…Street until 1939. A non-sectarian school, it was one of the first technical schools in the United States. The United Hebrew Charities, the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, and the Hebrew Free School…
Read More…Primary School No. 31 in 1867. In 1899 it became Public School No. 131, which it remained until at least 1924. Historic photos show a three-story building with very large…
Read More…rights and civil liberties cases of the late 20th century. A lifetime New Yorker, he attended DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx, Yale University, and Columbia University Law School…
Read More…Public to discuss the work. After they had plunked out a few of the tunes on the piano for Papp and Gerald Freedman, associate artistic director at the time, Freedman…
Read More…New York Free Circulating Library – all began in these neighborhoods just below 14th Street. As a result, this is where New York’s oldest public library buildings and the oldest…
Read More…This free concert series turns the tables on the 1,800 students who study music at the school, placing their teachers in the spotlight for a change. In fact, says communications…
Read More…(image courtesy of the LGBT Community Center) Erected by the City of New York in the third quarter of the 19th Century, this Italianate brick building was originally Public School…
Read More…a time of enormous hope for many African Americans in New York City. On that day, Reverend William Hamilton announced at the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, “[n]o more shall…
Read More…Birthday a national holiday — the first-ever honoring an African-American. That successful quest began and was spearheaded by a native son of Greenwich Village. According to New York City records,…
Read More…African-American population, and several blocks from Minetta Street and Lane and Thompson Street, which in the 19th century were the heart of Greenwich Village’s African-American community. In spite of the…
Read More…of Africa. Weston played an important role in advancing the argument, now widely accepted, that the roots of jazz trace back to African music. Weston’s music prominently incorporated African elements…
Read More…most popular compositions include “Hi-Fly,” “Little Niles,” and “Blue Moses.” Weston was also a key political figure in global civil rights activism. As African countries fought for freedom from colonial…
Read More…the Caribbean, and Europe. As reported in Lisa E. Farrington’s book Creating Their Own Image: The History of African-American Women Artists, in 1970 Burke stated: “I have known African art…
Read More…African American, LGBTQ+, women’s, labor, literary and artistic history. Register for free today on AJHS’ website. Before Salmagundi: The Evolution of a Fifth Ave Mansion We’ll return to the Salmagundi…
Read More…only 2 free circulating libraries at the time, the Jackson Square Library opened its doors to the public on July 6th, 1888. The evolution of the free circulation library system…
Read More…country. NoHo Harvey Milk High School/Hetrick-Martin Institute (2 Astor Place) Harvey Milk High School/Hetrick-Martin Institute (2 Astor Place) Harvey Milk High School (named for the first openly gay man to…
Read More…of the Children’s Aid Society’s industrial schools. The industrial schools provided a place where orphaned children as well as children living with their families could learn valuable trade skills like…
Read MoreShirley Wright has lived in Greenwich Village for three quarters of a century, and co-founded the West Village Nursery School, a model, progressive, nursery school that has been a cornerstone institution in…
Read More…The school is housed in two former row houses built in 1851 by mason Smith Woodruff which were combined to serve the school. Out back, the school boasts a beautiful,…
Read More…not just for the school’s children but their parents and the broader community. Innovation continued here. P.S. 64 was the first school in the city to have electric lights in…
Read More…New York-based African American artists to the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. They kept meeting on a weekly basis in Bearden’s studio to discuss how their art might…
Read More…Freedom in Dutch New Amsterdam.’ In our neighborhoods, Christopher Moore’s research has revealed that the site of the Americas’ first Freed Black Settlement was right where a large swath of…
Read More…supporter of both the historic Abyssinian Baptist Church and the Freedmen’s Bank, both located nearby. (His son, Jacob Day, Jr., remained here until 1896.) He supported numerous abolitionist and African…
Read More…Book, The Freedom Book, and The Song Book. References to ‘the Book’ were described by Ervin’s close friend Randy Weston for his album, “African Cookbook,” in 1969: “the African Cookbook,…
Read More…Preservation as we outline the history of African presence in Lower Manhattan. The program begins with a conversation about the lives and experiences of people of African descent who were…
