…and erect an apartment building. But Greenwich Village residents and activists including Margot Gayle and Philip Wittenberg led the effort to save the building from the wrecking ball. In 1961,…
Read More…to sleep at nightfall.” The hall hosted notable figures including labor leader Samuel Gompers, who visited the Hall for a meeting of striking brewery workers in 1888, and social activists…
Read More…19th century, the Village was the center of African-American life in New York, with what was referred to as “Little Africa” centered around present-day Minetta, Thompson, Cornelia and Gay Streets…
Read MoreDavid Rothenberg (b. August 19, 1933) is one of the Village’s most prolific activists. A former Broadway producer, he also produced the off-Broadway play “Fortune in Men’s Eyes”, which ignited…
Read More…Umanov’s is one of nearly 60 oral histories we’ve conducted, which you can find in our collection, with prominent preservationists, activists, planners, artists, community, and business leaders. Some others you…
Read More…histories we’ve conducted which you can find in our collection, with prominent preservationists, activists, planners, artists, community, and business leaders. Some others you can find include Jane Jacobs, Rick Kelly,…
Read More…rallies to create the New York City landmarks law. Mayor Robert F. Wagner signs the New York City Landmarks Law, April 19, 1965.Photo: Margot Gayle/NY Preservation Archive Project Two of…
Read More…and the protests began, Van Ronk was at a nearby bar called the Lion’s Head Tavern, a popular hangout for writers, artists, folk singers, and political activists. When he left…
Read More…Winter Show. CLICK HERE to watch the program This latest oral history adds to our collection of over 60, with preservationists like Jane Jacobs and Margot Gayle; merchants like the…
Read More…to Alex’s oral history — CLICK HERE This latest oral history adds to our collection of over 60, with preservationists like Jane Jacobs and Margot Gayle; merchants like the Strand’s…
Read More…life as a Villager, culinary expert, and gay man, and how all came to shape his legacy. Irene Sax is a journalist and food writer. Irene co-wrote Beard on Pasta and helped Beard…
Read MoreGay Pride Day, July 1, 1985. Owen Franken/CORBIS On June 5, 1981, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published its first national notice about cases of what would…
Read MoreA native of Lawrence, Massachusetts, Tom Bernardin (b. September 15, 1948) moved to New York City as a young man and enjoyed the freedom and community for gay men that…
Read MoreGVSHP is proud to be working with PFLAG (Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) and the Church of the Village at 13th Street and 7th Avenue to memorialize…
Read More…Village counterculture, Gay Rights, Women’s Rights, the Vietnam War, Experimental Theater, and other movements centered around the Village. He was married to Gloria McDarrah, who after his death continued to…
Read More…buildings under the city’s oversight, such as 16-18 Gay and 16-20 Christopher Street (adjacent to the already destroyed 14 Gay Street, and under the same ownership) and 10 Fifth Avenue….
Read More…thousands of images of drag performers who mixed gender-bending and illusion with downtown in-your-face attitude. This gay bar was been described as “a sweatbox of a club” and a “playground”…
Read More…or are owned and operated by them. This includes everything from the city’s oldest gay bar (Julius’ — still going strong) to the worlds first gay bookstore (the Oscar Wilde…
Read MoreYesterday the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), and The Church of the Village unveiled a bronze historic marker now permanently…
Read MoreCoined in 1990 at the Third Annual Inter-tribal Native American First Nations Gay and Lesbian American Conference held in Winnipeg, the term “Two Spirit” (2S) refers to indigenous individuals whose…
Read Morehttp://www.kulturekritic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/23/gay-flag.jpg Its been almost two years since the Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewel announced the LGBTQ Heritage Initiative by the National Park Service (NPS) outside the Stonewall Inn. As…
Read More…Men’s Lives and Gay Identities, winner of a Lambda Award for Gay Studies. His most recent publication is Dorothy Day: Dissenting Voice of the American Century (Simon & Schuster), the…
Read More…in the Civil War. These statues by George Segal are titled Gay Liberation in honor of gay rights and the Village’s rich history in this area. Unveiled in 1992, these…
Read More…titled “The Angry Christ” is a vivid representation of Ossorio’s conflicting religious experiences as a gay, Roman Catholic man. The bold palette highlights the intensity of the depicted figures, including…
Read More…the now-closed Oscar Wilde Bookshop, which was opened by Craig Rodwell in 1967 and was believed to be the country’s first gay bookstore. The shop was awarded a GVSHP Village…
