…before moving to 70 Fifth Avenue, by W.E.B. DuBois, Dr. Henry Moskowitz, Mary White Ovington, William English Walling, Bishop Alexander Walters, Rev. William Henry Brooks, and Ida B. Wells, among…
Read More…who was white. Stewart had allegedly been seen by the cops kissing a white woman on the cheek prior to his fatal encounter, which reportedly served as a factor that…
Read More…Moskowitz, Mary White Ovington, William English Walling, Bishop Alexander Walters, Rev. William Henry Brooks, W.E.B. DuBois, and Ida B. Wells, among others, the new organization’s first public meeting was held…
Read More…needed to be reduced or stepped back. 4/20/2021: At today’s LPC public meeting, the application was approved with the modification that the white paint be changed to a white wash….
Read More…dust” As described by Lipman, that day Goldwater was wearing his “usual attire of a shiny blue suit, white shirt, messy tie, and black shoes with white cotton socks.” University…
Read More…1947, CORE organized the “Journey of Reconciliation,” which sent sixteen black and white men through Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Mississippi to test the enforcement of a recent Supreme Court…
Read More…also now a New York City landmark. Also completed in 1952 and based upon the designs of Le Corbusier and the Bahaus’ Walter Gropius, Manhattan House made blocky, glazed white…
Read More…as an artist in the 1970s and ’80s, was quite open about his sexuality and explicitly integrated it into his art, causing worldwide controversies. His black and white photographs were…
Read More…hand, located between 5th Avenue and MacDougal Street, is almost always locked at its western end, and the eastern end is permanently blocked by the mass of the large white-brick apartment…
Read More…be replaced with expanded kitchen space for the restaurant. The liquor sign would be removed. The applicant proposed to maintain the existing white stucco for the entire storefront. The Commission…
Read More…the following verse: “Soldiers, disillusioned, come home from the war. Sarcastic students tell them not to fight no more. And they argue through the night. Black is black and white…
Read More…Square Branch Library, designed by McKim Mead & White in 1904 The final new building to be erected within the boundaries of the current historic district might be the one…
Read More…in Manhattan, 1927. Image courtesy the Library of Congress. During the winter of 1893, the East Side Relief Work Committee (ESRWC) was formed to “whitewash” the tenements. The ESRWC hired…
Read More…a group of white steam-laundry owners threatened by the competition of Chinese laundries, would launch frequent attacks on businesses owned by Chinese Americans, vandalizing their storefronts. As a result, insurance…
Read More…as Bianca Jagger atop a white horse at Studio 54. Known for her ability to gain entrance into any social gathering, and possessed of an uncanny eye for candid shots,…
Read More…reports would have on Black children learning about their culture and history, as well as on any hatred toward white people. In 1919, he announced the launch of a new…
Read More…infamous for his drinking, Kerouac was a regular at the White Horse Tavern and South Village mainstays like Cafe Reggio, Kettle of Fish Bar, and the Gaslight Cafe. He also…
Read More…the white people of the United States have inflicted grievous wrong on the colored people of African descent, and I believe that Catholics have shamefully neglected to perform their duties…
Read More…only organizing principle was that all works had to be exclusively in black-and-white—a poignant guideline if not constraint, then and now. Exhibit catalog as shown on p.g. 224 of “The…
Read More…rivers and the harbor for trips of varying lengths. The typical style of rowboat they build and operate is called a Whitehall gig, a 25-foot-long rowboat that is traditional to…
Read More…integrated community as these businesses would serve both Black and white clientele. In fact, when St. Benedict the Moor first opened, both the area’s Black and white residents wanted to…
Read More…the wealthier white families that had been moving into the area. Temporally and geographically, in 1819 Rose was living on the edge of freedom. Though Rose was eventually executed, her…
Read More…firm of McKim, Mead & White before opening their practice in this city in 1894. The influence of the Beaux Arts tradition favored by McKim, Mead & White is clearly…
Read More…and state historic preservation offices. Secondly, the National Trust for Historic Preservation approved The Whitehill Report on Professional and Public Education for Historic Preservation in October, 1968. The Whitehill committee…
Read More…moved to Macdougal Street, and hung out with the Clancy Brothers at the White Horse Tavern (567 Hudson Street). She, Yarrow, and Stookey performed together as Peter, Paul, and Mary,…
Read More…5th Street station. Both Francis L.V. Hoppin and Terence Koen served as apprentices in the prominent firm of McKim, Mead & White before opening their practice in this city in…
Read MoreOne week’s stay at the fabulous Whiteface Lodge in the Adirondack Mountains could be yours! Make a Bid for Preservation! Our curated collection of 20 priceless items is waiting for…
Read More…it upon himself to find out. He pored through archives, interviewed locals, commissioned artwork, and did a whole lot of writing. The result is a small black-and-white ’zine that covers…
Read More…Thomas W. Lamb, Loew’s Avenue B’s facade was clad in white terra cotta and featured over-sized arches and large windows. It was a gleaming contrast to the brick tenements that…
Read More…began a demographic shift in the makeup of the village, which until that time been a mix of poorer white and free black and slave communities. Washington Square Park Burial…
Read More(l. to r.) Stacey Nelkin, Joshua White, Jesse Kornbluth, and Miles Chapin discuss the film and East Village music and performance scene of the 60’s and 70’s after the film….
