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Tower 1 Burning after Collapse of Tower 2 through the Arch
A Village resident documented 9/11 and the World Trade Center from the streets of Greenwich Village….
Posted September 8, 2021
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354 West 11th Street: An Exemplar of Greek Revival Architecture
If you ever find yourself taking a stroll in the far West Village (and I highly recommend you do), follow West 11th Street almost as far as the West Side…
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Deadline for Village Awards Nominations Next Tuesday, March 15 — SUBMIT NOW!
There’s just a few days left to submit your nominations for your favorite local small business, community organization, civic leader, public space, renovation/restoration, or neighborhood institution for the 2022 Village…
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Point Thank You Sunset with Officer O’Donnell, March 29, 2002
In the months following the destruction of the World Trade Center and on each anniversary of 9/11, crowds gathered at the West Side Highway and Christopher Street to support the…
Posted July 3, 2021
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Before Memorial Lights, March 11, 2002
In the months following the destruction of the World Trade Center and on each anniversary of 9/11, crowds gathered at the West Side Highway and Christopher Street to support the…
Posted July 19, 2021
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Point Thank You at the St. Patrick’s Day Parade, March 17, 2002
In the months following the destruction of the World Trade Center and on each anniversary of 9/11, crowds gathered at the West Side Highway and Christopher Street to support the…
Posted July 3, 2021
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Towers Burning Seen Through the Arch Titled With Dignity and Nobility
Greenwich Village resident Marisa Palmisano watched the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center burn and collapse from her neighborhood. She captured these two images in Union Square in the…
Posted September 8, 2021
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New Yorkers Stand Together Shocked Tower Looking Through the Arch Looking Down 5th Avenue 1 Burning after Collapse of Tower 2
A Village resident documented 9/11 and the World Trade Center from the streets of Greenwich Village….
Posted September 8, 2021
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Architecture & Art on GVSHP’s House Tour Benefit
If you haven’t already, be sure to reserve your tickets for GVSHP’s 15th Annual Village House Tour Benefit, our annual fundraiser to support our continuing education and advocacy work. The…
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Join Your Community Board, and Help Make Decisions About Development, Preservation, and Other Important Local Issues — Application Deadline March 31
Your community board is your neighborhood’s voice to city government. It plays an incredibly important role in decision-making around land-use and preservation issues, as well as a host of other…
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32 Second Avenue now Anthology Film Archives
8/8/2017 LPC hearing. For more information about this application, click here….
Posted June 2, 2020
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New Yorkers Walking to Washington Square Arch to See Tower 1 Smoking Following Collapse of Tower 2
A Village resident documented 9/11 and the World Trade Center from the streets of Greenwich Village….
Posted September 8, 2021
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Bluegrass musician Roger Sprung in Washington Square Park, with the Arch behind
Bluegrass musician Roger Sprung is known as “The Father of East Coast Bluegrass,” and played a major role in the 1950s folk music revival in New York City. Photo Credit:…
Posted March 4, 2021
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Researching the History of your NYC Building
…building that you are curious about, or to ask any general research questions of Village Preservation’s experienced research team. This program will be led by the Village Preservation Research and…
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Accomplishments
…We released our interactive Greek Revival architecture map celebrating this formative architectural style of our neighborhoods that celebrated the bicentennial of its birth. More than dozen new donated collections were…
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Tips from Our Preservation Team on Researching Your NYC Building
…own — all for your research endeavors. However, navigating through numerous links, maps, and archives can be daunting, especially for those new to the process. But fear not, our research…
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Researchers Rejoice 1940 Census Released!
