…Voice” by 50 Years/50 Covers – Front pages to remember, The Village Voice. On October 4, 1959, Edwin Fancher, a co-founder of the Village Voice and Greenwich Village resident, spoke…
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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 More…one of Village Preservation’s 2018 Village Awardees. The establishment is also located within the South Village Historic District. Learn more about our work to protect the South Village here. The…
Read More…the Village during this time. Twin Peaks is located within the Greenwich Village Historic District. 45 Grove Street Just west of Bleecker Street, on 45 Grove Street, stands an originally…
Read More…East Village through East Village Building Blocks. Today we’re venturing west into the Greenwich Village Historic District for another musical tour. Map of the Greenwich Village Historic District Village Vanguard…
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10/25/2016 LPC hearing. For more information about this application, click here….
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3/7/2017 LPC hearing. For more information about this application, click here. Also included in 4/23/2013 application, here….
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Read More…activist and longtime member of the Village Preservation Board of Advisors. During her decades-long career, much of which took place within Greenwich Village, Greitzer has had a significant impact upon…
Read MoreDear Friend, Village Preservation’s mission is to document, celebrate, and preserve the special architectural and cultural heritage of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo. That means everything from protecting…
Read More…his renowned film Ragtime is in fact a series of stories based on and told through the East Village, Greenwich Village, and south of Union Square neighborhoods. This is a…
Read More…in the East Village. Baby Yoga (Second Avenue subway stop at Houston Street) The newest addition to the East Village’s long list of murals is the closing trend of 2019,…
Read More…the major hub of the Italian neighborhood of the South Village and Little Italy. Image via the NYPL. GVSHP has looked extensively at Italian immigration to the South Village. Between…
Read More…on Mar 31, 2023. As a reminder, past awardees, employees or trustees of Village Preservation, and entities located outside of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo are not eligible…
Read MoreLast evening, as part of Village Preservation’s Annual Meeting, we celebrated the best of Greenwich Village, the East Village and NoHo by presenting our annual Village Awards. Each June for…
Read More…shop and cafe. While not nearly as famous or intact as similar districts around Mulberry Street or Bleecker and Carmine Street in the South Village, if you look closely vestiges of…
Read More…Bid on season tickets to the Classic Stage Company, the East Village powerhouse Off-Broadway theater and winner of Village Preservation’s coveted Village Awards! Classic Stage Company (known as CSC amongst…
Read MoreWe were thrilled to be joined by hundreds of our members and the public at Cooper Union’s Great Hall for our 43rd Annual Meeting and 33rd Annual Awards last week,…
Read More…around Mulberry Street or Bleecker and Carmine Street in the South Village, if you look closely, or know where to dig, vestiges of the East Village’s once-thriving Italian community are…
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For more information on the application to the Landmarks Preservation Commission associated with this image, click here….
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Read More…theater to the East Village. La MaMa’s rich history is illuminated in these posts from our blog; https://www.villagepreservation.org/2020/11/17/la-mamas-archive-of-experimental-theater/ https://www.villagepreservation.org/2014/06/10/2014-village-award-winner-la-mama-e-t-c/ In 1961, Ellen Steward founded La MaMa. She was hoping to…
Read More…at St. Mark’s Church, on the corner of 2nd Avenue and 10th Street, and one at Judson Memorial Church at the corner of Washington Square South and Thompson Street. I…
Read More…the Village. Here’s the story: Fighting to save the Far West Village April 2004 In early 2004, following our successful efforts to landmark the Meatpacking District, Village Preservation and allied…
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…of Greenwich Village was teeming with new immigrants. Simkhovitch and Greenwich House’s work led to the publication of the country’s first tenants manual and the founding of United Neighborhood Houses,…
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 their…
Read More…is also located within the South Village Historic District. Learn more about our work to protect the South Village here. Café Au Go Go, 52 Bleecker St.: Image courtesy of…
Read More…deep dive into our archives as we explore Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo through these women’s eyes. Jean Polachek Collection Image Archive Collection Polachek. Children on tricycles and…
Read More…GVSHP will publish Greenwich Village Stories — a collection of personal reminiscences about the Village and East Village by more than sixty great artists, musicians, writers, directors, designers, restaurateurs, and…
Read More…the Caffe Cino at 31 Cornelia Street, also in Greenwich Village, was landmarked in 2010 as part of an extension of the Greenwich Village Historic District proposed by Village Preservation which included…
Read More…leader, Koch endeared himself to Village constituents with his strong opposition to “police brutality, air pollution, sidewalk narrowing, the bulldozer approach to urban renewal, the invasion of the Village by…
Read More…history of the South Village is particularly tied with Italian-Americans in New York City: Italians of the South Village Vesuvio Playground: A Haven for the South Village Tenements of the…
Read More…15th. Selected Shorts: Greenwich Village Stories will feature Village residents Parker Posey and Jane Curtin reading fiction set in the Village alongside Greenwich Village Stories contributors Dave Hill, Penny Arcade,…
Read More…to be a caretaker and watchdog for the Greenwich Village Historic District. That mission has since expanded to include the rest of Greenwich Village, the East Village, the Meatpacking District,…
Read More…least the 1940s, and follows the urban renewal efforts led by parks commissioner Robert Moses which led to the demolition of blocks of historic buildings within the South Village. Residents…
Read More…the Greenwich Village Historic District. Click here to check out our year-long activities and celebrations. The Greenwich Village Historic District literally oozes with charm; so much so, it’s virtually impossible…
Read More…the new Zaha Hadid and Philip Johnson-designed luxury towers of lower Hudson Square. The South Village blocks near Our Lady of Pompei church, and some of the Village’s more picturesque…
Read MoreVillage Preservation’s Annual Village Awards, this year on June 16th, have come to be known fondly as “the Oscars of the Village.” The very first Village Awards were held on…
Read More…Greenwich Village Historic District, and only the second new historic district in Greenwich Village since 1969. As early as 1963, Jane Jacobs wrote to the chair of the New York…
Read MoreRose Mendez proclaimed December 2, 2010 to be Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation Day! City Council Member Rosie Mendez recognized the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation in its…
Read More…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 Awards and Annual…
Read More…This above guide is not to say that there was no French history in the Village (the South Village was actually at one time known as the Quartier Francaise, and…
Read More…them advertising rooms for “$40 and down” – are increasingly referring to the area as Village East or East Village.” In 1958 the Orpheum Theatre took over the old Player’s…
Read MoreCalvin Trillin, photo by Richard Drew/AP Village Preservation shares our oral history collection with the public, highlighting some of the people and stories that make Greenwich Village, the East Village,…
Read More…Village from farmland to urban community, crossroads of the world, and home of Village Preservation! In this program, James Nevius took us through a tour of Greenwich Village, the East…
Read More…Square Village For the first several seasons of the show, Ross is shown to live at Washington Square Village, the modernist superblock of apartments built by Robert Moses in the…
Read More…celebrations. On April 29th, 2019, we launched our new interactive map, Greenwich Village Historic District, 1969-2019: Photos and Tours, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Greenwich Village Historic District….
