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City’s Plan to Halt Zoning Abuse for Supertalls in Residential Neighborhoods is Full of Loopholes – Demand Better
Many of the new very tall buildings in New York City result from including outrageously inflated empty “mechanical voids” inside them, which are exempt from counting towards limits on the…
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Critical Decision on Supersized Development in Neighborhoods This Week; Arm Yourself with Information and Urge Legislators to Oppose
(Clockwise from top left) The 1,550-ft-tall Central Park Tower, the tallest residential building in the world; Brooklyn’s 766-unit “The Hub”; Queens’ 974-unit “The Hayden”; West 42nd Street’s 1,175 unit “Sky”;…
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Responding to the Rising Tide of Dangerous and Unpermitted Work in Our Neighborhoods
(l.) 105-107 Bank Street from the street before work began, and (r.) the same buildings from the rear with all but the facades and party walls gone after work commenced….
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Sign The Petition to NYC Mayoral Candidates: Our Next Mayor Must Value Preserving Landmarks and Neighborhoods
The campaign for Mayor of New York City is in full swing, with primary elections June 22. The next Mayor needs to know that historic preservation makes for a better…
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North America’s First Free Black Settlement In Our Neighborhoods
African Landholdings in New Amsterdam According to historian Christopher Moore, the first legally emancipated community of people of African descent in North America was found in Lower Manhattan, comprising much…
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New for November: Annual Comedy Fundraiser 11/28 and Drag History and Its Roots in Our Neighborhoods 11/29
We have two late-breaking additions to our November event calendar for you to enjoy — one a free public program, the other an annual fundraiser sponsored by the Village Preservation…
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Study: City’s Proposed SoHo/NoHo Upzoning Would Make Neighborhoods Richer, Whiter, and More Expensive
Plan would likely only create 1/5 of projected Affordable Housing, push out Asian American and lower income residents would likely destroy more Affordable Housing than it creates….
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Sign The Petition to NYC Mayoral Candidates: Our Next Mayor Must Value Preserving Landmarks and Neighborhoods
The campaign for Mayor of New York City is in full swing, with primary elections June 22. The next Mayor needs to know that historic preservation makes for a better…
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New Historic Images Show Remarkable Preservation Progress and Loss in Our Neighborhoods Over the Last 25 Years
We’re extremely proud to share two new collections added to our historic image archive, taken between 1994 and 2001 as part of an effort by Village Preservation and historian and…
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Celebrating the Preservationists of the Greenwich Village Historic District
…kind of human-scaled, historic, mixed-use neighborhoods Jacobs touted have become amongst the ‘hottest’ and most desirable places to live in the country. Read or Listen to Jane Jacobs’ Oral History…
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Retracing the Stories and Homes of Early Village Preservationists
…legacy. Jane Jacobs – 555 Hudson Street Streetscape showing the former home of Jane Jacobs in 1999. From Village Preservation’s Historic Image Archive, photograph by Linda Yowell. No Greenwich Village…
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Accomplishments
…our historic plaques marking the home of Jane Jacobs, released oral histories with Mimi Sheraton, Ralph Lee, and Rick Kelly, and added a new collection of photos from the 1940s…
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Leticia Kent Oral History: Revisiting Her Unique Window on History
…pending oral history interview with Jane Jacobs for Village Preservation. Additionally, they spoke with Kent about her work with Jane Jacobs and the preservation battles she led during the 1960s…
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2014 Year In Review: GVSHP Programs
…seminars and workshops on subjects of interest to members, and readings of members’ works. Developing an Opera about Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses Composer Judd Greenstein and director Joshua Frankel…
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Buy a Book Locally on Small Business Saturday
…How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World This is the story of four visionaries who profoundly shaped the world we live in today. Together,…
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Fighting the City’s SoHo/NoHo Rezoning Plan – By The Numbers
…is not the way to do so. It will exacerbate problems of affordability and inequality in these neighborhoods, and in adjacent neighborhoods which will also be impacted. And it will…
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Otis Kidwell Burger, Who’s Seen the Village From Suffrage to Luxury
…her family tree. She grew up with abolitionists and suffragists, and watched Jane Jacobs get arrested protesting the proposed Lower Manhattan expressway. She threw literary parties attended by the likes…
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13 places in Greenwich Village where the course of history was changed
…only Democrat elected to the White House between 1860 and 1912. 6. The great urban paradigm shift: Jane Jacobs In post-World War II America (and indeed much of the industrialized…
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The Women of Village Preservation’s Online Archives
…II, which saw East Sixth Street transformed into 1917 Little Italy. Meredith Jacobson Marciano Image Archive Collection Jacobson Marciano. Meredith, West Side. Charles and West Street. World Trade Center in…
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Analysis of de Blasio’s Big SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Lie
…program’s multiple deficiencies. For one, however wealthy these neighborhoods might seem, hundreds of its residents live in rent regulated housing, would face the threat of displacement under the plan, and…
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Is a Housing “Shortage” Really the Cause of Unaffordability?
