The 35th Village Preservation Annual Meeting and 25th Presentation of the Village Awards Village Preservation will present its 25th Annual Village Awards this year at our Annual Meeting on Wednesday,…
Read More…some lists of and links to our 2020 programs by category: Top attended Tour Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo Books to read 2020-specific Women’s and Women’s Suffrage centennial-focused…
Read More…in the genre’s history, Greenwich Village and the East Village can boast of being the neighborhoods where all four hip hop elements were presented together for the first time and becoming…
Read More…Village/Financial District” is actually the combined Community Boards 1 and 2 in Manhattan, which includes the neighborhoods of Greenwich Village, NoHo, SoHo, Little Italy, Tribeca, the Financial District, the South…
Read More…Village, East Village, and NoHo’s cultural heritage and built environment. And last week, as part of our free public programs, we started a series about theaters of Greenwich Village and the…
Read More…preservation. Looking up at an altered 1847 Greek Revival house from a previous tour. The Greenwich Village Historic District The original Greenwich Village Historic District covers only a portion of…
Read More…post-World War I era, Millay emerged as a major figure in the cultural life of Greenwich Village, when the Village served as an incubator of every important American literary, artistic,…
Read More…sidewalks swell with Village natives, NYU students, and tourists. With Greenwich Village Stories as your unofficial guidebook, you can tour the neighborhood as some of its most well-known residents have,…
Read MoreThe City is hoping its new hotel special permit requirement will help generate more office tower development in Greenwich Village and the East Village south of Union Square, like these…
Read MoreThis is the first part in a series about low- and moderate-income rent regulated tenants in the rezoning area the de Blasio rezoning puts at risk of displacement. If you…
Read MoreVillage Preservation Annual Meeting and Village Awards Each June Village Preservation holds its Annual Meeting and Village Awards presentation. The Annual Village Awards are in recognition of those people, places,…
Read More…& Radford for the CAS in 1891-1892. It was designated as part of the South Village Historic District in 2013. Sullivan Street Industrial School, 1895. Photo courtesy of the Children’s…
Read More…brilliant tactics, they succeeded. Committee to Save the West Village Newsletter Issue 1 Masthead, dated March 10, 1962, from Village Preservation’s Preservation History Archive Saving the West Village The concerns…
Read MoreThere’s no shortage of sites in the Village and East Village where great makers of popular music lived or performed. Less well known, however, are the multitude of sites that…
Read MoreVillage Preservation Does Jane’s Walk A Walking Tour of the East Village Just as Jane Jacobs fought to save her beloved Greenwich Village, so too is Village Preservation working to…
Read MoreThe 34th Village Preservation Annual Meeting and Presentation of the Village Awards Co-sponsored by The New School This special evening will look back on Village Preservation’s work over the last…
Read MoreVillage Preservation is excited to share our oral history collection with the public, and hope they will shed more light on what makes Greenwich Village and the East Village such…
Read More…in the case of Village Community Boathouse, this does not mean yachts). Recently I spent some time at the Boathouse, and learned a lot. VCB operates on the South side…
Read MoreEast Village Building Blocks/ Morrone Report Talk at Little Missionary Day School Learn about Village Preservation’s effort to raise awareness and appreciation of the East Village’s rich history, and to…
Read More…conduct research to support our mission. The Architecture of the Greenwich Village Waterfront, edited by Regina M. Kellerman, 1989. The waterfront, like all parts of the Village, has a long…
Read More…here to register for this in-person event December Is South Village Month! South Village Italian Americans’ Support for the Arts Tuesday, December 19, 6 pm Zoom webinar Free Pre-registration is…
Read MoreTheater for the New City: A history from the West Village to the East Village, with founder Crystal Field From its early West Village days in the 1970s to present…
