Talking Carriage House: A Restoration Case Study Presented by Architects Anne Fairfax & Richard Sammons Carriage houses were once commonplace in the Village, but few survive today. Join architects and…
Read MoreGreenwich Village Historic District 50: The Making of the Greenwich Village Historic District In 1969, Greenwich Village preservationists, activists, and neighbors celebrated the victory of the designation of the Greenwich…
Read MoreWalking Tour: The Radical Village with Jay Saper The historic Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School (LREI), founded during the progressive era, has served as a haven…
Read More…such as “Talking Union” and “Which Side Are You On?” Seeger was also a founding member of the People’s Songs organization, which aimed to promote socially conscious music and support…
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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….
Posted June 2, 2020
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 MoreHenry James’s New York A Walking Tour with Joyce Gold Join Joyce Gold as she explores the New York City of Henry James and other literary notables in honor of…
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 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,…
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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 MoreBleecker Street Walking Tour 2 Join Village Preservation’s Director of Research and Preservation Sarah Bean Apmann for a tour of the architectural and cultural gems of Bleecker Street as part…
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…
Read MoreFoods of Greenwich Village: A Walking (and Eating!) Tour Presented by Foods of New York for Village Preservation Space is limited. Advance payment required for reservation. $25 Village Preservation members;…
Read MoreEast Village Gardens Walking Tour The East Village/Lower East Side boasts fifty-three community gardens, each with its own personality. This neighborhood, considered the birthplace of the modern American community garden…
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 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 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 More…ukulele, in high school. In college he began making Appalachian dulcimers, a folk instrument that originated in Appalachia. After college he had a brief job teaching instrument-making at the Smithsonian,…
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 MoreThe East Village Preserved: Breakfast Walking Tours of the Proposed East Village Historic Districts Join Village Preservation’s Director of Preservation & Research Elizabeth Finkelstein for a breakfast walk around the…
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 More…passed to restrict such demolition in the future. The Astor Library was the first structure to be saved from the wrecking ball due to the newly formed commission and freshly…
Read More…Street and constructed a stunning factory building designed by Henry J. Hardenbergh, which he then rented out to a manufacturer of boys’ clothing. Walking Tours are 90 minutes are meet…
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 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…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 MoreDishing Up the East Village walking tour Join expert tour guide Dana Schulz as she takes you on a journey through the East Village, peeling back the layers of the…
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 MoreA recent “report” by the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) was released that (incredibly, but predictably for REBNY) blamed the retail vacancy crisis impacting our city on landmarking…
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 MoreFABulous! Walking Tours of the Fourth Arts Block (FAB) The Fourth Arts Block manages the East 4th Street Cultural District (between 2nd Avenue and the Bowery), the only official cultural…
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 MoreEast Meets Green: A Walking Tour of East Village Community Gardens Part of the Encore Program Series. Miss it the first time around? You’ll receive preference for this event! Join…
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 MoreStonewall50 Walking Tour: Where Have All the Dyke Bars Gone? The NYC Dyke Bar Takeover crew and Village Preservation are partnering to share some queer history/herstory/hystory of our Village streets….
Read More…Study that underscored that landmarking does not undermine affordability. The recent report by Historic Districts Council “The Intersection of Affordable Housing and Historic Districts” also bolsters this case. Close to home, EVGrieve reported that…
Read MoreLooking Back at the Beatnik Riot: A Film Screening of the Documentary Sunday Sunday, which documents a confrontation between folk singers and police at Washington Square, has been widely honored…
Read MoreEast Village Historic District Tour: A Walking Tour with Elizabeth Finkelstein – 7/11 Join historian (and former Village Preservation staffer) Elizabeth Finkelstein for a morning walk through and around the…
Read MoreCulture & Cuisine: Dishing Up the East Village Walking Tours Led by Dana Schulz Join Village Preservation staff member Dana Schulz as she takes you on a journey through the…
Read MoreBohemian Melting Pot: The South Village A Walking Tour with Andrew Berman Visit this historic yet unprotected link to New York’s immigrant and bohemian past. Largely surrounded by designated historic…
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 More…is housing development conflict taking this form? What do the terms of this debate tell us about how we plan housing, about how we manage the planning process, and about…
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 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 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 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 MoreFrom Bowling Green to the Harlem River, New York’s most famous avenue encapsulates the city’s dynamic history and contemporary life. William J. Hennessey’s Walking Broadway presents the major historic landmarks and architectural gems…
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 More…countless women and their families in our neighborhoods and beyond. Ever since the Middle Collegiate fire on December 5th, 2020 displaced WPA from their home, the organization has been working…
Read MoreWith the City Council’s one and only public hearing for the city’s proposed SoHo/NoHo/Chinatown upzoning on Tuesday Nov. 9, here are talking points we strongly suggest you use for your…
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 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 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 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 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 MoreNative American History Walking Tour: From the West to East Village One might assume that New York’s streets are as old as Dutch settlement, but many of the thoroughfares we…
Read MoreThe East Village: Culture and Counter Culture: A Walking Tour with Joyce Gold From Stuyvesant’s bouwerie to the Tompkins Square riot—an area rich in ethnic diversity. Please visit www.nyctours.com for…
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2/7/17 LPC hearing. For more information about this application, click here….
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8/18/2015 LPC hearing. For more information about this application, click here….
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8/18/2015 LPC hearing. For more information about this application, click here….
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8/18/2015 LPC hearing. For more information about this application, click here….
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Professional photographer Robert A. Ripps took these images of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and of Ground Zero and its surroundings in the days and weeks following…
Posted September 8, 2021
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3/15/2016 LPC hearing. For more information about this application, click here.
Posted June 2, 2020
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This image is part of the Louis “Sonny” DeLuccy collection, which is dedicated in memory of Sonny and to honor him and others as heroes for their sacrifice. This image…
Posted September 8, 2021
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Professional photographer Robert A. Ripps took these images of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and of Ground Zero and its surroundings in the days and weeks following…
Posted September 8, 2021
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Professional photographer Robert A. Ripps took these images of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and of Ground Zero and its surroundings in the days and weeks following…
Posted September 8, 2021
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For more information on the application to the Landmarks Preservation Commission associated with this image, click here….
Posted June 16, 2021
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Professional photographer Robert A. Ripps took these images of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and of Ground Zero and its surroundings in the days and weeks following…
Posted September 8, 2021
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For more information on the application to the Landmarks Preservation Commission associated with this image, click here….
Posted June 2, 2020
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The sidewall of 112 Prince Street is visible prior to the addition of the Richard Haas trompe l’oeil mural in 1974, the first of hundreds of such murals created by…
Posted April 5, 2021
Read MoreJacquelyn A Ottman recounts the history of her storied family meat business Ottman & Company starting in 1859. At its height in the 1970s and 1980s, Ottman & Company served…
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