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Prohibition Hits The Village

…ale. You may order it either dark or light. White Horse Tavern 567 Hudson Street The White Horse Tavern © Estate of Fred W. McDarrah This West Village haunt opened…

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Demographic Deception: de Blasio’s SoHo/NoHo Plan

…of these critics, by the way, seemed to object to those census tracts also pulling in additional adjacent blocks and buildings in high-income and predominantly white areas of Greenwich Village,…

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Beyond the Village and Back: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

…landscape. The World Columbian Exposition of 1893 in Chicago unleashed the “City Beautiful” or “White City” movement in America, and suddenly grand, neo-Classical or Beaux Arts buildings made of crisp…

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Beyond the Village and Back: Harlem’s Mother A.M.E. Zion Church

…While many black congregations were moving to and growing in Harlem at this time, most purchased buildings formerly used by white congregations that had moved out of the neighborhood, as…

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Recladding & Reevaluating

…large mid-century white-brick apartment building at 2 Fifth Avenue, just north Washington Square Park. Although decidedly more modern than the historic nineteenth century townhouses in the area, the application to…

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St. Mark’s Playhouse and the Negro Ensemble Company

…(October 7, 1934 – January 9, 2014) explosive Obie-winning play whose revelations on generational violent racism touched the exposed nerves of black and white audiences alike. One night, after giving…

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Literary Rebels: Five Banned Book Authors Connected to the Village

…educational tool and classic graphic novel. 112 West 13th Street, E.B. White’s first home in the Village 5. E.B. White – Charlotte’s Web E.B. White is most popularly known for…

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14 historic sites of the abolitionist movement in Greenwich Village

…latter group consisted of both prominent African-American institutions and individuals (mostly associated with churches) who organized economically, politically, and socially against slavery, and whites who ranged from peaceful Quaker opponents…

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Rock On, Fillmore East!

…Doors playing with a Joshua Light Show display behind them. Photo care of Joshua White It was a place to catch an amazing concert: the early show was rocking, the…

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Book Talk – A Walk Down Fifth Avenue

…Richard Morris Hunt, Stanford White, and Frank Lloyd Wright and contemporary leaders like Rem Koolhaas and Bjarke Ingels. Written as both a fireside and curbside read, this new book is…

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My Favorite Things: Holiday Time at Salmagundi Club!

…Wyeth, and Howard Pyle; Impressionist painters William Merritt Chase and Childe Hassam; Arts and Crafts pioneer John LaFarge; designer Louis C. Tiffany; Hudson River School artist Thomas Moran; and architect Stanford…

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An Eye-Popping View of Our Gilded Past

…designed by Stanford White, was erected in 1892.” Stereographs are cards that contain two almost identical images side by side. When you view them through a device called a stereoscope,…

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A Move To Allow New York City To Save Its Landmarks

…Stanford White. We still have many buildings which don’t share the privilege of landmarks protections, although they are equally deserving. To learn more about our current advocacy campaigns, click HERE….

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Who is King Juan Carlos I of Spain?

…Spain Center was inaugurated. It promised to be the most comprehensive university-based resource of its sort. Housed in Judson Hall, the Washington Square Park landmark building designed by Stanford White,…

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Henry James—A Child of the Village:A Lecture by David Gerrard Low

…cultural historian David Gerrard Lowe, author of, among other books, Stanford White’s New York and Beaux Arts New York, will discuss the works of James, as well as his life…

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Arch Conspirators Centennial Celebration

…American bohemia and avant-garde thought. To celebrate the 100-year anniversary of this bold act, join us in Judson Memorial Church’s stunning Stanford White-designed sanctuary, the same architect of the Washington…

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Happy (Landmark) Birthday, Salmagundi Club!

…School artist Thomas Moran; and architect Stanford White. But that’s not all there is to celebrate today. The building is not only a historic cross-section of Fifth Avenue history and…

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James Baldwin and His Greenwich Village

…Next Time.” The American Negro author deals with negro-white tensions in the United States and describes the anti-white Black Muslim movement and its origins in Negro bitterness and resentment over…

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A New Archive for GVHD50: Retaking the 1969 Designation Photos

…photos, captured with a digital camera, could warp the sides of the buildings. Also, my photos are in color, in contrast to the simple black-and-white of their predecessors. Their content,…

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Haunted Greenwich Village

…up to Halloween. White Horse Tavern White Horse Tavern and Dylan Thomas. Photo courtesy of newyork.com. Located in the West Village and billed as the “2nd oldest continuously run…