Read More…Buttersworth painted a wintry, slushy scene under and around the station. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt selected the artwork, Christopher Street, Greenwich Village to hang in the White House, and the…
Read More…pressed-tin ceiling, black-and-white tile floors and dollar salads with all the bread and butter you could eat, the San Remo attracted a younger, hipper crowd more into experimenting with drugs…
Read More…Court. Prior to Sotomayor, only two non-white justices, Thurgood Marshall and Clarence Thomas (both African Americans), had served, and only two women: Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg (both…
Read More…Rouge, and the owners, who collaborated with D’Lugoff on the club’s opening, adopted the old sign as well. Kudos! Illuminated signs of bars like the White Horse Tavern (Hudson and…
Read More…avoid service. Because African-Americans were not considered citizens, they were not allowed to serve. Thus the act exacerbated tensions building from the Civil War, further enflaming white New York City…
Read More…white bollards, traffic stripes, planters and movable tables & chairs. According to the DOT, the number of bollards and white stripes fits their minimum requirements for traffic control and safety….
Read More…York Life Insurance Building in Tribeca at 346 Broadway, which was designed by McKim, Mead, and White (the architects for the Washington Square Arch and the historic Pennsylvania Station). Laurie…
Read More…and Houston. Brown’s African Grove Theater was located near a theater serving a white audience, the Park Theater, with which it often competed. While the African Company would often put…
Read More…The ship first went to Pier 59 at 18th Street, the pier of the White Star Line where the Titanic was supposed to arrive, to drop off the Titanic’s lifeboats…
Read More…talents in jazz history to its stage, including Josh White, Ida James, Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, Count Basie, Nat King Cole, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Big…
Read More…branches one may even catch a glimpse of the predatorial red-tailed hawks that make the park their playground. Tompkins Square Park White-breasted nuthatch Tompkins Square Park The variety of birds…
Read More…Jackson Davis for the University of the City of New York, now New York University. It was built of white marble in the English Collegiate Gothic style and featured a…
Read More…by McKim, Mead & White. According to our friends at the Historic District Council, this branch was one of twelve Carnegie libraries built by McKim, Mead & White, one of…
Read More…Vaughn, and, of course, the aforementioned Billie Holiday and Bob Dylan, among many others. Championing artists like Billie Holiday and Count Basie who were not allowed to play in white venues…
Read More…firm of McKim, Mead & White before opening their practice in this city in 1894. The influence of the Beaux Arts tradition favored by McKim, Mead & White is clearly…
Read More…second floor have arched enframements with exaggerated keystones. The second floor also has recessed belt courses of white brick, a popular feature of Renaissance Revival tenement design. The windows on…
Read More…attracted many poets and writers including Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound and ee cummings. Minetta Tavern The White Horse became infamous as the very last place Thomas hoisted a few. Eighteen…
Read More…White Horse Tavern was one. White Horse Tavern Chumley’s was a frequent stop. And of course he spent many an hour in his favorite, McSorley’s Old Ale House His longtime…
Read More…as a domestic worker for one of the wealthier white families that had been moving into the area. Temporally and geographically, in 1819 Rose was living on the edge of…
Read More…… [A] Blockbuster is a white guy—or woman, I guess, but mostly guys—who goes and signs a lease for an apartment. Talks to the super, landlords. And then lives there…
Read More…mother who was a servant to a white homeowner in New Orleans, DeLarverie was never given a birth certificate because interracial marriage was illegal in Louisiana. Instead, she chose her…
Read More…which had evolved from colorful landscapes, to geometric representations, to the form for which Mondrian became most famous — white or neutral backgrounds with a few simple black lines at…
Read More…Scottsboro trials – a series of trials involving nine young Black men in Alabama, who were accused of raping two White women in 1931. This trial was appealed many times,…
