…Gay Street, long known for its African American residents, and “Little Africa,” which was centered around nearby Minetta Street and Minetta Lane. Like many African-Americans living in the Village at…
Read More…himself into activism. He was deeply involved in issues of American Civil Rights and anti-fascism, and even founded the American Crusade Against Lynching in 1946. Robeson’s activism caused him to be…
Read More…accomplishments, the Task Force helped get the federal government to drop its ban on employing gay people, helped get the American Psychiatric Association to drop homosexuality from its list of…
Read More…present home in Harlem. To learn more about African-American history in the Village, check out our Civil Rights and Social Justice Map and the African-American History tour of our Greenwich…
Read More…given as a gift of friendship from the people of France to the United States via the American Ambassador to France in Paris as a symbol of freedom and democracy…
Read More…Britain. The German government published in American newspapers the morning of Lusitania’s departure a warning to all who planned to journey on British ships. German warning published in American newspapers…
Read More…office in any American labor organization, and an outspoken suffragist. ROSE SCHNEIDERMAN — 57-59 SECOND AVENUE A resident at 57-59 Second Avenue, suffragist Rose Schneiderman was an essential player in…
Read More…Attica Correctional Facility in 1971, Native American protesters who seized Wounded Knee in South Dakota in 1973, and a man arrested for burning an American flag outside the 1984 Republican…
Read More…before his death from COVID 19 in 2020. McNally was called “the bard of American theater” by the New York Times and “one of the greatest contemporary playwrights the theater…
Read More…for slavery’s abolition, and to recognize African American history, culture, and struggle. Our neighborhoods were home to a remarkable array of people and institutions that played a prominent role in…
Read More…it helped draw and save intellectuals fleeing Nazi persecution, transforming and vastly expanding American academia and intelligentsia. When Hitler came to power in 1933, he began to purge Jews and…
Read More…Village/Lower East Side guides TNC’s focus on nurturing African-American, Asian, Latinx, and Native American theatrical expressions. TNC is also well known for cultivating LGBT writers and theater groups. Critically, TNC insists…
Read More…in Greenwich Village illuminates Burke as a major contributor in the emergence of modernism. Selzer’s effort to detail the life and writings of Burke from 1915 until 1931 is grounded in…
Read More…and turns which are brought to light by this new online tool. From the birthplace of the shag haircut to four former homes of Allen Ginsberg to the first federally-subsidized public…
Read More…of significance to the struggle for LGBT, Women’s, African-American, Latino/a, and Asian-American civil rights in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo. We have also more recently developed an “LGBTQ…
Read More…ISP Building, 745 Washington Street Westbeth Gallery and Courtyard: 55 Bethune Street Co-sponsored by the Whitney Museum of American Art Please join the Whitney Museum and Village Preservation for a…
Read More…But scratch the surface of this architectural oddity and you’ll find a winding history replete with Jewish gangsters, German teetotalers, jazz-playing hipsters, and the American debut of one of Britain’s…
Read More…voting disenfranchisement, and defamatory representations in the media, including the film The Birth of a Nation. It housed W.E.B. DuBois’ The Crisis magazine, the first African American magazine and voice…
Read More…in the 1960s, during the birth of off-off Broadway theater, the experimental movement that has developed into contemporary American drama. In 1968 Guare received the Obie for his play Muzeeka….
Read More…first Americans to live by writing alone and was hampered by the lack of an international copyright law. American publishers often produced unauthorized copies of British works rather than paying…
Read More…for Migration Studies collection, and includes the male parish leadership of Our Lady of Pompeii Church. Father Antonio Demo is seated directly behind the American flag. The third man from the…
Read More…landmark last May — ripples below West 14th Street, where “Colored” Schools were also located. The schoolhouse was built in 1849-50, then in 1860 was relegated to African American students…
Read More…in American theater have been nurtured, and continue to be nurtured, right in the heart of the Village. It has been home, over the years, to countless playwrights, actors, directors,…
Read MoreJames Renwick, Jr. (November 11, 1818 — June 23, 1895) was one of the most influential, accomplished, and skilled American architects of the 19th century. Largely self-taught, he lived and…
Read More…Cruise purchased a $15 million townhouse at 42 West 12th Street in the Greenwich Village Historic District. Katie Holmes Leaving the American Felt Building While that remains unconfirmed we do…
Read MoreColumbus Day has traditionally served as an opportunity to honor the contributions of Italian-Americans to our country. St. Anthony of Padua Church (1888) and adjacent tenements on Sullivan Street; St….
