…Historic District proposed by GVSHP. Founded by and for Italian immigrants, the church’s architecture is based directly upon Italian Renaissance models, and dominates nearby Father Demo Square, named for one…
Read More…Petrosino the first Italian-American to lead the NYPD’s homicide division. Petrosino later became the head of the department’s “Italian Squad,” an elite corps of Italian-American detectives organized specifically to uproot…
Read More…in New York’s Italian South Village, in preparation for Tuesday’s South Village landmarking vote. To read up on these programs from the past year, click here. Image courtesy of Amazon….
Read More…ten houses at #20-38 was built in 1856 (with the exception of No 38, built in 1858) in the Anglo-Italianate style. Their design is attributed to American architect James Renwick,…
Read More…the Italianate style “The five-story red brick Italianate building features terracotta plaques on the fifth floor at the top of each pier separating the four bays. In 1927, two tenements…
Read More…The church was built over an extended 55-year period, with the main building constructed of fieldstone in the Georgian style, the Greek Revival steeple completed in 1828, and the Italianate…
Read MoreIn the old Italian South Village, St. Anthony of Padua church stands on the corner of Sullivan Street and Houston Street, an anchor for the vibrant community of Italian immigrants…
Read More…building clad in travertine from the same Italian quarries of marble used to build ancient Roman buildings (the Italian government would donate half a million dollars for the purchase of…
Read More…five in an idyllic Anglo-Italianate row of houses, Steven and his partner James Anderson’s five-story, single-family brownstone on West 9th Street boasts the classical architectural stylings of the period alongside…
Read More…and Carmine Streets. The building formally opened on October 7, 1928. The church’s architect was Mathew Del Gaudio, an Italian American graduate of Cooper Union active in his profession from…
Read More…10th Street: An Italianate style tenement building designed by William S. Wright and built c.1860. Application is to construct a rear yard addition. Zone R7-A. 343 East 10th Street: An…
Read More…style house built in the mid 1840s and later altered with a fourth floor and an Italianate style cornice. Application is to alter the rear facade. Zoned R6. PHOTOS OF…
Read More…immigrants, especially those of Italian heritage, began to move in. Many of the area’s Black residents began to relocate uptown, and St. Benedict the Moor followed a similar path. It closed…
Read More…District designation report notes that the Italianate style building “presents an unusually attractive appearance.” Many former school buildings end up being used for other types of social services. However, this…
Read More…was completed in 1828 by architect Ithiel Town, and the cast-iron, Italianate portico was added in 1854, possibly by architect James Bogardus. The iron fence was added in 1838, likely…
Read More…York” Collection ca. 1980, www.archive.gvshp.org. In the 1950s and 60s the market changed. Many of the original vendors left, following their Jewish and Italian clients to the suburbs. Vendors from…
Read More…of southern Italian storytelling, where every problem is described by [laughs] being told about another problem that was similar to it that had happened once before. And that’s how I…
Read More…across New York’s overcrowded streets. At the core of what was then the East Village’s Italian-American corridor along First Avenue, the market held cheese, meat, olives, and Italian delicacy vendors,…
Read More…work in our neighborhoods — past and present. From The Italians of the South Village commissioned for Village Preservation: Immigrants recreated mutual benefit societies in the United States. These societies…
Read More…American history to be found in Greenwich Village and the East Village. While both neighborhoods became better known for different kinds of communities in later years – Italians, Ukrainians, gay men…
Read More…foreground figures; the artist Rene’s “I am the best artist” mural in SoHo; and a street artist producing his wares on the sidewalk. An Italian-American New York Bocce Court at…
Read More…district includes the monumental St. Anthony of Padua Church (1886), an imposing Romanesque Revival structure which is the country’s oldest extant Italian-American church, built for its very first Italian-American parish….
