…of property on today’s Upper East Side (the neighborhood now known as Lenox Hill). But by 1845, James Lenox was done with business and retired to pursue his passions of…
Read More…to see King’s birthday become a national holiday. He faced an uphill battle on many fronts, including tepid support from some African-American leaders in Congress and vigorous opposition from those on…
Read More…Dr. Howard Brown, Martin Duberman, Barbara Gittings, Ron Gold, Frank Kameny, Natalie Rockhill, and Bruce Voeller, knew it was time to create change on a national level. Among its early…
Read More…oral history with Village Preservation, Zerrilli discusses customers as varied as Mario Cuomo, Joey Ramone, and Hillary Clinton. Veniero’s is famed for its cheesecake, biscotti, cannoli, tiramisu, and sfogliatelle. While food is its…
Read More…African Americans moved to the Tenderloin between West 23rd and 42nd Streets, San Juan Hill in what is now Lincoln Square, and eventually Harlem. The church is located there today,…
Read More…today’s Upper East Side (the neighborhood now known as Lenox Hill). But by 1845, James Lenox was done with business and retired to pursue his passions of book collecting and…
Read More…created custom ice cream flavors for notables like Hillary Clinton and Jay-Z, and garnered national coverage from leading publications including The New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine, Essence and New York Magazine.”…
Read More…edge of the Hudson River, although it is now two blocks inland. At this time, the area was being transformed from swamp and sandy hills into a upper class residential…
Read More…created custom ice cream flavors for notables like Hillary Clinton and Jay-Z, and garnered national coverage from leading publications including The New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine, Essence and New York Magazine.”…
Read More…Join the Down Hill Strugglers and the Four o’clock Flowers for a rollicking evening of old-time, blues, and gospel music by two outstanding contemporary folk groups based in New York…
Read More…Sitney, Jerome Hill, Stan Brakhage, and Peter Kubelka. Its first location was at the Public Theater at 425 Lafayette Street; a few years later, it moved to 80 Wooster Street….
Read More…Harper’s, Rust Hills of Esquire, and Aaron Asher of Meridan Books. 1959 New York City Directory. Photo courtesy of Ancestry.com. On March 14, 1959, The New Yorker published Roth’s story…
Read More…4th Street. After another period of neglect, Anthology Film Archives, founded by Jonas Mekas, P. Adams Sitney, Jerome Hill, Stan Brakhage, and Peter Kubelka in 1969, purchased the building in…
Read More…and the descendants of those 23 original Jewish settlers of New York. In 1799, when Greenwich Village was still a place of farms and rolling hills, Joshua Isaacs began building…
Read More…district, this building provided an opportunity for the League to connect with wealthy women who could finance and otherwise support its campaign. During this fight, Governor Hill and Governor Flower…
Read More…Provincetown Playhouse and Apartments, which was later demolished by NYU in 2008. Donated by the NY Bound Bookshop (Judith Stonehill and Barbara Cohen, owners) in January 1996. Date 1950 Jan….
Read More…Albert W. Lewis and John D. Churchill were commissioned by the Department of Markets to design several of these indoor market buildings, including the new Fulton Fish Market Complex, the…
Read More…Barbara Gittings, Ron Gold, Frank Kameny, Nathalie Rockhill, and Bruce Voeller. They were inspired by the Stonewall uprising and the burgeoning LGBTQ rights movements in the Village. Among the Task…
Read More…the Expanded Carnegie Hill Historic District (landmarked December 21, 1993) between 89th and 90th Streets on “Museum Mile,” and Our Lady of Lourdes Church, a Venetian Gothic style Catholic Church…
Read More…on the incline of a hill looking eastward over Harlem. The commanding, 1904 neo-Gothic structure boasts an ornate bell tower, visible from the nearby St. Nicholas Park and the City…
Read More…Cinemart Cinemas in Forest Hills, Queens. Nick said, “I only kept theaters that I think should mean something to people in New York.” Cinema Village’s ticket prices are deliberately kept…
Read More…Circle (artfulcircle.com). • Richard Yoo, Triangle Fire Memorial Architect and Designer • Michael Rzeznik, Fire Protection Specialist • Alan Richards, Creator of Triangle-inspired artwork • Franklin Hill Perrell, Art Historian…
Read More…“Bank Street.” The bank structures have been since demolished, but the street name remains. Bank of New York, watercolor by John William Hill, The Phelps Stokes Collection, New York Public…
Read More…Simon Doonan, writer Dave Hill, organizer of the Village’s first Halloween parade Ralph Lee, and fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi reading alongside other well-known Village residents Jane Curtin and Parker Posey…
Read More…Churchill Square Regina Kellerman Award: Bowery Alliance of Neighbors Nominating: Returning Trustees: Penelope Bareau, Kate Bostock Shefferman, Cynthia Penney, Katherine Schoonover, and Fred Wistow, as well as new Trustee Marilyn…
Read More…the slate of Trustees nominated for Village Preservation’s Board, including Nominating returning Trustees: Mary Ann Arisman, Arthur Levin, Jonathan Russo, Judith Stonehill, and Linda Yowell, and new Trustee Vals Osborne….