Read More…Rights Party hoped to use the nominations to reunite suffragists with African-American civil rights activists. Woodhull was vilified in the press for her support of free love, and she was…
Read More…followed by 31 West 8th Street around 1940. He was born in Quincy, Massachusetts and despite struggling in school (reportedly he was ultimately expelled from high school), Cheever was a self-taught writer…
Read More…1930s and, followed by 31 West 8th Street around 1940. He was born in Quincy, Massachusetts and despite struggling in school (reportedly he was ultimately expelled from high school), Cheever was a…
Read More…Lower East Side, and SoHo, were former African slaves of the New Netherland colony who formed the first free black settlement in North America. Starting in 1643, just over two…
Read More…their reading, and are not eligible for the free libraries.” The Ottendorfer Branch of the New York Public Library Fortunately, it was around this time that some members of the…
Read More…our past programs, click here. Walking Tour: “The Tredwells’ World” First Tour: Sunday, April 14 at 1:30 PM Second Tour: Sunday, April 28 at 1:30 PM Free for members of…
Read More…the Stilettos, and a pre-Blondie Debbie Harry all performed here. NoHo: Harvey Milk High School/Hetrick-Martin Institute (2 Astor Place) Harvey Milk High School (named for the first openly gay man…
Read More…be…. Thought must be free.” It makes perfect sense that Hays would set down roots in Greenwich Village, the epicenter of free thought and unconventional living. Many peers have said…
Read More…this year, 90% of whom were from high-needs schools and participated for free or at a reduced cost. We expanded and revised our very popular Civil Rights and Social Justice Map….
Read More…mother moved to Scotland. After being educated in Edinburgh at a school her mother opened in 1779, and at a French school in Rotterdam where she trained to be a…
Read More…East 12th Street also houses apartments. 630-634 East 6th Street 630-634 East 6th Street was designed in 1889 as the Sixth Street Industrial School by Vaux & Radford. This school…
Read More…environmental sustainability. Grace Church School apiary and rooftop farm Grace Church School in the East Village is a founding member of the Green Schools Alliance and has been ranked among…
Read More…Birthday a national holiday — the first-ever honoring an African-American. That successful quest began and was spearheaded by a native son of Greenwich Village. Howard Bennett was born in 1911…
Read More…was home to Irish and German immigrants and African Americans. In five days of rioting, mobs lynched at least a dozen African American men, destroyed draft offices, burned and looted…
Read More…famed blues rendition of the same poem. Pearl Primus would go on to become a titan in the field of modern African American dance and introduce African dance to American…
Read More…(Pennsylvania) High School for Girls and was the only African American in her graduating class. Following her graduation, Fauset received a scholarship to attend Cornell University, and in 1905 made…
Read More…their special histories, and reveal their (sometimes hidden) connections to the Village. The Abyssinian Baptist Church at 136-142 West 138th Street is the home of the second oldest African-American congregation…
Read More…connections to gay liberation and the African-American struggle for freedom, the history behind the name is a little murkier, and a little more complicated to unravel, than one might expect. Northward…
Read More…February 2023 as we celebrate Black History Month. First, Village Preservation participants were treated to a free tour of the first hour of Lawrence’s “You Are Here: African American Walking…
Read More…Free?,” 1938. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia. Actors Butterfly McQueen and Robert Earl Jones performed in “Don’t You Want to be Free?,” which served as their respective acting debuts. The Harlem…
Read More…with New York Theater and his commitment to free Shakespeare for the people is part of his transcendent legacy. GVSHP celebrated The Public with a Village Award in 2017, the 50th…
Read More…here. Black History in Greenwich Village: Session 3 – Civil Rights, Women’s Suffrage, and the Great Migration 1870 – 1950 Monday, March 4, 2024 6 pm Zoom webinar Free Pre-registration required…
Read More…Free Circulating Library in 1901. The Free Library, founded in 1879 by a teacher from Greenwich Village’s Grace Church and other women and teachers in a building on 13th Street…
Read More…histories or connections. Here are a few: Harvey Milk High School/Hetrick-Martin Institute (2 Astor Place) Harvey Milk High School (named for the first openly gay man to be elected to…
Read More…click here. Saul Leiter Plaque Unveiling Wednesday, May 1, 2024 6 pm In-person Free Pre-registration required. Location: 111 East 10th Street (Second Avenue/Cooper Square) Join us for the ceremonial unveiling…
