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Cemeteries of The East Village, Part IV

…2014 Village Awardee, sits on the block bounded by 2nd Avenue, the Bowery, East 2nd East and 3rd Streets, accessible through a gate on 2nd Avenue. Founded in 1830 in…

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A Building Blocks Tour of the Squats of the East Village

…the tour here. Enjoy this tour? We also have East Village Building Block tours on African American History, the Jewish/Yiddish Rialto, Historic East 10th Street, Kleindeutschland and Places That Matter….

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Local Landmark: Church of the Immaculate Conception and Clergy House, 406-412 East 14th Street

One of the East Village’s earliest designated but perhaps least well known landmarks, is the Church of the Immaculate Conception and Clergy House, located at 406–412 East 14th Street between First Avenue and Avenue A, and…

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Marlis Momber, an East Village Icon

…II with vivid descriptions of the burnt out and abandoned East Village and Lower East Side of the 1970s. However, she noted, “there was also vitality and community on those…

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Business of the Month: La Sirena, 27 East 3rd Street

…East Village/ Lower East Side Historic District at 27 East 3rd Street (just west of 2nd Avenue) is La Sirena opened over 17 years ago, and this Cinco de Mayo is our latest…

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Seen and Heard Around the Village 8.11.11: East Edition

Momofuku Milk Bar’s pastry chef, Christina Tosi reveals her favorite East Village spots (The Local East Village)……. and Constance Zimmer of Entourage gives a tour of her East Village 2-bedroom…

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Seen and Heard Around the Village 7.31.11 – 8.6.11, East Edition

East River Park The Short Life of the Tompkins Square Park Walk Man (EV Grieve) The End of a Bar & Its Surprisingly Artistic Life (City Room) Aziz Ansari’s East…

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Why Isn’t This Landmarked: 49 East 10th, Home of Jackson Pollock

…the intensity, expanse, and rhythm of the city. One of his lesser-known homes, when he himself was a still-unkown painter just starting out, was 49 East 10th Street. Paul Jackson…

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Happy Birthday East 10th Street Historic District

A 1934 Image of East 10th Street looking east from Avenue A with the Chrisadora in the background. (Image via NYPL) On January 17th, 2012, the LPC designated the East…

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Movie Theaters of the East Village: Loew’s Avenue B

…ever did before” — Marcus Loew You’d never know by looking at it now, but the intersection of East 5th St. and Avenue B in the East Village was once…

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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: MORE Artist Studios at 30 East 14th Street

…30 East 14th Street Artist Studios via Apartments.com. Facade of 30 East 14th Street in 1959. May Janko and Agnes Hart kept studios there. One particularly notable collection of artist studios…

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Touring the Gardens of the East Village

…the Lower East Side and East Village felt abandoned by the city, so they decided to take matters into their own hands. They had already pioneered the homesteading and squatting…

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Happy 45th To Neighboring 1830s East Village Cemeteries

…provide a great view of the rear of the surrounding buildings along Second Avenue. Today, they are included in the East Village/Lower East Side Historic District. The cemetery in the…

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East Village Building Blocks and Village Preservation’s Morrone Report

East Village Building Blocks/ Morrone Report Talk at Little Missionary Day School Learn about Village Preservation’s effort to raise awareness and appreciation of the East Village’s rich history, and to…

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Did You Know? – East 7th Street

Did you know that East 7th Street between Avenues C & D was once known as “Political Row”? Beautiful rowhouses on the south side of East 7th Street between Avenues…

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Business of the Month: CafeDelia, 59 East 8th Street

…Road extended from the Far East to Southern Europe, the Middle East, and Eastern Africa, passing through the Caucasus along the way. It did not, to our knowledge, go through…

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Shining a Light on an East Village Landmark

…use a little TLC, we’re happy to share that it’s located within the recently designated East Village-Lower East Side Historic District. You can read more about this district here and…

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Business of the Month: Videogamesnewyork, 202 East 6th Street

…1970s to the present, and that is the East Village’s own Videogamesnewyork at 202 East 6th Street, our November 2019 Business of the Month. Since Before 2006 Videogamesnewyork opened at…

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Business of the Month: Feast On Us, 645 Hudson Street

…Instagram @Feastonus So drop in on Ibrahim and Nadia and the team and feast on their delicious changing menu at Feast On Us, or invite them to cater your next…

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Lower East Side Oral Histories: A Book Talk by Nina Howes & Eric Ferrara

