“South of Union Square, the Birthplace of American Modernism” is a series that explores how the area south of Union Square shaped some of the most influential American artists of…
Read More“South of Union Square, the Birthplace of American Modernism” is a series that explores how the area south of Union Square shaped some of the most influential American artists of…
Read More“South of Union Square, the Birthplace of American Modernism” is a series that explores how the area south of Union Square shaped some of the most influential American artists of…
Read More“South of Union Square, the Birthplace of American Modernism” is a series that explores how the area south of Union Square shaped some of the most influential American artists of…
Read More“South of Union Square, the Birthplace of American Modernism” is a series that explores how the area south of Union Square shaped some of the most influential American artists of…
Read More“South of Union Square, the Birthplace of American Modernism” is a series that explores how the area south of Union Square shaped some of the most influential American artists of…
Read More“South of Union Square, the Birthplace of American Modernism” is a series that explores how the area south of Union Square shaped some of the most influential American artists of…
Read More“South of Union Square, the Birthplace of American Modernism” is a series that explores how the area south of Union Square shaped some of the most influential American artists of…
Read More“South of Union Square, the Birthplace of American Modernism” is a series that explores how the area south of Union Square shaped some of the most influential American artists of…
Read MoreIsabel Bishop, Virgil and Dante in Union Square, 1932. Image via Radford.edu. “South of Union Square, the Birthplace of American Modernism” is a series that explores how the built environment…
Read More“South of Union Square, the Birthplace of American Modernism” is a series that explores how the area south of Union Square shaped some of the most influential American artists of…
Read More“South of Union Square, the Birthplace of American Modernism” is a series that explores how the area south of Union Square shaped some of the most influential American artists of the…
Read More“South of Union Square, the Birthplace of American Modernism” is a series that explores how the area south of Union Square shaped some of the most influential American artists of…
Read More“South of Union Square, the Birthplace of American Modernism” is a series that explores how the area south of Union Square shaped some of the most influential American artists of…
Read More“South of Union Square, the Birthplace of American Modernism” is a series that explores how the area south of Union Square shaped some of the most influential American artists of…
Read More“South of Union Square, the Birthplace of American Modernism” is a series that explores how the built environment south of Union Square shaped some of the most influential American artists…
Read More“South of Union Square, the Birthplace of American Modernism” is a series that explores how the area south of Union Square shaped some of the most influential American artists of…
Read More“South of Union Square, the Birthplace of American Modernism” is a series that explores how the area south of Union Square shaped some of the most influential American artists of…
Read More“South of Union Square, the Birthplace of American Modernism” is a series that explores how the area south of Union Square shaped some of the most influential American artists of…
Read MoreThe neighborhood South of Union Square played a critical and outsized role in the development of 20th century American art. From the social realist Fourteenth Street School of the 1930s…
Read MoreThe neighborhood South of Union Square played a critical and outsized role in the development of 20th century American art. From the social realist Fourteenth Street School of the 1930s…
Read MoreThe neighborhood South of Union Square played a critical and outsized role in the development of 20th century American art. From the social realist Fourteenth Street School of the 1930s…
Read More…out to us as soon as possible. The neighborhood South of Union Square played a critical and outsized role in the development of 20th century American art. From the social…
Read More…with coining the term “Chinese-American,” was elected as secretary. Cooper Union, 1899. Photo courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York. That same year, the Chinese-American community raised…
Read MoreThis installment of Village Preservation’s “South of Union Square, the Birthplace of American Modernism” series explores how the Mexican Muralists shaped some of the most influential American artists via their…
Read More…Village home, take a look at our Artists’ Homes & Haunts Tour of the Greenwich Village Historic District. Also check out our #SouthOfUnionSquare, Birthplace of American Modernism blog series and…
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Read More…African-American colleges and African American studies (DuBois himself would teach the very first course in African American history just feet from here at The New School in 1948). DuBois reported…
Read MoreFrom left: Our Lady of Pompeii Church; Italian‐Americans on MacDougal Street on a Sunday afternoon in 1942; and Romana Raffetto with son Andrew, ca. 2010. October is Italian American History…
Read More…Thunderbird American Dancers Scholarship Fund. 155 First Avenue Image of Louis Mofsie, founder of the Thunderbird American Indian Dancers Thunderbird American Indian Dancers Tanager Gallery, 90 East 10th Street This…
Read More…both Jewish American Heritage Month and Asian American/Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and Village Preservation has a bevy of resources to help you explore both groups’ histories in and connections to…
Read More…Avenue in 1926. Henry Highland Garet; image via Wikimedia 6. First African-American to Address Congress African American abolitionist, minister, educator, and orator Henry Highland Garnet, the first African-American to address the…
Read More…movements in American theater were nurtured right in the heart of the Village. In September of 1916, a group of artists from Provincetown, Massachusetts, who had become disillusioned by the…
Read MoreThe South Village: Birthplace of an American Immigrant Community A panel discussion First developing as a district of rowhouses for middle-class New Yorkers in the early 19th century, the South…