Read More…see, among other things, the unparalleled artwork of Ukrainian-American East Villager and Cooper Union graduate Yaroslava Surmach Mills (1925-2008). The retrospective of her work includes traditional pysanky (Ukrainian Easter eggs)…
Read More…work of Black Americans in Greenwich Village will be celebrated and shared, giving even greater context to the impact of Black Americans on our communities and society. Examples include Bayard…
Read More…19th Amendment was a huge step towards gender equality, although African Americans could still not vote in large parts of the country, and in most cases, Native Americans and Chinese…
Read More…the Museum of the American Gangster. Today, the building is home to both Theater 80 and Museum of the American Gangster, beautifully highlighting and celebrating the property’s rich history. Theatre…
Read More…German-American Shooting Society Clubhouse. Photo courtesy of Ephemeral New York. Built in 1888 and designed by architect William C. Frohne, this impressive, landmarked five story building housed the German American…
Read MoreBuddy Holly (Charles Hardin Holley) was born on September 7, 1936, in Lubbock, Texas. He was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and producer who was one of the pioneers of…
Read More183-185 West 4th Street, just east of Sheridan Square, Armand Hammer’s former residence. Armand Hammer (May 21, 1898 — December 10, 1990), American industrialist most closely associated with Occidental Petroleum,…
Read MoreThe show Mad Men reminded us all that Howard Johnson’s, that slice of mass-produced Americana, had a home in Greenwich Village in the mid-20th century, even as Greenwich Village was…
Read More…Art refusal to include Abstract Expressionist works in a major 1950 retrospective of American painting.” The photo below taken in Washington Square Park is some of Leen’s earlier American fashion…
Read More…as his distinctly American invention — an enduring symbol of cowboy and frontier life in the 1800s, of Beat ‘cool’ in the 1950s, hippies in the 1960s, and punk rebellion…
Read More…In 1934, Bernard (or Bernie) Kraus, opened a used bookstore at 112 Fourth Avenue. The Raven Book Shop specialized in American and English literature, with a particular emphasis on criticism…
Read More…hosts a book talk with author John Loughery on his recent publication Dorothy Day: Dissenting Voice of the American Century. The founder of The Catholic Worker, Dorothy Day (1897 –…
Read More…West 13th Street, a site of significance in both theatrical and African American history, from potential demolition. Oppose air rights transfers and other measures to allow oversized commercial developments in…
Read More…Desk award for writing in the process. “American Theater: For Whites Only?” by Douglas Turner Ward in the NYTimes. These accolades gave Ward an unprecedented platform. His August 14,1966 manifesto…
Read MoreSince 2006, May has marked Jewish American Heritage Month, 31 days to explore and celebrate the impact of Jewish values, contributions, and culture on the nation’s history and character. Greenwich…
Read More…a deeper understanding of the evolution of an African American community in New York in its earliest days — from Dutch to British to American rule, before and after abolition….
Read More…of Founding Artistic Director Angelina Fiordellisi, it serves as a vital lab for the development of new American works and a home for groundbreaking productions of both new and classic…
Read More…Lower Manhattan, his curation of numerous exhibits at the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and his expertise in African American, Native American, and New…
Read More…American Labor Party had an office in the same building as the Lower East Side Tenant and Consumer Council and Frances describes being recruited: “Well, the American Labor Party had…
Read More…Immigrants have made a lasting impact on both Greenwich Village and the East Village, both of which had significant Italian immigrant and Italian-American communities. Many of those immigrants and second-…
Read More…having undue loyalty to their nations of origin. President Woodrow Wilson characterized these people as “hyphenated Americans” and warned against their threat to the liberty of our nation. Such people,…
Read MoreArtist, poet, philanthropist, teacher, writer, and inventor Yun Gee (1906-1963) was the first Chinese-American artist to hold an important position in the history of Western contemporary art. Considered one of the…
Read More…In developing her dances, Graham drew inspiration from sources as varied as Greek mythology, Native American ceremonies, the American frontier, and modern painting, as well as from major tragic literary…
Read More…architect Thomas W. Lamb, the former movie palace – the first of its kind in this neighborhood – sits at the crux of cinema, television, and American religious history, filling…
Read More…Bret Harte. Not to be confused with 32-time champion and two-time- WWE Hall of Fame inductee wrestler Bret “The Hitman” Hart, Harte was an acclaimed American author and poet in…
Read More…ethnic groups – including African Americans – lived cheek by jowl. Even recent immigrants could save enough to buy a house. Quality public education was cherished and supported by all….
