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Celebrating Black-Owned Businesses in Our Neighborhoods
August is Black Business Month. So we’re showcasing some of the many amazing Black-owned businesses in our neighborhood. Like all our great independently-owned businesses, you can patronize all year round…
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Huge Turnout for SoHo/NoHo Hearing, Housing/Tenant and Neighborhood Groups United in Opposition
We had a huge and united turnout on Wednesday at our press conference opposing the Mayor’s outrageous SoHo/NoHo rezoning plan and the Community Board 2 public hearing that followed. We were…
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Responding to the Rising Tide of Dangerous and Unpermitted Work in Our Neighborhoods
…to make development happen. And we’ve seen that trend ever-more frequently in our neighborhood. Just last week, neighbors alerted us to apparently unpermitted work taking place behind the facades of…
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Village Preservation Plaques Highlight LGBTQ+ History Throughout Our Neighborhoods
…in what was then a heavily Italian neighborhood. But by the 1950s it had become one of Greenwich Village’s premiere bohemian hangouts, especially popular with Beat writers and artists. Many…
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Archigrafika: Your Friendly Neighborhood Graphic Designers
If you get GVSHP’s monthly program brochure in your mailbox, you may have noticed something different the last few months. We’ve got a whole new look! The programs brochure went…
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Seized During the Red Scare, This Lefty Archive from Our Neighborhood Is Now Available Online
80 Fifth Avenue at 14th Street is a building with an incredibly rich civil rights and social justice history, about which we have done a great deal of research as…
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New Historic Images Show Remarkable Preservation Progress and Loss in Our Neighborhoods Over the Last 25 Years
We’re extremely proud to share two new collections added to our historic image archive, taken between 1994 and 2001 as part of an effort by Village Preservation and historian and…
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Gansevoort Market Neighborhood
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Foreclosure Ordered for East Village’s Former P.S. 64/CHARAS-El Bohio Community Center as Neighborhood Demands Landmarked Building’s Return
The former P.S. 64 on East 9th Street (left), and Village Preservation East Village Director Juan Rivero speaking at the CHARAS rally on December 17 Christmas and New Year’s came…
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City’s Plan to Halt Zoning Abuse for Supertalls in Residential Neighborhoods is Full of Loopholes – Demand Better
Many of the new very tall buildings in New York City result from including outrageously inflated empty “mechanical voids” inside them, which are exempt from counting towards limits on the…
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Huge Turnout for SoHo/NoHo Hearing, Housing/Tenant and Neighborhood Groups United in Opposition
We had a huge and united turnout on Wednesday at our press conference opposing the Mayor’s outrageous SoHo/NoHo rezoning plan and the Community Board 2 public hearing that followed. We were…
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Fighting the City’s SoHo/NoHo Rezoning Plan – By The Numbers
…neighborhoods significantly less socio-economically diverse, with more expensive housing prices, than currently. While the neighborhood currently contains a considerable percentage of high income earners, it also contains a broad diversity…
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Facts and Data Continue To Contradict Upzoning Argument
…same. Property Shark just released a comprehensive survey of 3rd quarter 2021 housing sales prices across New York City, by neighborhood. The big takeaways: the city’s most expensive neighborhood is…
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Village Preservation and a Dozen Groups Issue SoHo NoHo Community Alternative Rezoning Plan
…work reflects that. We would welcome requirements for affordable housing in new developments in our neighborhood AT THE VERY GENEROUS SCALE WHICH CURRENT RULES ALLOW, and would welcome 100% affordable…
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De Blasio SoHo/NoHo Plan Even Worse Than We Expected
…our work reflects that. We would welcome requirements for affordable housing in new developments in our neighborhood AT THE VERY GENEROUS SCALE WHICH CURRENT RULES ALLOW, and would welcome 100%…
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Testimonials
…Deal Magazine “An inspiration to other preservation organizations.” – The Preservation League of NYS “A model of advocacy for other neighborhoods.” – NY Landmarks Conservancy “In terms of outreach and…
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“Preservationists Call REBNY’s Bluff On Landmarking and Affordability”
…array of affordable housing advocacy organizations and neighborhood groups refuted this sham claim, saying instead that landmarking can actually help protect the social and economic diversity of neighborhoods, that REBNY’s…
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Jane Jacobs’ NYC: The sites that inspired her work and preservation legacy
…that name until the late 1960s) was a sea of outdated and underutilized factory buildings, while the neighborhoods of the South Village and Little Italy were working-class neighborhoods formerly populated…
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Jane Jacobs, the Enduring “Anti-Planner”
…profession and many beyond it have accepted Jacobs’ assessment of urban virtues. And yet, notwithstanding the assimilation of many of her arguments, neighborhood after neighborhood keeps drifting away from Jacobs’…
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This Day in 1984: The Pope of Greenwich Village
…Historically, this neighborhood was predominantly Italian and part of the larger Greenwich Village neighborhood. But in the 1940s, Houston Street was widened to build the IND subway line, effectively creating…
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Village Remains Tops for Artists in NYC
…though the reputation for those neighborhoods is slightly newer (about fifty years, as opposed to well over a hundred for the Village). The list of notable creative types who’ve made…
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The Gilded Village: the Renwicks and the Roosevelts
…neighborhood, changing its landscape forever. Two families deeply rooted in this neighborhood that particularly embodied the change and contradictions of the Gilded Age were the Renwicks and the Roosevelts —…
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Quinn holds the cards on rezoning and landmarking
…a developer which owns 40 percent of the property in the neighborhood, has proposed a rezoning that has been approved by the borough president and the City Planning Commission, and…
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The Village is our Valentine!
