…our past programs, click here. Native New Yorkers Walking Tour with Evan Pritchard Thursday, October 5 5:00pm – 7:00pm Outdoor Walking Tour. Pre-Registration is Required. Spaces are limited. Free. Meeting…
Read More“Wrecking Ball”: A Conversation with Adrian Untermyer About How Government Has Shaped New York’s Defining Preservation Battles, with V.P. Exec. Dir. Andrew Berman Preservation battles are fought in all sorts…
Read MoreWhile we received some incredibly good news last week about possible future landmarking in the South Village, this week also marks the anniversary of some critical past victories in South…
Read MoreThe Architecture of the South Village: A walking tour with Andrew Dolkart Architectural historian and Columbia University professor Andrew Dolkart will lead a walking tour of the South Village, the…
Read MoreBars and Speakeasies Walking Tour What happened to Greenwich Village when it went dry during Prohibition? Find out on a walking tour of historic sites in the area, including renowned…
Read MoreTenement Chic: A walking tour of East Village tenements with Barry Feldman Garish grotesques, mythical beasts, beautiful botanicals, ornate cornices, columns and pilasters are a few examples of architectural ornamentation…
Read More…to refuse to provide information about the basis for deciding that nine landmarked 1840s houses at 44-54 Ninth Avenue/351-55 West 14th Street in the Meatpacking District are “unsafe” and in imminent danger…
Read MoreWe’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about things we used to do before the coronavirus outbreak, that we’re looking forward to hopefully doing again once things return to ‘normal.’ We’ve…
Read MoreSnapshots in Storefronts Walking Tours Part of Village Preservation’s 30th Anniversary Staff Past and Present Series This walking tour, conducted by staff member Sheryl Woodruff, will explore the history of…
Read MoreA Walking Tour of Civil War Sites There are many notable locations in and around the Village from Cooper Union to Union Square that relate to the Civil War. Historian…
Read MoreVillage Preservation recently penned an op-ed in GlobeSt.com about the positive correlation between landmarking and small business retention – read it here. The op-ed discusses the recent study and analysis done by Village Preservation,…
Read MoreThis post is part of the Looking Up series, which explores the unique architectural and historical stories that can be discovered when we raise our gaze above the sidewalk, the…
Read MoreWe’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about things we used to do before the coronavirus outbreak, that we’re looking forward to hopefully doing again once things return to…
Read More…been recently sold, we’ve reached out to the new Mayor to urge support for the landmarking effort (read our letter here), and are calling new attention to the need to…
Read More…to the abstract expressionists of the New York School after World War II, the neighborhood produced and witnessed profound changes in the course of art history. This walking tour will…
Read MoreLandmarking the East Village: A Lecture with Village Preservation Director of Preservation and Research Elizabeth Finkelstein Part of Village Preservation’s 30th Anniversary Staff Past and Present Series From its early…
Read MoreAfrican American Movers and Shakers of the East Village: Walking Tour From playwrights and poets, to artists and musicians, African Americans made great contributions to the vibrant culture of the…
Read MoreNYU’s 181 Mercer Street building under construction (Michael Young). We’re pleased to report that yesterday State Supreme Court Judge Gerald Leibovits dismissed NYU’s lawsuit seeking to overturn the provision in…
Read More…Street in the Meatpacking District. Provided courtesy of the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project and the Leather Club Roma 835 Washington Street has had many past lives. In the 1930s,…
Read MoreVillage Macabre Walking Tour with Joyce Gold, 2018 Celebrate this Halloween with Manhattan historian and tour guide Joyce Gold, as she presents her walking tour through the macabre history of…
Read MoreLast week we shared an online Historic Bowery Walking Tour. This week we are sharing a walking tour of the Gansevoort Market Historic District, landmarked in 2003 thanks to efforts by GVSHP. Back…
Read MoreThe LGBTQ Village: Christopher Street Walking Tour Join us for a fun and informative LGBTQ History Walking Tour! On this tour around Greenwich Village, we will visit historic sites where…
Read MoreWomen’s History Month Afternoon Walking Tour: Jefferson Market to Café Society You’ll have three chances to join Village Preservation as we take a walk through history in our own backyard….
