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Greenwich Village piers with the World Trade Center in the distance and elevated Miller (West Side) Highway (demolished)
Taken around West 11th Street, just west of West Street. Read more here about the West Side Highway after its collapse at Gansevoort Street and its closure in 1973. Included…
Posted June 2, 2020
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Crushed and abandoned car along Greenwich Village waterfront, north of pier head house, looking south with World Trade Center and elevated Miller (West Side) Highway (demolished) visible.
Looking back toward the 11th Street pier headhouse, around Bethune Street. Read more here about the West Side Highway after its collapse at Gansevoort Street and its closure in 1973….
Posted June 2, 2020
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Former Bell Telephone Labs (now Westbeth) including demolished segment of the High Line
11/1/2016 LPC hearing. For more information about this application, click here….
Posted June 2, 2020
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Ninth Avenue Elevated Rail (demolished), looking north along Ninth Avenue at the corner of West 13th Street, 1915
For more information on the application to the Landmarks Preservation Commission associated with this image, click here….
Posted June 2, 2020
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Looking north up West Street from Bethune Street with Superior Inks Factory (demolished)
7/12/2016 LPC hearing. For more information about this application, click here….
Posted June 2, 2020
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Cooper Square at East 7th Street, looking northwest, with (l. to r.) 56-62 Cooper Square (Carl Fischer Building), 22-34 Fourth Avenue (now demolished), 770 Broadway, and Cooper Union Foundation Building
For more information on the application to the Landmarks Preservation Commission associated with this image, click here….
Posted June 2, 2020
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Crushed and abandoned car along Greenwich Village waterfront between West 12th (l.) and Bethune Streets, with elevated Miller (West Side) Highway visible and Superior Inks Factory (demolished; now site of the Superior Inks luxury condos) behind it.
For more information on Superior Inks, click here and here. Read more here about the West Side Highway after its collapse at Gansevoort Street and its closure in 1973….
Posted June 2, 2020
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841 and 853 Broadway (l. to r.) on the left; 860 Broadway, 31 East 17th Street, 33 East 17th Street, and 200 Park Avenue South (l. to r.) in the back; 856-860 Broadway on the right (r. to l.) (now demolished)
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Posted June 2, 2020
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Loew’s Avenue B Theater, 62-66 Avenue B, southwest corner of 5th Street, demolished 1968 (1)
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Posted June 2, 2020
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Loew’s Avenue B Theater, 62-66 Avenue B, southwest corner of 5th Street, demolished 1968 (2)
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Posted June 2, 2020
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Loew’s Avenue B Theater, 62-66 Avenue B, southwest corner of 5th Street, demolished 1968 (3)
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Posted June 2, 2020
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When NYC’s Last Surviving Horse Auction Mart, and Frank Stella’s Former Studio, Were Almost Demolished
Did you know that 128 East 13th Street is believed to be the last surviving horse and carriage auction mart building in New York City? It was threatened with demolition…
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74 8th Avenue, Billiards and North Village Deli Emporium (demolished)
Read about how Village Preservation fought and defeated the developer of the site’s request for a zoning variance that would have allowed the new development of the site to rise…
Posted August 4, 2023
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Cafe Bizarre, 106 West 3rd Street. This building was demolished and replaced with an NYU Law School dorm.
Cafe Bizarre was one of the early Greenwich Village folk clubs, opened by Rick Allmen in 1957 with folk singer Odetta as the headliner. It came to also host renowned…
Posted June 2, 2020
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Corner of Ninth Avenue and Little West 12th Street, looking north, with 2 Ninth Avenue on the right and 29-75 Ninth Avenue on the left (l. to r.). The Ninth Avenue El being demolished and the National Biscuit Company building are visible on the left, c. 1940
This image shows the Ninth Avenue El, NYC’s first elevated train line, being dismantled c. 1940. For more information on the application to the Landmarks Preservation Commission associated with this…
Posted October 1, 2020
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David Rosario (AKA David Peel) with Lower East Side band and Billie Joe White in Washington Square Park. 44 West 4th Street and 1 Washington Square Village (first two buildings on the left) and the Catholic Center at 58 Washington Square South (first building on the right, now demolished) are visible in the background.
Folk musician David Rosario founded the band Lower East Side, which commonly performed in the streets of downtown New York City. He was known as “David Peel” in reference to…
Posted March 3, 2021
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Cafe Bizarre, 106 West 3rd Street, which advertises ‘Fantastic Decor,’ ‘Folk Singers,’ and a steel drum band all for a 50 cent admission fee. This building was demolished and replaced with an NYU Law School dorm.
