…significance of this history. Looking Forward While buildings like 80 Fifth Avenue are unlikely to be demolished any time soon, much of their non-landmarked surroundings are, and buildings like 80…
Read MoreFor its entire existence over twenty years, the International Worker’s Order’s (IWO) New York City headquarters was located at 80 Fifth Avenue. 80 Fifth Avenue, at 14th Street, is located…
Read More…and Asian-Americans. Here’s a look at the IWO and some of its extraordinary accomplishments during its time at 80 Fifth Avenue: 80 Fifth Avenue, 1937. Photo courtesy of MCNY Digital…
Read More…(MPPC), headquartered at 80 Fifth Avenue, in the area South of Union Square which was the center of that center of the film industry, from 1909 until its dissolution in…
Read More…at 80 Fifth Avenue for its entire lifetime, from 1930 until 1954, this progressive mutual-benefit fraternal organization was a pioneering force in the U.S. labor and civil rights movements. The…
Read More(l. to r.) 60, 64-66, 68, 70, 72, 74, 76-78, and 80 Fifth Avenue, west side from 12th to 14th Street. This nearly perfectly intact ensemble of buildings dating from…
Read More…Fifth Avenue already had but to create an even more beautiful streetscape began to gain steam when he appointed the Fifth Avenue Commission. 72, 74-76, 78, 80 Fifth Avenue (r….
Read More…Force, located at 80 Fifth Avenue in the 1970s and 80s, while the headquarters of the New York Women’s Suffrage League, the leader in the fight for women’s right to…
Read More…Fifth Avenue. This structure, in the unprotected area south of Union Square for which Village Preservation is seeking landmark protections, housed a large number of progressive organizations that propelled, and collaborated around, some…
Read More…Women’s Council at 80 East 11th Street, Southern Tenant Farmers Union at 50 E 12th Street, Young Pioneers (communist subsidiary) at 80 Fifth Avenue, Defense Committee for Civil Rights for…
Read MoreThis elaborately detailed Renaissance Revival–style office building was designed in 1908 by Buchman and Fox. It housed the headquarters of the United States’ first national gay rights organization, for the…
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Read More…of Fifth Avenue’s development, Fifth Avenue Old and New 1824-1924. It was published by the Fifth Avenue Association, an organization that was formed in 1907 by residents, property owners, and…
Read More…Fifth Avenue Association (“Fifth Avenue Old and New 1824-1924” by Henry Collins Brown, published 1924) As we neared the Fifth Avenue bicentennial, Village Preservation was inspired to tell the full story…
Read More(l.) 10 through 14 Fifth Avenue after the damaging work in February 2023; and (r.) close-up of the damage to 10 Fifth Avenue (via the Village Sun) We were deeply…
Read More…Fifth Avenue Stage Line, mid 1800s. The Fifth Avenue Transportation Company originally filed its founding paperwork as the “Fifth Avenue Railroad Company,” with a goal to create a surface railroad…
Read More…Broadway. Source: NY Metro Victorian Society of America. https://www.vicsocny.org/castironnyc/popup.php?id=27 422 West Broadway or 130 South Fifth Avenue. Source: https://www.mountainsoftravelphotos.com/USA%20-%20New%20York%20City/27%20SoHo/slides/27%20422%20W%20Broadway%20Has%20Its%20Original%20Street%20Address%20On%20The%20Cast-iron%20Columns%20-%20It%20Used%20To%20Be%20130%20South%20Fifth%20Avenue%20In%20SoHo%20New%20York%20City.jpg In 1896 South Fifth Avenue became part of West Broadway again,…
Read More…78 Fifth Avenue 72 Fifth Avenue 64-66, 68, and 70 Fifth Avenue 64-68 Fifth Avenue 64-68 Fifth Avenue 68-70 Fifth Avenue 70 Fifth Avenue 60-62 Fifth Avenue 59 and 57…
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Read More(l.) Newly installed bracing for 12 Fifth Avenue at 14 Fifth Avenue constituting site; (r.) 10, 12, 14, and 20 Fifth Avenue (l. to r.) Village Preservation continues to press…
Read More…powerful 20 ft. high installation in the window’s ground floor building facing Fifth Avenue highlighting its remarkable civil rights history. Village Voices Installation at 70 Fifth Avenue The NAACP As…
Read More…“A MAN WAS LYNCHED YESTERDAY” outside their office window on Fifth Avenue following each such act of racist terror. At the same time, 70 Fifth Avenue housed The Crisis Magazine,…
