Legendary Comedy Clubs of Greenwich Village
…the best comedy club in New York City. The family-owned business was honored as one of Village Preservation’s 2018 Village Awardees. The establishment is also located within the South Village…
Read More…the best comedy club in New York City. The family-owned business was honored as one of Village Preservation’s 2018 Village Awardees. The establishment is also located within the South Village…
Read More…Fire Insurance Company Bowery Building The Synagogues of East 6th Street Looking Up: The Stuyvesant Polyclinic The Libraries of Greenwich Village and the East Village Looking Up: East Village Target…
Read More…leader, Koch endeared himself to Village constituents with his strong opposition to “police brutality, air pollution, sidewalk narrowing, the bulldozer approach to urban renewal, the invasion of the Village by…
Read More…GVSHP will publish Greenwich Village Stories — a collection of personal reminiscences about the Village and East Village by more than sixty great artists, musicians, writers, directors, designers, restaurateurs, and…
Read MoreIn our series Beyond the Village and Back, we take a look at some great landmarks throughout New York City outside of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo, celebrate their…
Read More…deep dive into our archives as we explore Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo through these women’s eyes. Jean Polachek Collection Image Archive Collection Polachek. Children on tricycles and…
Read More…here where we see the historic Italian and LGBTQ communitites in the Village meeting, handing off spaces, and likely overlapping to some extent. According to Village Preservation’s “The South Village:…
Read More…to be a caretaker and watchdog for the Greenwich Village Historic District. That mission has since expanded to include the rest of Greenwich Village, the East Village, the Meatpacking District,…
Read More…we had already had….. The demarcated section of this 1919 map points out the South Village as an Italian-American enclave Greenwich Village was designated as an historic district in 1969,…
Read MoreIn our series Beyond the Village and Back, we take a look at some great landmarks throughout New York City outside of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo, celebrate…
Read MoreVillage Preservation’s Annual Village Awards, this year on June 16th, have come to be known fondly as “the Oscars of the Village.” The very first Village Awards were held on…
Read More…Village Awards recognize the people, places, and organizations which make a significant contribution to the quality of life in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo. The Awards and Annual…
Read More…activist and longtime member of the Village Preservation Board of Advisors. During her decades-long career, much of which took place within Greenwich Village, Greitzer has had a significant impact upon…
Read More…them advertising rooms for “$40 and down” – are increasingly referring to the area as Village East or East Village.” In 1958 the Orpheum Theatre took over the old Player’s…
Read MoreCalvin Trillin, photo by Richard Drew/AP Village Preservation shares our oral history collection with the public, highlighting some of the people and stories that make Greenwich Village, the East Village,…
Read More…Greenwich Village Historic District, and only the second new historic district in Greenwich Village since 1969. As early as 1963, Jane Jacobs wrote to the chair of the New York…
Read More…credited to the first Irish who settled in Greenwich Village. These first residents largely came to serve as domestic servants or to work on the construction of buildings. Greenwich Village’s…
Read MoreRose Mendez proclaimed December 2, 2010 to be Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation Day! City Council Member Rosie Mendez recognized the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation in its…
Read More…in the Village? The answer is at our very own authentic Parisian bakery and 2017 Village Award Winner, Patisserie Claude. As one of the very few independent patisseries left in…
Read More…Village from farmland to urban community, crossroads of the world, and home of Village Preservation! In this program, James Nevius took us through a tour of Greenwich Village, the East…
Read MoreVillage Preservation Annual Meeting and Village Awards 2020 Each year, Village Preservation honors neighborhood institutions at the Annual Meeting and Village Awards. This fun event highlights and celebrates the invaluable…
Read More…Greenwich Village Blocks before Demolition. Source: New York Times, 1954. The plan arrived to the dismay of many Village residents, who did not consider the area to be a “slum,”…
Read More…event Spots Still Available Impressions of Great Establishments of Greenwich Village: An Evening with Artist Lily Annabelle Caleakav, Village Preservation, and the LGBT Historic Sites Project Tuesday, April 16, 2024…
Read More…almost the entirety of the neighborhoods GVSHP covers — the Village, East Village, Hudson Square, NoHo, and the Meatpacking District — are a broad swath of the lightest pink, which…
Read More…Lower East Side and Upper West Side in close proximity, Greenwich Village, and more specifically the Greenwich Village Historic District, is not one of the first places in New York…
Read MoreOn June 12th, 2019 we will be celebrating seven outstanding awardees at our Annual Village Awards — RSVP here. Read blog posts about each of our 2019 Village Awardees here. Each year, Village Preservation…
