…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…
Read More…MC, cultural ambassador, performer, and curator, she is dedicated to accurately representing New York’s underground music and dance culture. She has been featured in books such as Vibe Hip Hop…
Read More…MC, cultural ambassador, performer, and curator, she is dedicated to accurately representing New York’s underground music and dance culture. She has been featured in books such as Vibe Hip Hop…
Read More…curator, she is 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…
Read More…tara,” a native of the Lower East Side. As a pioneering B-girl, MC, cultural ambassador, performer, and curator, she is dedicated to accurately representing New York’s underground music and dance…
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…
Read More…the masses to underground forms she mined and popularized. The Widow Marycke — One of a pioneering group of African Americans who formed the first free black settlement in North…
Read More…1979 and 1984, when it was transformed from an underground phenomenon to a style encompassing multiple “pillars” that gained worldwide exposure. And many key elements of that transformation took place…
Read MoreLocation: Comedy Cellar at the Village Underground, 130 West 3rd St, New York, NY 10012. Join us for a special night of comedy benefitting Village Preservation & The Rebecca Daniels Scholarship….
Read MoreJoin us next week for our Sixth Annual Village Preservation Comedy Night fundraiser at the Comedy Cellar at the Village Underground, 130 West 3rd Street (MacDougal Street/Sixth Avenue). Comedy has…
Read More…Ritchie Havens, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard, and the Velvet Underground. It is still a popular music venue, with a house band playing five nights a week. In December 2016,…
Read More…the establishment provided a notable home and nest for beat poets, comedians, and folk musicians alike looking to hone their craft. This small, underground venue gave Bob Dylan his first job, playing…
Read More…historic sites in our neighborhoods, to past programs about the Underground Railroad, Black Bohemia, the first black theater in America, and the “Little Africa” neighborhood located in the heart of…
Read More…with avant-garde theaters, experimental art galleries, and underground music venues popping up throughout the neighborhood. The Times article stated “Another old Village tradition – the off-Broadway theatre – is also…
Read More…excavation and underground construction to ensure the integrity of the house and neighboring structures. Please note: At this time, all LPC public hearings and meetings are hybrid. Members of the public…
Read More…birth of both modern theater and the early 20th century underground press, via the Provincetown Players and the publication The Masses, both located in Greenwich Village. She also found time to…
Read More…of underground and counterculture movements. The Eye appeared at just the right time, capturing the rise of several influential scenes as they flourished in the bohemian landscape of the village….
Read More…the masses to underground forms she mined and popularized. The Widow Marycke — One of a pioneering group of African Americans who formed the first free black settlement in North…
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 MoreUnderground Railroad Church Once Located in Greenwich Village Led Abolitionist Cause John Brown and Edmonia Lewis: Civil Rights Crusaders Who Intersected in Greenwich Village Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: 814 Broadway…
Read More…Village, due in part to the existence of Minetta Creek, a stream that exists underground today, and partly follows the existing Minetta Street in the West Village. The Minetta creek…
Read More…surely ignite your yule log. Bootscrape Entertainment’s Literary Pub Crawl has in-depth knowledge and an underground cult status that has been bringing passion for history, literature, and drinking to the…
Read More…and musicians like Andy Warhol and The Velvet Underground. Darling was an influential Downtown character throughout the 1960s, often interacting with its creative scene through Seymour Levy’s “Salon” on Bleecker…
Read More…the headquarters for the Yippies. Hoffman often spoke of the East Village as “the real hip underground, the successor to Greenwich Village as the heartland of bohemianism.” In Hoffman’s mind,…
Read More…the block once believed the street honored Sydney Howard Gay, the editor of The National Anti-Slavery Standard and a key operative in the Underground Railroad, which may have included stops…
Read More…sexual education and exploration and that his actions largely criminalized radical expressions of sexuality, driving BDSM & Queer cultures underground and further exposing their members to sexually transmited infections. Freddie…
Read More…of African American historic sites in our neighborhoods, to past programs about the Underground Railroad, Black Bohemia, the first black theater in America, and the “Little Africa” neighborhood located in…
Read More…still able to aid the abolitionist cause by becoming a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad in the 1840s. John Brown Mural at Kansas State Capitol by John Steuart Curry. In…
Read More…the crowd. Gay power had surfaced. Sick and tired of police harassment, of prehistoric sodomy laws, of “park protection” in Queens (Queens!), and of vicious busts in the underground haunts…