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What Style Is It? Greek Revival Edition

…details as taenia (or ribbon) molding, keystoned windows at the white marble bases, and white marble stoops with massive white marble balustrades leading up to free-standing white marble porches with…

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Politicians, Playwrights, and Parades: The Irish legacy of the East Village and Greenwich Village

Photo of White Horse Tavern (bottom left) courtesy of Wikimedia; Photo of the Merchant’s House Museum (bottom right) courtesy of Village Preservation on Flickr For many, celebrating Irish American heritage in March brings one…

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From New York to Tragedy: Pier 54 and RMS Lusitania

…of Pier 54 is the metal framework of the entrance to the main pier building with the faded letters of Cunard White Star Line still visible (Cunard and White Star…

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

…soon found it was too far from his core audience, and so returned to Mercer and Houston Street. Brown’s African Grove Theatre was located near the Park Theater, which served white…

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12 social change champions of Greenwich Village

…first lady spent much of her life after the White House at 29 Washington Square West, where she continued and built upon her prior career as a groundbreaking advocate for…

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Politicians, Playwrights, and Parades: The Irish legacy of the East Village and Greenwich Village

Photo of White Horse Tavern (bottom left) courtesy of Wikimedia; Photo of the Merchant’s House Museum (bottom right) courtesy of Village Preservation on Flickr For many, celebrating Irish American heritage in March brings one…

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New York School Painter Janice Biala’s “Pendulating Spirit”

…was majority white, and majority male. Of the twenty-five artists who participated in the sessions, only three were women. Along with counterparts Louise Bourgeois, the French-American artist best known for…

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Village Independent Democrats: Integration in 1960s Greenwich Village

…Village, but highlights the pre-existing prejudices held by many white Village residents, and argues that these beliefs are what make integration even more important. Here is an excerpt from the…

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The Irish Immigrant Community of the Far West Village

…places. For instance, in the mid-20th century, Whitey Munson, the grandfather of the longtime owner of the White Horse Tavern, James Munson, was a boss at the docks, and a…

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‘The Birth of a Nation’ Galvanizes a Movement #SouthOfUnionSquare

…a Nation — a silent white supremacist propaganda film credited with both resurrecting the Ku Klux Klan and creating the blueprint for the modern epic Hollywood blockbuster — catalyzed an…

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15 Sites of Critical African American History in Greenwich Village

…people of African descent was seized by wealthy white landowners who turned these former free black settlements into retreats, farms, and plantations. Mother AME Zion; courtesy of NYC AGO 2. Mother…

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African American history in the Sullivan Thompson Historic District

…1890 As explained in the designation report: “The blocks that comprise the Sullivan-Thompson Historic District were inhabited by a mix of black and white residents by the end of the…

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Celebrating Immigration in Greenwich Village

…societies specifically, reinforcing these sites as political places. For instance, in the mid-20th century, Whitey Munson, the grandfather of the longtime owner of the White Horse Tavern, James Munson, was a boss…

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Welcome to NYC, Dylan Thomas

…compassion and violence, made his readings in the United States a success. However, during his tours, he drank recklessly. In 1953, he collapsed after drinking 18 whiskeys at the White…

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Edward Hopper’s Greenwich Village

…and scholar. Jason Vartikar (he/him/his) is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University. His research examines American art and literature, especially in relation to…

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Black History Month in the Village: The South Village and Little Africa

…but also saw some rare cohesion and integration between black and white residents, specifically in the “Black-and-tan” saloons that came to define the neighborhood. As highlighted in the district’s designation report,…

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Purdy & Henderson: Engineering NYC from #SouthOfUnionSquare

…— the Whitehall Annex (1910), and McKim, Mead & White’s Pennsylvania Train Station (1911), in addition to the Reed & Stern and Warren & Wetmore collaborative project for the Grand…

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The African Grove Theater — Black Theater’s Beginnings in Our Neighborhood

…Ludovicus Viele shows the path of Minetta Creek with the then-current street grid superimposed. In Greenwich Village, white residents found entertainment through the theater and “pleasure gardens” or tea gardens. The…

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Exploring NYC’s Churches and Synagogues #BeyondTheVillageAndBack

…become a prominent part of the congregation and began to take on leadership positions, including former slave James Varick as a deacon. In response, the church’s white congregants forced Black…

