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Read More…White. The firm found inspiration in Rome’s towers of San Georgio in Velabro, and of San Lorenzo in Lucina. Today, Judson Memorial Church serves as a beacon of light for…
Read More…12th is not a pizzeria, but a white-tablecloth Italian restaurant. They do serve pizza, but that wasn’t the case until recently. They’re known for their famous chicken parmesan, but also…
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…a fresh new mural is up on his gate by Andre Trenier, and the Flavor of the Month namesake clocks that adorn the blue and white shop are made by…
Read More…This black and white shot of 231 East 14th Street from our historic image archive was taken in 1995 by Carole Teller just before the Thomas Beauty Salon closed and…
Read More…Side complex do not; the full-block site was replaced with a massive white brick apartment complex which goes by the name ‘Imperial House’ in 1960. ‘Imperial House’ entrance. East 69th…
Read More…is approaching her 40th year as a Villager. John Sorensen has lived in and around Greenwich Village since 1986. His books include A Sister’s Memories and The Mystical Filmmaker with Peter Whitehead. Sorensen was…
Read More…retractable awning, provided that the arbor is the color rendered and confirmed by applicant, not the white stated in the application. Please note: At this time, all LPC public hearings…
Read More…fashion is typical of the era with short shorts, long white tube socks, and multi-patterned shirts. Tony Rosenthal’s Alamo sculpture at the intersection of the East Village, Greenwich Village, and NoHo, has held out on…
Read MoreClockwise from top: a Whiteface Lodge stay, Classic Stage Company season tickets, and a pierogi lesson at Veselka are just some of the items up for bid. You only have…
Read More…decades later); and brokering the first meeting of gay rights advocates with the White House in 1977. According to John D’Emilio’s “Interpreting the NGLTF Story:” The Task Force played a…
Read More…a tribute to Michael Jackson, titled Black or White, that depicts the singer with half his face as his teenage self of the Jackson Five and the other half as…
Read More…two decades. The white room’s clean décor, votive candles and jazz music keep it homey yet fashionable enough for the sophisticated downtown locals who regularly seem to populate it. Come…
Read More…that conceived it, and the architect who executed it.” It was designed in the Italian palazzo style, five-stories in height with its exterior painted white. It featured street-level sheets of…
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…gay people, successfully pushed the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses, and arranged the first meeting between the White House and a gay advocacy…
Read More…by McKim, Mead and White, and built in 1893-94; and the Prairie School style church house, designed by Edgar Tafel, and built in 1958-60. Application is to replace bluestone sidewalks….
Read More…(and our) favorites — Bus Stop Cafe at 597 Hudson Street, where he and his family get strawberry pancakes and an egg white omelet. You could read more about this…
Read More…B. Denial of the painting white of the rear facade as without historic reference and far too bright and that a less contrasting color be used; and C. Approval of…
Read More…avoid service, and because African-Americans were not considered citizens, they were not allowed to serve. This exacerbated tensions over the Civil War and enflamed white New York City workers. Tensions…
Read More…the mind that conceived it, and the architect who executed it.” Designed in the Italian palazzo style, the white-painted, five-story structure featured street-level sheets of plate glass between tall Corinthian…
Read More…bands span the facade. The same material is utilized as coping on the gables. The main staircase is composed of white glazed brick with rounded corners, wrought-iron banisters, and a…
Read More…their white and cisgender male counterparts, lesbian history is not well documented within the broader canon of queer heritage due to minimal documentation. According to historian Regina Kunzel’s 2018 article…
Read More…the time, including McKim, Mead & White, Cass Gilbert, and John Russell Pope, and was responsible for the stained glass in the Library of Congress, Carnegie Hall, the New York…
Read More…it took place in Lafayette Square, directly across the street from the White House. After his acquittal, Sickles reconciled with his wife. Sickles lived at 14 Fifth Avenue from 1881…
Read More…in Village Preservation’s Historic Image Archive. Though the loss of the grand McKim, Mead & White train station was consequential, advocates had long been leading grassroots efforts to save our…
