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The Oldest Building in the Village?

…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….

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Politicians, Playwrights, and Parades: The Irish legacy of the East Village and Greenwich Village

…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…

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The Founding of Our Lady of Pompeii

…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…

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Early Preservation and the Jefferson Market Library

…born in Italy and served in the Italian army under Mussolini. When Italian Jews were stripped of their citizenship he left and earned a bronze star in the American army…

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If Beale Street Could Talk’s West Village Scenes

…by an Italian shop owner. They dance through the streets, and walk home in the rain down Minetta Lane, which felt like a very beautiful nod to the Village’s historic…

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The NEW New York: Immigration, 1820s to 1880s – An Overview

…only by the existence of domestic servants, many of whom were Irish immigrants. SJ Costello will explore the motivating push-pull factors that led Irish, Germans, Chinese, Eastern Europeans, and Italians…

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Caffé Cino – Off-Off Broadway and On the National Register

…this groundbreaking, pre-Stonewall café theater. Caffé Cino, located at 31 Cornelia Street from 1958 to 1968, was the creation of Joe Cino, an openly gay Italian-American producer who is credited…

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Let Them Eat Pie!

…a role in our food customs and culture. Once Upon a Tart has been a South Village staple since 1905, when it was just one of many Italian-owned and operated…

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Village Preservation Brokers Partnership: Celebrate the richness of the South Village & Washington Square Park

…of La Lanterna di Vittorio, a third generation beloved, Italian restaurant. Learn about this historical eatery and meet the family. Afterwards, depart for a tour of Washington Square Park and…

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Landmarking the East Village: A Lecture with Village Preservation Director of Preservation and Research Elizabeth Finkelstein

…days as a rowhouse neighborhood, to a tenement district home to Germans, the Irish, Jews, Italians, Eastern Europeans, and most recently Latinos, the East Village has a rich cultural and…

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Why Aren’t These Landmarked? Black History Month Edition

…in 1931. Congressman Vito Marcantonio of East Harlem, who served as the IWO’s vice president, introduced legislation drafted by the organization to bar discrimination against Jewish, Italian, and Black individuals…

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The South Village: Birthplace of an American Immigrant Community A panel discussion

…Village later became an archetypal New York immigrant neighborhood, embracing a vibrant Italian-American community. Moderated by Village Preservation Executive Director Andrew Berman, a discussion by panelists Mary Elizabeth Brown (Assistant…

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Our Little Italies: Past, Present, and FutureA lecture with Dr. Jerome Krase

…the United States. Once vital and vibrant Italian American communities have seen the replacement of original houses and businesses with what some call “Ethnic Theme Parks.” Other areas have witnessed…

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Great Writers and the Greenwich Village Historic District

…1883 the Lazarus family moved to 18 West 10th Street, a beautiful Italianate-style home (pictured above) which is featured on GVSHP’s Civil Rights and Social Justice Map. It was in…

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The Architecture of the South Village: A walking tour with Andrew Dolkart

…of immigrant tenements, long home to a vibrant Italian-American community. Based on Dolkart’s recently completed survey of the South Village, the tour will highlight the area’s converted row houses, tenements,…

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Mary Help of Christians Church

…was based upon models in Turin and was built to serve a largely Italian American congregation. The architect of the church designed several other landmarked properties in NYC, and this…

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Advocacy Reports

…of the 10 Minute Walk Disappearing Before Our Eyes The Impacts of NYU’s Proposed Expansion The Truth About Open Space Westbeth The Italians of the South Village The History of…

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15 Sites of Critical African American History in Greenwich Village

…the black population uptown, and was taken over by the predominantly Italian-American Our Lady of Pompeii congregation. The beautiful church building was later demolished due to the extension of Sixth…

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210 West 11th Street

APPROVED on 06/04/2013 Greenwich Village Historic District Between Waverly Place and Seventh Avenue South —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the LPC agenda: An Italianate style rowhouse built in 1856….

