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A History of the East Village in 10 Objects
…Patti Smith, and the Talking Heads all got their start at what owner Hilly Krystal opened as a blues and country music club.” Not far away, at 105 2nd Avenue,…
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Who is King Juan Carlos I of Spain?
…presence of distinguished figures from Spain, Latin America, and the U.S., including the King and Queen of Spain and then-First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, the King Juan Carlos I of…
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Shining a Light on an East Village Landmark
…photos of every other structure in the survey area. Original permits now on file in our office indicates that this building was designed by William H. Whitehill and constructed in…
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Decades of Limbo To Finally End for South Village “Almost-Landmarks”?
…and influential landmarks as the Daily News Building, the Chicago Tribune Building, the McGraw Hill Building, and Rockefeller Center. 134 West 4th Street (r.), with 132 West 4th Street to…
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Great Scot! The Designs of D. & J. Jardine
…and 161 Waverly Place in the Greenwich Village Historic District. A successor firm, Jardine, Kent & Hill designed 153 Waverly Place and 135 Christopher Street, also in this historic district….
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Hard Luck Town: A 1930s Shantytown in the East Village
…gave the residents ten days notice. One resident named “old John Cahill” reacted to the clearance by telling a reporter: “Nobody’s askin’ us where we’re goin’. There’s not a soul…
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2013: The Year In Review
…at which some of our favorite local businesses, activists, and institutions were recognized — Avignone Chemists , Block Drug Store, NYU Faculty Against the Sexton Plan, Sir Winston Churchill Square…
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Building (817) Broadway: Remembering George B. Post
…designed for Meyer Jonasson & Company, cloak manufacturers, for a cost of $250,000. The building later became known as the Sprague Building. This 1905 photo, taken by Irving Underhill (courtesy…
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Greenwich Village Height and Density Map Now Available on GVSHP Website
Our New Interactive Density map Aaron Hill, a dedicated Greenwich Village resident and New School Assistant Professor of Data Visualization, has compiled an interesting new map for GVSHP. This interactive…
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Amelia Earhart: Aviatrix, Feminist Fashionista, Villager
…is abducted by aliens, a biopic in which Earhart was played by Hillary Swank, and so many more. Earhart: Lost in the West Village? Some have even speculated that Earhart’s…
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Another Local Institution Will Close, But All Is Not Lost For Small Businesses
…comic shop where I lived in The Bronx, Jimmy’s Comics on Castle Hill Avenue, a visit to St. Mark’s was always special. I still would go there peridodically, sure to…
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Helen Keller’s Village Activist Life and Legacy
…wake of the loss of Morris Hillquit’s run for mayor on an anti-war platform. Goldman wrote of meeting Keller: “The electric current of her vibrant fingers on my lips and…
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Beyond the Village and Back: Cooper Hewitt Museum, Former Andrew Carnegie Mansion
…its neighborhood on the map — the lower 90s west of Lexington Avenue is still called Carnegie Hill to this day. Architect Sketches of the Carnegie Mansion The Mansion The…
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A Decision By the State Was An Important Milestone in Preserving Gansevoort Market
…Market in 1905, via MCNY Before the Meatpacking The Village was once a marshy area of sandy hills before Europeans arrived. What we now know as the Meatpacking District, or…
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New York in Four Maps – Walking the Village of the Past
…Drawn at a scale of 100 feet to 1 inch, the Randel Farm Maps provide a detailed picture of Manhattan’s hills, streams, beaches, ponds, wetlands, rock formations, and cliffs before…
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Dorothy Day
…stops at St. Joseph’s Church for early-morning Mass. She was likely to have been at the 5AM service to “chill” after a night out, and as it turns out, the…
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My Favorite Things: Village Icon Tom Fontana!
…Showrunner for the new Showtime drama, City on a Hill. Image NYPL Tom also owns one of the most interesting buildings in the Village, which serves as both his…
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Nile Rodgers: Musical Innovator, Child of the Village
…In 1979, the Sugarhill Gang used the bassline and strings from Chic’s “Good Times” on their breakthrough record “Rapper’s Delight,” the first Top 40 rap record and the first rap…
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Tour the Meccas of East Village Punk via Our Building Blocks Website
…underground groups. 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…
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Walt Whitman’s Bohemian Village, Featuring Pfaff’s
…Shakespeare.” Walt Whitman at Pfaff’s on Broadway and Bleecker Street Whitman’s Early Life Walter Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was born in West Hills, Long Island. When…
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Hettie Jones, 2019 Village Awardee
…a writing workshop at the New York State Correctional Facility for Women at Bedford Hills, from which she published a nationally distributed collection, Aliens At The Border. From 1994-1996 she was…
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East Village Building Blocks Tour: Dry Dock District
…Webb retired from shipbuilding business and moved uptown, to Murray Hill. 247 East 7th Street Aldermen, judges, commissioners, controllers, congressmen, district leaders, and more, from both the Democratic and Republican…
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GVHD50 Tour: Homes of Music Greats
…musicians, spent part of their lives touring around the country with their three children. During this time, Seeger discovered the banjo and folk (or hillbilly) music, which he would pursue…
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The Brant Foundation & Gluckman Tang Architects, 2019 Village Awardees
…Whitehill as a substation for Consolidated Edison in 1919-20. The building was converted to a multi-use commercial structure in 1963 and subsequently served as the home and studio of famed…
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The Man Who Sculpted Our Image of Abraham Lincoln
…Thomas Gallaudet (1885-1889) at Gallaudet College in Washington D.C.; the Milmore Memorial (1889-1893) at the Forest Hills Cemetery in Jamaica Plain, MA; the John Boyle O’Reilly Memorial (1892-96) in the Fenway…
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Psycho Killer! Qu’est-ce Que C’est? The Talking Heads at CBGB
…for the Ramones, CBGB had been operating for two years. The venue was opened in 1973 by Hilly Krystal as CBGB’s & OMFUG, which stood for “Country Bluegrass Blues and…
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Jewish History of the Greenwich Village Historic District
…rich heritage: The Isaac-Hendricks House, 77 Bedford Street It was 1799 – a decade since the Revolution – and Greenwich Village was a quiet place, with farms and rolling hills….
