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75, 75 1/2 Bedford Street (l. to r.)
75 1/2 Bedford Street dates to 1873 and is the narrowest house in Greenwich Village. For more information on 75 1/2 Bedford Street click here….
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71, 73, 75, 75 1/2 Bedford Street (l. to r.)
75 1/2 Bedford Street dates to 1873 and is the narrowest house in Greenwich Village. For more information on 75 1/2 Bedford Street click here….
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67, 69, 71, 73, 75, 75 1/2, 77 Bedford Street (l. to r.)
75 1/2 Bedford Street dates to 1873 and is the narrowest house in Greenwich Village. 77 Bedford Street was built in 1799. It is known as the Isaacs-Hendricks House and…
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75, 75 1/2, and 77 Bedford Street (l. to r.)
75 1/2 Bedford Street dates to 1873 and is the narrowest house in Greenwich Village. 77 Bedford Street was built in 1799. It is known as the Isaacs-Hendricks House and…
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Throwback Thursday: Behind the Scenes of 75 ½ Bedford Street
…Bedford Street, New York. Photograph by Jessie Tarbox Beals, c. 1923. The narrow house at 75 ½ Bedford Street is well known in Greenwich Village. Besides being just under ten…
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East Village vs. West — Which is Really the Narrowest House in NYC?
…to the rear yards or stables behind adjacent houses. 75 1/2 Bedford Street, with 75 Bedford to the left, and 77 to the right. No. 75 1/2 Bedford Street stands…
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East Village vs. West — Which Is Really the Narrowest House in NYC?
…rear yards or stables behind adjacent houses. 75 1/2 Bedford Street, with 75 Bedford to the left, and 77 to the right. No. 75 1/2 Bedford Street stands on what…
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East Village vs. West — Which Is Really the Narrowest House in NYC?
…75 1/2 Bedford Street stands on what was once the court between 77 and 75 Bedford Streets. No. 77 Bedford Street is the Isaacs-Hendricks House, built in 1799 and the…
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Business of the Month: Casa Restaurant, 72 Bedford Street
…the East Village, or NoHo: click here to nominate your favorite. Want to help support small businesses? Share this post with friends. On the corner of Commerce and Bedford, off…
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Business of the Month: Moustache, 90 Bedford Street
…several to our current Business of the Month, Moustache, at 90 Bedford Street, a thirty year old Greenwich Village institution where you can enjoy a wide array of pan-Middle Eastern…
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Beyond the Village and Back: Congregation Shearith Israel
…Upper West Side. Greenwich Village’s Oldest and Narrowest Houses (l.) 75 1/2 Bedford Street, the narrowest house in the Village, and 77 Bedford Street, the Hendricks-Issac House, the oldest house…
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102 Bedford Street
…2017 Village Preservation protested incorrectly issued permits by the Landmarks Preservation Commission allowing a new corporate owner of the iconic landmark to paint it a dull battleship grey. 102 Bedford…
Posted April 12, 2023
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Grove Court, 1927, with rear of 95 Bedford (red box)
1927 view looking at the rear of 95 Bedford from Grove Court, highlighted within red box….
Posted October 5, 2022
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(l. to. r.) 42, 40 Bedford Street
…Greenwich Village Historic District, and listed on the State and National Registers of Historic Places in 2013 as a result of VP’s efforts. 42, 40 Bedford Street via Google Streetview….
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77 Bedford Street
77 Bedford Street was built in 1799. It is known as the Isaacs-Hendricks House and is the oldest house in Greenwich Village.
Posted July 28, 2023
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95 Bedford Street
…before the hearing. Click HERE for suggested guidelines for testimony from Village Preservation. Greenwich Village Historic District Bedford Street between Grove Street and Barrow Street —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the…
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Urge the LPC to Restore West Village Icon “Twin Peaks,” 102 Bedford Street
…Village landmark “Twin Peaks” at 102 Bedford Street, the Commission has still not taken action to rescind the permits or correct the stultifying paint job which has removed the building’s…
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77 Bedford Street Door
77 Bedford Street was built in 1799. It is known as the Isaacs-Hendricks House and is the oldest house in Greenwich Village.
