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Women Crush Wednesday: The Poets

…others, she moved from Pennsylvania to New York City with her mother, Mary Warner Moore, in 1918. They originally settled in Greenwich Village at 14 St. Luke’s Place where she…

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Uplifting the History of the NYEEI

…release, he was granted the opportunity to study at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania. During his studies, he became deeply interested in the medical field; determined to finish his education, he…

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New Oral History: East Village Photography Pioneer Alex Harsley

…Momber; writers like Calvin Trillin and Mimi Sheraton; filmmakers like Jonas Mekas; musicians like David Amram; and performance artists like Penny Arcade. Explore all our oral histories — CLICK HERE…

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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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My Favorite Things: Holiday Time at Salmagundi Club!

…visit, but at Holiday time, it is extra special! The stately building was initially constructed for Irad Hawley, the president of the Pennsylvania Coal Company. The coal company had yards…

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Franz Kline’s Last Studio at 242 West 14th Street

…storefront windows provided the ample lighting that Franz Kline (May 23, 1910 – May 13, 1962) required for his creative process. Kline was born in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania and moved…

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You Are Here: Lawrence Henderson Guides Village Preservation through Historic NYC Black Heritage Sites

…of two people in lower manhattan. But the portrayal of the Lenape person is also not inaccurate, according to David Penney, the associate director of museum scholarship at the Smithsonian’s…

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New Oral History: Shirley Wright and the Founding of the West Village Nursery School

…Mekas; musicians like David Amram; and performance artists like Penny Arcade. Read or listen to Shirley Wright’s oral history — CLICK HERE Explore all our oral histories — CLICK HERE…

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New Oral History: Westbeth Artist Christina Maile

…Momber; writers like Calvin Trillin and Mimi Sheraton; filmmakers like Jonas Mekas; musicians like David Amram; and performance artists like Penny Arcade. CLICK HERE to explore all our oral histories…

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January Favorites from the Archive

…the group took to Shanksville, Pennsylvania in 2002. Click here to see the full collection. Do you have unique photos of Greenwich Village, the East Village, NoHo, or other NYC…

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Countdown to Village Preservation Annual Meeting and Awards, Tuesday, June 13

…all we’ve accomplished over the last year. Emcee performance artist Penny Arcade will help us honor our amazing awardees, and a reception will follow. Our members will also elect a…

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Spring House Tour Benefit 2024

…Ferne Goldberg & Allan Sperling Cheryl Grandfield Susan Harris Christina & Douglas Kepple Susan Kolker Valerie Krishna Ruth & Kevin McCoy Farley Pennington Gayle & Howard Rothman Leslie Rylee Barry…

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Village Awardees Honored at Village Preservation’s Annual Meeting: Video and Pictures

…Birchard and the team from Veselka, as well as Two Boots and Bon Yagi’s T.I.C restaurant group for the delicious catering; to Penny Arcade, our Awards emcee; and to Dave…

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New Oral History: Lucy Komisar and the Women’s Movement, Julius’ Bar “Sip-In,” and Civil Rights in the 1960s and ’70s

…in, or made significant history in our neighborhoods, including Jane Jacobs, Penny Arcade, Wolf Kahn, Jonas Mekas, Marlis Momber, Edwin Fancher, Margot Gayle, David Amram, Matt Umanov, Merce Cunningham, Joan…

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May 2024 Programs: Plaque for Saul Leiter, Greenwich Village in the 1830s and 1960s, and More

…war with France, the lack of clean running water in New York, and NYC’s Penny Papers orchestration of the greatest hoax of the 19th century. A look at one of…

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1830s NYC: A Decade of Social, Political, & Geographical Upheaval

…verge of war with France, the lack of clean running water in New York, and NYC’s Penny Papers orchestration of the greatest hoax of the 19th century. A look at…

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The Writers of West 10th Street

…the most important authors of his own day, penning such works as Babbitt, Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, and Dodsworth (which was written at least in part while Lewis lived on West…

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Jonathan Ned Katz Oral History: LGBTQ Historian, Painter and Pioneer

…and writing his memoir, Coming of Age in Greenwich Village: A Painter, His Paintings, His Life. Explore all of our oral histories here, including Jane Jacobs, Penny Arcade, Wolf Kahn, Jonas Mekas, Marlis Momber, Edwin Fancher, Margot…

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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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New Oral History: Author, Historian, Artist, and Activist Jonathan Ned Katz