Read More…historian of gangs, artist, and author who creates with a joyous yet desperate edge, for the sake of sheer survival. Watch the video here. #1 – How Gay Girls Owned…
Read More…the age of 17. She moved to downtown Manhattan, was sheltered by drag queens and fell under the tutelage of gay artists including Andy Warhol; the filmmaker and performance artist…
Read More…the early 1980s. The Palace restaurant and disco opened in Luchow’s former space, followed by a gay bar. But a 1992 fire led to the building’s demolition in 1995, despite…
Read More…the Stonewall Inn as a national monument to gay rights on June 27, 2016 in New York City. (Credit: Getty Images / Spencer Platt) In 2016, President Obama designated the…
Read MoreOn this date in 2013, GVSHP and Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) unveiled our plaque to memorialize and celebrate Jeanne Manford at the Church of the Village at…
Read More…include mythology, class, sexuality, position in society, and the ability to move from one social stratum to another. Delany at a reading in 2015. Delany has identified as gay since…
Read More…carry items in an expanding section of special local interest, from books like Storefront by James and Karla Murray, to GVSHP’s own Greenwich Village Stories, to Big Gay Ice Cream’s…
Read More…focus on the section of the book that deals with Sydney Howard Gay, a Greenwich Village resident who became an ardent abolitionist and supported the covert network that supported and…
Read More…all of which are on our YouTube channel. Our most popular video with almost 14,000 views is: How Gay Girls Owned the Village From the 30s to the 90s –…
Read More…of June 27, 1969. The bar and surrounding area were the site of a series of demonstrations and riots that led to the formation of the modern gay rights movement…
Read More…1978 after Harvey Milk hired Baker to create flags for the city’s parade. The emerging gay-rights movement had no symbol apart from the pink triangle — and few wanted to…
Read More…dark for a time, becoming The Saint in the 1980s: first a concert hall, then a gay nightclub that came to define the fabulousness of gay nightclubs. In 1995, Emigrant…
Read More…Saxophonist and pianist Charles Gayle, who lives near the park, tells Off the Grid he’ll be in the audience this weekend. “I can say that in discussing music and Bird’s…
Read MoreThis elaborately detailed Renaissance Revival–style office building was designed in 1908 by Buchman and Fox. It housed the headquarters of the United States’ first national gay rights organization, for the…
Read More…Ann Zielonko met in the Village — one of the few places at the time in New York, or anywhere, that lesbians and gay men had some opportunities to openly,…
Read More…moved to the East Village, where he struggled to pay rent as a part-time bouncer for a gay club on 2nd Avenue and East 4th Street. Although Baltrop printed and…
Read More…collection Bettye Lane Gay Rights Movement Photographs, Lane began her career as a photojournalist in 1965, just four years before the uprising at the Stonewall Inn in 1969. (Incidentally, the…
Read More…that ends its route where the gay-rights movement began, Greenwich Village. By now everyone knows the story of the 1969 Stonewall Riots that happened on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village,…
Read More101 Avenue A, photo by Barry Munger While Greenwich Village will always be equated with the Gay Rights Movement, particularly for its role in the series of protests at the…
Read MoreThe Big Gay Ice Cream Shop, the East Village’s newest neighborhood business, opened this past Saturday to lines down the block (image courtesy of NYU News) Want to see pictures…
Read More…Game 5 of the World Series in Detroit that drew mixed reviews… https://www.youtube.com/embed/aQkY2UFBUb4 Prior to Game 4, Tigers General Manager Jim Campbell warned anthem singer Marvin Gaye to “not to…
Read More…to operate a good many establishments in the Greenwich Village at the time. The Genovese family also operated Stonewall and many gay bars of the time, as it was illegal…
Read More…significant gay and lesbian clientele, including women (gay and straight) who would come to get their heads shaved — a service not commonly offered to women at most barbershops. Though…
Read More… Carlito’s Way – 17 Gay Street, Greenwich Village (Hulu) Ten years after they made “Scarface,” Al Pacino and director Brian De Palma returned with “Carlito’s Way,” another large-canvas portrait…
Read More…Written by Motown pioneers Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong, the song was re-recorded several times, most famously by Gladys Night and the Pips and Marvin Gaye, whose version landed on…
Read More…thrived, so has a vibrant and varied gay culture. W. H. Auden, Allen Ginsberg, and Quentin Crisp called the East Village home; and socialized in famous gay bars like the…
Read More…and discusses her incredible family history, which includes her great-grandfather, Sidney Howard Gay, the Editor of The Anti-Slavery Standard, who is sometimes thought to be the namesake of Gay Street….