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These images were taken as part of GVSHP’s efforts in early 2002 to document and advocate for the preservation of the Meatpacking District. These efforts resulted in the entire area…
Posted June 1, 2020
Read MoreToday would have been Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 84th birthday. The iconic figure of the Civil Rights Movement, assassinated on April 4, 1968, will be honored with a concert this…
Read More…Walking Manhattan Sideways, and building on that success, she followed up with The Art of Walking Manhattan Sideways: Hidden Gems on the Side Streets – forthcoming in fall 2021 –…
Read More…dealer to the stars,” it also involves real estate and big money, and the very real threat of the wrecking ball. Ahead, explore the one-of-a-kind past of these buildings, which…
Read MoreA Walking Tour of East Village Community Gardens Join us on a tour of distinct community gardens that showcase the plants, people, and cultures that make these East Village oases…
Read MoreShopping in the Gilded Age Walking Tour In her new book The Gilded Age in New York, Esther Crain, the voice behind the popular blog Ephemeral New York, tells the…
Read MoreWalking Tour of East Village Community Gardens Join us on a tour of distinct community gardens that showcase the plants, people, and cultures that make these East Village oases such…
Read MoreReforming the Landmarking Process Tell Mayor Adams and City Officials to Include Specifics in Plan to Prevent Destruction of Landmarks The city’s recently released plan to address the destruction of…
Read More…garnered new support for landmarking from scholars, authors, historians, and experts in the field due to the vital connections we have documented between buildings in the area and jazz artist…
Read More…and groundbreaking roles in the Greenwich Village and Lower East Side theater scenes, including the Harlem Suitcase Theater, run by the International Worker’s Order located at 80 Fifth Avenue; Villager…
Read More…all of the Far West Village (not to mention the Meatpacking District, the South Village, and most of the 14th Street, Broadway, and University Place corridors — oversights GVSHP has…
Read More…landmarking proposal. Additionally, the effort has attracted coverage from NY1 News, Gay City News, AMNY, The Root, and the Village Sun. Recent attention has focused on multiple sites within our proposed historic district of…
Read MoreEast Village LGBT Walking Tour Although the storied LGBT history of Greenwich Village gets a lot of play, the East Village has a beloved LGBT past and present too. When…
Read MoreThis is the first in the Looking Up series of posts, which will explore the unique architectural and historical stories that can be discovered when we raise our gaze above…
Read MoreVillage Preservation Executive Director Andrew Berman this winter speaking at the rally we co-organized on City Hall steps demanding the City take action to prevent the destruction of landmarked buildings. …
Read MoreThis is part of the Looking Up series of posts, which explore the unique architectural and historical stories that can be discovered when we raise our gaze above the sidewalk,…
Read MoreCulture & Cuisine: Dishing Up the East Village Walking Tours Led by Dana Schulz – 8/12 Join Village Preservation staff member Dana Schulz as she takes you on a journey…
Read MoreVillage Macabre Walking Tour Celebrate the Halloween season with some of the most mysterious and macabre stories in New York history — murders, hangings, explosions, famous missing persons, and specters…
Read More…efforts, making the park the beautiful green space that it remains today. If all goes according to a plan currently under discussion, the park could become a new National Park/Monument. …
Read MoreThis is part of the Looking Up series of posts, which explore the unique architectural and historical stories that can be discovered when we raise our gaze above the sidewalk,…
Read MoreWalking East 3rd Street is a collaboration between GVSHP and the students in NYU’s Fall 2012 Intro to Public History course. Each pair of students was tasked with researching the…
Read MoreThe Ukrainian Dimension of the East Village A Walking Tour with Terri Cook See colorful reminders of immigrant groups who passed through the East Village, and today’s Ukrainian community thriving…
Read MoreWalking East 3rd Street is a collaboration between GVSHP and the students in NYU’s Fall 2012 Intro to Public History course. Each pair of students was tasked with researching the…