Read More…which was located for many years at 159 Bleecker Street, between Sullivan and Thompson Streets (the site is located within the recently-designated South Village Historic District, though the theater closed…
Read More…Village neighborhood in which she lived. However, in 1969, when the LPC did finally designate the Greenwich Village Historic District, it left out the entire Greenwich Village waterfront and almost…
Read More…14. West would spend her life on the stage and in film, constantly courting controversy and pushing boundaries. Village Vaudeville and the Greenwich Village Theatre Vaudeville is a genre of…
Read More…event Spots Still Available Impressions of Great Establishments of Greenwich Village: An Evening with Artist Lily Annabelle Caleakav, Village Preservation, and the LGBT Historic Sites Project Tuesday, April 16, 2024…
Read More…Session 3 of our Black History in Greenwich Village series will focus on how the demographic changes of the Great Migration fueled Greenwich Village’s role as a hotbed for the…
Read More…Lower East Side and Upper West Side in close proximity, Greenwich Village, and more specifically the Greenwich Village Historic District, is not one of the first places in New York…
Read MoreVillage Preservation Annual Meeting and Village Awards 2020 Each year, Village Preservation honors neighborhood institutions at the Annual Meeting and Village Awards. This fun event highlights and celebrates the invaluable…
Read More…of Village Preservation, Greenwich Village resident, and townhouse real estate specialist for Douglas Elliman. https://soundcloud.com/villagepreservation/martha-graham-village-voices-audio?si=711f59832c164ba8bd69613409ab20f6&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Lorraine Hansberry Lorraine Hansberry was a staple of the progressive, creative scene in Greenwich Village…
Read More…date, and Greenwich Village and the East Village are among the few, if not the only, New York City neighborhoods she references explicitly in her music. No matter your musical…
Read MoreOn June 12th, 2019 we will be celebrating seven outstanding awardees at our Annual Village Awards — RSVP here. Read blog posts about each of our 2019 Village Awardees here. Each year, Village Preservation…
Read MoreVillage Preservation shares our oral history collection with the public, highlighting some of the people and stories that make Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo such unique and vibrant…
Read More…Greenwich Village Blocks before Demolition. Source: New York Times, 1954. The plan arrived to the dismay of many Village residents, who did not consider the area to be a “slum,”…
Read More…Greenwich Village Historic District on Village Preservation’s Civil Rights and Social Justice Map, and from the LGBT Historic Sites Project. Village Preservation’s Stonewall50 Programs lineup can be found online here….
Read More…the South Village and in the East Village. So we had oodles of information to pour over as we took on the task. Let’s take a look at some of…
Read More…on Barrow Street and then Bank Street, both between Washington and West Streets, and both within the West Village Houses complex. West Village Houses along west side of Washington Street…
Read More…York’s criminal underworld. And in the meantime, we get some nice peeks at the Greenwich Village of the mid-1980s. credit: Abe Books The Pope of Greenwich Village began as a…
Read More…landmarks, and their often hidden connections to Greenwich Village and the East Village. Beyond the Village and Back: Manhattan Below 72nd Street and Beyond the Village and Back: Manhattan Above…
Read More…our own research on every single building in the South Village and in the East Village. So we had oodles of information to pour over as we took on the task. Let’s take…
Read More…we have done our own research on every single building in the South Village and in the East Village. So we had oodles of information to pour over as we…
Read MoreVillage Preservation shares our oral history collection with the public, highlighting some of the people and stories that make Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo such unique and vibrant…
Read More…Village Preservation, we celebrate April as “Greenwich Village Historic District Month,” since it was on April 29, 1969 that the district was landmarked, culminating a years-long battle to achieve this…
Read More…Greenwich Village. GVSHP’s 2012 Annual Meeting will also honor seven other awardees for their contributions to the Village. Check out Off the Grid’s posts on all the 2012 Village award winners….
Read More…which he had begun in 1948. The book, set in late 1950s Greenwich Village, included vivid descriptions of life in the Village: “They reached the park. Old, slatternly women from…
Read More…at a club/concert hall in the East Village? Did you know that rappers like Mos Def and Biggie got their start at an open mic show in the West Village? …
Read More…have been her 90th birthday on May 4th. Going at least as far back as 1963, Jane fought to preserve the Far West Village, urging it be included in the Greenwich Village…
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