…ready! Archival images from the Urban Archive’s “My Archive” page, including images from GVSHP’s Historic Image Archive What is Urban Archive’s “My Archive”? Dig into your family archives and join…
Read MoreNorthern end of the Bowery where it splits to 4th and 3rd Avenues, from the GVSHP Historic Image Archive, NY Bound Bookshop Collection The Bowery is Manhattan’s oldest street, predating…
Read MoreNews clippings and historic images from the new Evelyn G. Hayes Collections We have some wonderful new additions to our Preservation History Archive and Historic Image Archive to share from…
Read More…that, the “Archives” list. The Historic Image Archive This highly trafficked section is so beloved we gave it a whole button at the top of our website, but it’s also…
Read More…work of digitizing. The online archive is a bilingual project that conserves, digitizes, and curates only a portion of Cornell’s IWO archives. Children’s magazine “Kinderland” then published by the Arbeter…
Read More…deep dive into our archives as we explore Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo through these women’s eyes. Jean Polachek Collection Image Archive Collection Polachek. Children on tricycles and…
Read More…recently, an art gallery was added on East 1st Street. La Mama’s Archive The La MaMa Archive, overflowing Established in the early 1970s, La MaMa Archives collects, preserves, and exhibits…
Read More…archives, and libraries in an easy-to-use resource built for discovery. Since 2017, Village Preservation has partnered with Urban Archive to increase access to our image archives and resources, recreate historic…
Read More…and beyond. 403 West 14th Street, now the Apple Store and Hugo Boss. From the GVSHP Image Archive, 1980s Stop 1: Our tour begins at No.’s 3, 5, 7 Ninth Avenue. Among…
Read More…or peruse the archive before attending our Annual Meeting and Village Awards, time spent with these archives will further one’s insight into the impact the architecture and history of The…
Read More…Historic Image Archive. Nathan’s Famous was founded by Polish immigrant Nathan Handwerker in 1916. The original still stands in Coney Island on the corner of Surf and Stillwell Avenues. Since…
Read More…Village Preservation, let us know! Email Sam Moskowitz to ask about adding your photos to Village Preservation’s Historic Image Archive. Prints from the archive are also available for purchase here….
Read More…particular passion of hers. Access the Evelyn G. Haynes Archive of our Preservation History Archive HERE It’s the latest addition to our growing Preservation History Archive. Access our full Preservation…
Read More…for purchase with proceeds benefitting GVSHP. Explore all the images on our archive here or by map here. The archive is filled with other fascinating stories — explore a family’s view of…
Read MoreAnthology Film Archives is an international center dedicated to the preservation, study, and exhibition of film and video, with a particular focus on independent, experimental, and avant-garde cinema. GVSHP is…
Read More…photos, Village Preservation maintains a large archive of many historic neighborhood images from a variety of different photographers and historic sources. Visit our online archive to browse all of Carole’s…
Read MoreWe are very excited to share our new and improved Historic Image Archive with you! Whether you are an historic researcher or photography buff, our new archive offers endless layers…
Read More…the 1960s to our Historic Image Archive here. 9-29 Vandam Street Ca. 1971 from the Evelyn Haynes Collection of the Village Preservation Historic Image Archive Much of this archival material…
Read MorePreservation History Archive This archive contains printed materials from organizations and individuals involved in historic preservation efforts, particularly those connected to Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo. The Association…
Read More…the Grid often features images from GVSHP’s Preservation Archive and Oral History Project. The image archive includes approximately 300 images from ten different collections that document the architecture, cultural history,…
Read MoreThe Hunt: East Village Urban Archive Scavenger Hunt Urban Archive is a location-based mobile platform that holds multiple digital collections, including VP’s Historic Image Archive. The app is built for…
Read More…streetscapes is the “ghost sign,” of which Village Preservation’s Historic Image Archive contains a record of many. Ghost signs are the faded, hand-painted advertising signs found on historic buildings, usually…
Read More…archive itself, where she’ll take the opportunity to show off her favorite items, both in their current home in the archive and in archival footage of some of La MaMa’s…
Read More…me looking through the archive of Robert Otter, a photographer who captured the Village’s vibrant and bohemian character from 1960 to 1972. I was happy to spend time looking through…
Read MoreFirst Presbyterian Church in winter. New York Bound Collection, GVSHP archive, undated. This image from the GVSHP Archive features an idyllic view of people gathering on the sidewalk outside of…
Read More…photographs to our Historic Image Archive. Within these collections are images of some of the historic buildings we’ve worked to protect over the past few decades. Early in Susan’s career,…
Read More…latest additions to our Historic Image Archive — CLICK HERE View our entire Historic Image Archive — CLICK HERE If you have images you would like to donate, contact info@gvshp.org….