Read More…recording session (while Black and white musicians might at times play together at clubs, recording together was a taboo which Hammond participated in shattering). And there’s so much more to…
Read More…world and absurdity of New York street life, but she was also an accomplished painter, portraitist, lithographer, writer, and art educator. Peggy Bacon, Lady Artist, 1925. Etching on white wove…
Read More…up a sign for passing strangers to write down their wishes and place them in a box, capturing the experiment in a three minute black and white film. “Bowery Wishes”…
Read More…by acclaimed writer and performance artist Dael Orlandersmith. Based on extensive interviews following the 2014 shooting of black teenager Michael Brown by white police officer Darren Wilson, this tour-de-force one…
Read More…— the white ethnic, slowly gentrifying Greenwich Village of the 1950s — provides an apt model across all demographic groups and especially whether it does today, when our social and…
Read More…Trish Bendix argues, “At its core, Rent‘s hero is inevitably the lead, Mark, who is traditionally portrayed as white and Jewish…Mark and his fellow straight roommate Roger command most of the…
Read More…from the film’s premiere because the theater was “whites-only.” The NAACP boycotted the movie, and Malcolm X said he was embarrassed by McQueen’s character Prissy. McQueen later said she got…
Read More…University Place. The building at 45 University Place, which housed the Social Reform Club, is second from the right. Civil Rights activist Mary White Ovington joined the club too, where…
Read More…when Washington retreated to White Plains. After the war, Mount Morris was confiscated by the state, sold, and briefly became a popular tavern. In 1810, a rich French merchant named…
Read More…shortly after opening in 1924, from the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s designation report for the building The architects crafted a building that combines the monumental classicism of McKim Mead & White,…
Read More…and in 1955 she even produced Alice Childress’s first full-length play, Trouble In Mind, a critique of the experiences of Black artists in the white-dominated theater industry A playbill for…
Read More…the White House who had an attraction to preserving American history, in New York City we had female preservationists who made huge contributions to the field and success of historic…
Read More…diversity, and affordability. A study produced by Village Preservation shows just how untrue that is. Analysis shows it would make the neighborhood richer, whiter, and more expensive than it is now,…
Read More…an armed slave uprising in Virginia on December 2, 1859, Garnet organized a memorial service at the Shiloh Church. Then, when the 1863 Draft Riots erupted, and hundreds of white working-class men…
Read More…many high-profile clients, including the Czar of Russia, the Imam of Muscat, and Mary Todd Lincoln, who had her official White House china made there. The Haughwout Building at 488 Broadway in…
Read More…wars, would be the theme of his works for decades to come, and consists of over 200 variants of black forms on white backgrounds. He insisted that these paintings were…
Read More…Master Laundrymen’s Association,” 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…
Read More…a darkroom technician for LIFE magazine, printing photos of famous photographers such as Maragert Bourke-White and Robert Capa. Boys in suits playing cards on a stoop. By the time her…
Read More…University Place, 1997. Photo by Meredith Jacobson Marciano. Enjoy some live jazz. American jazz musician and composer Charles Mingus (1922 – 1979) (in white shirt) and his band perform at the…
Read More…time as a sort of “gay commune.” Bruce Voeller, who lived in the building, co-led the first delegation of gay rights leaders to ever meet with the White House, helped…
Read More…Ice Cream, and now has two locations in New York on the Lower East Side and NoHo, in addition to the West Houston Street location. The black and white decor…
Read More…retribution by North Korea that the White House labelled a “serious national security matter” and the Defense Department described as “an act of war.” Cinema Village remains a family-owned and…
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Nicosia Graziano (listed as Nicasia on the ship manifest), age 15. She arrived aboard the R.M.S. Celtic of the White Star Line March 18, 1911, but was prevented from leaving…
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Read More…The Wind, printed May 1936. An 1863 Confederate Battle Flag is displayed on its binding, and the symbol is now widely considered to be a symbol of racism and white…
Read More…she was honored at the White House. Notable students of Hagen include Katie Finneran, Liza Minnelli, Whoopi Goldberg, Jack Lemmon, Debbie Allen, F. Murray Abraham, Rita Gardner, Steve McQueen, Amanda…
