Richard Upjohn — A Missionary for the Gothic Revival
…Trinity Episcopalian churches he would design over his career. Locally, he designed the Church of the Ascension on 5th Avenue and West 10th Street. Church of the Ascension on 5th…
Read More…Trinity Episcopalian churches he would design over his career. Locally, he designed the Church of the Ascension on 5th Avenue and West 10th Street. Church of the Ascension on 5th…
Read More…Preservation Center is home to the offices of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation and is open to the public 10th Street- St. Marks Church-in-the-Bowery St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery …
Read More…1879 by a teacher at Grace Church along with a group of other women and teachers. The New York Free Circulating Library was established to serve every New Yorker, especially…
Read MoreThis Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15–October 15), we’re amping up our campaign to get the city to landmark and protect the endangered Our Lady of Guadalupe Church at 229-31 West…
Read MoreThe St. Veronica Moving Forward Committee has announced that the historic church has been removed from the Archdiocese of New York’s sale list and will be open again for mass…
Read More…than 30 years after the church was completed. The church was landmarked in 1966, just a year after the passage of the New York City Landmarks Law. Its complex was…
Read More…landmarks, and their often hidden connections to Greenwich Village and the East Village. Beyond the Village and Back: Manhattan Below 72nd Street and Beyond the Village and Back: Manhattan Above…
Read More…remain numerous sites that speak to the history yet remain unprotected under our landmarks laws and vulnerable to demolition. Village Preservation has been advocating for landmark designation of these structures…
Read More(l.) The LGBT Community Center, 208 W. 13th Street, built 1869, 1899; (r.) the former Gay Activists Alliance Firehouse, 99 Wooster Street, built 1881. Tomorrow the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC)…
Read MoreNext Tuesday, February 8, the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) will hold a public hearing on and consider a revised plan for the partial demolition and restoration of nine landmarked 1840s…
Read More…First Houses, click HERE for the New York City Landmarks Designation Report. You can find out more about other individual landmarks and historic districts in our neighborhood on the GVSHP…
Read MoreNext Tuesday, the NYC Landmarks Preservation will hold a public hearing on an application to alter the iconic, individually landmarked 1834 house and rear house at 131 and 131½ Charles…
Read More14-16 Fifth Avenue today (l.) and proposed. On Tuesday night, Community Board #2’s Landmarks Committee voted to disapprove demolition of the historic and landmarked 170 year old former townhouses at 14-16…
Read More…St. Marks Place to 3 St. Marks Place (at 3rd Avenue), which would have increased by 20% the size of a planned office tower there. This more or less guarantees that the…
Read More…a genius of a chef and great person.” And he noted that “with Veselka, how could you go wrong?” Anthony and his business continue to thrive at 42 St. Marks Place,…
Read MoreLandmarks De-Calendaring Issue Village Preservation successfully helped lead an effort to reverse a decision by the Landmarks Preservation Commission to automatically de-calendar or remove from consideration about a hundred buildings…
Read More…This morning the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to landmark 817, 826, 830, 832, 836, and 841 Broadway, after public hearings in December and February where the Commission faced criticism from neighborhood and…
Read MoreThe Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) will hold its public hearing tomorrow at approximately 10am (join at 9:45am to be safe) on the proposed landmark designation of 70 Fifth Avenue, another…
Read More…the applications and added them to our historic image archive, which has become quite the treasure trove. The most recent batch of landmarks applications had some fantastic new images we…
Read More…St. Marks Place to 3 St. Marks Place (at 3rd Avenue), which would have increased by 20% the size of a planned office tower there. This more or less guarantees that the…
Read More…our neighborhood are 57 Sullivan Street (near Broome Street in the South Village), 138 Second Avenue (near St. Mark’s Place in the East Village), 2 Oliver Street (on the Lower…
Read MoreThe Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) will hear a troubling application (click here to view) tomorrow for major changes to the buildings at the northeast corner of 14th Street and 9th Avenue in the…
Read MoreIn late March, scores of New Yorkers spent hours at the hearing on the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s proposed rules changes, to oppose the plan and urge that the public not…
Read More…city, state, or nation.” In NYC, there are currently over 36,000 landmarks, including individual, interior and scenic landmarks and sites located within historic districts. Buildings or historic sites that are…
Read MoreRecently we looked at seven late 19th and early 20th century buildings now under consideration for landmarking by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (read about them here,) They…
Read MoreTwo proposals for oversized and out-of-context new developments in landmarked districts in our neighborhoods will go before the Landmarks Preservation Commission next Tuesday — 182-86 Spring Street in the Sullivan…
Read MoreAfter a firestorm of opposition from community boards, elected officials, and neighborhood, preservation, and good government groups, yesterday the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) retreated from many of the most controversial elements…
Read MoreThe Landmarks Preservation Commission will hold its public hearing onGVSHP’s proposal to landmark 827-831 Broadway (12th/13th Streets), cast iron loft buildings constructed in 1866 which in the mid-to-late 20th century housed an array…
Read More…with a cream and brown paint job that mimicked its Alpine cottage inspiration. However, a more recent paint job stripped away this history, resulting in a controversial landmarks battle. At Twin…
Read MoreIncluding Application to Demolish the Remaining Facade of the Fire-Damaged Middle Collegiate Church at 112 Second Avenue Village Preservation provides an ongoing record of all applications for changes to landmarked…
Read MoreOn Tuesday, scores of opponents turned out for the sole planned public hearing on the proposal by the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission to move a broad range of applications for…
