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Titanic Connections

…American Seamen’s Friend Society Sailors’ Home and Institute (now the Jane Hotel). Source: Real Estate Record & Guide, July 13, 1907 via LPC Designation Report copy. Jane Hotel before renovation…

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Who Was Jacob M. Felson?

…Photo courtesy of parkme.com. Like 11-19 Jane Street, 221 Thompson is another garage structure.  However, unlike the one on Jane Street, this garage structure is three-stories as opposed to two. …

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POPS goes the Village!

…these spaces. 99 Jane Street 99 Jane St. Photo courtesy of Kayden et al. 99 Jane St. is a market rate development in the Far West Village just south of…

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2011 Annual Meeting

…walk past P.E. Guerin’s building on residential Jane Street without realizing that behind their green door is the oldest decorative hardware firm in the United States and the only metal…

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LPC Application

23 8th Avenue

…the Monday before the hearing. Click HERE for suggested guidelines for testimony from Village Preservation. Greenwich Village Historic District Between Jane Street and West 12th Street —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —-…

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Past Village Award Winners, 1991-2021

…10th Street Front Stoop Award: 25 West 10th Street Front Stoop Award: 64 Jane Street Front Stoop Award: 68 Morton Street Front Stoop Award: 71 Jane Street Garber’s Hardware George…

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Creative Conversion

…1890-1891. The first redesign of the original building came in 1966. It was a radical conversion by architect Victor Christ-Janer. The modernist design emphasized the grand scale of this loft-style…

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Shop + Explore Village Preservation Merch

…iconic historic sites in our neighborhoods, to T-shirts and totes displaying local icons like James Baldwin, Jane Jacobs, and Bob Dylan, to great books, and more. Treat yourself or a…

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The Village Independent Democrats and Housing

…Notable panelists included Congressman William Fitts Ryan and Jane Jacobs. The goal of the panel was to “Initiate a Detailed V.I.D. housing Program”. From our Village Independent Democrats Collection. View as…

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Saul Leiter Plaque Unveiling

…the key figures in the New York school of photography. This is our 24th plaque unveiling. Our plaque program has honored and marked the homes of local figures from Jane Jacobs to James…

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Business of the Month: bookbook

…that corner was claimed by Marc Jacobs several years ago, Biography didn’t really go away. It just moved down Bleecker Street and changed its name to bookbook. Same owners, similar…

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Frank O’Hara’s East Village

…work in the lock. … In “Rhapsody,” 1959, in-between dropping names from Elizabeth Taylor to Jane (usually Jane Freilicher, the Village painter) and landmarks from the Empire State Building to…

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Jonathan Ned Katz

Jonathan Ned Katz grew up in Greenwich Village in a house on Jane Street and attended the Little Red School House as a kid. There, he was encouraged to make…

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2016 GVSHP Year in Review

…most of the plan and leaving the majority of our zoning protections untouched. Strongly opposed plans for 80-90 ft. tall glass and concrete towers at 85-89 Jane Street in the…

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Grand Central Grandeur, in the Village

…and Institute (today the Jane Hotel). Here, the first inquisition was held as well as the first unofficial memorial. According to the New York Times, the “company of 100 were…

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18 & 20 Jones Street

…1844 when George Schott built and paid taxes on both of them. By 1880, they were both owned by John & Jane McGuaren, who added three-story, L-shaped extensions to their…

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Megamansions of the Village

…Lenz (@dollylenz) on Feb 13, 2016 at 6:21pm PST 85-93 Jane Street 85 Jane Street. Photo courtesy of Curbed. Located between Greenwich and Washington Streets, a new owner has applied…

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Barefoot in Washington Square Park

…not about being barefoot in Central Park;” while Jane Fonda and Robert Redford are honeymooning at the Plaza Hotel, the film then moves to their new apartment in Greenwich Village….

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Forging a Path Through the Village

…of business, but the elaborate cornice wasn’t added until years later. P.E. Guerin on Jane Street. 21-25 Jane Street is home to a metalworking shop that actually remains active today!…

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Happy Birthday Martha Graham

…11th floor of Westbeth, on West Street and the corner of Bethune Street. I spoke to artistic director Janet Eilber, who told me that the light and space of this…

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Small Businesses in the Historic Image Archive

…11th Street, photo by Carole Teller There are scores more photos of local businesses throughout our Historic Image Archive, including collections from Carole Teller and Meredith Jacobson Marciano. And Village…

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The Air Up There

Jacobs (as quoted in the NY Times), a land-use specialist and partner at Belkin Burden Wenig & Goldman who lectures on air rights at the city bar association: “The technology…

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Donate Photos to Our Historic Image Archive

Our Image Archive includes collections donated by (from left) Robert Fisch, Carole Teller, Pryor Dodge, and Meredith Jacobson Marciano, among others Our Historic Image Archive currently has over 4,000 photos,…

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#SouthofUnionSquare — Irish History Tour

…setback upper stories designed by architect Stephen B. Jacobs in 1971 when the building was converted to residential uses. The 1971 renovation was the first legal conversion of a manufacturing…

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