Read MoreThis is part 3 in a series discussing the Village’s role in the development of Modern American Theatre. Click here to read parts 1 and 2. Today we turn our…
Read MoreThe American Indian Community House (AICH) is a nonprofit community-based organization serving the needs of Native Americans residing in New York City. Comprised of Native Americans from 72 different tribes,…
Read More…of other young writers. The philosophy of his production company, The Playwrights’ Unit, centered on the notion that American playwrights deserved a forum in which to learn and take risks…
Read More…of American Art . Courtesy the Whitney Museum of American Art. The Whitney Museum of American Art occupied the Marcel Breuer building from 1966 to 2014. Following the Whitney’s departure,…
Read MoreI burn my candle at both ends, It will not last the night. But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends, It gives a lovely light. — Edna St. Vincent…
Read More…Just as local artists were exploring and developing the possibilities of American modern art, Halpert used her gallery to create a market for American art, and to redefine what American…
Read More…more than 50 entries on African American history among an array of 200-plus posts that also include social justice, women’s, LGBTQ+, Hispanic, and Asian American histories. The map, recently updated…
Read MoreThe American Indian Community House (AICH) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving the needs of Native Americans living in New York City. With a mission to enhance the well-being…
Read More…Smith Garnet, as well as prominent African American businessman Jacob Day, who helped lead fights against slavery and for equal voting and civil rights for African Americans. The building has…
Read More…outspoken in her passion for equal rights for women and Chinese Americans, and had recently caught the attention of white American suffragists, who invited her to participate in this monumental…
Read More…19, 1776, in the Pennsylvania Journal. Paine, an eighteenth-century philosopher and author of the Enlightenment, was known as the ‘Father of the American Revolution,’ in large part because of The American Crisis…
Read More…its denial of citizenship to Chinese Americans. The resolution demanded that the act make a formal distinction between recent Chinese immigrants and resident Chinese Americans. The Philadelphia merchant Lee Sam…
Read More…as a Native American woman was essential to her being all the while. She continued to perform at the American Indian Community House’s events throughout the years, frequently performing at…
Read MoreThis February is African American History Month, a time to highlight and celebrate the rich history of African American struggle, success, and life in our neighborhoods over the last four…
Read MoreJoin Village Preservation and American Indian Artists, Inc. (AMERINDA) for this examination of the sites in our neighborhoods, especially in the East Village, which are significant within the Native American…
Read More…Americans in our city; the flowering of African American culture in New York and especially in Greenwich Village, and how it reflected and affected African American lives and communities; and…
Read More…predominantly African American in the 19th century and known to be home to many African American musicians. It is a coincidence that Gay Street is located just one block from…
Read More…American experience and African American pioneers, heroes, and innovators on our website here. Civil Rights and Social Justice Map We have 45 sites connected to African American civil rights on…
Read More…C The American Movies Theater was constructed in 1913 on East 3rd Street between Avenues B and C. It was one of many small theaters that could be found in…
Read More…American history of the East Village is extensively catalogued in our African-American History Tour on our East Village Building Blocks website. A selection of a few of those sites follows:…
Read More…African-American actors. Hurd was active in organizing work that combated racial discrimination against African Americans in general and African-American actors in particular. In the late 1950s he co-organized with Godfrey…
Read More…to the exploration of American art, in stark contrast to the European-centric collections of the time. The museum was one of the first to recognize and celebrate modern American artists,…
Read More…February is African-American History Month, now seems like an especially appropriate time to highlight the African-American history of the South Village, the subject of a separate chapter in the South…
Read More…ends of 42nd Street, and guided the design of Rockefeller Center. American Radiator Building in the front, Empire State Building in the back Hood’s design for the American Radiator Building…
Read More…American Art Movement and the New York School, which marked the first time Native American arts in New York City was defined as a movement, to the Native American Theater…
Read More…George Bernard Shaw, and H.G. Wells, among others. However, the American version, founded in 1899, began to diverge in its content and focus more on American writers and issues, especially…
Read MoreOctober is Italian-American Heritage and Culture Month! That’s a perfect time to take a closer look at the East Village’s own historic Little Italy, centered around First Avenue near the beloved pastry…
Read More…by Edith Halpert. Courtesy of InCollect, American Folk Art Gallery advertisement & building tax photo (1940) Downtown Gallery 1824–1974, Archives of American Art Halpert’s art marketing also came into play…
Read More…of the summer, after some minor recognition in the Boston papers, the group formed an organization whose primary purpose was to give venue to American playwrights and new American plays,…
Read MoreOctober is Italian-American Heritage Month, a rich opportunity to reflect on the profound contributions of Italian Americans to our city and nation. Here in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and…
Read More…Susan Glaspell so rarely invoked when discussing the birth of modern American Drama? Or American letters? In fact, she was quite well known in her time as a highly respected…
Read More…American institution in our neighborhood is exciting. As is the evidence of a perhaps larger African American presence in the East Village in the 19th century than previously understood. More…
