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Tiro a Segno, a Fixture in the Italian South Village
Located in the heart of the South Village and the South Village Historic District is the oldest continuing South Village Italian organization, Tiro a Segno, today located at 77 MacDougal…
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14-18 Gay Street and 14 Christopher Street, c. 1940 tax photo (l. to r., left); 16-18 Gay Street and 14 Christopher Street, c. 1969 Greenwich Village Historic District designation photo (l. to r., middle); and 16-18 Gay Street and 14 Christopher Street, c. 1969 Greenwich Village Historic District designation photo (l. to r., right)
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Retracing The East Village’s Historic Little Italy
…around Mulberry Street or Bleecker and Carmine Street in the South Village, if you look closely, or know where to dig, vestiges of the East Village’s once-thriving Italian community are…
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Fall Auction: A First for Village Preservation
…Bid on season tickets to the Classic Stage Company, the East Village powerhouse Off-Broadway theater and winner of Village Preservation’s coveted Village Awards! Classic Stage Company (known as CSC amongst…
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2014 Village Awards Recap
Last evening, as part of Village Preservation’s Annual Meeting, we celebrated the best of Greenwich Village, the East Village and NoHo by presenting our annual Village Awards. Each June for…
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12 historic Italian-American sites of the East Village
…the East Village’s once-thriving Italian community are all around. In the second half of the 19th century, the East Village was a vibrant checkerboard of ethnic enclaves. Germans were by far…
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Village Awardees Honored at Village Preservation’s Annual Meeting: Video and Pictures
We were thrilled to be joined by hundreds of our members and the public at Cooper Union’s Great Hall for our 43rd Annual Meeting and 33rd Annual Awards last week,…
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Village Awardee Round-Up!
…on Mar 31, 2023. As a reminder, past awardees, employees or trustees of Village Preservation, and entities located outside of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo are not eligible…
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Have a drink! The historic public drinking fountains of the Village and East Village
I have often noticed these old drinking fountains on historic buildings – there is one at the Jefferson Market Library on the corner of 6th Avenue and 10th Street, one…
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Happy Holidays from Village Preservation — You Make Our Work Possible
Dear Friend, Village Preservation’s mission is to document, celebrate, and preserve the special architectural and cultural heritage of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo. That means everything from protecting…
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AFTER FIVE YEAR CAMPAIGN BY VILLAGE PRESERVATION, CITY LANDMARKS LGBT HISTORIC SITES Sites are City’s First LGBT Landmarks Since Successful 2015 Campaign to Landmark Stonewall Inn
…the Caffe Cino at 31 Cornelia Street, also in Greenwich Village, was landmarked in 2010 as part of an extension of the Greenwich Village Historic District proposed by Village Preservation which included…
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The Legacy of Italian-American Entertainment Venues in the South Village
…here where we see the historic Italian and LGBTQ communitites in the Village meeting, handing off spaces, and likely overlapping to some extent. According to Village Preservation’s “The South Village:…
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Tell Us Your Greenwich Village Story
…15th. Selected Shorts: Greenwich Village Stories will feature Village residents Parker Posey and Jane Curtin reading fiction set in the Village alongside Greenwich Village Stories contributors Dave Hill, Penny Arcade,…
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Creating a Historic District in Greenwich Village
…parking. In response, Bergier and several other Greenwich Village residents formed the Save the Village Committee, a community based organization that worked to alter the area’s zoning laws to protect…
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Legendary Comedy Clubs of Greenwich Village
…the best comedy club in New York City. The family-owned business was honored as one of Village Preservation’s 2018 Village Awardees. The establishment is also located within the South Village…
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Roundup of posts on immigration and the Village
…Fire Insurance Company Bowery Building The Synagogues of East 6th Street Looking Up: The Stuyvesant Polyclinic The Libraries of Greenwich Village and the East Village Looking Up: East Village Target…
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Ed Koch (1924-2013) and the Village
…leader, Koch endeared himself to Village constituents with his strong opposition to “police brutality, air pollution, sidewalk narrowing, the bulldozer approach to urban renewal, the invasion of the Village by…
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Coming Soon — Greenwich Village Stories
…GVSHP will publish Greenwich Village Stories — a collection of personal reminiscences about the Village and East Village by more than sixty great artists, musicians, writers, directors, designers, restaurateurs, and…
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The Women of Village Preservation’s Online Archives
…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…
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Celebrating the Greenwich Village Historic District’s 50th Anniversary
…to be a caretaker and watchdog for the Greenwich Village Historic District. That mission has since expanded to include the rest of Greenwich Village, the East Village, the Meatpacking District,…
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Announcing the 2017 Village Awardees!