…history in our neighborhoods, including Jane Jacobs, Penny Arcade, Wolf Kahn, Jonas Mekas, Marlis Momber, Edwin Fancher, Margot Gayle, David Amram, Matt Umanov, Merce Cunningham, Joan Davidson, Richard Meier, Ralph…

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Alice Paul: An Architect of the 19th Amendment

…by Susan B. Anthony and inspired a new generation of revolutionaries led by Alice Paul. Upon her return from England, Paul finished a Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania and…

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Village Preservation in the Press

…McKenney penned ‘My Sister Eileen’, Village Sun, November 11 For $60K a Month, You Can Now Rent Basquiat’s Former Home, Hyperallergic, November 11 Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Final NYC Apartment and Art…

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Women Crush Wednesday: The Poets

…others, she moved from Pennsylvania to New York City with her mother, Mary Warner Moore, in 1918. They originally settled in Greenwich Village at 14 St. Luke’s Place where she…

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Veterans in the Village

…as the street is spelled today—was a New York merchant who eventually succeeded Benedict Arnold in command of defenses of West Point; William Thompson, of Pennsylvania; David Wooster, of Connecticut;…

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The Public Theater’s Manahatta and the Confluence of Three Nations at Astor Place

…Pennsylvania, and Delaware was for many years inhabited by Native Americans known as the Lenape (“the people”). Referred to as “the Delaware” by English-speaking colonists, the group had a strong…

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NoHo’s Original Superstore: From Wanamaker’s to Wegmans

…stores up and down the East Coast (in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Massachusetts, Virginia, North Carolina, Delaware, and Washington D.C.). The first NYC location opened at the Brooklyn…

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Movie Palace, Music Hall, Dance Club: the Many Lives of the Palladium

…An image of this was captured by Pennie Smith, and would later be used on the cover the band’s London Calling Album. The Palladium, 1979. Source: Cinema Treasures The Clash…

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Ghost Signs Abound in Our Historic Image Archive

…Astor Place, Photograph by Robert Fisch, May 27, 2000. While Carl Fischer vacated in 1999, and now divides its operations between Wall Street and Pennsylvania, the Cooper Square building, now…

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Business of the Month: Le Fanion, 299 West 4th Street

…vacant storefront with a for-rent sign while walking through her neighborhood. Shortly thereafter, in April 1987, Le Fanion was born, named after the French word for pennant, a flag used…

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The Remarkable History of St. Luke’s Place

…after Anderson, Theodore Dreiser (August 27, 1871 – December 28, 1945) took up residence at 16 St. Luke’s Place. Dreiser, known for his contributions to left-wing periodicals, penned his acclaimed…

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Grove Press: Cuba Libre, Che, and the CIA #SouthOfUnionSquare

…Rights and Black Power movements while tracking and encouraging the movement. Cover of the February 1968 Evergreen Review featuring Che Guevara. Evergreen Review published radical political pieces penned by Che…

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They Lived on West 9th Street: Dashiell Hammett

…the basic rights of workers. The ensuing fallout from his political and social positions found Dashiell Hammett at the end of his life both penniless and disgraced. But his skills…

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Black History Month: Alex Haley

…of Islam must get every penny that might come to me.’”* Starting in 1963 Haley began over 50 interviews with Malcolm X over a 2-year period and to tell…

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Mourning President Lincoln Along Broadway

This is an updated re-posting of a piece originally penned by GVSHP staff member Drew Durniak. President Lincoln’s funeral march reaches Union Square after its trip up Broadway. It was…

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Happy Birthday to Tenement Tattler Jacob Riis

…upstate and in Pennsylvania, Riis returned to New York City and worked as a police reporter at The New York Tribune. This work brought him to some of the most…

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Cool Down With Keith Haring!

…to a whole new level. Born in Pennsylvania on May 4, 1958, Keith Haring came to New York in 1978 to attend the School of Visual Arts. He quickly became a…

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Happy Birthday, Alex Haley!

…the Nation of Islam must get every penny that might come to me.’”* Starting in 1963 Haley began over 50 interviews with Malcolm X over a 2-year period to…

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Eleventh Street Methodist Episcopal Chapel Landmark Designation

…a reading room, a penny provident society, and numerous clubs. Additionally, the church had an extensive mission that catered to Italian immigrants and even offered services, meetings, and bible classes…

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Suffragette City

…years. They were both influential activists for women’s suffrage and founders of the League of Women Voters. Read graduated from Smith College and the University of Pennsylvania Law School and…

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Peeking Into Grove Court

…be a hefty sum, but wouldn’t it be worth every penny to live in this quiet, secluded oasis? We can all dream, right? a close-up of the lovely window boxes…