…fair share of housing for New Yorkers. The maps below show this quite clearly: As you can see, multiple Community Boards in Manhattan provide housing units at a density of…
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Few Republicans, And One Big Political Paradox, in the Village
…all, of the remainder of the district’s residents live in a section of West Village Houses, also originally an affordable housing complex which resulted from Jane Jacobs and other Villager’s…
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Happy Holidays from Village Preservation — You Make Our Work Possible
…neighborhoods Led the successful fight to prevent the State from adopting a measure that would allow supertall towers in residential neighborhoods throughout NYC Spearheaded the victorious effort to prevent proposed…
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Village Preservation and a Dozen Groups Issue SoHo NoHo Community Alternative Rezoning Plan
De Blasio’s Just-Released SoHo/NoHo Plan Would Change the Face of Historic Neighborhoods With Massive Upzoning Plan Has Devastating Implications for Neighborhoods and Historic Districts Across the City Late yesterday the…
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De Blasio SoHo/NoHo Plan Even Worse Than We Expected
De Blasio’s Just-Released SoHo/NoHo Plan Would Change the Face of Historic Neighborhoods With Massive Upzoning Plan Has Devastating Implications for Neighborhoods and Historic Districts Across the City Late yesterday the…
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“Preservationists Call REBNY’s Bluff On Landmarking and Affordability”
…our neighborhoods. This pernicious lie is just one of many ways in which REBNY is hoping to weaken or undo landmark protections as we enter a new era at City Hall. …
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Fred W. McDarrah’s Greenwich Village and the East Village of the 1950s and 60s
…fortunate enough to add to its digital archive a dozen of the most epochal of Fred McDarrah’s images of downtown icons, including Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, Jane Jacobs, and Allen Ginsberg. And just…
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Oral History: Claire Tankel
…you knew it was safe. You knew it was safe. Jane [Jacobs] described it best when she said, ‘The eyes of the community were watching.’ We even felt it here….
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The Origins of Greenwich Village Historic District Street Names: Part 1
…have been (but was probably not) named for a woman named Jane (not Jacobs). There was a ‘Jane’ who was married to a Dutchman who reportedly named a path for…
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Women’s History Month: Celebrate, Explore, Preserve Women’s History
…of our neighborhoods of the last 25 years, from Jane Jacobs to Mimi Sheraton, Marlis Momber to Penny Arcade, and many more. Among our Women’s History Month programs: “Sass in…
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When Four “Els” Ran Overhead On Our Streets
From the late nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth century, four elevated rail lines ran above the streets of our neighborhoods. The Library of Congress archival collections holds a c. 1881…
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Happy Holidays from Village Preservation — You Make Our Work Possible
…our neighborhoods Track, share, and review scores of applications for proposed changes to landmarked buildings in our neighborhoods every year, so the public can be informed and participate in the…
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Preservation for the Future — Join Us Tomorrow Night
…Future City credits Jane Jacobs’ work in the Village as creating our road map for the last half-century of preservation. Jacobs’ work gave us a language to discuss how and why historic…
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Things We’re Looking Forward To Doing Again
…February 3, 1964. (Photo by Fred W. McDarrah/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Jane Jacobs Jane Jacobs at protest outside P.S. 41, 116 West 11th Street, February 3, 1964. Photo by…
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The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is a Visual Ode to the Village
…a rally in Washington Square Park organized by none other than Jane Jacobs, (that Jane Jacobs was the organizer for this rally is not exactly historically accurate, but we’ll let…
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VILLAGE VOICES
…Cunningham John W. Draper Bob Dylan Martha Graham Lorraine Hansberry Billie Holiday Edward Hopper Jane Jacobs Larry Kramer Helen Levitt Edna St. Vincent Millay Joan Mitchell Joe Papp Charlie Parker…
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Business of the Month: Katinka, 303 East 9th Street
…an apartment for$40 on the “other side of Tompkins Square Park”. Jane and Billy Jane first visited India in 1976, on a trip with a large company where she worked as…
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Join Us To Explore, Celebrate, and Advocate to Preserve Women’s History in March
…We have exclusive conversations with more than two dozen of the most impactful women of our neighborhoods of the last 25 years, from Jane Jacobs to Mimi Sheraton, Marlis Momber…
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VILLAGE VOICES 2022
…into the momentous heritage of our neighborhoods. We created VILLAGE VOICES 2022 to benefit Village Preservation and as a tribute to the community to celebrate and honor our neighborhoods. VILLAGE…
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Mixed Results in Albany’s Housing Deal — The Battle Continues
Thanks to actions taken by Albany, we’re likely to see more supersized structures in our neighborhoods like 432 Park Avenue (l.), albeit fewer of them than some would have liked….
