…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…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…
Read More…you see the city as it was, while you’re walking through it as it is. Sarah Bean Apmann leading the Bleecker Street Walking Tour, which is mapped with archival images…
Read More…born in Amsterdam in 1931 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…
Read More…believed to be the oldest building in Greenwich Village. Almost immediately, Isaacs was forced to declare bankruptcy. His son in law, Harmon Hendricks, who was married to his daughter Sarah,…
Read More…The Institute was named for Margaret and Sarah Switzer, Irish immigrants who succeeded through working their way up in the fashion world. After this, the building served as the home…
Read More…wall tiles and pressed-tin ceilings. Customers over the years (often there for film shoots) included Woody Allen, Jennifer Beals, Spike Lee, Sarah Jessica Parker, Denzel Washington, and Steve Buscemi. De…
Read More…was married to his daughter Sarah, bailed him out by buying the property in 1801. Harmon Hendricks and his brother Solomon owned America’s first copper rolling mill, and they were…
Read More…Hendricks, who was married to his daughter Sarah, bailed him out by buying the property in 1801. Both were members of Shearith Israel (which was still at the time the…
Read More…the Walking the East Village! East Village Building Blocks Walking Tour with Sarah Bean Apmann. Her position at Village Preservation puts Louisa’s interest in urban planning, archiving, and mapping to…
Read More…from the likes of Sarah Jessica Parker, Daryl McDaniels of RUN DMC, and more. But you do not have to be a pro athlete or a movie star to frequent Eva’s and its…
Read More…1879. GVSHP’s current Director of Research & Preservation, Sarah Bean Apmann, notes that this third act resulted from intense pressure by housing reform groups. Governor Theodore Roosevelt appointed a commission to…
Read More…issues vital to lesbian survival and visibility, in her apartment here at 52 E 1st Street, with longtime lesbian activists Maxine Wolfe, Anne-Christine d’Adesky, Sarah Schulman, Marie Honan, and Anne…
Read More…Texas to New York in 1994 when she attended Sarah Lawrence College. Ten years later she was living with her longtime boyfriend and their two dogs in the East Village…
Read More…a new chair of the Landmarks Preservation Commission preservation background and experience, he chooses Sarah Carroll as the new chair, who worked for the Commission as a preservationist for over two…
Read More…this past year, he’s received three more – though one is from his daughter, who’s studying film at Sarah Lawrence and wants her father to play a parody of himself….
Read More…with an income-generating apartment hotel. …Christodora was founded as the Young Women’s Settlement by Christina MacColl and Sarah Libby Carson. …The purposes of settlement houses included offering classes in academic…
Read More…and establish freedom schools and community centers. Image from 1964 food drive for Council of Federated Organizations Mississippi Project. Featuring Ed Gold, Ed Koch, Sarah Schoenkopf, Mary Jean Chicolte, and…
Read More…Mark Twain, Roscoe Conkling, Buffalo Bill and Sarah Bernhardt. In 1917, after 64 years of operation, it was announced that the St. Denis would be closing its doors to make…
Read MoreSarah at the LPC hearing for the Gansevoort proposal Happy New Year! Tomorrow will mark my four month anniversary working for GVSHP and it has been a whirlwind! My…
Read More…time the underlying wooden construction in 1934. 57 Sullivan Street, 1934. NYPL The house was constructed on land formerly owned by Alexander L. and Sarah Lispend Stewart. David G. Bogert,…
Read More…Village Building Blocks, learn more about the neighborhood’s 350-year history and efforts to protect it. With a presentation by Village Preservation’s Director of Research and Preservation Sarah Bean Apmann, the…
Read More…the pies of the different communities (Portuguese, Italian) that had at one time lived in the South Village. The Talk was lead by Walter and Sarah Lohman, historic gastronomist and…
Read More…discussion with authors Vivian Gornick and Sarah Schulman (see photos here and video here) Next up in partnership with the garden and library is a wine and cheese garden party…