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75 Bedford Street, c. 1940 tax photo
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LPC Application
86 Bedford Street
04/05/2016 – APPROVED CB2 hearing: 03/21/2016 LPC hearing: 03/15/2016 – Laid Over LPC hearing: 04/05/2016 Greenwich Village Historic District Between Grove Street and Barrow Street —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1)…
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73-77 Bedford Street
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66 Bedford Street
3/15/2016 LPC hearing. For more information about this application, click here….
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4 Bedford Street
8/12/14 LPC hearing date. For more information about this application, click here….
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Horatio Gomez: Physician, Philanthropist, and Caretaker of Greenwich Village’s Architectural Heritage
…Village Historic District, which had been in his family since at least 1799. 75 1/2 Bedford Street, with 75 Bedford to the left, and 77 to the right Dr. Gomez…
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6 Bedford Street
APPROVED on 09/06/2011 Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II Between West Houston & Downing Streets APPLICATION: A Federal style building built in 1828-29, and altered to a Renaissance Revival style…
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84 Bedford Street
APPLICATION APPROVED (with modifications and multiple denials) Greenwich Village Historic District Between Grove and Barrow Streets —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the LPC agenda: A vernacular Greek Revival style…
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117 Bedford Street, aka 126-128 Christopher Street
APPROVED with modifications Greenwich Village Historic District Between Christopher and Grove Streets —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the LPC agenda: A Greek Revival style town house built in 1843….
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4 Bedford Street
APPROVED on 08/12/2014 CB2 hearing: 05/27/2014 LPC hearing: 08/12/2014 Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II Between Downing Street and Sixth Avenue —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the LPC agenda:…
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66 Bedford Street
APPROVED 03/15/2016 CB2 hearing: 02/11/2016 LPC hearing: 03/15/2016 South Village Historic District Between Commerce Street and Morton Street —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the CB2 agenda: Application is to…
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86 Bedford Street
Application did not return for review by LPC CB2 hearing: unknown LPC hearing: 12/15/09 – no action LPC meeting: TBD Greenwich Village Historic District Between Barrow & Grove Streets APPLICATION:…
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29 Bedford Street
APPROVED with modifications 01/08/2019 CB2 hearing: 12/13/2018 LPC hearing: 01/08/2019 Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II Between Downing Street and West Houston Street —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the…
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My Favorite Things: West Village Edition
…Vincent Millay House at 75 1/2 Bedford Street (“the narrowest house in the Village”), the twin houses at 39 and 41 Commerce Street, and Grove Court as the embodiment of…
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The Origins of Greenwich Village Historic District Street Names: Part II
…Mapped prior to 1799, Bedford Street was named for Bedford Street in London. London’s Bedford Street was named for Francis Russell, the Fourth Earl of Bedford. The Earl of Bedford…
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A Real Tour of Greenwich Village for ‘Friends’ Fans
…eighteenth century, the Isaacs-Hendricks House is the oldest extant house in Greenwich Village. 75 ½ Bedford Street 75 ½ Bedford Street is well known for being the narrowest house at…
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‘Friends’: Greenwich Village Fantasy vs. Reality
…the TV world Friends created did (and didn’t) line up with reality. The ‘Friends’ apartment building, 90 Bedford Street The spot in Greenwich Village most associated with Friends, and where…
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Spring Inspires Poetry in Greenwich Village
…Rinhart/Corbis via Getty Images. R: 75 1/2 Bedford Street in 1948. Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) lived in several houses in Greenwich Village prior to moving with her husband to…
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Jewish, Hispanic, and Historic Preservationist: the Maritime Pioneers of Greenwich Village
