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Affordable Housing and Tenant Groups, SoHo, NoHo, and Chinatown Neighborhood Organizations, and Artists and Historic Preservationists Slam de Blasio SoHo/NoHo Upzoning Plan, Urge “NO” Vote
…to eviction of rent-regulated tenants and a glut of market-rate housing and big box stores. While Tenants PAC believes that affluent neighborhoods must accept greater density to accommodate low- and…
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“Preservationists Call REBNY’s Bluff On Landmarking and Affordability”
…landmarks preservation law, an essential protection for New York City and our neighborhoods, does not pass the laugh test,” said Michael McKee, Treasurer, Tenants Political Action Committee. (l. to r.)…
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Accomplishments
…Coalition to advocate for preservation of the neighborhood’s character. We launched our “Small Businesses Thrive in Landmarked Neighborhoods” video campaign to promote local businesses and the positive synergy between them and…
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De Blasio’s Plan to Reduce Affordable Housing in Soho/NoHo/Chinatown
De Blasio wants to fool the public into believing that his plan for rezoning SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown will diversify incomes and increase affordability in those neighborhoods. The opposite will in fact be…
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Op-Ed: Preservation Can Help Affordability
…example, REBNY claims that landmarking makes New York unaffordable, and pushes the working and middle class out of our neighborhoods. In the unlandmarked sections of the Village, working factories and…
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Fighting the City’s SoHo/NoHo Rezoning Plan – By The Numbers
…is not the way to do so. It will exacerbate problems of affordability and inequality in these neighborhoods, and in adjacent neighborhoods which will also be impacted. And it will…
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Mixed Results in Albany’s Housing Deal — The Battle Continues
…on lots with existing residential buildings UNLESS they get a “Certificate of No Harassment” demonstrating no tenants were harassed on the site (this will help to keep tenants safe and…
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Analysis of de Blasio’s Big SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Lie
…program’s multiple deficiencies. For one, however wealthy these neighborhoods might seem, hundreds of its residents live in rent regulated housing, would face the threat of displacement under the plan, and…
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Jane Jacobs’ NYC: The sites that inspired her work and preservation legacy
…that name until the late 1960s) was a sea of outdated and underutilized factory buildings, while the neighborhoods of the South Village and Little Italy were working-class neighborhoods formerly populated…
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De Blasio SoHo/NoHo Plan Even Worse Than We Expected
De Blasio’s Just-Released SoHo/NoHo Plan Would Change the Face of Historic Neighborhoods With Massive Upzoning Plan Has Devastating Implications for Neighborhoods and Historic Districts Across the City Late yesterday the…
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Village Preservation and a Dozen Groups Issue SoHo NoHo Community Alternative Rezoning Plan
De Blasio’s Just-Released SoHo/NoHo Plan Would Change the Face of Historic Neighborhoods With Massive Upzoning Plan Has Devastating Implications for Neighborhoods and Historic Districts Across the City Late yesterday the…
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Happy Holidays from Village Preservation — You Make Our Work Possible
…neighborhoods Led the successful fight to prevent the State from adopting a measure that would allow supertall towers in residential neighborhoods throughout NYC Spearheaded the victorious effort to prevent proposed…
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SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Upzoning Resources
…more such rezonings in historic neighborhoods throughout NYC. We will continue to fight for equitable, diverse, affordable neighborhoods that respect and preserve history and neighborhood character. Some useful links to…
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Elected Officials, Preservationists, Tenant Advocates Condemn Plan by Madison Realty Capital to Demolish Landmarked 1848 Greenwich Village Building for 244 ft. Tall Pied-a-Terre Tower for Super-Rich
…Young of Tenants Taking Control, a coalition of tenants in buildings owned by Madison Realty Capital, said: “Tenants Taking Control has been dealing with Madison Realty Capital for over four years,…
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When Four “Els” Ran Overhead On Our Streets
From the late nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth century, four elevated rail lines ran above the streets of our neighborhoods. The Library of Congress archival collections holds a c. 1881…
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Happy Holidays from Village Preservation — You Make Our Work Possible
…our neighborhoods Track, share, and review scores of applications for proposed changes to landmarked buildings in our neighborhoods every year, so the public can be informed and participate in the…
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Upzoning SoHo and NoHo
…neighborhood character. The SoHo/NoHo Rezoning: Tenants in the Crosshairs Read our series of profiles about the low- and moderate-income rent-regulated tenants in the rezoning area that the de Blasio rezoning…
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South Village Tenement to Become Single-Family Mansion?
