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…and educator Sarah Smith Tompkins Garnet. Write the Mayor and Landmarks Preservation Commission Demand the City Recognize + Preserve Our Lady of Guadalupe, NYC’s First Spanish Church Our Lady of…

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50 West 13th Street

…for years the home of revered abolitionist, suffragist, and educator Sarah Smith Tompkins Garnet. Tell the Mayor and Landmarks Preservation Commissioner to Protect NYC’s Diverse Histories Village Preservation is fighting…

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Reshaping our Landscapes: Adaptive Reuse in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo — Friday, Jan. 29 at 2:00pm

With Village Preservation Director of Research and Preservation Sarah Bean Apmann Friday, Jan. 29 at 2:00pm Adaptive reuse, the process of adapting old structures for new uses, defines the built…

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Exploring Village Preservation’s East Village Building Blocks

Exploring Village Preservation’s East Village Building Blocks Village Preservation celebrates the release of East Village Building Blocks with a special talk by Village Preservation’s Director of Research and Preservation Sarah…

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Working with Fire: Resilience & Resistance in New York’s East Village

…their work and building. With speakers Rebecca Pak, Director of Donor Engagement, at the WPA and Sarah Krasnostein, writer of The Trauma Cleaner and The Believer. Sarah Krasnostein is the best-selling, multi-award-winning author of The Trauma…

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East Village Building Blocks Walking Tour

…Village Preservation’s Director of Research and Preservation, Sarah Bean Apmann. Sarah Bean Apmann has worked as an architectural historian in historic preservation for the past twenty years. She received her…

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38-42 West 8th Street aka 179-181 MacDougal Street

…commission’s consideration before it approves demolition. Fred Bland supported this consideration, while Anne Holford-Smith and Diana Chapin argued that the taxpayer was a defining building that should definitely be incorporated…

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Top Five Most Popular ‘Off The Grid’ Posts of 2020

…even more amazing as it has not had months of shares to bring in new views. #4: Greenwich Village Folk Recording Released 58 Years Later by Smithsonian This June article…

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From Mark Twain and the Lovin’ Spoonful to Tech Hub: The overlooked history of Union Square South

…of Al Smith, the first Catholic major party (Democratic) candidate for President and the former Governor of New York. Smith and his wife moved here after his defeat in the…

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When Sundays Ran Dry

New York Governor Al Smith was no fan of the Raines Law. On March 23, 1896, a law introduced by New York State Senator John Raines was passed by the…

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Remembering CBGB

…opened. The last evening at CBGB’s featured a headline set by Patti Smith, an unforgettable evening outlined by one fan in a recent blog post. Patti Smith outside CB’s the…

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#SouthOfUnionSquare Tour — Musical Heritage and History

…Dylan 1975-76 Rolling Thunder Review tour. Smith performing, 1978 In attendance that night was Patti Smith and T-Bone Burnett. 831 Broadway Paula Poons, 2017 According to Poons, pop star Cyndi…

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The Social Realist Artist Studios of 240 West 14th Street

…Stander, wife of the actor. At the right, painting, is Sandra Dagin, a pupil and model. Photos by Cosmo Sileo in 1940 via the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. Moses…

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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: Chaim Gross

…American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Photo by Lewis Jacobs. Gross immigrated to the United States in 1921 as a Jewish refugee of World War I. He was an avid art student….

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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: Mabel Dwight

…the 20th century. Mabel Dwight, Self-Portrait, 1932, lithograph on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum This area, which Village Preservation has proposed be designated an historic district, has attracted painters, writers,…

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The Glittering and Gritty History of 24 Bond

…the Stephen Miller Gallery and was Smith and Mapplethorpe’s only joint exhibition. Patti Smith, taken by Robert Mapplethorpe. It is believed that this photo is taken on Mapplethorpe’s 5th floor…

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Walking East 3rd Street: The Dry Dock & Corlears Hook

…The sixth and final post in the series, by Shannon Elliott, Maggie Lee and Jason Smith, focuses on East 3rd Street between Avenues C & D. East 3rd Street between…

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Ten Years as Landmarks for Two Nearly Two Hundred Year Old Houses

…Greenwich Street included a tin/hardware dealer, a coppersmith, a grocer, and a smith/grocer/carman. By 1851, this home had also become a rooming house. For nearly a century, it had two…

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2014 Year In Review: GVSHP Programs

…in group shows at the New-York Historical Society. Their photographs are included in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, the New York Public Library,…

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Theater Thursday: Checking In On Off-Broadway

…to connect with audiences that might not otherwise be able to attend in person. Dael Orlandersmith, creator and performer of Until the Flood produced at Rattlestick In partnership with ALL…