Read More…shaped life in our neighborhood. It is hard to imagine that, not that long ago, New York City, the Italian-American capital of the United States, contained hardly any Italian immigrants….
Read More…look at Avenue C’s official designation since 1987, “Loisaida,” to get a sense of the Latin-American footprint in the neighborhood. The term “Loisaida,” a phonetic transliteration of the Spanish pronunciation…
Read More…each site of historical significance has a diverse ecological and indigenous background that further adds to the storied past of our neighborhood. 232 East 11th Street American Hornbeam Tree Located…
Read More…and the Pew Research Center found that only 64% of Americans 65 or older used the internet, with only 42% of Americans 65 or older owning a smartphone. That means…
Read More…via Whitney.org ors, the buildings were opened as the Whitney Museum of American Art, and remained on West 8th Street until 1953. As we know, the Whitney Museum of American…
Read More…the publishers of the first magazine for an African-American audience, The Crisis, and the first magazine for African-American children, The Brownies Book; and what would become the American Civil Liberties…
Read MoreAlfonso Angel Yangco Ossorio was a Filipino-American Greenwich Village-based artist and collector with a quasi-religious devotion to the art world. An intense, synthesizing artist in his own right, Ossorio created…
Read More…Municipal Archives. In its pages, Il Mondo worked to influence Italian Americans to oppose the Fascist regime in Italy. It also, especially in the later war years, tried to influence American…
Read More…along Christopher, it shows the Ninth Avenue El Christopher Street Station and St. Veronica’s Church beyond. Currently, this painting is part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art…
Read More…was also a center for Chinese Americans organizing in the late 1800s. Dylan Yeats, Visiting Scholar at the Asian/ Pacific/ American Institute at NYU, will focus on the Chinese American…
Read More…Americans nationwide and African Americans in many parts of the country still could not vote, sex was no longer a barrier to the franchise A remarkable number of people and…
Read More…documents and illuminates a desperate period of American history: that of the AIDS crisis and culture wars of the late 1980s and early 1990s. But his rightful place is also…
Read More…with integrating American music by working with African American musicians and vocalists, Goodman himself would credit Hammond, who made it his personal mission to advance the integration of the music…
Read More…World War II. Today, about a third of approximately 80,000 Ukrainian Americans living in NYC are residents of Little Ukraine. There is one site which tells us as much about…
Read More…recognized African-American opera stars. Her career broke through racial barriers at another time in our history when the United States was experiencing intense racial strife and conflict. Leontyne Price after…
Read More…Kenkelaba Gallery, an exhibition and work space for African-American, Latino, Asian-American and Native American artists that are typically not featured elsewhere. The sculpture park I’ve often noticed is part of…
Read MoreJoin us for the ceremonial unveiling of our latest plaque, honoring internationally acclaimed American artist Roy Lichtenstein at the building where he lived and worked during the last decade of…
Read More…the influential German director Erwin Piscator, alongside Marlon Brando and Sidney Poitier. All the while he was performing with the American Negro Theater. Belafonte was passionate about the craft, but…
Read More…an Evening Post article discussing how the American Flag, which had 24 stars at the time, was flown with ceremony. It recounts a parade, that began “at half past eleven”…
Read More…or ignored. 95-year old founder Jonas Mekas, “the godfather of American avant-garde cinema,” has guided the organization for 48 years, accumulating 20,000 films, 5,000 videos, 2,000 audio tapes and a…
Read More…huge step towards gender equality, although African Americans could still not vote in large parts of the country, and in most cases Native Americans and Chinese Americans could not vote….