Read More…at 14-16 Fifth Avenue was originally built as two separate Gothic Revival townhouses at a time when this stretch of Lower Fifth Avenue was the most prestigious address in New…
Read More…in at least one surprisingly similar way. 1083 Fifth Avenue (L), Our Lady of Lourdes Church (R), via Wikipedia 1083 Fifth Avenue Originally built in 1901-02 in the Beaux-Arts style…
Read More…Fifth Avenue, and the Sohmer Piano Building at 170 Fifth Avenue. What makes 55 Fifth Avenue even more significant than its architecture, however, is its history as a home to…
Read More…commercial, practical application. 63-67 Fifth Avenue in 1938 By the beginning of the 20th century, Nos. 65 and 63 Fifth Avenue were converted to lofts with commercial ground floors. Around…
Read More…demolished. It was replaced by “The Fifth Avenue hotel,” in 1925. Fifth Avenue Hotel, 1927. In 1848-1849, the Brevoorts funded the construction of 10 through 16 Fifth Avenue, a row…
Read More…death in 1910. Moving men at 21 Fifth Avenue. Photo from Village Preservation’s Historic Image Archive But that is certainly not the end of the story for 21 Fifth Avenue….
Read More…first and only structures to have ever been built on their sites. Join us for this fascinating talk on the 200th anniversary of Fifth Avenue’s beginnings with one of the…
Read More10, 12, and 14-16 Fifth Avenue (left to right) prior to demolition On Saturday, city-approved work for the construction of a condo-tower at 14-16 Fifth Avenue caused serious damage to…
Read Morec. 1908 view of Fifth Avenue from Washington Square Arch. Courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York Collections Portal. For most, lower Fifth Avenue conjures up images…
Read More…60 Fifth Avenue, the former Macmillan Publishing Company Building/the former Forbes Building 60 Fifth Avenue (l.) ca.1926 and 2015. This eight-story building on the northwest corner of 12th Street and…
Read More(l to r.) 82 and 84 Fourth Avenue, Grace Church, Grace Church Rectory, 92-98 Fourth Avenue (Grace Church Houses), and 100 and 102 Fourth Avenue. For more information on the…
Read More…Landmarks Preservation Commission has failed to do so. Today, we take a closer look at 72 Fifth Avenue, and ask: why isn’t this landmarked? History In 1893 Marx and Moses…
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Read More…work is the Regent Theatre at 1912 Seventh Avenue, an individual New York City landmark. One of the people that made 49-51 Fifth Avenue their home was Governor Alfred E….
Read More…how they uncovered the history of every single building to ever be constructed along lower Fifth Avenue. They’ll reveal just how many of the avenue’s current buildings have been in…
Read More…north of the museum at Fifth Avenue and 85th Street. The Osborns left 59 Fifth Avenue by 1870, but that does not make the contributions of the New Yorkers associated…
Read More…Avenue and Ninth Street. At the time the article was written, that mansion had already been knocked down some three years prior, and was replaced by the Fifth Avenue Hotel….
Read More…held responsible for the dangerous city-approved work that nearly destroyed the landmarked 180-year-old 10 Fifth Avenue and damaged the landmarked 120-year-old 12 Fifth Avenue. All of this could have been…
Read MoreOn May 11th, 2021, the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission, in a highly unusual split decision, voted to approve the demolition of the historic, landmarked 170+-year-old building at 14-16 Fifth Avenue and replace…
Read More…Held at the historic Salmagundi Club, this book talk will be followed by an opportunity to buy the book and have it signed by the author. William Hennessey’s Fifth Avenue: From…
Read MoreWe’re thrilled to share our latest interactive map, marking the 200th anniversary of the opening of Fifth Avenue on November 1, 2024. Our new StoryMap tells the story of the…
Read More…3rd Avenue to west of 5th Avenue, 9th to 14th Streets for which we have proposed and are fighting for landmark designation via a historic district. After 2 1/2 years,…
Read More…Avenue to west of 5th Avenue, 9th to 14th Streets for which we have proposed and are fighting for landmark designation via a historic district. After 2 1/2 years, this…
Read More…New York Public Library has been watching over Fifth Avenue between 40th and 42nd Streets, welcoming researchers, scholars, students, and tourists into its hallowed halls by the millions every year….