Read More…Gerde’s, the Gaslight Café, the Commons, the Folklore Center, the Kettle of Fish, and the Whitehorse Tavern by night and Café Borgia, Café Cino, and Caffe Reggio, the first coffeehouse…
Read More…Street. “…in Italian palazzo style, the five-story exterior, painted white, was majestic with street-level sheets of plate glass between tall Corinthian columns and, above, four tiers of 84 identically arched…
Read More…emergence of new cultures in mainstream, often white, society. Although only 23 years ago, it’s sometimes hard to imagine that those quoted are talking about the same neighborhood as the…
Read More…including Sundance, the Berlin International Film Festival, and the Toronto International Film Festival. It introduced largely-white audiences, both gay and straight, to cultural phenomena including voguing, shade, and reading —…
Read More…Theatre. A native of Louisiana who grew up in Texas, Lannyl is a truly transplanted New Yorker. In fact, she likes to quote E.B. White: ‘There are roughly three New…
Read More…59 Christopher Street. Current Kettle of Fish bar. Photo courtesy of Kettle of Fish. Whitehorse Tavern Dylan owes his namesake partially to the Whitehorse Tavern. This bar at 567 Hudson…
Read More…City and a National Historic Landmark. The Whitehall, 1904, courtesy of history101 From there, she designed everything from the “foundation to the roof” of The Broad Exchange building at 25…
Read More…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…
Read More…Ginsberg’s apartment, listening to him read poetry. Ai Weiwei, New York City, (corner of West 3rd Street and Sixth Avenue), June 3, 1989. Photo by Allen Ginsberg. Courtesy of Stanford…
Read More…agency in charge of snow response, to keep the streets clear when the white stuff falls? Join Robin Nagle, the DSNY’s anthropologist-in-residence and author of the book Picking Up, for…
Read More…used by architects including McKim, Mead & White and Carrere &Hastings. Carnegie Hall, the Bronx Zoo’s Elephant House, and Grand Central Terminal all contain Guastavino vaults. Palaces for the People:…
Read More…Lenny Kaye and Joshua White, founder of the Joshua Light Show, which splashed the concert hall with psychedelic color. Despite its brief life, the Fillmore East is remembered with tremendous…
Read More…German Methodist Episcopal Church. Parts of the original brick facade were replaced with ornate white terra cotta ornament and tracery. The first floor was converted to the church space, while…
Read More…of snow removal, to keep the streets clear when the white stuff falls? And how did we deal with snow removal in the Village in the 1800s? The history of…
Read More…As a Japanese woman living in a major city after WWII, Kusama faced much more hardship than many of her white, male peers. She often painted at night without heat…
Read More…and “white only” primaries which prevented blacks from running for office. While at this address, the NAACP also began their iconic campaign of hanging a flag printed with the words…
Read MoreThe dance performance of “Strange Fruit” portrays the emotional journey of a white woman as she reacts in horror to the sight of lynching she witnessed and participated in. This…
Read More…Village who had more books than money.” HERE IS NEW YORK by E. B. White. This pocket-sized book was published in 1948, but still remains a perceptive and loving evocation…
Read More…firm of McKim, Mead, and White in 1910, stood for over fifty years as a masterpiece of the Beaux-Arts style and a monument to New York’s aspirations as a world…
Read More…the practice — of “redlining.” When an area was redlined — whether due to too many non-white residents, immigrants, lower-income residents, or older housing stock — it meant denial of…
Read More…historians Ellen Williams and Steve Radlauer will reveal the sepia-toned origins of these beloved century-old establishments, including C.O. Bigelow Chemists, Veneiro’s Bakery, Garber Hardware, and the White Horse Tavern and…
Read More…the culture of Loisaida through the present. Ms. Gottfried will also present some of her black and white photographs from earlier books, all of which reflect her unique style. Bacalaitos…
Read More…was inhabited by whites and blacks, Irish, German, and native born, upper, middle, and lower classes that produced complex social and professional relations both within and outside the black community….
