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View south across the rooftops of Soho. The street at left is Sullivan Street and at right, Sixth Avenue with World Trade Center.
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Damaged Brookfield Place aka 3 World Financial Center looking southwest
…honor him and others as heroes for their sacrifice. This image of Ground Zero was taken in the months after following the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11….
Posted September 8, 2021
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Brookfield Place aka 3 World Financial Center (5)
…honor him and others as heroes for their sacrifice. This image of Ground Zero was taken in the months after following the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11….
Posted August 19, 2021
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Damaged Brookfield Place aka 3 World Financial Center
…honor him and others as heroes for their sacrifice. This image of Ground Zero was taken in the months after following the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11….
Posted August 3, 2021
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Damaged Brookfield Place aka 3 World Financial Center at 200 Vesey Street
…honor him and others as heroes for their sacrifice. This image of Ground Zero was taken in the months after following the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11….
Posted September 8, 2021
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New York State WorldPride Welcome Center Opens in Greenwich Village
…announcements was the grand opening of the New York State WorldPride Welcome Center. Where? Greenwich Village, of course. Located at 112 Christopher Street, the new Center is steps from the…
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Willem de Kooning Standing on his East 10th Street Stoop, and at the Center of the Art World
…New York supplanted Paris as the center of the art world. With the death of Jackson Pollock in 1956, de Kooning was considered the master of that world. According to…
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Veselka: The Rainbow on the Corner at the Center of the World
Join us for a conversation with filmmaker Michael Fiore as he discusses his new documentary, VESELKA: THE RAINBOW ON THE CORNER AT THE CENTER OF THE WORLD, set to be released…
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Two Unknown Workers with Mayor Guiliani (center) at Ground Zero.
…honor him and others as heroes for their sacrifice. This image of Ground Zero was taken in the months after following the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11….
Posted September 8, 2021
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Debris Falling from the WTC Center Surrounded by Smoke
…honor him and others as heroes for their sacrifice. This image of Ground Zero was taken in the months after following the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11….
Posted September 8, 2021
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Mayor Giuliani (center, sunglasses and pointing) with Henry Kissinger (to his right, in profile) and other officials at Ground Zero
…honor him and others as heroes for their sacrifice. This image of Ground Zero was taken in the months after following the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11….
Posted August 4, 2021
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Mayor Guliani (center, sunglasses) with Henry Kissinger (in front of him to right) Points Towards Ground Zero, Oct. 2, 2002
…honor him and others as heroes for their sacrifice. This image of Ground Zero was taken in the months after following the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11….
Posted September 8, 2021
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American Flag Displayed Over the Center Windows at 2-6 Harrison Street, the (Now Former) New York Mercantile Exchange Building
Professional photographer Robert A. Ripps took these images of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and of Ground Zero and its surroundings in the days and weeks following…
Posted September 8, 2021
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Happy Birthday Neighborhood Preservation Center
…Center. The Center will be hosting its annual birthday party fundraiser at the landmark Webster Hall, and GVSHP will be there to commend the Center for all it does for…
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The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center — Finally a Landmark
…known today as the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, and commonly called The Center. The Center aimed to address the critical needs of lesbian and gay organizations trying…
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Tribute in Light
…State Building; south, the World Trade Center. These days, it is One World Trade Center that greets you as you enter the park from Fifth Avenue. The skyscraper has become…
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World AIDS Day, 2014
…of HIV/AIDS. World AIDS Day is an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, show their support for people living with HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) and…
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The Collapse of the Broadway Central Hotel and the End of the Mercer Arts Center
…ambitions of Lincoln Center.” The complex hosted numerous successful productions, including an early staging of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Macbeth starring Rip Torn, one of the center’s…
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When “the Club” Ruled the Art World from East 8th Street
…New York art world and put New York at the center of the international art community, the organization itself was no longer sustainable. 39 East 8th Street, along with all…
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Business of the Month – Village Music World, 197 Bleecker Street
…the music world — a home for musicians, performance venues, and music stores. Many beloved record shops have come and gone, but for 30 years Village Music World at 197 Bleecker…
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Cool off at the Tony Dapolito Center
Summer makes one think of our public pools and recreation centers (whether they’re open or not). The first one that came to mind was the Tony Dapolito Center, which opened…
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World War I Centennial and the Village
November 11, 2018 marks the 100th anniversary of the Armistice which ended World War I, a war that engulfed most of Europe since 1914. United States troops tipped the balance…
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Traveling the World from Home, with Village Authors
…Here’s just a sample: John Reed, Ten Days That Shook the World The original German language version of Reed’s “Ten Days That Shook the World.” Greenwich Village journalist and Patchin…
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Three Kings Day Call for Old PS64/CHARAS-El Bohio Community Center
…Blasio to return the Old PS 64/CHARAS El Bohio Community Center to community use. That was just one of many, many grassroots actions over many years regarding the local landmark….