Lower East Side Oral Histories: A Book Talk by Nina Howes & Eric Ferrara Lower East Side Oral Histories is a compilation of 25 unique interviews conducted by Nina Howes…

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Development dispute over P.S. 64 in the East Village continues, two decades later

P.S. 64 in 2013, courtesy of Village Preservation Twenty years ago, on July 20, 1998, Mayor Rudy Giuliani sold former Public School 64 on the Lower East Side, then home to…

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Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti — East Meets West (Village, that is)

…the time that Physical Graffiti was mixed there. While the album cover’s look emerged from the East Village, it’s sound, at least in its final form, emerged from the West…

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Spotlight On the Ukrainian Museum: Ukrainian Art and Culture in the East Village

The Ukrainian Museum on East 6th Street. Tucked mid-block between historic tenements on 6th Street in the East Village is a modern building devoted to the preservation and exhibition of…

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Taco Tuesday in Greenwich Village and the East Village

…East Village and Lower East Side, hence the name. It made its own breads, buns, and multi-colored cookies. In the early 90s, it was taken over by a family of…

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Seen and Heard Around the Village 8.22.11: East Edition

…Jardin del Paraiso on East 4th Street…..and they take a look at 316 East 3rd Street and its “DocuDrama” Beware of real estate scam in the East Village! (EV Grieve)…

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East 12th Street’s “Ghost Church”: From Pathbreaking House of Worship to NYU Dorm

The disembodied church steeple sitting in front of a 26-story NYU dorm on East 12th Street between 3rd and 4th Avenues makes for one of the more head-scratching sights in…

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A ‘Greenwich Village Stories’ Walking Tour of the East Village

…she did not return. Years later, Kessler still remembers the pink and cream bird and “how she chose the East Village for her sanctuary.” Finish your East Village walking tour…

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East Village vs. West — Which is Really the Narrowest House in NYC?

…frequently called, or a mere pretender to the throne. In fact, an Off the Grid reader recently asked us if there wasn’t actually a narrower house in the East Village,…

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Spotlight on Small Businesses: La Sirena, 27 East 3rd Street

…beckon you to enter. Nowadays, of course, there are masks for sale. La Sirena is located in the East Village/ Lower East Side Historic District at 27 East 3rd Street, just…

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BSA Grants Variances on East 9th Street

…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 much intact and…

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East Village LGBT Walking Tour

East Village LGBT Walking Tour Although the storied LGBT history of Greenwich Village gets a lot of play, the East Village has a beloved LGBT past and present too. When…

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East Village Historic District Tour: A Walking Tour with Elizabeth Finkelstein – 7/11

…East Village/Lower East Side Historic District. The buildings contained within this newly-designated district represent several important eras in East Village history, illustrating its growth from an elite residential neighborhood, to…

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Ana Maria Simo – Lesbian Avenger in the East Village

52 East 1st Street Here at GVSHP, we’re always singing the praises of the avant-garde, innovative, inspiring women of Greenwich Village, East Village and NoHo. But since March is Women’s…

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East Village vs. West — Which Is Really the Narrowest House in NYC?

…wasn’t actually a narrower house in the East Village, at 39 St. Mark’s Place, which at a glance certainly looks as though it could give its West Village counterpart a…

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East Village Historic District Tour: A Walking Tour with Elizabeth Finkelstein

East Village Historic District Tour: A Walking Tour with Elizabeth Finkelstein Join historian (and former Village Preservation staffer) Elizabeth Finkelstein for a morning walk through and around the East Village/Lower…

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Walking East 7th Street: Decatur Place to Kleindeutschland

…The third of five posts in the series, by Elena Berry and Alyson Cluck, focuses on East 7th Street between 1st Avenue & Avenue A. East 7th Street between First…

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What the Lower East Side Means to Me

My grandparents (center) on their wedding day in 1946. Also pictured are their parents, each of them or their parents finding their way to the Lower East Side from different…

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Welcome East 10th Street Historic District

East 10 Street Historic District. Photo courtesy of the Landmarks Preservation Commission. Last week, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to landmark East 10th Street, from Avenue A…

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Variety, East Village Style

…end may be coming for the former Hollywood Theater, we thought we’d take a brief look at another East Village showplace that only recently went the way of the silent…

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Village Preservation East Village Oral History: Robert Zerilli

…The Veniero family lived at 340 East 11th street. That building’s ground floor units now include the Veniero’s cake-order pickup desk on the east and the Village Veterinarian on the…

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Lee Morgan, East Village Jazz Trumpet Prodigy

…a gun. Slugs’ in the Far East The Albert Ayler Quintet Outside Slugs’ Saloon The business at 242 East 3rd Street (now Rossy’s Bakery) was first a Ukrainian restaurant and bar….

