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The social and cultural Puerto Rican history of the East Village
…and approach in the East Village was the transformation of a disused former public school in the East Village between Avenues B and C into a thriving community and cultural…
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Asian-American History in Greenwich Village and the East Village
…destroyed by his internment. Miné Okubo Residence, 17 East 9th Street 3-21 East 9th Street (L-R; 17 East 9th Street is the eighth building from the left). 1969 photo (below)…
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East Village Building Blocks Tour: Theaters!
…these sites, we’re sharing this East Village Theater Tour on our East Village Building Blocks website — see it here, and read on for a selection of theaters throughout the East Village,…
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The East River Park’s Past and Future
In the 1930s, today’s East Village and Lower East Side, long the country’s most crowded and notorious slum, was being dramatically transformed. The nation’s first federally-subsidized public housing was being…
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East Village Community Garden Dreaming with Building Blocks
…not only can you explore every building between 14th Street and East Houston, 4th Avenue and the East River, but you can also delve into the community gardens and other…
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Want to See Viennese Secessionist Art Deco Architecture? Go No Farther Than the Far East Village
…the East Village/Lower East Side Historic District and the East 10th Street Historic District in 2012, there was very little landmark designation in the East Village. Two unusual exceptions were…
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For Sale: 264 East 7th Street
264 East 7th Street We were intrigued to discover late last week that 264 East 7th Street, one of our favorite houses in the East Village, is for sale. Located…
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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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East Village Street Art Lives On
…feet, on walls, in parks, and all throughout our streets. Mural at Niagara bar at East Seventh Street and Avenue A. The East Village has a particularly long and vital…
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Reasons to Save 316 East 3rd Street
316 East 3rd Street (image courtesy Curbed.com) Word has been spreading that a developer intends to demolish an historic rowhouse at 316 East 3rd Street, near the corner of Avenue…
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An East Village Landmark Gets a Facelift
…emblematic of the East Village’s history and development. 74 East 4th Street Designed by German-born architect August H. Blankenstein, 74 East 4th Street is known as the Aschenbroedel Verein building….
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Landmark Designation Reports
…10th Street Historic District NYC LPC Designation Report East 10th Street Historic District NYC LPC Map East Village/Lower East Side Historic District East Village-LES Historic District NYC LPC Designation Report…
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East Village Building Named for President Felled by Anarchist; Also Home to ‘Hope,’ and Art By Koons
No. 111-115 East 7th Street is one of the more striking tenements in the East Village. First of all, it’s seven-stories. It’s also covered in beautiful Renaissance Revival detail. The…
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East 4th Street and its Political Past
…Charlie Morgan and Kate Schnakenberg. 64-70 East Fourth Street in 1875. It only takes about 30 seconds to walk between the buildings at 64 and 85 East 4th Street. Today…
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Walking East 3rd Street: Tenement Synagogues & Jewish Life
…The second post in the series, by Yonni Walker, Mary Corcoran and Alyssa Anderson, focuses on East 3rd Street between 1st & 2nd Avenues. East 3rd Street between 1st &…
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“The Prince of Greenwich Village,” Max Eastman
…Directory, Max Eastman is listed at 68 Washington Square South (now demolished). 6 East 8th Street 4-26 East 8th Street (6 East 8th Street is the second building to the…
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Crystal Eastman, Greenwich Village’s Suffragist Lawyer
…law advocate, suffragist, and one of the original founders of the American Civil Liberties Union. Crystal Eastman Born in 1881 in Marlborough, Massachusetts, Eastman spent most of her childhood in…
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Touring the Churches of the East Village
…few of those sites, and encourage you to explore the rest and learn more about the East Village here. St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery, 131 East 10th Street One…
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East 10th Street’s Landmark-worthy Buildings
…one of two proposed historic districts in the East Village by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. The East Village/Lower East Side Historic District and the East 10th Street Historic District were…
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FABulous East 4th Street
Source: Fourth Arts Block There’s lots to love about the culture, architecture, and history of the East Village, and the Fourth Arts Block (East 4th Street between the Bowery and…
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A Glimpse into the Gilded Age East Village of the Tiffanys