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A Landmark SCOTUS Win: Penn Central v. City of New York
…as long as it didn’t destroy the landmarked station as the Breuer plan would have. Grand Central in 1927. Photo by Irving Underhill, MCNY The Penn Central Decision On Tuesday,…
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A Stroll Down West 14th Street: Commerce and Industry
…skyscraper form, this building showcases the change in the banking industry between the two world wars. Designed by William Whitehill, it was commissioned by Vincent Astor for his investment banking…
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What is the Oldest Bar in New York City?
…GVSHP website along with other merchandise): When the James Brown House was built in 1817, the district was being transformed from swamp and sandy hills into a fancy residential neighborhood….
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Thirsty Thursday! Some Cool East Village Bars
…found is that the East Village is truly chill and you have some serious decision making to do about where you would most like to hang in the ‘hood. If…
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Business of the Month: Ray’s Candy Store, 113 Avenue A
…chili dog and egg cream for his mom. The affection for this place, the food and the staff crosses generation and geography: The best egg cream, chill dogs, fries with…
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Death, Debauchery, and Destruction on the Bowery: McGurk’s Suicide Hall
…on the down grade too long to think of reforming. I just want to say that I never pushed a girl downhill any more than I ever refused a helping…
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Further Proof That Landmarking Does Not Hurt Affordability, and Unfettered Development Doesn’t Help
…Harlem’s largest historic districts are located in Hamilton Heights/Sugar Hill, outside the boundaries of Central Harlem in Community Board #9). 7.5% of the area being landmarked could hardly be seen…
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Jean-Michel Basquiat and the East Village art scene of the 1980’s
…Mimi Gross, David Hammons, Jenny Holzer, Joe Lewis, Candace Hill-Montgomery, Tom Otterness, Lee Quinones, Kenny Scharf, Kiki Smith, and Robin Winters. The show was a critical success and was the…
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Miriam Cahn Collection
Grace Church Longtime GVSHP member Miriam Cahn has called the Village her home for over 45 years. She was a special education teacher at Lennox Hill Hospital for many years…
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East 11th Street, a Slice of East Village History
…Greenwich Village, Greenwich Village Extension II, Carnegie Hill, Tribeca North, Tribeca West and East Village/Lower East Side Historic Districts. No. 114 was constructed next in 1889 and was designed by…
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Birthday Blog with Charles Busch!
…Klingenstein Pavillion. Grew up in Murray Hill. But I’ve been infatuated with Greenwich Village since a very early age when my much older sister would regale us with her exploits…
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Celebrating the Birthday and Legacy of Jean-Michel Basquiat
…with Basquiat, some of the other artists represented in the show were John Ahearn, Jane Dickson, Mike Glier, Mimi Gross, David Hammons, Jenny Holzer, Joe Lewis, Candace Hill-Montgomery, Tom Otterness,…
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My Favorite Things: Women’s History Month Edition
…Life in 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…
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Business of the Month: Katinka, 303 East 9th Street
…people stop and say hello.” Dynamic shirts. Both of them showered complements on some of the other shop owners on the block. Local denizens like Pam at Dinosaur Hill, on…
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Black History Month in the Village: Black Churches No Longer Standing
…African-Americans moved to the Tenderloin in the west 20’s and 30’s, San Juan Hill in the West 60’s, and eventually Harlem. AME Zion Church, West 10th and Bleecker AME Zion…
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Black History Month in the East Village: Black Arts Movement
…the Civil Rights Movement. She also ran a writing workshop at the New York State Correctional Facility for Women at Bedford Hills from 1989-2002. Her husband, LeRoi Jones was an…
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GVSHP Oral History: Otis Kidwell Burger
…9th, 1923. Raised in Short Hills, NJ, Burger has always had a connection to Greenwich Village and its radical and political roots. She is the great-granddaughter of Sidney Howard Gay,…
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A History of the East Village in 10 Objects
…scene. 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.” Not far away,…
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The Art of the Artist’s Studio
…influential landmarks as the Daily News Building, the Chicago Tribune Building, the McGraw Hill Building, and Rockefeller Center. Soon thereafter and for much of the 1920′s the house was occupied…
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Saluting Peter Cooper
…Ohio Railroad. As he drained the swamps and flattened the hills, he discovered iron ore on his property and founded the Canton Iron Works in Baltimore. When the railroad foundered,…
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Spring Inspires Poetry in Greenwich Village
…yearly, down this hill, April Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers. — Edna St. Vincent Millay, April 1921 Mark Van Doren, 43 Barrow Street and 393 Bleecker Street…
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