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Seen and Heard Around the Village 8.29.11: East Edition

hurricane damage on 1st Avenue near 13th Street The demolition has begun at 331 East 6th Street…..and 328 East 4th Street gets a Stop Work Order (EV Grieve) The Dom…

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135 East 2nd Street, Then & Now

Walking along East 2nd Street, between Avenue A and First Avenue, you might have noticed a historic building that, in terms of its age and style, seems out of context…

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The Past, Present & Future of East 4th Street: Downtown Theater Row

…a tour, lecture & conversation with Fourth Arts Block and Lower East Side History Project about what was, what is, and what will be happening on East 4th Street. This…

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Ai Weiwei and The Two East Villages: Part One

This special two-part series explores Ai Weiwei’s experiences in two different East Villages — one in New York and the other in Beijing — both of which were hubs of…

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Will ‘One of the Most Important Buildings in the East Village’ Become a Landmark?

…buildings between different faiths are a distinctive feature of this area, points out Laurie Tobias Cohen, executive director of the Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy. The Lower East Side/East Village…

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Welcome to the Neighborhood: Via della Scrofa, 60 East 4th Street

…Via della Scrofa at 60 East 4th Street, just east of the Bowery. Via della Scrofa is a small market that takes its name from a Roman street of gastronomic…

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An Unfortunate Facelift on East 12th Street

…neighborhood-wide survey GVSHP has conducted for the entire East Village. Photo from our East Village survey of the former facade The building in August 2012 Unfortunately, the building has been…

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Business of the Month: St. Mark’s Bookshop, 136 East 3rd Street

…of the Month — and we need your help selecting the next. Tell us which independent store you love in Greenwich Village, the East Village or NoHo: just click here…

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The Small-Business-Saving Squad of the East Village

…group plans to add some muscle to local business: the East Village Independent Merchants Association, or EVIMA. Presently in formation, it will soon become a merchant-run membership organization aimed at…

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Fred W. McDarrah’s Greenwich Village and the East Village of the 1950s and 60s

…maintained a studio at 88 East 10th Street, right in the center of the East 10th Street gallery row. De Kooning is pictured here on the front steps of his building with…

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When “the Club” Ruled the Art World from East 8th Street

…30 East 9th Street, which replaced 39 East 8th Street in 1955. The 1950s were critical years for many of the artists involved, and the Club offered a grounding site…

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Business of the Month: Fragrance Shop New York, 65 East 4th Street

…good on her promise and launched a fragrance store. Her choice of neighborhood was never truly in doubt. I love East Village. East Village, the people is so beautiful, so…

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East Village vs. West — Which Is Really the Narrowest House in NYC?

…the East Village, at 39 St. Mark’s Place, which at a glance certainly looks as though it could give its West Village counterpart a run for its money. 75 1/2…

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What’s Up With that Rotting School on East 9th Street?

…of the Lower East Side/East Village including, but not limited to restoring the not-for-profit organization known as CHARAS / El Bohio to the building located at 605 East 9th Street….

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East Village Historic District Tour: A Walking Tour with Elizabeth Finkelstein – 7/31

…East Village/Lower East Side Historic District. The buildings contained within this newly-designated district represent several important eras in East Village history, illustrating its growth from an elite residential neighborhood, to…

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A Special Visit to Bronx Brewery East Village — Tour, Beer Sampling and Trivia

…East Side now known as the East Village into a German-speaking enclave. The area’s new residents brought with them their own brewing style and provided the neighborhood with dozens of…

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326 & 328 East 4th Street

326 & 328 East 4th Street 328 and 326 East 4th Street, located between Avenues C and D, were two miraculous survivors whose histories reflect the East Village’s remarkable transformation…

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No Need for a Mock UN at One East Village Elementary School

…PS 34 Franklin D. Roosevelt at 730 East 12th Street in the East Village. With the popularity of the show Mad Men, (check out our blog about Village spots featured…

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Women Movers and Shakers of the East Village: A Walking Tour with Andrea Coyle

…and women’s rights, the women of the Lower East Side played an invaluable role in shaping politics and culture in America and around the globe. The Lower East Side/East Village…

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A Son of the East Village, Murdered, and a Controversial Opera

