…Brooklyn, the LPC has also designated about 600 buildings. Park Slope, Brooklyn In Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, the LPC has designated or calendared (the official step preceding designation, which puts some…
Read More102 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…
Read More…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…
Read More…apartment houses. This is one of the few known houses of worship they designed. Sketch of the chapel pre-alteration. Image courtesy of Bedford + Bowery. In 1900-01, architects Jallade and…
Read More…Historic District, SoHo, and Westbeth, as well as districts as diverse as Bedford-Stuyvesant and the Grand Concourse, Jackson Heights and Park Slope. Without landmark designation, many of these sites and…
Read MoreAPPROVED on 04/06/2010 Greenwich Village Historic District Between Bedford & Bleecker Streets Application: A house built in 1827. Application is to reconstruct the building and to raise the height of…
Read MoreKoch lived in the Village at (clockwise from top left) 2 Fifth Avenue, 81 Bedford Street, 72 Barrow Street, and 14 Washington Place Edward I. Koch served as Mayor of…
Read More…Koch represented the Village in the House of Representatives from 1969-77. A resident of Greenwich Village since the 1950’s, Koch lived in at 2 5th Avenue, 81 Bedford Street, 72 Barrow…
Read More…to her job teaching art at P.S. 54 on Sanford Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant from her home in the East Village. This was a HUGE assist. It wasn’t hard to figure…
Read More…the Mayor to a seat on the city’s Economic Development Corporation. View video of the protest here and here, and photos here. See coverage here from amNew York, The Villager, Bedford + Bowery, Gothamist, DNAinfo, Curbed,…
Read MoreAPPROVED with modifications 02/05/2019 CB2 hearing: 01/22/2019 LPC hearing: 02/05/2019 Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II Between Bedford Street and Bleecker Street —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the CB2…
Read More…“The address which is now listed over its doorway as ‘177’ Bleecker Street was, in 1965-66, ‘177A’ Bleecker Street,” Thomas told Bedford + Bowery in 2014. “At one time I…
Read MoreAPPROVED 07/19/2016 CB2 hearing: 03/14/2016 – Laid Over CB2 hearing: 06/16/2016 LPC hearing: 07/12/2016 – Laid over LPC hearing: 07/19/2016 Greenwich Village Historic District Between Bleecker Street and Bedford Street…
Read More…described by Bedford+Bowery, “Rosset would stay up all night working on the mural, often painting for four hours at a time without taking a break to eat or drink or…
Read MoreWITHDRAWN 08/09/2019 Permit will be reviewed at staff level CB2 hearing: 08/15/2019 – laid over CB2 hearing: TBD LPC hearing: TBD Greenwich Village Historic District Between Bedford Street and Seventh…
Read MoreAPPROVED on 08/04/2015 CB2 hearing: 03/16/2015 LPC hearing: 04/07/2015 LPC meeting: 08/04/2015 Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II Between Varick and Bedford Streets —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the…
Read MoreAPPROVED on 04/21/2015 CB2 hearing: 03/16/2015 LPC hearing: 04/21/2015 Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II Between Bedford and Bleecker Streets —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the CB2 agenda: Application is…
Read MoreAPPROVED with modifications 02/26/2013 Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II Between Bleecker and Bedford Streets —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the LPC agenda: A Moderne style multiple dwelling designed…
Read MoreAPPROVED 05/14/2013 Greenwich Village Historic District Between Bedford and Bleecker Streets —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the LPC agenda: A transitional Greek Revival/Italianate style townhouse built by Linus Scudder….