Read MoreEast Meets Green: A Walking Tour of East Village Community Gardens Join us on a tour of distinct community gardens that showcase the plants, people, and cultures that make these…
Read MoreTaking it to the Streets! Before Twitter and Facebook, activists used the streets as a public forum to express their creativity and organize for political goals, with their messages wheatpasted…
Read MoreThe Lost Stream of the Village: A Walking Tour of Minetta Brook led by Steve Duncan Flowing under today’s Minetta Street, Minetta Brook once ran from Union Square through the…
Read More…their responsibility in either allowing or causing this to happen. TO HELP: Tell City Officials to Save the Nine Landmarked 1840s Meatpacking District Houses Not to Demolish — CLICK HERE…
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Looking back toward the 11th Street pier headhouse, around Bethune Street. Read more here about the West Side Highway after its collapse at Gansevoort Street and its closure in 1973. Included in the 9/11…
Posted June 2, 2020
Read MoreSouth Village Walking Tour: Architecture and Italian Culture The South Village, south of Washington Square Park, is what many people picture when they think of Greenwich Village. Much of the…
Read MoreThe Lost Stream of the Village: A Walking Tour of Minetta Brook Led by Steve Duncan Flowing under today’s Minetta Street, Minetta Brook once ran from Union Square through the…
Read MoreGVHD50 Walking Tour: Jewels of the Historic District The Greenwich Village Historic District is one of New York’s earliest landmarked communities. On quirky angled streets lie 1920s speakeasies, literary hang-outs,…
Read MoreThis is one in a series of posts marking the 50th anniversary of the designation of the Greenwich Village Historic District. Click here to check out our year-long activities and…
Read MoreGangster City: The Criminal History of the Lower East Side A Walking Tour with Eric Ferrara Trace the steps of such mob heavyweights as Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, and Bugsy…
Read More…been recently sold, we’ve reached out to the new Mayor to urge support for the landmarking effort (read our letter here), and are calling new attention to the need to…
Read More…squawking relentlessly, christening the names of the ducklings in the story: Jack, Cack, Lack, Mack, Nack, Ouack, Pack, and Quack. McCloskey ended up caring for sixteen ducks in total, which…
Read MoreLily Tomlin in the film,”The Incredible Shrinking Woman” We have recently learned that a new building permit application has been filed with the Department of Buildings for 75 First Avenue…
Read More…the Bowery Branch dormitories and accommodations was very high, but there were hardworking and not-so hardworking men that stayed for extended periods of time. The New York Times cites three…
Read MoreComplete 8th Street: A Walking Tour wih Jane Marx Every street in New York City has its own special history, but few have a history as distinctive and diverse as…
Read MoreImmigrant Heritage Day East Village Walking Tour with the Urban Archive App On April 17, 1907, more immigrants entered the U.S. through Ellis Island than any other day in history….
Read MoreJulius’ & the Gay Rights Movement A Presentation & Walking Tour by Tom Bernardin Julius’, at the corner of West 10th and Waverly Place, has been welcoming folks since 1840,…
Read MoreWalking East 7th Street is a collaboration between GVSHP and the students in NYU’s Fall 2011 Intro to Public History course. Each pair of students was tasked with researching the…
Read MoreWalking East 7th Street is a collaboration between GVSHP and the students in NYU’s Fall 2011 Intro to Public History course. Each pair of students was tasked with researching the…
Read MoreBetween Two Villages: A Walking Tour of NoHo with Architectural Historian Matt Postal Tickets: $10 Village Preservation members; $15 all others Join architectural historian Matt Postal as you explore NoHo,…
Read More…houses at 14th Street and 9th Avenue in the Meatpacking District. The city and developer claim that the houses posed an imminent threat of collapse, which was only “discovered” as…
Read MoreWalking East 7th Street is a collaboration between GVSHP and the students in NYU’s Fall 2011 Intro to Public History course. Each pair of students was tasked with researching the…
Read More…to refuse to provide information about the basis for deciding that nine landmarked 1840s houses at 44-54 Ninth Avenue/351-55 West 14th Street in the Meatpacking District are “unsafe” and in imminent danger…
Read MoreFoods of the South Village and SoHo: A Walking (and Eating) Tour Come with us as we travel back in time through the central and southern Village and northern SoHo….