Read More…High Victorian design for this country. These English architects drew on the finest Ruskinian Gothic and Italian Renaissance sources. At the peak of this block, the mammoth tower of the…
Read More…York branch of what was then an international effort, the Saint Raphael Society for the Protection of Italian Immigrants, gave the name Our Lady of Pompeii to the chapel in…
Read More…“terrace” of houses was built in the Anglo-Italianate style and clad in brownstone, with a continuous rusticated base and second-floor balcony originally spanning the entire row. 24 & 26 West…
Read More…little Italian grocery/deli has everything you need to make a delicious Italian meal. Fresh and dried pasta, fresh and smoked mozzarella, parmesan, prosciutto, bread, olives, cheese, etc. — this place…
Read More…photo is an awning upon which you can read a part of a name, “rlini”. Eric immediately thought of Forlini’s, at 93 Baxter Street. Forlini’s is an Italian restaurant that opened…
Read More…along the Hudson River in the West Village which made the lower Fifth Avenue location ideal for Hawley. As stated in the designation report, the four-and-a-half story Italianate style building was…
Read More…The Italianate-style tenement building with a commercial ground floor was designated as part of the South Village Historic District in 2013, for which we successfully campaigned to achieve landmark status….
Read More…including Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner. The proposed district includes the monumental St. Anthony of Padua Church (1886), an imposing Romanesque Revival structure which is the country’s oldest extant Italian-American church,…
Read More…steeple was completed in 1828 by architect Ithiel Town; and the cast-iron, Italianate portico was added in 1854, possibly by architect James Bogardus. The iron fence was added in 1838,…
Read More…area’s mostly Italian immigrant families, but its productions received widespread recognition. Beginning in the 1970s, a series of professional theater companies began operating in the space. The now-defunct Sanctuary Theatre,…
Read More…all Italian. Sullivan Street, on the other side, was a lot Italians living there. But now it’s just completely changed because this side’s become a luxury building. The other side,…
Read More…This Italian restaurant, opened in 1897, was located at 85 West Third Street (the same building that Edgar Allan Poe lived in) and had two floors – a top floor…
Read More…her home at 18 West 10th Street, an Italianate-style structure built in 1856 that her family moved into earlier in 1883. Descendants of America’s first Jewish settlers, Moses and Esther…
Read More…Italian Americans and the Arts, Tuesday, December 19, 6pm. Learn how this vital immigrant community interacted with, inspired, and contributed to the arts and artists around them in the late…
Read More…history of the South Village is particularly tied with Italian-Americans in New York City: Italians of the South Village Vesuvio Playground: A Haven for the South Village Tenements of the…
Read MoreIn 1958, a twenty-five-year-old Philip Roth (March 19, 1933 – May 22, 2018) moved into a basement apartment at 128 East 10th Street in the East Village. The Anglo-Italianate building,…
Read More…Italian. Sullivan Street, on the other side, was a lot Italians living there. But now it’s just completely changed, because this side’s become a luxury building. The other side, now…
Read More…South Village’s unique historic significance as an archetypal immigrant community and as a crucial stepping-stone for Italians in America; as a laboratory of working-class architecture and an intact vestige of…
Read More…East Side, while Italians and African Americans from New York and other parts of the country have long lineages within the South Village and Greenwich Village. So, it comes as…
Read More…including Italian, Irish, and Eastern European communities, settled in the area, adding layers of diversity to its cultural fabric. Grove Court now L: photo of Grove Court taken by Jessie…
Read More…poster, 1988 The restaurant began in 1925, when Adolph Mariani, an immigrant from the Italian village of San Terenzo al Mare, opened a speakeasy on 12th Street and Sixth Ave….
Read More…the mind that conceived it, and the architect who executed it.” Designed in the Italian palazzo style, the white-painted, five-story structure featured street-level sheets of plate glass between tall Corinthian…
Read More…After waves of immigration into America, and particularly into New York, brought thousands of Irish, German, Polish, Russian, Hungarian, Italian, Russian and other nationals to our shores, U.S. leaders decided…
Read More…branch in the New York Public Library system, officially opening to the public on December 7, 1884. (Its red-brick exterior, a combination of Italian Renaissance and Queen Anne styles, was…
Read More…it was designed and built in 1886 by Arthur Crooks. St. Anthony’s is America’s earliest extant Catholic church established to minister to Italians and served the South Village’s growing immigrant…
Read More…the Greenwich Village Historic District designated in 1969. Its main characteristics in 1934, when the map was made, as well as in 1969? Its residents were largely Italian immigrants or…