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30 Grove Street

APPROVED 07/17/2012 Greenwich Village Historic District Between Bleecker and Bedford Streets APPLICATION: From the LPC agenda: A vernacular Greek Revival style townhouse with early Italianate style and transitional features built…

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Remembering a Big Day for East Village Landmarking

…York This neo-Italian Renaissance style building located 538-540 East 11th Street between Avenues A & B was constructed in 1904-05 in a primarily Geman-American area then known as Kleindeutschland. It…

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14 Leroy Street

WITHDRAWN Greenwich Village Historic District Ext. II Between Bedford and Bleecker Streets —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the LPC agenda: A Greek Revival style row house with Italianate alterations…

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168 Bleecker Street

…the LPC agenda: An Italian Renaissance Revival style tenement building with commercial ground floor designed by Ernest Flagg and built in 1896. Application is to modify masonry openings and display…

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122 1st Avenue

…APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the LPC agenda: An Italianate style tenement building with Renaissance Revival style alterations built c. 1853 and altered in 1908. Application is to install a…

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237 Bleecker Street (233-237 Bleecker, 15 Carmine)

…Italianate style wood frame building originally built as a stagecoach house c.1835 and altered c.1850. Application is to reconstruct the facade and install storefront infill. 2) View the application: Available…

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Bret Harte and 14-16 Fifth Avenue

…later translated into different languages such as German, French, Italian, Swedish, and Russian and in 1877, Harte collaborated with Mark Twain on the play Ah Sin. Twain and Harte were…

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Why Isn’t This Landmarked: Former McCreery’s Dry Goods Store, 801 Broadway/67 East 11th Street

…with extensive glazing. The opulent Italianate/French Second Empire style provided an appropriate setting for the extravagant goods housed inside, namely the luxurious silks unavailable elsewhere. Focusing on the female shopper,…

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Beyond the Village and Back: Sailors’ Snug Harbor

…Italianate styles. High Victorian decorative components were also added throughout the site. Fortunately in the 1960s, the newly formed New York City Landmarks Commission stepped forward to save the five…

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Dr. Simon Baruch and the Bathhouse Movement

…children on the roof.” Serving the largely Italian population of the South Village (and located within Area II of the Historic District), the bathhouse was designed by Renwick, Aspinwall and…

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Third Street Music School’s Long Journey to 11th Street

…to provide a source of spiritual and cultural nourishment, inspire achievement in its young students, and serve as a universal language for the community’s Jewish, Irish, Italian, Russian, Greek and…

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Haunted Village: Part BOO!

…family in this distinguished Italianate style home. Lazarus is best known for her sonnet “The New Colossus,” lines of which are featured on the Statue of Liberty’s pedestal. Both she…

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The Firsts of Greenwich Village

…Union’s Foundation Building, an exquisite Anglo-Italianate style structure, was designed to accommodate an elevator four years before passenger elevators became available. However, the building did not receive the first passenger…

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Savannah Club: Greenwich Village’s Burlesque Club of A Very Different Era

…the name Zabethe Wilde. Her hit single “What a Feeling” was released in 1961. A Club Savannah performer Italian-American Joe Schiavone owned the Savannah Club which was located on 3rd…

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James Baldwin Leaves an Enduring Legacy in Greenwich Village

…elegant, were also in the park, walking their dogs; and Negro nursemaids, turning a stony face on the grown-up world, crooned anxiously into baby carriages. The Italian laborers and small-business…

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East Village Building Blocks Tour: Little Ukraine

…1954 bought a candy shop from a retiring Italian couple. It became a destination for the growing Ukrainian population, serving them with homemade traditional Eastern European dishes and other items…

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Changing Fashion of New York

…Italian immigrants in New York during the early 20th century (or at least how they were portrayed in one classic early 1970s movie about them). Captured above is the…

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Oral History: Maria Kenny of Kenny’s Castaway

…Street is home to Carroll Place, an Italian American wine bar. Though a few Bleecker mainstays still stand, the neighborhood that Maria remembers is ever fading. She hopes that the…

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

…49 East 10th Street. This Italianate style row house was erected circa 1851-1852. In 1934, The Artists and Writers Dinner Club, a Depression-era group that provided nightly dinners to destitute…

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Beyond the Village and Back: The Children’s Aid Society’s Fourteenth Ward Industrial School on Mott Street

…Italian community of the surrounding neighborhood. The new Fourteenth Ward Industrial School was donated by John Jacob Astor as a memorial to his wife Charlotte, who had died of cancer…

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Small Business, Big History: Mapping Neighborhood Stores and Stories, Past and Present

…the neighborhood coincided with dramatic changes in the local population. Irish, Italian, and German immigrants and then Russian Jews, Ukrainians, and Puerto Ricans formed sizable communities in various parts of…

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A Marriage Leads to Construction of Manhattan’s Oldest Residence

…was during this period, in 1832, that the parlor floor of the house was remodeled in the later Federal style. In 1861, the rows of Anglo-Italianate homes that today fill…

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Celebrating Our Neighborhoods’ Immigrant Heritage

…such as Little Ukraine, Asian-American immigration, the Italians of the South Village, a tour of Jewish History in the Greenwich Village Historic District, Irish immigration history, and the forgotten Hungarian enclave featuring the lost Goulash Row….