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African Free School, First in America for Black Students, Found a Home in Greenwich Village

…held for them. As a result, many of its alumni went on to be educators, leaders, abolitionists, doctors, actors, ministers, and artisans. Famous alumni include Dr. James McCune Smith, the…

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Meet the Interns — Summer 2022 Edition

…Keelin came to New York to attend Sarah Lawrence College. She studies Visual Arts and Sociology and is Head Editor of the Sarah Lawrence Visual Art Review. Her coursework has been…

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Perry Street and the Battle of Lake Erie

…10, 1813. Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry (b. August 23rd, 1785) was destined for a career in the Navy. He was the son of Sarah Wallace Alexander and United States Navy…

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An Historic Stroll Down the Fourth Arts Block

…the experimental theater and performance arts district that thrives there today. Village Preservation’s Sarah Bean Apmann and Louisa Winchell will illuminate forgotten histories and examples of adaptive reuse as they lead a virtual stroll…

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‘People in Trouble’: A Case Study of the AIDS Crisis in Historical Memory

In her manuscript for the novel People in Trouble, lesbian author and activist Sarah Schulman tells of a fictionalized AIDS activist organization called JUSTICE. By the time People in Trouble…

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VILLAGE VOICES 2022

…& Michael Marissen, Blaine & Tim Birchby, Francine Cecere & Patricia O’Brien, Sarah Cogan & Douglas Evans, Jane Forman & Edward Wolff, Daisy Friedman, Amy Gilfenbaum, Joseph Vance Architects, Christina…

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Welcome to the ‘Hood, Ars Nova!

…Fein; The Lucky Ones, created by The Bengsons and Sarah Gancher, directed by Anne Kauffman; “Outstanding Musical” Lortel Award-winner KPOP, created by Jason Kim, Max Vernon, Helen Park and Woodshed…

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A Civil Rights Activist and the Café Society

…Lena Horne, Art Tatum, Big Joe Turner, and Sarah Vaughn, to name a few. According to the website of the Axis Theater Company, which today occupies the space, “[Barney Josephson]…

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Megamansions of the Village

…an 11,600 sq. ft. single-family home. So far, work does not appear to have moved ahead for the conversion of 9 Minetta. 273 and 275 West 11th Street Celebrity couple Sarah…

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VILLAGE VOICES: A New Interactive Art and History Exhibit

…John Sloan, Patti Smith, and the victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Installations will be accompanied by digital content accessed through QR codes on each exhibit with narrations recorded…

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Book Talk: Jane Jacobs’ First City – Learning from Scranton, Pennsylvania

…Cities.” It aimed to inspire young adults but appealed to all ages in the general public and universities. Both the New York Times and Smithsonian Magazine chose it as a…

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James Renwick, Jr., 19th Century Architect Extraordinaire!

…profile buildings as New York City’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral, the Smithsonian “Castle” in Washington D.C., and Grace Church, right here in our neighborhood on Broadway between East 11th and East…

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GVSHP 2016 Book List & Holiday Gift Ideas

… Image courtesy of Amazon. Sarah Schulman- The Cosmopolitans A modern retelling of Balzac’s classic Cousin Bette by one of America’s most prolific and significant writers. Earl, a black,…

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An Intersectional Black History Month Roundup

…is part of the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institute. Via http://lhlt.org/gallery/lorraine-home After the success of A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry used her prominence in myriad ways:…

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#SouthOfUnionSquare Master Architect: James Renwick, Jr.

…Church (1843-1858), St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Avenue (1859-1878), and the Smithsonian Institute on Washington D.C.’s Mall (1846). James Renwick, Jr.’s New York roots are in the area south of…

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A Village Song: “Bazooka Joe Don’t Live There Anymore”

…writers, you name it) who had mailboxes at Something Special, too. Other notables, like Patti Smith, who didn’t have a mailbox there would stop in for a coffee, or donut,…

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East Village Building Blocks Tour: the LGBTQ East Village

…at The Saint, from The Tim Smith Collection at the Fales Library NYU Formerly the Fillmore East, this large theater space was an amazing place to dance! In the fall…

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Bleecker Street Walking Tour 2

Bleecker Street Walking Tour 2 Join Village Preservation’s Director of Research and Preservation Sarah Bean Apmann for a tour of the architectural and cultural gems of Bleecker Street as part…

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23 LGBT landmarks of the East Village and Noho

…stunningly beautiful portraits of his subjects, which might be his former girlfriend/collaborator Patti Smith, flower still-lifes, celebrity portraits, or participants in bondage, discipline, and Leather/S&M sex play, including a notorious…

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LPC Spotlights Women in the Arts

…also a mention of the Cooper Union, a designated landmark at East 7th Street and Cooper Square. What’s the connection? Besides the Cooper name, it would be sisters Sarah and…

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It’s Theater Thursday, and We Love Rattlestick Playwrights Theater!