Read More…in 1846, American architects received little specialized education. Stateside in 1857, Hunt was one of a group who came together to form the American Institute of Architects, which sought to…
Read More…familiar. Her book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, is well known as revolutionary to the study of urban planning. There is, however, another book just as revolutionary…
Read More…that featured African-American painters, poets, musicians, and others. Theatre Genesis was founded at St. Mark’s in the Bowery in 1964 by congregant Ralph Cook. The theater opened with a double…
Read More…when dawn came, the British flag would be flying over Baltimore. That was not the case, and when he saw the American flag still flying, he wrote the first verse…
Read More…University Place, 1997. Photo by Meredith Jacobson Marciano. Enjoy some live jazz. American jazz musician and composer Charles Mingus (1922 – 1979) (in white shirt) and his band perform at the…
Read More…an alternative way of life. 1960, Theodore Roszak in living room Drawing on Wall: “Cosmic Landscape”, 1954. Theodore Roszak (May 1, 1907 – September 2, 1981) was a Polish-American sculptor…
Read More…the East Village. GVSHP and our allies fought hard to save this beautiful edifice with a rich connection to the Italian-American immigrant experience on the Lower East Side. Going, going…
Read More…official New York City Landmark. Join us, Frank Stella, and Adam Weinberg, the Alice Pratt Brown Director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, as we celebrate our newest plaque…
Read More…the future voices of the American theater. And Rattlestick, my dear friends, is right in the heart of the Village, creating and innovating right here in our midst. Rattlestick Playwrights…
Read More…1886 which is the country’s oldest Italian-American church, built for its very first Italian-American parish. The landmark designation is particularly important as the area has faced increasing development pressure and demolition of…
Read More…their special histories, and reveal their (sometimes hidden) connections to the Village. In 2007 the Chrysler Building was ranked ninth on the list of America’s Favorite Architecture by the American…
Read More…on American counterculture, earning him a cameo on the cover of the Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band next to Villager Edgar Allen Poe. Jung’s understanding of the human…
Read More…Heard in Print: Black Gay Writers in 1980s New York — Thursday, September 14 at 6pm, Zoom webinar with Kevin McGruder, PhD The 2nd Birthplace Afternoon Walking Tour (Hip-Hop at…
Read More…a co-author of Witness: Two Hundred Years of African-American Faith and Practice at the Abyssinian Baptist Church of Harlem, New York (2015), and author of Race and Real Estate Conflict…
Read More…2nd Birthplace Tour (Hip-Hop at 50 Tour) Friday, August 11, 2023 Afternoon Tour – 3:00pm – 5:00pm Evening Tour – 6:00pm – 8:00pm Outdoor Walking Tour Pre-Registration is Required. Spaces are…
Read More…to provide a platform for American playwrights and new American plays; this was part of the newly emerging “Little Theater” movement which was developing around the country. The theater company’s…
Read More…now being respected as the birthplace of so many ideas and talents that made NYC the city that it is in the eyes of the world. So many notables were…
Read More…a birthplace of numerous modern technological inventions, including chain broadcasting, the vacuum tube, and the transatlantic telephone. But one lesser-known fact is that Westbeth was also the birthplace of a…
Read More…York School artist who painted in a style that deftly blended European Modernism and Abstract Expressionism. Born in Syracuse, New York in 1922, de Niro, Sr. attended Black Mountain College…
Read More…These extraordinary landmarks span three centuries of American history, reflecting the evolution of our city’s spiritual, artistic, industrial, scientific, and civic life. Grace Church 802 Broadway at 11th Street Starting…
Read More…American architecture are wide and varied; his low slung Prairie style homes that irrevocably changed American residential design and his smooth seashell spiral of the Guggenheim Museum overlooking Central Park…
Read More…of productions and boldly staged controversial plays featured African Americans actors. In 2008 NYU Planned to demolish the entire Provincetown Playhouse and Apartments building (which was the site of the…
Read More…modernism on the West Coast to the unrecognized contributions of female architects like Eleanor Raymond, adaptive reuse strategies for southern “equalization schools,” and calls to remove and recontextualize Confederate monuments….
Read More…voices in architecture and design. Anna has written extensively for Atomic Ranch, Architects’ Newspaper, and Preservation in Print, about topics ranging from modernism on the West Coast to the unrecognized contributions of female…
Read More…of 92. He was known for a range of impressive structures across the city and country, including the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural…
Read MoreThe Life and Art of William Glackens: A lecture and slideshow with art historian Avis Berman William Glackens was an American realist painter who was essential to the development of…
Read More…the Postwar Intellectual and editor of Transgressive Humor of American Women Writers and Literature of New York. She is founder and co-chair of the Mary McCarthy Society and Associate Editor of Studies in American Humor….
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