Read MoreEast Village Historic District Tour: A Walking Tour with Elizabeth Finkelstein Join historian (and former Village Preservation staffer) Elizabeth Finkelstein for a morning walk through and around the East Village/Lower…
Read MoreThis post is part of the Looking Up series, which explores the unique architectural and historical stories that can be discovered when we raise our gaze above the sidewalk, the…
Read MoreBeyond the Beatniks: The Hidden History of St. Mark’s Place A Walking Tour with Eric Ferrara St. Mark’s Place staked its claim as an epicenter of pioneering radical arts, activism,…
Read More…Historic Sites Project, Julius’ Bar owner Helen Buford, and writer/director /activist John Cameron Mitchell for the unveiling of Village Preservation’s 19th historic plaque marking Julius’ Bar at 159 West 10th…
Read MoreA Special Invitation, a Century in the Making: A Salmagundi Club Open House Have you ever wondered what’s going on behind the elegant façade at 47 Fifth Avenue, the former…
Read MoreWalking the East Village! East Village Community Gardens Tour with Ayo Harrington The East Village/Lower East Side boasts fifty-three community gardens, each with its own personality. This neighborhood, considered the…
Read MorePierogi Making at Veselka For over sixty years, Veselka has been serving up traditional, delectable Ukrainian fare to neighbors and newcomers alike. Opened in 1954 as a simple soup-and-sandwich newsstand…
Read More…will highlight these events and the creative Villagers who Jung encountered. His ideas about symbol-making and the psyche resonated with a diverse group of intellectuals who were interested in progressive…
Read MoreDistilling the American Flavor: Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Juliana Force and the Making of the Whitney Museum Now that the Whitney has opened downtown, revisit its original incarnation in the heart…
Read More…impacting our city on landmarking and historic districts. In that case, they misrepresented and inflated the number of days until storefront permit is issued by the Landmarks Preservation Commission by…
Read MoreWalking East 3rd Street is a collaboration between GVSHP and the students in NYU’s Fall 2012 Intro to Public History course. Each pair of students was tasked with researching the…
Read MoreThe Villagers of Ellis Island: A Walking Tour of Ellis Island with Tom Bernardin Greenwich Village has often been celebrated for its rich immigrant past, including the South Village’s Italian…
Read More…this area and the great artist Robert Motherwell and the founding of institutions like the American Federation of Teachers has engendered strong new statements of support for landmarking from scholars…
Read MoreVillage Preservation Does Jane’s Walk A Walking Tour of the East Village Just as Jane Jacobs fought to save her beloved Greenwich Village, so too is Village Preservation working to…
Read More…over opposition from the developer/owner. Read the full history of the buildings, and GVSHP’s landmarking proposal, here. At the hearing on landmarking the buildings earlier this month, the owners threatened to sue if…
Read More…the home’s landmark status. So we thought we’d take this opportunity to review 121 Charles Street as part of our Landmarking 101 series. First, a little history on this home….
Read MoreWalking East 7th Street is a collaboration between GVSHP and the students in NYU’s Fall 2011 Intro to Public History course. Each pair of students was tasked with researching the…
Read MoreWalking East 7th Street is a collaboration between GVSHP and the students in NYU’s Fall 2011 Intro to Public History course. Each pair of students was tasked with researching the…
Read MoreEast Village Historic District Tour: A Walking Tour with Elizabeth Finkelstein – 7/31 Join historian (and former Village Preservation staffer) Elizabeth Finkelstein for a morning walk through and around the…
Read MoreOn January 6 2015, on Three Kings Day, the East Village community and allies rallied on the steps of City Hall on a cold winter day to urge Mayor de…
Read MoreEast Meets Green A Walking Tour of East Village Community Gardens Co-sponsored by Green Guerillas & The Manhattan Land Trust Join us on this tour of three distinct East Village…
Read MoreRadical, Notorious Women of Washington Square Walking Tour Greenwich Village was home to many political, creative, and intellectual movements in New York’s history, and the residences around Washington Square, especially…
Read More…made the decision to push through and self-publish the book Walking Manhattan Sideways. Her mission has always been to advocate for small businesses, and in this difficult time they need our…
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Photographer Hank Weber captured this picture “Looking Up” in 1988. He was fascinated by the World Trade Center and this image captures the North Tower on the right with a…
Posted September 8, 2021
Read More…Museum and Library has recently joined a broad array of elected officials, preservation organizations, scholars of Hispanic and Latino history, and the local community board in supporting the landmarking effort…
Read MoreOn Monday the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) issued a fallacious report claiming that landmarking lead to the loss of affordable housing in New York City. The report…
Read MoreA Walking Tour of East Village Community Gardens Co-sponsored by L.U.N.G.S. (Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens) Join us on a tour of distinct community gardens that showcase the plants, people, and…
Read MoreVillage Cheer! Holiday Storefront Walking Tour Midtown storefronts are legendary for their elaborate holiday windows, but the shops of Greenwich Village have charming traditions and displays all their own. Join…
Read MoreA Walking Tour of East Village/Lower East Side Community Gardens Join us on a tour of distinct community gardens that showcase the plants, people, and cultures that make these East…
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