…the functioning of the shipbuilding industry that once lined this portion of the East River. 143-145 Avenue D 143-145 Avenue D But by 1848, 143-145 Avenue D had ceased to…
Read More…in effect for 14-16 Fifth Avenue. So neither building has been deemed irreparable, for now. Village Preservation has been in touch with building tenants and Councilmember Erik Bottcher about conditions…
Read More…Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Avenue (at 12th Street) Co-sponsored by the Salmagundi Club Library Committee. Opened in 1824, Fifth Avenue originally vied with several other locations for social supremacy, including…
Read More…60 Fifth Avenue, the former Macmillan Publishing Company Building/the former Forbes Building 60 Fifth Avenue (l.) ca.1926 and 2015. This eight-story building on the northwest corner of 12th Street and…
Read More…located within the oldest housing developments built and financed by private companies to provide homes for the city’s working poor. The battle to save these buildings has been going on…
Read MorePart of our blog series Why Isn’t This Landmarked?, where we look at buildings in our area we’re fighting to protect that are worthy of landmark designation, but somehow aren’t…
Read More…70 Fifth Avenue in 1915, and both participated in confronting The Birth of a Nation. Founded the same year, and sharing the same office building and several executive board members,…
Read MorePart of our blog series Why Isn’t This Landmarked?, where we look at buildings in our area we’re fighting to protect that are worthy of landmark designation, but somehow aren’t landmarked….
Read More…parapet coping stones, was a row of five skeletons. 91 7th Avenue South. Photograph by Dena Tasse-Winter, 2023. Sited on a triangular-shaped lot in the middle of the block between…
Read More…request was denied. The original bookstores of Book Row included Argosy Book Store, Atlantis, Biblo & Tannen, J.R. Brussel Book Shop, Louis Schucman Bookseller, Ortelius, Pelican Book Shop , The Strand Bookstore, Weiser Antiquarian Books , University Place Book…
Read More101 Avenue A. Photo by Barry Munger. On June 19, 2008, 101 Avenue A, home to the Pyramid Club, was found eligible for listing on the State and National Registers…
Read More…the entire city when it was first built up in the 1830s by developer Thomas E. Davis. Davis built this mansion at the corner of Second Avenue in 1836. It…
Read More…New Yorkers is bocce, and for decades a large bocce court announced the beginning of the East Village’s Little Italy at the base of First Avenue between Houston Street and…
Read More…Brevoort East, the apartment complex occupies the full city block bounded by Fifth Avenue, East 8th Street, University Place, and East 9th Street. More images of the exterior and interior…
Read More…78 Fifth Avenue 72 Fifth Avenue 64-66, 68, and 70 Fifth Avenue 64-68 Fifth Avenue 64-68 Fifth Avenue 68-70 Fifth Avenue 70 Fifth Avenue 60-62 Fifth Avenue 59 and 57…
Read More…Sixth Avenue is a commercial building built as offices with small scale retail at street level. Commissioned by Albert Wyckoff and designed by Theo Thompson in 1896, the building is…
Read More…aside, the building had many unique and compelling layers which strongly appealed to us. Built in 1876, 101 Avenue A was designed by German-born William Jose, a prolific and unsung…
Read More…Byrds, Richie Havens, Taj Mahal, Jefferson Airplane, Pink Floyd, Joan Baez, Jeff Beck, the Staple Singers, and many more. The building was a destination for entertainment both before and after…
Read More…The new 1929 apartment building was designed by Thomas Lamb. Lamb studied at Cooper Union, and is best known for his designs of theaters and cinemas. Arguably his most well-known…
Read More…ran along First Avenue from Houston Street up through the East Village before veering off to Second Avenue at 23rd Street, as shown on this 1906 IRT map. 1906 IRT…
Read More…in 1906, at the southeast corner of Fourth Avenue and 13th Street (image courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York, photograph by: Byron Company) the building today…
Read More…oldest building on its blockfront, Second Avenue between East 9th & East 10th Street, and one of the only early houses on the avenue to retain its original stoop and…
Read More…building, which became known as the Philip Morris building. Philip Morris would eventually become the largest tobacco seller in the United States. In 1946 the building would return to its roots when…
Read More…years of the building’s life beginning with its birth as the Dry Dock Banking House just before the neighborhood blossomed as a thriving shipbuilding hub. If you’ve been following our…
Read More…north to East 23rd Street with the western boundary at the Bowery (4th Avenue) and the eastern boundary in a line between what’s now 1st Avenue and Avenue D. Petersfield,…
Read More…landmarked. 80 Fifth Avenue, an elaborately-detailed Renaissance Revival style office building constructed in 1907-1908 by the architecture firm of Buchman and Fox, has been a striking presence at the southwest…
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Read More…floor of this building on the corner is Gem Spa, a newsstand and candy store, and is known for being commonly considered to be the birthplace of the authentic New…
Read More…artists. The sheer number of organizations located investigated by the House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in the 20th century would seem to convey a virtual Bolshevik Revolution brewing right…
Read More…lot. Not only has it been for years falsely speculated that Edward Hopper based Nighthawks at the Diner on a restaurant at this location, but post-9/11 it also became the…
Read More…New York Public Library has been watching over Fifth Avenue between 40th and 42nd Streets, welcoming researchers, scholars, students, and tourists into its hallowed halls by the millions every year….
