting to search using the street number and address, we have found that you get better results searching on the street name and cross street….
Read More…Public Library, whose digital gallery we here at GVSHP turn to quite frequently when looking for images to assist in our own research, recently included an article in their November…
Read More…whose digital gallery we here at GVSHP turn to quite frequently when looking for images to assist in our own research, recently included an article in their November newsletter entitled “Who…
Read MoreNew York City Comptroller Scott Stringer NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer has recently weighed into the debate about upzoning SoHo andNoHo, expressing his unequivocal supportfor a change which would allow larger development…
Read MoreNew York City Comptroller Scott Stringer NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer has recently weighed into the debate about upzoning SoHo and NoHo, expressing his unequivocal support for a change which would allow larger development…
Read More…historic district, such as 74-76 8th Avenue, are a little harder for the average person to research. Although GVSHP plans on eventually putting all our research online, if you want…
Read More…in historic preservation,” says Anna Marcum, Village Preservation’s director of research and preservation. “Thorough building research is the first step in the journey of saving any historic building! It’s also…
Read More…looking for about what you’re looking for can be, well, a little challenging. It just got a lot easier. With our new website-wide search function, you can search through all…
Read MoreLast Thursday, GVSHP led a rally on the steps of City Hall calling on Borough President Scott Stringer to hold a public hearing before he votes on the NYU 2031…
Read More…issued permits for construction, you may be wondering how we conducted our research. New York City has a bevy of resources for building research, and we used them all: If…
Read More…conference calling upon Borough President Stringer to vote ‘NO’ on NYU’s massive proposed Village expansion plan tomorrow: When: Thursday, March 22 at noon Where: On the steps of City Hall…
Read More…today use this term, connected to a medieval Central European kingdom, to describe those with a countercultural bent. The term’s current use goes back to 19th century Paris. A certain type…
Read MoreLandmarking the East Village: A Lecture with Village Preservation Director of Preservation and Research Elizabeth Finkelstein Part of Village Preservation’s 30th Anniversary Staff Past and Present Series From its early…
Read MoreVillage Preservation continues its research on the unprotected and potentially endangered buildings in our area, particularly the section of Greenwich Village and the East Village south of Union Square we have proposed for…
Read More…a deeper understanding of your community and your city. We’ve assembled these resources from city, state, library, educational, and other organizations — including our own — here for your research…
Read MoreResearching Your NYC Building with Director of Research and Preservation Sarah Bean Apmann Have some extra time on your hands to do that building research you’ve been curious about? In this lecture,…
Read MoreOur latest research has uncovered fascinating information about the significance of our proposed South of Union Square Historic District and the buildings within it. That includes trailblazing female engineers at…
Read MoreVillage 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…
Read MoreBuilding History Detectives: Greenwich Village An introduction to building research with historian Susan De Vries Are you curious about a building in the neighborhood? Have you ever wondered what the…
Read MoreThe History of 121 Charles Street With Amanda Davis, Village Preservation’s Director of Preservation and Research Known as ‘Cobble Court’ or ‘The Goodnight Moon House’, the quirky wooden home at…
Read More…War general, a French Baroness, and an influential magazine editor. But further Village Preservation research, submitted to the Landmarks Preservation Commission, has uncovered an even more astonishing array of historic…
Read MoreToday the lonely iron arch of Pier 54 is an often ignored reminder of what was New York’s Grand Central Terminal of the Hudson River waterfront, the original Chelsea Piers…
Read More…neighborhood lacking in landmark protections. But as our ongoing research aimed at securing landmark protections for the area reveals, it was built by what was once one of the richest men in America,…
Read More…a center of civil rights and social justice organizing (prior research by Village Preservation showed that that lead women’s suffrage organization in New York was located just feet away at 10…
Read MoreCurious about the life and legacy of Surrealist & Dadaist artists in our neighborhoods? Check out this incredible research resource created by Paul McRandle and featured on his blog Surrealist NYC. …
Read MoreThree Homosexuals in Search of a Drink Fifty years ago a person could be refused service in a bar simply for being gay, and his or her mere presence there…
Read More…Commons via the Nantucket Historical Association Research Library. Of course Sarge isn’t the only connection the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade has to Greenwich Village. Macy’s itself began in 1858 in Greenwich…