…Bedford Street next door, “the narrowest house in Greenwich Village”). 75 1/2 Bedford Street, from the Village Preservation Historic Image Archive And it would be buying real estate in and…
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31 Literary Icons of Greenwich Village
…18. Edna St. Vincent Millay, 75 1/2 Barrow Street The writer of “My candle burns at both ends” lived in “the narrowest house in the Village,” 75 1/2 Bedford Street. Her…
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31 Literary Icons of the Greenwich Village Historic District
…© 2019 Google 4. William S. Burroughs, 69 Bedford Street William S. Burroughs moved to New York in 1943, calling 69 Bedford Street home. During this time he tried morphine, met Allen…
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“So no one told you life was gonna be this way”
…is nothing more than a stage set in Hollywood. A good chunk of the series took place in Monica’s spacious 2-bedroom apartment. No. 90 Bedford Street, on the southeast corner…
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Edna St. Vincent Millay: Greenwich Village Was In Her Blood
…men and women, and combined modernist and traditional forms in her poetry. 75 1/2 Bedford Street from our Historic Image Archives “In the immediate post-World War I era…when the Village…
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
…celebrated in Village Preservation’s public outdoor exhibition, VILLAGE VOICES 2022. VILLAGE VOICES Shadowbox dedicated to Edna St. Vincent Millay displayed in front of her former home at 75 1/2 Bedford…
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My Favorite Things: Andrew Berman Edition
…Edna St. Vincent Millay House at 75 1/2 Bedford Street (“the narrowest house in the Village”), the twin houses at 39 and 41 Commerce Street, and Grove Court as the…
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Cary Grant Before He Was Cary Grant, in Greenwich Village
…1/2 Bedford Street, the narrowest house in Greenwich Village. For Grant, then known as Archie Leach, Greenwich Village was a generative and varied stepping stone on his way from West…
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Cemeteries of Greenwich Village, Part II
…and more. Bedford Street Methodist Episcopal Church Cemetery and Vaults, Bedford Street between Morton and Leroy Streets When five Methodists formed a new congregation in the carpenter shop of Samuel…
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Jewish History of the Greenwich Village Historic District
…rich heritage: The Isaac-Hendricks House, 77 Bedford Street It was 1799 – a decade since the Revolution – and Greenwich Village was a quiet place, with farms and rolling hills….
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LPC Spotlights Women in the Arts
…to both historical and contemporary design. July 1948 photograph by Nat Kaufman. Source: Nat Kaufman collection, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation Archives. 75 1/2 Bedford Street This quirky home…
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10 (more) of the most charming spots in the Greenwich Village Historic District
…Bedford Street, built by the original owner William Hyde, a window sash maker. Both the main house and the former workshop are now single-family residences. 3. Twin Peaks, 102 Bedford…
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Prohibition Hits The Village
…illicit drinking! Here are just a few speakeasies that were fixtures then, and some of them even now! Chumley’s 86 Bedford Street Chumley’s door on Bedford Street Chumley’s is a…
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20 transformative women of Greenwich Village
…2. Edna St. Vincent Millay, 75 1/2 Bedford Street Via Wikimedia Few people are as closely associated with Greenwich Village as Millay. Perhaps that’s because the neighborhood appears right in her…
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Great Writers and the Greenwich Village Historic District
…– Edna St. Vincent Millay Edna St. Vincent Millay in Washington Square Park (left) and her home at 75 1/2 Bedford Street Edna St. Vincent Millay lived in “the narrowest…
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Women Crush Wednesday: The Poets
…work and life came to represent the modern, liberated woman of the Jazz age, free of the restrictions of the past…” 75 1/2 Bedford Street from our Historic Image Archives St….
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Women Crush Wednesday: The Poets
…work and life came to represent the modern, liberated woman of the Jazz age, free of the restrictions of the past…” 75 1/2 Bedford Street from our Historic Image Archives St….
