…the offices of The New York Times About Ada Louise Huxtable Huxtable was born Ada Louise Landman on the Upper West Side, at a time when architectural criticisms was not…
Read MoreAda Louise Huxtable on Park Avenue in the 1970s. Photo by Bernard Gotfryd. Ada Louise Huxtable (March 14, 1921 – January 7, 2013) was arguably the most formidable critical voice…
Read MoreAda Louise Huxtable, photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt for Life Magazine, 1974. (image courtesy of Dwell) Yesterday, legendary architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable died at the age of 91 at Memorial…
Read MoreMarch 14, 2021 marks what would be Ada Louise Huxtable’s 100th birthday. Huxtable (1921-2013), a native New Yorker, was a pioneer in architectural criticism, and a champion of livable cities….
Read MoreRick Kelly of Carmine Street Guitars gives new meaning to the term adaptive reuse The term adaptive reuse is used by architects and preservationists to describe the process of adapting…
Read More…studio in which to write and paint. Portrait of Louise Bryant by John Henry Trullinger By 1915, Louise was a star in Portland, but was dissatisfied living a bourgeois life…
Read MorePurchase The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams!! Eve Adams was a rebel. Born Chawa Zloczewer to a Jewish family in Poland, Adams emigrated to the United States…
Read MoreSimply put, adaptive reuse is defined as the process of adapting old structure for new uses. From a preservation perspective, adaptive reuse is often a wonderful way to preserve historic…
Read More…and relive some of our favorite moments of 2021 with us! Top Attended Ada Louise Huxtable Ada Louise Huxtable’s New York with Lucie Levine: Over 600 people joined us last…
Read More…an audience Q&A and book signing! Ada will be joined in conversation by Deborah Wye, Director of LESPI. After the talk, Ada will sign copies of her books. This event is presented in partnership with the Lower East Side Preservation Initiative, the East Village…
Read More…the film we have produced, “Adaptive Enchantment,” will premiere October 18th, running through October 24th. We cannot wait to share the surprises that lay in store for our audience! But…
Read MoreWith Village Preservation Director of Research and Preservation Sarah Bean Apmann Friday, Jan. 29 at 2:00pm Adaptive reuse, the process of adapting old structures for new uses, defines the built…
Read MoreLast week the Department of City Planning presented a more detailed preliminary outline of Mayor Adams’ “City of Yes” plan — aimed at increasing development, and addressing issues like environmental…
Read MoreRoof Explorer’s Guide A book talk and slideshow with Leslie Adatto New York City is world-renowned for its skyline, and high atop its lofty heights beats a feast of breathtaking…
Read MoreVillage Preservation has been poring over Mayor Adams’ latest citywide rezoning proposal, called “City of Yes/Housing Opportunities.” The sprawling, innocuously titled package proposes a vast array of changes to rules…
Read MoreMayor Adams has been touting plans to change zoning regulations in New York City, which he refers to as his “City of Yes” plan. The Mayor’s stated intention is to…
Read More…life through creative processes of thinking and building for adaptive re-use. It made me think how lucky we are that there are some prime examples of this right here in…
Read MoreSt Marks is Dead: A book talk with author Ada Calhoun In this idiosyncratic work of narrative history, enriched by more than two hundred interviews and dozens of rare images,…
Read MoreOld IS New: Creative Approaches to Adaptive Reuse A Walking Tour of the West Village with Françoise Bollack, AIA, DESA A walk on Greenwich and Washington Streets shows the evolution…
Read MoreThe Spring and Fall of Eve Adams An Evening with Barbara Kahn $12; reservations required. Playwright/director Barbara Kahn will share some of the fascinating NYC facts she has discovered while…
Read More…added to our Historic Image Archive; the full original 1979 proposal for adaptive reuse, with text, map, and pictures, has been added to our Preservation History Archive. View Images from the High…
Read More…added to our Historic Image Archive; the full original 1979 proposal for adaptive reuse, with text, map, and pictures, has been added to our Preservation History Archive. View Images from the High…
Read More…Christopher Marte and several other local elected officials. Mayor Adams now has the opportunity to veto this legislation. Call on Mayor Adams to VETO the Punitive + Draconian Intro 2443A…
Read More…Christopher Marte and several other local elected officials. Mayor Adams now has the opportunity to veto this legislation. Call on Mayor Adams to VETO the Punitive + Draconian Intro 2443A…
Read More…once a labyrinth, a home, an arts community, and a pioneer in adaptive reuse of industrial space. It was rare and precious, but in 1968 it was nothing less than…
Read MorePurchase Rebel Cinderella! Award-winning author Adam Hochschild has uncovered the riveting story of Rose Pastor Stokes—the immigrant firebrand who became one of the most celebrated figures of the tumultuous early 20th century….