…Village Awards recognize the people, places, and organizations which make a significant contribution to the quality of life in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo. The Awards and Annual…
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Three Takeaways from Escape from New York: The 1822 Yellow Fever Outbreak and the Creation of Greenwich Village
…Village from farmland to urban community, crossroads of the world, and home of Village Preservation! In this program, James Nevius took us through a tour of Greenwich Village, the East…
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Naming a Neighborhood: The East Village
…them advertising rooms for “$40 and down” – are increasingly referring to the area as Village East or East Village.” In 1958 the Orpheum Theatre took over the old Player’s…
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Echoes of Bastille Day in Greenwich Village
…in the Village? The answer is at our very own authentic Parisian bakery and 2017 Village Award Winner, Patisserie Claude. As one of the very few independent patisseries left in…
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The Village Awards Reaches a Milestone!
Village Preservation’s Annual Village Awards, this year on June 16th, have come to be known fondly as “the Oscars of the Village.” The very first Village Awards were held on…
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Mapping the Italian South Village
…we had already had….. The demarcated section of this 1919 map points out the South Village as an Italian-American enclave Greenwich Village was designated as an historic district in 1969,…
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Oral History: Calvin Trillin’s ‘West Village’
Calvin Trillin, photo by Richard Drew/AP Village Preservation shares our oral history collection with the public, highlighting some of the people and stories that make Greenwich Village, the East Village,…
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More is More: Greenwich Village Historic District Extension
…Greenwich Village Historic District, and only the second new historic district in Greenwich Village since 1969. As early as 1963, Jane Jacobs wrote to the chair of the New York…
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Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation Day Declared!
Rose Mendez proclaimed December 2, 2010 to be Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation Day! City Council Member Rosie Mendez recognized the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation in its…
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Carol Greitzer: Helping Defeat Tammany Hall & Saving Greenwich Village
…activist and longtime member of the Village Preservation Board of Advisors. During her decades-long career, much of which took place within Greenwich Village, Greitzer has had a significant impact upon…
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11 landmarks of immigration in Greenwich Village
…credited to the first Irish who settled in Greenwich Village. These first residents largely came to serve as domestic servants or to work on the construction of buildings. Greenwich Village’s…
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This Day in 1984: The Pope of Greenwich Village
…York’s criminal underworld. And in the meantime, we get some nice peeks at the Greenwich Village of the mid-1980s. credit: Abe Books The Pope of Greenwich Village began as a…
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Jewish History of the Greenwich Village Historic District
…Lower East Side and Upper West Side in close proximity, Greenwich Village, and more specifically the Greenwich Village Historic District, is not one of the first places in New York…
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Estate of Fred W. McDarrah, 2019 Village Awardee
On June 12th, 2019 we will be celebrating seven outstanding awardees at our Annual Village Awards — RSVP here. Read blog posts about each of our 2019 Village Awardees here. Each year, Village Preservation…
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The Village, through the lyrics of Taylor Swift
…date, and Greenwich Village and the East Village are among the few, if not the only, New York City neighborhoods she references explicitly in her music. No matter your musical…
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A Five Year Milestone for Far West Village Landmarking
…Village neighborhood in which she lived. However, in 1969, when the LPC did finally designate the Greenwich Village Historic District, it left out the entire Greenwich Village waterfront and almost…
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The 10 most charming spots in the Greenwich Village Historic District
…the Greenwich Village Historic District. Click here to check out our year-long activities and celebrations. The Greenwich Village Historic District literally oozes with charm; so much so, it’s virtually impossible…
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The Oldest Building in the Village?
…Fortunately for us as we attempt to answer this question, the Village has been well researched. We know the histories of many West Village buildings because a large number of…
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The Village Independent Democrats Fight NYU
…Greenwich Village Blocks before Demolition. Source: New York Times, 1954. The plan arrived to the dismay of many Village residents, who did not consider the area to be a “slum,”…
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Michael E. Levine Oral History: How the Greenwich Village Historic District, SoHo, and Stonewall Happened
Village Preservation shares our oral history collection with the public, highlighting some of the people and stories that make Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo such unique and vibrant…
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2020 Annual Meeting & Village Awards
Village Preservation Annual Meeting and Village Awards 2020 Each year, Village Preservation honors neighborhood institutions at the Annual Meeting and Village Awards. This fun event highlights and celebrates the invaluable…
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Few Republicans, And One Big Political Paradox, in the Village
…almost the entirety of the neighborhoods GVSHP covers — the Village, East Village, Hudson Square, NoHo, and the Meatpacking District — are a broad swath of the lightest pink, which…
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The Oldest Building in the Village?