Read More…a cigarette pack rolled up in a sleeve, and other times in a shredded dress. “It wasn’t a gay crowd or a drag queen crowd, but sometimes Jackie was tending…
Read More…history of the theater itself — a history that includes gay discos, Barbra Streisand, and thousands of turtles. Let’s dive in!: Brief History The Cherry Lane Theatre, located at 38…
Read MoreLarry Kramer June 25, 1935 – May 27, 2020 AIDS Activist and Playwright Founder of the Gay Men’s Health Crisis, Kramer assaulted the bureaucracy of public health policy. Kramer lived…
Read More…LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) civil rights. GVSHP has worked hard to document and preserve that history. In 1999, GVSHP helped get the Stonewall Inn listed on the National Register…
Read More…who was Black, gay, and earning a living as an artist, mentored the young writer and introduced him to diverse cultural perspectives as well as to a variety of people…
Read MoreClockwise from top left: Our Lady of Guadalupe Church at 229 West 14th Street; Jacob Day House at 50 West 13th Street; National Gay Task Force HQ at 80 Fifth…
Read More…that space had been a quite infamous gay bar that was closed in 1892, and continues to be an entertainment venue to this day. The Amato Opera The Amato Opera…
Read MoreClockwise from top left: 14 Gay Street; the former Dangler Mansion in Bedford-Stuyvesant; 351-55 West 14th Street/44-54 Ninth Avenue in the Meatpacking District Please join us tomorrow at 2 PM…
Read More…Villagers, for whom its idiosyncratic and quirky design was a symbol of their non-conformist community. Preservationists led by Margot Gayle and Ruth Wittenberg, and local artists including nearby Patchin Place-resident…
Read More…as the Loew’s Commodore Movie Theater for nearly four decades, after which it became fabled performance venue the Fillmore East, and later legendary gay nightclub The Saint. No longer extant…
Read More…his youth in the 1980s, landmarks and familiar sights of the neighborhood and city in the decades since then, the former World Trade Center and 9/11, and the annual Gay…
Read More…Andrew S. Dolkart and sponsored by Village Preservation and the Organization of Lesbian and Gay Architects and Designers, the Stonewall Inn and surrounding area were added to the National Register…
Read More…and other tricky research questions. 2012: Is Gay Street Really ‘Gay’? 2013: Happy Birthday, Andy Warhol (which formerly held the title of our most popular post) 2014: Kitty Genovese and…
Read MoreAPPROVED 09/22/2015 CB2 hearing: 07/20/2015 LPC hearing: 09/22/2015 Greenwich Village Historic District Corner of Christopher and Gay Streets —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the LPC agenda: A loft building…
Read More…gay-rights activist and author. He lived at 2 Fifth Avenue beginning in the 1980s. It was in his apartment here where a group of friends met to discuss the recent announcement…
Read More…E. Davis’s Under the Mink: When a gay man from a wealthy publishing family is murdered in the restroom of the Candy Box Club cabaret, drag king Blackie Cole gets…
Read More…gay, bisexual, and transgender community and its struggle for equality. Stonewall 45 is made up of panels that combine text and imagery to tell the story of the Stonewall Riots…
Read More…were used and transformed by avant-garde artists and a new emerging gay subculture in the 1970s and early 1980s. He will also spotlight the upcoming exhibition he curated with Darren…
Read More…small group of gay writers established themselves as literary power players, fueling cultural changes that would resonate for decades to come and transform the American literary landscape forever. Christopher Bram,…
Read MorePFLAG Historic Plaque Unveiling Celebrate LGBT Pride and History Month by joining GVSHP, PFLAG (Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays), and the Church of the Village for the…
Read More…his youth in the 1980s, landmarks and familiar sights of the neighborhood and city in the decades since then, the former World Trade Center and 9/11, and the annual Gay…
Read More…Village Community Coalition, the Lower East Side Preservation Initiative, Bowery Alliance of Neighbors, Place Matters/City Lore, the Cooper Square Committee, Cooper Square Mutual Housing Association (the owner of 19 properties…
Read More…Regina Kellerman Award: Bowery Alliance of Neighbors Sir Winston Churchill Square will be feted on June 17 at the Annual Village Awards Ceremony. Countless nominations were reviewed by the 2013…
Read More…hold, featuring Andrew Berman, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, David Mulkins, Chair, Bowery Alliance of Neighbors, and David Freeland, historian. Co-sponsored by the Historic Districts Council. This program is…
Read More…lower 6th Avenue & the streets absorbed by its extension Battle over Chelsea Market expansion heats up (Crain’s) Queer History Alliance says St. Vincent’s Triangle should have AIDS memorial (DNAinfo)…