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Remembering Japanese Internment Through East Village Experimental Theater

…Americans, German Americans, and Italian Americans in U.S. internment camps. Jerry and his young family, along with his parents, his siblings, and their neighbors lost their constitutional rights and were…

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The Folk Music Revival Scene: A South Village Tour

…forgotten. Gerde’s Folk City 71 West 4th Street Image courtesy of http://folkcityatfifty.blogspot.com Opened by Mike Porco in 1952 as an Italian restaurant that specialized in spaghetti lunches, Gerde’s became a…

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A Walk Through Astor Land with East Village Building Blocks

…name. www.gvshp.org/buildingblocks Pre-Law Living As we see throughout this Building Blocks tour, a majority of these buildings were constructed in the late 1850s and early 1860s, when the Italianate style…

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738 Broadway

APPROVED on 08/05/2014 NoHo Historic District Between Astor Place and East 4th Street —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the LPC agenda: An Italianate style warehouse designed by John Warren…

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827-31, 833, and 835 Broadway

(l. to r.) 827-31, 833, and 835 Broadway. Nos. 827-31 were designed by Griffith Thomas in the Italianate style, with neo-Grec elements and cast-iron piers, and constructed in 1866 by…

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67 East 11th Street/801-07 Broadway

This cast-iron building was designed in 1868 in the Italianate/French Second Empire style by architect John Kellum for James McCreery. It was once home to the city’s most elegant department…

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What’s In A Name?: Stewart House, 70 East 10th Street

…that conceived it, and the architect who executed it.” It was designed in the Italian palazzo style, five-stories in height with its exterior painted white. It featured street-level sheets of…

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Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day

…that led Irish, Germans, Chinese, Eastern Europeans, and Italians to emigrate. Click here to watch (54 minutes) James Wall Finn Plaque Dedication Irish-American muralist and decorative artist James Wall Finn was…

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Exploring the NoHo Historic District Extension

…Italianate, and Second Empire, reflecting the neighborhood’s evolution over the centuries. Circled in blue the NoHo Historic District Extension, along with the NoHo Historic District and NoHo East Historic District…

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2024 Village Awardee: Barbara Kahn

…who tries hard to adjust to her new and difficult life in America. The young Italian seaman who helped her on the dock jumps ship to find this woman he…

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The Village Awards Reaches a Milestone!

…June 10th, 1991 at Casa Italiana Zerilli Marino of NYU, at 24 West 12th Street, an historic landmark that was formerly the home of General Winfield Scott. We have come…

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A Village Song: “Bazooka Joe Don’t Live There Anymore”

…beloved by all. Lucy, Lenny, and their family accepting the 2010 Village Award Lenny Cecere was born in Brooklyn, and Lucy was born in the Village, each to Italian immigrant…

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38-50 Cooper Square

APPROVED 09/20/2011 NoHo Historic District Between East 4th Street & Astor Place APPLICATION: A row of Italianate style dwellings altered by Fritz Nathan in 1960. Application is to alter the…

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Uncovering the stories behind downtown’s overlooked synagogues

…which drew on German and northern Italian precedents and was popular in lands of the German diaspora, it originally served as the First German Baptist Church. However, by 1926, reflecting…

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77 Bleecker Street

…Italianate style buildings designed by Griffith Thomas and Henry Fernbach and built between1866 and 1883 and altered in 1979-81 by Avinash K. Malhotra. Application is to construct a greenhouse addition….

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Looking East from 15 Charlton Street with the corner of Prince and MacDougal Streets in the background.