Read More…date, and Greenwich Village and the East Village are among the few, if not the only, New York City neighborhoods she references explicitly in her music. No matter your musical…
Read More…Village neighborhood in which she lived. However, in 1969, when the LPC did finally designate the Greenwich Village Historic District, it left out the entire Greenwich Village waterfront and almost…
Read More…the Greenwich Village Historic District. Click here to check out our year-long activities and celebrations. The Greenwich Village Historic District literally oozes with charm; so much so, it’s virtually impossible…
Read More…Fortunately for us as we attempt to answer this question, the Village has been well researched. We know the histories of many West Village buildings because a large number of…
Read MoreVillage Preservation shares our oral history collection with the public, highlighting some of the people and stories that make Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo such unique and vibrant…
Read More…of Village Preservation, Greenwich Village resident, and townhouse real estate specialist for Douglas Elliman. https://soundcloud.com/villagepreservation/martha-graham-village-voices-audio?si=711f59832c164ba8bd69613409ab20f6&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Lorraine Hansberry Lorraine Hansberry was a staple of the progressive, creative scene in Greenwich Village…
Read More…York’s criminal underworld. And in the meantime, we get some nice peeks at the Greenwich Village of the mid-1980s. credit: Abe Books The Pope of Greenwich Village began as a…
Read More…14. West would spend her life on the stage and in film, constantly courting controversy and pushing boundaries. Village Vaudeville and the Greenwich Village Theatre Vaudeville is a genre of…
Read More…we researched while tracking down the oldest in the Village Fortunately for us as we attempt to answer this question, the Village has been well researched. We know the histories…
Read More…buildings we researched while tracking down the oldest in the Village Fortunately for us as we attempt to answer this question, the Village has been well researched. We know the…
Read More…Session 3 of our Black History in Greenwich Village series will focus on how the demographic changes of the Great Migration fueled Greenwich Village’s role as a hotbed for the…
Read MoreVillage Preservation shares our oral history collection with the public, highlighting some of the people and stories that make Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo such unique and vibrant…
Read More…Greenwich Village Historic District on Village Preservation’s Civil Rights and Social Justice Map, and from the LGBT Historic Sites Project. Village Preservation’s Stonewall50 Programs lineup can be found online here….
Read More…and most of its building demolished over the protests of Village Preservation in 2004). That was almost too easy. Here are some other Kevin Bacon-Greenwich Village connections: Kevin Bacon’s first…
Read More…landmarks, and their often hidden connections to Greenwich Village and the East Village. Beyond the Village and Back: Manhattan Below 72nd Street and Beyond the Village and Back: Manhattan Above…
Read More…out of the Greenwich Village Historic District (read Village Preservation’s history and report, “The South Village: A Proposal for Historic District Designation“). After years of effort, in 2010 the first…
Read More…New Yorker profile. Eve Kahn shares the private spaces of The Grolier Club’s with Village Preservation guests. Over the course of 4 sessions, Eve has brought Village Preservation members and…
Read More…in the South Village, an area which in the early 1900s was a predominantly Italian neighborhood, and one near and dear to Village Preservation’s heart, as we led the successful…
Read More…2016, Julius’ also received a Village Awardfrom Village Preservation. Check out more about our upcoming Village Awards here. Julius’ is closed at this time due to COVID precautions, but that may change…
Read MoreIn 2021 and 2022, Village Preservation developed an innovative outdoor public art exhibition that was displayed throughout Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo. VILLAGE VOICES featured photographs, artifacts, and…
Read More…Village Preservation, we celebrate April as “Greenwich Village Historic District Month,” since it was on April 29, 1969 that the district was landmarked, culminating a years-long battle to achieve this…
Read More…Voices from Greenwich Village: Carl Jung’s Visit to the Village,” with the historian Jay Sherry from Village Preservation’s program archives. For more information about the radical topography of the Village,…
Read More…we launched our new interactive map, Greenwich Village Historic District, 1969-2019: Photos and Tours, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Greenwich Village Historic District. In the months since we…
Read MoreIn 1965, Village Voice writer Jonas Mekas — founder of the Anthology Film Archive, Village Awardee, and subject of a Village Preservation oral history — wrote: “It is not very…
Read MoreZinc Bar: A Historic Greenwich Village Venue Village Preservation is very proud to honor Zinc Bar as a Village Awardee in 2022. Join us in recognizing Zinc Bar and these…
Read More…celebrations. On April 29th, 2019, we launched our new interactive map, Greenwich Village Historic District, 1969-2019: Photos and Tours, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Greenwich Village Historic District….