…Orlandersmith (Until the Flood), Adam Rapp (The Hallway Trilogy), Daniel Talbott (Slipping), Lucy Thurber (The Hilltown Plays), Jonathan Tolins (Buyer and Cellar) and Craig Wright (The Pavilion). Dael Orlander Smith…

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Business of the Month

Every 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…

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The Legacy of Italian-American Entertainment Venues in the South Village

…hands a number of times. From 1976 to 2012, Kenny’s Castaways hosted music shows by folk, blues, jazz, rock, hip-hop and punk performers, including greats like Bruce Springsteen, Aerosmith, Patti…

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The Downtown Gallery and the Woman Behind the American Art Market

…Bea Goldsmith, she shopped for a space in Greenwich Village, where many of the emerging artists of the time lived. Halpert picked a row house at 113 West 13th Street,…

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GVHD50 Partner Roundup: Restaurant Edition

…and Barrow Streets in the West Village. It was established in 1922 by the socialist activist Leland Stanford Chumley, who converted a former blacksmith’s shop near the corner of Bedford…

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April Programming at Village Preservation

…Register for this panel on zoom. Be in the Room…Remotely Robert Harersmith and Herket “Herbert” Lewis “Louis” Smith Library of the Salmagundi Club Village Preservation is thrilled to begin holding…

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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: Sonia Gechtoff

…1950. The following year, she moved to San Francisco and joined the faculty at the California School of Fine Arts. There she met fellow painters Clyfford Still, Hassle Smith, Elemer…

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“An Intimate and Unconventional Space:” Caffe Cino

…in what had formerly been a locksmith’s building. His Italian landlady recognized their shared Italian heritage, and would bring him and his friends soup even if he was behind on…

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GVSHP Oral History: Maria Kenny

…a result, Kenny’s Castaways was established. Through the years, the venue saw a wide range of performers, including Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, Yoko Ono, Willie Dixon and the Fugees. However, rising…

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The WPA’s Hudson Square Home

…at the WPA Headquarters at 110 King Street. Source: Smithsonian Archives. The building at 110 King Street was not only the location of the program’s administrative offices, but also held…

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The Village in Bloom

…the value of street trees in the urban landscape began to be recognized. In 1887, public health reformer Dr. Steven Smith introduced a bill to the New York State Legislature,…

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John Hammond: Villager & 20th Century’s Most Influential Producer

…Smith, Aretha Franklin, Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Ray Vaughn, and, of course, the aforementioned Billie Holiday and Bob Dylan, among many others. Championing artists like Billie Holiday and Count…

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1-9 West 3rd Street

PARTIALLY APPROVED 10/20/2009 NoHo Historic District Between Broadway & Mercer Street Application: A Georgian Revival style store building designed by W. Wheeler Smith and built in 1899-1901. Application is to…

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24 East 10th Street

…the rear addition but wished there were more lot line windows. Commissioner Holford-Smith said the applicant should maintain the original roofline, and that the building’s rear should align with the…

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Gen. George Washington Establishes HQ at Richmond Hill, April, 1776

…expected attack. From April 13th to 17th, Washington stayed at the William Smith House, located at Pearl Street, opposite Cedar Street. 80 Pine Street now sits at the Intersection of…

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Silent Teacher: East Village Poet Hannah Weiner

…graduating with a BA in English literature in 1950. She was a longtime resident of the East Village. As J. Mark Smith writes in his book Time in Time: Short…

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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: Reginald Marsh

…the 20th century. Reginald Marsh ( left) and Raphael Soyer (right) in studio at 1 Union Square circa late 1938 – 45. Smithsonian American Art Archives. In the 20th century,…

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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: Raphael and Moses Soyer

…is Sandra Dagin, a pupil and model. Photos by Cosmo Sileo in 1940 vis the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. Moses Soyer, “New York Man” circa 1945. Oil on canvas….

