…liberties our neighborhoods came to be known for celebrating and embracing. Bowne House was built by John Bowne (March 9, 1627-1695), a Quaker and the family patriarch, whose defense of…
Read More…immortalized in one of the most acclaimed and iconic American films of the 1970’s. The wedding of John Wojtowicz and Ernest Aron (later Elizabeth Eden). On August 22, 1972, John…
Read More…soon became a sought-after accompanist on the Village folk scene, working with Fred Neil, Tim Hardin, Mississippi John Hurt, Judy Collins, Bob Dylan and many others. Soon after John joined…
Read More…middle of the festival came an impromtu performance from John Sebastian of the Lovin’ Spoonful. John Sebastian of the Lovin’ Spoonful, performing “Summer in the City.” Sebastian was not scheduled…
Read MoreJohn Sloan, “Backyards Greenwich Village.” (1914) The Whitney Museum of American Art The streetscapes and street life of New York City are some of the most robust sensorial experiences. From…
Read More…West hung out in the audience. In addition to music, the street and its elevated train figures prominently in several works of visual art from John Sloan the noted ‘Ashcan…
Read More…term than almost anyplace else on earth. As illustration, in January, 1917, artists Marcel Duchamp, Gertrude Drick, and John Sloane climbed to the top of Washington Square Arch, started a…
Read MoreJohn Sloan’s Six O’Clock, Winter, a scene under the Third Avenue El in 1912. On June 6th in 1892, the Chicago “L” (elevated train line) began running. But did you…
Read More…West 14th Street and Sixth Avenue. The Sixth Avenue El attracted a number of local artists, and was the subject of several paintings by John French Sloan, Francis Criss and…
Read More“Arch Conspirators” by John Sloan. Courtesy of NYU’s Bobst Library. Ninety-six years ago today a group of artists gathered at the top of the Washington Square Arch. Poet Gertrude Drick,…
Read More…at socialists, pacifists and other anti-war activists, many of whom lived, worked, and were targeted right here in our neighborhoods. Arch Conspirators. Image by John Sloan. Centennial in the Village…
Read More…John Sloan, Patti Smith, and the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Installations will be accompanied by digital content accessed through QR codes on each exhibit with narrations recorded…
Read More…Genius Row, Bishop William T. Manning formed the Committee for the Washington Square Living Art Center, which included John Sloan, Justice Henry H. Curvan, and Carl Van Doran, among other…
Read More…which won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America; John Sloan: Painter and Rebel, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography; and The Other Side of Silence:…
Read More…tours showcased in the map, which includes then-and-now images of every one of the over 2,200 buildings in the district, and nearly 1,000 sites of historic significance. John Jay II,…
Read MoreThe wedding of John Wojtowicz and Ernest Aron (later Elizabeth Eden). On August 22, 1972, what may be the most legendary bank robbery in New York City history took…
Read More…know the song’s roots in Greenwich Village–lead singer John Sebastian actually grew up in the neighborhood and the act got their start in the local clubs–and fewer still know a…
Read More…EVGrieve. Watch the Sept. 7 season premiere of Boardwalk Empire to see John’s on television. John’s co-owner Nick Sitnycky, leaning on the mahogany bar built after Prohibition, standing on the…
Read More…“May I speak to the cardholder, please?” Matt passed the phone, and Johnny said, “Hello, I’m Johnny Cash.” The woman on the other end still required that Johnny Cash show…
Read More…Fiesta de Santa Lucia) East 12th Street This painting by John Constanza shows a festival in 1930 honoring Saint Lucy (Santa Lucia) on East 12th Street between 1st Avenue and Avenue…
Read More…remains unchanged. John’s old world atmosphere and historic connections to mob figures has made it a favorite for film and TV shoots over the years (John’s was the scene of…
Read More…Neidich, Trevor & Margaret Stewart ACTIVIST Bill Abrams & Julie Salamon, Mary Ann & Frank Arisman, Caroline Benveniste & Jacques Ya Deau, Hillary Butler, David Hottenroth, John Lamb & David…
Read More…Carolina chatting and chuckling was really something for those days.” Doc Watson, John Cohen, Mississippi John Hurt, and Alice Stuart, Workshop, 1964 Berkeley Folk Music Festival. Photographer probably Kelly Hart….