Read More…Network 10th & Stuyvesant Streets Block Association Flatbush Development Corporation Greenwich Village Community Task Force Murray Hill Neighborhood Association Lefferts Manor Association Hamilton Heights – West Harlem Community Preservation Organization…
Read More…between 1825 and 1840 and spurring the development of markets and businesses. Shrewd speculators subdivided farms, leveled hills, rerouted and buried Minetta Brook, and undertook landfill projects. Blocks of neat…
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Donated by the NY Bound Bookshop (Judith Stonehill and Barbara Cohen, owners) in January 1996.
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Read More…of the Hill House Association). Her final monumental work, an eight-foot tall sculpture of Martin Luther King Jr., which stands in Marshall Park in Charlotte, North Carolina, was dedicated in…
Read More…at Carnegie-Mellon University, simultaneously earning degrees in architecture and literature. After 40 years living and teaching in Connecticut’s “Northwest Hills,” he became fascinated with the old mill towns of the…
Read More…the pastor of the church community that Mabel and her parents dedicated themselves to building. Host Laura Free also speaks with Dr. Cathleen Cahill, author of “Recasting the Vote: How…
Read More…“Alex Harsley is the name. I was born in 1938, in South Carolina; a place outside Rockhill called Newport. And I’ve always been interested in learning about everything. So when…
Read More…and sometimes impossibly idealistic neighborhoods, and to the relentless pursuit of our advocacy goals, no matter how uphill the battle might seem. Because far from tilting at windmills and thinking…
Read More…How Marjorie Hillis Led a Generation of Women to Live Alone and Like It (Liveright, 2017). Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street…
Read More…doctors who met for business and social purposes in the South Village and practiced at a clubhouse and shooting range at Fox Hill on Staten Island (a site turned over…
Read More…Rankin the freedom to travel across the country. During a visit to her uncle in San Francisco, Rankin started volunteering at the Telegraph Hill settlement house. The experience she gained…
Read More…Paul Rosenfeld wrote: “No one has brought a greater wit and penetration to caricature than she.” The next year, Holger Cahill claimed that Peggy Bacon “is the most talented of…
Read More…Irving Underhill. Courtesy MCNY. To help save the NYEEI building and keep its services intact, send the letter at this link. If you’ve already sent it, ask friends, family, and neighbors…
Read MoreNew York Eye and Ear Infirmary, 1904. Photo by Irving Underhill, courtesy MCNY. We’re thrilled to report that the effort by Mt. Sinai to close and dismantle the New York…
Read More…moving to the nation’s capital in 1986. The founding members of the task force, including Dr. Howard Brown, Martin Duberman, Barbara Gittings, Ron Gold, Frank Kameny, Natalie Rockhill, and Bruce…
Read More…the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism (Seal Press, 2022), and The Extra Woman: How Marjorie Hillis Led a Generation of Women to Live Alone and Like It (Liveright, 2017)….
Read More…not kept up; improvements are not made. Residential and business tenants share the insecurity that sends everything downhill. Twenty-eight years of this can do a lot of damage. Along the…
Read More…inquiries from Congressman Jerrold Nadler. Thanks also go to our friends at Save Gansevoort and the Carnegie Hill Neighbors for their work on this. Any tower proposed for a historic…
Read More…Village, and helping develop fun and innovative programs for people to enjoy!” If you are unable to catch William in a bookshop or walking in the forest of Inwood Hill…
Read More…influencing photographers Helen Levitt, Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, and Bernd and Hilla Becher. He died in 1975. Roy Lichtenstein, 745 Washington Street Although raised on the Upper West…
Read More…earn, ‘Rebel Girl’ (removed in 2023 due to public controversy). Image: New Hampshire Public Radio Songwriter Joe Hill reputedly wrote his 1915 song, ‘Rebel Girl,’ about Flynn. Whether or not…
Read More…lasting relationships with local businesses, customers and other great people.” A master at flavor and texture, Mikey has created custom ice cream flavors for notables like Hillary Clinton and Jay-Z,…
Read More…corner of St. Nicholas Avenue, stands on the incline of a hill looking eastward over Harlem. The commanding, 1904 neo-Gothic structure boasts an ornate bell tower. While the building has…
Read MoreRobert Williams Gibson Building, 1893-1903 in April 2022. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary at 2nd Avenue and 13th Street, 1904. Photo by Irving Underhill. Courtesy MCNY. The New York…
Read More…enthusiasts: “Ah, all the books waiting for you In the crowded bookshops of Fourth Avenue. Experiences galore; Experiences you’ll adore. Bibliographical thrills New as the hills Mental fountains, Emotional mountains….