…we researched while tracking down the oldest in the Village Fortunately for us as we attempt to answer this question, the Village has been well researched. We know the histories…
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The Oldest Building in the Village?
…buildings we researched while tracking down the oldest in the Village Fortunately for us as we attempt to answer this question, the Village has been well researched. We know the…
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John Guare Oral History: a Writer of the Theater, and of Greenwich Village
Village Preservation shares our oral history collection with the public, highlighting some of the people and stories that make Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo such unique and vibrant…
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This Columbus Day, Save the South Village
…out of the Greenwich Village Historic District (read Village Preservation’s history and report, “The South Village: A Proposal for Historic District Designation“). After years of effort, in 2010 the first…
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GVHD50 and Stonewall50 – LGBTQ Sites of the Greenwich Village Historic District
…Greenwich Village Historic District on Village Preservation’s Civil Rights and Social Justice Map, and from the LGBT Historic Sites Project. Village Preservation’s Stonewall50 Programs lineup can be found online here….
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Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon: Greenwich Village Edition
…and most of its building demolished over the protests of Village Preservation in 2004). That was almost too easy. Here are some other Kevin Bacon-Greenwich Village connections: Kevin Bacon’s first…
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Exploring Virtual Village Voices, Part 4: Bob Dylan, Martha Graham, and Lorraine Hansberry
…of Village Preservation, Greenwich Village resident, and townhouse real estate specialist for Douglas Elliman. https://soundcloud.com/villagepreservation/martha-graham-village-voices-audio?si=711f59832c164ba8bd69613409ab20f6&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Lorraine Hansberry Lorraine Hansberry was a staple of the progressive, creative scene in Greenwich Village…
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Mae West learned “the best way to behave is to misbehave” in Greenwich Village
…14. West would spend her life on the stage and in film, constantly courting controversy and pushing boundaries. Village Vaudeville and the Greenwich Village Theatre Vaudeville is a genre of…
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New April and May 2024 Programs: Walking Tours, Histories of Fifth Avenue and The Village Voice, and More
…event Spots Still Available Impressions of Great Establishments of Greenwich Village: An Evening with Artist Lily Annabelle Caleakav, Village Preservation, and the LGBT Historic Sites Project Tuesday, April 16, 2024…
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March 2024 Programs: Black History in Greenwich Village, Berenice Abbott, Jane Jacobs, and More
…Session 3 of our Black History in Greenwich Village series will focus on how the demographic changes of the Great Migration fueled Greenwich Village’s role as a hotbed for the…
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Village Firehouses Past and Present
…beautiful historic buildings in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo. Empire Hose Company No. 40, 70 Barrow Street One of the oldest firehouses in New York, this structure was…
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James Baldwin Leaves an Enduring Legacy in Greenwich Village
…which he had begun in 1948. The book, set in late 1950s Greenwich Village, included vivid descriptions of life in the Village: “They reached the park. Old, slatternly women from…
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Village Pride & LGBT Establishments
…2016, Julius’ also received a Village Awardfrom Village Preservation. Check out more about our upcoming Village Awards here. Julius’ is closed at this time due to COVID precautions, but that may change…
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Even More Charm Added to Greenwich Village Historic District Tour
…we launched our new interactive map, Greenwich Village Historic District, 1969-2019: Photos and Tours, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Greenwich Village Historic District. In the months since we…
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Translation and Transformation: Carl Jung, Beatrice Hinkle, and Greenwich Village Bohemia
…Voices from Greenwich Village: Carl Jung’s Visit to the Village,” with the historian Jay Sherry from Village Preservation’s program archives. For more information about the radical topography of the Village,…
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The East Village’s ‘Queen of Bohemia:” Zoe Anderson Norris
…New Yorker profile. Eve Kahn shares the private spaces of The Grolier Club’s with Village Preservation guests. Over the course of 4 sessions, Eve has brought Village Preservation members and…
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City Councilmember Rosie Mendez: 2012 Village Award Winner
…Greenwich Village. GVSHP’s 2012 Annual Meeting will also honor seven other awardees for their contributions to the Village. Check out Off the Grid’s posts on all the 2012 Village award winners….
