…few surprises about the Village and environs — most of the neighborhood has a markedly low percentage of registered Republican voters. But drilling down a little deeper, we found a…
Read More…at 110th Street in East Harlem, between Lexington and Third Avenues. One of East Harlem’s few landmarked structures (there’s only about a dozen in the entire neighborhood — among the least…
Read More…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. …
Read More…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….
Read More…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…
Read More…the fray, hosting an event to amplify the voices and experiences of small business owners in our neighborhood. We learned so much, told stories, and shared perspectives on what’s most…
Read More…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…
Read MoreEarlier this month, GVSHP launched its East Village Preservation effort, releasing its new website “East Village Building Blocks,” which contains historic information and images for every one of the neighborhood’s 2,200 buildings. Of course,…
Read More…fan of Charles and so on this, his ??? birthday, I caught up with him amidst his busy schedule to ask him for his thoughts on his favorite neighborhood. Charles…
Read More…has enormous implications, not only for our neighborhood, but citywide. In addition to deciding whether or not this massive plan, which will overwhelm our neighborhood, will be allowed to proceed,…
Read More…the surrounding endangered neighborhood. By the city’s own analysis, the hotel special permit plan would have accomplished virtually nothing in terms of neighborhood protections, still allowing the demolition of low-scale,…
Read More…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…
Read More…that the historic scale of the old town can be understood and felt. London Meat and Weichsel Beef in the neighborhood in 2005. The neighborhood’s unique street pattern was shaped…
Read More…is “a neighborhood rooted in small business and creative energy and we wanted to be a part of that. The neighborhood truly feels like a little village. It doesn’t have…
Read More…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…
Read More…the surrounding endangered neighborhood. By the city’s own analysis, the hotel special permit plan would have accomplished virtually nothing in terms of neighborhood protections, still allowing the demolition of low-scale,…
Read More…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…
Read More…of maintaining the neighborhood feel of B & H. Challah por favor! Image via GOLES Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES)– “Good Old Lower East Side” is an apt name for this…
Read More…Village Homeowners was a community group founded in 1960, which sought to preserve the human scale of Greenwich Village, improve the neighborhood’s parks, and protect the enjoyment and amenities of…
Read More…into a park a decade ago have profoundly shaped the way these neighborhoods have changed over the last 85 years. And while photos of its heyday and those of it…
Read More…I. While the Archduke himself bears few of any ties to the Village, WWI had a significant impact on the social and cultural life of the neighborhood and beyond. The…
Read More…Preservation History Archive. The latter capture in images the history of our neighborhoods and other New York landmarks over the last two and a half centuries, while the former documents…
Read More…artists, sports figures, musicians, and thought leaders of the last two centuries called our neighborhoods home? Here’s a few ways to explore our neighborhoods’ Jewish History: Take the Jewish History…
Read More…the blog has many neighborhood contributors that furnish tips and photographs. Those contributors and tipsters are a good part of what make the blog so robust. These are neighborhood residents…
Read More…the neighborhood. Help us fight to promote and protect equitable, diverse, affordable neighborhoods that respect and preserve history and neighborhood character: Tell City Officials To Reject The Mayor’s SoHo/NoHo Upzoning…
Read MoreWe 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…
Read More…that you arrive about 30 minutes earlier. Public testimony welcome. April 27, 2012: This application is scheduled to be heard at Community Board 2 on April 30th. Public testimony welcome….
