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Ladder 7 from East 29th Street on West Street with 140 Liberty Street in background
This image is part of the Louis “Sonny” DeLuccy collection, which is dedicated in memory of Sonny and to honor him and others as heroes for their sacrifice. This image…
Posted August 24, 2021
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Looking north along Greenwich Street across Spring Street, with 315 Spring Street on the right and the Ninth Avenue El on the left, c. 1900
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Posted December 15, 2020
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Latest Landmarks Applications Available: 27 East 11th Street, 17 Barrow Street, 75 Varick Street
Village Preservation provides an ongoing record of all applications for changes to landmarked properties in our neighborhoods (Greenwich Village, NoHo, Gansevoort Market, the South Village, and the East Village) that…
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Looking north on Broadway just north of Broome Street, with 495-525 Broadway on the west side of the street (left, l. to r.) and 498-524 Broadway on the east side of the street (right, r. to l.), 1917
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Posted June 2, 2020
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396 and 398 West Street (l. to r., still extant), along with the rest of West Street north of 10th Street to Charles Lane, 1927
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Posted September 14, 2021
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NoHo East Historic District Turned 10 Yesterday!
NoHo East Historic District map. Source: Landmarks Preservation Commission. Today, the Landmarks Preservation Commission will be holding a public hearing on the proposed South Village Historic District. Yesterday, the NoHo…
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CITY VOTES UNANIMOUSLY TO LANDMARK FINAL PHASE OF GVSHP’S PROPOSED SOUTH VILLAGE HISTORIC DISTRICT!
…historic district extensions, and several dozen individual landmarks. About 625 of those landmarked buildings are located within the three designated historic districts of GVSHP’s proposed South Village Historic District. Find…
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More is More: The NoHo Historic District Extension
…the Greenwich Village Historic District Extension and the St. Mark’s Historic District Extension. Today we are going to look at the NoHo Historic District Extension, designated May 13, 2008. Following…
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Touring Bleecker Street’s Diverse History
…of the Greenwich Village Historic District. In total, we traversed four New York City historic districts including the Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II, the South Village Historic District, the NoHo…
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Continuing the Work of Jane Jacobs
…Weehawken Street 11 Weehawken Street (aka 9-11 Weehawken Street). This 1908 former stable with dwellings above was also landmarked in 2006 as part of the Weehawken Historic District. As cited in Jane…
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One Year in the Life of the East Village/LES Historic District
…10th Street Historic District earlier last year, in January 2012, the designation of these two areas increased tenfold the number of buildings in the East Village with historic district protections….
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One Street, Many Great Local Businesses: Bleecker Street
…our Business of the Month awardees and Village Award winners located on Bleecker Street. 1 Murray’s Cheese- 254 Bleecker Street -Village Award in 2000 These days it seems you can’t…
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Echoes of Eldridge Street Synagogue on East Eleventh Street
…in the Lower East Side, unlike the Congregation Mezritch Synagogue at 415 East 6th Street and the Sixth Street Community Synagogue in the proposed East Village/Lower East Side Historic District,…
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Happy Birthday Greenwich Village Historic District!
…also produced a historic district report, describing the 2,000 or so buildings and the broader neighborhood included in the landmarked district. For four decades it was the city’s largest historic…
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Happy Birthday Greenwich Village Historic District
…included in the landmarked district. For four decades it was the city’s largest historic district, covering hundreds of buildings in one of New York’s oldest neighborhoods. Greenwich Village Historic District…
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Happy Birthday, Gansevoort Market Historic District
…in this historic district on Gansevoort Street. You can read more about this and how you can help fight it here. Today, Gansevoort Market/Meatpacking District is no longer a sleepy enclave,…
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Michael E. Levine Oral History: How the Greenwich Village Historic District, SoHo, and Stonewall Happened
…it designated as the Cast Iron Historic District. Those are really great highlights to look back on fifty years ago.” The Greenwich Village Historic District, designated in 1969 Levine earned…
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The St. Mark’s Historic District: Tiny, But Packed With History
…the original street, which was laid out in 1787. The blue lines indicate what actually remains of the street today. Via Village Preservation. The St. Mark’s Historic District is built…
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Happy Birthday NoHo Historic District Extension!
…As you can see in the above historic district map, the extension connects the NoHo Historic District and the NoHo East Historic District. For the most part, the 56 buildings…
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Happy Anniversary to the Sullivan-Thompson Historic District!