…If you are interested in learning more about how to research a building you should read this post. We’ve also accumulated a good deal of information and our own research about…
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A Great Tool for Seeing History Wherever You Are
…on Urban Archive! If you missed the program, you can download Urban Archive and take the walking tour yourself, along with many others! What is Urban Archive and what’s the…
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2014 Year In Review: GVSHP Programs
…in case you missed them or want to relive them. Celebrating Holidays: Immigrants to Greenwich Village A Presentation by the NYU Archives & Public History Program Master’s Degree Candidates Co-sponsored…
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“Ten & Taller” Village Edition: Give My Regards to Broadway
…in 1897 by architect David King Richter Building- between Bleecker and E. Houston. Photo courtesy of the Skyscraper Museum. Located at 627-629 Broadway, 196-198 Mercer. Built in 1894 by architect Louis Korn….
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Pineapples, Pinecones, and Acorns, Oh My – in the Greenwich Village Historic District
…foot of the stoop. They rest on low, fluted columnar bases. The remarkable arched dormers retain their slender paneled pilasters and three-centered arch window heads with simple keystones in wood….
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New April and May 2024 Programs: Walking Tours, Histories of Fifth Avenue and The Village Voice, and More
…leading authorities on New York City architecture and history. About the Speaker: Professor Mosette Broderick specializes in 19th and early 20th-century American and English architecture, and has been a professor…
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Time to Celebrate the Twins
…by architects Schneider and Herter. While both were designed in what could generally be called a Beaux-Arts style, they also sport some Romanesque details such as rounded arched windows with…
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Only Seven Landmarks in One of New York’s Most Historically Rich Areas?
…architect, William Harvey Birkmire (1860-1924) began his career in the steel industry in Philadelphia and was an authority on modern steel construction. By 1895 Birkmire established his architectural firm in…
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What Style is It? Mid-19th Century Edition
…Although not a common style with row houses, features would include flat arch hooded windows, and Gothic arched or Tudor arched openings. 7 West 10th Street, Rectory of the Church…
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Beyond the Village and Back: The American Radiator Building
…even though it has been the Bryant Park Hotel since the start of the 21st century. Its architect, Raymond Hood, designed the structure when he was a relatively obscure architect…
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Village Preservation in the Press
…Secret Society That Paved the Way for Modern Feminism, Smithsonian Magazine, March 25 Politicians push state to hold firm vs. titanic 5G towers, Village Sun, March 16 A Fight to…
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Many Layers of History at 7th Street and 2nd Avenue
East Village Gas Explosion Site, 2nd Ave. & 7th St. As we enter July, it’s not hard to notice that some of the dates align with some neighborhood intersections. In…
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A Few Favorite Federal Houses
…our nation’s governmental process, but can be considered the starting point of a new architectural style. Though the derivation of the Federal style is credited to British architect Robert Adams,…
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Village Independent Democrats Collection: 1955-1969
The Village Independent Democrats are a reform democratic club founded in 1956. In 2023, the club donated their archives to Village Preservation. This collection includes much of the club’s archives…
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Echoes of Bastille Day in Greenwich Village
…the former. Before the current marble arch was built and installed in Washington Square, a large plaster and wood memorial arch was erected over Fifth Avenue just north of the…
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New York City’s 1940 Tax Photos — Now Online!
…chore doing so can be. However, now a simple search using a property’s block and lot number on the Municipal Archives website yields instant gratification and a glimpse into the pre-World…
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In Death, As In Life, Marcel Duchamp Left Mystery
…blankets, hung Chinese lanterns, tied red balloons to the arch’s parapet, sipped tea, shot off cap pistols, and conversed until dawn.” (Read more about the Arch Conspiracy here). Arch Conspirators,1917 John…
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Ithiel Town: It’s All Greek (and Gothic) to Him
…country, he was among the first professional architects here and started the first architectural firm, later joined by Alexander Jackson Davis, another seminal figure in 19th-century American architecture. His work…
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#SouthofUnionSquare — James Renwick, Jr. Tour
…label moldings above the windows. The entry is enframed with a Tudor arch and surmounted by a crenelated crown. At the slate pitched roof are two dormers with Gothic arch…
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Castles in the Sky on Sixth Avenue: Calvert Vaux and the Victorian Gothic
…inspiration from medieval Gothic architecture. The façade of the Jefferson Market Library is adorned with various architectural details typical of Victorian Gothic design. These include pointed arch windows, intricate carvings,…
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Beyond the Village and Back: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
…were quickly added — the south wing designed by architect Theodore Weston, in 1884-88, and the north wing, designed by Weston in collaboration with architect Arthur L. Tuckerman, in 1889-94….