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Advocacy Made Easy On Our New Website
…Village to far West Village and everything in between. Some issues transcend just one area, and so we have also created a category “Multiple Neighborhoods” that you can scan through…
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Village Remains Tops for Artists in NYC
…though the reputation for those neighborhoods is slightly newer (about fifty years, as opposed to well over a hundred for the Village). The list of notable creative types who’ve made…
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Op-Ed: Preservation Can Help Affordability
…example, REBNY claims that landmarking makes New York unaffordable, and pushes the working and middle class out of our neighborhoods. In the unlandmarked sections of the Village, working factories and…
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May is Jewish American Heritage Month and Asian American/Pacific Islander Heritage Month — Explore Both With VP!
…leaders of the last two centuries called our neighborhoods home? Here’s a few ways to explore our neighborhoods’ Jewish History: Take the Jewish History tour on our Greenwich Village Historic…
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Spot the Shot: 229-231 East 12th Street
…were the children of Russian-born Yiddish performers Bessie and Joseph Jacobson. Hymie Jacobson at right with fellow performers in 1923. Source: Yiddish Theater Digital Archives Hymie Jacobson born in 1895…
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Ada Louise Huxtable: Democratizing Architectural Discourse in Greenwich Village and Beyond
…architectural journalist, Jane Jacobs, author of the new, acutely perceptive, but highly controversial book, The Life and Death of Great American Cities. Mrs. Jacobs and her Committee fought the City…
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The High Line is Dismantled and the West Side is Transformed
…l.: 165 Christopher Street (1961); the Jane Jacobs-inspired West Village Houses; 99 Jane Street, one of the new buildings which replaced the last section of the High Line to be…
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Remembering the Demolition of Penn Station 60 Years Later — What Have We Learned?
…planners, and concerned New Yorkers of all stripes like Village Preservation Board of Advisors member Jane Jacobs. While Jane and other foresighted citizens were ultimately unsuccessful in saving the monumental…
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Rare photos of the High Line being demolished in the 1960s tell the story of a changing West Village
…proposed replacing the entire area with high-rise towers surrounded by open space. The neighborhood, including Jane Jacobs who lived in the “blighted” area, rose up and eventually defeated Moses’ urban…
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Business of the Month: Li-Lac Chocolates
…Greenwich Village, the East Village or NoHo: just click here to vote for your favorite. Want to help support small businesses? Share this post with friends. Li-Lac Chocolates, Jane Street…
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Testimonials
…government circles.” – Roberta Brandes Gratz, author of The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs and former New York City Landmarks Commissioner…
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Cats and the Village
…seen a great deal, from the protests of Jane Jacobs to throwing parties with very well-known literary figures. Like Otis herself, Otis’s oral history conducted with GVSHP is a treasure…
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David Amram: Inspiring Musicians in the Village, and Throughout the World
…including Jane Jacobs, Merce Cunningham, Marlis Momber, Jonas Mekas, and so many more — read and listen to them all here. David once quipped, “One of the things I always liked…
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Celebrating the Impact of the Landmarks Law in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo
…and west to incorporate areas that many, including Jane Jacobs, felt should have been part of the original designation. Designation photo for East 10th Street Historic District. Courtesy NYC Landmarks…
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Holiday Shopping in the Village
…more about small businesses in our neighborhoods, check out our “Small Businesses Thrive in Landmarked Neighborhoods” series that promotes and highlights small, independently owned shops that offer unique products and…
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Tenement House Act of 1901
…of 1901 was enacted. Though you may not be familiar with this law, its impact and legacy in neighborhoods like Greenwich Village and the East Village cannot be understated, as…
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The Village is our Valentine!