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Public Art to #LightTheFight for World AIDS Day
World AIDS Day takes place on the 1st December each year. It’s an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV, to show support for people living…
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Operation Underworld Book Talk
…Operation Underworld to take the fight to the enemy in Italy and Germany. Find out more about the new book Operation Underworld on sale December 27, 2022. Matthew Black (he/him):…
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Disappeared LGBT Sites: Oscar Wilde Bookshop and St. Vincent’s Catholic Medical Center
…that are no longer with us. Below we will focus on two sites that have disappeared from the Village: the Oscar Wilde Bookshop and St. Vincent’s Catholic Medical Center. Oscar…
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World AIDS Day: Resources for Remembrance and Action
…Texas. More tapes were produced in New York not only because it was epicenter of the disease and the dominant center of activism, but also because there was an infrastructure…
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A Victory for a Once (And Future?) Community Center, an Embattled Landmark
…– a grand public school opened in 1906, then converted into a community center in 1977 – has been encouraged to decay by developer Gregg Singer, who has owned the…
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323 East 6th Street: Religious Centers Bookend a City Disaster
…became the Community Synagogue Center, which served Orthodox Jews. The project was financed by businessman Saul Birns, who was well-known for building Lower East Side apartment houses, and founding member…
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Centers of History: Our Lady of Pompeii, and Guadalupe
…the Italian-American community of Greenwich Village, with over 81.5 percent of parishioners hailing directly from Northern Italy in the earliest years of the church. The church functioned as a center…
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Celebrating World Pasta Day
Not to be confused with National Pasta Day on October 17th, World Pasta Day was established on October 25th, 1995 by forty pasta producers from around the world gathered at…
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The Artist’s World in Pictures A guided gallery tour by co-author Gloria S. McDarrah
The Artist’s World in Pictures A guided gallery tour by co-author Gloria S. McDarrah Editor and writer Gloria S. McDarrah and her husband, Village Voice photographer Fred W. McDarrah, were…
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My Personal Remembrance of 9/11
…walking in the opposite direction was agitated about something and I asked her what was wrong. She replied that a plane had just crashed into the World Trade Center, and…
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Pride on West 13th Street
…$1.5 million. Today the Center has grown to become the largest LGBT multi-service organization on the East Coast and second largest LGBT community center in the world. According to their…
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Twenty Years Later, A Community Center is Still Empty
…Center at 605 East 9th Street by then-Mayor Giuliani over widespread community opposition. Check out the Facebook event page here. Last year at a Town Hall meeting, Mayor de Blasio noted this terrible…
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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
…a little early this year for those involved in the nearly quarter-century fight to see the East Village’s landmarked former P.S. 64/CHARAS-El Bohio Community Center at 605 East 9th Street…
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The Center of the Italian Community in the East Village: Mary Help of Christians
…at 344 East 11th, and John’s of 12th Street at number 302. Not unlike the South Village the center of this Italian immigrant community was its church, Mary Help of…
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Lifting Residential Density Cap to Allow Supersized Developments Now at Center of State Budget Negotiations — WRITE NOW!
…NYC the City decided to zone for it. Published reports indicate that with issues around bail reform settled, Governor Hochul’s housing proposals are at the center of final negotiations between…
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The Humble “Nerve Center” of the City: Gem Spa
…the store its iconic stature in bohemian and alternative subcultures. Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, who named it a “nerve center” of the city, and other local poets were frequent patrons…
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1965: Preservation Round the World When New York Signed Its Law: A Lecture with Anthony Tung
1965: Preservation Round the World When New York Signed Its Law: A Lecture with Anthony Tung Anthony M. Tung, author of Preserving the World’s Great Cities: The Destruction and Renewal…
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David Amram: Inspiring Musicians in the Village, and Throughout the World
…number of Shakespeare in the Park productions. He premiered his comic opera 12th Night with Papp’s libretto in 1968. From 1964-66, Amram was the Composer and Music Director for the Lincoln Center…
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Shake the World: The West Village and the Dawn of “America’s Latin Quarter”
Shake the World: The West Village and the Dawn of “America’s Latin Quarter” Imagine you are at a party with the journalist Walter Lippmann, the dancer Isadora Duncan, and the…
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Book Talk: Visionary Women – How Jane Jacobs and Rachel Carson Changed our World
Book Talk: Visionary Women – How Jane Jacobs and Rachel Carson Changed our World Author Andrea Barnet brings to light her extensive research on the lives and work of Jane…
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A Critic’s Journey: Around the World from Greenwich Village
A Critic’s Journey: Around the World from Greenwich Village Mimi Sheraton is a journalist, restaurant critic, consultant, lecturer, and cookbook writer who has lived in Greenwich Village for 70 years….
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Save World of Video
The World of Video at 51 Greenwich Avenue, the oldest and longest-running video rental store in the West Village, has been an important film archival resource for the public, the…
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Gordon Bunshaft: the Godfather of Corporate Modernism, in Greenwich Village
…including the Burj Khalifa in Dubai (the world’s tallest building), One World Trade Center, the Sears Tower in Chicago, and countless other projects. The brusque Bunshaft, who was made a…
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OMG!: Churches and Synagogues of Greenwich Village First Ukrainian Assembly of God: Community Center for the East VillageA history and tour with Reverend Pete Armstrong
…NYC has been historically centered in the East Village. East of 3rd Avenue you will find several shops, community centers and churches. First Ukrainian Assembly of God is among them….