…the Tiffany family. East Village Building Blocks is an online research tool we created which provides information on every one of over 2,200 properties in the East Village, including information…
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Skirmish in the Subway: A Not So Merry Christmas for Gangster Monk Eastman
…the shootout on Christmas night 1920 that took down infamous gangster Monk Eastman. Born Edward Eastman in 1875, Monk fell into the gang life as a young adult, and around…
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Cemeteries of the East Village, Part I
…demolished in 2002. The burial ground farthest east opened in 1842 at 252-254 East 2nd Street, just west of Avenue C. According to the map, the First German Methodist Episcopal…
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What’s Old Is New Again For a Special Building on East 12th Street
…have information on every one of the approximately 3,000 buildings in the East Village. Know a building in the East Village that needs updating on our East Village Building Blocks…
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The Forgotten Graveyards of Greenwich Village and the East Village
…found today at 305 East 11th/310 East 12th Street. 302 East 12th Street, where the venerable John’s of 12th Street Italian Restaurant has been located for over a century, is the sole intact survivor…
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Revisiting Kleindeutschland, the East Village’s Little Germany
…terrible tragedy on the East River in 1904 that affected nearly every German family in East Village, and other neighborhoods opening to new and recent immigrants, hastened a decline in…
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Why East Villagers Should Oppose the City’s Rezoning Plans
…process. But East Villagers have a particular stake in ensuring these rezoning plans are not adopted. Why? The East Village would see the largest increases in height for allowable new…
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Win Some, Lose Some in the East Village
…this preservation-minded. Alas, such is not the case. 331 East 6th Street undergoing demolition Just a few blocks up, 331 East 6th Street, a beautiful 1852 townhouse (one of the…
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Research Resources for East Village Building Blocks
GVSHP’s recently-released East Village Building Blocks online web tool provides invaluable information about over 2,200 properties in the East Village, including each building’s date of construction, original architect, original use, and…
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: 88 East 10th Street
…yet come down, and large numbers had not yet headed east from Greenwich Village in search of cheaper rents in what would soon be called the “East Village.” The noisy…
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Allen Ginsberg’s East Village Haunts
…a community of writers, artists, musicians, poets, members of the alternative press, political activists, and outsiders in the East Village and Lower East Side neighborhood. The bookstore was owned by…
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East Village Building Blocks Tour: Churches
…10th Street St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, 131 East 10th Street Kicking off this tour, it makes sense to start with the oldest East Village church and probably the most well…
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One Year in the Life of the East Village/LES Historic District
These 1891 Queen Anne tenements on East 7th Street, east of First Avenue, are now protected. On this day one year ago, the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission officially designated the…
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LGBT Historic Sites in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo
…view it at www.gvshp.org/civilrightsmap. East Village Building Blocks: LGBTQ Sites Tour Want to explore more East Village LGBTQ history? Village Preservation offers an online guided tour of LGBTQ Sites on our East Village…
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#SouthofUnionSquare: More Photographic History In Our Midst — 60-62 East 11th Street
…14th Street, studio of Cranmer C. Langill; 24-26 East 13th Street, home to Gennert Brothers Photo Supply; 30 East 13th Street, home to G. Gennert Photography Suppliers; 4 East 12th…
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LGBT History in All Corners of the Village: East Village
…and punk past, the East Village is also home to a few standout LGBT figures, events, and locations. From the literary to the ludicrous, East Village LGBT history is as…
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City Releases “Special Permit” Requirement Proposal For Hotels South of Union Square; Plan Would Promote Office Tower Development and Destruction of Historic Buildings, Expands “Midtown South” to Greenwich Village and East Village, Rewards Mayor’s Campaign Donors and Fails to Deliver on Rivera’s Neighborhood Protection Campaign Pledge
…hotel special permit requirement, the City doubles down on its refusal to landmark and protect historic buildings like 88 East 10th St. and 11 East 12th St. which it envisions…
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Willem de Kooning Standing on his East 10th Street Stoop, and at the Center of the Art World
…called the “no environment” of the East 10th Street artist enclave. Easter Monday, the last and most famous of the urban abstractions, was finished the day before his second show…
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Politicians, Playwrights, and Parades: The Irish legacy of the East Village and Greenwich Village