…Another hallmark of our neighborhoods is the human scale of its buildings. Thanks to the historic districts and other zoning restrictions, our neighborhoods are able to retain their character through…
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Marking Jewish History and Asian American History
…artists, sports figures, musicians, and thought leaders of the last two centuries called our neighborhoods home? Here’s a few ways to explore our neighborhoods’ Jewish History: Take the Jewish History…
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Five More Reasons to Support Historic Preservation
We all know that historic preservation makes our cities and neighborhoods more beautiful, more distinctive, and full of the character which makes them vibrant, desirable places to live. Our neighborhoods…
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Affordable Housing and Tenant Groups, SoHo, NoHo, and Chinatown Neighborhood Organizations, and Artists and Historic Preservationists Slam de Blasio SoHo/NoHo Upzoning Plan, Urge “NO” Vote
…switch, but he’ll be long gone by the time its true effects become clear, with our neighborhoods left to pick up the pieces. Riddled with loopholes, this isn’t an affordable…
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City’s SoHo/NoHo Rezoning Plan Includes Part of Chinatown, and Hundreds of Rent Regulated Units Could Be Lost
…with present-day realities. The city’s plan is not the way to do so. It will exacerbate problems of affordability and inequality in these neighborhoods, and in adjacent neighborhoods which will…
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Facts and Data Continue To Contradict Upzoning Argument
…recent survey shows no such correlation, with prices as high or higher in neighborhoods without such restrictions that are adjacent to those with. From Property Shark’s analysis The analysis also…
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Remembering A Village Icon: Otis Kidwell Burger
…publishing Kurt Vonnegut’s first short story. During her time there, she interacted with some of the Village’s most fascinating and notable figures. Jane Jacobs was one of her storied guests…
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(Street) Signs of the Times
Jane Jacobs Way being unveiled in 2009. If you haven’t already read it, the Times reported last week on the recent completion of a catalog of New York City’s ‘honorific’…
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Stories of the Village
…west side of Manhattan. And began to bring energy right along the street and say, “We’re going to begin to address the water”, the water’s edge, and Jane Jacobs housing…
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A Treasure Trove of Preservation History!
…NoHo from the 1960s through the 1980s. A 1972 invitation by The West Village Committee Inc. for a reception in honor of Jane Jacobs This archive is divided into three…
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Delving into the Past & Future of the Greenwich Village Historic District
…— how did that come to be? Why wasn’t the district extended all the way west to the Hudson River, as Jane Jacobs wanted? With panelists: Andrew Berman, Executive Director…
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Charles Mingus Plaque Unveiling and Performance
…figures from Jane Jacobs to James Baldwin and Jean-Michel Basquiat; Allen Ginsberg to Alex Haley; Frank O’Hara to Frank Stella; and Martha Graham to Lorraine Hansberry. Register today to secure…
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Oh How Our Houses Have Changed
…South Village. Many think of urban renewal in New York City as a phenomenon of the post-World War II era, a battle between government (Robert Moses) and advocates (Jane Jacobs)….