Read More…our neighborhoods and our city, with lessons that can help shape planning and policy. READ the report “Crisis and Adaptation: Storefront Trends in the East Village 2019–2021” HERE Read more…
Read MoreMayor Adams’ “City of Yes for Economic Opportunity” is a massive, citywide rezoning plan that would change scores of rules and regulations to allow businesses to grow in New York…
Read MoreOn Friday, Mayor Adams released the final details of his sweeping proposed set of zoning changes called “City of Yes for Housing Opportunity” — the nearly 800-page annotated document can…
Read More…Mayor Adams, landmark designations have reached an all-time low affecting every corner of the city; that a real estate industry bill approved by the City Council appears to have made…
Read MoreThe City Council has announced they will hold what may be their only hearing allowing testimony from the public on Mayor Adams’ “City of Yes” citywide rezoning plan on Tuesday,…
Read MoreWe here at Village Preservation are in the business (so to speak) of trying to help ensure historic buildings are preserved and, when necessary, adapted and reused rather than destroyed….
Read More…were forced to temporarily close or drastically adapt their operations. For an unfortunate number of businesses, the changes, combined with an adverse retail climate, led to their permanent closure. Some…
Read MoreWestbeth: A Revolution in Artists’ Housing and Adaptive Re-Use A Celebratory Lecture with Andrew Dolkart…
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Inscribed to Antonio Demo, pastor of Our Lady of Pompei parish. Giacomo Luigi’s son, Giacomo (James) Domenico Pattarini, was born in Piacenza in 1850. He married Giuseppina Maria Teresa (Josephine)…
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Read More…the city’s more notable white elephants, fated to go the way of Penn Station and the Brokaw mansion”, in the words of well-known critic Ada Louise Huxtable in a fascinating…
Read More…lived for a period in 1973 with his Ben & Jerry’s co-founder Ben Cohen on East 10th Street. L: Ada Louise Huxtable circa 1960s. Photo credit Garth Huxtable; R: a…
Read More…Adams and the Landmarks Preservation Commission Mayor Adams’ Increasing Resistance to Protecting Our History through Landmark Designations Must End Village Preservation’s report Analyzing New York City Landmark Designations shows a…
Read More…Art opened in September 1966, New York Times architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable noted that the inverted ziggurat-like Brutalist structure had quickly become “the most disliked building in New York.”…
Read More…well-known critic Ada Louise Huxtable in a fascinating 1966 New York Times article. Entitled “A Landmark Saved: Historic Building Scheduled for Razing Is Rescued With Aid of City’s New Law,” the article describes…
Read More…Times architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable noted that the inverted ziggurat-like structure had quickly become “the most disliked building in New York.” However, Huxtable also wrote that the building was…
Read More…while saving the Astor Library. Indeed, the building stands today as a testament to the early years of the landmarks law. In the words of well-known critic Ada Louise Huxtable…
Read More…the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to give it that status on October 26, 1965. In the words of well-known critic Ada Louise Huxtable in a fascinating 1966 New York Times…
Read More…alter 65 E. 3rd Street from a tenement to a synagogue Beth Haknesseth und Chevra Chochmath Adam M’Plinsk (Synagogue and Association of Chochmath Adam of Plinsk, Poland) was a congregation…
Read More…Adams ran Eve Adams Tea Room on MacDougal Street in the South Village. Adams’ work caught the attention of the young U.S. Bureau of Investigation, leading to her surveillance, arrest,…
Read More…City of Maybe: Does Mayor Adams’s indictment imperil his ambitious housing plan?, Brick Underground, September 27 New York court reinstates NYU rezoning lawsuit, Washington Square News, September 12 Under Adams,…
Read More…“After the Revolution,” wrote Ada Louise Huxtable in Classic New York, “in the time of the new republic, Georgian [style architecture] becomes Federal.” Within that Georgian framework, “there are decorative…
Read More…from Greenwich Village. Another image from Robert Frish, this one from 1993. On April 5. 1973, the day following the WTC’s Grand Opening, NY Times architectural critic Ada Louise Huxtable…
Read More…In the words of well-known critic Ada Louise Huxtable in a fascinating 1966 New York Times article entitled “A Landmark Saved: Historic Building Scheduled for Razing Is Rescued With Aid…
Read More…years of the landmarks law. In the words of well-known critic Ada Louise Huxtable in a fascinating 1966 New York Times article entitled “A Landmark Saved: Historic Building Scheduled for…
Read More…Penn Station, New York Times architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable notably wrote “Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately deserves. Even when we had Penn Station,…
Read More…New York, Ada Louise Huxtable described the Federal style as refined and decorous, “the architecture of good breeding and good manners.” To help understand and appreciate the Federal style and…
Read More…The forgotten mama of Dada, the eccentric poet, performance artist, and sculptor Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven was certainly one of the most important feminists and avant-garde artists of the early…
Read More…Eve Adamson Though she continued to direct plays at Cocteau, Adamson stepped down as artistic director in 1989. Her replacement was Robert Hupp, who held the position until 1999, when…
Read More…Provincetown Studio, 1945. Louise Bourgeois with her sculpture The Visitors Arrive at the Door, on the roof of her apartment at 142 East 10th Street, ca. 1944. Louise Nevelson, Girl,…