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Our Dutch Legacy, Four Hundred Years Later
…East India Company, and grandson of the man who built 21 Stuyvesant Street. 77 and 75 1/2 Bedford Street seen in the 1969 designation photo (Greenwich Village Historic District and…
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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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Five Years Without Chumley’s
Image via Gothamist. It was five years ago today at 86 Bedford Street that a chimney separated from an interior wall and collapsed into the world-famous Chumley’s bar in Greenwich…
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Where Did Ross on “Friends” Live?
The intersection of Bedford and Grove Streets. Google Street View. It seems like there are countless mentions on the Internet of the apartment building in which Monica, Rachel, Chandler, and…
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Friends Apartments- Fiction or Fantasy?
L: 90 Bedford Street, which stood in as Monica’s apartment building; R: the cast walking down a “Greenwich Village street,” which is actually a Hollywood stage set. Love them or…
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GVHD50 Partner Roundup: Restaurant Edition
…with the artists, families, and people that make the Village so special. Chumley’s 86 Bedford Street Chumley’s is a historic pub and former speakeasy at 86 Bedford Street between Grove…
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The oldest house in the Village? It’s not what you think
…built by Peter Stuyvesant’s great-grandson? Google Street View of 17 Grove Street Starting in the westernmost stretches of the Village, the wooden house at 17 Grove Street (at Bedford Street)…
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Ten Years Ago Today – The End of Old Chumley’s
The “old” Chumley’s image via New York Magazine Ten years ago today, a chimney at 86 Bedford Street separated from an interior wall and collapsed into the world-famous Chumley’s bar….
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The Oldest Building in the Village?
…took on the task. Let’s take a look at some of the contenders. 17 Grove Street We’ll start on the west side. On the corner of Grove & Bedford Streets…
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The Oldest Building in the Village?
…for sure that it’s one of the most intriguing. Moving along… 77 Bedford Street Even older is the 1799 Isaacs-Hendricks House at 77 Bedford Street, on the corner of Commerce…
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The 10 most charming spots in the Greenwich Village Historic District
…alterations and additions for more than the last fifty years. 8. 75 ½ Bedford Street/”The narrowest house in the Village” 75 ½ Bedford Street via Wally Gobetz/Flickr 75 ½ Bedford Street was…
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The Oldest Building in the Village?
…sure that it’s one of the most intriguing. Moving along… 77 Bedford Street Even older is the 1799 Isaacs-Hendricks House at 77 Bedford Street, on the corner of Commerce Street,…
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“Preservationists Call REBNY’s Bluff On Landmarking and Affordability”
Dear friend, That’s how the New York Observer described our press conference yesterday, in which we joined with affordable housing advocates and preservation leaders from Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant in front of the…
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Beyond the Village and Back: Historic Weeksville, Brooklyn
…aerial photographer, and Joseph Haynes, a professional engineer, pilot and long-term resident of Bedford-Stuyvesant, later reconnoitered and photographed the historic houses on Hunterfly Road during a flight over the area….
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Business of the Month: Matt Umanov Guitars
…across the street from me. I took that place, and it was astounding what happened. Bedford Street’s kind of backwater. The only people who would ever come in [were] people…
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New Historic Image Collection Documents Change and Continuity in the West Village
…Street (the likely inspiration for Edward Hopper’s Early Sunday Morning), 75 1/2 Bedford Street (the narrowest house in the Village), Gay Street, and more. Some photos date to the early…
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May is Jewish American Heritage Month and Asian American/Pacific Islander Heritage Month — Explore Both With VP!