Read MoreThe Greenwich Village Historic District, which was designated (landmarked) on April 29, 1969, holds some of the loveliest bits of Greenwich Village within its bounds — from Washington Square to…
Read More…A crucial part of the East Village/Lower East Side Historic District, which was landmarked in 2012, the Anthology Film Archies became a Village Preservation Village awardee in 2018. In 2017…
Read Morewith historian James Nevius $20 per registered login — a portion of the proceeds will benefit Village Preservation’s virtual programming When we talk about Greenwich Village, we tend to focus…
Read MoreGreenwich Village Historic District 50: The Making of the Greenwich Village Historic District In 1969, Greenwich Village preservationists, activists, and neighbors celebrated the victory of the designation of the Greenwich…
Read More…will illuminate many examples of adaptive reuse in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and Noho: the Westbeth artists’ residence; the Jefferson Market Library; and the 1900 St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery Rectory, designed by…
Read MoreVeniero’s Owner Robert Zerilli Village Preservation is excited to share our oral history collection with the public, and hope they will shed more light on what makes Greenwich Village and…
Read MoreVirtual event This September, Village Preservation is thrilled to be launching Village Voices, an engaging installation of exhibit boxes displayed throughout our neighborhoods featuring photographs, artifacts, and recorded narration that…
Read MoreThe Village on Film Presents: Wait Until Dark A Village Preservation Film Series Following our May screening of Next Stop, Greenwich Village, Village Preservation presents Part Two of our Village…
Read MoreLandmarking the East Village: A Lecture with Village Preservation Director of Preservation and Research Elizabeth Finkelstein Part of Village Preservation’s 30th Anniversary Staff Past and Present Series From its early…
Read More…world. With your input, we’re going to select the twenty-five most impactful. Below are seventy extraordinary women of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo, who made their marks in…
Read More…With your input, we’re going to select our Top 25 list. Below are seventy of the most impactful women of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo, who made their…
Read MoreExploring Village Preservation’s East Village Building Blocks Village Preservation celebrates the release of East Village Building Blocks with a special talk by Village Preservation’s Director of Research and Preservation Sarah…
Read MoreVillage Preservation Annual Meeting and Village Awards Each June VP holds a community-wide celebration, consisting of its Annual Meeting and Village Awards presentation. The Village Awards recognize the very special…
Read More…Gross Foundation in collaboration with Village Preservation, this program will discuss Greenwich Village as a space of collective memory and an important site of preservation in New York City. Greenwich…
Read More…world. With your input, we’re going to select the 25 most impactful. Below are 70 extraordinary women of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo, who made their marks in…
Read More…The Village and East Village, which were once country north of New York City, have more than their fair share of former burial grounds. Many New Yorkers are aware that…
Read MoreRedistricting in the 2022 Election Cycle and Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo: An Expert Evaluation by the League of Women Voters Thursday, July 21, 6:00pm – 7:15pm ET…
Read MoreThis is the third part in a series about low- and moderate-income affordable housing tenants in the rezoning area put at risk of displacement by de Blasio’s rezoning. If you…
Read MoreVillage Preservation & The New School Present: Artists and Greenwich Village Series Jean-Michel Basquiat: Graffiti and Glory Brooklyn-born Jean-Michel Basquiat (d. 1988) began spray-painting graffiti art on New York City…
Read MoreOff the Grid is highlighting the 2016 Village Awards winners in the lead up to the June 14th Annual Meeting & Award Ceremony. Click here for more information about the event and to RSVP….