…the most legendary New York City taverns of Irish lineage are located in Greenwich Village and the East Village. Depending on whom you believe, McSorley’s Old Ale House at 15 East 7th…
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Kielbasa Done the East Village Way
…in 1950 from the Ukraine and settled in the East Village/Lower East Side, which was a hub for Eastern European immigrants. He then opened the East Village Meat Market in…
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A Building-by-Building Tour of the East Village’s Kleindeutschland
…it can still be seen today in the East Village. To help explore just some of these sites, we have created a new Kleindeutschland Guided Tour on our recently-launched East Village Building…
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Echoes of Eldridge Street Synagogue on East Eleventh Street
…in the Lower East Side, unlike the Congregation Mezritch Synagogue at 415 East 6th Street and the Sixth Street Community Synagogue in the proposed East Village/Lower East Side Historic District,…
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Walking East 3rd Street: The Bowery Branch YMCA
…The first of six posts in the series, by Elizabeth Ackerson, Shayne Leslie Figuerora and Jennifer Joyce, focuses on East 3rd Street between the Bowery & 2nd Avenue. East 3rd…
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Politicians, Playwrights, and Parades: The Irish legacy of the East Village and Greenwich Village
…the most legendary New York City taverns of Irish lineage are located in Greenwich Village and the East Village. Depending on whom you believe, McSorley’s Old Ale House at 15 East 7th…
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Frank O’Hara’s East Village
…in the neighborhood do for anarchist Emma Goldman on East Thirteenth Street, Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla on East Ninth Street, and radical saloonkeeper Justus Schwab on East First Street —…
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An East Village Synagogue Building Saved
…about the building in the LPC’s East Village/Lower East Side Historic District designation report, and learn more about GVSHP’s continuing efforts to preserve the architecture of the East Village here….
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Ai Weiwei and The Two East Villages: Part Two
…by RongRong. Beijing East Village was a collective of young experimental artists who settled in an impoverished village for migrant workers on the outskirts of Beijing. The name, East Village,…
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Three Landmarks in the East Village
…of those impressive landmarks. Village East Cinema, 181-189 Second Avenue What we know today as the Village East Cinema at the corner of Second Avenue and East 12th Street was…
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Gustav Hartman’s Lower East Side Philanthropy, Remembered in a Park
Have you walked by the narrow triangle park where East 2nd Street, East Houston Street, and Avenue C all meet? This small, fenced-in sliver of green may seem unremarkable, but…
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The Children’s Aid Society’s Deep Roots in Greenwich Village and the East Village
…buildings remain in the East Village, but the very site that inspired its founding was located in a little church formerly on the north side of Carmine Street, just east…
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15 Trailblazing Women of Greenwich Village and the East Village
…participate in a mandatory nuclear attack drill in 1957 (Day also established two locations for her Catholic Worker in the East Village at 34-36 East 1st Street and 55 East…
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Just Say No to Illegal Rooftop Additions at 514-516 East 6th Street
…Reagan we say, “Just Say No,”… to the additions at 514-516 East 6th Street and here’s why. 514-516 East 6th Street prior to additions 1. The construction of this type…
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East Village Building Blocks Tour: African American History
…American history of the East Village is extensively catalogued in our African-American History Tour on our East Village Building Blocks website. A selection of a few of those sites follows:…
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History For Sale: 3 East 3rd Street
…“Manhattan: 3rd Street (East) – Bowery” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dc-f584-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 3 East 3rd Street has since been emptied for potential sale as development pressure in the area…
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: 30 East 14th Street Artists’ Loft
…great movie actor Robert De Niro Jr.). 30 East 14th Street today Admiral was just one of an almost-unrivaled list of artists who called 30 East 14th Street home in…
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Our Epic Greenwich Village and East Village Watch-List
…outside of GEM Spa and trades in her fateful jacket at a beloved East Village thrift shop. Co-starring Rosanna Arquette. Madonna’s own words about her apartment at 230-232 East 4th…
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Board of Standards and Appeals Green Lights Rooftop Additions in East Village
…of 1863. Speaking of preserving the low rise character of the East Village: don’t forget that the Landmarks Preservation Commission is scheduled to vote on the proposed East Village/Lower East…
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The Flatirons of the Village and the East Village
…Village until the 2012 designation of the East 10th Street and East Village/Lower East Side Historic Districts for which GVSHP fought. Of course there are many other “little Flatirons” scattered throughout…