Read More…subsequent owners have continued to pay Cooper Union the equivalent of the site’s property tax to help fund the school’s educational mission. That income helped keep the school’s tuition free…
Read More…school year. It was the last Catholic school in the East Village following the closing of the St. Brigid School in 2019. Click here to see our tour of East…
Read More…The Village Voice, courtesy of Getty Images. Fancher and his New School classmate Dan Wolf, along with the celebrated writer Norman Mailer, launched The Village Voice in 1955 with absolutely no experience…
Read More…and the school’s founding mission to serve the many needy immigrant families who populated this neighborhood at the turn of the last century. Since 1901, the school has been located…
Read More…240 West Fourteenth Street within the official South of Union Square area. The radical Marxist art school at the John Reed Club School of Art and the American Artists School,…
Read More…as they do even now: Raffetto’s on Houston, the Greenwich House, and of course her beloved school, the Little Red School House on Bleecker Street. A double-decker bus on Fifth…
Read More…a staunch advocate of free speech and an early proponent of sexual freedom and gay rights. In 1954, he went to San Francisco, where he met and fell in love…
Read More…York City, impacting the lives of millions of children. From left: the former Elizabeth Home for Girls, Sullivan Street Industrial School, and Tompkins Square Lodging for Boys A friend of…
Read More…using African spices injected with an Asian flair. Because Africa is a vast place and African food so diverse (and all the more if you include the diaspora), the menu…
Read More…African-American, and resulted in approximately one-fifth of the city’s African-American population leaving (mostly for Brooklyn) To view them all, and to see other sites connected to LGBT Civil rights history,…
Read MoreGVSHP’s Civil Rights & Social Justice Map February is Black History Month. We here at GVSHP want to celebrate it by highlighting different sites of significance to the African-American community…
Read More…Labor Tour – South of Union Square Greenwich Village Historic District: Then & Now Photos and Tours African American History In Memoriam: African American Artists of Westbeth African American…
Read More…first African American authors to protest the treatment of black Americans by white Americans, and would greatly influence an entire generation of African American writers. Iconic works such as Native…
Read More…previous condition of servitude” by state or federal government. This was of course meant to ensure that African-American men could vote, though that right was frequently and in some parts…
Read MoreExploring African American history in our neighborhoods, today we look at Elizabeth Jennings Graham, a woman who, in her simple quest to get to her church on East 6th Street…
Read More…Africans in America. These descendents owned property in Manhattan, built churches and schools, and created their own culture. Learn about Black Americans from our neighborhoods who fought in the Civil…
Read More…click here. Native New Yorkers Walking Tour with Evan Pritchard Thursday, October 5 5:00pm – 7:00pm Outdoor Walking Tour. Pre-Registration is Required. Spaces are limited. Free. Meeting Place: Chelsea Triangle…
Read More…I recently had the opportunity to learn about and discuss Fellow Travelers: From Popular Front to Cold War — Selections from the ILR School Catherwood Library Archives of the Yiddish…
Read More…in New York City Thursday, September 28, 2023 7:00pm In-Person. Pre-registration required. Free. Location: St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, 131 East 10th Street New York, NY 10003 Take a walk through…
Read More…7 pm In person Free Pre-registration is required Location: The Church of the Village, 201 West 13th Street Journalist, historian, and photographer Elyssa Maxx Goodman, author of the newly released…
Read More…our past programs, click here. New May 2024 Programs Community Open House at the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program Wednesday, May 22, 2024 5–7 PM In-person Free Pre-registration required Locations:…
Read More…one that put black students from the South into integrated schools in the North. It was through this program that she was placed in Elisabeth Irwin High School, otherwise known at…
Read More…of high school that she was accepted to an American Friends Service Committee program, one that put black students from the South into integrated schools in the North. It was through this…
Read More…the burials of well over 10,000 persons during that time. Another distinction: in 1864 it was one of the city’s congregations which banded together to form the “Hebrew Free School”…
Read More…Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Countee Cullen, among many others. We will be joined by Village Preservation Executive Director Andrew Berman, New School Executive Vice President for Business and Operations…