Read More…(image courtesy of the LGBT Community Center) Erected by the City of New York in the third quarter of the 19th Century, this Italianate brick building was originally Public School…
Read More…the large German population was giving way to new immigrant groups like Italians, Eastern-European Jews, and Poles. The library held one of the most extensive Polish book collections in the…
Read More…Some of these have been Italian shops located in the South Village. Popular cheese shops Murray’s Cheese on Bleecker Street and Joe’s Dairy on Sullivan Street earned Village Awards in…
Read More…research undertaken in 2003 funded by the Preservation League of New York State. We release The Italians of the South Village, a report written by historian Mary Elizabeth Brown and…
Read MoreAPPROVED 11/17/2009 Greenwich Village Historic District Between Seventh Avenue South and Waverly Place Application: A rowhouse with Italianate-style elements built in 1856. Application is to install a painted wall sign. This…
Read More…and neo-Italian Renaissance styles with an exterior ornamented with terracotta putti. The branch was a gift of Oswald Ottendorfer, the owner of the New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung newspaper. During that era the…
Read More…in what had formerly been a locksmith’s building. His Italian landlady recognized their shared Italian heritage, and would bring him and his friends soup even if he was behind on…
Read More…this block-long row of low Italianate townhouses.” Fifteen houses, numbered 3-17 St. Luke’s Place, form a cohesive ensemble of red brick residences in the Anglo-Italianate style. Built in 1851- 1852,…
Read More…South Village was marked by its large Italian community that settled in the late 19th Century. Around that same time German, Irish, and Italian immigrants found work in the breweries,…
Read More…Brown’s (she/her) first contact with Village Preservation was in the early 2000s when she researched the Italian South Village as part of the organization’s efforts to landmark the neighborhood. She works…
Read More…Street has survived in near-pristine condition. Built in 1822, it was originally only two stories high and gained it’s top floor in 1870, which is presumably when it’s Italianate-style cornice…
Read More…the wrecking ball could take out those beautiful Federal era homes on Commerce Street, Grove Street and Bedford Street? Or those stately Italianate townhouses on Charles Street and Perry Street?…
Read More…may be right, but historic buildings are also landmarked and regulated for their cultural and social significance. Surely, the storefront of Zito’s, a long-standing Italian bakery located on a block…
Read MoreGet out your trilby hats and flapper dresses- Boardwalk Empire, the HBO Prohibition-era mob drama, is filming right here on East 12th Street and 2nd Avenue at John’s Italian Restaurant….
Read More…the piece makes note of Cavaglieri’s northern Italian roots, and its influence on his architectural sensibilities. Coincidentally or not, both the Jefferson Market Library/Courthouse and the Public Theater/Astor Library drew…
Read More…the Protection of Italian Immigrants, under the leadership of Father Pietro Bandini. Father Bandini named his chapel there “Our Lady of Pompeii.” He worked to help the many Italian immigrants…
Read More…was home to many intellectuals, writers, and artists who embraced ideas and politics counter to the prevailing culture, or Bohemians. But the area was also inhabited by Irish and Italian…
Read More…and artistic history? That it played a key role in the development of New York’s African American, LGBTQ+, and Italian American communities? That it has the highest concentration of early…
Read More…Italian-American section of Greenwich Village south of Washington Square Park and West 4th Street — was left entirely out of the Greenwich Village Historic District designated by the LPC in…
Read More…East Side, swarmed not only Jewish immigrants but Italian immigrants, who lived in the tenements on First Avenue and along 13th and 14th Streets from Second Ave to Ave B….
Read More…themselves to look up past the delightful display of pastries in the window of Veniero’s, the Italian bakery and café on the ground floor. The building was constructed 1865-66. Because…
Read More…City in Queens to two working-class Italian parents. His father, Giovanni, was an often-ill grocer who had immigrated from Italy at the age of 11. His mother, a factory seamstress…
Read More…Street. The Center has been a focal point for the LGBTQ+ community in New York City since its founding in 1983. It acquired the three-story Italianate-style former school from the…
Read More…also assisted in an exhibition at MoMA. In 1950, Huxtable won a Fulbright grant to pursue her interest in postwar Italian architecture, which was followed in 1958 by a Guggenheim…
Read More…is of course one of the oldest operating cafes in the Italian South Village. The original owners brought the first cappuccino machine to the United States when it opened in…
Read MoreRecreating the Italian Immigrant neighborhood of 1917 for The Godfather Part II, filmed in 1970 Immigrant Heritage Week is held by NYC each year to honor our collective immigrant heritage….
