Village 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, the East Village or NoHo: just click here to vote for your favorite. Owners Lobsang Tsultrim, left, and Thupten Tenphel inside East Village Cheese. This article was modified…
Read MoreWe’re proud to release two video tours of the amazingly rich but often overlooked African American history of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo. The videos look at the…
Read MoreVillage Preservation & The New School Present: Greenwich Village Artists Series “I and the Village:” Jackson Pollock’s Downtown Years, A Lecture by Larissa Bailiff Jackson Pollock moved to New York by…
Read More…the East Village. The Lower East Side History Project will be presented with a Village Award for researching, documenting, and preserving the distinctive history of the East Village and Lower…
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…artist who moved to New York’s East Village in 1966, has lived in this townhouse at 166 Avenue A since 1971 and has been carefully documenting the East Village since…
Read MoreGVSHP 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 neighborhoods….
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…6 Weeks” (Gothamist) On 10th Street, Towers that Never Were (The Local East Village) Die, Die, My Darling Mars Bar (NY Observer) East Village Rape Cops’ Previous Incident (Village Voice)…
Read More…here. Explore the “Virtual Village” To visit even more sites connected to Village Preservation’s oral history subjects, continue the Oral History Tour of our “Virtual Village” interactive map. #SouthOfUnionSquare is an…
Read MoreBlack History in Greenwich Village: Session 3 – Civil Rights, Women’s Suffrage, and the Great Migration 1880 – 1960 Session 3 of Village Preservation’s new series, Black History in Greenwich…
Read More…art here. Black History in Greenwich Village Series – Winter 2023 This four session series explores the history of the black presence in the Greenwich Village area of New York…
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 MoreWelcome to February, and African American History Month! Village Preservation has long documented the stories behind the streets, buildings and people of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo. Those…
Read MoreGreenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation is excited to share our oral history collection with the public, and hope they will shed more light on what makes Greenwich Village and the…
Read More…Greenwich Village Stories, edited by Judith Stonehill in collaboration with Village Preservation, available here. You can learn more about significant sites in the East Village, through our interactive resource, East Village…
Read More…Greenwich Village south of Washington Square Park, which was actually the second phase of Village Preservation’s proposed South Village Historic District. Village Preservation had fought hard to get several NYU…
Read More…of squirrels. What do you hope to see happen to the Village in the next 10 years? The continued well-balanced approach to sustaining the history and place of the Village….
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…the Village to pursue different dreams, they both found what they wanted in the Village’s unique mix of buildings. Village Preservation kicked off its campaign to honor, document, and seek…
Read More…and reclaim it as a term of empowerment. In the article, entitled “THE SUMMER OF GAY POWER AND THE VILLAGE VOICE EXPOSED,” the activists write: “The Village Voice and its writers have once…
Read More…American history of the East Village is extensively catalogued in our African-American History Tour on our East Village Building Blocks website. A selection of a few of those sites follows:…
Read More…the LGBTQ history of the East Village, where a walking tour with Andrea Coyle of the Lower East Side History Project strolled past the early homosexual bordellos of the Bowery…
Read More…Abbott. 1. “The Widow Marycke,” Washington Square Via Wikimedia Too few know that the first permanent settlers of what is today Greenwich Village, and the surrounding neighborhoods of the East Village,…
Read More…February is African-American History Month, now seems like an especially appropriate time to highlight the African-American history of the South Village, the subject of a separate chapter in the South…
Read MoreLooking for a great read about Greenwich Village or the East Village? Check out this list of always essential classics, and scroll to the bottom for a list of websites…
Read More…great artists, activists, business owners, community leaders, and preservation pioneers of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo. It captures and preserves their first-person perspective on the important events they…
Read MoreVillage Preservation’s East Village Building Blocks, our web-based tool which provides information on each property in the East Village, has been wildly popular since its release just over a month…
Read More…of Greenwich Village and the East Village. To explore more of this area’s history, click on the link below and to support our effort to advocate for this area, click…
Read More…Upper East Side of Manhattan, the Westchester suburbs, old New England villages, and Italy. While Cheever is best remembered for his short stories, including “The Enormous Radio”, “Goodbye, My Brother”,…
Read MoreVillage Preservation collaborated recently on a major project with Google Arts + Culture. We put together tours of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo that highlighted the deep and rich cultural and artistic movements in…
Read MoreVillage Preservation is pleased to announce the launch of VILLAGE VOICES, an outdoor exhibition celebrating people, places, and moments from our neighborhoods’ history. VILLAGE VOICES will be an engaging installation…
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…has compiled a map of sites of significance in the history of civil rights and social justice movements in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo. View it at www.gvshp.org/civilrightsmap….