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The Vice Presidents of the Village
…what is now the West Village. It was there Hamilton died. The house is long demolished, but a plaque marking the spot is found on 82 Jane Street, a late…
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City Releases “Special Permit” Requirement Proposal For Hotels South of Union Square; Plan Would Promote Office Tower Development and Destruction of Historic Buildings, Expands “Midtown South” to Greenwich Village and East Village, Rewards Mayor’s Campaign Donors and Fails to Deliver on Rivera’s Neighborhood Protection Campaign Pledge
…for new office tower development resulting from this plan that would entail the destruction of multiple historic 19th-century buildings that housed artists including Willem de Kooning and Reginald Marsh —…
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Join Us To Explore, Celebrate, and Advocate to Preserve Women’s History
…our neighborhoods of the last 25 years, from Jane Jacobs to Mimi Sheraton, Marlis Momber to Penny Arcade, and many more. Among our Women’s History Month programs: “Hotbed – the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism”…
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VILLAGE VOICES II Launches September 18th
…racially integrated nightclub in the U.S.), and Jane Jacobs, a journalist, author, theorist, and activist who influenced urban studies, sociology, and economics, and whose book The Death and Life of Great…
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Civil Rights History and Diversity
…NoHo Oral Histories Ola and Fawzy Abdelwahed Penny Arcade Tom Bernardin Albert Fabozzi Chino Garcia Margot Gayle Frances Goldin Barbara Kahn Jane Jacobs Barbara Kahn Wolf Kahn Maria Kenny…
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Giving Tuesday — Give to Save!
Our neighborhoods are synonymous with creativity, history, charm, innovation, and openness. Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo have been incubators for some of the greatest artistic, social, architectural, and…
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Bringing Graham’s 19 Poses to Village Voices’ “Monument to Choice”
…Graham and Merce Cunningham as two luminaries with great impact on our neighborhoods. Just a few blocks away, an interactive installation entitled “A Momument to Choice” resides at Gansevoort Plaza,…
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Advocating for the Future
Source CBS News You may have seen 60 Minutes last night with a segment about the impact of the mortgage crisis on neighborhoods in Cleveland, Ohio. With owners and banks…
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“Not Another Starbucks” Rally Today
…study of how many blocks do you have to walk to find one: http://www.residentmar.io/2016/02/09/average-chain-distance.html Chains promote homogeneity, take money out of neighborhoods and lead to vacancies as landlords wait for…
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SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Upzoning Resources
…more such rezonings in historic neighborhoods throughout NYC. We will continue to fight for equitable, diverse, affordable neighborhoods that respect and preserve history and neighborhood character. Some useful links to…
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Hip Hop’s 2nd Birthplace: Greenwich Village & the East Village
…seminal places of Hip Hop’s early days in our neighborhoods and introduces some of the instrumental figures in the downtown world of Hip Hop. While the birthplace of hip hop…
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Back to School with Village Preservation: Continuing Education, Children’s Education, and Neighborhood School Histories
…history in our neighborhoods, hear from acclaimed East Village author Ada Calhoun, explore vanished music venues in our neighborhoods and the places where early hip-hop history was made, find out…
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A Guide to the Greek Revival, via Our StoryMap
…expanded over the decades which followed. How does this chapter of history 5,000 miles away affect our neighborhoods of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo, you ask? Quite profoundly,…
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NYU’s Twenty Year Expansion Plan, Twenty Years From Now
…Noho neighborhoods. This has created an inevitable tension, because the longer N.Y.U. keeps expanding in these neighborhoods, the more it comes to dominate them. That is why the Greenwich Village…
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Director Miloš Forman’s Life Takes Us from West to East Village, and Back Again
…in avant-garde Bohemia — the land, where only what you read and what you drink really mattered.” Although Forman eventually departed Leroy Street, his biography circles back to our neighborhoods in 1980,…
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Fall Auction: A First for Village Preservation
There have been countless “firsts” in our neighborhoods: the first cappuccino machine (Café Reggio), the first building constructed specifically to house artists’ studios (The Tenth Street Studios at 51 West…
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Good News on Chain Stores for the New Year
…is starting from a high number. Nonetheless, the zip codes covering our neighborhoods continue to, overall, have one of the lowest concentrations of chain stores in Manhattan, with most of…
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The Original World Trade Center, Memorialized in our Historic Image Archive
…some additional captures of the World Trade Center from our archive: Meredith Jacobson, West Side. Charles and West Street, 1986. World Trade Center in background. From the “Meredith Jacobson Marciano…
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Other Celebrities Who Have “Haunted” The White Horse Tavern
…Activists and Other Notables Jane Jacobs Given its location on Hudson Street, it would have been more notable if Jane Jacobs did NOT go to the White Horse. The late…
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O Pioneers! Two Remarkable Women of Bank Street: Willa Cather and Lucy Sprague Mitchell
…quintessential Jane Jacobs Greenwich Village block, the quintessential urban street” (Jacobs herself lived just feet away from Bank Street, on Hudson between Perry and 10th). It is no wonder then…
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