Read More…W. McDarrah images to our image archive, many of which highlight our mission of preserving and honoring our cultural and architectural history. A few of my select favorites are below-…
Read MoreImmigrant Heritage Day East Village Walking Tour with the Urban Archive App On April 17, 1907, more immigrants entered the U.S. through Ellis Island than any other day in history….
Read MoreThe old pear-tree planted by Governor Stuyvesant at the corner of Third Avenue and 13th Street, New York Bound Collection, GVSHP archive, 1861. This week, research requests to the Greenwich…
Read More…on our archive. See numerous Fred W. McDarrah collections and photos here. You can access our entire historic image archive here, and explore by image, collection, map, or keyword search….
Read MoreWith the refreshingly spring-like weather making us long for a walk in the park today, we thought we’d take a look (via GVSHP’s archives) at some artists working en plein…
Read MoreOur Image Archive includes collections donated by (from left) Robert Fisch, Carole Teller, Pryor Dodge, and Meredith Jacobson Marciano, among others Our Historic Image Archive currently has more than 3,800…
Read More…archive, from the late 18th through the early 21st centuries, and purchase prints of many to support our work. See New and Old Collection In Our Historic Image Archive —…
Read More…we thought we’d take a look at our historic image archive to see some of the dearly departed buildings whose memory at least we have been able to preserve. Demolition…
Read MoreDid you know that Village Preservation has an ever-growing Historic Image Archive containing nearly 4,500 images in over 60 collections, ranging from late 18th-century etchings to photographs and postcards from…
Read MorePolice officer with a motorcycle in front of Washington Square Arch, mid-1950s. We recently added a new collection, the Jean Polacheck Collection, to our historic image archive. This collection dates…
Read MoreHistories of 4th Street from East to West: A Presentation by the NYU Archives & Public History Program Master’s Degree Candidates 4th Street runs from Avenue D in the East…
Read MoreThe New Ohio Theatre: A visit to the New Ohio Theatre in the historic Archive Building The Ohio Theatre was founded on Wooster Street in Soho in the 1980s and…
Read More…Archive of Over 3,600 Images from the Late 18th through the Early 21st Centuries HERE If you have images you would like to donate to our archives, please contact info@villagepreservation.org. …
Read MoreCelebrating Holidays: Immigrants to Greenwich Village A Presentation by the NYU Archives & Public History Program Master’s Degree Candidates So many different ethnic immigrant groups have come to Greenwich Village…
Read MoreTompkins Square North: Anatomy of an East Village Block A Presentation by the NYU Public History & Archives Class Considered by many to be one of the most beautiful blocks…
Read MoreWe’ve just added over a dozen wonderful new images to our historic image archive culled from recent landmarks applications in our neighborhoods. Some highlights include the old Ninth Avenue Elevated…
Read MoreVillage Preservation Historic Image Archive This image archive highlights the history of the people and built environment of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo, and New York City in…
Read MoreOur Historic Image Archive provides a snapshot of our neighborhood’s past. From summers on the piers to drag shows at the Pyramid Club and an important archeological dig, you can…
Read MoreWe recently added a new collection to our historic image archive, Noah Greenberg’s “Manhattan Promenade” Proposal. This collection dates from 1979, and includes shots of what we now know as…
Read MoreLinda Yowell, architect and preservationist, recently donated a wide assortment of photos to Village Preservation’s Historic Image Archive, covering the 1970s through the late 1990s. Among them are images of…
Read More…on Urban Archive! If you missed the program, you can download Urban Archive and take the walking tour yourself, along with many others! What is Urban Archive and what’s the…
Read More…be evaluated by the LPC using photographic archives such as these, or deemed an “appropriate” change. From November 2018 through February 2019, I was tasked with photographing the 2019 version…
Read MoreThe Village Preservation Historic Image Archive highlights the history of the people and built environment of Greenwich Village, the East Village, NoHo, and New York City in general. All the…