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“Hidden Figures” #SouthOfUnionSquare: The Unsung Female Engineers Who Built Some of NYC’s Greatest Landmarks

…located at 78 Fifth Avenue south of Union Square. Flatiron, structural design assited by Marion Parker Whitehall and Annex, structural design by Marion Parker and Elmina Wilson respecitvely Metropolitan Life…

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

…somebody who had the choice to either go canoeing or go whitewater rafting, and I ended up whitewater rafting. Really, I’m somebody who would be more happy in a canoe,…

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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: 32 East 10th Street, Home of artist Franz Kline

…for his black and white abstractions using house paint. His style of painting was what art critic Harold Rosenberg referred to as ‘action painting,’ and during the 1950s he became…

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Emery Roth (& Sons) in the Greenwich Village Historic District

…white brick. This was one of the first of an almost endless parade of glazed white brick apartment towers built in New York City after the construction of the Upper…

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Workshop: Ukrainian Pysanky 101

…supplies: White eggs, at least two, as fresh as possible. Paper towels. White vinegar, ½ cup for washing eggs and mixing dyes. 1 quart glass or ceramic bowl for washing…

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Sonia Sotomayor

…membership of the court had been all white and male, and until 1981 the court had been all male. Prior to Sotomayor, only two non-white justices, Thurgood Marshall and Clarence…

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The Baldwin-Kennedy Meeting of 1963

…was at hand. James Baldwin photo Magnolia Pictures Baldwin first met Kennedy at the storied White House dinner in April of 1962 which honored American winners of the Nobel Prize….

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Fall Auction: A First for Village Preservation

…some of the most interesting places and adventures you can imagine. An Adirondack Adventure Wishing for an Adirondack Adventure? A three-bedroom suite at the unparalleled Whiteface Lodge is available for…

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Five Spot: Once The Hippest Place on Earth

American jazz musician and composer Charles Mingus (1922 – 1979) (in white shirt) and his band perform at the Five Spot Cafe (2 St. Marks Place), New York, New York,…

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Little Africa: Tracing African Americans in the South Village

…blacks and white immigrants might live next door to one another, the pattern, at least in Little Africa, was for blacks to occupy all one building. He cites the example…

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

…until he was dismissed in 1809 after disagreements with the Manumission Society. Charles C. Andrews, a white man, replaced him and served for twenty years. In 1799, New York’s gradual…

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GVSHP 2016 Book List & Holiday Gift Ideas

…private opinions that divided abolitionists. It describes the network of black and white men and women who were vital links in the extensive Underground Railroad, conclusively confirming a daily reality….

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The Death and Life of Louis Sullivan

…a Beaux Arts aesthetic referred to as “The White City.” This imperial vision turned its back on Sullivan’s distinctly modern and American style. Where Sullivan sought to express and impress…

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2014 Year In Review: GVSHP Programs

…music from 1968-1971. The building is located in the East Village/Lower East Side Historic District. The event will include appearances by guitarist Lenny Kaye and Joshua White, founder of the…

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Researchers Rejoice 1940 Census Released!

…in the household within the following categories: – Free White males of 16 years and upward – Free White males under 16 years – Free White females – All other…

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Exploring Black History in the East Village and NoHo

…that was considered normal when displayed by working-class white patrons. Elizabeth Jennings Graham In 1854, activist and educator Elizabeth Jennings Graham boarded a streetcar of the Third Avenue Railway Company…

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Joan Baez: The Queen of Folk Merges Music and Social Justice

…the story begins long before her arrival. In the 1930s, at the height of the Great Depression, radical idealists such as Josh White, Pete Seeger, Burl Ives, Lead Belly, and…

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May He Stay Forever Young: 80 Things We Love About Bob Dylan

…taken on many aliases. 7. Dylan owes his name partially to the White Horse Tavern. This bar at 567 Hudson Street was the favorite drinking spot of poet Dylan Thomas…

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Oral History with the King of Carmine Street Custom Guitars, Rick Kelly

…his custom guitars are built with reclaimed white pine. Much of this white pine, called the “King’s Wood,” was barged down the Hudson River 200 years ago from the forests…

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The Modern Roller Skate, and Men Fighting for Women’s Suffrage — Introduced at the Same East Village Locale

…picketed the White House in 1917 for women’s suffrage, rolling smoothly along the sidewalk in their rocking skates. It should be noted that Plimpton passed away in 1911, and while…

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The Greenwich Village church that threw a presidential election