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Book Talk: Kate Walter’s “Behind the Mask: Living Alone in the Epicenter”
Tuesday, December 14, 6:00pm Purchase the Book! From the quiet of Westbeth comes Behind the Mask: Living Alone in the Epicenter, a memoir in essays by Kate Walter that includes personal but universal stories…
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Rally Wednesday at 11 AM for Charas/El Bohio — Give Us Back Our Community Center
Join us this Wednesday at 11 AM as we rally with fellow community groups and elected officials to call for the city to return the former CHARAS/El Bohio Community Center…
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Center for Migration Studies Collection
Photos from the Center for Migration Studies Collection of Our Lady of Pompei Papers…
Posted June 1, 2020
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Town Hall to Save Charas / PS 64 A rally to save the historic building and former community center
Town Hall to Save Charas / PS 64 A rally to save the historic building and former community center Join Council member Rosie Mendez and elected officials, neighbors, activists, and…
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Plaque Unveiling Tuesday May 10 at 70 Fifth Avenue, Former NAACP Headquarters and Center for Social Justice Activism
…NAACP. This extraordinary building, now owned by The New School, served in the early 20th century as an unparalleled center for social activism, also housing The Crisis Magazine, W.E.B. Du…
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2014 Year In Review: GVSHP Programs
…Center 53 East 11th Street (east of University Place) Please join GVSHP for a public meeting we’re hosting about preserving the scale and character of the University Place and Broadway…
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Suiting the World from Fourth Avenue: The International Tailoring Company Building
…to learn the building’s history and the fascinating details about the land’s previous use as Peter Stuyvesant’s farm and home to a world-famous 19th-century author — all part of the…
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The Village is a Small World
…this strikes me as very “small world.” I have been working with both Richard Blair and Magie Dominic for months about their respective upcoming programs, but did not know there…
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The Largest School in the World
…Third streets. A 1902 New York Times article deemed this building “the largest public school in all the United States, and probably the world.” Designed to serve 6,000 students, when…
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World AIDS Day 2016 & AIDS Memorial Dedication
Every December 1st since 1988 has been marked as World AIDS Day, but this year’s commemoration of those lost to and living with HIV and AIDS is a particularly special…
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Jenny and The Cat Club: A Fictional World Based in the Real Greenwich Village
…Library. She is best known, however, for her series of children’s books centered around Jenny Linsky, a small yet precocious black cat. The first in the series, The Cat Club,…
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Elaine de Kooning: Quintessential New Yorker & Art World Catalyst
Elaine de Kooning: Quintessential New Yorker & Art World Catalyst Cathy Curtis, author of A Generous Vision: The Creative Life of Elaine de Kooning, will share her expertise in this…
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Tour the Musical Sites of Producer John Hammond’s World
…advocating for an integrated music world. MacDougal-Sullivan Gardens is one of the most charming areas of New York City and was designated a New York City historic district in 1966….
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The Whole World Passes Through Part 2: Cornelia Street Café Stories
…for 41+ years. Join us as we delve into more tales of art, music, science, the “croissant clause,” coffee, and community from his collection “The Whole World Passes Through: Stories from…
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Celebrating PFLAG: 50 Years of Creating a Caring, Just, and Affirming World
…impact, and legacy of this trailblazing organization. The idea for PFLAG arose in a discussion after a symposium sponsored by the “Homosexual Community Counseling Center” on January 22, 1973. After…
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The Whole World Passes Through: Stories from the Cornelia Street Cafe
…Greenwich Village-based Cornelia Street Cafe for 41+ years. He’ll regale us with tales of art, music, science, stilt-walking, coffee, and community from his collection “The Whole World Passes Through: Stories…
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Accomplishments
…25-year effort, the former P.S. 64/Charas-El Bohio Community Center at 605 East 9th Street was finally wrested from developer Gregg Singer’s hands, opening new possibilities for the landmarked building to…
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Looking north up Greenwich Ave. from Christopher St., c. 1970, women protestors struggle with police outside of Women’s Detention Center (demolished)
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Posted June 16, 2021
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1 Clarkson Street (Tony Dapolito Recreation Center)
APPROVED 04/24/2018 CB2 hearing: 04/12/2018 LPC hearing: 04/24/2018 Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II Between Seventh Avenue South and Hudson Street —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the CB2 agenda:…
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Sheridan Square Dig 2- Regina Kellerman, Village Preservation’s First Executive Director (center)
For most of the twentieth century, Sheridan Square served as nothing more than a traffic-safety island. It wasn’t until 1982 that the area went from a paved triangle to a…
Posted June 2, 2020
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1 Clarkson Street, Carmine Street Public Baths now the Tony Dapolito Recreation Center
CB2 hearing: 09/20/2021 – see below to register for the Zoom meeting. To submit written testimony of any length in advance of the hearing, click HERE. LPC hearing: 09/28/2021 – see below…
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