Read More…both Black and white audiences to listen to live jazz music, socialize, and exchange ideas. The heyday of Cafe Society coincided with the start of Fitzgerald’s jazz career. She was…
Read More…automatic dismissal and defeating legislation which would have codified and legalized broad discrimination against LGBTQ people, brokered the first-ever meeting between the White House and a gay group, got the…
Read More…teachers from automatic dismissal and defeating legislation which would have codified and legalized broad discrimination against LGBTQ people, brokered the first-ever meeting between the White House and a gay group,…
Read More…Doc Watson and the two of them became instant buddies. To see this little black man from the Delta and a blind white man from the mountains of western North…
Read More…60s. Kerouac resided at the Hotel Marlton with fellow Beats Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, frequented watering holes like the White Horse Tavern, and performed jazz poetry at the Village Vanguard. From…
Read More…societies that advocated for unemployment insurance, Social Security, and vibrant industrial unions. This interracial leftist organization guaranteed the healthcare of its 180,000 white, Black, Latinx, and Arabic working-class members. But…
Read More…through 1865. Following that, it moved to 80 White Street and then 44 Franklin Street, also the location of the Working Women’s Protective Union. By 1879 the library was under…
Read More…plays by dead, white, European men,” said John Doyle, the recent outgoing Artistic Director of the Classic Stage Company. “Which is inevitably what most classical theater has been.” Two of…
Read More…of Racial Equality (CORE) in 1960, and was one of a thousand white volunteers in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and CORE-organized Freedom Summer in 1964. While in Mississippi,…
Read More…and inheritance, denying free Black people all landowning rights and privileges. Within twenty years, the vast majority of land owned by people of African descent was seized by wealthy white landowners…
Read More…negrano (a white pizza with smoked mozzarella, fried zucchini, and mint), others rather more outré, like the americano (a red pizza with fior di latte, hot dog, and fries). Whatever…
Read More…Approval of the off-white color for the building and the two painted signs; and B. Approval of the windows on the 7th Avenue side and the window and door on…
Read More…raised 2′ 4′ 2) The fire escape would be removed 3) The new brick would NOT be painted white, as existed prior to demolition 4) The new windows would be…
Read More…(zinc-coated copper for new windows, off-white satin-finish stainless steel for rooftop railings, forest green/black paint for historic windows & storefront, bluestone for sills, lintels & steps, etched glass for storefront)…
Read More…White’s monumental Penn Station commenced on October 28th, 1963, advocates had been fighting to save the Beaux Arts building for several years. This has often been referenced as the “beginning…
Read More…Boss Tweed and his nemesis, cartoonist Thomas Nast; Emma Goldman and Nellie Bly; Jacob Riis and Horace Greeley; police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt; Colonel Waring and his “white angels” (who revolutionized…
Read More…many defeats at the hands of the British, including the burning of Washington D.C. and the sacking of the White House. The Battle of Lake Erie was a crucial turning…
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…She also worked as a darkroom technician for LIFE magazine, printing photos of famous photographers such as Maragert Bourke-White and Robert Capa. By the time her third child was born,…
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Read More…sounds they encountered in New York on these early trips. The spartan “No-Wave” music and synth-based Freestyle and Electro they heard at downtown clubs were the product of white, Latino,…
Read More…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, August 22, 1962….
Read More…current occupant of the White House. New York Marble Cemetery via Garrett Ziegler/Flickr There are only 11 cemeteries remaining in all of Manhattan, and only one, the New York Marble Cemetery,…
Read More…and transcendence. The texts will be animated in black and white, with the occasional burst of color to amplify the messages and add emphasis. The trucks will stop at major…
Read MoreImage courtesy of Northwestern. On November 14, 1851, Herman Melville’s magnum opus, Moby-Dick, was published. Unlike the search for a white whale, it isn’t difficult to find Melville’s deep connection…
Read More…activity outside of marriage, and for traditional gender roles, for the first time had a direct conduit to the White House and hoped to bring “family values” back to America….