Read MoreOral Histories of Extraordinary East Villagers: New Additions to the Village Preservation Archive In 2014, Village Preservation began an ongoing series of interviews with cultural pioneers and community leaders in…
Read More…newly created online gallery at the New York City Municipal Archives is such an excellent resource, we thought it deserved another look. You can browse the Municipal Archive’s collection here,…
Read MoreEdward LaGrassa was an architecture student in 1969 when he took these photos of cast iron buildings and structures, largely in SoHo and Tribeca, as well as in Harlem and…
Read MoreGVSHP is pleased to partner with WNYC on this post that spotlights their archival collection. WNYC 93.9 FM and AM 820 are New York’s flagship public radio stations, broadcasting the…
Read More…even begin.” Several of the performances at AICH are archived at the Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library, a digital library dedicated to documenting performance practices in the Americas. “Reverb-Ber-Ber-Rations” by…
Read More…in New York. The original Thomas Beauty Salon in the ground floor of the Italian Labor Center, from the Carole Teller collection of our historic image archive, www.archive.gvshp.org It’s been…
Read MoreNew York history buffs have been waiting a long time for this — the New York City Municipal Archives has digitized all 720,000 of its tax photos of every building in…
Read More…Archive. Street Fair, Gay and Lesbian Youth in New York table, Greenwich Village, April 30, 1983. Image by Robert Fisch, from the Village Preservation Historic Image Archive. Jillian Jonas was…
Read More…when he left his wife for Marilyn Monroe. The doorway of 155 Willow Street, Brooklyn Heights, from our Historic Image Archive, www.archive.gvshp.org. Miller was born in Manhattan and lived as…
Read More…we recently launched our Preservation History Archive. This online resource contains printed materials from organizations and individuals involved in historic preservation efforts, particularly those connected to Greenwich Village, the East…
Read MoreOur Historic Image Archive includes thousands of images from the late 18th through the early 21st centuries. While most of our images show Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo,…
Read More…the Municipal Archives. Then I went to check out the City Register Archive, the National Archives, 60 Center Street, and main Public Library. I even used your archives at the…
Read More…serve as custodian of an immense and rich photo archive you can explore here. And sometimes we see some intriguing online resources and archives that have a plethora of catchy…
Read More…stated that the Hastings Historical Society had a societal archive “equal or superior to the finest village or county archive in this country or Canada.” The landmarked Observatory Cottage in…
Read More…playing the roles of Roman soldiers leading Jesus to his crucifixion. We have several images of several such processionals in the East Village in our archive: View them in the archive here,…
Read MoreIt’s no secret that we are big fans of the New York City Municipal Archives digital collection of all 720,000 of its tax photos of most building in New York…
Read More…our Historic Image Archive. A rainy 8th anniversary. Point Thank You on September 11, 2009. From the Lenore Mills 9/11 Memorial Collection of our Historic Image Archive. The group’s 2002…
Read More…‘normal.’ We’ve also been spending a lot of time going through our historic image archive at www.archive.gvshp.org, remembering some of those once-common activities, and just exploring the history of our…
Read More…Photo © Estate of Fred W. McDarrah, from Village Preservation’s Historic Image Archive, www.archive.gvshp.org. The Estate of Fred W. McDarrah generously allowed Village Preservation to share these previously never-before-seen photos…
Read More…neighborhood, go to Village Preservation’s Historic Image Archive. To see the latest additions to our archive like the 1925 photo, click here. And if you want to see more historic…
Read More…Image Archive www.archive.gvshp.org. To see all the images in the GVSHP Historic Image Archive, click here. The GVSHP images shown above appear in the New York Bound and Nat Kaufman…
Read More…our historic image archive to see if any other images might provide any clues. Using our Historic Image Archive Map I found several in the area, but none really helped;…