…buildings have been a cause of increasing complaints in Manhattan, with many tenants claiming owners place illegal hotels in their buildings to make it difficult or impossible for tenants to…
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Advocacy Made Easy On Our New Website
…Village to far West Village and everything in between. Some issues transcend just one area, and so we have also created a category “Multiple Neighborhoods” that you can scan through…
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Few Republicans, And One Big Political Paradox, in the Village
…almost the entirety of the neighborhoods GVSHP covers — the Village, East Village, Hudson Square, NoHo, and the Meatpacking District — are a broad swath of the lightest pink, which…
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2014 Year In Review: GVSHP Programs
…sites that reveal the neighborhood’s contributions to activism, reform, and social change. The walk will focus on some of the men and women who have consciously—and sometimes through chance—contributed to…
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Five More Reasons to Support Historic Preservation
We all know that historic preservation makes our cities and neighborhoods more beautiful, more distinctive, and full of the character which makes them vibrant, desirable places to live. Our neighborhoods…
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City’s SoHo/NoHo Rezoning Plan Includes Part of Chinatown, and Hundreds of Rent Regulated Units Could Be Lost
…Lower Manhattan Loft Tenants, 318 Restaurant Workers Union and… RSVP HERE In the fall of 2020, the de Blasio administration announced its plans to rezone the neighborhoods of SoHo and NoHo, saying…
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Village Remains Tops for Artists in NYC
…though the reputation for those neighborhoods is slightly newer (about fifty years, as opposed to well over a hundred for the Village). The list of notable creative types who’ve made…
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May is Jewish American Heritage Month and Asian American/Pacific Islander Heritage Month — Explore Both With VP!
…leaders of the last two centuries called our neighborhoods home? Here’s a few ways to explore our neighborhoods’ Jewish History: Take the Jewish History tour on our Greenwich Village Historic…
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M1-5 What? A Lofty History of Zoning in SoHo and NoHo
…tenants had replaced many of the neighborhood’s galleries – a number of which had moved to Chelsea – and buildings in the neighborhood started to routinely house retail on the…
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City Releases “Special Permit” Requirement Proposal For Hotels South of Union Square; Plan Would Promote Office Tower Development and Destruction of Historic Buildings, Expands “Midtown South” to Greenwich Village and East Village, Rewards Mayor’s Campaign Donors and Fails to Deliver on Rivera’s Neighborhood Protection Campaign Pledge
…for new office tower development resulting from this plan that would entail the destruction of multiple historic 19th-century buildings that housed artists including Willem de Kooning and Reginald Marsh —…
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Testimonials
…Deal Magazine “An inspiration to other preservation organizations.” – The Preservation League of NYS “A model of advocacy for other neighborhoods.” – NY Landmarks Conservancy “In terms of outreach and…
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“Not Another Starbucks” Rally Today
…study of how many blocks do you have to walk to find one: http://www.residentmar.io/2016/02/09/average-chain-distance.html Chains promote homogeneity, take money out of neighborhoods and lead to vacancies as landlords wait for…
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Tenement House Act of 1901
…of 1901 was enacted. Though you may not be familiar with this law, its impact and legacy in neighborhoods like Greenwich Village and the East Village cannot be understated, as…
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Holiday Shopping in the Village
…more about small businesses in our neighborhoods, check out our “Small Businesses Thrive in Landmarked Neighborhoods” series that promotes and highlights small, independently owned shops that offer unique products and…
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Facts and Data Continue To Contradict Upzoning Argument
…recent survey shows no such correlation, with prices as high or higher in neighborhoods without such restrictions that are adjacent to those with. From Property Shark’s analysis The analysis also…
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The Village is our Valentine!
…Another hallmark of our neighborhoods is the human scale of its buildings. Thanks to the historic districts and other zoning restrictions, our neighborhoods are able to retain their character through…
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The Women of Village Preservation’s Online Archives
…Preservation History Archive. The latter capture in images the history of our neighborhoods and other New York landmarks over the last two and a half centuries, while the former documents…
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Report Shows City’s SoHo/NoHo Rezoning Plan Unlikely To Produce Any Affordable Housing
…the Tenants Political Action Committee (TenantsPAC), said: “The sheer dishonesty of the de Blasio administration in disguising the real thrust of the mayor’s SoHo/NoHo upzoning is beyond shocking. Clearly this plan,…
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De Blasio’s Plan for SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Small Business: Replace Them With Big Box Chain Stores
…to buy out or harass tenants of the 700+affordable housing units in the neighborhood so as to eliminate those units, demolish those buildings, and replace them with much larger new…
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Bringing Graham’s 19 Poses to Village Voices’ “Monument to Choice”
…Graham and Merce Cunningham as two luminaries with great impact on our neighborhoods. Just a few blocks away, an interactive installation entitled “A Momument to Choice” resides at Gansevoort Plaza,…
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Giving Tuesday — Give to Save!