…Another hallmark of our neighborhoods is the human scale of its buildings. Thanks to the historic districts and other zoning restrictions, our neighborhoods are able to retain their character through…
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Op-Ed: Preservation Can Help Affordability
…far western part of our neighborhood. That part of our neighborhood, which until relatively recently mostly lacked landmark protections, also saw the swiftest rise in housing prices over the last…
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2011 Annual Meeting
…one who calls the neighborhood home, frequents neighborhood shops, and has put down roots. Cooking exquisite and delicious meals in her small restaurant, chef Anita Lo has been a pioneer…
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Mid-Century Modernism on East 9th
…neighborhood, or the one with the best shops. In fact, it’s home to a rather uniform group of mid-century apartment houses, with almost no ground-floor retail to contribute to the…
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There’s Been A Lot of Talk About Affordable Housing in SoHo and NoHo. Here’s What They Really Mean
…Manhattan neighborhoods. The report — click to read. This may sound benign enough; there’s no denying New York City in general and these increasingly pricey neighborhoods in particular need affordable…
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De Blasio’s Plan for SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Small Business: Replace Them With Big Box Chain Stores
…to buy out or harass tenants of the 700+affordable housing units in the neighborhood so as to eliminate those units, demolish those buildings, and replace them with much larger new…
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M1-5 What? A Lofty History of Zoning in SoHo and NoHo
…tenants had replaced many of the neighborhood’s galleries – a number of which had moved to Chelsea – and buildings in the neighborhood started to routinely house retail on the…
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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: Celebrating Women’s History Month
…world expressing support for our campaign to create a historic district for the neighborhood South of Union Square. To help protect these incredible historic structures and other buildings in this neighborhood, click here….
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NYU’s Twenty Year Expansion Plan, Twenty Years From Now
…Noho neighborhoods. This has created an inevitable tension, because the longer N.Y.U. keeps expanding in these neighborhoods, the more it comes to dominate them. That is why the Greenwich Village…
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Celebrating 51 Years of Landmarking
…zoning protections in our neighborhoods. You can also look through a list of every landmarked site or historic district in our neighborhoods here on our website. The list links to…
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The Birth of The Committee to Save the West Village, Led By Jane Jacobs
…impossible to return. We have in this neighborhood today people of all different incomes. This would not be true in a project neighborhood with its income-class segregation.” “We are 100%…
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The social and cultural Puerto Rican history of the East Village
…seen and experienced in the neighborhood today. From Tompkins Square Park to the Nuyorican Poets Café, here are six of the most significant spots. 1. Tompkins Square Park Tompkins Square…
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Business of the Month: Sam’s Deli, 275 West 4th Street
…history you’ll appreciate. A truly New York thing, the name now connotes a small neighborhood or community convenience shop with food, utterly local and yet universally welcoming. There are a…
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Eight Abandoned East Village Buildings’ Second Acts As Beacons of Culture
…to the well-being of our neighborhood. But still, the status of many East Village buildings remains insecure, and the neighborhood is notably under-landmarked. Click here to learn more about our…
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Ensuring SoHo/NoHo Don’t Become Another Upzoning Casualty
…massive upzonings in these neighborhoods. Consisting largely of non-residents of the neighborhood — some with established ties to the real estate industry — their calls for upzoning (changing the rules…
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New Kid on the Block
…the early 1960s it was a thoroughly modern addition to the neighborhood, but somehow it managed to fit in soon-to-be-landmarked Greenwich Village. Creating new buildings in historic neighborhoods or officially…
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This Day in Preservation History: Save Gansevoort Market Founded
…designation for most of the Meatpacking District, State and National Register of Historic Places designation for the entire neighborhood, and two successful campaigns to prevent construction of a 500 ft….