Read MoreThese images are taken from Certificate of Appropriateness applications to the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) for sites located within the area covered by Village Preservation – Greenwich Village, the East…
Posted December 1, 2021
Read More…from Village Preservation and the preservation community, the Landmarks Preservation Commission dropped its plan to remove the 95 sites from its list of potential landmarks without any public hearing or…
Read More…Landmarks Preservation Commission in its 1974 designation report. He “initiated a new trend in skyscraper design … with its bold cubic massing of forms — often associated with the Art…
Read More…Gothic Revival style by the architectural firm of Renwick, Aspinall, and Russell, founded by James Renwick, Jr. who was responsible for Grace Church and the St. Denis. Left to right,…
Read More…Oscars Sunday, Village Preservation has submitted research to the Landmarks Preservation Commission documenting the extraordinarily impactful role this neighborhood has played in shaping the film industry, and arguing that it…
Read MoreThe buildings in 2020 (top), and the previously approved plan for alteration and new construction (bottom). Tomorrow at approximately 2 pm (join at 1 pm to be safe), the Landmarks…
Read More…Historic District 2nd Avenue between East 6th Street and East 7th Street —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the LPC agenda: A Gothic Revival style church building designed by Samuel Burrage…
Read MoreVisible in the background are the Hudson Terminal Buildings at 30-50 Church Street, which were demolished to make way for the World Trade Center and are approximately where the Santiago…
Posted June 2, 2020
Read MoreGrace Church was built in 1846-47 by famed architect James Renwick, Jr. and designated an individual NYC landmark in 1966. This is one of the very first Gothic Revival structures…
Read More…LPC agenda: A Georgian style church built in 1799, and altered with the construction of a Greek Revival style tower by Town and Tompson in 1826-28, and the construction of…
Read More…Church moved to 48 St. Marks Place in 1902. Our research indicates that the building was then the location of The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of…
Read More…the Mayor and Landmarks Preservation Commissioner Save Theatre 80 and 78-80 St. Mark’s Place! Now that Theatre 80 and the buildings in which it’s located at 78-80 St. Mark’s Place…
Read More…when the Community Board and NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission public hearings will take place, and how you can weigh in before decisions are made. You can also sign up for…
Read More…when the Community Board and NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission public hearings will take place, and how you can weigh in before decisions are made. You can also sign up for…
Read MoreWe are pleased to report that after hundreds of you sent letters to city officials, the Mayor’s Executive Budget submitted last week restored the cuts to the Landmarks Preservation Commission…
Read More…when the Community Board and NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission public hearings will take place, and how you can weigh in before decisions are made. You can also sign up for…
Read More…when the Community Board and NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission public hearings will take place, and how you can weigh in before decisions are made. You can also sign up for…
Read MorePreventing Cuts to the LPC’s Budget The Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) has historically been the city’s smallest agency, even though it must oversee tens of thousands of landmarked properties across…
Read MoreIn April, amid great controversy and pushback over her plan to change the rules of the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) to cut the public out of the decision-making process in…
Read More…when the Community Board and NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission public hearings will take place, and how you can weigh in before decisions are made. You can also sign up for…
Read MoreThis 1832 house known as the Daniel Leroy house was once one of the grandest residences in Manhattan. It was designated an individual landmark in 1969. 20 St. Marks Place…
Posted April 12, 2023
Read More…when the Community Board and NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission public hearings will take place, and how you can weigh in before decisions are made. You can also sign up for…
Read More…when the Community Board and NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission public hearings will take place, and how you can weigh in before decisions are made. You can also sign up for…
Read More…when the Community Board and NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission public hearings will take place, and how you can weigh in before decisions are made. You can also sign up for…
Read More…when the Community Board and NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission public hearings will take place, and how you can weigh in before decisions are made. You can also sign up for…
Read MoreGVSHP and fellow preservation organizations are pushing back against recent changes in practices and procedures by the Landmarks Preservation Commission which have the effect of severely limiting the public’s opportunity…
Read MoreEarlier this year, the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission announced a new “Equity Framework” for considering landmark designations, saying they would seek to represent the full spectrum of our city’s diverse…
Read More…when the Community Board and NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission public hearings will take place, and how you can weigh in before decisions are made. You can also sign up for…
Read More…when the Community Board and NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission public hearings will take place, and how you can weigh in before decisions are made. You can also sign up for…
Read More…when the Community Board and NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission public hearings will take place, and how you can weigh in before decisions are made. You can also sign up for…
Read More…when the Community Board and NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission public hearings will take place, and how you can weigh in before decisions are made. You can also sign up for…
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…anniversary and the upcoming Stonewall50 celebrations, it’s time to tell the City to step up and finally recognize these and other LGBT history sites as the landmarks that they are….