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Disappearing New York: The Case of the Missing Watch Repair Shop

…has long called for the City Council to hear and pass this bill which would help small businesses to be able to negotiate long-term leases with landlords. GVSHP recently penned…

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Write Here: Women Poets of the Village — Lola Ridge and Sonia Sanchez

…working, now living in Pennsylvania, and was most recently honored at the Brooklyn Museum in February 2018. From Sanchez’ 1999 book of poems, Shake Loose My Skin. Credit: Beacon Press…

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Watching GVSHP, and Village Preservation Efforts, Grow

…the Commission, Mrs. Kellerman was instrumental in the saving of SoHo. In the 1970s, while a doctoral candidate at Pennsylvania State University, she was field director of an architectural and…

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The Who, live at the Fillmore East

…of “C’Mon Everybody” by Eddie Cochran, who also wrote “Summertime Blues,” as well as a rare version of “Fortune Teller,” penned by New Orleans music legend Allen Toussaint but made…

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Walt Whitman’s Bohemian Village, Featuring Pfaff’s

…Manhattan, first working as a clerk, then moving into the print world, serving as publisher, editor, pressman, and distributor. In one such publication, Life Illustrated, Whitman penned opinion pieces on…

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Top Five Greenwich Village Moments in Fourteenth Amendment History

…extended the right to vote to women. Anthony was, however, found guilty and given a $100 fine, of which she paid “not a penny.” She used the trial to promote…

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The Death and Life of Louis Sullivan

…the skyscraper and stripping architecture down to its most essential elements nevertheless found a distinct and remarkable home in Greenwich Village. When Sullivan died, he was a penniless alcoholic, his…

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They Dwelt on West 9th Street: Marianne Moore, Mother of Modernism

…like T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, among others, she moved from Pennsylvania to New York City with her mother, Mary Warner Moore, in 1918. They originally settled in Greenwich Village…

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World War I Centennial and the Village

…as James Montgomery Flagg, Joseph Pennell, Frances Lydendecker, and Howard Chandler Christy are accompanied by period photographs of the Roosevelts, including FDR’s visit to France in the summer of 1918,…

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Prohibition Hits The Village

…immigrant John McSorley. Way back then, it was considered an Irish working man’s saloon, selling beer for pennies. Between 1864 and 1865, the building was improved to become a five-story…

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“London Calling:” The Clash and the Village

…bass, post-smash The album cover has become almost as iconic as the album itself. The photo on the cover was taken by photographer Pennie Smith in the lost, iconic Village…

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Napoleon LeBrun — Firehouse Architect and So Much More

…a number of notable buildings there and other Pennsylvania towns. In 1864 he moved his family and his practice to New York City. He would later partner with his sons,…

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Richard Upjohn — A Missionary for the Gothic Revival

…in the northeast, from Pennsylvania to Maine, but some were as far as Maryland and Wisconsin. He also designed several mansions, courthouses, and schools, many of which still exist. Perhaps…

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Saul Leiter, Artist, Photographer and East Villager

…rabbi, Saul Leiter was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on December 3, 1923, and expected to follow in his father’s footsteps. Much to his family’s dismay, he left religious school at…

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Ellen Emmet Rand, Artist and Villager

…Gold Medal from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1922. She was also elected an Associate of the National Academy of Design in 1926 and an Academician in 1934….

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Jewish History of the Greenwich Village Historic District

…a series of articles for the magazine American Hebrew. Emma Lazarus is best known now for the sonnet she penned which graces the Statue of Liberty. She was asked by…

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A Poet, A Bookseller, and the Father of Social of Social Security: New Additions to the Greenwich Village Historic District 1969-2019 Photos and Tours Map

…on to get his master’s degree at Columbia University, and then became the research director of the Pennsylvania Commission on Old Age Pensions from 1918 until 1927. He also worked…

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Happy (Landmark) Birthday, Salmagundi Club!