Read More…shaped LBGT culture in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo over the last century and a quarter — some clandestine and illicit, others shiny and open. The Saint, 105…
Read MoreThe East Village Preserved: Breakfast Walking Tours of the Proposed East Village Historic Districts Join Village Preservation’s Director of Preservation & Research Elizabeth Finkelstein for a breakfast walk around the…
Read More…the artistic capital of the world. Join Village Preservation and the Salmagundi Club (one of those institutions which has contributed immeasurably to that legacy) for an illustrated talk with Village…
Read More…in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo, as downtown and uptown mixed, to help launch the ubiquitous genre we know today. To salute and celebrate that history, Village Preservation…
Read More…and innovative arts programming to artists of all kinds and the community at large. More info about the building can be found in our East Village Building Blocks page. …
Read More…for the whole family. The Village Halloween Parade The early years of the Village Halloween parade at Westbeth. Photo courtesy of Shelley Seccombe. The Village Halloween Parade will take place…
Read MoreFoods of Greenwich Village: A Walking (and Eating!) Tour Presented by Foods of New York for Village Preservation Space is limited. Advance payment required for reservation. $25 Village Preservation members;…
Read MoreVillage Preservation Members Assembly: Presentations and Reception with Village Preservation Staff and Members What are the latest preservation battles? What are some of the most recent victories? What new tools…
Read MoreVillage Preservation’s 29 Annual Meeting and Presentation of the 19th Annual Village Awards All are invited to hear a presentation about Village Preservation’s activities for the past year and to…
Read More…and Affordability’ (ZQA) and ‘Mandatory Inclusionary Housing’ effort passed, diverse groups, from South Village to South Bronx, from Northern Manhattan to Chinatown, are spearheading their own local planning visions. https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/…
Read More…South Village all the way to Lower Manhattan. From about 1870 until 1896, Fifth Avenue had a little sister, or extension, south from 4th Street down to Canal Street. This…
Read MoreBooks About Greenwich Village Make Great Holiday Gifts: A Book Fair with authors and their books about the Village Together in one room, we are happy to assemble a collection…
Read MoreThe Village Awards recognize the people, places, and organizations which make a significant contribution to the quality of life in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo. The 2019 Awards…
Read More…for yourself! La Palapa La Palapa Cocina Mexicana at 77 St. Mark’s Place and La Palapa Taco Bar are owned by Barbara Sibley, a chef, artist, and consummate East Villager. Barbara…
Read MoreThe Village on Film A Village Preservation Film Series Presents: Pollock $8; reservations required. Part Three of our ongoing Village on Film Series featuring film historian and professor Lenny Quart….
Read More…and African-American history, and so much more can be found and are embodied in this district. Images from Village Preservation’s Greenwich Village Historic District 50th Celebration In 2019, Village Preservation…
Read More…ET Session 3 of Village Preservation’s new series, Black History in Greenwich Village, will focus on how the demographic changes of the Great Migration fueled Greenwich Village’s role as a…
Read More…Village’s last operating “tenement synagogue,” which in 2008 we stopped from being demolished by Jared Kushner. The first third of our proposed South Village Historic District was landmarked by the city as…
Read MoreSnapshots in Storefronts: Historic Photos of the Village from the Village Preservation Collection This self-guided exhibit featuring images from the Village Preservation photograph collection explores archival images of the Village’s…
Read More…Lorraine Hansberry. Village Preservation’s celebratory map of the Greenwich Village Historic District, created especially for our celebration by the artist Barbara Macfarlane, represented by the Rebecca Hossack Gallery 121 Charles…
Read More2023 Annual Meeting and Village Awards One of Village Preservation’s most beloved traditions is our Annual Meeting and Village Awards, in which we celebrate our achievements of the past year,…
Read MoreOn May 2, 2006, two new historic districts were designated in the Far West Village, the Greenwich Village Historic District Extension and the Weehawken Street Historic District, as part of…
Read More…of Women Voters of the City of New York to speak about the process of redistricting and how it has impacted our neighborhoods of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and…
Read MoreVillage Preservation is honored to be named, along with MusiCares, the beneficiary of the November 19 “Music + Revolution: Greenwich Village in the 1960s” concert at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall….
Read More…an exhibition opening at Jefferson Market Library on April 3. Speakers from Village Preservation and the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project will share with the community the Village’s past and…
Read More…1, 1967. Photo from the Fred W. McDarrah: Iconic Images of the Village & East Village, Part 2 Collection of Village Preservation’s Historic Image Archive. Observing what she called the…
Read More…Village residents, denizens, and those with deep connections to Greenwich Village. With the heady air of half-century nostalgia all around us, we thought we’d take a closer look at the…
Read MoreGreenwich Village and the East Village Rock Tour Thursday, July 14 at 6:00pm ET Free In-Person, pre-registration is required. Limited spaces remain. Starting and ending location will be shared with…
Read More…forty-building, thirteen-block section of Greenwich Village south of Washington Square Park, and the second phase of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation’s (GVSHP) proposed South Village Historic District. The…
Read MoreIt Takes a Village: Greenwich Village a Hundred Years Ago with Mike Wallace Mike Wallace, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, brings us…
Read MoreIn our series Beyond the Village and Back, we take a look at some great landmarks throughout New York City outside of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo, celebrate…
Read More…zoning protections for the neighborhood, [the Tech Hub] would lead to acceleration in out of scale development for the surrounding residential neighborhood.”) The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation and…
Read MoreAll killer, no filler! This virtual tour presents the very best ghost stories of the East Village and Greenwich Village. With tales hand-picked by our expert guide, Andrea Janes, we will ring…
Read MoreWe’re proud to release two video tours of the amazingly rich but often overlooked African American history of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo. The videos look at the…
Read MoreFaint Voices from Greenwich Village: Carl Jung’s Visit to the Village Only months after splitting with Freud over New Year’s 1913, Carl Jung made an eye-opening trip to New York….