Read More…and Asian-Americans. Here’s a look at the IWO and some of its extraordinary accomplishments during its time at 80 Fifth Avenue: 80 Fifth Avenue, 1937. Photo courtesy of MCNY Digital…
Read MoreThis February is African American History Month, a time to highlight and celebrate the rich history of African American struggle, success, and life in our neighborhoods over the last four…
Read More…to some remarkably consequential events, places, and figures in African-American history. To help explore just some of them, we have created a new African American History Guided Tour on our…
Read More…both recognized trailblazers, cultural and political influencers, and unsung heroines who have guided the course of American history and culture and continue to shape its future. Ida Rauh In the…
Read MoreAmerican Seamen’s Friend Society Sailors’ Home and Institute, 1940s tax photo By the early nineteenth century New York City had developed as the largest port in the United States and…
Read More…register for our upcoming walking tour, The 2nd Birthplace Tour (Hip-Hop at 50), to learn more. This blog was partially adapted from the research done for our 2nd Birthplace Tour…
Read More…English and American rule, and its eventual abolition; how voting rights and other civil rights evolved and were won by and for African Americans in our city; the flowering of…
Read More…Asian American artists, writers, and activists, as well as organizations dedicated to fighting for equality for Asian Americans. Our neighborhoods are where the term “Chinese American” was first coined; where…
Read More…culture, while architects like I.M. Pei transformed our neighborhoods. Here’s a few ways to explore Asian American history in our neighborhoods: Explore sites connected to prominent Asian American historic figures…
Read More…admired during his lifetime, influencing subsequent generations of American poets and earning him the moniker the American Byron. In his longest poem “Fanny” the verses reflect the lyrical and romantic…
Read MoreOff the Grid has previously taken a look at African American history in the South Village, which was home to almost a quarter of the city’s African-American population during the…
Read More…and American rule, and its eventual abolition; how voting rights and other civil rights evolved and were won by and for African Americans in our city; the flowering of African…
Read More…also serves as an obvious reminder that a site is historically significant. For African American History month, we’re taking a look at a number of historic plaques we’ve placed throughout…
Read More…for an African-American audience and for African-American children, and what would become the American Civil Liberties Union, among many other entities. Following a campaign led by Village Preservation, the building…
Read More…was converted to residences in the 1980s. Architects Knight & Collins designed this eleven-story building in 1906 for the American Felt Company as their main headquarters. This company was founded…
Read MoreFrom left: Our Lady of Pompeii Church, Italian‐Americans on MacDougal Street on a Sunday afternoon in 1942, Romana Raffetto with son Andrew, ca. 2010. October is Italian American History and…
Read More…Rights and Social Justice Map of our neighborhoods. Explore the whole map for many more stories of African American, women’s, LGBTQ+, immigrant, Latinx, Asian American, and other civil rights struggles…
Read MoreJune is named African-American Music Appreciation Month. But insofar as it is hard to conceive of genres of American music that have not been fundamentally shaped or originated by Black…
Read More…a rooftop apartment in this building, years before its formal conversion to residential use. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, 1991. Author Bret Easton Ellis (b. March 7, 1964), who…
Read More…the front of the streetcar, decades before others did; the studio of the first African American art world ‘superstar;’ and a contemporary gallery dedicated to African American art and artists….
Read More…as by the mid-to-late 19th century, Greenwich Village was home to the “Little Africa” neighborhood, the largest African American community in New York and the center of African American life in…
Read More…of Manhattan Island and areas controlled by Native Americans to the north. Native Americans sometimes raided or attacked the Dutch settlement, and the farms may have served as a buffer…
Read More…revolutionized American literature as we know it today. Recently, we discovered an old photograph via the Allen Ginsberg Project that inspired us to take a closer look at the contrasts…
Read More…of “art.” To discuss Pollock’s life and legacy, we’ll be sitting down for a conversion with Steven Naifeh, author of Jackson Pollock: An American Saga (1998). Naifeh’s eight years of research…
Read More…this month with specific focus on the history of the African-American community in Greenwich Village. On Monday, February 9, archivist David Pultz will give an illustrated lecture at the First…
Read More…author of Rebels on Eighth Street: Juliana Force and the Whitney Museum of American Art, as well as many other books, catalogues, reviews and essays on early twentieth-century American art….
Read MoreOctober, which is German-American Heritage Month, celebrates the contributions Germans and German-Americans have made to American history and culture. In the late 19th century, the largest German-speaking community in the…
Read More…search of a better life as so many other southern African Americans did during the first wave of the Great Migration, and it’s with Harlem that Bearden is most closely…
Read MoreAmerican Women, Italian Style A Lecture by Carol Bonomo Albright Spend an evening in the shoes of your Italian-American wife, mother, daughter, sister, friend, or neighbor. Author and historian Carol…
Read More…change as an advocate for African American civil rights, resigning from the Daughters of the American Revolution when they refused to allow Black singer Marian Anderson to sing at Constitution…
Read MoreArchitect Gordon Bunshaft (May 9, 1909 – August 6, 1990) is credited with creating the style of corporate modernism that defined office tower, bank, and even apartment building construction (at…
Read MoreThey Dwelt on West 9th Street: Marianne Moore, Mother of Modernism is the 5th in a series. One of this author’s favorite poets dwelt on West 9th Street. Marianne Moore,…
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. The Museum of American Graffiti Martin…
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