…After a hard-fought, ten-year campaign led by GVSHP, three new historic districts were created including the Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II in 2010, the South Village Historic District in 2013, and the Sullivan-Thompson Historic District…
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Business of the Month: Berber Street Food, 35 Carmine Street
…Month: Berber Street Food at 35 Carmine Street, where you can enjoy both unique Afro-fusion street food shaped by culinary influences from around the globe, as well as the restaurant’s…
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GVSHP’s Village House Tour Benefit Features Homes within the Charlton-King-Vandam Historic District
…as a headquarters for George Washington during the Revolutionary War. The borders of the Charlton-King-Vandam Historic District include MacDougal Street to the east and runs mid-block on the three streets…
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Jewish History of the Greenwich Village Historic District
…Charles Street Synagogue, 53 Charles Street Charles Street was created in the early 1800s, though oddly, for some years, the north side of the block between West 4th Street and…
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New Historic Images from Landmarks Applications Added to Image Archive
…in the Sullivan-Thompson Historic District, the Weehawken Street Historic District, and throughout Greenwich Village. Images range from 1901 to ca. 1980. View the latest additions to our Historic Image Archive…
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Happy Birthday East 10th Street Historic District
…10th Street district writes of the first houses to be constructed on the street: “The first substantial brick building to be constructed within the historic district appears to have been…
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Considering New Buildings in the Greenwich Village Historic District
…approved since then: 703-711 Washington Street (aka 145-149 Perry Street) and 11-19 Jane Street, the latter of which changed a fair amount as it went through the landmarks approval process, including a height reduction…
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Happy Birthday, SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District
…and abuts the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District, which was designated on August 14, 1973. But the SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District, our historic neighbor to the south and east, is nevertheless a…
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Happy 9th Birthday to the Gansevoort Market Historic District
…the Gansevoort Market Historic District. The first new district to be enacted in the Village since the first Greenwich Village Historic District in 1969, Gansevoort Market was designated as a…
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Storefronts in Historic Districts — What You Need to Know
…Council, Meatpacking District Business Improvement District, NoHo Business Improvement District, NoHo Neighborhood Association, SoHo Alliance, the Greenwich Village Chelsea Chamber of Commerce, and the Village Alliance. Before and After The…
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New Addition to Our Preservation History Archive Sheds Light on Charlton King VanDam Historic District on Its Anniversary
VanDam Street from the Evelyn B. Haynes Collection of Village Preservation’s Historic Image Archive. Fifty-four years ago this week, the Charlton King VanDam Historic District was designated, only the fourth historic district…
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38-42 West 8th Street aka 179-181 MacDougal Street
…there is more height on West 8th Street than acknowledged by the Commission (For example. The Sheridan on 9th Street has an entrance on 8th Street). She agreed with Bland…
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MacDougal Sullivan Gardens — One of New York’s Oldest and Most Special Historic Districts
…historic districts to be designated in our area, prior to even the Greenwich Village Historic District in 1969 (only the Charlton-King-Vandam Historic District was designated earlier, in 1966). The twelve homes along…
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Save the Date – East Village/Lower East Side Historic District Hearing – June 26
…Village/Lower East Side Historic District. This historic district was proposed last year by the Landmarks Preservation Commission and its boundaries were extended after GVSHP and other community groups advocated to…
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Explore Jewish History on Our Greenwich Village Historic District Map
…AIDS crisis. Mayor Ed Koch, Rep. Bella Abzug, and President Jimmy Carter Koch called several spots throughout the current historic district home, including 81 Bedford Street, 72 Barrow Street, and…
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Churches of the Greenwich Village Historic District
…Churches are found throughout the Greenwich Village Historic District, and were built as early as 1821, and as late as the 1970s, after the district’s designation in 1969 (one of…
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The Hallowed Music Halls of the Greenwich Village Historic District
…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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Emery Roth (& Sons) in the Greenwich Village Historic District
…57th Street, and the St. George Hotel in Brooklyn Heights, the Greenwich Village Historic District has several notable buildings designed by Roth, and one by his sons. Emery Roth Emery…
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59 Bleecker Street – Art Deco in NoHo
…Street, 1931 Site Survey, from proposal by Beyer Blinder Belle 59 Bleecker Street parapet 59 Bleecker Street, c. 1940, NYC tax photo. The store along Bleecker Street was…
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North America’s First Free Black Settlement In Our Neighborhoods
…of Gracia’s farm was located near what is now the intersection of West Houston Street and Wooster Street, stretching downwards toward Spring Street and eastwards toward Mercer Street. Detail of…
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Welcome East 10th Street Historic District
…Street district writes of the first houses to be constructed on the street: “The first substantial brick building to be constructed within the historic district appears to have been no….
