Kitty Genovese and the Village
On March 13th, 1964, Kitty Genovese was brutally raped and murdered in Kew Gardens, Queens. The crime, and Kitty Genovese’s name, became symbols of much more than this one savage…
Read MoreOn March 13th, 1964, Kitty Genovese was brutally raped and murdered in Kew Gardens, Queens. The crime, and Kitty Genovese’s name, became symbols of much more than this one savage…
Read More…across Manhattan. In response, the City created Operation Green Thumb to legalize and regulate community gardens. GVSHP has spotlighted just a few of the many community gardens in the area…
Read More…Ludovicus Viele shows the path of Minetta Creek with the then-current street grid superimposed. In Greenwich Village, white residents found entertainment through the theater and “pleasure gardens” or tea gardens. The…
Read More…for 134 W. Houston St., next to the MacDougal Sullivan Gardens, has refocused attention on the unfinished fight to preserve the historic South Village, and to protect it from overdevelopment….
Read More…Sullivan Gardens, the St. Mark’s Historic District, SoHo, and Westbeth, as well as districts as diverse as Bedford-Stuyvesant and the Grand Concourse, Jackson Heights and Park Slope. Without landmark designation, many…
Read More…artistic connotations was commonplace in the area at the time, and pioneered by the nearby MacDougal Sullivan Gardens (more here and here) in 1921. Tudor Rose Antiques is on the…
Read More…MacDougal Sullivan Gardens, at the age of 21 to write about music. His first producing gig was self-funding the recording of gay African American jazz pianist Garland Wilson. The songs…
Read More…in 1965, more than half of our city’s landmarks would not have been designated. In our area, this includes the entire Greenwich Village Historic District,MacDougal Sullivan Gardens, the St. Mark’s…
Read More…Historic District. 3. Eve Adams’ Tea Room, 129 MacDougal Street Circa 1940 tax photo of 129 MacDougal Street, courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives In 1925, Eve Kotchever (better known by…
Read More…architect Louis Sullivan’s only work in New York, the Bayard-Condict Building, is located at 65 Bleecker Street in NoHo. Sullivan is considered the “father of modernism,” and is a key figure…
Read More…Street between Sullivan and Thompson Streets, 1933. Courtesy of NYPL. Although it abuts SoHo, the Sullivan-Thompson historic district is quite distinct from its eastern neighbor both historically and architecturally. SoHo…
Read More…mid-century, presumably to symbolize cleanliness. 132-136 Thompson Street 150-152 Sullivan Street For the latest news on the South Village including the newly calendared Sullivan Thompson Historic District, click HERE….
Read More…lettering: This business, at 152 Sullivan (you can even see the address number painted on the glass in the above image), is the home of Zampieri Brothers Bakery. This Sullivan…
Read More…former Perkins student Anne Sullivan, herself visually impaired. It was the beginning of a 49-year-long relationship during which Sullivan evolved into Keller’s teacher and companion. Young Helen Keller with Alexander…
Read More…Dylan wrote “A Hard Rains A-Gonna Fall”. The Black Rabbit was at 183 Bleecker Street (between MacDougal St and Sullivan St) which in the 1890’s offered live sex shows as…
Read More…The demolition of Washington Square South, between MacDougal and Sullivan Street, adjacent to Genius Row. From the GVSHP Historic Image Archive www.archive.gvshp.org. In fact, the struggle to preserve Genius Row…
Read More…part of the two men’s lives. 54 MacDougal street before demolition 54 MacDougal Street Located in what is now the Sullivan-Thompson Historic District, this nearly 200 year old three-story house…
Read More…feel the history, and enjoy the sights and sounds – and the food and the drinks, too! Start at the southwest corner of West 3rd Street and MacDougal Streets. A…
Read More…Spring Street, between Thompson and Sullivan Streets, in the South Village. Like the nearby 54 MacDougal Street, 186 Spring Street had some interesting recent pop cultural history — for many…
Read More…and memoir. Isamu Noguchi Studio and Residence, 33 MacDougal Alley MacDougal Alley. 33 MacDougal Alley was demolished and replaced with the building pictured at the end of the alley, 2…
Read More…center of gay life shifted somewhat to MacDougal, West 3rd and West 4th Streets, with a swath of lesbian and gay-oriented establishments including “Eve’s Tearoom” at 129 MacDougal Street, The…
Read More…to travel to the Poston Internment Camp located on an Indian Reservation in Arizona to promote art in the community. MacDougal Alley. 33 MacDougal Alley was demolished and replaced with…
Read More…MacDougal Alley MacDougal Street was named for Alexander McDougall, a Scottish-born representative of New York to the Continental Congress. He was a successful New York merchant, one of the founders…
Read More…Orlovsky (second left, facing camera) and several unidentified others) near the Kettle of Fish bar (114 MacDougal Street), New York, New York, March 8, 1959. © Estate of Fred W….