Read More…Mansion in Upper Manhattan, and the architecture of Greenwich Village row houses. Table of Contents 94-96 Greenwich Street Research Haynes Recommends Ruth Wittenberg Be Appointed to LPC News Clippings Research…
Read More…area. Table of Contents A Builders’ Guide To the Restoration of The Old Row Houses of New York City Manuscript Period Research Vandam Street Research Streetscape Diagrams and Block and…
Read More80 Fifth Avenue at 14th Street is a building with an incredibly rich civil rights and social justice history, about which we have done a great deal of research as…
Read More…which was based on Village Preservation’s research establishing this as the longtime home and place of business in the late 19th century of Jacob Day, a leading Black New Yorker,…
Read More…building that you are curious about, or to ask any general research questions of Village Preservation’s experienced research team. This program will be led by the Village Preservation Research and…
Read More…York decision supported the city’s relatively new landmarks law, and saved Grand Central Terminal from the wrecking ball. Coming just fifteen years after the demolition of Penn Station, it was…
Read More…Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Christopher Moore also served as a research coordinator and curator of numerous exhibits at the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for…
Read More…building’s construction, which we contended violated zoning laws. But the Mayor Bloomberg and elected officials like then-Borough President Scott Stringer and then-City Council Speaker Christine Quinn disagreed, and the project…
Read More…‘les Bohemiens.’ Six centuries later, the term survives to this day. If you’re interested in the evolution and origin of the term ‘bohemian,’ you might also enjoy this post exploring…
Read More…in terms of displays. All the images here in the gallery, essentially, is not for me. It took a while for me to take my ideas, in terms of what…
Read More…own — all for your research endeavors. However, navigating through numerous links, maps, and archives can be daunting, especially for those new to the process. But fear not, our research…
Read More…Street and 3rd Ave. Improved Search Function The image archive search function is available on our main collections, images, and map pages. You can type any name or address into…
Read MoreToday Anna Marcum joins Village Preservation as our Director of Research and Preservation. Anna is an architectural historian and preservationist based in Brooklyn who has worked on historic preservation projects…
Read More…N.Y.U.’s planned hotel in the Zipper Building, there’s actually nothing to prevent the university from having sleeping accommodations and suites available on a short-term basis for visitors, functioning for all…
Read More…the law and the terms of a restrictive declaration under which the building was approved by the City, which required they file reports proving that illegal residential occupancy was not…
Read More…building’s construction, which we contended violated zoning laws. But then Mayor Bloomberg and elected officials like then-Borough President Scott Stringer and then-City Council Speaker Christine Quinn disagreed, and the project…
Read More…Dan Barasch collaborated over the concept of an underground park and explored the 117-year old historic Williamsburg Bridge underground trolley terminal, which extends east from the Bowery to the Williamsburg…
Read MoreCredit: Odyssey Online Let’s talk about…gentrification. Did your heart just start racing? The term gentrification and its many implications is such a hot button issue, so complex and layered, that…
Read More…three-term New York City mayor often cited as New York City’s best mayor (and arguably both its first Italian-American and first Jewish mayor), who championed political reform and immigrant rights,…
Read More…(1920–1998), known as “Battling Bella,” was the first Jewish congresswoman from New York (serving three terms starting in 1971), the first Jewish woman candidate for New York City mayor and…
Read More…primary tool for mitigating housing costs has led to attacks against all opposition to development plans as reflexive “NIMBYs” (i.e., “Not In My Backyard”), a term traditionally reserved for residents…
Read More…can search by address. But below that, you can search by different categories such as street and historic district. This allows the user to see what has been approved on…
Read MoreToday we welcome Shannen Smiley (pronouns: she/her) as our new Research and Preservation Associate. Shannen has been an intern with Village Preservation since December of 2021, completing various research and…
Read More…insists that academic research concludes the opposite and that the example of cities like Austin and Minneapolis support the fundamental logic of the “City of Yes” approach. This panel, hosted by…
Read More…minorities in clinical research funded by the NIH. More recently, she focused on the importance of sex differences research across the spectrum from cellular to translational research and implementation into…
Read More…Yes proposal. Do increases in housing supply make housing prices drop? In Part 2, we saw that research into the impact of upzonings on housing prices has yielded mixed…
Read MoreResearch and Preservation Associate Sarah Eccles, our new Research and Preservation Associate, is a historic preservationist with a keen interest in the relationship between communities, people, and the built environment….