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When Four “Els” Ran Overhead On Our Streets
From the late nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth century, four elevated rail lines ran above the streets of our neighborhoods. The Library of Congress archival collections holds a c. 1881…
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From the WNYC Archives: Change and Continuity in Greenwich Village
…about change and the state of the neighborhood as a place for artists. As a historic preservationist, I worry about insensitive changes to the neighborhood’s historic architecture. As a historian,…
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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: Elizabeth Olds
…neighborhood South of Union Square’s connection to labor and leftist politics made an indelible mark on Elizabeth Olds’ artistic practice. By renting a studio in this neighborhood, she was able…
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#SouthofUnionSquare: Home to (even more) Trailblazing Artists, Dancers, Labor Leaders, and Birth Control Advocates
…of Erik Hawkins and Martha Graham, who both had studios in the neighborhood south of Union Square. Lewis founded her company in 1968. Protect the Neighborhood South of Union Square…
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Happy Holidays from Village Preservation — You Make Our Work Possible
…our neighborhoods Track, share, and review scores of applications for proposed changes to landmarked buildings in our neighborhoods every year, so the public can be informed and participate in the…
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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: Joann Gedney
…for our campaign to create a historic district for the neighborhood South of Union Square. To help protect these incredible historic structures and other buildings in this neighborhood, click here….
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Business of the Month: Café Panino Mucho Giusto, 551 Hudson Street
…neighborhood, as well as his own. He describes that process thus: I met people from the neighborhood and got to know them. They bring people on a date; then they…
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2022 Village Awardee: Jane Friedman and Howl! Arts
Each year, Village Preservation honors the invaluable people, businesses, and organizations that make a special contribution to our neighborhoods at our Annual Meeting and Village Awards. This year, on June…
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Beyond the Village and Back: Cushman Row, 408-418 West 20th Street
…special histories, and reveal their (sometimes hidden) connections to our neighborhoods. Along with the houses on Washington Square North, Chelsea’s ‘Cushman Row’ at 408-418 West 20th Street is frequently noted…
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Celebrating the Origins of the South Village
…blocks between West Broadway and Sixth Avenue. These wide boulevards are now defining elements of the neighborhood.” While this first century of the South Village’s history gave the neighborhood its…
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For Sale: 264 East 7th Street
…neighborhood, read part 2 in our series of posts devoted to 143-145 Avenue D, which played a critical role in the early development of the neighborhood). The streets in Alphabet…
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A Slow Ride Back to ’75 on East 11th Street
…the Neighborhood Preservation Center in which we are located, and the front door to our offices, are located right over the guy with the fishing rod’s left shoulder! One of…
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Russ & Daughters: An Extraordinarily Ordinary Place
…neighborhood. But in fact, Russ & Daughters was one of many storefronts that served a large Jewish community on the Lower East Side at the turn of the twentieth century…
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The Ukrainian National Home’s Surprising History
…neighborhood was changing again. The 1904 General Slocum ferry disaster, which killed more than 1,000 residents of this neighborhood, devastated the German-American community of Kleindeutschland. World War I’s anti-German fervor drove many…
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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: Peggy Bacon
…for our campaign to create a historic district for the neighborhood South of Union Square. To help protect these incredible historic structures and other buildings in this neighborhood, click here….
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#SouthofUnionSquare — Home of a Counterculture Icon, An American Psycho, and A Chocolate Empire
Our new interactive tool “Virtual Village” brings users on unique and unexpected journeys through the rich historic neighborhood South of Union Square. In addition to featuring basic information on each one…
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Business of the Month: The March Hare, 321 East 9th Street
…to welcome its new owners to the neighborhood and see what whimsical toy catches your eye, there’s no need to ask the fairy. You should. What special small business would…
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The Largest Black Studies Collection in the U.S. — University Place Bookshop, #SouthOfUnionSquare
…Square neighborhood as a whole. Still, it is just one of many sites we have identified as part of the booksellers, leftist, and African American histories of the neighborhood South of…
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Beyond the Village and Back: Architecture in Prospect Lefferts Gardens
…by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, and as a result the neighborhood’s historic architecture can still be appreciated today. Walking through this historic neighborhood, one finds a wide array of beautifully…
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#SouthOfUnionSquare Master Architect: James Renwick, Jr.