Read More…the Village Preservation Annual Village Awards, we hope you will take a few minutes to nominate your favorites from the East Village, NoHo, and Greenwich Village for a 2023 annual…
Read More…the Greenwich Village Historic District. Click here to check out our year-long activities and celebrations. Trying to limit oneself to just 10 of the most charming spots in the Greenwich Village…
Read MoreGreenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo have been home to a multitude of remarkable and transformative women, as well as the scene of innumerable vital movements for women’s equality…
Read MoreThe East Village is probably not the first neighborhood that comes to mind when most New Yorkers think about African American history. But this incredibly rich, multi-layered neighborhood was home…
Read More…did achieve with the approved 2008 East Village rezoning, GVSHP and our partners worked hard to advance further neighborhood protections. When the LPC unveiled a preliminary proposed East Village Historic…
Read MoreOn Monday, the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation hosted a program on the oral histories of the East Village, highlighting our commitment to the stories of our neighborhood and…
Read MoreSession 2 – Arts, Culture, and Activism of Black Communities 1776 – 1870 Join Village Preservation for the return of our popular Black History in Greenwich Village Series. First developed…
Read MoreGreenwich Village is a community rich with Jewish history, especially within the area that in 1969 was designated as one of the city’s first and largest historic districts. That legacy…
Read More…recognize its incredible contributions to our city and our country’s history. Village Preservation asked a number of them to talk about why the South Village means so much to our…
Read More…Our African American History Tour of the Greenwich Village Historic District Take Our African American East Village History Tour Explore Our Historic Plaque Program, Which Includes The Homes of James…
Read More…Preserve Our History Village Preservation is fighting to landmark and protect several sites connected to African American history, particularly civil rights history, in our neighborhood. This includes: 50 West 13th…
Read More…in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the Westchester suburbs, old New England villages, and Italy. While Cheever is best remembered for his short stories, including “The Enormous Radio”, “Goodbye,…
Read More…They are: 324 East 5th Street (113 East 4th Street, currently the Manhattan School for Career Development), PS 122 at 150 First Avenue, 265-275 East 4th Street (currently the George…
Read More…commercial, institutional buildings. Slideshow of buildings included in the East Village/Lower East Side Historic District History of some of the buildings in the East Village/Lower East Side Historic District At…
Read More…few. So what do these metropolis-defining locations and others like them have in common? They all can be found beyond the borders of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo…
Read More…Nathan’s Famous. Image by Meredith Marciano from the Meredith Jacobson Marciano Collection Part 2 of the Village Preservation Historic Image Archive. In the 1960s and early 1970s Greenwich Village had…
Read More…entire adult life in New York City, including four years (1959–63) at 441 East 9th Street, where Village Preservation placed a plaque in his honor on June 10, 2014. (See…
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…We have two upcoming programs that explore the East Village — a walking tour of East Village Community Gardens on July 28 and Dishing Up the East Village: A Culture…
Read More…Village Scavenger Hunt Students will be given a list of places, spaces, buildings, and architectural details drawn from the full Black History in Greenwich Village curriculum to identify & photograph…
Read More…third and final phase of our proposed South Village Historic District to protect their contexts. Landmark designation of the South Village, like the neighborhood’s development, seems to come in stages….