Read More…have been her 90th birthday on May 4th. Going at least as far back as 1963, Jane fought to preserve the Far West Village, urging it be included in the Greenwich Village…
Read More…at a club/concert hall in the East Village? Did you know that rappers like Mos Def and Biggie got their start at an open mic show in the West Village? …
Read More…which he had begun in 1948. The book, set in late 1950s Greenwich Village, included vivid descriptions of life in the Village: “They reached the park. Old, slatternly women from…
Read More…Greenwich Village. GVSHP’s 2012 Annual Meeting will also honor seven other awardees for their contributions to the Village. Check out Off the Grid’s posts on all the 2012 Village award winners….
Read More…celebrations. On April 29th, 2019, we launched our new interactive map, Greenwich Village Historic District, 1969-2019: Photos and Tours, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Greenwich Village Historic District….
Read More…beautiful historic buildings in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo. Empire Hose Company No. 40, 70 Barrow Street One of the oldest firehouses in New York, this structure was…
Read More…Dylan’s connection to this area in past Off the Grid posts and in the designation report for the South Village Historic District. Another Beatles/Village connection comes in the form of…
Read More…And to the surprise of many, the South Village was once the center of the world for LGBT New Yorkers. In fact, a century ago, the South Village one of…
Read More…efforts in Greenwich Village. They met in college, traveled around Europe together after graduation, and then moved to the Village: first to 68 Carmine Street, and later settling at 37…
Read More…Square Village For the first several seasons of the show, Ross is shown to live at Washington Square Village, the modernist superblock of apartments built by Robert Moses in the…
Read More…Friedan joined forces with Villager Bella Abzug, congresswoman and leader of the Women’s movement, who lived at 2 Fifth Avenue in the Village. Together with Gloria Steinem and Shirley Chisholm,…
Read More…East Village and New York history by including the dry dock district along the East Village waterfront. The docks of the East Village are shown in orange and reflect the…
Read MoreIn 2021 and 2022, Village Preservation developed an innovative outdoor public art exhibition that was displayed throughout Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo. VILLAGE VOICES featured photographs, artifacts, and…
Read MoreVillage Preservation is pleased to announce the 2nd year of VILLAGE VOICES, an outdoor public art exhibition produced by Village Preservation that celebrates and illuminates the artistic, social, political, and cultural…
Read More…Greenwich Village, it is only right to memorialize this legend by learning more about his background, ties to Greenwich Village, and his enduring legacy. As Shorter’s bandleader, collaborator, and influence,…
Read More…East Village Explore East Village Oral Histories Research East Village LPC Applications Explore East Village Building Blocks Information on Individual East Village Initiatives: 101 Avenue A 3 St. Mark’s Place…
Read More…Village Halloween parade history? Check out Village Halloween Parade founder Ralph Lee’s first-person accounting of the event’s beginnings in his Village Preservation oral history, video of our program with Ralph…
Read More…1969 and the subsequent landmarking of the Greenwich Village Historic District Extension I in 2006, the Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II in 2010, and the South Village Historic District…
Read More…on Burke himself. To learn more about the history of writers in Greenwich Village, check out the “Homes and Haunts of Great Writers” tour in our interactive map: Greenwich Village…
Read More…the Village intimately connected to Edward Hopper and his paintings, some of which also still stand today. Map showing Hopper-related sites throughout Greenwich Village Edward Hopper was born in Nyack,…
Read More…Co-Chair of the Benefit Committee, and Curator of Village Voices. https://soundcloud.com/villagepreservation/edna-st-vincent-millay-village-voices-audio?utm_source=clipboard&utm_campaign=wtshare&utm_medium=widget&utm_content=https%253A%252F%252Fsoundcloud.com%252Fvillagepreservation%252Fedna-st-vincent-millay-village-voices-audio Click here to read more about Edna St. Vincent Millay. Click here to access all 31 Village Voices exhibits….