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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: Lucile Blanch

…Project. Max Yavno. Lucile Blanch, 1940 Oct. 31. Federal Art Project, Photographic Division collection, circa 1920-1965. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Lucile Blanch, “8th Avenue and 56th Street,” oil…

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Stonewall Landmarks Hearing Next Tuesday at 10AM

…still running it successfully more than three decades later? Delanee Koppersmith’s winning charm keeps Cobblestones filling the vintage needs of stylish folks from near and far. Learn all about this East Village native’s…

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The Humble “Nerve Center” of the City: Gem Spa

…© Estate of Fred W. McDarrah Some years later, the corner store became a recurring destination for musicians Patti Smith, Debbie Harry, Lou Reed, the Ramones, and the New York…

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Living History Lunch Chat with Luz Rodriguez

…a fascinating life that deserves to be celebrated and shared. Her papers are included in Sophia Smith Collection of Women’s History Repository at Smith College. Her work has impacted and continues…

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Walker Evans & Ben Shahn: American Art of the Great Depression in Greenwich Village

…22 Bethune Street in Greenwich Village he shared with Ben Shahn, Walker Evans told the Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art “This is all interesting. This is what I say:…

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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: Peggy Bacon

…many other students from the League, found her niche in the realist style. Of her choice of subject matter, she told the Smithsonian Archives of American Art in 1973, “The…

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

…many of us see casually as we commute through the city. We begin the tour outside of the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian. From the beginning of our tour,…

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

…was renovated to include expanded seating for 3,400. Opening night featured a concert by The Band. As a concert hall the Palladium continued to host acts such as Patti Smith,…

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Welcome Aboard, Sandra Pomeleo-Fowler

…here for decades. In 2018 Sandra moved to Western Massachusetts to earn her BA in Studio Art and Anthropology at Smith College, where she graduated summa cum laude last year….

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Jazz Age Mayor and Villager, Jimmy Walker

…the guidance of Governor Al Smith and with the backing of the Tammany organization, Walker’s assent in New York politics was swift. He was a member of the New York State…

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21 Greenwich Avenue

…rear of No. 21 fronting West 10th Street. Commissioners Goldblum, Holford-Smith, Jefferson, Lufty, and Devonshire had issue with the height of the western brick fin wall. Commissioners Goldblum, Chapin, Holford-Smith,…

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Three Stops on Christopher Street

…1934, courtesy the Smithsonian American Art Museum The grand entryway to the elevated station, modeled after a Swiss chalet, inspired two well-known artists to capture its appearance as it loomed…

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Announcing the 2018 Village Awardees

…clues that Greenwich Locksmith is not your average locksmith. Phil is an artist, a self-taught safecracker, and a specialist in antique keys. Phil’s son, Phil Jr, has joined the business. While he specializes…

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Sullivan Street Playhouse: Gone But Not Forgotten

…of handsome Greek Revival rowhouses. Number 181 saw use as a blacksmith shop with apartments above by the turn of the twentieth century. And by the time Prohibition rolled around…

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Betty Friedan and the Feminine Mystique

…her, Friedan lived some of her life in the Village. Originally from Peoria, Illinois, Betty Friedan attended Smith College and graduated in 1942. As the Times notes in her 2006…

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Then & Now: From Gas Station to Gallery

…pencil drawing.” Interestingly, he is also the locksmith who owns the legendary Greenwich Village Locksmiths, also on 7th Avenue South, famous for its decorated façade of keys. A documentary, Do…

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Business of the Month: Yakub Shoe Repair, 229 Sullivan Street

…one fan dubbed “the Uzbek Stanley Tucci.” Yakub Shoe Repair is long and narrow, somehow also fitting a dry cleaner in front, run by Fannie Lin, and a locksmith business,…

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Margaret Sanger’s 1916 Clinic

Margaret Sanger Clinic building exterior, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College It was on October 16th, 1916 that Margaret Sanger opened her first family planning and birth control clinic in Brownsville,…

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Village People: Arthur Garfield Hays

…in which she is interviewed. League of Women Shoppers pamphlet, circa 1937. Jessie Lloyd O’Connor Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College. Arthur and Blanche divorced in 1924, and Arthur remarried…

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Business of the Month Year In Review

…Only one: Screaming Mimi’s, now on West 14th Street. April Business of the Month: The Silversmith Not many shops survive to ring in their golden anniversary, much less past it….

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Penny Arcade: Downtown Iconoclast and “Queen of the Underground” to host GVSHP’s Village Awards

…June 6th, 2018. With Patti Smith and Jackie Curtis Rumored to have found her education in reform school, she ran away from her home town of New Britain, Conn at…

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65 Horatio Street

…be lowered to the height of the fence and set back to allow greater visibility of the bay window. Commissioner Holford-Smith also urged lowering the addition and exploring other materials….