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Supporters Out in Force at East Village/Lower East Side Historic District Hearing
Yesterday, the Landmarks Preservation Commission held a designation hearing for the proposed East Village/Lower East Side Historic District. The hearing room was packed and overflowing with supporters of the district…
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Proposed East Village Historic District Maps Revealed!
…of blocks on and around lower Second Avenue: Proposed East Village Historic District The smaller of the districts encompasses the entire blockfront on the north side of East 10th Street…
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April Is Greenwich Village Historic District Month!
…most historically significant urban neighborhoods in the world. Village Preservation was founded in 1980 to help protect the Greenwich Village Historic District (we’ve since expanded our mission to include all…
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The Delightful Dormers of the Greenwich Village Historic District
…in the Greenwich Village Historic District. Grove Street row of dormers. Dormer windows perch elegantly on some of the older buildings in the district. A dormer is a small structure…
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A Poet, A Bookseller, and the Father of Social of Social Security: New Additions to the Greenwich Village Historic District 1969-2019 Photos and Tours Map
…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….
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Even More Charm Added to Greenwich Village Historic District Tour
…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. In the months since we…
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Edward Hopper’s Greenwich Village Historic District
…were within what would decades later become the Greenwich Village Historic District. Three remain standing while one was demolished. The images below are featured on our Greenwich Village Historic District:…
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A Stroll Down West 14th Street: Commerce and Industry
West 14th Street has a multilayered history, preserved in its architecture, which reflects the development of the surrounding area as well as New York City itself. West 14th Street is…
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The Origins of Greenwich Village Street Names, Part V
…Historic District to explore street name origins all over the neighborhood — north, south, east, and west. Washington Around The Village The south end of today’s Washington Street were first…
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Happy Landmark Anniversary: 144 West 14th Street & 22-26 East 14th Street
…now serves as the school’s Manhattan campus.” 22-26 East 14th Street Otherwise known as the Baumann Brothers Furniture and Carpets Store, 22-26 East 14th Street (aka 19-25 East 13th Street)…
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Hearing on ‘Phase II’ of the South Village Historic District
…to fight to get “phase III” of our proposed South Village Historic District designated. This is the incredibly vulnerable and historically rich area south of Houston Street which the LPC…
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Celebrating the Landmarks of Immigration in the Greenwich Village Historic District
…the Greenwich Village Historic District, though all are also landmarked, and therefore like the locations above (except the demolished 26 West 9th Street) are protected for their historic significance. Want…
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Business of the Month: Big Gay Ice Cream Shop, 125 East 7th Street & 61 Grove Street
…Ice Cream’s locations in our neighborhood are in historic districts (the Grove Street location is in the Greenwich Village Historic District, the East 7th shop is in the Lower East…
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25 Great Jones Street (aka 22 Bond Street)
…trees along the streetwall to provide privacy for the courtyard. Bond Street (south) side: On the Bond Street side, the building entrance would be set back slightly. At the streetwall,…
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Happy Birthday SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District
…SoHo-Cast Iron Historic District in lower Manhattan is nearly rectangular in shape and is bounded by Canal Street, Broadway, Howard Street, Crosby Street, East Houston Street, West Houston Street and…
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Landmarks Pushes Back on Troubling Gansevoort Market Historic District Plan For 44-54 Ninth Avenue/351-355 West 14th Street
…Historic District boundary and therefore is not subject to landmarks review. Village Preservation felt strongly that this was an unacceptable compromise of the historic district we proposed and fought so hard to…
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Sullivan-Thompson Historic District gets its Day at LPC!
…historic district Attendees at yesterday’s LPC hearing Already listed on the New York State and National Registers of Historic Places and part of the Preservation League of New York State’s…
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Don’t Forget – LPC Hearing for East 10th Street Historic District
…to come to the hearing and tell the LPC that you support this historic district. What: East 10th Street Historic District Designation Hearing When: Tuesday, January 17 at 1:30 p.m….
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Walking the Meatpacking District With GVSHP’s Historic Image Archive
…1897, No. 7 was converted to a hotel, with a ground floor saloon. This four street intersection of Ninth Avenue, Greenwich Street, Little West 12th Street and Gansevoort Street is paved…
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50 Years of the Greenwich Village Historic District: How Landmarking Has Shaped and Preserved A Neighborhood
…Trust for Historic Preservation This event is fully accessible. This is part of our year-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Greenwich Village Historic District. Learn more at gvshp.org/gvhd50….