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Business of the Month: Big Gay Ice Cream Shop, 125 East 7th Street & 61 Grove Street
…looked to open an actual storefront. The vibrancy of the East Village beckoned, particularly East 7th Street. Co-owner/founder Doug Quint says “East 7th Street between 1st Ave and Ave A…
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A History of the East Village and its Architecture
Village Preservation’s East Village Building Blocks, our web-based tool which provides information on each property in the East Village, has been wildly popular since its release just over a month…
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: the French Flats at 206-208 East 9th Street
…The East Village has many architectural gems. Today we look one truly outstanding building, the “French Flats” located 206-208 East Ninth Street, between Second Avenue and Stuyvesant Street. This five-story,…
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Slugger Ann and Jackie Curtis — Part of the East Village Family
…of East 12th Street and 2nd Avenue and witnessed more than a quarter century of transformation in the East Village. The bar’s eponymous owner was Ann Uglialoro, born on April…
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An East Village Story — From German Church, to Synagogue, to Landmark
…German Baptist Church purchased the lot extending from 334 to 338 East 14th Street. On July 3, 1866, the congregation sold the eastern portion of its new lot (338 East…
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Discovering Yaroslava Surmach Mills, East Villager, Ukrainian, Artist
…scenes from Ukraine but did turn her hand to the East Village. Her illustration of the East Village Ukrainian Festival and a map of the Ukrainian East Village are on…
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Anton van Dalen’s “PEACE” of the East Village
…artist who moved to New York’s East Village in 1966, has lived in this townhouse at 166 Avenue A since 1971 and has been carefully documenting the East Village since…
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The Rise of Architectural Styles on East 10th Street
…played a big role across the rest of the city. East 10th Street, looking west in present day (left) and east into 1934, courtesy New York Public Library The area…
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323 East 6th Street: Religious Centers Bookend a City Disaster
…following Vienna and Berlin. Nicknamed Kleindeutschland (“Little Germany”), the area’s boundaries were defined as between 14th and Division streets, and the East River and the Bowery. 323 East 6th Street…
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: The Erskine Press Building, 17 East 13th Street
…a carpenter and a printer with the printing business at 22 East 13th Street. By the time that Erskine Press moved into 17 East 13th Street, two of Archibald’s sons,…
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East Village History: Some Protected, Some Not
…and Congregation Mezritch Synagogue at 415 East 6th Street in the newly designated East Village/Lower East Side Historic District. You can see the proposals for these applications and learn more…
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The Evolution of Tenement Typologies in the East Village
…the vast majority of the city’s inhabitants, lived in these buildings. 551 East 12th Street 551 East 12th Street Aerial view of 551 East 12th Street 1940s Tax Photo of…
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Developer Seeks Variances from Board of Standards and Appeals for Rooftop Additions at 329-335 East 9th Street
…with 329 East 9th Street in 1869, followed by 333 and 335 East 9th Street being constructed in 1875, and 331 East 9th Street in 1884. The buildings are very…
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268-272 East 2nd Street: Over 150 Years of Service to the Public
…Side Boys’ Lodging House and Industrial School on East Broadway and Gouverneur Street. Extant Vaux-designed Children’s Aid Society buildings include the former Elizabeth House for Girls at 307 East 12th…
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Charles Snyder’s Historic Schools in the East Village
…is leaving palaces to the people.” PS 15, 333 East 4th Street Many of those palaces remain focused on education, including many in the East Village. In 1904, for example,…
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Director Miloš Forman’s Life Takes Us from West to East Village, and Back Again
…Cameos by true historic figures, including East Villager Emma Goldman, dot the movie’s plot, bridging fiction with nonfiction. Filming ‘Ragtime’, East Village, location unknown, 1980. Photo from the Carole Teller Collection…
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East Village Building Blocks Tour: Little Ukraine
…Tour on our East Village Building Blocks website — see it here – and read on for a selection of a few of the many sites throughout the East Village….
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East Village’s Russian Orthodox Cathedral’s Road to Landmark Designation
…striking and impressive ecclesiastical structures, not only the East Village, but all of New York (their website is here). The Russian Orthodox Cathedral, 59 East 2nd Street. Image c/o Barry…
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Jimmy Carter, Habitat for Humanity, and the East Village
…a six-story building in the East Village. To learn more about this history of this and every other building in the East Village, explore our East Village Building Blocks website….
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