Read More…when the Community Board and NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission public hearings will take place, and how you can weigh in before decisions are made. You can also sign up for…
Read MorePhoto: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office Mayor Adams’ recently released draft proposed budget includes a steep cut to the funding and staffing of the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC). The LPC is…
Read More…when the Community Board and NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission public hearings will take place, and how you can weigh in before decisions are made. You can also sign up for…
Read MoreAfter two rejections by the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC), a proposal to build additions atop 827-831 Broadway, the 1866 loft buildings GVSHP successfully led a campaign to landmark and save…
Read More…when the Community Board and NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission public hearings will take place, and how you can weigh in before decisions are made. You can also sign up for…
Read More…when the Community Board and NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission public hearings will take place, and how you can weigh in before decisions are made. You can also sign up for…
Read MoreDear friend, I have some wonderful news to share — the Landmarks Preservation Commission has announced that they have dropped their plans to vote on the en masse de-calendaring of 94…
Read MoreOn Tuesday, the Landmarks Preservation Commission was again unable to reach consensus to approve or deny the application to allow demolition of the historic, 170+ year old former townhouses at…
Read More…when the Community Board and NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission public hearings will take place, and how you can weigh in before decisions are made. You can also sign up for…
Read More3 St. Marks Place Village Preservation has led the opposition to an application for a zoning variance to allow the size of a planned office tower at this location, for which…
Read MoreThe City’s renderings of prototypes of allowable outdoor dining structures for sidewalks (l.) and roadbeds (r.). The NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) has proposed new rules to govern permitting outdoor…
Read MoreThis Spring, after vociferous opposition from GVSHP and other preservation groups, the Landmarks Preservation Commission pulled back from its plan to change its rules to cut the public out of…
Read MoreWe’ve just added over a dozen wonderful new images to our historic image archive culled from recent landmarks applications in our neighborhoods. Some highlights include the old Ninth Avenue Elevated…
Read More…when the Community Board and NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission public hearings will take place, and how you can weigh in before decisions are made. You can also sign up for…
Read MorePhoto: Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office Mayor Adams’ recently released draft proposed budget includes a steep cut to the funding and staffing of the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC). The LPC is…
Read MoreIn an important victory for preservation efforts, the Landmarks Preservation Commission has announced that they will hear and consider for potential landmark designation approximately 95 sites previously considered for “de-calendaring,”…
Read MoreSecrets of the Underground Railroad/Greenwich Village Connections: A Lecture and Book Signing by Don Papson with remarks by Otis Kidwell Burger National Anti-Slavery Standard editor Sydney Howard Gay and his…
Read More…structures, but explicitly had to retain the upper floor of the rear walls) to the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) and Department of Buildings, expecting a swift response of enforcement and…
Read More…when the Community Board and NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission public hearings will take place, and how you can weigh in before decisions are made. You can also sign up for…
Read MoreThis 1832 house known as the Daniel Leroy house was once one of the grandest residences in Manhattan. It was designated an individual landmark in 1969. 20 St. Marks Place…
Posted April 12, 2023
Read More…NY Landmarks Conservancy proposed for landmark designation in 2002. It is among the 10 of the 13 which were landmarked, designated in 2004. 4 St. Marks Place via Google Streetview….
Posted March 31, 2023
Read More…the Little Singer Building here. The E.V. Haughwout Building, 490 Broadway Designated an individual landmark by the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission on November 25, 1965, this building was designed by…
Read More…when the Community Board and NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission public hearings will take place, and how you can weigh in before decisions are made. You can also sign up for…
Read MorePlan Would Move Huge Number of Applications Out of Public View, Make Decisions Behind Closed Doors Hearing March 27th The NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) has proposed a broad set of changes…
Read More…when the Community Board and NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission public hearings will take place, and how you can weigh in before decisions are made. You can also sign up for…
Read More…when the Community Board and NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission public hearings will take place, and how you can weigh in before decisions are made. You can also sign up for…
Read MoreWe are continuing the effort to secure landmark designation for 78-80 St. Marks Place, the recently sold, nearly 200-year-old building that for decades housed the beloved Theatre 80. We’ve gotten…
Read More…landmarked house at 4 St. Mark’s Place across the street to a planned new office tower at St. Mark’s Place and 3rd Avenue, increasing the tower’s size by 20%. One…
Read More…when the Community Board and NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission public hearings will take place, and how you can weigh in before decisions are made. You can also sign up for…
Read MoreThis 1832 house known as the Daniel Leroy house was once one of the grandest residences in Manhattan. It was designated an individual landmark in 1969. 20 St. Marks Place…
Posted April 12, 2023
Read More…when the Community Board and NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission public hearings will take place, and how you can weigh in before decisions are made. You can also sign up for…
Read MoreThe Landmarks Application Process A Presentation by Elizabeth Finkelstein…
Read More2/6/18 LPC hearing date. For more information about this application, click here….
Posted June 2, 2020
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