…Doesticks, P.B.. (real name: Mortimer Thomson), a reporter for The New-York Tribune, who in 1857 investigated the fortune tellers of the Lower East Side, and eventually wrote a book about…
Read More…first known uses of the word “Groovy” in a popular song. It gave the songwriters Carole Bayer Sager and Toni Wine the inspiration for writing “A Groovy Kind of Love.”…
Read More…include friends, neighbors, and colleagues of Chris, including Simeon Bankoff, Carole Bolger, Mosette Broderick, Franny Eberhardt, Andrea Goldwyn, Sean Korsandi, Carol Krinsky, Mike Leahy, Francis Morrone, Roger Pasquier, Jon Ritter,…
Read More…store, Suma Work and Successes In 1968, Yaroslava’s winter scene painting, the “Carolers,” was published as a UNICEF holiday card. She did several version of the painting, all of which…
Read More…learn more about that here. In Sheila Weller’s book, “Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon—And the Journey of a Generation,” Joni frequented the Tin Angel Café on…
Read More…Cooper in them. In the 1930s Vogue called jeans “Western chic” and actresses such as Ginger Rogers and Carole Lombard wore them publicly. The style became extremely popular. In the 1950s teenage sex idols…
Read More…a curator, archivist, author, storyteller, researcher and the longest-serving member of New York City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission, from 1995 to 2015. Among his notable accomplishments were his work to preserve…
Read More…opportunity to share their thoughts and questions on the research at the end of the webinar. Some Village Preservation members may recognize Jason as the storyteller and guide that brought…
Read More…own experiences, this natural storyteller will share tales from his landlady who bought 18 Grove Street in 1954 and lived there until her death at 97 in 2003. Author of…
Read More…a queer storyteller and artist. She was raised in Atlanta and Appalachia, but currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. She studied Music Composition at Georgia State University and served two AmeriCorps…
Read More…the businesses they highlight. Victoria Rey (she/her) is a queer storyteller and artist raised in Atlanta and Appalachia who currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. She studied Music Composition at Georgia…
Read More…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,…
Read More…They consider themselves creatives building intentional experiences at the intersection of aesthetics and scholarship to learn, heal, and remember together. Kamau Ware is an award-winning visual artist and storyteller based…
Read More…This talk by SJ Costello, Senior Educator at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, illustrator, and general story-teller, focused on the microcosm of Bond Street, an exclusive area east of…
Read More…and general story-teller. SJ’s work focuses on public history and narratives centered in 19th and 20th century America. Co-sponsored by the Merchant’s House Museum. Hosted by The Cooper Union. This…
Read More…the City of New York. The Alamo in the early 1980s from our historic image archive “Carol Teller’s Changing New York’ collection www.archive.gvshp.org. PhoebeNewYork (Various) Libby Schoettle is a NYC…
Read More…Susan Teller Gallery. While Daum was here, painter Carl Ashby and painter, activist, and poet Helen DeMott – both of whom were close friends of Daum – had studios in…
Read More…to be love. I’m a parrhesia; I’m a truth teller. And a parrhesia has three elements that have to be there: number one, you tell the truth from your own…
Read More…complete with a fortuneteller, tap dancing, singing, dim lights, and neighborhood celebrities “of whom there have been many in the proud Pepper Pot past.” 146 West 4th Street today. Via…
Read More…himself a music world rock-star writer. Of his biography Lou Reed: A Life, U2’s Bono wrote: “a sublime and subtle book… Anthony is a great storyteller, a writer’s writer, turning pain into…
Read MoreOur ever-expanding historic image archive has a number of fascinating collections which offer glimpses into our neighborhood and beyond throughout past decades. Carol Teller’s Changing New York (Parts I, II…
Read More…and Schoenkopf, Village Voice endorses Lanigan and Schoenkopf, French and Kinsolving claim they are not Tammany candidates, Page 19-20: “Two DeSapio Men Lose in Primary on West Side”: Teller and…
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