Read More…altered rowhouses make up the locally designated MacDougal-Sullivan Gardens Historic District and are included in the State and National Register nomination. There are different implications for buildings and districts listed…
Read More…Sullivan Street Jimmy Kelly’s in 1933, From NYPL Sullivan Street Playhouse in 1995 181 Sullivan Street in 2005 Jimmie Kelly’s was a popular speakeasy known for its notable clients, including…
Read More…Aid Society Annual Report. Former Elizabeth Home for Girls, 2012. Photo courtesy of Village Preservation. Ths Sullivan Street Industrial School at 219 Sullivan Street was another school built by Vaux…
Read More…which it believed would equip the children with skills to enter the workforce. The Sullivan Street Industrial School, 219 Sullivan Street, was completed in 1892. In 2011, the Children’s Aid…
Read More…auditorium at 35 West 4th Street. 35 West 4th Street Tickets for $1.75 were available at the Folklore Center then at 110 MacDougal Street. Image from https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/doc-watson-1962-nyu-concert-flyer-folkways The other recording…
Read MoreAPPROVED 11/21/2017 CB2 hearing: 11/ 09/2017 LPC hearing: 11/21/2017 South Village Historic District Between Sullivan Street and MacDougal Street —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the CB2 agenda: Application is…
Read MoreEvery month, Village Preservation combs through nominations from the public and other resources to choose a special independent store to honor in Greenwich Village, the East Village, or NoHo. Please…
Read More…Sundays during the 1950s, as well as the Sullivan Street Playhouse, 181 Sullivan Street (altered beyond recognition), where the New York Folk Singers Guild presented concerts. A contributor to Sing…
Read More…Register of Historic Places “South Village Historic District”; and several individual landmark designations on MacDougal and Sullivan Streets. Map showing the various South Village areas for designation. If this all…
Read More…area south could be called its soul. Sullivan Street, Thompson Street, MacDougal Street, Washington Square, the surrounding areas were the epicenter of the creative intelligentsia at that time. The streets…
Read More…up for notifications for major changes to any landmarked property on their block or on any block(s) they choose. After first being proposed by Village Preservation in 2017, MacDougal Street below…
Read More…at Our Lady of Pompeii in 1949, Lucy and Lenny moved to nearby Sullivan Street. After they bought 51 MacDougal Street (part of the Charlton-King-Vandam Historic District) in 1962, Lenny…
Read More…in front and stone Greek Revival entryways and stoops. 2. MacDougal Alley and Washington Mews Washington Mews, via Wally Gobetz/Flickr These two charming back alleys are lined with quaint structures that…
Read More…longer with us. 137 MacDougal was part of four addresses, from 133 to 139, with immense ties to Village culture. Most notable was 139 MacDougal Street, the famed Provincetown Playhouse….
Read More…this Saturday night shot of Cafe Wha? on the corner of MacDougal Street and Minetta Lane, when the band The Fugs were performing there, taken on June 25, 1966, from our historic image…
Read More…at No. 114 between sets. He could also be found at Izzy Young’s Folklore Center at 110 MacDougal Street, Café Wha? at 115 MacDougal Street, and anywhere else folk music…
Read More…Avenue and MacDougal Street in the South Village. The theater once occupied the western half of this large lot facing MacDougal Street. From 1922 to about 1929, the short-lived though…
Read More…of transforming it into a public cultural resource. In 1975 the not-for-profit Snug Harbor Cultural Center was formed to operate the buildings, and the Staten Island Botanical Gardens managed the…
Read More…gardens of her Italian-inspired country estate, The Mount. Beatrix primarily contributed to the design of the Kitchen Garden and Entry Sequence. Since Wharton and Farrand were only 10 years apart…
Read MoreTwo weeks ago our friends at Green Guerillas led us on a tour of some remarkable gardens in the East Village. There are more community gardens in the East Village…
Read More…twentieth century. Meanwhile, the Bowery was dotted with bars, beer gardens, and resorts that catered to men interested in men by the late nineteenth century, and Bleecker Street and was…
