…the most popular pieces of subway art lies. Photo by Tom Powel Imaging (2004) Installed in 2000, Tom Otterness’ Life Underground features over 130 bronze sculptures emerging from the floors…
Read More…organization called the Weather Underground – or the Weathermen – were building bombs. The historic 1845 home was owned by the parents of one of the activists – Cathy Wilkerson…
Read MoreThe Village’s misfits, we know quite well, are very dedicated, special kinds of misfits. Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground certainly fall into this category. Everyone remembers when they were…
Read MoreOn April 1, 1966, the Velvet Underground and Nico began their residency at 19-25 St. Mark’s Place in the space that would become the Electric Circus, as part of Andy…
Read MoreOn January 30, 1968, the Velvet Underground released their second studio album, White Light/White Heat. Following the band’s first album, The Velvet Underground & Nico, released in 1967, the band…
Read More…of 18 West 11th Street, New York, New York, March 6, 1970. (Photo by Fred W. McDarrah/Getty Images) The Weathermen, or the Weather Underground, had more connections to Greenwich Village…
Read MoreSecrets of the Underground Railroad/Greenwich Village Connections: A Lecture and Book Signing by Don Papson with remarks by Otis Kidwell Burger National Anti-Slavery Standard editor Sydney Howard Gay and his…
Read More…Night. We have secured some of the best comics around – this isn’t amateur hour!!! Starting at 7pm (doors open at 6) at the Village Underground, 130 West 3rd Street, join GVSHP…
Read More…Throughout this blog series, “Downtown Underground” we will uncover the lovely murals, mosaics and installations that line the subway stations of our neighborhoods. In 1985 the MTA founded what was…
Read More…the underground.” Since 1992 Arcade, along with longtime collaborator Steve Zehentner, have created over ten full length shows that have toured around the world. Their latest show, Longing Lasts Longer,…
Read More…locations throughout lower Manhattan in the 19th century. From its earliest days it was part of the Underground Railroad, and was led by a series of radical black leaders who…
Read MoreWednesday, November 9 06:00 PM – 07:30 PM Please arrive 15 minutes prior to the 6pm start time. In-person event, registration required. Location: Comedy Celler at the Village Underground, 130…
Read More…popular outside of the New York underground scene, The Velvet Underground and Reed’s legacy went on to greatly shape the future generations of rock and roll. The Velvet Underground. Photo…
Read More…Underground, the avant-garde rock group that he managed. In 1966, after touring with the multimedia extravaganza dubbed the Exploding Plastic Inevitable, the band recorded its debut album, The Velvet Underground &…
Read More…New York and you might end up in the underground, like people are always saying, ‘Oh, I wish I could be in the underground, but I’m not cool enough.’ Like, the…
Read More…‘Polski Dom Narodowy’ or ‘Polish National Home’, 23 St. Marks Place), where the Velvet Underground performed as part of Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable series of staged, multimedia events (held…
Read MoreLou Reed performing in 2004. The world mourned the passing of Lou Reed this past weekend at the age of 71. Front man of The Velvet Underground, Reed was born…
Read More…Dan Barasch collaborated over the concept of an underground park and explored the 117-year old historic Williamsburg Bridge underground trolley terminal, which extends east from the Bowery to the Williamsburg…
Read More…from a prison in California by dangling over a telephone wire and pulling himself out of the prison with help from the Weathermen Underground. He escaped to Algeria and spent…
Read More…New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements. Here Frank O’Hara caroused, Emma Goldman plotted, and the Velvet Underground wailed. But every generation of miscreant denizens believes that…
Read More…Census. The church has been a strong supporter of and leader in civil rights activism, from the 19th century, when it was also a stop on the Underground Railroad and…
Read More…Richard Hell and the Voidoids, and the Dictators. The music’s roots also can be found in the neighborhood, especially from bands like the Velvet Underground and the New York Dolls,…
Read More…it was New York’s first and only black church for decades, and a stop on the Underground Railroad. Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, and Frederick Douglass were all involved with Zion AME….