Read MoreJoin Us on June 12, 2024! Each year, Village Preservation honors invaluable local leaders, institutions, business, places, and organizations at our Annual Meeting and Village Awards. This fun and free…
Read More…Street School movement. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Bishop moved to New York in 1918 to study illustration at the New York School of Applied Design for Women. After two years,…
Read More…School’s painterly idealism with an incisive grit and critique of American culture. Miller’s influence was key in the development of the Fourteenth Street School and the practices and techniques of…
Read More…School Archives and Special Collections. The New School Archives and Special Collections are home to historical materials related to all divisions of The New School (founded 1919), including Parsons School…
Read More…Community Services Center Lewis L. & Loretta Brendan Glucksman Ireland House LiLac Chocolates Little Red School House/Elisabeth Irwin High School Liz Christy Community Garden Lower East Side History Project M…
Read More…the school transformed from a commuter to a residential school from the 1980s onward. Now long separated from NYU, Bronx Community College serves over 11,000 students from over 100 countries…
Read More…Street School, composed almost entirely of Art Students League teachers and students, redefined urban realist painting, printmaking, and sculpture. The subject matter of their work examined seemingly common occurrences in…
Read More…That was typical of Father Mancini. Mary Help of Christians School You attended the parochial school at Mary Help of Christians. What do you remember most about being a student…
Read More…school for the next three years. “The concepts of my school are fundamental. But a true artist could violate them all.” – Hans Hofmann In 1938, with Hitler’s Nazi regime…
Read More…struggle, but illustrates the same race-based violence African Americans faced across the centuries. In July 1863, angry white working-class New Yorkers began a protest against the new federal draft that…
Read More…residents, and businesses in Lower Manhattan. African American communities in Greenwich Village, such as Little Africa, will be covered as well as the leaders of this community. You’ll learn about…
Read More…of Florence Nightingale, whom Blackwell had befriended earlier in her career. The hospital was open seven days a week and provided medical care for needy women and children free of…
Read More…women to become a principal in the New York City Public School system. She was a teacher and then principal at (Former) Colored School No. 4 at 128 West 17th…
Read More…September Programs (more to be added soon!) To Be Heard in Print: Black Gay Writers in 1980s New York Thursday, September 14, 2023 6:00pm Zoom Webinar Pre-registration is required. Free…
Read More…the New School in the Village, and began writing for the black newspaper Freedom. In 1953, she married Robert Nemiroff, and they moved to Greenwich Village. It was during this…
Read MoreRobert Motherwell (1915-1991), one of the most noteworthy figures of the Abstract Expressionist movement and ‘New York School’ of artists, had a studio during some of his most productive years…
Read More…the Columbia School of the Arts and the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Judson Memorial Church Beyond the formal classical facade of Judson Memorial Church, built by Stanford White…
Read More…Bruce, was a trailblazer in comedy. He is now considered one of the most influential stand-ups in history, and remembered for his open, freestyle, often vulgar and critical form of…
Read More…anarchist causes, freedom of expression, women’s equality, birth control, sexual freedom, and labor rights. Her advocacy for free love put her at the forefront of a largely silent community well…
Read More…Free. Location: P&T Knitwear, 180 Orchard Street, New York, NY 10002 P&T Knitwear, in conjunction with the Lower East Side Preservation Initiative (LESPI), East Village Community Coalition (EVCC), and Village…
Read More…from our past programs, click here. On This Spot NYC: Stories of Pioneering Women Artists in Greenwich Village Thursday, August 10, 2023 6:00pm Zoom Webinar Pre-Registration is Required. Free Did…
Read More…than 30 years, Laurie provided a practical approach for one of the most difficult questions for freelancers in her award-winning book What to Charge: Pricing Strategies for Freelancers and Consultants….
Read More…and is free and open to the public. If you are really lucky, you’ll be able to participate in a tour from Eve and a lecture on her exhibition. Village…
Read More…the free event “Voices of The Great Hall” that celebrates the launch of this digital archive. Register today to attend our Annual Meeting and Village Awards, which are free and…
Read More…Place location Prior to moving to the East Village, Marty Freedman had a shop in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. That shop did not enjoy the success Freedman hopes for, and he…
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