…Ellis Island because she was an unaccompanied minor and thus at risk of becoming a public charge. The Saint Raphael Society for the Protection of Italian Immigrants interceded for her…

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Dates Can be Deceiving

…often they tell us just what we need to know, such as in the case of the lovely Italianate style rowhouse at 249 East 13th Street, which was in fact…

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21 Perry Street

…INFORMATION —- 1) From the LPC agenda: A transitional Greek Revival/Italianate style rowhouse built in 1845. Application is to legalize alterations to window lintels without Landmarks Preservation Commission permit(s). 2)…

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84 Perry Street

Application did not return for review by LPC CB2 hearing: 11/29/2011 LPC hearing: 12/02/2011 LPC meeting: TBD Greenwich Village Historic District Between Bleecker & West 4th Streets APPLICATION: An Italianate…

Oral History

Peter Longo

Peter Longo (b. October 22, 1951) grew up in an Italian family in the Village, attending Catholic schools and absorbing the immigrant and Beat cultures that surrounded him. He took…

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Victor Keyloun

Dr. Victor Keyloun (b. February 20, 1935) worked at St. Vincent’s Hospital from 1963 to 1983. He was a neighborhood doctor, notably serving extended Italian families as well as the…

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Renwick Row Interior, 26 West 10th Street

26 West 10th Street is part of a row of ten Anglo Italianate row houses at #20-38 West built in 1856 and attributed to architect James Renwick, Jr. This “terrace”…

Posted June 1, 2020

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Business of the Month: Andrade Shoe Store, 320 Bleecker Street

…to start with a 50 year old shoe store at 320 Bleecker Street owned by an Italian gentleman approaching retirement in 2001, when Ivan and his wife started looking for…

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Exploring the New York City Backdrops of Sex and the City

…Mook. Both houses showcase Italianate-style architecture and are located in the Greenwich Village Historic District. Of the two, 66 Perry Street, with its generous stoop and ornately-detailed doorway, has become…

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Three Landmarks in the East Village

…This New York City landmark building, constructed in 1867 and designated a landmark in 1969, is an impressive marble work of the Italianate and French Second Empire style that’s still…

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Antonio Demo, pastor of Our Lady of Pompei 1897-1933, and in residence 1934-1936

…again in 1895 for service in the Italian military; in the latter tour of duty, he was a member of the Carabinieri, a branch of the army that serves as…

Posted June 2, 2020

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Photo portrait of funeral-home director Giovanni Battista Perazzo

…business as an employee of Charles Baciagalupo, who migrated from Italy ahead of the big wave of Italian emigrants, opened a funeral home on Mulberry Street in Little Italy, and…

Posted June 2, 2020

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Snapshot of the old Our Lady of Pompei Church, from the corner of Bleecker and Downing Street (demolished 1926).

…Moor. In 1898, with New York City’s Black population moving to the West Fifties, Saint Benedict’s sold the church to the Italian-American congregation of Our Lady of Pompei (this was…

Posted June 2, 2020

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Historic Images and Maps Solve Mysteries of Missing Church and Street

…this purpose, the money would go towards a Protestant orphanage, forcing church leaders’ hands. In 1898 the city’s African American community was moving uptown as the neighborhood’s Italian immigrant population…

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Greek Revival Lesson Continued

…Greek Revival row house was quite austere, unlike the typically heavy bracketed cornices we would see in the Italianate style which followed Greek Revival. Demarcating the roofline, it typically was…

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2020 Village Awardee: Idlewild Books, 170 Seventh Avenue South

…New York” by New York Magazine include Spanish (gracias), French (merci), Portuguese (obrigado), Italian (grazie) and German (danke) taught by native-speakers. The owner David Del Vecchio is an East Village…

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“No Jim Crow in the IWO!”, the rallying cry heard from 80 Fifth Avenue for a quarter century

…introduced legislation drafted by the Order to bar discrimination against Jewish, Italian, and black individuals in war work. Furthermore, the IWO demanded the integration of Major League Baseball, segregated beaches,…

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30 Grove Street

APPROVED 05/14/2013 Greenwich Village Historic District Between Bedford and Bleecker Streets —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the LPC agenda: A transitional Greek Revival/Italianate style townhouse built by Linus Scudder….

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Taco Tuesday in Greenwich Village and the East Village

…1st Avenue). Its founding date is lost to us now, but during the mid-20th century, Downtown Bakery started out as the type of Italian bakery that was common in the…

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Remembering the HIV/AIDS Crisis

…addressing the intersecting issues of homelessness and HIV/AIDS. The LGBT Community Center Located at 208 West 13th Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues, this Italianate brick building was originally Public…

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34 1/2 East 12th Street

Four stories high, this Anglo-Italianate–style building was designed by Thomas R. Jackson in 1855 and constructed by the Board of Education of the City of New York. The building served…

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263 West 12th Street

…10th, 2009: LATEST NEWS A public hearing on this application was held at the Landmarks Preservation Commission on November 10th, 2009. The application was approved. A rowhouse with Italianate-style elements…

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53 Downing Street

…LPC agenda: An altered Italianate style manufacturing building built c.1857. Application is to reclad the front facade, replace windows and alter window openings, and construct rooftop and rear yard additions. 2)…

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247 West 13th Street

APPROVED on 05/14/2013 Greenwich Village Historic District Between Greenwich Avenue and Seventh Avenue South —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the LPC agenda: An Italianate style row house built in…

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275 Bleecker Street

APPROVED with modifications 04/25/2013 Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II Between Cornelia and Jones Streets —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the LPC agenda: A Federal/Italianate style rowhouse built c….