…the president of the Pennsylvania Coal Company, which had yards along the Hudson River in the West Village. The building’s arresting entrance, up a flight of wide steps, is framed…

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Underground Railroad Church Once Located in Greenwich Village Led Abolitionist Cause

…the 1830s to 1847, Theodore Wright, a founding member of the American Anti-Slavery Society, served as the church’s minister. J.W.C. Pennington followed Wright as minister after his death, and by…

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Frances Perkins: From Greenwich House to the White House

…University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In 1909, at the encouragement of economics professor Simon N. Pattern, she moved to New York City to complete a fellowship…

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Plaque Unveiling for Sculptor Chaim Gross

…included artist Lorrie Goulet; poets Ron Padgett, Elaine Equi, Charles Bernstein, and Simon Pettet; modern poetry scholar Al Filreis, founder of Kelly Writers House at University of Pennsylvania; and critics…

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Barbara Shaum, 1929-2015

…a small Pennsylvania town in the Allegheny foothills, the daughter of two lawyers, she witnessed hard times from the safety of her back porch. She was mesmerized by stories of…

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Movie Theaters of the East Village: Loew’s Avenue B

…newspapers, he cultivated a career in penny arcades. Marcus Loew Eventually, he turned his attention to the theater business, which transformed him into one of the most successful businessmen in…

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Yesteryear: The Theatre Unique

…name in design. Though not a huge structure, the large arched entrance gave the building an imposing air. When it opened as a penny arcade in 1907, this stretch of…

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Peeking into Grove Court

…Court its Flowerbox Award. $4.2 million may be a hefty sum, but wouldn’t it be worth every penny to live in this quiet, secluded oasis? We can all dream, right?…

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A Hidden East Village Gallery

…case and sledgehammer. Also on display were artifacts found when the backyard was excavated, including an 1863 “New York City Penny,” a plastic methadone bottle, and segments of clay pipes….

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A Joyous Annual Meeting and Village Awards: Video and Pictures

…Church Pageant Print Shop Razom for Ukraine Zinc Bar Regina Kellerman Award: Jane Friedman and Howl! Arts Special thanks go to awards emcee Penny Arcade, Veselka and Bon Yagi for…

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Seen and Heard Around the Village 7.3.11 – 7.9.11, East Edition

…Ray Deter, Owner of d.b.a Passes Away (DNAinfo) The Mosaic Man Joins Facebook & Twitter (Bowery Boogie) East Village Couple Severely Injured in Pennsylvania Shoot Out (NY Daily News) An…

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Kintecoying

…role of Astor Place in Native American history. The area that is today Southern New York, New Jersey, Eastern Pennsylvania and Delaware was inhabited by a group known as the…

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Then & Now: 3rd Avenue & East 10th Street, Part 2

…in his day — he was President of the Pennsylvania Coal Company, and served on the boards of Bank of America, the New York Life Insurance Company, and the Metropolitan…

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Thanksgiving Ragamuffins

…The queerest looking specimens of ragamuffins waylaid the pedestrian in droves, and many thousands of pennies found their way into the hands of the little nondescripts.” But if the practice…

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The East Village’s Own, Allen Ginsberg

…one of the most prolific writers of the Beat Generation, lived and worked in the East Village. The poem above was penned by Allen Ginsberg from his apartment at 437…

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Happy Birthday Jack Kerouac!

…Street in the Greenwich Village Historic District. He penned Tristessa while staying at this former SRO that has been converted into a hotel. Kerouac’s work is notable for his experiential…

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A Civil Rights Activist and the Café Society

…in shaping his character and facilitating his accomplishments. Rustin lived his later years in Penn South Houses in Chelsea, a limited-equity non-profit cooperative built by unions, and following his death…

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Take a Peek Into Six Greenwich Village Homes

…Studio, 1928 (left). Smithsonian Archives of American Art. Whitney Studio, 2010 (right). Courtesy of the University of Pennsylvania Architectural Conservation Laboratory. Additionally, the New York Studio School, which will serve…

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Arturo’s: 2012 Village Award Winner

…the staff—many have worked at the restaurant for decades. Favorite dishes, besides the pizza, include an arugula salad, penne with vodka sauce, and the most popular appetizer: Clams Arturo. Nightly…

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Greenwich Village Generals

…eventually succeeded Benedict Arnold in command of defenses of West Point. The other generals include: William Thompson, from Pennsylvania; David Wooster, from Connecticut; Nathanael Greene, a Rhode Island Quaker; and…

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A Hard Rain

…be resolved fifty years ago yesterday. Numerous accounts recall that Dylan penned “A Hard Rain’s A Gonna Fall” in September 1962 in a friend’s basement apartment in the building that…

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Extra! Extra! Newsies Strike of 1899

…newspapers for 50 cents each day. They would then spend hours shouting out headlines in order to persuade those passing by to purchase a newspaper for one penny. A newsie…

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On the Menu at Mills House

…taking one, and a laundry where he may wash his own clothes if he has to save the pennies, as he likely has to. It is a good place to…