Read More…in Forest Hills, Queens, and Massapequa, Long Island. As a child, she became fascinated with Hollywood glamour and impersonating her favorite celebrities, giving her an outlet to explore the feminie…
Read More…Ron Gold, Dr. Howard Brown, Dr. Bruce Voeller, and Nathalie Rockhill. (l. to r. back row) Martin Duberman, Barbara Gittings, Frank Kameny. 80 Fifth Avenue Initially located at 80 Fifth…
Read More…Bridget Harvey David Hottenroth Anita Isola Deborah Kameros Christina Kepple Susan Kolker John Lamb Stephen Larkin Arthur Levin Yuki Ohta Monica Rittersporn Leslie Rylee Trevor Stewart Judith Stonehill Pam Tillis…
Read More…became a much-told Village legend! Text courtesy of Judith Stonehill from her book “Greenwich Village: A Guide to America’s Left Bank“ August 2, 2021 marks the 150th anniversary of Sloan’s…
Read More…place of on-site affordable ones. Consider the example of the MIH Project at 2178 Bergen Street in Ocean Hill, Brooklyn. Market 2BR units for this project have been listed for…
Read More…10 years later, but in that time crafted many other historic architectural works in our city, including the Daily News Building and the Art Deco masterpiece McGraw-Hill Building at opposite…
Read More…58 Third Avenue This four-story rowhouse was built in 1838-39 for James E. Hills on Third Avenue between East 10th and East 11th Street. It is among the oldest surviving…
Read More…which is nearly entirely landmarked and has seen little new construction. In fact, if one looks at Brooklyn’s northwest corner, you find a dozen neighborhoods from Vinegar Hill to Greenwood…
Read More…workshop at the New York State Correctional Facility for Women at Bedford Hills from 1989 to 2002. Honoring Baraka’s literary legacy and the influence other Beat poets had on our…
Read More…Rinaldini, and Judith Stonehill, as well as former Executive Director Regina Kellerman, Municipal Arts Society President Kent Barwick, and author Calvin Trillin. The first Village Awards were held at NYU’s…
Read More…political convictions would result in being brought before the HUAC. Unlike some of her contemporaries, however – whom she later denounced as “clowns” who “just took to the hills” –…
Read More…for his family on the hill closer to the Bowery Road, in what is now Union Square. The Breevort, Smith, and Spingler farm was located on lot 56, sitting on…
Read More…the Art Deco masterpiece McGraw-Hill Building at opposite ends of 42nd Street, and guided the design of Rockefeller Center. Hood’s design “broke with tradition and utilized new forms,” wrote the…
Read More…Nadia boards the 6 train at Astor Place to go uptown to visit an elderly family friend in Lenox Hill Hospital; however, like most subway rides, she finds herself transported…
Read More…Trichter, landlord Jeff Gural, Global Strategy Group president Jefrey Pollock, former Hillary Clinton aide Howard Wolfson, and popular manager “Big Mike” Saviello. Astor Place Hairstylists was founded as a small…
Read MoreNew York Eye and Ear Infirmary, 1904. Photo by Irving Underhill, courtesy MCNY. We are pleased to report that our effort to landmark and protect the endangered historic NY Eye…
Read MoreFrank Lloyd Wright with architectural moidel in 1945, alongside Solomon Guggenheim and Hilla Ribay, director of the Guggenheim Museum. Frank Lloyd Wright’s (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) contributions to…
Read More…an oral history with Village Preservation, Zerrilli discusses customers as varied as Mario Cuomo, Joey Ramone and Hillary Clinton. The bakery/pasticceria/caffe is famed for its cheesecake, biscotti, cannoli, tiramisu, and…
Read More…as “a rural area of streams and hills populated by a patchwork of country estates, farms and small houses.” The Commissioners’ Plan avoided making changes to the streetscape of Greenwich…
Read More…War of 1812 and the Civil War, and the NYC Subway. Bank of New York, watercolor by John William Hill, The Phelps Stokes Collection, New York Public Library Want to…
Read MoreGreenwich Village, like the rest of New York City, has seen many changes over the years. What was once a marshy area of sandy hills before Europeans arrived became the…
Read More…object, what would you do with a storefront and where? Why resurrect the old Bowery Poetry Club, of course, as a 24-hour Poetry Emergency boite and chill! 308 Bowery. What…
Read More…Stonehill asked me to contribute to the GV Stories volume. What first brought you to the Village? What kept you here? I grew up in (dreaded) Queens and spent…