…A building known to most East Villagers, the Key Food at Avenue A and East Fourth Street, is where the Klinghoffer business moved next. According to GVSHP research, the one-story…

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Rally to Save 112-120 East 11th Street — One Year Ago Today

…as a potential “East Eleventh Historic District” as part of an environmental review of the area conducted in 2008 for the East Village rezoning, and we were rallying to protest the…

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Jean-Michel Basquiat and the East Village art scene of the 1980’s

Jean-Michel Basquiat’s life and work are synonymous with the East Village/NoHo art scene of the 1980’s. From his early years as a burgeoning young artist while studying at City-as-School, a…

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NoHo East Historic District Turned 10 Yesterday!

NoHo East Historic District map. Source: Landmarks Preservation Commission. Today, the Landmarks Preservation Commission will be holding a public hearing on the proposed South Village Historic District. Yesterday, the NoHo…

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Suffragists of the East Village

…of activism, the 19th Amendment was adopted on August 18, 1920. Unsurprisingly, many people and organizations located in Greenwich Village, East Village, and NoHo played key roles in the women’s…

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Landmarks50: 295 East 8th Street

295 East 8th Street Undated Image via Museum of the City of New York Now home to seven apartments, 295 East 8th Street a.k.a. 127 Avenue B, opened in 1887…

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Why Isn’t It Landmarked?: 204 East 13th Street, Home To Jazz Great and Film History

…204 East 13th Street is a 4-story Neo-Grec style tenement built in 1875. The building has exceptionally vivid and intact architectural detailing on its cornice and lintels. Village Preservation has…

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Beyond the Village and Back: The New York Society Library, 53 East 79th Street

In our series Beyond the Village and Back, we take a look at some great landmarks throughout New York City outside of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo, celebrate…

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A Walk Around the East Village ca. 1980 with Carole Teller

…the early 1990s, part 2 largely focuses on the East Village and Lower East Side in the 1970s and 80s. Now with the help of the internet and a little…

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Cemeteries of The East Village, Part III

…of the former thoroughfare in the layout of the playground for P.S. 19 and the adjacent apartment building at 301-309 East 11th Street/304-310 East 12th Street. The street was filled…

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A History of East Village Rowhouses:A Panel Discussion

A History of East Village Rowhouses: A Panel Discussion Though known primarily for its collection of late 19th and early 20th century tenement buildings, the East Village is home to…

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Hip Hop’s 2nd Birthplace: Greenwich Village & the East Village

…in the genre’s history, Greenwich Village and the East Village can boast of being the neighborhoods where all four hip hop elements were presented together for the first time and becoming…

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Seen and Heard Around the Village 7.10.11 – 7.16.11, East Edition

…Gay Ice Cream Truck Prepping for East Village Debut (DNAinfo) Extra Place, Then & Now (Ev Grieve) Tokyo Architects Making Their Mark on East Village Lot (Curbed) Trash & Vaudeville…

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Everyday Lives, Ordinary People: A History of East Village Immigrants

…East Village is reflected in its architecture and also in the stories of the many immigrants who lived there. In conjunction with GVSHP’s architectural resource survey of the East Village,…

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Business of the Month: Live Live & Organic, 261 East 10th Street

…the East Village, or NoHo: click here to nominate your favorite. Want to help support small businesses? Share this post with friends. As the preference for healthy eating and choosing…

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This May: A Crowdsourced History of the Lower East Side

…than – oh, you get the idea. There will be oodles of exciting things going on throughout all of May in the East Village and Lower East Side during the…

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The Hospital for Special Surgery, Born in the East Village

…orthopedic surgery, actually began in a row house in the increasingly immigrant-filled East Village more than 150 years ago. In 1863 in the middle of the Civil War, Dr. James…

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East Village Rezoning Passes

Yesterday the City Council enacted into law a sweeping rezoning of the East Village. The new zoning will for the first time establish height limits for new development throughout the…

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Demolitions Planned on Perry, Barrow, and East 13th Streets

…E 13th Street. Those buildings are 144 Barrow Street (West/Washington Streets), 156, 158, and 160 Perry Street (West Washington Streets), and 313 East 13th Street (1st/2nd Avenues). Fortunately all these…

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Seen and Heard Around the Village 9.10.11: East Edition

All People’s Garden. East 3rd Street between Avenues C & D It’s being speculated that Friends’ star David Schwimmer owns the now-demolished 331 East 6th Street (EV Grieve) And in…