Our neighborhoods are synonymous with creativity, history, charm, innovation, and openness. Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo have been incubators for some of the greatest artistic, social, architectural, and…
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Back to School with Village Preservation: Continuing Education, Children’s Education, and Neighborhood School Histories
…history in our neighborhoods, hear from acclaimed East Village author Ada Calhoun, explore vanished music venues in our neighborhoods and the places where early hip-hop history was made, find out…
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Fall Auction: A First for Village Preservation
There have been countless “firsts” in our neighborhoods: the first cappuccino machine (Café Reggio), the first building constructed specifically to house artists’ studios (The Tenth Street Studios at 51 West…
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NYU’s Twenty Year Expansion Plan, Twenty Years From Now
…Noho neighborhoods. This has created an inevitable tension, because the longer N.Y.U. keeps expanding in these neighborhoods, the more it comes to dominate them. That is why the Greenwich Village…
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A Guide to the Greek Revival, via Our StoryMap
…expanded over the decades which followed. How does this chapter of history 5,000 miles away affect our neighborhoods of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo, you ask? Quite profoundly,…
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Advocating for the Future
Source CBS News You may have seen 60 Minutes last night with a segment about the impact of the mortgage crisis on neighborhoods in Cleveland, Ohio. With owners and banks…
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Celebrating the Impact of the Landmarks Law in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo
…It should come as no surprise, then, that some of the very first official New York City Landmarks under the new 1965 law were located right here in our neighborhoods….
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Hip Hop’s 2nd Birthplace: Greenwich Village & the East Village
…seminal places of Hip Hop’s early days in our neighborhoods and introduces some of the instrumental figures in the downtown world of Hip Hop. While the birthplace of hip hop…
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Good News on Chain Stores for the New Year
…is starting from a high number. Nonetheless, the zip codes covering our neighborhoods continue to, overall, have one of the lowest concentrations of chain stores in Manhattan, with most of…
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Director Miloš Forman’s Life Takes Us from West to East Village, and Back Again
…in avant-garde Bohemia — the land, where only what you read and what you drink really mattered.” Although Forman eventually departed Leroy Street, his biography circles back to our neighborhoods in 1980,…
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Germania Fire Insurance Company Bowery Building
…tenants from the time of its opening, and by 1880, its residents included Irish, German, and Chinese immigrants. Between 1900 and 1920, industrial tenants displaced its residents. The 1905 New…
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The Never-Built Verrazano Street: Community Organizing at its Best
…fell into disrepair, with some residents even losing access to utilities. In order to protest these conditions, a tenants organization was founded. One tenant, Rudy Castore, a truck driver who…
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Village Independent Democrats: Integration in 1960s Greenwich Village
…of Black students from other neighborhoods attending the local elementary school P.S. 41, which did happen, it was not in support of Village students attending schools in other neighborhoods, such…
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De Blasio’s Great SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Developer Giveaway (Video!)
…deficiencies in the plan, in the hopes that it will lead City Councilmembers, especially those representing these neighborhoods — Council members Chin and Rivera and Speaker Johnson — to heed…
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The Vice Presidents of the Village
…our 26th president, Theodore Roosevelt held multiple political offices including New York State Assemblyman, Police Commissioner of New York City, U.S. Civil Service Commissioner, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Colonel…
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Literary Rebels: Five Banned Book Authors Connected to the Village
…the free exchange of ideas are tenets which our neighborhoods not only live by, but celebrate. Below are five authors connected to our neighborhoods whose banner books have made them…
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Why Are We Pushing Housing Policies That Harm Affordability and Preservation? A Lecture and Discussion with Andrew Berman
…country, as City Hall and Albany debate plans to swing open the floodgates to massive housing developments throughout our neighborhoods. We’ll look at evidence from across the city, region, and…
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Beyond the Village and Back: Architecture in Prospect Lefferts Gardens
…by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, and as a result the neighborhood’s historic architecture can still be appreciated today. Walking through this historic neighborhood, one finds a wide array of beautifully…
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Beyond the Village and Back: Hamilton Fish Park
…landmarks throughout New York City outside of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo, celebrate their special histories, and reveal their (sometimes hidden) connections to our neighborhoods. Explore our Beyond the Village…