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126 Waverly Place, A Lesson in Preservation
…the part of both architects and the public toward new architecture that tries to relate in some way to its physical context, and often toward architecture that loosely embraces certain…
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A View to a Historic Restoration
…bricks within the arch and cut away portions of the fence that had been encased in the arch since it was first built. While the arch itself is now finished,…
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A Call for Consistency: LPC and 186 Spring Street
…were purely about the architectural quality of the building, I would fully agree that the building has been altered and that this raises questions about its architectural integrity and the…
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Winter Wonderland in Washington Square Park
Washington Square arch in a snowstorm, New York Bound Collection, c. 1950, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation Archive. The settling in of cold weather has us here at GVSHP…
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Calvert Vaux and the Village
Calvert Vaux, one of the most prolific and influential architects in the United States during the second half of the 19th century, was born on December 20, 1824, in London,…
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Beyond the Village and Back: Sailors’ Snug Harbor
…one of the largest ongoing adaptive reuse projects in America and is one of New York City’s unique architectural complexes and historic landscapes. Majestic buildings of classic architectural styles are…
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Village Firehouses Past and Present
…10th Street This quintessential firehouse was designed by the great New York Firehouse architect Napoleon Lebrun. From the time he was made the lead architect in 1879 for the Fire…
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My Favorite Things: Women’s History Month Edition
When March finally rolls around, I feel the need for celebration! Not only does it mean that we have weathered the January/February doldrums, but also because March is Women’s History…
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June is Gay Pride; But July is Gay Liberation
…Gay Liberation Front organized neighborhood protests and established the framework for the modern LGBTQIA+ Pride March. Its GAY POWER March, held on July 27th, organized over 500 people to march…
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Redefining Downtown: One Chase Manhattan Plaza
Our Historic Image Archive includes thousands of images from the late 18th through the early 21st centuries. While most of our images show Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo,…
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LGBTQ+ Pride Through The Decades
Our Historic Image Archive includes thousands of photos documenting the people and architecture of the Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo, as well as New York City, from the…
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17 LGBT landmarks of Greenwich Village
…of NYPD officers have come out, many of whom march in the annual LGBT Pride March. While many NYPD officers stationed at the annual pride march would routinely turn their…
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Beyond the Village and Back: Arthur Miller Edition
…when he left his wife for Marilyn Monroe. The doorway of 155 Willow Street, Brooklyn Heights, from our Historic Image Archive, www.archive.gvshp.org. Miller was born in Manhattan and lived as…
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The Birth of The Committee to Save the West Village, Led By Jane Jacobs
…brilliant tactics, they succeeded. Committee to Save the West Village Newsletter Issue 1 Masthead, dated March 10, 1962, from Village Preservation’s Preservation History Archive Saving the West Village The concerns…
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More Than Just a Beautiful Structure: the Legacy of James Stewart Polshek
…relationship to its architecture. James Stewart Polshek. Photo by Michelle Leong/Ennead Architects Here, he brought his socially conscious approach to design to bear not only on smaller-scale projects but also…
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The Ghost of Preservation Battles Past: The House of Genius
…Image Archive www.archive.gvshp.org. To see all the images in the GVSHP Historic Image Archive, click here. The GVSHP images shown above appear in the New York Bound and Nat Kaufman…
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Remembering Christopher Moore and Honoring New York City’s Whole History
…20, 1952, d. March 13, 2022, of complications from COVID and pneumonia) was a curator, archivist, author, storyteller, researcher, and the longest-serving member of New York City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission,…
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The Changing Face of Astor Place and Cooper Square
…neighborhood, go to Village Preservation’s Historic Image Archive. To see the latest additions to our archive like the 1925 photo, click here. And if you want to see more historic…
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