Read More…nearby tenement at what is now 270 Sixth Avenue between Bleecker and Houston Street which clearly pre-dated the extension of Sixth Avenue through theses blocks, but paradoxically the building faces…
Read More…Fifth Avenue would make the construction of such a building on this blockfront all but impossible. A public hearing on the proposed designation will be scheduled “soon” according to the Landmarks…
Read More…a 30,000 square foot, former-WPA building being used as storage for the Sanitation Department just one block east on 1st Avenue. The new home they would inhabit, though, had a…
Read More…that suitcase? Courtesy of the MCNY. A vendor outside B.B. Butchers near 8th Street. Courtesy of the MCNY. Courtesy of the MCNY. Both photos above show just how crowded the…
Read More…Avenue would make the construction of such a building on this blockfront all but impossible. A public hearing on the proposed designation will be scheduled “soon” according to the Landmarks Preservation…
Read More…138-142 Nassau Street, and the Temple Court Building (1881-83) at 3-9 Beekman Street, both designated New York City landmarks. Red brick buildings in the Romanesque Revival style seemed to be…
Read More…Street and Sixth Avenue, and the west side of Broadway between 11th and 12th Streets. Plans have been filed to demolish the four buildings at 519 and 523-27 Sixth Avenue/100…
Read More…founded and published by a prominent member of the Democratic Socialist Party of Italy. 80 Fourth Avenue, 2020. The eight-story loft building at 80 Fourth Avenue was designed in 1898…
Read More…before the law was passed banning burials within New York City limits (which then covered today’s Manhattan). Further burials after 1852 took place in Glendale, Queens. A section from a…
Read More…Jodie Lane Place. Jodie Lane Place- Located on 11th Street between 1st Avenue and Avenue A, there is an unfortunately tragic story behind this honorific. Jodie Shonah Lane (1973-2004) was a…
Read More…Held at the historic Salmagundi Club, this book talk will be followed by an opportunity to buy the book and have it signed by the author. William Hennessey’s Fifth Avenue: From…
Read More…this era still associated with movie theaters today is Loew’s. Started by Marcus Loew, Loew’s Consolidated Enterprises, later Loew’s Inc., became one of the most prestigious theater chains. By 1913…
Read More…time since the explosion. One of our Business of the Month awardees, B&H Dairy was forced to close for months because of the impacts. Stage Restaurant will not be re-opening. …
Read More…moving south along the First Avenue spine, the first stop is this six-story office building between 2nd and 3rd Avenues. Built in 1919, the building originally housed the Cloakmakers Local…
Read More…Week” to All National Society Secretaries; 1945. Letter courtesy of ArtStore Library. Black History week, or “Negro History Week”, was begun in 1926 by the noted Black historian and educator…
Read More…outgrown its quaint Bowery location, Hammacher & Schlemmer moved to 133 Fourth Avenue (also known as 127-135 Fourth Avenue and 102-104 East 13th Street). Built in 1897 by Marsh, Israels…
Read More…affordable rent-regulated units, to be replaced by a high-rise pied-a-terre for the super-rich with fewer units of housing than the modest but historic building that will be replaced by a…
Read More…be clad in brick and the fourth and fifth floors to be made of glass. For whatever reason, that design has not been built, and it is unclear whether or…
Read More…the Bowery in an area known as Bowery Village. Alphabet City was practically an uncharted frontier. But to understand why being the home of the original Dry Dock Banking House…
Read MoreToday, the building that houses the Salmagundi Club at 47 Fifth Avenue is a bit of an odd duck. At four-and-a-half stories, the 1853 Italianate style rowhouse is sandwiched by…
Read More…the United States, where he and his brother Joseph, who immigrated in 1889 at age 19, opened two shoe stores. Somewhere between 1892 and 1897, Jacob’s store became “J. Yormark…