Read MoreAPPROVED on 03/08/2011 Greenwich Village Historic District Between Bedford & Bleecker Streets APPLICATION: A rowhouse, originally built in 1828 altered in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Application is…
Read More…and the harbor for trips of varying durations. Read Blog Post Regina Kellerman Award: Kathy Donaldson Kathy Donaldson has been the president of the Bedford Barrow Commerce Block Association since…
Read MoreApplication was not presented at an LPC public hearing CB2 hearing 07/19/2010 LPC hearing 07/27/2010 – laid over LPC hearing: TBD Greenwich Village Historic District Between Bedford & Bleecker Streets…
Read More…Between Bedford & Bleecker Streets APPLICATION: An altered Renaissance Revival style tenement building with a commercial ground floor designed by Marshall L. Emery and built in 1894. Application is to…
Read MoreApplication was not presented at an LPC public hearing CB2 hearing: 07/02/2013 LPC hearing: 07/23/2013 – laid over Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II Between Bedford and Bleecker Streets —-…
Read MoreAPPROVED on 04/12/2011 Greenwich Village Historic District Between Bedford Street & St. Luke’s Place APPLICATION: A one-story brick building built in 1921. Application is to enlarge masonry openings, install new…
Read MoreWITHDRAWN on 06/15/2011 Greenwich Village Historic District Between Bedford Street & Seventh Avenue South APPLICATION: A late Federal style rowhouse built in 1828. Application is to legalize the installation of…
Read MoreThis application was approved by the LPC on 03/20/2012 Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II Between Morton and Bedford Streets APPLICATION: From the LPC agenda: A contemporary style apartment building…
Read MoreAPPROVED at the LPC public hearing on 03/20/2012 Greenwich Village Historic District Between Hudson and Bedford Streets APPLICATION: From the LPC agenda: A utilitarian building designed by Hobart B. Upjohn…
Read MoreAPPROVED Greenwich Village Historic District Between Leroy and Bedford Streets —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the LPC agenda: A one-story brick building built in 1921. Application is to legalize…
Read MoreAPPROVED WITH MODIFICATIONS Application Closed Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II Between Bedford and Bleecker Streets —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the LPC agenda: An Italianate style tenement building…
Read MoreAPPLICATION APPROVED Application Closed Greenwich Village Historic District Corner of Grove and Bedford Streets http://lpc.gvshp.org/?p=10267 —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the LPC agenda: A Greek Revival style rowhouse built…
Read MoreAPPROVED 01/23/2013 Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II Between Bleecker and Bedford Streets h://lpc.gvshp.org/?p=10494 —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the LPC agenda: A Moderne style multiple dwelling designed by…
Read MoreAPPROVED on 05/14/2013 Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II Between Bedford and Bleecker Streets Image courtesy of Google Street View —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the LPC agenda: An…
Read MoreAPPLICATION APPROVED on 07/09/2013 Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II Between Bedford and Bleecker Streets —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the LPC agenda: A vacant lot. Application is to…
Read MoreDENIED 10/08/2013 Greenwich Village Historic District Between Bleecker and Bedford Streets —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the LPC agenda: An apartment house with Victorian Gothic influences, designed by F….
Read More…his life. As described by Bedford+Bowery, “Rosset would stay up all night working on the mural, often painting for four hours at a time without taking a break to eat or…
Read More…The sitting area, designed by George Vellonakis, was rebuilt from 1998 to 1999 to incorporate garden spaces, a pedestal mounted armillary, and a decorative, gated iron fence. The Bedford Downing…
Read More…with his catchphrase of “How’m I doin’?,” and he reorganized the city’s political environment by assembling a governing coalition that at times included liberals, conservatives, and moderates. Koch received 75%…
Read More…and Bedford Streets, has the distinction of being New York City’s oldest, continuously operating Off-Broadway theatre. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel pays its respects to this iconic performance space in Season…
Read More…struggle for women’s suffrage, and the people, organizations, and events that made it possible. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who lived at 3 Bedford Street, from our Civil Rights and…
Read More…moved to Greenwich Village just as it was becoming known as a Bohemian writer’s haven. (She lived at several addresses in the neighborhood, including 75½ Bedford Street, known as the…
Read More…CBGB/OMFUG; Angelo Bruno; Raffetto’s; St. Mark’s Historic Landmark Fund; the Village Community School Addition; The Villager Newspaper; The Washington Square Arch Restoration. 2003: Bayard Condict Building Restoration; Bedford Barrow Commerce…
Read More…York This street would have run from Seventh Avenue South to Sixth Avenue, cutting through Downing, Carmine and Bedford Streets. While construction of this street was never completed, in 1952…
Read More…article about VID election in 1st AD. Page 74: Mayor opens hospitals for addicts Page 75: “Lindsay in New Plea for Probe of Title I” and “Passannante to Ask City…
Read MoreGrove Street between Hudson Street and Bedford Street Greenwich Village Historic District LPC designation report: Available in PDF Application is to replace existing vinyl front roof dormer siding with non-historical material, restore…