Read More…her apartment here at 52 E 1st Street, with longtime lesbian activists Maxine Wolfe, Anne-Christine d’Adesky, Sarah Schulman, Marie Honan, and Anne Maguire. The Lesbian Avengers inspired chapters all over…
Read More…the Queer arts and activist scene of the East Village. About the Lesbian Avengers In Spring 1992, New York activists Ana Simo, Maxine Wolfe, Sarah Schulman, Anne-Christine d’Adesky, Marie Honan…
Read More…Movement” by Komozi Woodard of Sarah Lawrence College that situates the Black Arts Movement in a larger context. Photo from Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public…
Read More…Sarah Schulman, Marie Honan, and Anne Maguire created a community that reached legions of women looking for like-minded comrades. They injected lesbian identity into public view, “forced political change, and…
Read More…and local resident and writer Sarah Ferguson. Originally hailing from New Orleans and the youngest of 8 children, the now 81 year old Cannon has experienced many lives and adventures. Influenced…
Read More…Right People,” the club became a cultural phenomenon where jazz legends like Lena Horne, Sarah Vaughn, Art Tatum, and Big Joe Turner performed. The club flourished until 1950 when Josephson…
Read More…food, shelter, and educational and health services. It was founded by Christina Isobel MaColl and Sarah Carson to care for “the physical, social, intellectual, and spiritual development of the people…
Read More…special look at this historic building. HDC and Village Preservation staff will be on hand; ask your questions of Director of Research and Preservation Sarah Bean Apmann. See old images…
Read More…Designation Report (co authored by Village Preservation) Sam Moscowitz’s “Remembering the Ramrod Massacre” here on our Off the Grid blog. Sarah Bean Apman’s “Weehawken Street Historic District” blog series Part…
Read More…work with Art on the Ave and its potential to spread stories that would otherwise go unheard. Sarah Bean Apmann is Village Preservation’s Director of Research and Preservation. She has worked…
Read More…Architectural Features Historic Photos Past Inhabitants Additional Historic Maps Other Resources “New York City is an incredibly well-documented city with robust records,” adds Sarah Eccles, , Village Preservation’s research and…
Read More…immigrated to the United States with his parents, Sarah Luchs and Kalman Hartman, while still a young boy. He attended P.S. 22 on Sheriff Street (now Columbia Street), the College…
Read More…Village Preservation Oral History interview, taken by Oral Historian Sarah Dziedzic After 61 years of marriage, Spatt’s husband passed away from heart failure. Moss remains in her family’s home in…
Read More…To help landmark these incredible historic structures and other buildings in this area, click here. Many thanks to Sarah Eccles, Preservation Associate for the image research she contributed to this post….
Read More…Adams, Landmarks Preservation Commission Chair Sarah Carroll, and City Councilmember Carlina Rivera (who represents most of the area and is yet to support the proposed landmark district), urging them to…
Read More…other buildings in this area, click here. The research of Sarah Eccles, Village Preservation’s Research and Preservation Associate, and Beatriz del Cueto, FAIA, FAAR’12 were integral to the creation of…
Read More…the townhouse at 13 Gay Street and married in 1976. They raised two daughters there: Sarah, who was born in 1976, and Emily, born in 1978. They later bought the…
Read More…these experiences are five core stories that revisit Manhattan in 1623 and move forward through three centuries: Other Side of Wall Street, Sarah’s Fire, Caesar’s Rebellion, Citizen Hope, and State of Mirrors. Note: this event…
Read More…will be hosted by the Little Missionary Day School, founded by Sara Curry and serving the East Village since 1896. With presentations by Sarah Bean Apman, Director of Research and…
Read More…community, such as Sarah Curry who founded the Little Missionary Day School, our programs provide the vital service of connecting you with your community and its history. Today, we’re going…
Read More…she moved with her family to New York in the mid-1950s and enrolled at Sarah Lawrence College. Over the next decade she lived in New York, Tokyo, and London, greatly…
Read More…click here to send letters to city officials who don’t yet support its landmark designation, including Mayor Adams, Landmarks Preservation Commission Chair Sarah Carroll, and local City Councilmember Carlina Rivera….