Read More…by James Lenox, the philanthropist and bibliophile whose mansion was located directly south of the building and was the home of Lenox’s noteworthy collection of books. That eventually became the…
Read More…In 1931, after disappearing from his New York hotel, Nast’s body was found in Baltimore with a pistol wound to the head. It was believed to be a suicide. Up…
Read More…70 Fifth Avenue makes the construction of such a building here all but impossible. Visualization of the supertall that could be built where 70 Fifth Avenue stands without landmarking. Village…
Read More…itself was known for its size and opulence, with the first story constructed from brownstone and the three upper stories built of red brick. The building’s glorious facade was often…
Read More…the construction of such a building here all but impossible. Visualization of the supertall that could be built where 70 Fifth Avenue stands without landmarking. Village Preservation is continuing the…
Read More…Community Coalition said in her nomination: “Barnyard is a beehive, or should I say a “Bea”hive: Beatriz rarely lights, but can often be spotted buzzing in and out of Barnyard and…
Read More…style office building designed in 1908 by Buchman and Fox. This progressive mutual-benefit fraternal organization was a pioneering force in the U.S. labor movement, which was in many ways grounded…
Read More…be mistaken for an old tenement building, but was actually built as a factory in 1883. Though the facade has been altered over the years, its original design is credited…
Read More…were built in 1839 for an attorney and were originally part of a row of five), is now obstructed by a low-scale commercial building. The view today. The five-story apartment…
Read More…the NAACP. This extraordinary building, now owned by The New School, served in the early 20th century as an unparalleled center for social activism, also housing The Crisis Magazine, W.E.B….
Read More…NAACP. This extraordinary building, now owned by The New School, served in the early 20th century as an unparalleled center for social activism, also housing The Crisis Magazine, W.E.B. Du…
Read More…had some hint of the dynamic between these two cities and how life isn’t always sp easy-going or fair. Since if Benny the Butcher’s flavor could be the “Big Apple,”…
Read More…a forthcoming architectural history of the East Village by Francis Morrone: One building that’s weathered many uses is the four-story-plus-basement house at 138 Second Avenue built in 1832-33, located between…
Read More…later, this is the same block of 3rd Avenue between 10th and 11th Streets today. Having shed its colorful businesses the block looks less like Times Square and more like…
Read More…from the existing building more or less staying in place on the exterior and three stories being built on top, to the existing building being more or less stripped down…
Read More…birth and the ongoing change of this unique thoroughfare and its unusual cityscape. Only few publications on Greenwich Village mention the Avenue, and do so fleetingly, offering a general impression…
Read MoreCo-sponsored by the Salmagundi Club Library Committee, The Coffee House Club, Merchant’s House Museum, Victorian Society New York. Opened in 1824, Fifth Avenue originally vied with several other locations for…
Read More…painter Jean-Michel Basquiat to “Picasso of Dance” Martha Graham (next door to 70 Fifth at 64-66 Fifth Avenue, another New School building), and many more. Explore all our plaques HERE….
Read MoreThe Golden Age of 2nd Avenue Screening A film by Morton Silverstein, “The Golden Age of 2nd Avenue” celebrates Yiddish Theater in America from the Bowery to its 2nd Avenue…
Read MoreThe Golden Age of Second Avenue film screening In this dazzling 1969 film, documentarian Morton Silverstein celebrates Yiddish Theater in America from its Bowery roots to its Second Avenue heyday….