Read MoreSupporting Small Businesses Village Preservation works to support, promote, and protect small independent businesses in our neighborhoods. We do this through our Business of the Month, Welcome to the Neighborhood,…
Read MoreThe roots of LGBTQ+ life in our neighborhoods are deeper than we even know. In the documentary PS. Burn This Letter Please, which premiered at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival…
Read More…more such rezonings in historic neighborhoods throughout NYC. We will continue to fight for equitable, diverse, affordable neighborhoods that respect and preserve history and neighborhood character. Some useful links to…
Read More…our neighborhoods had to be protected over the objections of this influential and powerful group. REBNY 1965 Letter; click for full letter Though GVSHP was founded in 1980, our organization’s…
Read More…for taking action to support small independent businesses in our neighborhood. If your tenant association or co-op board would like to invite me to make a presentation about this issue…
Read More…more about small businesses in our neighborhoods, check out our “Small Businesses Thrive in Landmarked Neighborhoods” series that promotes and highlights small, independently owned shops that offer unique products and…
Read More…floor of an early 19th-century building, one of just a handful of fine Federal row houses left in the neighborhood. They grew up in South Africa and Greece, and considered…
Read More…historic neighborhood faces demolitions and out-of-scale new development stemming in large part from the tech industry: Learn more about Village Preservation’s campaign to expand landmark protections in the neighborhood south…
Read MoreUkrainians have long loomed large in the cultural tapestry of the East Village. Indeed, well before the neighborhood was dubbed the East Village, many knew a portion of it —…
Read MoreThroughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the neighborhood south of Union Square was a hub for leftist and labor organizing, which manifested in a multitude of forms. The Communist Party…
Read More…buildings in the neighborhood unprotected. While some have cited the neighborhood’s heterogeneity as a reason why it shouldn’t be landmarked, it is clear that the architectural variety and vibrancy in…
Read MoreAn information page for the St. Mark’s Historic District on the Neighborhood Preservation Center’s designation database. Designation reports are detailed documents created by New York City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission at…
Read More…because that was the commerce of the neighborhood.” Interior of Tea & Sympathy. However, in spite of the troubles that have affected the neighborhood, T&S still continues to remain a…
Read More…neighborhoods such special places, while our Annual Meeting also includes a review of Village Preservation’s activities and accomplishments over the past year. This year’s event will be held on Wednesday,…
Read More…were approximately 90 brothels in the surrounding neighborhood. As the neighborhood expanded and tenements became overcrowded, the need for a park became increasingly clear. In 1893, Corlears Hook was purchased…
Read More…can access here. In 1959 Fran was involved in founding two organizations that still exist and serve this neighborhood today, the Metropolitan Council on Housing and the Cooper Square Committee. She fought Robert Moses…
Read More…in avant-garde Bohemia — the land, where only what you read and what you drink really mattered.” Although Forman eventually departed Leroy Street, his biography circles back to our neighborhoods in 1980,…
Read More…blues, the neighborhood which Charlie Parker, LeRoi Jones, and Huddy “Leadbelly” Ledbetter all called home, while Greenwich Village pioneered racially integrated social, cultural, and entertainment spaces, attracting great African American…
Read More…crosses Washington Street into the Greenwich Village Historic District — but the neighborhood is so much more layered than that. Looking west on north side of Charles Street from Washington…
Read More…landed in our neighborhood is the focus of our attention today — Ukrainians! To explore some of the Ukrainian sites in the neighborhood, we’re sharing this East Village Little Ukraine…
Read More…that became the Anthology Film Archives, the neighborhood people kept asking me, “Do] you really think you can do something with this building in this drug-infested neighborhood?” Because many other…
Read More…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….