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Business of the Month: Carmine Street Guitars, 42 Carmine Street
…Carmine Street Guitars, where master luthier Rick Kelly’s creations both have beautiful tones and tell fascinating stories. Carmine Street Guitars is located amidst a row of small businesses, down a…
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The Lasting Imprint of Stuyvesant Street
…11th Street/304-310 East 12th Street. The street was filled in for the old St. Mark’s cemetery, which had a diagonal boundary which reflected the path of Stuyvesant Street (people were…
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2021 Village Award Winner: Mercer Street Books and Records, 206 Mercer Street
…and Mercer Street Books & Records at 206 Mercer Street, just south of Bleecker Street and one block east of Broadway — it’s a unique experience you can’t replicate online….
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O Pioneers! Two Remarkable Women of Bank Street: Willa Cather and Lucy Sprague Mitchell
…who lived and worked on Bank Street: Willa Cather and Lucy Sprague Mitchell. Bank Street Many of our streets are beloved by their residents and have storied and rich pasts,…
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Rooftop Additions, 315 East 10th Street and 514-516 East 6th Street
Last week we had a bittersweet victory when the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted in favor of designating the East 10th Street Historic District mere minutes after the Department of Buildings…
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African American history in the Sullivan Thompson Historic District
…surrounding 57 Sullivan Street, there was a mixture of blacks and whites (chiefly Irish and German immigrants). 1870 US Federal Census showing 57 Sullivan Street and 81 Thompson Street, illustrating…
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The Artists of the Greenwich Village Historic District
…craft. Many of these artists’ homes and studios were located within the Greenwich Village Historic District, one of the city’s oldest and largest historic districts, established in 1969 with more…
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Artists Homes of the Greenwich Village Historic District
…thirteen years shy of the designation of the Greenwich Village Historic District which would have preserved it, the Tenth Street Studio Building was razed to make way for an apartment…
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Architect George Frederick Pelham and the Greenwich Village Historic District
…Greenwich Village Historic District, which boasts 22 of his buildings within its borders. In honor of the 50th anniversary of the designation of the Greenwich Village Historic District this year,…
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Navigating Historic Districts: NYCityMap
…One If By Land before (left) and after removal of historic architectural detail without landmarks permission. Fortunately that site is located within the Greenwich Village Historic District, and is thus…
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8th Street: Greenwich Village’s Once and Future Main Street
8th Street: Greenwich Village’s Once and Future Main Street A Panel Discussion Part One of our Small Business Series. Historically, Eighth Street has been the heart of Greenwich Village, connecting…
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Press Conference to Save 186 Spring Street: Press Release and pictures
…within a South Village Historic District proposed by GVSHP and supported by many elected officials and community leaders. In 2009 the city promised to consider the entire proposed district for…
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Village Independent Democrats Collection: 1955-1969
…Assembly District South. VID’s candidates were Carol Greitzer and James Lanigan, who this year finally defeated DeSapio and running mate Elsie Gleason Mattura. Also on the ticket for this district…
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Walking Tour: Jewels of the Greenwich Village Historic District
GVHD50 Walking Tour: Jewels of the Historic District The Greenwich Village Historic District is one of New York’s earliest landmarked communities. On quirky angled streets lie 1920s speakeasies, literary hang-outs,…
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Walking Tour: Jewels of the Greenwich Village Historic District
GVHD50 Walking Tour: Jewels of the Historic District with Joyce Gold The Greenwich Village Historic District is one of New York’s earliest landmarked communities. On quirky angled streets lie 1920s…
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Happy 50th Anniversary, St. Mark’s Historic District! Panel, Poetry, Celebration
Happy 50th Anniversary, St. Mark’s Historic District! Panel, Poetry, Celebration On January 14th, 1969, the St. Mark’s Historic District was designated, marking the area that was owned by Petrus Stuyvesant,…
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Bike Tour of the Greenwich Village Historic District
GVHD50: Bike Tour of the Greenwich Village Historic District This exciting ride celebrates the charming buildings and off-the-grid streets of the Greenwich Village Historic District. We’ll take riders on a…
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Small Business EVERY-Day: Mercer Street Books & Records, 206 Mercer Street
…the Month here. And most importantly, go visit Wayne and Mercer Street Books & Records at 206 Mercer Street, just south of Bleecker Street and one block east of Broadway…
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Great News Regarding Proposed 32-ft.-Tall 5G Towers in the West Village, Saving Charas/Former P.S. 64 at 605 East 9th Street, and Bleecker Street Morton Williams Supermarket
…towers proposed for our neighborhoods. Following our urging that the proposed 32-ft.-tall metallic 5G towers at 771 Greenwich/99 Bank Street, 100 Horatio Street, and 100 Jane Street be rejected based…
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What’s in a name? Gay Street
Southward view of Gay Street via Wiki Commons Gay Street is one of the most charming and picturesque streets in Greenwich Village, an icon of the historic neighborhood’s anachronistic character. But…
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