Read More…friends with Ukrainians, Poles, Jews, Puerto Ricans, artists, writers, actors, designers, gays and lesbians without leaving his block? I feel incredibly blessed to have had the opportunity to spend my…
Read More…Alliance presented a plan to CB2 to make the St. Vincent’s Triangle into an AIDS memorial (NY Times) Minetta Lane ‘Salad House’ tries fresh photos to get its $3.75 million…
Read More…Greenwich Village. And this year, the Sixth Annual Regina Kellerman Award was presented to our good friends at the Bowery Alliance of Neighbors (BAN). You would be hard pressed to…
Read More…to demolish the building to make way for condos. The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, neighbors under the umbrella of the “Friends of the Tunnel Garage,” the SoHo Alliance,…
Read More…creativity of Greenwich Village. The park is today maintained by the Abingdon Square Alliance, a community group that works in cooperation with the Department of Parks & Recreation. The park…
Read More…major American city, and spent several years as the President of Municipal Art Society and the Times Square Alliance. He also calls the South Village home, and knows that you…
Read More…deeply impressive and fascinating man, but if it wasn’t for the street named for him, he would almost be forgotten in history. Rodman Wanamaker, courtesy of Staten Island Downtown Alliance….
Read More…in the East Village. He took classes at the Educational Alliance Art School on the Lower East Side, later becoming a teacher there and at the New School. During the…
Read More…9A. Beat Keerl, representing the SoHo Alliance. Peter Rea, associate professor at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and Silver Towers resident. Wayne Conti, local small business owner. Anne Hearn,…
Read More…events for you. Christmas Tree in Washington Square Park. Photo courtesy of villagealliance.org. Washington Square Park This past Wednesday, the Washington Square Association held the 88th annual tree lighting ceremony…
Read More…Side Preservation Initiative, Bowery Alliance of Neighbors, Place Matters/City Lore, the Cooper Square Committee, Cooper Square Mutual Housing Association (the owner of 19 properties in the district), and the Metropolitan…
Read More…The developer-requested rezoning area in Hudson Square. GVSHP, the Charlton and Vandam Block Associations, the SoHo Alliance, the Greenwich Village Community Task Force, and Greenwich Village Block Associations are holding…
Read More…plan, including 13 speakers on behalf of Village Preservation. After criticisms from Village Preservation and the SoHo Alliance about the imbalance of the panel of “experts” chosen by the Borough…
Read More…Education) and a former Trustee of the Alliance Francaise (Washington, D.C.). Professor Caws is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, among a great many other associations…
Read More…plan, including 13 speakers on behalf of Village Preservation. After criticisms from Village Preservation and the SoHo Alliance about the imbalance of the panel of “experts” chosen by the Borough…
Read More…which will ultimately decide if it is granted. And while the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, the Noho Neighborhood Association, the Soho Alliance, Community Board 2, Assemblymember Deborah Glick…
Read More…Churchill Square Regina Kellerman Award: Bowery Alliance of Neighbors Nominating: Returning Trustees: Penelope Bareau, Kate Bostock Shefferman, Cynthia Penney, Katherine Schoonover, and Fred Wistow, as well as new Trustee Marilyn…
Read More…the SoHo Alliance, said: “In the waning months of his failed administration, Mayor de Blasio seeks to destroy the iconic charm of SoHo, eviscerate the city’s landmarks law, further gentrify…
Read More…of New York City. Her obsessions include New York City history, slapstick comediennes, witches, ghosts, all things nautical, and beer. Co-hosted by Boroughs of the Dead, the Merchant’s House Museum, and the Village Alliance….
Read More…Director, Village Preservation); David Gruber (Chair, Institutions Committee Community Board 2), and Sean Sweeney (Director, SoHo Alliance) will discuss the old and new Village in a program moderated by Anthony…
Read More…co-sponsored by the East Village Community Coalition, Village Preservation, and the Historic Districts Council. With support from the Bowery Alliance of Neighbors, Friends of the Lower East Side, and the…
Read More…East Village History Project Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts Landmark West! The SoHo Alliance Friends of Terra Cotta Historic Districts Council Municipal Art Society Historic House Trust…
Read More…and supporters, including the evening’s host, Calvin Trillin. Watch the Video View the Photos 2019 Awardees Christopher Park Alliance This volunteer group formed in 2013 to preserve and protect Christopher…
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