Read More…Abyssinian Baptist Church, a leading force in the fight for abolition and in the Underground Railroad. That and Day’s other connections to prominent Underground Railroad supporters have led historians to…
Read More…establishment of the American Red Cross, a prominent umbrella manufacturer, one of the oldest literary clubs in the United States, and the underground/avant garde Downtown film and video scene. Much…
Read More…the infamous riots. 339 West 29th Street, a stop on the underground railroad and target of the 1863 draft riots, is still under scaffolding as the city investigates an illegal…
Read More…an 1845 Greek Revival townhouse was destroyed in an explosion. The explosion was caused by the domestic terrorist group Weather Underground, who were assembling a bomb in the basement. Three militants…
Read More… Page 10 of the report showing the Weathermen House at 18 West 11th Street The report shows new buildings approved in the district as early as 1972, not long…
Read More…Church. Shiloh was a leader in the abolitionist movement and a part of the Underground Railroad. For decades, it was led by a series of radical black ministers, including one…
Read More…the Underground Railroad, and according to local lore, this house and its back house (which dates to at least 1853) may have been used as part of the Underground Railroad…
Read More…Underground, 130 West 3rd Street Join us for a special night of comedy benefitting Village Preservation and the Rebecca Daniels Scholarship. Comedians who will grace the Village Preservation stage have…
Read MoreComics on tap at our next Comedy Night include Geoffrey Asmus, Mia Jackson, and Jordan Jensen. Our Fifth Annual Comedy Night at the Village Underground will take place on Wednesday,…
Read More…including Madonna, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Cyndi Lauper, and more. Decades later, the club is still remembered as a legendary underground cultural space promoting art of all genres: from cinema…
Read MoreGoogle Street View of 19-25 St. Mark’s Place today Fifty years ago this week, the Velvet Underground released their second album, “White Light/White Heat.” Their darkest record, it was also…
Read MoreFrom Greenwich Village and the East Village, we’ll see how punk rock developed — from forebears like the Velvet Underground and the New York Dolls to it’s commercial peak in…
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…jazz acts as well as poetry reading by prominent Beat poets including Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. By the 1960s it was also featuring underground rock and roll acts; it…
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…jazz acts as well as poetry reading by prominent Beat poets including Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. By the 1960s it was also featuring underground rock and roll acts; it…
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Read More…some of the most important strains of the social and physical development of our city, with a special connection to the Underground Railroad, religious reconciliation and cooperation, and the historic…
Read More…Underground as the house band. Ginsberg and other East Village hipsters were known to frequent the Dom in its early days. Polski Dam Nardowy (Polish National Home) at 23 St…
Read More…there were any significant archeological resources underground. Of course, this is exactly what there turned out to be. The graveyard of the Spring Street Presbyterian Church was located on this…
Read More…today and practice their new routines. Owner Noam Dworman also owns the Village Underground, the Olive Tree Cafe, and the Fat Black Pussycat. But it all started back in 1960, when…
Read More…chapel, and a performance venue with the Velvet Underground as the house band? The buildings at 19-23 St. Marks Place have been altered over the years diluting the handsome architecture…
Read More…underground subway system in the world, built in 1896, (London’s is the oldest) and the original station entrances in New York City were modeled after these. Plans for standard NYC…
Read More…for the removal of “three (3) underground storage tank systems”, though no change in use was recorded. The latest issued permit for this lot dates from March of this year…