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A Rebuilt Corner, a Carpenter House, and an Art Deco Beauty: New Additions to Our Greenwich Village Historic District Map
…celebrations. On April 29th, 2019, we launched our new interactive map, Greenwich Village Historic District, 1969-2019: Photos and Tours, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Greenwich Village Historic District….
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Exploring Virtual Village Voices, Part 6: Larry Kramer, Helen Levitt, and Edna St. Vincent Millay
In 2021 and 2022, Village Preservation developed an innovative outdoor public art exhibition that was displayed throughout Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo. VILLAGE VOICES featured photographs, artifacts, and…
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The Italian Cafés of the South Village
…in the South Village, an area which in the early 1900s was a predominantly Italian neighborhood, and one near and dear to Village Preservation’s heart, as we led the successful…
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2022 Village Awardee: Zinc Bar, 82 West 3rd Street
Zinc Bar: A Historic Greenwich Village Venue Village Preservation is very proud to honor Zinc Bar as a Village Awardee in 2022. Join us in recognizing Zinc Bar and these…
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Preserving the Past for the Future: A Journey Through the Greenwich Village Historic District
…Village Preservation, we celebrate April as “Greenwich Village Historic District Month,” since it was on April 29, 1969 that the district was landmarked, culminating a years-long battle to achieve this…
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Sneak Preview of September Village Preservation Events (and Some August Programs Still Open)
…at a club/concert hall in the East Village? Did you know that rappers like Mos Def and Biggie got their start at an open mic show in the West Village? …
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Historic Victory: Far West Village landmark districts unanimously approved!
…have been her 90th birthday on May 4th. Going at least as far back as 1963, Jane fought to preserve the Far West Village, urging it be included in the Greenwich Village…
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A Poet, A Bookseller, and the Father of Social of Social Security: New Additions to the Greenwich Village Historic District 1969-2019 Photos and Tours Map
…celebrations. On April 29th, 2019, we launched our new interactive map, Greenwich Village Historic District, 1969-2019: Photos and Tours, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Greenwich Village Historic District….
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Echoes of Silence: New American Cinema’s Take On Life in Greenwich Village
In 1965, Village Voice writer Jonas Mekas — founder of the Anthology Film Archive, Village Awardee, and subject of a Village Preservation oral history — wrote: “It is not very…
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Exploring Virtual Village Voices, Part 6: Larry Kramer, Helen Levitt, and Edna St. Vincent Millay
…Co-Chair of the Benefit Committee, and Curator of Village Voices. https://soundcloud.com/villagepreservation/edna-st-vincent-millay-village-voices-audio?utm_source=clipboard&utm_campaign=wtshare&utm_medium=widget&utm_content=https%253A%252F%252Fsoundcloud.com%252Fvillagepreservation%252Fedna-st-vincent-millay-village-voices-audio Click here to read more about Edna St. Vincent Millay. Click here to access all 31 Village Voices exhibits….
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A Village Song: “Bazooka Joe Don’t Live There Anymore”
…Cecere’s Something Special. Something Special, legendary South Village shop Of the song, Marshall said: “Bazooka Joe” was inspired by a neighborhood hero I knew in New York’s Greenwich Village back…
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The Beatles Arrive in Greenwich Village
…Dylan’s connection to this area in past Off the Grid posts and in the designation report for the South Village Historic District. Another Beatles/Village connection comes in the form of…
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East Village
…East Village Explore East Village Oral Histories Research East Village LPC Applications Explore East Village Building Blocks Information on Individual East Village Initiatives: 101 Avenue A 3 St. Mark’s Place…
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15 Sites of Critical African American History in Greenwich Village
…Greenwich Village in “Notes of a Native Son,” among other pieces, and was a regular at Greenwich Village literary haunts like the San Remo Café on MacDougal Street. Jean-Michel Basquiat…
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Edward Hopper’s Village Muses
…the Village intimately connected to Edward Hopper and his paintings, some of which also still stand today. Map showing Hopper-related sites throughout Greenwich Village Edward Hopper was born in Nyack,…
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Great Modernist Thinker and Critic Kenneth Burke Calls Ten Village Addresses Home
…on Burke himself. To learn more about the history of writers in Greenwich Village, check out the “Homes and Haunts of Great Writers” tour in our interactive map: Greenwich Village…
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Edward Hopper’s Village: Early Sunday Morning on Bleecker Street
…1969 and the subsequent landmarking of the Greenwich Village Historic District Extension I in 2006, the Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II in 2010, and the South Village Historic District…
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Decades of Spooky Splendor: Celebrating the Village Halloween Parade