Read More…While her fictional address was 245 East 73rd Street, the actual exterior shots were filmed in the West Village, just around the corner from Sarah Jessica Parker’s actual residence. The…
Read MoreOn July 28, 2020, Village Preservation sent a long and comprehensive letter to Sarah Carroll, chair of the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission, asking the agency to preserve historic 59 Fifth…
Read More…chairman, and began to present their cause to several local civic organizations. The Save the Village Committee soon took an interest. Here, Castore met Sarah Schoenkopf, who was the Democratic State…
Read More…Katherine Schoonover Carole Teller Linda Yowell & Richard Zuckerman Icon Caroline Benveniste & Jacques Ya Deau Sarah Cogan & Douglas Evans Nancy & Richard Davis Kristina & Daniel Gerschel Amy…
Read More…a lasting impact on them, and the results are in: Sarah Bean Apmann: Hugh Ferriss Lived Here Andrew Berman: The Death and Life of Louis Sullivan Harry Bubbins: Beyond The…
Read More…Mary Todd Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant, to P.T. Barnum, Mark Twain, Buffalo Bill, and Sarah Bernhardt. The St. Denis was also the site of Alexander Graham Bell’s first public…
Read More…New York Orphan Asylum was formed. Sarah Hoffman was First Directress, Eliza Hamilton Second Directress, and Joanna was appointed Treasurer. According to the memoirs, the organization adopted the principle that…
Read More…join us to mark this anniversary and celebrate this beautiful neighborhood. Village Preservation’s Director of Research and Preservation Sarah Bean Apmann has worked as an architectural historian in historic preservation for…
Read More…175 MacDougal Street, 2019. Robert Hogan attended Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. He married Eliza Helen, and the couple had three daughters: Clara, Sarah, and Ellen Louise. Once in New…
Read More…Alicia Walter will demonstrate how three pies are made, while Historic Gastronomist Sarah Lohman and Walter discuss the history of pie in America, and how new waves of immigration played…
Read MoreIf you’ve ever wondered what in the world treacle pudding is, or how one would properly consume marmite, Tea & Sympathy, the British outpost loved by Sarah Jessica Parker, Dame…
Read MoreJoin VP’s Director of Research and Preservation Sarah Bean Apmann for a tour of the architectural and cultural gems of Bleecker Street. Enjoy a special treat from Porto Rico coffee…
Read More…black theaters and cultural centers, where a generation of writers and artists forged a new and enduring cultural vision. Komozi Woodard is a professor of history at Sarah Lawrence College….
Read More…week for new activities. Sign up to be notified here. THANK YOU to narrators Amanda Adams-Louis, Anita Isola, Bobbi Borkin, and Sarah McCully, lead editor Ti Oshima, and assistant editor…
Read More…community. As we carry on Jane’s mission in saving the Far West Village, we’ll explore this rich neighborhood and end with Jane’s historic home at 555 Hudson Street. Sarah Bean…
Read More…its most idealistic.” ~ James Stewart Polshek Join us for a conversation between longtime Villager and architect James Stewart Polshek and oral historian Sarah Dziedzic, who worked with Mr. Polshek…
Read More…border street – the Village on the south and Chelsea on the north – Save Chelsea’s President Laurence Frommer and VP’s Director of Research and Preservation Sarah Bean Apmann are…
Read More…Stroll Down the Fourth Arts Block Village Preservation’s Sarah Bean Apmann takes a virtual walk down East 4th Street exploring the architecture and adaptive reuse in this center of creativity…
Read More…renowned for its original ornately-tiled floors, hand-cut mosaic wall tiles, and pressed-tin ceilings. Customers over the years (often there for film shoots) included Woody Allen, Jennifer Beals, Spike Lee, Sarah…
Read More…Elie Wiesel, Maya Angelou, Arthur Miller, Philip Glass, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, and Avril Lavigne. Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick were married there in 1997, and the interior was…
Read More…and Preservation Sarah Bean Apmann, in this slide lecture in the Salmagundi Arts Club’s historic parlor. Lower Fifth Avenue’s apartment buildings are some of New York’s most classic pre- and…
Read More…supporting that effort. Notably absent from the list of supporters of the landmarking proposal?: Mayor de Blasio and Landmarks Preservation Commission Chair Sarah Carroll, whose support is needed for such…
Read MoreOn Wednesday the City Council confirmed Sarah Carroll as the new Chair of the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC). Ms. Carroll is the first LPC Chair in decades with a background…
Read More…President Gail Brewer sent letters opposing the proposal. 390 campaign emails were sent in opposition to the proposal as well. Chair Sarah Carroll began by clarifying that the cyclical maintenance…
Read More…worked extensively in the studios, recording with many of the greats. Her musical compositions were recorded by jazz legends Sarah Vaughn, Benny Golson, and Duke Ellington. She also recorded with…
Read More…note that public testimony is taken at public hearings, but not at public meetings. January 11, 2022 LPC Hearing: A.HolFord Smith – D.Chapin 10-0-0 Action: Approved M.Goldblum – M.Devonshire 9-1-0…
Read More…N.Y.). Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. The area south of Union Square in the mid-to-late 20th century was one that readily attracted painters, writers, publishers, and radical social organizations…
Read More…entitled “Moon Over Hastings;” the original glass negative of this view was given to the Smithsonian by the Hastings Historical Society in 1983. This world-renowned photograph demonstrates Draper’s amazing scientific,…
Read More…of being able to really see what’s happening,” Schneemann told Judith Olch Richards for the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution in 2009. “But I had to start to physically do what my…
Read More…entrance circa 1966. Ezra Stoller/Esto. Marcel Breuer at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1967. Photo by Evelyne Burnheim. [Marcel Breuer Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution] via PLACES…
Read More…Mural for the Post Office in Newport, Tennessee via the Smithsonian Library and Archives. Minna Citron continued to create work and regularly exhibited her art throughout the her life. Her…
Read More…Gallery records, 1959-2010. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. With Bearden’s artistic legacy established, he along with Ernest Crichlow and Norman Lewis established the Cinque Gallery in 1969 to “provide…
Read More…a generation of New York artists. Kenneth Hayes Miller, Bargain Hunters, 1940, oil on canvas. Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Village Preservation has recently received a series of extraordinary letters…
Read More…Elizabeth Smith the exhibition Abstract Climates: Helen Frankenthaler in Provincetown at PAAM, which traveled to the Parrish Museum on Long Island. She has published numerous articles about artists and art….