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David Amram: Inspiring Musicians in the Village, and Throughout the World
While our blogs typically focus on the history of our neighborhoods and the incredible trailblazers who came before us, it is particularly satisfying to write about great artists who are…
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Small Business, Big History: Mapping Neighborhood Stores and Stories, Past and Present
…life are clear — especially when our neighborhoods offer some of the most exciting small businesses around and ample opportunity to encounter sites replete with history and noteworthy architecture. To…
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East Village Rock Tour A: Making Music in the East Village
…more sites where rock history was made in our neighborhoods. Learn interesting facts about album covers, what happened in recording studios in our neighborhoods, and sites that impacted how rock…
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Ensuring SoHo/NoHo Don’t Become Another Upzoning Casualty
…in attendance have been local residents concerned with preserving the character of their neighborhoods and improving quality of life, a vocal minority have been using the process to call for…
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Cats and the Village
August 8th is International Cat Day! From pets to pest control, cats make up an important but often overlooked part of NYC and its neighborhoods. In the Village, you can…
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Our Dutch Legacy, Four Hundred Years Later
…in street names, building typologies, and direct connections to Dutch governors, all of which can be seen in our neighborhoods. Purchase of the Island of Manhattan, Peter Minuit 1626. Courtesy…
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There’s Been A Lot of Talk About Affordable Housing in SoHo and NoHo. Here’s What They Really Mean
…Manhattan neighborhoods. The report — click to read. This may sound benign enough; there’s no denying New York City in general and these increasingly pricey neighborhoods in particular need affordable…
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There’s a Buzz About Urban Beekeeping
We at Village Preservation keep tabs on all different types of preservation, including environmental sustainability. So we’ve been really interested to learn about the expanding opportunities in our neighborhoods for…
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NoHo/SoHo Rezoning Meeting This Wednesday, Feb. 6 at 6:15pm
…and NoHo neighborhoods,” it is important that the public attend, especially SoHo and NoHo residents, to speak up for preserving the special character of these neighborhoods. A second public…
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Happy (Almost) Birthday Off the Grid!
This week marks the one year anniversary off GVSHP’s blog Off the Grid. We launched Off the Grid to engage new audiences in the dynamic history of the neighborhoods we…
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Walking Together: Findings on the East Village Rock Tour
…the unplanned moments that make walking tours with Village Preservation such a fulfilling way to start an evening out in our neighborhoods. View this post on Instagram A post shared…
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Immigrant Stories – America’s Greatest Asset
…the inclusionary history of our neighborhoods and provide ways to ensure our neighborhoods remain safe and welcoming to people of all shapes, sizes, colors, and creeds. It’s the Village way….
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Exploring ‘Queer Money Project’ and Local LGBTQ+-owned Businesses
…you on an exploration of today’s LGBTQ+-owned businesses led by the Queer Money Project — to celebrate both the contributions of the LGBTQ+ community in our neighborhoods, and to support…
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Women’s History Month: Celebrate, Explore, Preserve Women’s History
…and empowerment. This Women’s History Month, we offer many ways for you to celebrate, explore, and help protect the rich women’s history in our neighborhoods: Suffragist Sarah Smith Garnet’s home…
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Celebrating 51 Years of Landmarking
…zoning protections in our neighborhoods. You can also look through a list of every landmarked site or historic district in our neighborhoods here on our website. The list links to…
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May Is Jewish History Month and Asian American/Pacific Islander History Month
Spring is a time for rebirth and rediscovery, and that’s especially true when it comes to our history and our neighborhoods’ rich heritage as a place of welcoming and progressive…
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Potential SoHo/NoHo Rezoning
The NoHo and SoHo neighborhoods, showing the area covered by their unique M1-5A and B zoning. Borough President Gale Brewer, the Department of City Planning, and City Councilmember Margaret Chin…
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Woman Crush Wednesday: Jane Jacobs
…in the neighborhoods to know what would best suit their communities. She advocated for mixed-use neighborhoods and believed in preserving or transforming old buildings where possible, rather than tearing them down and…
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Celebrating the Long Life of our Business of the Month Initiative
…Small businesses are the heart of our communities. Not only are they important for the economy, but even more significantly, their variety and unique qualities bring vitality to our neighborhoods,…
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Mid-Year Appeal: Help Us Do More When It’s Needed Most!