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The Bones of Old New York: Rick Kelly’s Carmine Street Guitars

…and the neck was made from the wood of the Chelsea Hotel. Patti Smith, Lou Reed and former Hall & Oates guitarist G.E. Smith also have owned and played…

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Penny Arcade’s Village Preservation Oral History – Chronicles of the Queen of Downtown

…performance artist Jack Smith, and John Vaccaro, founder of the avant-garde Play-House of the Ridiculous theater group. These artists were creating and defining a world of performance that went beyond…

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Holiday Shopping in the Village

…copies of Patti Smith’s Year of the Monkey, Zadie Smith’s Grand Union, and Andre Aciman’s Find Me. Visit them today to see what else you can find in store in this…

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Kleindeutschland: the Lower East Side’s Forgotten Past

Kleindeutschland: the Lower East Side’s Forgotten Past A Lecture by Peter Conolly Smith Few New York neighborhoods have been home to as many immigrant groups as the Lower East Side….

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17 East 9th Street

…Holford-Smith and Chair Carroll were in general agreement: the studio window and top floor window at the rear should be preserved, the rear addition should be lowered by one floor,…

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25 Great Jones Street (aka 22 Bond Street)

…Extension was designated. Post-designation, after the shell of the building was constructed (see the photo of existing conditions below), the developer brought on architect Henry Smith-Miller to design the facade…

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2018 Annual Meeting

…took Phil about a year to complete, and there is a chair made of keys in front of the store. These might be your first clues that Greenwich Locksmith is…

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A Local Firehouse With Two Seminal Connections to 9-11

…as the protege of New York Governor Alfred E. Smith, who also lived in what is now Village Preservation’s proposed historic district South of Union Square, at 51 Fifth Avenue….

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Business of the Month: Carmine Street Guitars, 42 Carmine Street

…ever-increasing roster of prominent musicians, such as Bob Dylan, GE Smith, Lou Reed, and Patti Smith. Rick’s reputation, however, was built not just on the profile of musicians who embraced…

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John Brown and Edmonia Lewis: Civil Rights Crusaders Who Intersected in Greenwich Village

…bust and present it to the church’s leader, Rev. Henry Highland Garnet, D.D., one of the foremost civil rights leaders of the time. The reception honored both the sculptor’s illustrious…

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Renowned Actor Ira Frederick Aldridge Gets His Start at the African Grove Theatre

…Henry Highland Garnet. Ultimately consisting of seven schools, the third African Free School was located in Greenwich Village, at 120 West 3rd Street, then known as Amity Street. According to…

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Spring Inspires Poetry in Greenwich Village

…1 Fifth Avenue L: Sara Teasdale in 1920, photo by Jessie Tarbox Beals/The New York Historical Society/Getty Images. R: One Fifth Avenue in 1969 and 2019. Sarah Teasdale (1884-1933) was…

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One Street, Many Great Local Businesses: Bleecker Street

Sarah Jessica Parker holding up a #ShopBleecker postcard last year. This is now an annual initiative. Four years ago today, GVSHP launched our Business of the Month program, in which…

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Black History Month 2018 – Learn and Celebrate with Us!

…sine qua non of its aesthetic. Here is a good piece “Rethinking the Black Power Movement” by Komozi Woodard of Sarah Lawrence College that situates the Black Arts Movement in a larger context….

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My Favorite Things: Women’s History Month Edition

…guest speakers are scheduled to appear, including journalist Sarah Jaffe and the author of “Necessary Trouble”, Jeanette Vizguerra, named one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People, human rights attorney…

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Honoring Lucy and Lenny Cecere

…preserve that neighborhood through landmark designation. Lucy speaking at the 178 Bleecker Street rally, 2009 According to the Villager, Sarah Jessica Parker said “It was a privilege to know her…Just…

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Remembering Romana Raffetto, South Village Pasta and Sauce Maven, Neighbor

…neighbors, customers, and friends. Romana, Sarah, and Andrew Raffetto – three generations of Raffetto’s Tradition. Photo from the Raffetto’s website. Read more! Romana and Andrew Raffetto’s oral history is online…

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United States v. Windsor

…to a Jewish family that fled to the U.S. to escape the Holocaust before the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands. She was expelled from Sarah Lawrence College after a guard…

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Helen Keller’s Village Activist Life and Legacy

…Graham Bell and Anne Sullivan In 1894, Keller and Sullivan moved to New York to attend the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf, and to learn from Sarah Fuller at the…

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GVHD50 and Stonewall50 – LGBTQ Sites of the Greenwich Village Historic District

…song “Strange Fruit”; Sarah Vaughn singing at the club Café Society, which later became the Ridiculous Theatrical Company at 1 Sheridan Square, what has been billed as the Village’s first…

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