…candidate James Blaine. Blaine faced a tough battle against Democrat Grover Cleveland, even though Democrats had not managed to win the White House in nearly three decades. Blaine had been…

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How an East Village building went from gangster hangout to Andy Warhol’s Electric Circus

Google Street View of 19-25 St. Mark’s Place today Fifty years ago this week, the Velvet Underground released their second album, “White Light/White Heat.” Their darkest record, it was also…

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Margaret Woodrow Wilson: First Lady, Suffragist, and Village Socialite

…well as her support for the cause of women’s suffrage. When her mother died in 1914 during her father’s first term in the White House, as the couple’s eldest, Margaret…

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“Amended,” a Podcast Going Deeper on Women’s History

…specific version of the history of woman suffrage: that a few bold, white women led a movement for equal voting rights and achieved victory 100 years ago, when the United…

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Mabel Ping-Hua Lee and the Fight for Chinese American and Women’s Rights

…outspoken in her passion for equal rights for women and Chinese Americans, and had recently caught the attention of white American suffragists, who invited her to participate in this monumental…

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Sneak a Peek Inside Four Village Churches This Weekend

…designed by Upjohn in 1841 that features a magnificent 1880’s interior designed by Stanford White. You can read the all about the history of the church in the State &…

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A Campus Comparison

A comparison of Stanford University’s campus (orange) and NYU’s ‘core’ (purple outline) in Greenwich Village. As part of its massive proposed Village expansion plan, NYU is seeking to build 2.5…

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Richard Upjohn — A Missionary for the Gothic Revival

…the Open Door”. Its interior was remodeled by Stanford White between 1885 and 1888. The church is located within the Greenwich Village Historic District, designated in 1969. Richard Upjohn, circa…

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10 (more) of the most charming spots in the Greenwich Village Historic District

…was such a big hit with New Yorkers there was an almost immediate push to make a permanent version. The Tuckahoe marble arch we see today was designed by Stanford…

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Beverly Moss Spatt Oral History: the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s First Woman Chair

…were going to appeal it. We don’t get credit for it. Spatt was also involved in saving the Villard houses, designed by Stanford White, and gained private and public funding…

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Nikola Tesla: Retracing the Visionary’s Lost Legacy in Our Neighborhoods

…5th Ave highlighted on the 1891 Bromley Map. Here, Tesla experimented with wireless lighting, giving demonstrations to friends including Mark Twain and architect Stanford White, who would later design Tesla’s…

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October Programs: Building Community in our Neighborhoods

…century to the striking contemporary structures.Highlights also include works by distinguished architects such as Richard Morris Hunt, Stanford White, and Frank Lloyd Wright and contemporary leaders like Rem Koolhaas and…

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Greenwich Village Generals

…of Washington’s inauguration, which took place at Federal Hall here in New York when our city was, briefly, the nation’s capitol. The architect Stanford White modeled both structures on the…

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Architecture of the Spirit

…that features a magnificent 1880’s interior designed by Stanford White. You can read the all about the history of the church in the State & National Register report. St. Mark’s…

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Haunts of Dylan Thomas walking tour with Poet Bob Holman

…and E.E. Cummings’ apartment on Patchin Place. After the tour, quench your thirst at the historic White Horse Tavern. The bar is where Thomas hoisted his last drink, and we’ll…

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Take a Virtual Walk! Visit the Homes of Greenwich Village’s Social Change Champions

…on a white horse wearing a white cape, she looked like a contemporary Joan of Arc. Two years later, in 1915, Milholland travelled on the Ford Peace Ship to participate…

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Our Epic Greenwich Village and East Village Watch-List

…movie, a young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in New York City….

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Janis Joplin and Greenwich Village

…surrounded by middle and upper middle class white southerners, who disapproved of a white teenage girl having such interests. Despite their disapproval, she began performing the blues for the first…

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#SouthOfUnionSquare: The Upcoming Demolition of 813 and 815 Broadway

…white tiles, white uniforms, and waitresses instead of then-common waiters. The upcoming demolition of 813 and 815 Broadway illustrates a troubling future for the historic buildings South of Union Square…

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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: 815 Broadway

…with an unusually high emphasis – for the period – on cleanliness and hygiene. Their novel design format included white tiles, white uniforms, and waitresses instead of then-common waiters. Within…

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Beyond the Village and Back: Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church

…century church buildings originally built by white congregations which were moving out of the neighborhood, while others – like Abyssinian – chose to construct new structures altogether. Walking around Harlem…

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Beyond the Village and Back: Congregation Shearith Israel

…Slowly and with dignity a gray-haired man, wrapping his talith about his shoulders (the talith is a fringed shawl of white silk, bordered with blue, which ministers and members of…

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Celebrating Flag Day!