Read More…underground labyrinth of labs and classroom. Second, in exchange for the loss of public parks, playgrounds, gardens and dog runs, N.Y.U. will have to allow public access to an atrium…
Read More…Mailer. Secret Lives of the Underground Railroad in New York City, Sydney Howard Gay, Louis Napoleon and the Record of Fugitives. Photo courtesy of Amazon.com Burger was born on November…
Read More…this time that underground music icon and Warhol superstar Nico lived upstairs at 101 Avenue A, while she was performing with the Velvet Underground. In 1979 the present occupant, the Pyramid Club,…
Read More…the staff of The Anti-Slavery Standard as an editor for fourteen years and became a conductor for the Underground Railroad. Otis’ grandmother, Mary Otis Gay Willcox, was a well-known activist…
Read More…sides were just up in arms”) and the new structure replacing the house destroyed by the Weatherman bomb explosion on West 11th Street. The Weathermen house, destroyed on West 11th…
Read More…10 feet underground. Most of its burials took place between 1830 and 1870, with the last burial taking place in 1937. Many of the original 2,000 burials were later reinterred…
Read MoreZoom of the 1852 Dripps map of Manhattan, showing the proximity of downtown cemeteries, via David Rumsey Map Collection Most New Yorkers spend some time underground every day as part of…
Read More…to its years as the residence of model/singer Nico, the vocalist on the Velvet Underground’s first album. 9. A Radical “Servant of God” Maryhouse today, via Village Preservation Depending upon…
Read More…a sitar of his making. Which is not to say that nothing has changed there. Before the pandemic, every Thursday night at 8pm they would host an underground open mic,…
Read More…include the home of a famed counterculture icon; a Puerto Rican cafe and theater; an underground shop where celebrity designers flocked for vintage fashion magazines; the office of the largest…
Read More…and collaborator Ted Berrigan, who lived on Second Street between Avenues C and D, was a mainstay at these parties. Friends of the Velvet Underground and Andy Warhol were in…
Read More…the underground Sixth Avenue Line. The El was officially closed on December 4, 1938, and razed during 1939. Ninth Avenue El Ninth Avenue El stop at 14th Street, c. 1940. Photo…
Read More…who led fights for equality for African Americans, and was likely a supporter of the Underground Railroad — quite possibly assisting from this very surviving home. So few sites remain…
Read More…ghosts that linger – all part of the Village’s Literary Loves and its Discontents. Literary Pub Crawl’s in-depth knowledge and underground cult status has brought their passion for history, literature,…
Read More…African Americans. Critical events like the Draft Riots and work of the Underground Railroad in New York and Greenwich Village are examined. Did you know that over 100 years before…
Read More…Pop Underground: Jackie Curtis made the most of the radical shifts happening downtown in the 1960s, when bohemians escaped rising rents in Greenwich Village by moving eastward. A Lower East…
Read More…60s and 70s, an underground network of obscure dive bars and DIY loft venues nurtured an experimental jazz community that rebelled against the hegemony of those larger, established venues. In…
Read More…that directly links Robert Bowne’s niece, Mary Bowne Parsons, her sons, and the home, to the Underground Railroad. A letter dated September 28, 1850, soon after the passage of the…
Read MoreWelcome to art underground, beneath the very streets of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo! We will be looking in (virtually) on nine different subway stations through photographs and…
Read More…underground Off-Broadway award-winning show called “New Wave Vaudeville” at a rented theatre space on Irving Place, where she met Stanley Stuychacki and got involved with Club 57. She also created…
Read More…the advantage of learning from a strong mentor. He came to New York in 1986 as a drummer, playing with underground bands in places like CBGB but paid the rent by working…
Read More…Prison rioters, and members of the Catonsville Nine, the Black Panther Party, the Weather Underground Organization, the American Indian Movement, and many other radical figures and civil rights efforts. William Kunstler, c. 1989….