Read More…our neighborhoods that celebrated the bicentennial of its birth. More than dozen new donated collections were added to our Historic Image Archive, including over 1,000 new images of everything from…
Read More…supported by the organization’s thoughtful public programming. We can also gather virtually around resources created to archive the history of the activism and important work done in our neighborhoods and…
Read More…Image Archive. Filming “The Godfather Part II” on East 6th Street between Avenues A & B. Image by Carole Teller, from the Village Preservation Historic Image Archive. During the filming…
Read More…1979. 32-34 Second Avenue, c. 1970s. Photo courtesy of the Landmark Preservation Commission, held in our Historic Image Archive. Anthology Film Archives, the leading organization of its kind, has not…
Read More…to ‘normal.’ We’ve also been spending a lot of time going through our historic image archive at www.archive.gvshp.org, remembering some of those once-common activities, and just exploring the history of…
Read More…to ‘normal.’ We’ve also been spending a lot of time going through our historic image archive at www.archive.gvshp.org, remembering some of those once-common activities, and just exploring the history of…
Read More…MacDougal Streets in the background. To see more images from our historic image archive, go to www.archive.gvshp.org. To learn more about the history of the South Village and our efforts…
Read More…We’ve also been spending a lot of time going through our historic image archive at www.archive.gvshp.org, remembering some of those once-common activities, and just exploring the history of our neighborhoods and…
Read More…Loews Avenue B in the mid-1960s after it has been abandoned, from our historic image archive, www.archive.gvshp.org. Our Historic Image Archive has several very interesting detailed shots of the exterior,…
Read More…in case you missed them or want to relive them. Celebrating Holidays: Immigrants to Greenwich Village A Presentation by the NYU Archives & Public History Program Master’s Degree Candidates Co-sponsored…
Read MoreVillage Preservation has so many online resources available about the history of our area. But did you know that we now also have an incredible archive available online of the…
Read More…we focus on the images from our archive of the twin towers during their all-too-brief life between April 4, 1973 and September 11, 2001. This image was taken in 1996…
Read MoreFire Patrol #2 in 2009. Photo credit: Village Preservation Historic Image Archive The former firehouse located at 84 West 3rd Street in Greenwich Village is often noted for being the renovated and restored…
Read More…the Village Preservation Historic Image Archive Click here to see more photos donated by Jillian Jonas to the Village Preservation Historic Image Archive documenting her time as the house photographer…
Read MoreAbout the Historic Image Archive This photo archive is for educational purposes. Any image can be requested for personal, scholarly, or commercial use. An application must be submitted for all…
Read More…ideas behind the exhibition. Interior of the 69th Regiment Armory installation (1913), Archives of American Art “Façade of a City Residence,” Raymond Duchamp-Villon model (1913), Archives of American Art In…
Read More…Gallery records, Archives of American Art. Halpert (April 25, 1900 – October 6, 1970) was born in Odessa, in what is now Ukraine. Fleeing the pogroms following the 1905 Russian…
Read More…of resources and tools that can provide further light on this, including our Civil Rights & Social Justice Map, Oral Histories, Historic Image Archives, and our free public programs). Let’s…
Read More…131 & 133 2nd Avenue, west side north and south of St. Mark’s Place, with St. Mark’s Theater “Taxi Driver”,” Village Preservation (GVSHP) Image Archive, accessed July 8, 2019, http://www.archive.gvshp.org/items/show/1510….
Read MoreVillage Preservation has been, and continues to be, the guardian of many different archives. Still, our repository continues growing, and our newest online resource, the Preservation History Archive, is somewhat…
Read More…also been spending a lot of time going through our historic image archive, remembering some of those once-common activities, and just exploring the history of our neighborhoods and city. Today…
Read More…Image Archive, Carole Teller’s Changing New York collection. Penn Station being demolished, 31st and 7th. Image courtesy of the GVSHP Image Archive, Carole Teller’s Changing New York collection. So how…
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