Read More…fantasizing about the destruction of the neighborhood, here); Edison Properties, a developer that would reap tremendous benefits from the upzoning, and two non-profits (Citizens Housing Planning Council and the Regional Plan…
Read More…transitioning from a high-end residential neighborhood to a center of commerce. This change was largely influenced by developer, businessman, and politician W. Jennings Demorest, who altered fourteen private residences in…
Read More…districts like this retain historic buildings to keep the character of historic neighborhoods. This destruction of our history and our housing is exactly the opposite of what this neighborhood needs.”…
Read More…influenced by NoHo and downtown neighborhoods, but he forever changed them too. As Patti Astor described, Basquiat and artists like him were so important to the neighborhood, their talent and…
Read More…yet another corporate chain store encroachment in the neighborhood. Coming at the same time that a Target is proposed just a few blocks north on 14th Street, it reminded people…
Read More…seminal places of Hip Hop’s early days in our neighborhoods and introduces some of the instrumental figures in the downtown world of Hip Hop. While the birthplace of hip hop…
Read More…code and neighborhood boundaries. Even so, there is good news for the zip codes that overlap with Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo. Four of our five zip codes…
Read More…Photo from the archives of the Neighborhood Preservation Center. We would also like to extend a thanks to the Neighborhood Preservation Center for providing these images of the sealing of…
Read More…protections for the surrounding neighborhood. To this day, she has yet to secure a single additional neighborhood protection nor publicly support a single one. Write Councilmember Rivera Preserve one of…
Read More…as well. The “Multiple Neighborhoods” category includes issues like our Small Business campaigns, since they affect more than one section of our neighborhood. There are many ways to search for…
Read More…of 1901 was enacted. Though you may not be familiar with this law, its impact and legacy in neighborhoods like Greenwich Village and the East Village cannot be understated, as…
Read More…giant in a neighborhood of outsized personalities — an activist, a pioneer, someone who deeply loved her neighborhood and was willing to fight to preserve it. She was a friend…
Read More…neighborhood… Cornell Edwards, 1932-2011 Cornell achieved local celebrity status for his featured role in Twilight Becomes Night, Virginie Alvine-Perrette’s heartwrenching and eye-opening documentary about the loss of neighborhood stores in…
Read More…expanded over the decades which followed. How does this chapter of history 5,000 miles away affect our neighborhoods of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo, you ask? Quite profoundly,…
Read MorePRESERVATION ALERT: New City Proposal Would Slash Neighborhood Zoning Protections; Hard-Fought-For Height Limits Would Be Lifted, Now and In the Future Dear friend, The City has just released a…
Read More…support of some of them. What can you do every day in some way? Visit a local independent shop in your neighborhood! Every month we select a Business of the…
Read More…dum… ba dum…ba dum… Part-bookstore, part-gallery, part-gathering space, Village Works is devoted to celebrating the cultural legacy of the neighborhood and to helping current generations of residents and artists engage…
Read More…Union Square. In addition to featuring basic information on each one of the two hundred buildings located here, “Virtual Village” includes nearly forty themed tours that showcase the neighborhood’s dynamic…
Read More…began to appreciate and value the neighborhood’s historic buildings in a new way, and immersed themselves in campaigns to fight for its historic character being preserved. In 1959, it was…
Read MoreSource CBS News You may have seen 60 Minutes last night with a segment about the impact of the mortgage crisis on neighborhoods in Cleveland, Ohio. With owners and banks…
Read More…battle to try to prevent the wholesale destruction of the Greenwich Village waterfront and Meatpacking District, both of which had recently become “hot neighborhoods” where developers were tearing down low-rise…
Read More…the City takes out its crystal ball and confidently maintains that the real estate market does not support more office space over residential development in the neighborhood (and that it,…
Read More…north side of Washington Square Park are in many a people’s minds synonymous with the early history of the neighborhood. Originally, the whole block looked like this. Developed in 1833…
Read More…other single day), and when we celebrate the designation of the Greenwich Village Historic District in April of 1969, finally extending landmark protections to a neighborhood which the Landmarks Preservation…
Read More…and saving the Jefferson Market Courthouse from demolition; they formed ad-hoc organizations like the Village Neighborhood Committee and the Greenwich Village Study, which sought to make the community more livable….
Read MoreThere have been countless “firsts” in our neighborhoods: the first cappuccino machine (Café Reggio), the first building constructed specifically to house artists’ studios (The Tenth Street Studios at 51 West…
Read MoreThanks to actions taken by Albany, we’re likely to see more supersized structures in our neighborhoods like 432 Park Avenue (l.), albeit fewer of them than some would have liked….