Read More…and helped introduce the masses to underground forms she mined and popularized. The Widow Marycke — One of a pioneering group of African Americans who formed the first free black…
Read More…by association to multiple waves of countercultural movements that took root in the neighborhood. Customers found there a go-to place for underground magazines, cigarettes, and, of course, their legendary egg…
Read More…underground formed here, and painters, writers, and jazz musicians joined forces to stage an assault on the very definitions of art, music, literature, and theater.” In fact, those who played…
Read More…like Mad, and sold his comics on street corners. Before long, he became involved with the underground, countercultural comix scene, contributing the publications including The East Village Other, previously located…
Read More…Underground Railroad, and were members of the abolitionist movement. As we move into the 19th century, we’ll share history, arts, culture, and activism of Black communities in New York City…
Read More…War, participated in the Underground Railroad, and were members of the abolitionist movement. As we move into the 19th century, we’ll share history, arts, culture, and activism of Black communities…
Read More…churches and schools, and created their own culture. Learn about Black Americans from our neighborhoods who fought in the Civil War, participated in the Underground Railroad, and were members of…
Read More…Civil War, participated in the Underground Railroad, and were members of the abolitionist movement. As we move into the 19th century, we’ll share history, arts, culture, and activism of Black…
Read More…Haley, James Baldwin, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, to tours of African American historic sites in our neighborhoods, to past programs about the Underground Railroad, Black Bohemia, the first black theater in…
Read More…own culture. Learn about Black Americans from our neighborhoods who fought in the Civil War, participated in the Underground Railroad, and were members of the abolitionist movement. As we move…
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Read More…non-sectarian burial grounds in Manhattan, this historic cemetery contains 258 underground burial vaults. Many people of note were laid to rest here, including Uriah Scribner, father of the publisher; Aaron Clark,…
Read More…cultural institutions, schools and businesses in Greenwich Village and the surrounding area. The presentation will also review the beginnings of the abolitionist movement and the development of the Underground Rail…
Read More…Theater, which, according to the designation report, were “noted venues for experimental theater, contemporary music and dance, and early underground films”. Th report also states: “from 1969 to at least…
Read More…when an underground water main ruptures, disrupting traffic for days. But what is the story behind the New York City water supply system? photo source: manhattanwalkblog.com There was a time…
Read More…From the Lowest East Side History Project. The Lenape seasonally occupied the southwest region of the Village, due in part to the Minetta Creek, a stream that exists underground today,…
Read More…viable, disbanded. Folk music—left-wing and socially conscious—was largely driven underground during 1950-1955, with many of its leading performers, like Seeger, blacklisted. They continued, however, to meet at Washington Square Park…
Read More…his fellow Weavers placed under FBI surveillance, folk music was largely driven underground. In Greenwich Village, they were still able to meet in Washington Square Park, and sustain a community…
Read More…Medusa-like powers to good use, first as a lesbian activist, and later, as an independent journalist and monger of extremely underground art. Now, a twenty year resident of 1st Street,…
Read More…Although Prohibition could have killed the momentum of the parties, in fact, it had the opposite effect. As liquor consumption was driven underground, Webster Hall became a speakeasy, and the…
Read More…of four massive buildings, including the largest building ever constructed in Greenwich Village, as well as an enormous underground complex below the block bounded by Bleecker, West 3rd, and Mercer…
Read More…photos were taken between sunset and sunrise, when the neighborhood revealed an underground counterculture that was not experienced by the general population. And on Wednesday, July 29th, our series…
Read More…on Wednesday, February 24th, we will present a book talk with Donald Papson and his new book, “Secret Lives of the Underground Railroad in New York City.” His talk will…
Read More…built underground pipes to provide the West Washington Market with refrigeration of fresh meat and poultry, another boon to the already booming food industry. Manhattan Refrigerating Company, early 1920s [source:…
Read More…additions to the Washington Square Village superblock – two large buildings and an enormous underground complex – will destroy much of what SHPO found significant about it. A particularly painful…
Read More…and brothels throughout New York City. In spite of this, prostitution remained lucrative and pervasive until the 1920’s when it would go underground due in part to progressive reform laws….