…the Second Continental Congress: “Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field,…

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Dr. Bruce Voeller: Gay Rights and Public Health Pioneer

…and before. National Gay Task Force members after the historic 1977 White House meeting In 1977, the Task Force brokered another historic first – the very first meeting of any…

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Civil Rights History at 92 Grove Street

…struggle, but illustrates the same race-based violence African Americans faced across the centuries. In July 1863, angry white working-class New Yorkers began a protest against the new federal draft that…

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North America’s First Free Black Settlement In Our Neighborhoods

…people of African descent was seized by wealthy white landowners who turned these former free black settlements into retreats, farms, and plantations. The landowners in this first settlement of free…

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Underground Railroad Church Once Located in Greenwich Village Led Abolitionist Cause

…shortages, the draft put the most pressure on working-class white men and their families, who, following the circulation of rumors in the press and the city at large, came to…

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Village Independent Democrats Collection: 1955-1969

…NYT & NYP ads criticizing bossism, budgeting membership fees, not an issue of black and white but a moral issue, $115 on a half page ad in Villager and Village…

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Richard Wright in Greenwich Village

…first African American authors to protest the treatment of black Americans by white Americans, and would greatly influence an entire generation of African American writers. Iconic works such as Native…

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A Terra Cotta Gem Shines on West 14th Street

…corner of Seventh Avenue and West 14th Street, this polychromatic, 12-story visual delight is replete with glazed terra cotta in hues of white, beige, yellow, cobalt blue, celadon and green,…

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Wanda Gág: Village Eccentric, Artist, and Cat Storyteller

We’re on a roll with children’s book writers of the Village! Read our previous posts about E.B. White, Robert McClosky, Margaret Wise Brown, Maurice Sendak, and Otis Kidwell Burger. Though…

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The Man Who Sculpted Our Image of Abraham Lincoln

…nineteen-foot tall sculpture is magnificent, carved from twenty-eight blocks and 175 tons of Georgia white marble. The sculptor, Greenwich Village resident Daniel Chester French, was present for the ceremony, the…

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Founded by Villagers, the ACLU Remains Vital to Our Society

…two white women in 1931. This trial was appealed many times, one of the accusers eventually recanted her claims, and the ordeal even forced the stipulation that juries cannot be…

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Jimmy DeSana: Sexuality and Subversion

…collection of grainy black and white nude photographs of DeSana and his friends, cast against a domestic landscape in playful poses. For the rest of his career, he would continue…

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

…Basie who were not allowed to play in white venues or with other white musicians, Hammond fought to end the racial segregation of artists. As a producer, writer, critic, civil…

LPC Application

535 Hudson Street

…the time, the building contained a small fifth floor of painted white brick that the applicant proposed to extend. The proposed extension would be clad in white stucco and would…

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Who’s That Rapping At My Chamber Door? Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” Takes Flight in Greenwich Village

…W. White, editor of the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond, Virginia. Poe became assistant editor of the periodical in August 1835, but White discharged him within a few weeks for…

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New April and May 2024 Programs: Walking Tours, Histories of Fifth Avenue and The Village Voice, and More

…1980), and is the author of Triumvirate: McKim Mead & White—Art, Architecture, Scandal and class in America’s Gilded Ages, (Alfred A Knopf, 2010), as well as Fifth Avenue: History of…

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(Even More) Artists, Theaters, and Advocates for Civil Rights and Social Justice in Our Neighborhoods

…year the group convened. The only organizing principle was that all works had to be exclusively in black-and-white. A summer 2011 exhibition “Spiral: Perspectives on African-American Art Collective,” held at the…

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Greek Revival Lesson Continued

…the very grand white marble stoops also have heavy white marble balustrades. The sidewalls of the stoops vary quite a bit, and sometimes were topped by ironwork along the slope…

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City’s SoHo/NoHo Rezoning Plan Includes Part of Chinatown, and Hundreds of Rent Regulated Units Could Be Lost

The newly-released study by Village Preservation shows that the City’s SoHo/NoHo Rezoning Plan, which includes part of Chinatown, will make the area richer, whiter, and more expensive to live in than…

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