Read MoreYesterday the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously to landmark 70 Fifth Avenue (2-6 West 13th Street), a 1912 Beaux Arts-style office building that is among several critical civil rights sites…
Read More…Graham (next door to 70 Fifth at 64-66 Fifth Avenue, another New School building), and many more. Explore all our plaques HERE. The roster of speakers include luminaries in the…
Read More…(next door to 70 Fifth at 64-66 Fifth Avenue, another New School building), and many more. Explore all our plaques HERE. RSVP to join us next Tuesday, May 10 at…
Read More…70 Fifth Avenue makes the construction of such a building here all but impossible. Visualization of the supertall that could be built where 70 Fifth Avenue stands without landmarking. Village…
Read More…they explore how they uncovered the history of every single building to ever be constructed along lower Fifth Avenue. They’ll reveal just how many of the avenue’s current buildings have…
Read MoreJoin Village Preservation’s research team on an illuminating journey as they uncover 200 years of architectural history. On November 1, 1824, Fifth Avenue was born. At the time, the first…
Read More…most iconic thoroughfare. While it took decades for the avenue to be built out, with initial development not truly gaining momentum until the 1840s and ’50s, Fifth Avenue went on…
Read More…painter Jean-Michel Basquiat to “Picasso of Dance” Martha Graham (next door to 70 Fifth at 64-66 Fifth Avenue, another New School building), and many more. Explore all our plaques HERE….
Read More…No. 70 Fifth is at the corner of Fifth Avenue and West 13th Street. Narrated by Rebecca Naomi-Jones Music: Leontyne Price and Billy Taylor, “I Wish I Knew How It…
Read More…occupied three floors of the space, totaling 15,000 square feet. 72 Fifth Avenue today. Source: Google Maps. Philip Morris relocated to 5th Avenue and 19th Street in 1938, where they…
Read More…Avenue). Samuel Weiser Bookstore, 117 Fourth Avenue 113-119 Fourth Avenue, 2018 Samuel Weiser began his career in bookselling as an apprentice at the bookstore Bentano’s. In the 1920s he began…
Read MoreCo-Sponsored by the Merchant’s House Museum Join us as Julie Satow discusses her new book WHEN WOMEN RAN FIFTH AVENUE: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion and as…
Read More…social supremacy, including St. John’s Park, Lafayette Place, and Second Avenue. By the Civil War, Fifth had become “The Avenue” superseding all other addresses in which to flaunt you had arrived. In…
Read MoreFifth Avenue, which begins at Washington Square, was born in 1824, and quickly became New York’s premiere residential address. Its development began at its southern end, where the grandest mansions…
Read MoreWhat follows is first in a series of posts devoted to our research of the fascinating building at 143-145 Avenue D. 145-147 Avenue D Early last year, while surveying Alphabet…
Read MoreVillage Preservation Broker’s Partnership Presents: Historic Lobbies of Lower Fifth Avenue Explore the histories, architectural elements, luxury, and symmetry of lower Fifth Avenue’s historic residences with VP Director of Research…
Read More…Fifth Avenue in the Greenwich Village Historic District is 140 feet; the proposed building exceeds that height by 75%. The average height of buildings on the block in which the…
Read More14-16 Fifth Avenue today (l.) and proposed. On Tuesday night, Community Board #2’s Landmarks Committee voted to disapprove demolition of the historic and landmarked 170 year old former townhouses at 14-16…
Read MoreAs follow-up to last week’s hung jury at the Landmarks Preservation Commission regarding the application to demolish 14-16 Fifth Avenue, the 170-year-old former townhouses connected to some of the most…
Read More(l. to r.) 64-66, 68, and 70 Fifth Avenue. The striking 12-story Beaux Arts–style office building at 70 Fifth Avenue was constructed in 1912 for publisher George Plimpton. It housed…
Read More(l.) 64-66 Fifth Avenue is an eight-story commercial loft building constructed in three stages — in 1892 by architect R.H. Robertson, with additions in 1907 and 1915. It was the…