Read More…the film due to drug use), including actors John Belushi and Kevin Bacon, as well as writers Harold Ramis and Douglas Kenney. John Belushi John Belushi lived in the West…
Read More…by relatively open farmland. The builder was James N. Wells. St. Johns Evangelical Church ST. JOHN’S EVANGELICAL CHURCH, 81 Christopher Street A bit further east but just as old, this…
Read More…Puglia, Italy. In 1928, Paolo trained his son John DeRobertis Sr. and passed the business on to him. Today, it is run by John DeRobertis Jr. who grew up on…
Read More…John Sloane (no one captured the feeling of hot summer life in early 20th century New York like Sloan!), taking an exclusive tour of the historic cemetery of North America’s…
Read More…with the many protests, musical performances, jugglers and artists that have gathered around it over the years. Adding to its bohemian credentials, in 1917 Greenwich Village rebels John Sloane, Gertrude…
Read More…most of his life near Washington Square, and who was a member of the so-called “Ashcan School” of painters that included John Sloan and Robert Henri. Then my co-worker Amanda…
Read More…half before the bar installed a ladies room). Founded by Irish Immigrant John McSorley, the bar has changed little in decades; its floors are still covered in sawdust, and memorabilia…
Read More…top of the Arch at night, security may have been a little looser back then. Our dissenters – painters John Sloan and Marcel Duchamp, poet Gertrude Drick, and Provincetown Playhouse actors Alan…
Read More…able to attract the participation and support of such notable figures as Eleanor Roosevelt, Gertrude Whitney, Daniel Chester French, John Sloan, and Jackson Pollock to Greenwich House (the Settlement House…
Read More…stole into Washington Square Arch, climbed to the roof, and proclaimed Greenwich Village a free and independent republic. Sound familiar? This history-making event, precipitated by painters John Sloan and Marcel…
Read More…drinking Cokes, eating hamburgers and watching her dad do paperwork. Those memories, she said, made the transition less menacing than it might have been for an outsider. John Sloan McSorley’s…
Read More…Keller, Amy Lowell, John Sloan, and Robert Henri. They all infused ‘The Masses’ with an overwhelming enthusiasm for social justice and change. The magazine supported progressive positions on issues like…
Read More…half before the bar installed a ladies room). Founded by Irish Immigrant John McSorley, the bar has changed little in decades; its floors are still covered in sawdust, and memorabilia…
Read More…and enrichment, Simkhovitch was able to attract the participation and support of such notable figures as Eleanor Roosevelt, Gertrude Whitney, Daniel Chester French, John Sloan, and Jackson Pollock to Greenwich…
Read More…fundraising effort to support John Brown and his family. Brown was executed for his role in raid on December 2, 1859. In the aftermath of Harpers Ferry and John Brown’s…
Read More…of their new church, the trustees met at James Varick’s house on July 26, 1820. John Street Methodist Church, 44 John Street. Varick, a respected entrepreneur and orator who had…
Read More…Marsha P. Johnson…” and Artforum calls it “A moving celebration and evocation of trans activist and artist Marsha ‘Pay It No Mind’ Johnson…” Starring Independent Spirit Award winner Mya Taylor…
Read More…Park Avenue. 6. John Cheever, 76 Bank Street and 31 West 8th Street Novelist, short story writer, and Pulitzer Prize-winner John Cheever lived at 76 Bank Street in the late 1930s and,…
Read More…W. Draper shadowbox designed by Penny Hardy, PS New York This audio is narrated by British-American songwriter and producer Mark Ronson. https://soundcloud.com/villagepreservation/john-draper-village-voices-audio?utm_source=clipboard&utm_campaign=wtshare&utm_medium=widget&utm_content=https%253A%252F%252Fsoundcloud.com%252Fvillagepreservation%252Fjohn-draper-village-voices-audio Click here to read more about John W….