Cafe Bizarre was one of the early Greenwich Village folk clubs, opened by Rick Allmen in 1957 with folk singer Odetta as the headliner. It came to also host renowned…
Posted June 2, 2020
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Looking north up Greenwich Ave. from Christopher St., c. 1970, women protestors struggle with police outside of Women’s Detention Center (demolished)
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Posted June 16, 2021
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109-201 West 11th Street (r. to l.) with Old St. Vincent’s Hospital at left end of block (demolished), 1933
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Posted August 18, 2020
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64-66 University Place To Be Demolished and Replaced
Village Preservation has learned that a developer has filed plans to demolish 64-66 University Place (10th/11th Street) within our proposed South of Union Square Historic District we have been fighting to get landmarked. No…
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St. Thomas Church at Houston and Broadway (demolished) by Joseph R. Brady and Rev. John McVickar, 1837
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Posted October 14, 2021
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C.B.J. Snyder and the East Village
…to PS 15 which fronted East 5th Street. In 1927, two tenements to the building’s east were demolished, and in 1931 the Hope Chapel to the building’s west was demolished….
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Demolitions in Our Historic Image Archive: Gone, But Not Forgotten
…the Roman Catholic Church. The demolished rectory (blue brick building) dated to the 1840’s. Date May 2005 Tunnel Garage, 55 Thompson Street demolished 2006. The Tunnel Garage was built…
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31 Literary Icons of Greenwich Village
…Charles Street (demolished) Novelist Richard Wright bought a townhouse for his family at 13 Charles Street in 1945, which was demolished in the early 1960s to make way for the…
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31 Literary Icons of the Greenwich Village Historic District
…degrees, including from Harvard, Princeton, Oxford, Cambridge, and two from Dartmouth. 11. Khalil Gibran, 51 West 10th Street (demolished) Lebanese poet and artist Khalil Gibran lived at 51 West 10th…
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15 Trailblazing Women of Greenwich Village and the East Village
…house at 17 Great Jones Street, which was demolished along with neighboring houses when Lafayette Street was extended through the area at the turn of the 20th century. 8. Elizabeth…
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20 transformative women of Greenwich Village
…Box” at the since-demolished Greenwich Village Theater on Sheridan Square). Not long after West’s internment at the Jefferson Market Prison, the jailhouse was demolished to make way for the supposedly…
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History Lost to NYU
…the Roman Catholic Church. The demolished rectory (blue brick building in these photos) dated to the 1840’s. Click here to read more. The interior of St. Ann’s Church. Demolished to…
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The East River Park’s Past and Future
…in 2001), will also be demolished and rebuilt. The beloved Seal Park by artist G. Augustine Lynas will be demolished. It has been ignored in the new plan and will…
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Carole Teller’s ‘Changing New York’ captures the city’s 20th-century transformation
…demolished 1966 for 1 Pace Plaza © Village Preservation/Carole Teller Penn Station being demolished © Village Preservation/Carole Teller Loew’s Avenue B Theater, 62-66 Avenue B, southwest corner of 5th Street; demolished…
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“The Prince of Greenwich Village,” Max Eastman
…1/2 West 13th Street (demolished) The 1915 Trow’s General Directory lists Max at 206 ½ West 13th Street (now demolished). 68 Washington Square South (demolished) In the 1916 Trow’s General…
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A Complete Guide to the Charles B.J. Snyder Schools in Our Neighborhoods
…to the building’s east were demolished and in 1931 the Hope Chapel to the building’s west was demolished. As part of the WPA program, the original PS 15 which fronted…
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Standing the Test of Time: Father’s Heart Church
…of the Dry Dock Mission at East 9th Street & Avenue B, with donations and pledges totaling $25,000. Dry Dock Mission, demolished 1975 The Greek Revival style Dry Dock Mission…
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Rally on Sunday to Save the South Village
…of America’s preeminent architects could potentially be demolished and replaced with a large tower highlights the great need for more landmark protections in the South Village. GVSHP first proposed that…
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Thomas Paine, the American Crisis, and Greenwich Village
…compromised as a result of his imprisonment. 309 Bleecker Street (formerly Herring Street) in 1914. It was demolished in 1930. Source: NYPL Paine returned to the United States in…
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Greek Revival: Gone But Not Forgotten in Our Neighborhoods
…have lost over the years. Many but not all of these were demolished before the NYC Landmarks Law was enacted in 1965, and before subsequent landmark designations were established in…
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Movie Theaters of the East Village: Loew’s Avenue B
…one of the most exciting corners in New York City show business. It may have been demolished in 1968, but the Loew’s Avenue B Theater provided the surrounding East Village…
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Mazel Tov! Yiddish Theater is born
…Preservation Commission Designation Report, among the more prominent theaters were the National (111-117 East Houston Street, demolished); the People’s (199 Bowery, demolished); the Grand (Grand and Chrystie Streets, demolished), said…
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Lost Saints of the Village
…it was sold in 2011 and many of its newer buildings demolished by 2013 (GVSHP was able to at least successfully fight to preserve several of the older buildings and have…
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Historic Photo Mysteries Solved
…just south of Peck Slip (since demolished) Having a street number or name of a business is always a good start, although sometimes it’s not always definitive. In this case,…
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