Read More…the works is the proposal for an underground park in Manhattan known as the Lowline. The location was used until 1948 as a station and balloon loop for trolleys. The…
Read More…but also explores the relationship between toys, art, and pop culture and design through their own art gallery, TT Underground. The Uncommons The Uncommons. Photo courtesy of Trip Advisor….
Read More…hall where the Velvet Underground played its first gigs under manager Andy Warhol (and the St. Mark’s Place thrift shop where Warhol often shopped) and the former Fillmore East, the…
Read More…the issue and take action today to ensure we’re successful in this goal. Paris is Burning exposed an entirely new audience to the underground LGBTQ scene of the mid-1980s. Its…
Read More…to the construction of the Interborough Rapid Transit subway (IRT). The IRT was New York’s first underground railway and, upon its completion, carried travelers in electrified trains from City Hall…
Read More…club eventually became known as an incubator for underground groups in the punk and rock scene, giving starts to such acts as The Ramones, Blondie, Patti Smith, and the Talking…
Read More…3rd, the Velvet Underground at the Bizarre to the left, the Magicians and Spoonful and UFO and Blues Magoos echoing right, from the Night Owl…Past the Cafe Wha?, where Jimmy…
Read More…us. Did you know that one of the results of the famous “Blizzard of ‘88” was that the city of New York moved all utility cables (phone, electricity, etc.) underground?…
Read More…Bluegrass Blues and Other Music for Uplifting Gormandizers.” The club was an incubator for underground groups in the punk and rock scene, giving starts to such acts as The Ramones,…
Read More…such regulars that they received there mail there. Samuel Gompers described the saloon as “the post office and information center for the underground of revolution.” Schwab’s activism did not end…
Read More…underground, as they have in some cases. We have also urged the MTA to look towards other successful models of similar structures they have created in the past in our…
Read More…on the site of what is now the Trump SoHo Condo Hotel, the construction of which GVSHP fought; in 2006, Trump’s workers disturbed the former church’s graveyard which was underground…
Read More…killed the momentum of the parties, in fact, it had the opposite effect. As liquor consumption was driven underground, Webster Hall became a speakeasy, and the legends of the parties…
Read More…the motion of which was powered by steam generators located in buildings along the line. The elevated line, which was constructed during the same years as Alfred Beach’s peculiar underground…
Read More…OMFUG, which stood for “Country Bluegrass Blues and Other Music for Uplifting Gormandizers” actually belied the club’s status as an incubator for underground groups in the punk and rock scene….