…Village Halloween parade history? Check out Village Halloween Parade founder Ralph Lee’s first-person accounting of the event’s beginnings in his Village Preservation oral history, video of our program with Ralph…
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Wayne Shorter: a jazz legend who will be missed in Greenwich Village and beyond
…Greenwich Village, it is only right to memorialize this legend by learning more about his background, ties to Greenwich Village, and his enduring legacy. As Shorter’s bandleader, collaborator, and influence,…
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A First for Recognizing LGBT History in the South Village
…And to the surprise of many, the South Village was once the center of the world for LGBT New Yorkers. In fact, a century ago, the South Village one of…
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Exploring Virtual Village Voices, Part 5: Billie Holiday, Edward Hopper, and Jane Jacobs
In 2021 and 2022, Village Preservation developed an innovative outdoor public art exhibition that was displayed throughout Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo. VILLAGE VOICES featured photographs, artifacts, and…
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From Pioneering Women Artists in Greenwich Village to Preservation Battles and More: New Programs for August 2023
…from the 1950s and extending to the end of the 20th century. It has begun in the West Village and East Village, and will be expanding to SoHo, the Lower…
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New York in Four Maps – Walking the Village of the Past
…East Village and New York history by including the dry dock district along the East Village waterfront. The docks of the East Village are shown in orange and reflect the…
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Top Five Greenwich Village Moments in Fourteenth Amendment History
…Friedan joined forces with Villager Bella Abzug, congresswoman and leader of the Women’s movement, who lived at 2 Fifth Avenue in the Village. Together with Gloria Steinem and Shirley Chisholm,…
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‘Friends’: Greenwich Village Fantasy vs. Reality
…Square Village For the first several seasons of the show, Ross is shown to live at Washington Square Village, the modernist superblock of apartments built by Robert Moses in the…
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Retracing the Stories and Homes of Early Village Preservationists
…efforts in Greenwich Village. They met in college, traveled around Europe together after graduation, and then moved to the Village: first to 68 Carmine Street, and later settling at 37…
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Business of the Month: Village Works, 12 St. Mark’s Place
Your input is needed! Today we feature our latest Business of the Month — help us to select the next. Tell us which independent store you love in Greenwich Village, the East Village,…
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Exploring Virtual Village Voices, Part 7: Joan Mitchell, Joe Papp, and Charlie Parker
…Place. Narrating the audio is Leslie Mason, a member of Village Preservation’s Board of Trustees and co-curator of VILLAGE VOICES. https://soundcloud.com/villagepreservation/joan-mitchell-village-voices-audio?utm_source=clipboard&utm_campaign=wtshare&utm_medium=widget&utm_content=https%253A%252F%252Fsoundcloud.com%252Fvillagepreservation%252Fjoan-mitchell-village-voices-audio Click here to read more about Joan Mitchell. Joe…
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VILLAGE VOICES II Launches September 18th
Village Preservation is pleased to announce the 2nd year of VILLAGE VOICES, an outdoor public art exhibition produced by Village Preservation that celebrates and illuminates the artistic, social, political, and cultural…
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Theaters of the Greenwich Village Historic District
…Commerce Street, a cul-de-sac in the heart of Greenwich Village, was the brainchild of poet, playwright, actress, and Villager Edna St. Vincent Millay. While most famous as a poet, Millay…
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April Programming at Village Preservation
…Greenwich Village, NoHo, and the East Village. You will have an opportunity to learn more about the history of arts and culture in our neighborhoods, as well as participate in…
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Past Village Award Winners, 1991-2021
…Veselka Village Alliance Eighth Street B.I.D Village Apothecary Village Community Boathouse Village Community School Addition Village Community School Fence Village Vanguard The Villager Newspaper Visiting Neighbors Richard Walker Dr. Joyce…
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If Beale Street Could Talk’s West Village Scenes
…townhouse on Bank Street. Fonny moved here when he decided to leave his family in Harlem and join the artistic community in the West Village. Fonny’s West Village Apartment Set…
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John Sloan: Village Visionary
…from Greenwich Village – with the Sixth Avenue Elevated careening across the sky. Village Preservation was successful in obtaining landmark designation of that building along with its surroundings. You can read…
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Hudson Square Rezoning and the South Village
…very low-rise, South Village. St. Anthony of Pauda Church and tenements on Sullivan Street in the South Village. Also undeniable is that the South Village is experiencing huge development pressure…
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WWI and the Village
…the publication as a product of the new Greenwich Village that began to emerge at this time: The birth of The Masses coincided with the birth of ‘Greenwich Village’ as…
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