Read More…Cecere’s Something Special. Something Special, legendary South Village shop Of the song, Marshall said: “Bazooka Joe” was inspired by a neighborhood hero I knew in New York’s Greenwich Village back…
Read More…from the 1950s and extending to the end of the 20th century. It has begun in the West Village and East Village, and will be expanding to SoHo, the Lower…
Read More…Greenwich Village in “Notes of a Native Son,” among other pieces, and was a regular at Greenwich Village literary haunts like the San Remo Café on MacDougal Street. Jean-Michel Basquiat…
Read More…Place. Narrating the audio is Leslie Mason, a member of Village Preservation’s Board of Trustees and co-curator of VILLAGE VOICES. https://soundcloud.com/villagepreservation/joan-mitchell-village-voices-audio?utm_source=clipboard&utm_campaign=wtshare&utm_medium=widget&utm_content=https%253A%252F%252Fsoundcloud.com%252Fvillagepreservation%252Fjoan-mitchell-village-voices-audio Click here to read more about Joan Mitchell. Joe…
Read MoreYour input is needed! Today we feature our latest Business of the Month — help us to select the next. Tell us which independent store you love in Greenwich Village, the East Village,…
Read More…vault by Washington Square Park, we here at the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation would like to take some time to discuss how different burial sites are reflective of…
Read More…from Greenwich Village – with the Sixth Avenue Elevated careening across the sky. Village Preservation was successful in obtaining landmark designation of that building along with its surroundings. You can read…
Read More…Village designation report entitled “Little Africa.” The South Village’s “Little Africa” community was the largest African-American settlement in New York throughout much of the 19th century, and lasted through the…
Read More…landmarks throughout New York City outside of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo, celebrate their special histories, and reveal their (sometimes hidden) connections to our neighborhoods. Explore our Beyond the Village…
Read More…Commerce Street, a cul-de-sac in the heart of Greenwich Village, was the brainchild of poet, playwright, actress, and Villager Edna St. Vincent Millay. While most famous as a poet, Millay…
Read More…Veselka Village Alliance Eighth Street B.I.D Village Apothecary Village Community Boathouse Village Community School Addition Village Community School Fence Village Vanguard The Villager Newspaper Visiting Neighbors Richard Walker Dr. Joyce…
Read More…resilience of our communities of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo, Village Preservation encourages residents and visitors to take a few moments to visit Village Preservation’s website and submit…
Read More…in Greenwich Village, check out our “Film and TV Locations” tour on our Greenwich Village Historic District map at www.gvshp.org/GVHD50tour. Click here for video clips of Next Stop, Greenwich Village….
Read MoreDecember is South Village Month – join us in celebrating this vibrant neighborhood all month long! The South Village in the 50s and 60s was a hotbed of creativity and activism. Where…
Read More…Here at the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, a perennial question we’re asked is “which is the oldest house in the Village?” It’s a great question, with a complicated…
Read More…Greenwich Village, NoHo, and the East Village. You will have an opportunity to learn more about the history of arts and culture in our neighborhoods, as well as participate in…
Read MoreEach year, Village Preservation honors the invaluable people, businesses, and organizations that make a special contribution to our neighborhoods at our Annual Meeting and Village Awards. This year, on June 16th,…
Read MoreBlack History in Greenwich Village: Session 2 – Arts, Culture, and Activism of Black Communities 1790 – 1870 Session 2 of Village Preservation’s new series, Black History in Greenwich Village,…
Read More…very low-rise, South Village. St. Anthony of Pauda Church and tenements on Sullivan Street in the South Village. Also undeniable is that the South Village is experiencing huge development pressure…
Read MoreIn our series Beyond the Village and Back, we take a look at some great landmarks throughout New York City outside of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo, celebrate…
Read More…Park. Read other blog posts about the South Village here and here to read about GVSHP’s efforts to protect the South Village. Click here to access GVSHP’s South Village Oral History Project….
Read More…townhouse on Bank Street. Fonny moved here when he decided to leave his family in Harlem and join the artistic community in the West Village. Fonny’s West Village Apartment Set…
Read More…of why the South Village is so special to so many people. Some wonderful individuals with strong connections to the South Village allowed us to record some of their thoughts…
Read More…Preservation’s 2019 Village Awards. The establishment is also located within the South Village Historic District. Learn more about our work to protect the South Village here. Electric Lady Studios …
Read More…this month we’re focusing on four areas of our neighborhood — the West Village, East Village, South Village, and NoHo — to highlight important locations, either long gone or still…
Read More…the city’s first LGBT landmarks (Stonewall, and now the LGBT Community Center and GAA Firehouse), Village Preservation has also successfully campaigned for recognition of LGBT historic sites like the East Village’s…
Read More…between the two lovebirds, but it is the colorful Village neighbors who truly further the tension between the newlyweds. The Village offers a number of fantastic, colorful characters who paint…
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