Read More…Christopher Street on the southeast corner of Bedford Street and for Ninth Street on the southeast corner of Waverly Place. Greenwich Village residents, elected leaders, and community organizations including Village…
Read More…narrowest house in New York at 75½ Bedford Street. Poem read by Grace Gummer Narrated by Leslie Mason Music: Improvisations for Harp, William Mathias; Saint-Seans “The Swan,” Yo-Yo Ma, cello…
Read MoreGreenwich Village Historic District Extension II Downing Street between Varick and Bedford Streets LPC designation report: Available in PDF. Application is to construct a rooftop addition, replace ground floor infill, replace windows,…
Read MoreWITHDRAWN 12/06/2013 Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II Between Bedford and Bleecker Streets —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the LPC agenda: An altered Federal style row house built in…
Read More…in 1888 at 23 Grove Street between Bleecker and Bedford. 23 Grove Street In June of 1949, she quickly picked up an editorial job at the Institute for Pacific Studies…
Read More…before the hearing. Click HERE for suggested guidelines for testimony from Village Preservation. Greenwich Village Historic District Commerce Street between Hudson and Bedford Streets —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the LPC…
Read More…Note, also, the payphone booth in the foreground, once so common in our streetscapes. South side of Morton Street between Hudson and Bedford Streets (undated) And then there are the…
Read More…workshop at the New York State Correctional Facility for Women at Bedford Hills from 1989 to 2002. Honoring Baraka’s literary legacy and the influence other Beat poets had on our…
Read More…between Barrow and Bedford Streets, the three-story brick theatre is one of New York’s greatest treasures. The Cherry Lane Theatre, photo courtesy of The Cherry Lane Theatre archives The building…
Read More…white). Earlier in her career, in 1998, she moved to 3 Bedford Street around the time she joined the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Even after being…
Read More…the Second Circuit. During this time, Sotomayor also taught at NYU and Columbia Law Schools. In 1998, Sotomayor moved to 3 Bedford Street. Even after being appointed to the Supreme…
Read More…They are decadent enough already. Then again, need has nothing to do with it. Moustache (90 Bedford Street; but soon at 29 7th Avenue South) The inspiration behind the pizza…
Read More…living history rooted in his time residing on Grove and Bedford Streets while attending The New School/Parsons School of Design in the 1970s – 1990. Hear about the impact of…
Read MorePhoto by Joseph Holmes Christina Maile is a Greenwich Village-based artist who has lived at Westbeth since it’s opening more than a half century ago. Raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn by…
Read More…prize winners and prophets, feminist luminaries and queer pioneers whose words enriched, and even defined, American life. Meet up location: 75 ½ Bedford St. Length: 1.5 hours Accessibility: The walk is…
Read More…wood-framed house in Greenwich Village. William Hyde, a window sash maker, built the residence and had a shop located in an attached structure at 100 Bedford Street. 17 Grove Street…
Read More…before the hearing. Click HERE for suggested guidelines for testimony from Village Preservation. Greenwich Village Historic District Commerce Street between Barrow Street and Bedford Street —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the…
Read More…before the hearing. Click HERE for suggested guidelines for testimony from Village Preservation. Greenwich Village Historic District Commerce Street between Bedford Street and 7th Avenue South —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From…
Read More…Bedford Barrow Commerce Block Association Barry Benepe Albert Bennett Be Seated Bill Bowser Biography Bookshop The Bitter End Bleecker Street Sitting Area Renovation Block Drug Store Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks Bowery…
Read More…Bedford Street in the east). From its early days, the library served the community of Greenwich Village in many ways. It contained an auditorium, which allowed the library to serve…
Read MoreAPPROVED on 08/05/2014 Greenwich Village Historic District Between Bedford Street and Seventh Avenue South —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the LPC agenda: An altered late Federal style rowhouse built…
Read MoreRichie Havens at Woodstock in 1969. Richie Havens, the iconic singer and guitarist, passed away yesterday at the age of 72. Though originally from Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn, by his late…
Read MoreWITHDRAWN Greenwich Village Historic District Ext. II Between Bedford and Bleecker Streets —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the LPC agenda: A Greek Revival style row house with Italianate alterations…
Read More…the Bedford Historic District. I found it interesting, especially the strong feelings that longtime residents had on both sides of the issue. The article contained two long sidebars: one giving…
Read More…insight into the tactics used to clear long-term, lower-rent paying tenants out buildings. by: Daniel Maurer of Bedford & Bowery. Crowd anticipating Kanye West at Webster Hall gather in front…
Read More…doubt meant many beloved landmarks would have been lost. Landmarked neighborhoods that took longer to designate than the bill requires include Greenwich Village and the Grand Concourse; Bedford Stuyvesant and…
Read More…Sullivan Gardens, the St. Mark’s Historic District, SoHo, and Westbeth, as well as districts as diverse as Bedford-Stuyvesant and the Grand Concourse, Jackson Heights and Park Slope. Without landmark designation, many…