Read More…took the name John Anderson and married a woman. However, when his wife exposed his birth sex to the police after his infidelity, he fled to the United States, where…
Read More…it was estimated that 30,000 to 50,000 people came to see John Johnson executed. To give you an idea of how significant that was, the city’s population at that time…
Read More…at 750 Park Avenue. 6. John Cheever, 76 Bank Street and 31 West 8th Street Novelist, short story writer, and Pulitzer Prize-winner John Cheever lived at 76 Bank Street in the late…
Read More…taking those extra steps to help their clients manage their medication in a more practical way. John Kaliabakos, Director of Pharmacy Services, assists a client John Kaliabakos, Director of Pharmacy…
Read More…were refaced, and the scale of the buildings was destroyed. St. John’s in the Village Church, 224 Waverly Place Standing from 1846 to 1971, this Greek Revival church was originally…
Read More…reconstructed on site), and John Connelly, an Irish Immigrant, became the city’s first Bishop. St. Patrick’s Cathedral before the reconstruction of 1840 In 1842, after two other bishops, who were…
Read More…studio in which to write and paint. Portrait of Louise Bryant by John Henry Trullinger By 1915, Louise was a star in Portland, but was dissatisfied living a bourgeois life…
Read More…the S.T.A.R. house with Marsha P. Johnson in 1971 and establishing Transy House in 1997. Sylvia Rivera spent her life making physical space in our neighborhoods for her brothers and…
Read More…our midst. John Wanamaker’s in the old A.T. Stewart Store at West 9th Street and Broadway. Photo by Bernice Abbot, 1936, NYPL Wanamakers was a department store founded by John…
Read More…known for its grassroots activism, and for providing studio space and workshops for countless artists,including John Sayles, Luis Guzman, Todd Haynes, Spike Lee and our narrator, John Leguizamo himself. Unfortunately, the CHARAS organization was evicted in…
Read More…boycotts of sugar, cotton, rice, and other goods which were the products of slave labor. Years later, when John Brown was hung for leading an armed slave uprising in Virginia,…
Read More…Eyes was a drama written by John Herbert in 1967 to process and analyze his own experience in Canada’s prison system. It was produced by Greenwich Villager and LGBTQIA+ rights…
Read More…the cemetery’s land and reinter those buried there in other locations. Today, a triangular island occupies a portion of the site where the church and cemetery once stood. Saint John’s…
Read More…(also known as St. John’s Burial Ground), a melancholy setting, which must have appealed to his moody, romantic nature. St. John’s Cemetery c. 1895 In 1844, Poe relocated to 85…
Read More…integrity. He never aligned with any political group, but would offer the full weight of his support to anyone he thought was standing for truth.” — Congressman John Lewis George…
Read More…local history and the history of our neighborhoods. The land on which the Observatory Cottage sits is part of a 20-acre plot once purchased by John William Draper — a…
Read More…reform. William Sloane Coffin in 1917 Sloane’s intention was to create modestly priced housing not for the Italian immigrants of the neighborhood (some of whom lived in the buildings at…
Read More…Luks, Maurice Prendergast, Everett Shinn, John Sloan, these artists later became known as “The Eight.” William Glackens, “Green Car” (1910) The Macbeth Gallery was the first New York gallery to…
Read More…who had nowhere else to turn. Among those indebted to Juliana Force and Gertrude Whitney were Village artists John Sloan, Stuart Davis, Edward Hopper, Thomas Hart Benton, and Isamu Noguchi….
Read More…toward children. “Toys for Tots,” “Charlie Brown Christmas,” and of course, academic winter break. We all remember how much we enjoyed the end of the semester! Greenwich Village artist John…
Read More…the fire; John Sloan painted pictures of the bar at least four times (one of which is in the Whitney Museum’s permanent collection); e.e. cummings has a poem about McSorley’s;…
Read More…namesake street, a center of shopping and entertainment for average and working-class New Yorkers. Building on the work of the Ashcan School painters (Marsh was taught by John Sloan at…
Read More…on the lot at 115-125 7th Avenue South in 1923. It was designed by John E. Nitchie for John Wyeth & Brothers, Incorporated. The “then” photograph shows the building in…
Read More…was very brief. According to several sources, including The Beatles Diary, on February 12th (their last night in New York), John, Paul, George, and Ringo eventually made their way down…
Read More…1957. West Side Story made its Broadway debut in that year. The abstract expressionist painters were at the zenith of their popularity and influence. Frank O’Hara, John Ashberry and others from…
Read More…found in five historic districts and at one individual landmark between Houston and 14th Streets. Brothers David and John Jardine originally hailed from Scotland. David moved to New York in…
Read More…was the brainchild of Greenwich Village resident John Jay II, grandson of Founding Father, First Continental Congress President, and first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Jay. Like his…
Read More…a neat – and rare – pair. This home was built for John Schermerhorn Bussing (1802-1864). A member of prominent New York families, Bussing began business as a wholesale dry…
Read MoreOMG!: Churches and Synagogues of Greenwich Village St. John’s Lutheran Church St. John ’s Lutheran Church at 81 Christopher Street has been a fixture of the West Village since 1821….