Read MoreFifth Avenue, which begins at Washington Square, was born in 1824, and quickly became New York’s premiere residential address. Its development began at its southern end, where the grandest mansions…
Read More…District, the building you may know as the Anthology Film Archives was originally built as the Third District Magistrates Court building, constructed in 1917-1919. The building rises 46 feet high,…
Read More…out front, and a rainbow of prayer flags and hand-crafted silken garb and classic jewelry behind the glass, you’d be remiss not to explore Dö Kham, our March Business of…
Read More…Seventh Avenue South. Capped with a conical roof at its corner rounded bay, 22 Perry Street (sometimes known as the “Witch’s Hat” building), was built in 1987 as condominiums with…
Read More…Hawthorne. Originally a private home, by the early 19th century it had become a refuge for those escaping the beehive of activity in Lower Manhattan. But by the late 19th…
Read More…blossom bombolone (the cream of which is made with the renowned Bronte, Sicily pistachios) boast delectable pairings. The bodacious BombsSpritz, a donut/cocktail hybrid made with orange cream and aperol and…
Read More…Bill Grahams Way, Miriam Friedlander Way, Ellen Stewart Way, and LaSalle Academy Place. Bill Grahams Way. Bill Graham’s Way – Located on 2nd Avenue and 6th Street, Bill Graham’s Way is…
Read More…1917. 80 Fifth Avenue, 1937. Photo courtesy of MCNY Digital Collections. The MPPC was preceded by the Edison licensing system, which operated between 1907-1908. The licensing system came by way…
Read More101 Avenue A: Melting Pot to Hot Spot A Panel Discussion Moderated by Village Preservation Executive Director Andrew Berman Few buildings embody the full zeitgeist of everything East Village as…
Read More…Club, located at 101 Avenue A between East 6th and 7th Streets. The Pyramid Club was a defining club of the East Village scene in the 1980s, particularly known for…
Read More…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,…
Read More…this accessible illustrated guide takes readers along the entire length of Fifth Avenue, studying its architecture block by block, building by building, offering the chance to discover exceptional and unusual…
Read More70 Fifth Avenue Built in 1910 Historic Place of Education and Peaceful Protest This building housed the NAACP headquarters from 1914 until the mid-1920s. During that period, countless lionhearted figures…
Read More14-16 Fifth Avenue Tell City Officials to Stop Destruction of Landmarked Buildings like 10 Fifth Avenue We’ve seen a disturbing and growing trend of damage to and destruction of landmarked…
Read More…and Preservation Sarah Bean Apmann, in this slide lecture in the Salmagundi Arts Club’s historic parlor. Lower Fifth Avenue’s apartment buildings are some of New York’s most classic pre- and…
Read More122 Greenwich Avenue In early 2006 the Hines Development Co. proposed to build an 11-story, 128 ft. tall undulating glass-walled apartment building at 122 Greenwich Avenue (at 13th Street and…
Read More…neo-Classical style by Myron E. Evans of Ballantyne & Evans Architects. Trow’s Directory Printing and Book Binding Company, which was responsible for printing and binding the New York City Directories,…
Read More…but also one of the neighborhood’s most storied addresses. Completed in 1914, the building has been home to an extraordinary constellation of progressive advocacy organizations, from the NAACP to the…
Read More…landmarked. 95 East 10th Street today 95 East 10th Street (also known as 48 Third Avenue) was built in 1886 as a tenement building by architect James M. Farnsworth &…
Read More…Avenue is a five-story brick and terra cotta building constructed in 1902. The building was designed in the English neo-Classical style by Myron E. Evans of Ballantyne & Evans Architects….
Read More…boxes) For all these reasons and more, Ansonia Pharmacy is our May, 2021 Business of the Month. Stop by at 446 Sixth Avenue (between 10th and 11th Streets), or visit…
Read MoreThe former 13th Avenue ran from the Meatpacking District to Chelsea Piers, and was demolished to make room for larger berthed ships, including the Titanic. Jeffrey Trask examines the development…
Read MoreThe Hebrew Actors Union and Second Avenue: Caretakers of Yiddish Theater A Lecture by David Freeland During the 1920s and 30s, Second Avenue south of 14th Street was the spine…
Read More…in business, there will always be up and downs, but you have to be very confident and honest. That philosophy is carried on by his caring family. According to his…
Read More…plenty of garlic. The rotisserie chicken rotating behind the counter is said to be the best in NYC, and Emma Pearse wrote about it in the New York Times, with…
Read More(l.) 99 Seventh Avenue South ca. 1940 (image via NYPL) and (r.) recently. The site at 99 Seventh Avenue South in Greenwich Village today houses the Garage restaurant, but seventy-five…
Read More…of May 25th, 2010: A new application has been filed to locate the proposed fire escape at the back of the building (as opposed to the front, as was originally…
Read More…get a last minute gift for anyone of any age? Buy a pizza tattoo, locally made silver jewelry, books on neighborhood history, socks that give back, a banana protector, stylish…
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