Read More…literary innovation. Go deep into these movements, locations, and figures, and lift a glass of whatever you’ve got at home along the way! Literary Pub Crawl‘s in-depth knowledge and underground…
Read More…underground service. As planned, the new “Independent” train line put the Ninth Avenue El out of business, and most of the line was dismantled in 1940, with the final section…
Read More…Jim Morrison, the New York Dolls, the Velvet Underground, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Andy Warhol, Baby Jane Holzer, Nico, Viva, and Edie Sedgewick. The clothier frequently outfitted musicians playing at…
Read More…addition. (According to the architects, this is an addition to the cellar only and thus it will be entirely underground) Note that separate applications for work on this building were approved on June…
Read More…deep into these movements, spots, and figures, and lift a glass of whatever you’ve got at home along the way! Literary Pub Crawl‘s in-depth knowledge and underground cult status has…
Read More…modest Second System was proposed, but like its predecessor was never realized. Today, this station only exists in underground explorations of abandoned subway stations (as in this 2016 video by…
Read MoreThe oral history with this icon of the Downtown arts scene and “Queen of the Underground” (b. 1950) covers her life in New York City since leaving home as a…
Read More…Olive Tree Cafe, and Cafe Wha, adding Village Underground and the Fat Black Pussycat in later years. Now run by Manny’s son Noam, Comedy Cellar is enjoying an amazing upswing…
Read More…activity that resonates throughout the Greenwich Village. He has instituted successful educational programs including “Jefferson Market University”, GED and ESL classes, The Jefferson Market Players Theater, The Little Underground Gallery,…
Read More…fifty years, as well as how the Village has changed in that time. He also discusses his experience with the explosion of the Weather Underground bomb factory next door to…
Read More…was published in 1973 it sold 70,000 copies, making it an underground phenomenon. Her work is known for being one of the early literary lesbian novels. Many lesbian readers have…
Read More…Jackie Curtis performance at the Slugger Ann bar, provided by publisher and editor-in-chief Leonard Abrams. According to The Downtown Pop Underground (order it online, or from a local independent bookstore): Jackie Curtis made the…
Read More…of an excavation next door at 36 Commerce Street in the late 1950s that revealed a underground river below the building with thousands of turtles living in it. The theater…
Read More…iconic pop art and graffiti-like style transformed the New York City underground in the 1980s as an artist and gay activist. A member of the LGBTQ community, Haring died tragically…
Read More…are underground rooms, arched and walled with brick. A slab bearing the epitaph is placed over the head of the stone stairway which leads to the surface . . ….
Read More…writers elevated the American Literary movement and helped shape Greenwich Village into one of the most iconic neighborhoods in the world. Literary Pub Crawl‘s in-depth knowledge and underground cult status…
Read More…more outlandish–and the costumes, skimpier and skimpier. Although Prohibition could have killed the momentum of the parties, in fact, it had the opposite effect. As liquor consumption was driven underground,…
Read More…East to West, Lit Pub Crawl will take us through Kerouac’s Village as only they can. Literary Pub Crawl‘s in-depth knowledge and underground cult status has brought passion for history,…
Read More…Riots in 1988, Clayton lived at the intersection of numerous underground cultures, from drag queens to punks, gangbangers to tattoo artists, breathing in the same creative energy that gave life…
Read More…American Literary movement and helped shape Greenwich Village into one of the most iconic neighborhoods in the world. Literary Pub Crawl‘s in-depth knowledge and underground cult status has brought passion…
Read More…liquor consumption was driven underground, Webster Hall became a speakeasy, and the legends of the parties grew. Gay and lesbian Villagers first attended the parties of accepting organizations like the…
Read More…styles of country, bluegrass and blues, CBGB became an incubator for underground groups in the punk and rock scene. The Ramones, Blondie, Patti Smith, and the Talking Heads all got…
Read More…a glass of whatever you’ve got at home along the way! Literary Pub Crawl‘s in-depth knowledge and underground cult status has brought passion for history, literature, and drinking to the…
Read More…Limbo became not just the place to shop, but the place to be. Clientele included Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, the New York Dolls, the Velvet Underground, John Lennon,…
Read More…— were a NYC band who, according to their Wikipedia page: led the underground scene of the 1960s and became an important part of the American counterculture of that decade. The group is…
Read More…dedicated to accurately representing New York’s underground music and dance culture. She has been featured in books such as Vibe Hip Hop Divas, We Bgirlz, Girls Got Kicks and God…
Read More…underground cult status has brought passion for history, literature, and drinking to the Village since 1998. Their Greenwich Village tour is the oldest continuously operating walking tour in the Village….
Read More…on the school’s enormous and bare west-facing wall, which was prominently visible, because it faced a block-long, city-owned lot along Hudson Street that had been vacant during the decades-long, underground…
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Read More…dedicated to accurately representing New York’s underground music and dance culture. She has been featured in books such as Vibe Hip Hop Divas, We Bgirlz, Girls Got Kicks and God…
Read More…accurately representing New York’s underground music and dance culture. She has been featured in books such as Vibe Hip Hop Divas, We Bgirlz, Girls Got Kicks and God Save the…
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