Read More…territorialize it. They’ve staked claims and lamented the changes and said, “I remember when.” I remember when I laughed my way through an interview with comedian Dave Hill. I remember…
Read More…The Ramones are of course considered the godfathers of punk, and while Joey and the rest of his bandmates hailed originally from Forest Hills, Queens, it was downtown where they…
Read More…Afternoon on a Hill includes a verse that is similar to the “pick no flowers” sign: “I will be the gladdest thing Under the sun! I will touch a hundred…
Read More…of, say, a 1950s Puerto Rican lunch counter in Chelsea or a century-old ice cream shop in Forest Hills (La Taza De Oro and Eddie’s Sweet Shop, respectively, both from…
Read More…we discovered a children’s section, a huge peach tree, and small plots of tomatoes and corn. Former Village Award winner Bert Waggott, of Sir Winston Churchill Garden in the South…
Read More…street to sit on a bench in Father Demo Square, or in Sir Winston Churchill Square, and watch the world go by. (If you are NOT a people-watcher, you probably…
Read More…Building, the McGraw Hill Building, and Rockefeller Center. Soon thereafter and for much of the 1920′s the house was occupied by the very bohemian daughter of the 28th U.S. President,…
Read More…Hill Neighborhood Association; Friends of the Lower East Side; Lefferts Manor Association; Hamilton Heights – West Harlem Community Preservation Organization. Remember, tune in to the live feed next Tuesday, September…
Read More…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…
Read More…our free public programs: Greenwich Village Stories edited by Judith Stonehill STORE FRONT– The Disappearing Face of New York by James & Karla Murray NEW YORK NIGHTS by James &…
Read More…driving east with Fred Underhill and two others. Just a few hours after slamming the car door shut, Dylan was walking into Café Wha?, at 115 MacDougal Street. Fred Neil,…
Read More…itself Is nothing, An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, April Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers. *…
Read More…will vote on five returning Trustees and two new Trustees to the Board of Directors. Returning Trustees include Mary Ann Arisman, Tom Birchard, Arthur Levin, Judith Stonehill, and Linda Yowell,…
Read More…of our good friends, Bert Waggott. Bert is the driving force behind the beautiful little Sir Winston Churchill Square, one of last year’s Village Award winners. Once when I asked…
Read More…black citizens were concentrated in neighborhoods uptown, specifically the Tenderloin (24th to 42nd Streets between Fifth and Seventh Avenues), San Juan Hill (West 60s), and Harlem. As their parishioners made…
Read More…Hill Hospital). Today the dispensary building is used as private, commercial space. William Harvey. Photo courtesy of GVSHP. The decorative busts on the exterior of the dispensary building, five in…
Read More…Arisman, Arthur Levin, Judith Stonehill, and Linda Yowell, as well as new nominee Tom Birchard were all approved by GVSHP members in the audience. City Councilmember Rosie Mendez accepts an…
Read More…by our colleague Chelsey Berryhill. Thanks, Chelsey – good eye! GVSHP has been a tireless advocate for designation of historic districts. This blog post features some of the beautiful store…
Read MoreBank of New York, watercolor by John William Hill, The Phelps Stokes Collection, New York Public Library Sometimes determining the provenance of a street’s name is fairly easy. It is…
Read More…Hill, Brooklyn had indoor toilets and running water in the apartments, open stairways for better ventilation and playgrounds as well as libraries – all marked improvements from the living conditions…
Read More…The Ramones, Blondie, Patti Smith, and the Talking Heads all got their start at what owner Hilly Krystal opened as a blues and country music club. You can read more…
Read More…Manhattan. (If you’re wondering why you haven’t heard of West Hoboken that’s because it was merged with Union Hill in 1925 to form Union City, New Jersey.) The former…
Read More…loading platforms. In 1937, architects Albert W. Lewis and John D. Churchill were commissioned by the Department of Markets to design several of these buildings including the new Fulton Fish…
Read More…awards ceremony. GVSHP members Ann Arlen (left) and Dick Blodgett (center) chat with GVSHP Trustee and Awards Committee Chair Judith Stonehill (right). Want to see more of the Annual Awards…
Read MoreIf you love theater in the Village, we think you will enjoy this blog post that was written by our colleague Chelsey Berryhill. Lucille Lortel Theater in Greenwich Village Sidewalk…
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