Read More…our past Off the Grid post. Joan Holloway’s apartment at 42 West 12th Street. Google Maps Street View. Speaking of the Butterfield, just across the street is the beautiful Italianate…
Read More…Jared Kushner. The proposed district includes the monumental St. Anthony of Padua Church (1886), an imposing Romanesque Revival structure which is the country’s oldest extant Italian-American church, built for its…
Read More…the paths they used that became main thoroughfares such as Bowery and Broadway, the Irish community from churches such as a St. Veronica’s and St. Johns, and the Italian community…
Read More…details dating from its Roaring Twenties conversion to apartments; a townhouse with a stunning triple parlor replete with grand Italianate details and intricate plaster moldings; a Greek Revival townhouse whose…
Read More…Thompson Streets in the early sixties. Their delicious food and family atmosphere have made it a popular destination in the Italian South Village for many years. Please join us as…
Read More…Streets, started out as an Italian bakery, of which there were many along First Avenue in the mid-20th century. In the early 1990s, it was taken over by a family…
Read More…ingredients in its gelato. Pasticceria Bruno, a family-based shop on LaGuardia Place, has been in business since 1973. Besides their gelatos and traditional Italian ices, you can treat yourself to…
Read More…below 14th Street. Cherubs, or putti as they were sometimes called in Italian, were a popular German architectural motif. 206 East 10th Street They are particularly abundant in three tenements…
Read More…South Village and SoHo. The church itself was founded in 1886 and was one of the first churches to serve the South Village’s growing population of Italian immigrants during the…
Read More…located at 113 Waverly Place, as part of the Saint Raphael Society for the Protection of Italian Immigrants, under the leadership of Father Pietro Bandini. Father Bandini named his chapel…
Read More…when it’s Italianate-style cornice was added. The original owner, William F. Hyde, was a sash maker and likely made many of the house’s double-hung windows. 1822 makes it old, indeed….
Read More…in 2013 (see photos here). The San Remo Cafe, which was open from the mid-1920s until the late 1960s, began its life as an Italian-American cafe like so many others…
Read More…to Italian immigrants and even offered services, meetings, and bible classes in Italian. You can read more about the Church, it’s history, and mission by checking out its designation report….
Read More…Carroll Place at 157 Bleecker Street is an Italian spot that is sure to delight. Chalkboard menus offer a mostly Italian wine selection. Fans of the old tenant, Kenny’s Castaways,…
Read More…house the incoming immigrant population and there are excellent examples of pre-law, old-law and new law configurations designed in the Italianate, neo-Grec, Queen Anne, Romanesque and Renaissance Revival Styles. 269-271…
Read More…small, dirty island housing over 4,000 people. The name comes from the Italian getto meaning “casting,” or Venetian geto meaning “foundry.” The Venice Ghetto, long after the walls were torn down. Via…
Read More…now known as Greenwich Village. Students explore the immigrant experience through the lens of mass Italian immigration in the late 19th century, Session 2: Walking Tour Travel back in time…
Read More…Morton Street, bookbook lies on a lively stretch of Bleecker Street that includes Murray’s Cheese, Trattoria Pesce Pasta, and Faicco’s Italian Specialties. Remember Biography bookshop, across from Magnolia Bakery on…
Read More…the New York City Parks Department started buying land for playgrounds in the then-Italian-immigrant community. This playground, which opened in 1934, was originally called the Thompson Playground after Revolutionary War…
Read More…top floor in 1870, which is presumably when it’s Italianate-style cornice was added. The original owner, William F. Hyde, was a sash maker and likely made many of the house’s…
Read More…locally run shops like hers still exist. “It is an authentic neighborhood,” she says. With a deep connection to the rich Italian-American heritage of the area, many of the old…
Read More…what would later be known as Old Law tenements, were constructed housing the increasing immigrant population in the area, largely Italian-American. 188-192 Avenue of the Americas. Three old law tenements…
Read More…and some mid-19th century styles including Gothic Revival, Italianate and Anglo Italianate and mid-to-late 19th century styles including Second Empire, Neo-Grec and Romanesque. Today we will look at turn-of-the 20th…
Read More…W 3rd Street), Bleecker Street, Laurens Street (now LaGuardia Place), MacDougal Street, Thompson Street, and Sullivan Street. Lined with residential buildings and institutions like the Minetta Lane Theater and Italian…
Read More…South of Union Square Row House Tour. This 4-story plus raised basement Italianate style rowhouse was built in 1847-48 for William Bailey, and remarkably retains intact its Italianate doorway, cornice,…
Read More…the Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II (South Village), you can read more about its history and importance to the Italian and Italian-American community on our Resources page. Branches on…
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