…our neighborhoods Recognize and protect our neighborhoods’ rich civil rights history, including African American, women’s, and LGBTQ+ history Show the positive relationship between preservation and affordability Our rally before the…
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Jane Jacobs, the Enduring “Anti-Planner”
…city and threatened to overhaul many of the historic neighborhoods that remained standing. (a Webinar featuring: Susan Fainstein, Senior Research Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design; Christine Boyer,…
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Help Keep the Progress Going! Support Preservation and VP’s Mid-Year Appeal
…our neighborhoods. Informed and engaged the public about plans for a new affordable housing development at 388 Hudson Street, which may be anywhere from 12 to 35 stories tall. Got…
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From our Director: Village Preservation and VillagePreservation.org
…the small businesses and local cultural institutions that define our neighborhoods. That mission seems more important now than ever. After a four-month test run, today we retire gvshp.org, and our…
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Village Preservation Resources for African American History Month
…investigations have enabled us to offer several great resources to learn more about our neighborhoods, including our African American history, including our Civil Rights and Social Justice Map, our East…
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Join Us To Explore, Celebrate, and Advocate to Preserve Women’s History in March
…and against discrimination. We’re fortunate that our neighborhoods of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo have been home to so many remarkable and transformative women, as well as the…
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The Gardens Less Travelled
When spring arrives, our wonderful neighborhoods are alive with activity. Many more people are out and about, enjoying the unique beauty of our slice of the big city, where you can…
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NoHo/SoHo Rezoning Meeting This Wednesday, Feb. 6 at 6:15pm
…NoHo neighborhoods,” it is important that the public attend, especially SoHo and NoHo residents, to speak up for preserving the special character of these neighborhoods. A second public meeting…
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South Village Reminiscing
…had actually spent their entire lives there. Some say that Greenwich Village, unlike most other New York City neighborhoods, really is like a little village in some ways. It seems…
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2017 Village Awardee: GOLES
…advocate around environmental justice, employment services and training, and services for seniors. Few neighborhoods face as much pressure for change as those which GOLES serves. They have a dedicated executive…
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Demolition of Affordable Housing, and Landmarking
There are many tactics that developers may use to get rid of tenants, or to make conditions easier for them to push them out, in order to assist with demolition…
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Just Say No to Illegal Rooftop Additions at 514-516 East 6th Street
…floors to buildings in historic neighborhoods negatively impacts the sense of place and character of the streetscape. The buildings at 514-516 East 6th Street are located in an area of…
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Board of Standards and Appeals Green Lights Rooftop Additions in East Village
…the low-rise character of the East Village and a number of issues related to the Multiple Dwelling Law and the NYC Building Code. Built in 1859 as five-story tenements by…
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Support Small Businesses, Today at City Hall
…services and products to neighborhoods, but keep more revenue local. One unfortunate example we highlighted recently was the latest Starbucks in an NYU-owned property pushing out a small sandwich and…
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The 2010 Census — Highs and Lows
…mysterious decreases in population in immigrant-heavy neighborhoods of Brooklyn and Queens. Of course these findings are being challenged, though changes in final census numbers are rare. Census Map from the…
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More Pushback on NoHo-SoHo Zoning Plan
…the NoHo and SoHo neighborhoods. Again the overwhelming sentiment expressed by residents gathered was skepticism about the process, the motivations behind the push, and the potential outcome of a possible rezoning. And…
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Community Alternative Rezoning Plan For SoHo And NoHo — Public Hearings 12/3 And 12/8
…it fails to account for the many current rent stabilized and loft law tenants, as well as small businesses, which are likely to be pushed out by the proposed changes…
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Community Alternative Rezoning Plan For SoHo And NoHo — Public Hearings 12/3 And 12/8
…it fails to account for the many current rent stabilized and loft law tenants, as well as small businesses, which are likely to be pushed out by the proposed changes…
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Celebrating the Preservationists of the Greenwich Village Historic District
…in the district, illuminating how the streetscapes have evolved over five decades. The map also includes 27 themed tours that spotlight the neighborhood’s rich and varied significance: as a gathering…
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Three Up, Three Down: Explore Our Greek Revival Heritage in Six Buildings
…that sent New Yorkers to venture out from the tip of Lower Manhattan to seek out the healthier, more sparsely settled areas to the north that became our neighborhoods. Mix…
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Dr. Simon Baruch and the Bathhouse Movement
The buildings we pass in our neighborhoods can offer windows into some rather specific aspects of New York history, and the interesting and sometimes complicated figures involved in the city’s…
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After 10-Year Campaign, Julius’ Bar Is Landmarked! Fight for More Needed Landmark Designations
…writer/director/activist John Cameron Mitchell Honoring and protecting LGBTQ+ and all civil rights history in our neighborhoods has been a special part of Village Preservation’s mission, and the organization has proposed…
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Local Residents Currently Have 20–30% Less Voting Power, but Redistricting Commission Can Change That — WRITE TODAY
Village Preservation has published an op-ed in the Village Sun outlining how the last City Council redistricting process left much of our neighborhoods with 20–30% less voting power and representation…
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