The neighborhood #SouthOfUnionSquare can be characterized as a true crossroads — where art, politics, industry, commerce, the New York elite, and the working class collided to create an eclectic built…
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FABulous East 4th Street
…now a neighborhood-wide coalition of arts and community groups supporting neighborhood development while preserving the LES’ rich heritage and creative energy. The East Fourth Street Cultural District is the only…
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Analysis of de Blasio’s Big SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Lie
…it will produce much needed affordable housing in wealthy neighborhoods that have too little of it. For the City, the prospect of new affordable housing has served as both shield…
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Beyond the Village and Back: The ‘Marble Palace’ A.T. Stewart Store at 280 Broadway
…many remarkable extant buildings in the neighborhood South of Union Square that recall the area’s expansive history. Given the increased pressure on the neighborhood exacerbated by the construction of the 14th Street Tech…
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Press Conference Raising Objections & Calling for Changes to Citywide Rezoning Plan
The Mayor’s proposed citywide rezoning proposal, ‘Zoning for Quality and Affordability’ will weaken neighborhood zoning protections. The proposal as currently structured includes many benefits for market rate developments, with some…
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In Memory of Mimi Sheraton (1926-2023), Quintessential Villager
Greenwich Village lost one of its most eloquent voices with the passing of food critic and author Mimi Sheraton (1926-2023). She was a champion of her neighborhood, where she lived…
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May is Jewish American Heritage Month and Asian American/Pacific Islander Heritage Month — Explore Both With VP!
…our neighborhoods. Did you know that our neighborhood contains what was once New York’s first reform Jewish synagogue? That the descendants of the very first Jews to settle in North…
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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: Chaim Gross
…support for our campaign to create a historic district for the neighborhood South of Union Square. To help protect these incredible historic structures and other buildings in this neighborhood, click…
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One Year in the Life of the East Village/LES Historic District
…historic district designation in the neighborhood, and encompasses much of the rich artistic, immigrant and religious fabric that makes this neighborhood so special. Coupled with the designation of the East…
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ONE YEAR LATER, CITY LANDMARKS JUST 3.6% OF HISTORIC BUILDINGS IN ENDANGERED AREA SOUTH OF UNION SQUARE, FAILS TO MOVE AHEAD ON OTHER WEAK “PROTECTIONS” PROMISED AS PART OF TECH HUB DEAL
…14th Street if the Mayor agreed to the comprehensive landmark and zoning protections for the adjacent Greenwich Village/East Village neighborhood, saying “without the needed zoning protections for the neighborhood, [the Tech Hub]…
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#SouthOfUnionSquare: The Upcoming Demolition of 813 and 815 Broadway
…world expressing support for our campaign to create a historic district for the neighborhood South of Union Square. To help protect these incredible historic structures and other buildings in this neighborhood, click here….
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The East River Park’s Past and Future
…lines running throughout the neighborhood. And a new, innovative park was being planned for this poor, immigrant neighborhood. East River Park, shortly after its opening in 1939. Photo: nycurbanism One…
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#SouthOfUnionSquare, the Birthplace of American Modernism: Lucile Blanch
…for our campaign to create a historic district for the neighborhood South of Union Square. To help protect these incredible historic structures and other buildings in this neighborhood, click here….
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NYC Department of City Planning launches new census data map
…two ways of showing data: by census tract or by neighborhood tabulation area. For casual users, the neighborhood tabulation area option offers data in a more familiar format. Why is…
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Business of the Month: D.L. Cerney, 324 East 9th Street
…couple of streets away from their original one. Thrilled with the relocation, Suzi finds in 9th Street the same neighborhood feel that drew the Cerneys to the neighborhood decades ago…
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City Council Committee Approves SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown Upzoning + Displacement Plan With Modifications
…equity argument for the rezoning, lower-income residents of the neighborhood, who are disproportionately seniors, artists, and/or Asian Americans, and long-term neighborhood residents, are likely to face greatly increased pressure for…
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Five More Reasons to Support Historic Preservation
We all know that historic preservation makes our cities and neighborhoods more beautiful, more distinctive, and full of the character which makes them vibrant, desirable places to live. Our neighborhoods…
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More is More: The NoHo Historic District Extension
…the designation of the NoHo Historic District in 1999, GVSHP was a staunch advocate for extending landmark protections to the remainder of the NoHo neighborhood, as were many long-time neighborhood residents. …
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101 Avenue A: From German Bars to DayGlo Stars
…are all still remarkably intact for a neighborhood that has undergone so many changes over the last 140 years. In 1876, 101 Avenue A was under the ownership of the…
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Two Great Maps for One Great City
…Queens, and the Bronx (in the far off distance!). We’ve marked GVSHP’s location at the Neighborhood Preservation Center and the Landmarks Preservation Commission‘s offices at the Municipal Building across from…
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