Read More2014 House tour goers on Bedford Street. The weather forecast for this Sunday is beautiful — 70’s and sunny — the perfect day for a leisurely stroll through some of…
Read More…strongly associated with the Village (her middle name is after St. Vincent’s Hospital, where her uncle’s life was saved, and she lived in the charming narrow house at 75 ½…
Read More…from Central Harlem and Claudette Brady from Bedford Stuyvesant at a press conference in front of the REBNY headquarters in late 2013 refuting the group’s claim that preservation undermined affordability…
Read More…revenue for empty federal coffers. And thus on Dec. 5, 1933 the 21st Amendment was ratified by enough states and Prohibition was repealed. Chumley’s at 86 Bedford Street was a…
Read More…districts (clockwise from upper l.): 26 Bond Street; 51 Bond Street; 262-266 Bleecker Street; 2-10 Bedford Street; 651-655 Washington Street; 7 Leroy Street (photo: Bob Estremera); 42-46 Carmine Street; and…
Read MoreLocated at 34 Carmine Street between Bleecker and Bedford Streets, Unoppressive Non-Imperialist Bargain Books has got a big name and an even bigger place in the hearts of Village neighbors…
Read More…he was the guitar whiz kid, fixing guitars for the likes of Eric Clapton. He moved from various workspaces throughout the neighborhood. In 1969, a storefront became available on Bedford…
Read More…the wrecking ball could take out those beautiful Federal era homes on Commerce Street, Grove Street and Bedford Street? Or those stately Italianate townhouses on Charles Street and Perry Street?…
Read MoreBill Cunningham, Grove Street (ca. 1840s) at Bedford Street, 1968-1976. Image via New-York Historical Society. Today a the new exhibition Facades will open at the New-York Historical Society. The exhibition…
Read More…and the countercultural lifestyle of that era, Fitzgerald often gravitated to the Village. A favorite was Chumley’s, the speakeasy on Bedford Street that opened in 1926. Legend has it that…
Read More…the Civil Rights Movement. She also ran a writing workshop at the New York State Correctional Facility for Women at Bedford Hills from 1989-2002. Her husband, LeRoi Jones was an…
Read More…one of the reasons we are seeing neighborhoods clamor for landmark protections throughout the city, from Bedford Stuyvesant to Bay Ridge, Ridgewood to Richmond Hill, the South Bronx to Staten…
Read More…the post card seen above. Source: NYPL. When Bil and Cora Baird bought the building on Barrow Street (between Bedford and Bleecker Streets), it was not without some difficulty, as…
Read More…aging population; Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant had some of the highest concentrations of poverty in the city and among its most deteriorated housing stock. Each of these neighborhoods, synonymous in many…
Read More…away from the bustle of the city along tree-lined Commerce Street between Barrow and Bedford Streets, the three-story brick theatre features 6-over-1 wood windows and an arched double-door entryway covered…
Read More…hundred fifty buildings around Bleecker, Carmine, Bedford, and Downing Streets. But there’s still about two thirds of the neighborhood (see the map) that has been left unprotected from demolitions and…
Read More…order to maintain symmetry and balance on the facade of a building, but which were never actually real windows. 37 Bedford Street and detail. These seem especially common on tenements,…
Read More…through the front building which leads to the backhouse behind. The side and rear of this backhouse behind 10 Bedford Street were visible to the public from Downing Street because…
Read More…Detention, and 75 ½ Bedford Street, to name a few — places that I have come to know and love. From the Nat Kaufman Collection, c. 1950, Greenwich Village Society…
Read More…to Alec Baldwin? Want to live in a cruise-themed Perry Street pad? (Curbed) Photos of Saturday’s Lightsaber Battle in Washington Square Park (Gothamist) 88 Bedford townhouse goes rental and asks…
Read More…Dream (DNAinfo) The Trouble with Eighth Street (A/N Blog) Fedora One Year Later (Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York) 84 Bedford Street’s Nine Units Now Officially on the Market (Curbed) The Country’s…
Read MoreBedford Street (photo courtesy of Guney’s Photo Blog, www.guney.org) Gansevoort Hotel’s Pool is the City’s Dirtiest (NY Post) Another British-themed Restaurant Set to Open on Greenwich Avenue (DNAinfo) Waverly Restaurant…
Read More…not always so sought after. First laid out in 1848, Grove Court is set off of Grove Street between Bedford and Hudson Streets. It is entered through an iron gate…
Read MoreAPPROVED 04/28/2020 CB2 hearing: 02/13/2020 LPC hearing: 03/17/2020 – canceled LPC hearing: 04/28/2020 Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II Between Bleecker Street and Bedford Street —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1)…
Read More…mansion actually served as the official Vice-President’s residence for a time. There was a pond from the Minetta Creek at the foot of the hill at today’s intersection of Bedford…
Read More…at 37 Union Square. He posed once at the start of his tour in 1882 and again in 1883. William Burroughs — lived on Bedford Street and was a regular…
Read MoreAPPROVED on 07/07/2015 CB2 hearing: 06/16/2015 LPC hearing: 07/07/2015 Greenwich Village Historic District Between Bedford and Bleecker Streets Image courtesy of Google Street View —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From…
Read MoreWITHDRAWN – will be reviewed at staff level CB2 hearing: 10/11/2018 LPC hearing: TBD Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II Between Bedford Street and Bleecker Street —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —-…
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