Read More…happened, we turned our clocks ahead one hour and the temperatures became much more spring-like. One World Trade Center from the intersection of Bleecker and Sullivan Streets. The MacDougal-Sullivan Gardens…
Read More…M. Reid Co., which constructed the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, one of the Metropolitan Museum of Art additions, and eleven Carnegie libraries. 1895 Map showing 53-61 Gansevoort Street MacDougal-Sullivan Gardens Historic District…
Read More…the management of the Washington Square Bookshop at 135 MacDougal Street and was involved with the Provincetown Players’ opening of the Playwrights’ Theatre at the nearby 139 MacDougal Street. He…
Read More…Elizabeth Home for Girls, 1896. Photo Courtesy of Children’s Aid Society Annual FrReport. Former Elizabeth Home for Girls, 2012. The Sullivan Street Industrial School at 219 Sullivan Street was another…
Read More…renovation won a Lucy G. Moses Award from the New York Landmarks Conservancy in 2001. 221 Sullivan Street 221 Sullivan Street was built 1891-92 to serve the children in the…
Read More…coriander, cardamom, pepper, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and more. If you want to make it (or pumpkin spice) yourself, Dual sells all the spices needed to do so! Sullivan Street Tea…
Read More…57 Sullivan Street, GVSHP’s most recent successful proposed individual landmark. Photo courtesy of Tom Miller 57 Sullivan Street has a very unique landmark designation story. Built c. 1816-17, it’s one of the oldest…
Read More…of the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment, which gave black men the right to vote, which took place at the church. Bethel AME Church, 214 Sullivan Street Former site of…
Read MoreAll week we have looked at the rich contents of newly designated Sullivan-Thompson Historic District designation report that was posted last week by the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC). Today we hone…
Read More…located at the corner of West Houston and Sullivan Streets at the north end of the third phase of GVSHP’s proposed South Village historic district. The Shrine Church of Saint…
Read More…Rizzi. Born in Brooklyn, Rizzi got his start staging an outdoor exhibit in Washington Square Park in 1973 and moved into a studio space on Sullivan Street in the South…
Read MoreColumbus Day has traditionally served as an opportunity to honor the contributions of Italian-Americans to our country. St. Anthony of Padua Church (1888) and adjacent tenements on Sullivan Street; St….
Read More…buildings on the north side of Houston Street between MacDougal and Sullivan Streets from the district. GVSHP has continued to push the City to designate the final third of the…
Read More…is Vanderbilt Hall, built to house the law school, which fills the block bounded by Washington Square South, MacDougal Street, West Third Street, and Sullivan Street. Opened in 1950, this…
Read More…of 10 1830’s houses at 130-148 West Houston Street, between MacDougal and Sullivan Streets, as well as a few other non-descript structures at the edge of the neighborhood. NYU’s Vanderbilt…
Read More…Accompanied by Wisdom and Justice by Alexander Stirling Calder. Just south of the park, six streets serve as a reminder of the War for Independence as well: MacDougal, Sullivan, Thompson,…
Read More…MacDougal, Sullivan, Thompson, Prince, and Houston Streets on the site. This 1868 map shows the Bayard property as surveyed by Goerck in 1788 by Goerck. 19th Century Aaron Burr purchased a…
Read More…there “Our Lady of Pompeii.” He worked to help the many Italian immigrants adjust to their new lives in America. By 1895, the Society moved to 214 Sullivan Street, but…
Read More…in the South Village. Located at 119 MacDougal street, Caffe Reggio was originally opened by Italian immigrant Demenico Parisi in 1927, and has since become a household name. With the…
Read More…133 MacDougal Street. Founded in Massachusetts three years prior as the Provincetown Players, the theater company moved its performances to an apartment at 139 MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village in 1916. Seeking…
Read More…Village Preservation successfully proposed and campaigned to get landmarked (jointly with the New York Landmarks Conservancy) were 127, 129, and 131 MacDougal Street, three Federal-style homes built in 1829 by…
Read More…as one of the leading female writers of the 20th century and a source of inspiration for women challenging conventionally defined gender roles. 144 MacDougal Street, 1940s NYC Tax Photo….