Read More…Mafia-owned Village nightclubs that featured drag shows and strip acts. Her nonfiction chronicle of the 1949 Smith Act trial of American Communist Party leaders traces the career of lesbian FBI…
Read More…paintings, and research emphasizing preserving the historical context of paintings. Mr. Katlan is a Professional Associate at the American Institute of Conservation and has received fellowships from the Smithsonian Institution,…
Read More…of the Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Jackson Pollock’s Landscape with Steer (around 1936-37) The Museum of Modern Art, New York/Scala, Florence There is…
Read More…even list all the movies, shows, and productions in which Hoffman performed, but some include “The Big Lebowski,” “Twister,” “Boogie Nights,” “The Talented Mr. Ripley” (written by Villager Patricia Highsmith),…
Read More…was the first venue to show photographer Nan Goldin’s slideshows. It also played a key role in developing the career of pioneering underground filmmaker, performance artist, and photographer Jack Smith….
Read More…Smith – M.Devonshire,10-0-0 Please note: All LPC public hearings and public meetings are held at the Municipal Building, 1 Centre Street, 9th floor north, public hearing room (unless otherwise noted)….
Read More…in 1966. He then went on to work as an assistant at the Jaffe-Smith photography studio in Greenwich Village and to complete freelance assignments for Time, The New York Times,…
Read More…noted). LPC 12/14/2021: A.HolFord Smith – M.Devonshire, 11-0-0 Action: Approved W.Chen – M.Devonshire, 11-0-0 STAY UPDATED! Click here for our e-alerts to be updated on this application as soon as we find out…
Read More…Board members in favor. LPC 12/14/2021: W.Chen – J.Lutfy, 10-0-0 Action: Approved with modifications J.Gustafsson – A.HolFord Smith, 8-1-1 Please note: All LPC public hearings and public meetings are held…
Read More…1915 / unidentified photographer. Solon H. Borglum and Borglum family papers, 1864-2002. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. “Rough Rider” 1900 Solon Hannibal Borglum (December 22, 1868 – January 31,…
Read More…Smith’s “Greer Lankton, 38, a Sculptor who Turned Dolls into Fantasy” for the New York Times (1996) Alina Cohen’s “1980s Icon Green Lankton Explored Clamour and Gender in Her Erie…
Read More…writers and musicians, including James Baldwin, Henry James, W.H. Auden, Lorraine Hansberry, e.e. cummings, Oliver Sacks, Larry Kramer, Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, and Margaret Wise Brown. As a preview to…
Read More…147 Christopher Street. Spiral Group Exhibition Catalogue. Photo courtesy of the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. The Spiral Group first got together with the purpose of organizing a bus to take…
Read More…me, oh Muse, and through me tell the story’.” 22. Dylan is the first musician to have ever been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. 23. His friend Patti Smith…
Read More…and Patti Smith’s Horses, among many others). Fame, featured on the album Young Americans, was co-written by Bowie and John Lennon (whose voice is also heard on the recording singing “Fame,” at initially…
Read More…Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney had a rich and varied legacy, but the point is clear. “Even the horse at the Minetta Lane smithy seems to sense the art atmosphere. Note his…
Read More…Rolling Thunder Review tour in the loft; in attendance, that night was Patti Smith and T-Bone Burnett. If that were not enough, abstract expressionist artist Jules Olitski (1922-2007) made his…
Read More…By many accounts, Patti Smith ushered in the punk era by making her first recordings there. David Bowie was propelled to superstardom in the United States as a result of…
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