Read More…preserve and protect this unique historic neighborhood,” said Andrew Berman, Executive Director of GVSHP and Save Gansevoort Market. “Today’s action recognizes that this gritty neighborhood, which embodies New York’s industrial…
Read More…neighborhood, she succeeded in getting four neighborhood churches to serve lunch to needy seniors. The organization she helped to found, the Caring Community, is today housed in four different locations…
Read More…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. https://americanart.si.edu/artist/mabel-dwight-1373…
Read More…welcome (note: this will be the first opportunity for the public to comment on this application). There is no time limit per se for testimony unless there are a number…
Read More…testimony welcome. As of 2/21/12: This application is scheduled to be heard at Community Board 2 on February 27th. Public testimony welcome. GET INVOLVED / HEARING TIMES: 1) Receive updates…
Read More…date TBD with a revised application. As of 3/19/12: The LPC public hearing for this application has been re-scheduled for March 27th. Public testimony welcome. As of 3/13/12: This application…
Read More…first time at CB2‚Ä≤s Landmarks & Public Aesthetics Committee public hearing. Public attendance and comments are welcome (note: this will be the first opportunity for the public to comment on…
Read More…for a public hearing on Tuesday, October 9th. Testimony is welcome at that time. As of 4/20/12: This application has been laid over. As of 4/18/12: This application was presented…
Read More…application with modifications at today’s hearing. This application is now closed. As of 2/15/12: The LPC public hearing has been re-scheduled for March 6th. Public testimony welcome. As of 2/14/12:…
Read More…rapidly surging capitalist juggernaut. Ranging over the whole panorama of New York neighborhoods—from the East Village to Hell’s Kitchen, and from the Bowery to Washington Heights—Hamilton weaves a spellbinding web…
Read More…neighborhood-busting scaled new development. Current zoning roles have allowed buildings of 210-311 feet tall in these neighborhoods; upzoning proponents want to increase those allowances two-and-a-half times over. (l. to r.) 10…
Read MoreEach year, Village Preservation honors neighborhood institutions at the Annual Meeting and Village Awards. This fun event highlights and celebrates the invaluable people, places, and organizations that make our neighborhoods…
Read More…as clothing and personal hygiene products to the soaring number of individuals and families seeking shelter in the neighborhood. The impacts of the pandemic on the neighborhood extended beyond its…
Read More…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….
Read More…way, Hudson Square will become Manhattan’s next “it” neighborhood; rezoning would for the first time allow large scale residential development, turning the neighborhood into a 24-hour community with a much…
Read More…and empowerment. This Women’s History Month, we offer many ways for you to celebrate, explore, and help protect the rich women’s history in our neighborhoods: Suffragist Sarah Smith Garnet’s home…
Read More…community in an historic neighborhood. The report opens with a map of Italian-American Sites in the South Village, which lists 45 sites in this relatively small historic district, three of…
Read More…in the neighborhoods to know what would best suit their communities. She advocated for mixed-use neighborhoods and believed in preserving or transforming old buildings where possible, rather than tearing them down and…
Read More…‘Homes of Great Artists’ tour on our Greenwich Village Historic District 50th Anniversary Map at www.gvshp.org/GVHD50tour. Learn more about the fight to save the neighborhood south of Union Square at www.gvshp.org/savemyneighborhood. …
Read More…NoHo neighborhoods,” it is important that the public attend, especially SoHo and NoHo residents, to speak up for preserving the special character of these neighborhoods. A second public meeting…
Read More…and NoHo neighborhoods,” it is important that the public attend, especially SoHo and NoHo residents, to speak up for preserving the special character of these neighborhoods. A second public…
Read More…a number of New York’s earliest preservation success stories, and its champions lived right here in the neighborhood. Village Preservation holds many resources that tell the history of the early…
Read More…even more have been planted since designation, following city and neighborhood efforts to improve the health and beauty of these urban streetscapes. Bike lanes and Citi Bike stations have been…
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