Read More…for the businesses as well as the residents. It shows we work hard to keep the community moving forward and moving into the 21st century, whether it’s getting white roofs,…
Read More…the city’s more notable white elephants, fated to go the way of Penn Station and the Brokaw mansion”, in the words of well-known critic Ada Louise Huxtable in a fascinating…
Read More…any row house in New York, even an early-nineteenth century, red-brick front Federal house or white-limestone front dwelling of the 1890s, still is popularly termed a ‘brownstone.’” In fact, if…
Read More…stacks. The eventual winner of the contest was the relatively new firm of Carrere and Hastings, beating out McKim Mead & White (where John Merven Carrere and Thomas Hastings trained…
Read More…as management companies began to take over. When I heard these stories, I pictured it all happening in black & white. I couldn’t imagine a New York City where a…
Read More…by 1914 white families (perhaps Italian immigrants) had moved in. Despite the fact that these buildings were likely crowded tenements, the secluded Minetta Place at least seems to have afforded…
Read More…just to the left of the left white line. Although it’s hard to tell, it looks as if the proposed courtyard in the sketch never happened. It was likely abandoned…
Read More…to pay their respects as his body passed. Images of the crowds, consisting of young and old, rich and poor, white and black, rural and urban, were transmitted across the…
Read More…still have independent pharmacies like Avignone. The wood frame exterior with its double door entrance and striped awning are so welcoming. A white glass light with a green cross hangs…
Read More…the fact that most of the art history, particularly of the AbEx period, is dominated by the narratives of white men,” says Christa Blatchford, CEO of the Joan Mitchell Foundation….
Read More…for the Cunard-White Star Line (the two shipping lines merged in 1934). For many, Pier 54 is known as the pier where the RMS Carpathia brought survivors of the Titanic…
Read More…Bank Street; #105 is the white house at right. Lennon is famously associated with the Dakota Apartments on the Upper West Side, where he lived for many years and outside…
Read More…on the northern edge of Tompkins Square Park, on December 1, 1904. Like many of the New York Carnegie libraries, it is a handsome McKim, Mead and White building (designated…
Read More…generally includes whitefish, herring, kippers, and other smoked fish. These stores became increasingly popular on the Lower East Side in the early 20th century due to a large influx of…
Read More…the demolition of Pennsylvania Station, the McKim, Mead & White masterpiece that still haunts the city’s memory. The obliteration of Penn Station was the most dramatic example of a process…
Read More…own walking tour. Then end up at the Dylan Thomas Room at the White Horse and hoist one for both Dylans, and read and write some poems about your excursion….
Read More…Street. Going back to the Mohican Trail and continuing North to 28th Street you would have found a trading post of furs and pelts. This “Great White Way” was lined…
Read More…opposition to white authority. Stephen Allen, recently the Mayor of New York City (1821-24), was appointed as commissioner to recommend changes in the state prison system in 1824. Among his…
Read More…E.B. White’s book Here is New York for a 1949 perspective on the topic. Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York won a Village Voice Web Award in 2012. It’s not hard to…
Read More…A range of building types spanning the area’s architectural development can be found here, from the 1820s Federal houses on the right to the 1960 white brick apartment building just…
Read More…The Bon Soir by storm to make it a place where women, both black and white, would shine. A review of Streisand’s act. June 1, 1962. The Bon Soir closed…
Read More…cotta and stone facing by the noted firm of McKim, Mead, and White. The New York Times noted “Although the large windows clearly denote a commercial space, the delicate terra…
Read More…the Ramones gained some greater degree of success, Joey moved a little further west, spending much of the latter part of his life living in the comfortable white brick apartment…
Read More…can read more about the Prohibition years in the Village in a previous Off the Grid post. The fountain was originally flanked by four ornamental lamps with red, white and…
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