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John Sloan’s Village

…1871. Sloan worked as an painter and illustrator, first in Pennsylvania, and then most notably in New York at the turn of the twentieth century. His work is now highly regarded,…

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Happy Birthday, Andy Warhol

Twentieth century pop art icon Andy Warhol was born on August 6th, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. But his life as an artist and visual pioneer was very much about New…

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Behind the Seams of the Butterick Building

…until 1937. Butterick was located in this building until October 2001 when they were purchased by the McCall Pattern Company and were moved uptown to Penn Plaza, according to a…

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Tower of Music

…in New York City – now down on Wall Street – but its distribution/printing operations have moved to Pennsylvania. In 2006 the Carl Fischer building gained a shiny new undulating…

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Happy Birthday W.H. Auden, East Villager

…1, 1939 — penned on the outbreak of World War II — was rediscovered then and shared widely, providing the balm of a wise and beautiful voice for a hurting…

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Tell Us Your Greenwich Village Story

…15th. Selected Shorts: Greenwich Village Stories will feature Village residents Parker Posey and Jane Curtin reading fiction set in the Village alongside Greenwich Village Stories contributors Dave Hill, Penny Arcade,…

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Jacob Riis: The Man Who Showed “How The Other Half Lives”

…New York’s poor led to changes in city government health and building codes. After working several odd jobs in different locations upstate and in Pennsylvania, Riis returned to New York…

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Building Profile: 32 Second Avenue (aka 43-45 East 2nd Street)

…and federal penitentiaries in New York, Pennsylvania, and the Midwest) to design the civic structure, which was originally conceived as a 14-story “skyscraper-type” courthouse and prison in 1913. Hopkins substantially…

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NYU Expansion Plan; Not Over, But Still Outrageous

…increase its classroom space by 25 percent without spending a penny. But city officials refused to ask N.Y.U. to even consider these alternatives. Rally calling upon Borough President Stringer to…

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Commemorating a Favorite Concert Hall, the Fillmore East

…foggy Virginia hills to hear the Jerry Garcia Band at the very same “Hampton Coliseum” that I’d penned onto so many cassette jackets. And so it is with Fillmore: a…

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Village People: Elizabeth Fisher Read and Esther Lape

…American Foundation. Read had graduated from Smith College and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and had been active in the women’s suffrage movement in the 1910s. She typified the…

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Welcome Aboard, Sam Moskowitz

…Penn South Houses in Chelsea. He graduated from Hunter College and the Bronx High School of Science before that, and has a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from Baruch. At…

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With Black Seed, De Robertis Space Moves Forward, Mindful of the Past

…hand-cut wall tiles, round “penny tiles” on the floor (which aren’t made anymore) are all staying – but where those elements are missing or damaged, they will not be replaced…

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The Duplex: NYC’s Longest Running Cabaret Bar

…can stay around for future generations. Learn more about our small business initiatives here. We recently hosted an event at the Duplex to showcase our oral history collection. Penny Arcade…

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The Restaurant Toolbox: Menu Options for Saving Important Food Establishments

…Please add them in Comments. Further resources: Maybe You Can Save Your Favorite Restaurant Before It Closes, Off the Grid San Francisco – and Sean Penn – show a city’s…

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Why Isn’t This Landmarked: 95 East 10th Street/48 Third Avenue

…president of the Pennsylvania Coal Company and a board member of the Bank of America, New York Life Insurance Company, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The architects designed a…

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New Oral History: Playwright John Guare and 60 Years of Life In Greenwich Village

…East Village of the last half century, from Jane Jacobs to Jonas Mekas, Merce Cunningham to Margot Gayle, Chino Garcia to Penny Arcade. Read or Listen to John Guare’s Oral History HERE Check Out All 60+ Oral Histories HERE…

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Welcome Aboard, David Herman

…public affairs for the Brooklyn Borough President’s Office. He’s a lifelong Brooklyn resident, except for his undergraduate years at the University of Pennsylvania, and a constant explorer of our city’s…

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Matt Umanov: Guitar Hero, Sharing Musical Musings and Memories

…Cunningham, David Amram, Verna Small, Marlis Mober, Jonas Mekas, Margot Gayle, Wolf Kahn, Lorcan Otway, Frances Goldin, Chino Garcia, Penny Arcade, and James Polshek, among many others. Explore them all HERE. …

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May He Stay Forever Young: 80 Things We Love About Bob Dylan

…time: the 1967 D.A. Pennebaker cinema verite Don’t Look Back. 26. Shakespeare 101, move over. There are already college courses on Dylan’s works (this author took once such course in college)….

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