Read More…distinction. Located at 119 MacDougal Street and celebrating its birthday on August 29th, Caffe Reggio opened in 1927 and is one of this writer’s favorite places. But I am certainly…
Read MoreMacDougal Street between Minetta Lane and Bleecker Streets. The exact date is impossible to confirm. But it is widely accepted that Bob Dylan arrived in New York City on 24…
Read More…friends perform at the Gaslight Cafe, 116 MacDougal Street. Google Maps Street View. From Minetta Tavern, you can see the former basement location of the Gaslight Cafe at 116 MacDougal…
Read More…original Provincetown Playhouse at 139 MacDougal Street, the more recent Playhouse at 133 MacDougal Street, and a series of interconnected bookstores, meeting place, cultural institutions, and apartments which scholars had…
Read MoreTomorrow we’re teaming up with Green Guerillas and the Manhattan Land Trust to host a self-guided walking tour of the East Village’s varied and remarkable community gardens. Today there are…
Read More…urban agriculture, and especially beekeeping. There are millions of bees buzzing around the five boroughs of New York City. From the rooftops of high-rises to community gardens throughout our neighborhoods,…
Read More…of and executed by the gardens members. Artists play a large role in the garden’s membership, and some of the garden’s features (current and past) speak to those talents. Check…
Read More…gardens that serve as botanic gardens, vest pocket parks, urban farms, and as expressions of art, ecology, and culture. Today there are close to 650 community gardens in New York…
Read More…underground labyrinth of labs and classroom. Second, in exchange for the loss of public parks, playgrounds, gardens and dog runs, N.Y.U. will have to allow public access to an atrium…
Read More…the gardens, which then led to a level of protection for community gardens citywide. A NY Times Opinion piece at the time stated: “A patch of green or a plot…
Read More…botanic gardens, vest pocket parks, urban farms, and as expressions of art, ecology, and culture. Today there are close to 650 community gardens in New York City’s five boroughs, 10%…
Read More…labor of love. Four years ago, CPA began by simply cleaning the park and remediating the soil. Since then, it has installed a modern irrigation system and recreated the gardens…
Read More…collectively reclaimed and rehabilitated their residential buildings. They also led numerous efforts to transform abandoned lots into community gardens, including Orchard Alley. In the oral history, she said: So that…
Read More…would imply, located along charming Charlton, King, and VanDam Streets between Sixth Avenue and Varick Streets, with a little arm extending up the southernmost block of MacDougal Street just below…
Read MoreColette Douglas (November 19, 1926-September 30, 2023) lived in MacDougal-Sullivan Gardens in the 1950s and her oral history tells a classic story of midcentury Village life, from attending Little Red…
Read More…general transformation of the Village into an artistic, middle-class area. In this talk, Andrew Dolkart will discuss the creation of such notable enclaves as Grove Court, Washington Mews, MacDougal-Sullivan Gardens,…
Read More…Market Greenwich Village MacDougal-Sullivan Gardens St. Mark’s Stonewall Historic photos of SR/NR individual landmarks that you can explore on our Resources page include those in Greenwich Village, the East Village,…
Read More…September 15, 2023. https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nhhc-series/nh-series/NH-48000/NH-48113.html# He began buying properties on Duane, Greenwich, Thompson, Sullivan, and MacDougal Street. Within four years of buying his first New York City property on Duane Street,…
Read More…the small business “Something Special” on MacDougal Street, a neighborhood fixture. Last year, at GVSHP’s 20th annual Village Awards, we presented a special award to Lucy for her years of…
Read More…voted unanimously today to landmark the third and final phase of GVSHP’s proposed South Village Historic District, called the Sullivan Thompson Historic District! Landmark designation takes immediate effect, covering nearly…
Read More…the Sullivan Thompson Historic District in December 2016 (r.). You can join in the celebration! Here are a few ways: Sullivan Thompson Historic District Shop + Stroll, Wednesday, December 13,…
Read More…houses can still be found scattered throughout the Village. Here are just a handful of our favorites: 57 Sullivan Street 57 Sullivan Street with refurbished facade, 1997. From the “Susan…
Read More…about these, and many others, on the map). 190 Spring Street In June of 1969, James Hormel purchased the row house located at 190 Spring Street, between Sullivan and Thompson…
Read More…today’s Sullivan Thompson Historic District, 1928. Courtesy of NYPL Landmarked in 2016, the Sullivan-Thompson Historic District is a prime example of an area that for so long deserved recognition as…
Read More…Commission voted unanimously today to landmark the third and final phase of GVSHP’s proposed South Village Historic District, called the Sullivan Thompson Historic District! Landmark designation takes immediate effect, covering…
Read More…Sullivan Street, 90-92 Thompson Street, 101-103 Thompson Street, 132-136 Thompson Street, and 152-54 Thompson Street. 152-54 Thompson Street Around 1911, Abbate established the Citizen’s Investing Company, which built the structures…
Read More…years. Four of these sites – 57 Sullivan Street, 801-807 Broadway/67 East 11th Street, 138 Second Avenue, and 2 Oliver Street — are in the Village or East Village or…
Read More…to solicit bids for its multi-building site on Sullivan Street touting the unused development rights which would allow a much larger, taller structure on the site. Additional sites were coming under threat…
Read More…John Sasso in 1929. It was originally located on Sullivan Street until they lost their lease, and in the early 1930s moved to their current location at 278 Bleecker Street….
Read More…GVSHP secured the approval of the Sullivan Thompson Historic District. In opposition to the designation, REBNY even submitted a map saying “if you MUST designate, please eliminate these;”. We are…
Read More…Secures landmark designation of 1819 federal house at 57 Sullivan Street, following a 14-year effort. Issues report documenting the nearly one hundred fifty federal-era (1790-1835) houses the Society has been…
Read More…façade of the Archive Building reflects the Chicago work of Sullivan and Adler’s Auditorium building. You can find an actual Louis Sullivan building here in New York right over in…
Read More…57 Sullivan Street, built in 1817. After much pushing by GVSHP, 57 Sullivan Street was recently recommended by the LPC for landmark designation as part of its “Backlog Initiative”, and thus will…
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