Read More…work has helped make Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo the wonderful places they are. If you missed the event, or want to watch it again (minus minor technical…
Read More…the case, however. For decades, it was libraries and their books that provided such knowledge. In Greenwich Village, several fantastic libraries provided neighborhood residents the chance to learn. The former…
Read MoreLast week we were joined online by hundreds of friends and neighbors for our annual meeting and Village Awards presentation. Given the challenges we’re all facing right now, this year’s…
Read MoreEast Village: Lens on the Lower East Side – A book talk with East Village photographers LESPI’s mission is to preserve the Lower East Side through historic district designation; the…
Read More…Manhattan street grid Photo courtesy of Village Preservation Ironically, the very geometric and regular Manhattan Street Grid was born within the very irregular and eccentric streets of Greenwich Village. More…
Read More…visit eBird. If you’re interested in other ways to connect with the nature of the Village, check out one of the many community gardens the East Village has to offer!…
Read MoreIn our series Beyond the Village and Back, we take a look at some great landmarks throughout New York City outside of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo, celebrate…
Read More…work has helped make Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo the wonderful places they are. If you missed the event, or want to watch it again (minus minor technical…
Read More…history in our neighborhood. Below find a detailed description for each tour so you can choose the one that most appeals to you. Follow the Village Preservation team as we…
Read MoreJoin us for the most joyful night of the year, “the Oscars of the Village” — our 41st Annual Meeting and 31st Annual Awards. You’ll not only get to hear…
Read More…We hope you can join us as we honor Bob Holman and the other awardees at our Village Awards and Annual Meeting tonight at 6:30 at the Village Community School….
Read MoreThis is the second part in a series about low- and moderate-income affordable housing tenants in the rezoning area put at risk of displacement by de Blasio’s rezoning. If you…
Read More…bit of a Sophie’s Choice to decide which of these incredibly important commemorations to focus on, but we at Village Preservation have solved that problem. Fortunately the Greenwich Village Historic…
Read More…by the High Line south of Morton Street and the West Village Houses, was not nearly so utopian as for West Village Houses or Westbeth. There, market-rate developments, such as…
Read MoreHistoric German Buildings of the East Village A walking tour with GVSHP’s Ted Mineau The German immigrant community shaped what is now known as the East Village in many ways….
Read MoreJoin Us on June 12, 2024! Each year, Village Preservation honors invaluable local leaders, institutions, business, places, and organizations at our Annual Meeting and Village Awards. This fun and free…
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…to turn this plot of land into a garden. Village Preservation’s then-Executive Director, Regina Kellerman, heard about these plans and thought it would be the perfect spot to conduct an…
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Read MoreVillage Preservation has been offering an East Village Rock Tour, which has met with great enthusiasm and large groups gathering to learn more about the history of Rock ‘n Roll…
Read More…look than the East Village. Veselka Veselka, at 144 2nd Avenue, has been feeding New Yorkers and visitors alike since 1954. Veselka was a 2010 Village Award winner! Known for…
Read MoreCommunity Conference: The Village Past, Present, and Future with Village Preservation Executive Director Andrew Berman The Jefferson Market Library has served as a center for creativity, intellectualism, and civic engagement…
Read More…in our neighborhoods, to support them and help ensure they succeed and last. Our new “Welcome To the Neighborhood” program helps promote new small businesses in Greenwich Village, the East…
Read More…forty-building, thirteen-block section of Greenwich Village south of Washington Square Park, and the second phase of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation’s (GVSHP) proposed South Village Historic District. GVSHP…
Read MoreVILLAGE VOICES II BENEFIT DAY VILLAGE BENEFIT BALL SEPTEMBER 18 You Helped Us Make History Last Year! Let’s Do It Again! Visionary $10,000 You may pay for your support at…
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