From left: the former 12th Street Baptist Church (circa 1975 and present day), the first home for Temple Emanu-El; Yiddish actor Boris Thomashefsky; and 75 1/2 Bedford Street. May is…
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Margaret Mead in the Village
…from 1926 until 1969. Upon her retirement she received the title of curator emeritus. Mead lived at 75 1/2 Bedford Street with her sister, Elizabeth Mead, and her sister’s husband,…
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Preservation History Archive
…Courthouse, and 75 1/2 Bedford Street; and battles against the Lower Manhattan Expressway, Westway, and many others. This collection includes a guidebook to the architectural styles of Greenwich Village rowhouses, written…
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Nineteenth Century Dwelling Houses of Greenwich Village
…Courthouse, and 75 1/2 Bedford Street; and battles against the Lower Manhattan Expressway, Westway, and many others. We thank Aura Levitas, longtime village resident and former Treasurer of the Association,…
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Happy (Almost) Birthday Off the Grid!
…1795) and laid to rest the debate over whether the narrowest house is in the East or West Village? 75 1/2 Bedford Street (left); 39 St. Marks Place (right) Some…
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The Village in Bloom
…magnolia grandiflora tree outside a 4-story brownstone; historic tree saved by Bedford-Stuyvesant community activist Hattie Carthan (1901-1984), in 1970. Image courtesy NYC Municipal Archives. Speaking of magnolias, one of New…
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Hip-Hop’s 2nd Birthplace, Part 6: Fab 5 Freddy
…But his career remains long and varied. Some call him hip-hop’s true Renaissance man. His life and career started out in Bedford-Stuyvesant, but it flourished in the streets and clubs…
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Preservationists and Elected Officials Slam City Agencies and Administration for Allowing Demolition of Landmarks at City Hall Press Conference
…here. Co-organized by Village Preservation and the Historic Districts Council, we were joined by Save Harlem Now!, the Mount Morris Park Community Improvement Association, Justice for 441 Willoughby (Bedford-Stuyvesant), and…
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Join Us for Press Conference December 15 at 2 PM on the Steps of City Hall To Protest the Growing Rash of Demolitions of Landmarked Buildings Across NYC
Clockwise from top left: 14 Gay Street; the former Dangler Mansion in Bedford-Stuyvesant; 351-55 West 14th Street/44-54 Ninth Avenue in the Meatpacking District Please join us tomorrow at 2 PM…
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Greenwich Village in the 1930s and Today
…1/2 Bedford Street, constructed in 1873. The Narrowest House in New York, 1940s Tax Photo. Courtesy of Municipal Archives. The Salmagundi Club, which is an individual NYC Landmark, is the…
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Exploring Jewish Heritage, Beyond the Village and Back
…city’s narrowest house at 75 1/2 Bedford Street, here. Brotherhood Synagogue Present-day Brotherhood Synagogue For more than 70 years, the Brotherhood Synagogue at 28 Gramercy Park South has sought to…
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Business of the Month
Every month, Village Preservation combs through nominations from the public and other resources to choose a special independent store to honor in Greenwich Village, the East Village, or NoHo. Please…
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The Village’s Twin Peaks: From a quirky ‘Swiss-chalet’ to a landmarks controversy
102 Bedford Street in 2015 (left) via Wiki Commons, and as of today, via Village Preservation. Few buildings capture the whimsy, flamboyance, and bohemian spirit of early 20th century Greenwich Village as…
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Finding Out More About New York City Buildings Research
…on Historic Districts, followed by South Village Historic District, you will find State and National Register Report stating: Carmine Street, north side between Bedford Street and Seventh Avenue South 51,…
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Village People: Paul Clayton
…at the New Bedford Whaling Museum. He was playing guitar by the time he was a teenager. While still in high school, he began hosting a weekly series of folk…
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Things We’re Grateful For: Federal Houses
…the next of the federal era houses GVSHP and the successfully NYLC jointly proposed for landmark designation; it was designated in 2004. 2-10 Bedford Street, between Houston and Downing Streets….
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Ed Koch (1924-2013) and the Village
…lived at 81 Bedford Street, 72 Barrow Street, and 14 Washington Place, and famously refused to give up his Greenwich Village residence when elected Mayor to move into Gracie Mansion….
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