Read More…that earth burials contributed to disease, marble vaults constructed of Tuckahoe Marble were built ten feet underground in the excavated interior of the block bounded by Second Avenue, Second Street,…
Read More…Unsilent Night proved to be the most magical 45 minutes I have ever spent meandering through the Village streets. Unsilent Night 2011, by Taylor Davidson: taylordavidson.com/writing/2011/12/18/unsilent-night/ Though this underground tradition…
Read More…forms at the base.” The buildings are separated by the Sasaki Garden, which sits atop a 650-car underground parking garage. Designed by the firm of Sasaki, Walker, and Associates, this…
Read More…storage facility of the Manhattan Refrigeration Company. Believe it or not, before the days of refrigeration, this massive structure produced chilled air that was pumped through underground pipes to the…
Read More…the The Slaughtered Lamb on West 4th Street. 1960’s working with Andy Warhol, The Velvet Underground, and others in Greenwich Village and the East Village (3 degrees). Bacon worked with…
Read More…for “Country Bluegrass Blues and Other Music for Uplifting Gormandizers” actually belied the club’s status as an incubator for underground groups in the punk and rock scene. The Ramones, Blondie,…
Read More…rowhouse with a remarkable place in our nation’s history as the only documented site of the Underground Railroad in Manhattan and a target of the New York City Draft Riots…
Read More…reported that underground grease traps overflowed and worsened the building’s damage. The water was five and a half feet and there was septic overflow as well. Eater interviewed the restaurant’s…
Read More…40 inches in some areas. That historic storm was the impetus behind burying telegraph and telephone infrastructure underground. Tompkins Square Park after the storm via EV Grieve For the most…
Read More…to Varick Street, which coincided with the building of the West Side IRT underground along this same route. Previously 7th Avenue did not extend below 11th Street and Varick Street…
Read More…New York City deserves to be protected because of its connection to LGBT history, the way it has for underground railroad sites, the African Burial Ground, the Apollo Theater, or…
Read More…performance art in this space that launched the careers of the Velvet Underground, among many others. The building started as several townhouses which were merged first into a German social…
Read More…156 underground vaults were created of Tuckahoe marble, from which the cemetery received its name, and marble plaques were installed along the stone walls you see above. These photos also…
Read More…helped investigate the disaster. In the 1960s, as the immigrant neighborhood of the East Village was being discovered by new residents, the second floor apartment was occupied by underground music…
Read More…Velvet Underground held forth in Andy Warhol’s Exploding Plastic Inevitable. Jimi Hendrix and the Grateful Dead played there as well. In addition, Teddy Roosevelt appointed his good friend Lt. Joseph…
Read More…NYCHA locations (though not First Houses). The desperate need for open green space has led people to explore the creation of underground parks. As in many New York City Housing Authority…
Read More…discussion on Warhol’s Greenwich Village. Explore the rock ‘n’ roll beginnings of the Velvet Underground, the filmic and theatrical interludes of Warhol’s Silver Factory productions, and become part of the…
Read More…known as the “Freedom Church” because of its prominent role in the abolitionist movement, and many conference churches – including the original A.M.E. church – became stations on the Underground…
Read More…the original ceramic patterns of 1904 station mosaics—and made installations at the station’s underground level. To learn more about the history and architecture of the Astor Place station, click here….
Read More…I always say that the beginning of the FUN was when I met FAB 5 FREDDY in 1981. I was starring in my punk rock spectacular Underground U.S.A. in it’s…
Read More…Heights. A plaque on 157 Willow Street says that it hid an underground storage space that was used to hide runaway slaves as they escaped northward to Canada. Miller left…
Read More…Street (as long as he wore long sleeves), lived with Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe, and hung out with Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Bob Dylan, and The Velvet Underground. He…
Read More…commercial artist for advertising and created a series of posters for the London Underground. Around the start of the First World War, Sarg, his wife, and his daughter faced anti-German…
Read More…sanctuary for counterculture misfits and underground rock. CBGB became the epicenter of the punk music genre and launched the careers of The Ramones, the Talking Heads, Blondie, Television, Richard Hell…
Read More…made my work.” So begins Village Preservation’s newly released Oral History interview with the unparalleled “Queen of the Underground,” Penny Arcade. Catch Penny on stage celebrating her oral history on…
Read More…praises sung in BrickUnderground, Curbed, 6sqft, Viewing NYC, and The Architect’s Newspaper, among many others. History is never finite; sites and stories in our neighborhoods continue to surface with connections…
Read More…for political dissidents and cultivated prominent social justice activists for nearly a century. At the school, Angela Davis was friends and classmates with Weather Underground member Kathy Boudin. The children…
Read More…looking frankly at the realities of gay and underground life. Read more about Ginsburg in the East Village here. Read more about Ginsberg here. The Saint, 105 Second Avenue Dancing…
Read More…along the way! Literary Pub Crawl’s in-depth knowledge and underground cult status has brought passion for history, literature, and drinking to the Village since 1998. Their Greenwich Village tour is…
Read More…Velvet Underground venue, and some other architectural gems in the vicinity of Tompkins Square Park. Nick will provide sketching tips and tricks as you try your hand at the task….
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