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Seen and Heard Around the Village 10.3.11: East Edition

…in the East Village Michael Moore was at St. Mark’s Bookshop (Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York)….and in more books store news- the owner of East Village Books nabbed a library thief…

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East Village Rock Tour B: Beyond Iconic Photos

…at Abe Lebewohl Park (corner of 2nd Avenue and East 10th Street) and will end at 315 Bowery (between East 1st and East 2nd Streets) where CBGB made an indelible…

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Philip Glass: A Life in Music, and in the East Village

World-renowned composer and East Village denizen Philip Glass was born on January 31, 1937 in Baltimore. The child of Jewish emigrants from Lithuania, his mother aided Holocaust survivors and recent…

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East 9th Street Then and Now

East 9th Street looking west from 4th Avenue. Left photo via New York Public Library Yesterday we explored some of the history of elevated train lines in the Village. Today…

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My Favorite Things: East Eleventh Street Baths

…at the Landmarks Preservation Commission, I researched and wrote the designation report for the East Eleventh Street Baths at 538 East 11th Street. It’s hard to believe that this beautiful…

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Walking East 7th Street: Tompkins Market and Armory

…of five post in the series, by Sam Adels and Megan Findling, focuses on East 7th Street between 2nd & 3rd Avenues. East 7th Street between 2nd & 3rd Avenues…

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Business of the Month: Gaia Italian Cafè, 226 East 3rd Street

…out of a new spot on the Lower East Side that did not work out. Eventually, however, she found her way to East 3rd Street alongside her longtime employee Kevin…

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Welcome to the Neighborhood: Archie’s Press, 219 East 10th Street

…printing, letterpress printing is nevertheless kept alive by committed artisans to this day. One such keeper-of-the-flame recently opened in the East Village, Archie’s Press at 219 East 10th Street. At…

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8-Story Apartment Building to Replace Old East Village Theater

98 Avenue A, south of East 7th Street, in 1941. Source: New York Public Library (image ID 715963b) Many of us have known for some time that the former theater…

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East Village Cheese!

…East Village residents with fancy cheese and cheese that strikes their fancy. East Village Cheese, 80 E. 7th St. Photo courtesy of East Village Today. Their name says it all:…

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341 & 343 East 10th Street

APPROVED on 03/18/2014 LPC hearing: 03/18/2014 CB3 hearing: 03/06/2014 East 10th Street Historic District Between Avenues A and B —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the LPC agenda: 341 East…

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Abbie Hoffman: East Village Counterculture Icon

…the East Village. “New York is naturally fantastic — especially where I live — just one gigantic happening,” he wrote while living on Avenue C and 11th Street. Hoffman arrived in…

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Great News Regarding Proposed 32-ft.-Tall 5G Towers in the West Village, Saving Charas/Former P.S. 64 at 605 East 9th Street, and Bleecker Street Morton Williams Supermarket

…under which the supermarket located on NYU land on Bleecker Street east of LaGuardia Place would remain open at its current location for at least another 13 years. During the…

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The East Village in Photos: 1984 vs. 2014

In 1984, East Village resident Dan Root took some photographs for a book that a friend of a friend was going to write about the changing East Village. For a…

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Exploring Black History in the East Village and NoHo

…rights movements. To explore more African-American sites in East Village and NoHo, visit the African American History Tour on our East Village Building Blocks site, or watch our video on…

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Anarchy in the East Village! The Ferrer Modern School

…insufficient funds. In order to be able to expand its programming to include children’s education, the Modern School was moved in 1912 to its second East Village location, 104 East…

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Gangster City: The Criminal History of the Lower East Side A Walking Tour with Eric Ferrara

…Project, and author of the guide book “Gangsters, Murderers & Weirdos of New York City’s Lower East Side” (History Press). This event is co-sponsored by the East Village History Project….

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Village People: Crystal Eastman

(This post is part of a series called Village People: A Who’s Who of Greenwich Village, which will explore some of this intern’s favorite Village people and stories.) Crystal Eastman…

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East Village Saturday Festivals Abound!

…next door, we will also have a tent at the Taste of the East Village Festival on East 7th Street between Cooper Square and 2nd Avenue. The tasting festivities begin…

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The Modern Roller Skate, and Men Fighting for Women’s Suffrage — Introduced at the Same East Village Locale

James Plimpton The East Village is renowned as a place of great cultural innovation over the years. But two of the least well-known great leaps forward with roots in the…

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