Read More(l. to r.) 68 and 70 Fifth Avenue, showing lower floors of 70 Fifth Avenue. The latter is a striking 12-story Beaux Arts–style office building constructed in 1912 for publisher…
Read More…home on the southwest side of what is today Fifth Avenue and 14th Street. This home was accessed only through a long lane connected to the Bowery Road until the…
Read More(l.) 64-66 Fifth Avenue is an eight-story commercial loft building constructed in three stages — in 1892 by architect R.H. Robertson, with additions in 1907 and 1915. It was the…
Read MoreCome celebrate this festive season and Fifth Avenue’s 200th anniversary with Village Preservation in the Parlor of the historic Salmagundi Club. Enjoy the sounds from the golden age of American…
Read MoreEarlier this summer, we reported that the city had, in response to our complaints, halted work at the controversial tower at 14 Fifth Avenue that we opposed. Violations were also…
Read MoreMadison Realty Capital is seeking to demolish 14-16 Fifth Avenue (5-story building in the center of the block) and replace it with a 244 ft. tall tower. Since plans were…
Read MorePlease join us Friday at 11:30 am on Fifth Avenue between 8th and 9th Streets for a demonstration and press conference opposing plans by Madison Realty Capital to tear down…
Read MoreMadison Realty Capital is seeking to demolish 14-16 Fifth Avenue (5-story building in the center of the block) and replace it with a 244 ft. tall tower. Village Preservation continues…
Read More…James Baldwin (August 2, 1924–December 1, 1987). This large-scale commemorative display will be showcased in the window at 70 Fifth Avenue (13th Street) starting next Monday, November 4, until February…
Read More…1987). This large-scale commemorative display will be showcased in the window at 70 Fifth Avenue (13th Street) through February 1, 2025 — come take a look! The installation, designed by…
Read More14-16 Fifth Avenue (center, five-story building) The plan to demolish the 172 year old historic former townhouses at 14-16 Fifth Avenue in the Greenwich Village Historic District, and replace them with a…
Read MoreReminder: The Landmarks Preservation Commission’s public hearing on the application to demolish 14-16 Fifth Avenue in the Greenwich Village Historic District and replace it with a 241 foot tall tower will be held…
Read MoreThe Landmarks Preservation Commission has scheduled its hearing on the proposed landmark designation of 70 Fifth Avenue (13th Street) for Tuesday, March 23rd (time during the day TBD; we will…
Read MoreThe Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) will hold its public hearing tomorrow at approximately 10am (join at 9:45am to be safe) on the proposed landmark designation of 70 Fifth Avenue, another…
Read MoreThe plan to demolish the landmarked, historically significant former townhouses at 14-16 Fifth Avenue and replace them with a tall new tower returns for a public meeting at the Landmarks…
Read MoreA revised application for demolition of the 170-year-old former townhouses at 14-16 Fifth Avenue and their replacement with a high rise more than 200 ft tall (with fewer apartments than…
Read MoreThe Ukrainian National Home at 140-142 Second Avenue presently. I recently wrote about the rich and interesting cultural history behind the Ukrainian National Home, located at 140-142 Second Avenue just…
Read MoreTown Hall to Save Charas / PS 64 A rally to save the historic building and former community center Join Council member Rosie Mendez and elected officials, neighbors, activists, and…
Read More…of the Ninth Avenue El may have headed west to the Christopher Street Ferry, while others may have turned east for St. Vincent’s Hospital. The Third Avenue line must have…
Read More…to a total stop shortly after the Second Avenue Station. Unused Center Track at Second Avenue Station Second Avenue Line As originally announced in 1929, the Second Avenue line would…
Read More14-16 Fifth Avenue The City Is Refusing to Take Meaningful Action to Protect Historic Buildings The city has failed to take seriously the growing problem of people’s homes and historic…
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