Read More…John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie at the height of his career from 1953-65; and the Hotel Cecil and Minton’s Playhouse Building in Harlem, which is credited with “launching the pivotal jazz…
Read MoreThe Village Independent Democrats are a reform democratic club founded in 1956. In 2023, the club donated their archives to Village Preservation. This collection includes much of the club’s archives…
Read More…John Bigelow Taylor. NYC-made Llewellyn black Cinderella bag. Photo by John Bigelow Taylor. Lucite purses, as Janice discovered, were enjoying a resurgence in popularity during the 1980s. A book was…
Read More…John’s in the Village Episcopal Church Courtyard and Garden As mentioned above, this year’s participants in the Village Preservation House Tour will pick up their tickets at the St. John’s…
Read More…regulars, Village activists including Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, was in direct protest to the police’s treatment of LGBTQ patrons and residents. The ‘Sip-In’ at Julius’, 1966. Next is…
Read More…free press, free speech, freedom of assembly, and liberty of conscience. In 1920, the NCLB adopted a new name: the American Civil Liberties Union. John Scopes, June 1925. Photo courtesy…
Read More…more about the Cherry Lane Theatre click here and here and here. Rattlestick Playwrights Theater 224 Waverly Rattlestick Playwrights Theater at 224 Waverly Place St John’s in the Village suffered…
Read More…in the Village This residence and the Ali Forney Center stand on the shoulders of LGBTQ gender nonconforming Village activists like Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson. Johnson’s recent obituary…
Read More…this fight were Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera. According to The Equality archive: “Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera were there. They witnessed the police raid and were among…
Read More120 West 3rd Street today. The African Free School was founded on November 2, 1787 in Lower Manhattan by the New-York Manumission Society and founding fathers Alexander Hamilton and John Jay. It…
Read MoreThe Stuyvesant Casino in 1945, via the Swedish Buck Johnson Society (L); The Ukrainian National Home Today, via Wally Gobetz/Flickr (R) On 2nd Avenue, just south of 9th Street at No. 140-142, sits one…
Read MoreJohn Cameron Mitchell in Hedwig and the Angry Inch at the Jane Street Theatre’s Playbill. Property of the Hedwig Archive. The original Off-Broadway production of Hedwig and the Angry Inch…
Read More…Roots, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Nas, Kanye West, Madonna, Beyonce, Stevie Wonder, Billy Idol, U2, Adele, Frank Ocean and Daft Punk, among many others, have recorded at Electric Lady Studios….
Read More…at John’s, and held secret meetings in DeRobertis Pasticceria. So it was no surprise that the show was also doing some filming today back at John’s. Now, let’s get to…
Read More…Paik crossed paths with American avant-garde composer John Cage, an encounter that would transform the budding artist and set the stage for years of collaboration and friendship. Cage’s inventive, unorthodox…
Read MoreVillagers have always been trendsetters. Newspaper Spread of Martha Coman’s “Greenwich Villagers Build a City in the Air,” the Sun and the New York Herald, Sun, Jun 27, 1920. John…
Read More…of program practices that ” Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues” was potentially libelous to the John Birch Society. Rather than comply with censorship, Dylan refused to appear and walked off the…
Read More…Civil War, was shot by actor John Wilkes Booth at the Ford Theater in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865, finally succumbing to his wounds the next morning on April…
Read More…side of Washington Square Park, the first known photograph of the moon was taken, launching the age of astronomical photography. Mirror-reversed Image of the daguerreotype attributed to John W. Draper,…
Read More…piece of land formerly owned by a leather dresser and Loyalist to the crown during the American Revolution named John Smith. When the Van Beuren’s acquired this land, they began…
Read More…this holiday classic. The classic Christmas tune Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer was written by Greenwich Village composer Johnny Marks. Marks’ brother-in-law Robert L. May first developed the plotline about…
Read More…John Jacob Astor III, grandson of John Jacob Aster, donated three lots of ground adjoining the northern side of the library’s lot for an addition. Both expansions, which opened in…
Read More…pair of 19th-century cemeteries. St. John’s Burial Ground in 1854, via Wiki Commons A Lutheran Cemetery running roughly under today’s Rec Center and pool was opened in 1809, closed in 1846,…
Read More…Hall” was the British colonial city hall. In that prior incarnation, it had a rich history; it was here that John Peter Zenger was jailed, tried, and acquitted of libel…
Read More…can be traced back to historical figures as esteemed as George Washington, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jacob Astor, but it’s just as deeply connected to Italian immigrants and…
Read More…journalist, feminist, and political activist, who chronicled and expressed sympathy for the Russian Revolution while engaged in tumultuous relationships with fellow journalist John Reed and Eugene O’Neill. Her coverage of…
Read More…Stewart Fred Wistow Activist Mary Ann & Frank Arisman Sally Auer & F. Anthony Zunino Hillary Blumberg & Alex Ginsburg Hillary Butler Justine & John Leguizamo Judith Stonehill Adrienne Ward…
Read More…though he lived elsewhere and crashed everywhere as he traveled the world touring, playing, making art and friends. John Storyk, a Manhattan architect who helped Hendrix design the recording studio…
Read More…throughout Lower Manhattan (this one dates to the 1870s). Daniel D. Boyce and John Rogers McIntire’s foundry was called Atlantic Iron Works, and was located at 706 East 12th Street,…
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