Read More…the Charles White Gallery and the Rockland African Diaspora Heritage Center located in Rockland County, New York. She is actively researching and developing exhibitions concerning people of African descent in…
Read More…one of the earliest churches designed by Richard Upjoin, who also designed Trinity Church downtown. In the 1880s, the interior of the church was remodeled by McKim, Mead, and White…
Read More…Monthly Membership Meeting and Committee Newsletter 10/16/1979 140 White Elephant Book Fair Flier 10/20/1979 141-142 Monthly Membership Meeting and Committee Newsletter 11/20/1979 143-145 Monthly Membership Meeting and Committee Newsletter 12/18/1979…
Read More…(concrete block covered with white stucco). The joists would be steel. When asked why the building needed to be demolished, the architect replied: “The building at the rear was originally…
Read More…achieved despite the raising of most of the attic windows to a height desired in the Twentieth Century. No. 22, although remodeled with a white brick front, retains its attic…
Read More…is in such bad condition, but wants the applicant to find a color that isn’t quite so stark white with staff. Status as of January 3rd, 2012: LATEST NEWS The…
Read More…Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie perform. Soon the jukebox at the Sage was playing folk classics by Burl Ives, Josh White, and the Weavers. His fascination with folk music intensified…
Read More…proposal that will be shown to the Landmarks Preservation Commission on September 7th, 2010. The proposal is to replace the existing storefront with a white, painted-wood storefront, reminiscent of historic…
Read More…Commission staff; the applicant will not be returning for another public meeting): – The vertical mullions on the corner windows are to be green as opposed to white – The…
Read More…a plaque on November 8, 2021. (Check out video of the plaque unveiling ceremony here.) American jazz musician and composer Charles Mingus (1922 – 1979) (in white shirt) and his…
Read More…to the Greenwich Village audience – much of the city (not to mention the country) did not even allow blacks and whites to be seated at the same table, let…
Read More…told by white people who, he argued, would never include this perspective, it was important to tell this story separately, with the ultimate goal of bringing the stories together to…
Read More…days includes Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, John Denver, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Odetta, Neil Young, Josh White, and Phil Ochs, among many, many others. Bob Dylan’s “Rolling Thunder Revue”…
Read More…white opponents of slavery who advocated everything from peaceful to violent means to end the practice. CLICK HERE to read about 14 historic sites connected to the Abolitionist movement in…
Read More…Street as it looks now. After leaving the White House, Margaret moved to Greenwich Village, a place she had frequented in earlier years, residing at 134 West 4th Street. The First…
Read More…The New Yorker, which referred to him as “a polemicist, with a sense of humor”, observed that “Hoffman led 3 lives … social activist, yippie anarchist and white-collar impostor.” You…
Read More…Our master of ceremonies was Rolling Stone music critic Anthony DeCurtis (his second appearance in our top-five video list!), and our panel included Joshua White of The Joshua Light Show, booking…
Read More…Denis’ performance of “exotic religious dances called ‘the Madonna,’ ‘Raha’ and ‘the White Jade’…” with Rev. Guthrie reading St Denis’ poems between theses pieces. This performance was a fundraiser to…
Read More…1854 when she was forcibly removed because she was African American and refused to give up a seat for a white passenger. The protests that followed changed the way streetcars…
Read More…Today, the building still retains its original high stoop, long parlor-floor windows, white Gibbs surround with triple keystone and vermiculated blocks around the entrance, and double segmental dormers. The house…
Read More…and white, so that makes everything look good.” archive.gvshp.org During their discussion, Carole speaks lovingly about her muse – the neighborhood that became her home in her early 20’s. She…
Read More…the loft walls and got to work de-installing the partitions that divided the space. Per Milton Resnick’s request, they painted the walls white. Giorgio Cavallon set up a sound system…
Read More…office after a rally for landmarking the interior of the White Horse Tavern, I saw the most delicious architectural pineapples along West 11th Street. You may have seen these symbols…
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