Read More…also home to the Scovill & Adams Company and its publication, The Photographic Times. Scovill and The Photographic Times are credited with being “largely responsible for the birth and progress of photographic commerce…
Read More…audience Q&A and book signing! Ada will be joined in conversation by Deborah Wye, Director of LESPI. After the talk, Ada will sign copies of her books. Ada Calhoun is the…
Read More…My Father, and Me, along with an audience Q&A and book signing! Ada will be joined in conversation by Deborah Wye, Director of LESPI. After the talk, Ada will sign…
Read More…Though Mayors Beame and Giuliani join Adams at the bottom of the list of Mayors to extend landmark designations, Adams far exceeds them, with two-thirds fewer designations than his predecessors,…
Read MoreA poster advertisement for the 1971 film adaptation of Fortune and Men’s Eyes. Image Courtesy of IMDb. Telling the stories of incarcerated young men in the 1960s, Fortune and Men’s…
Read More…support dozens of small businesses throughout our neighborhoods, we co-produced the Crisis and Adaptation report analyzing retail trends and challenges in the East Village, and grew our Business of the…
Read More…Jean Dubuffet. Architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable praised the design in the New York Times: “These are ambitious structures of character and quality, surrounded by the most expensive urban luxury…
Read More…public space” in the words of architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable. Today, with that portion of Astor Place pedestrianized, the island is part of a public plaza that affords even…
Read More…his mansion before he died in 1919. His wife, Louise Carnegie, remained in the mansion until she died in 1946. Louise left the mansion to the Carnegie Corporation, which leased…
Read More…the center of the park was the site of the birth of the Hare Krishna movement in the United States in 1966. Srila Prabhupada (1896-1977). As the New York Times…
Read More…We will delve into these histories and futures, movements and battles with historians and Professors Jeffrey Lee Trask (Westbeth) and Nicholas Bloom (Mitchell Lama), and moderator Adam Tanaka. Adam Tanaka…
Read More…was offered the opportunity to direct an adaptation of Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. The film was a smashing success, winning the Oscar for best picture…
Read More…coming to the United States in September of 1965, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896–1977), the Indian spiritual leader, founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness in New York. He worked…
Read More…They planned and undertook a series of raids from American soil against British Canada and Ireland itself to end British rule through armed rebellion. John O’Mahony circa 1865 John O’Mahony…
Read More…drive to register people to vote, Koenig offered use of mailing machine, fundraising event, canada dry soda machine to be fixed, new typewriter, try to assist in organization of Murray…
Read More…perplexing paradox emerges — one which would seem to imply that historic preservation and, more specifically, adaptive re-use, may both repel, and attract, registered Republicans. Looking at the WNYC map,…
Read More…Change) and lobbied her father for the passage of a constitutional amendment granting women the right to vote. Louise Bryant Louise Bryant and Patchin Place Louise Bryant was a fearless…
Read More…shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” 6. Louise Bryant, 1 Patchin Place Via Wikimedia Bryant was known as a daring and pathbreaking…
Read More…Novelist Henry Miller even described him once as “The stratospheric Colossus of Sound.” During his time in our neighborhoods, he resided with his wife Louise at 188 Sullivan Street. Isamu…
Read More…which were eventually donated to Cornell by New York State: https://digital.library.cornell.edu/collections/iwo-jpfo Cartoon depicting Hitler cringing before a company of tanks labeled “American Jews,” “Soviet Jews,” “Canada Jews” “English Jews,” and…
Read More…de Blasio administration released details of their planned upzoning of SoHo and NoHo — and it’s even worse than we imagined. Tell City Officials You Adamantly Oppose This Plan — CLICK…
Read More…women. This included Ada Clare, who was known as “Queen of Bohemia,” and Adah Isaacs Menken, both of whom belonged to his inner clique at Pfaff’s. Both were fond of…
Read More…sorts of cookies. One of the most interesting things La Newyorkina serves is a Chamoyada. Chamoyada are made with different fruit “ices”, pickled plum sauce called chamoy, salted chile and…
Read More…loft housing for artists. They dramatically altered the city’s relationship to and accommodation of its artist population, and put in place a strong mechanism for adaptive reuse of historic buildings,…
Read More…2nd Avenue, west side between 2nd & 3rd Streets, looking south in 1969. In the late 1960s, spiritual leader Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada arrived in New York to spread his…
Read More…and immigrants from every corner of the world, is what makes this unique cuisine so tasty, and full of exotic flavors and ingredients. @casabrazilianrestaurant Brazilian feast. #caldinhodefeijao #moqueca #feijoada #frangoapassarinho…
Read More…Richmond Hill became the Vice-Presidential mansion and home of John Adams. After the capitol was moved, Aaron Burr (who would eventually succeed Adams as the country’s third Vice-President) bought the mansion and…
Read More…exterior staircase including the 2nd and 3rd floor landings and doors to create ADA access to each level; and new rooftop bulkhead with ADA access to outdoor rooftop deck. 2)…
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