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Tompkins Square Park, the Summer of Love, the Dead, and a Riot

…of the local population which was a kaleidoscope of ethnicities and races including Puerto Rican, African American, Slavic, and Italian. Tensions between the groups and the hippies were high and…

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200 Mercer Street

APPROVED on 10/20/2009 NoHo Historic District Between Bleecker & Houston Streets Application: A vernacular style stable building, designed by John G. Prague, built in 1870-1871, and three Italianate style store and…

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Cemeteries of The East Village, Part III

…the cast-iron Italianate portico finished in 1854. Dating back to Stuyvesant’s chapel, it is the oldest site of continuous worship in New York City and the church and its grounds…

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Russian Orthodox Cathedral

…church reflects the ongoing ethnic evolution of immigrant communities of the East Village, having served large German, Italian, Hungarian, and Slavic-speaking congregations. After Village Preservation was alerted by members of…

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263 Bleecker Street

…Italian-style, tiled storefronts. The new storefront would have applied acrylic lettering on the glass, a black fabric retractable awning with writing, and no exterior lighting. ***Note: An application to restore…

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208 West 11th Street

…rowhouse with Italianate style elements built in 1856. Application is to construct a stair bulkhead and install rooftop mechanical equipment and railings, and replace windows at the rear facade. Zoned…

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106 East 10th Street

APPLICATION APPROVED St. Mark’s Historic District Between Third Avenue and Stuyvesant Street —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the LPC agenda: A late Italianate style rowhouse, designed by J. J….

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Carolee Schneemann’s Kinetic Theater at Judson Memorial Church

The 1892 McKim, Mead & White Italianate Eclectic style Baptist church on Washington Square set the scene for some of feminist artist Carolee Schneemann’s most notorious works of kinetic theater…

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LGBTQ+ Pride Programs Roundup

…at 31 Cornelia Street from 1958 to 1968, was the creation of Joe Cino, an openly gay Italian-American producer who is credited with starting the “Off-Off-Broadway” theater movement. Critical in…

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Asian-American History in Greenwich Village and the East Village

…century, the striking Italianate brownstone building has been an important site in New York City’s civil rights and social justice history. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961…

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Yun Gee: Modern Artist, Inventor, Poet, Villager

…spectator as well…” 51 East 10th Street Gee’s home, 51 East 10th Street, a mid-19th century Italianate row house, is part of the area south of Union Square that Village…

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Business of the Month: Anthony Aiden Opticians, 42 St. Marks Place

…my reviews. It actually amps me up to do what I do.” https://www.instagram.com/anthonyaidenopticians/ When asked about his favorite local places, Anthony right away expresses his fondness for Italian food. He…

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Launching “Virtual Village” — Explore and Save #SouthOfUnionSquare

…New York City was led. Where a young Jackson Pollock began the Washington Square Art Show. Where the Italian anti-fascist movement in New York was headquartered. Where Anais Nin hand printed some of her…

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275 Bleecker Street

DENIED 02/07/2012 Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II Between Cornelia & Jones Streets APPLICATION: A Federal/ Italianate style row house built c.1818 and altered in 1876. Application is to legalize…

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Cooper Union

APPLICATION APPROVED Application Closed Individual Landmark 7 East 7th Street http://lpc.gvshp.org/?p=10421 —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the LPC agenda: An Italianate style brownstone clad school building designed by Frederick…

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292 West 4th Street

APPLICATION APPROVED Application Closed Greenwich Village Historic District Between Bank and West 11th Streets http://lpc.gvshp.org/?p=10252 —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the LPC agenda: An Italianate style rowhouse built in…

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33 Carmine Street

APPROVED WITH MODIFICATIONS Application Closed Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II Between Bedford and Bleecker Streets —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the LPC agenda: An Italianate style tenement building…

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307-309 Mott Street

APPROVED IN PART, DENIED IN PART Application Closed NoHo East Historic District Between Bleecker and Houston Streets —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the LPC agenda: A pair of Italianate…

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