Read More…for purchase. While horse auction marts were once common buildings in New York City, GVSHP’s research also indicated that this was the last such structure which survived intact. GVSHP research…
Read More…this wouldn’t have been possible on Seventh Avenue. Also, the painting doesn’t really look like Seventh Avenue. And it’s true! GVSHP’s research indicated that, in spite of popular lore and Hopper’s…
Read More…LSD and psilocybin mushrooms were still legal in the USA. The scientific legitimacy and ethics of his research were questioned by other Harvard faculty, because he took psychedelics along with…
Read More…Application Search tool, which now gives users the ability to search by community district and work type. So I took a look. Screenshot from LPC permit search map. Search parameters…
Read More…tricky research questions. Our most popular post in 2011 helped readers answer some basic research questions. While many new resources have become publicly available since 2011, such as GVSHP’s East Village…
Read More…School for Social Research Auditorium. Image via LPC designation report, Carl Forster Much of the first floor of The New School for Social Research was designated a landmark including the…
Read More…research areas where scholarly disagreement undermines the neat supply-side narrative that rationalizes the City’s current deregulatory campaign. Aren’t low vacancy rates what’s driving up rent prices? If that’s the…
Read More…team of staff to take on educational, programming, advocacy, research, administrative, and fundraising projects. Kate McClintock Kate just started with Village Preservation in February 2020, and will be working with…
Read More…our ongoing process to landmark the district and to learn more about its irreplaceable contribution to neighborhoods’ historical narrative. Anna Marcum is VP’s Director of Research and Preservation. She is…
Read More…Newspapers. The Villager, as seen on the NYSHN website Search engine in NYSHN A search of “Preservation Commission” between 1964 and 1969 yielded 42 pages from The Villager during those…
Read More…in that search. For example, a search for the word “arch” will yield all our photos of the Washington Square Arch, which you can find here. Also, if you love…
Read More…sitar strings. He then first started there as a part-time employee, working on Saturdays before the year-end holidays in the mid-1960’s. After a jaunt to California to study sitar with …
Read MoreWith less than a week to go before the Borough President must render his decision regarding NYU’s application to overturn neighborhood zoning protections, take public land, and abrogate the terms…
Read More…minor changes to the boundaries in our neighborhoods, but make a big change in terms of (mostly) correcting a long-standing wrong from the last decade’s redistricting. The Redistricting Commission, however, is…
Read MoreTomorrow, February 1, Grand Central Terminal will celebrate its Centennial. A year-long celebration of events and programming will ensue, marking the milestone of the opening of this Beaux Arts landmark…
Read More…are often investments which pay off in the long term, with more durability that helps protect buildings from deterioration. What landmark designation also sometimes does, however, is create hurdles to…
Read More…building and a ‘French Flat,’ it became a distinctive term to, in part, address this quandary. The Jeanne d’Arc at 62 Seventh Avenue/200 west 14th Street. The term “French Flat”…
Read More…define “intersectional.” Often misunderstood as “collaborating across issues,” the term has a much more specific meaning that influences the leaders of these movements to collaborate toward systemic solutions across a…
Read MoreCoined in 1990 at the Third Annual Inter-tribal Native American First Nations Gay and Lesbian American Conference held in Winnipeg, the term “Two Spirit” (2S) refers to indigenous individuals whose…
Read More…Line, and became the largest passenger and freight terminal in the Port of New York at the time of construction. Jutting into the Hudson River and effectively extending Leroy, Clarkson,…
Read More…carefully applied padding; and B. Denial of the extension of the permit beyond the existing 6 month term, noting that the while short term permission of this type of decor…
Read More…and a symbol of female achievement to so many. Rankin’s first term in Congress coincided with American involvement in the first World War. Though she faced pressure from all sides…
Read More…myriad of different people with different ideas about who they are and what they’re really all about. That will actually add to the overall inquiries, in terms of who are…
Read More…their own operas and a source of income until August 1959, when Circle in the Square took a long‐term lease on the space. The Amatos rented other places for their…
Read More…in Grand Central Terminal As of 2015, it was estimated that AIDS caused 36.7 million deaths worldwide, with an additional 35 million people living with HIV globally. The United States…
Read More…without securing such protections. After months of research and Freedom of Information Requests, Village Preservation exposed the shady terms of the Mayor’s 14th Street Tech Hub deal and upzoning (read…
Read More…Zone System and Photographic Chemistry at Drexel University, the New School For Social Research and Parsons School of Design. He has written for Modern Photography and Photo Methods magazine. Milisenda…
Read More…must be found to be “appropriate” in terms of scale, massing, design, etc. for the site and surroundings. Madison Realty Capital has indicated they plan to argue both, while Village…
Read More…clearer, easier to use format, allowing you to get the latest news, do in-depth research, find out about events and programs, and easily support our work or get more involved….
Read MoreDr. Bruce Raymond Voeller, a pioneer of AIDS research and a significant early gay rights activist, was born on May 12, 1934 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He’s no household name, and…
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