Read More…rights movements. To explore more African-American sites in East Village and NoHo, visit the African American History Tour on our East Village Building Blocks site, or watch our video on…
Read More…institutions were demolished on East 6th East 5th and East 4th Streets and Avenue A between 1938 and 1952, to make way for the school. (That’s how we know the…
Read More…and Congregation Mezritch Synagogue at 415 East 6th Street in the newly designated East Village/Lower East Side Historic District. You can see the proposals for these applications and learn more…
Read MoreApril, 2004 Rally to Save the far West Village In the ten years leading up to 2004, the Far West Village along West Street experienced huge changes. Large, out-of-scale luxury…
Read MoreToday we welcome a new small business to our neighborhoods — help us welcome the next. Tell us which new independent store in Greenwich Village, the East Village, or NoHo…
Read More…Village Award at our Annual Meeting on Monday, June 13th. In the twenty years since GVSHP began presenting Village Awards, many nods have gone out to small specialty food markets….
Read More…the heart of Greenwich Village: Advocate: Village Preservation is fighting to landmark and preserve several sites connected to African American history, particularly civil rights history, in our neighborhood. This includes:…
Read MoreEveryday Lives, Ordinary People: A History of East Village Immigrants A Presentation by the NYU Archives & Public History Program Master’s Degree Candidates The rich and varied history of the…
Read More…our East Village Preservation efforts, click here. For an in-depth history of Nos. 326 & 328 East 4th Street, read our letters to the Landmarks Preservation Commission here and here….
Read MoreEast 5th Street Building in the proposed East Village/Lower East Side Historic District On Tuesday, June 26 the Landmarks Preservation Commission will hold a public hearing on the proposed East…
Read More…and has constructed illegal rooftop additions at 515 East 5th Street. In addition to these East Village buildings, GVSHP has advocated against inappropriate rooftop additions at the Puck Building and…
Read More…East 12th Street 47 East 12th Street 58 East 11th Street 60 East 11th Street 64-66 East 11th Street 67 East 11th Street/801-07 Broadway 34-36 East 10th Street 38-58 East…
Read More…distinct from all the rest. Instead of relaying the broad history of our neighborhood, the Preservation History Archive holds original documents on the history of preservation advocacy by our predecessors,…
Read More…sidewalks swell with Village natives, NYU students, and tourists. With Greenwich Village Stories as your unofficial guidebook, you can tour the neighborhood as some of its most well-known residents have,…
Read More…preservation. Looking up at an altered 1847 Greek Revival house from a previous tour. The Greenwich Village Historic District The original Greenwich Village Historic District covers only a portion of…
Read More…two dogs, patronizes fellow Village business Murray’s Cheese; Right: the interior of Annisa Lo is among a group of unstoppable female celebrity chefs in the East and West Villages, which…
Read More…top of such up-and-comers as Williamsburg/Greenpoint (1.68%), the Lower East Side/East Village/Chinatown (1.478%), Astoria/Long Island City (1%), Bushwick (1.62%) and Central Harlem (0.8%). The report also shows that the public…
Read MoreThe 35th Village Preservation Annual Meeting and 25th Presentation of the Village Awards Village Preservation will present its 25th Annual Village Awards this year at our Annual Meeting on Wednesday,…
Read More…a coincidence! (video) (event description) Tour Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo (from east to west): CBGB after the death of Joey Ramone. From Meredith Marciano Collection, archive.gvshp.org. The…
Read MoreIt’s Pride Month!! Today we look at Richard Wandel, someone who has been instrumental in archiving LGBT history and who shared his story with us through our Oral History Project…
Read More…than – oh, you get the idea. There will be oodles of exciting things going on throughout all of May in the East Village and Lower East Side during the…
Read More…appreciation of the East Village’s history and advocate for its preservation. From the recently released report A History of the East Village and Its Architecture to the online resource East…
Read More…Project, and author of the guide book “Gangsters, Murderers & Weirdos of New York City’s Lower East Side” (History Press). This event is co-sponsored by the East Village History Project….
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…When Shirley Hayes, Verna Small, Jane Jacobs, Ruth Wittenberg, and other Village activists succeeded in getting the Greenwich Village Historic District (GVHD) designated in 1969, they did what no one…
Read More…South Village Historic District (map), a two hundred forty-building, thirteen-block section of Greenwich Village south of Washington Square Park, and the second phase of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic…
Read More…brilliant tactics, they succeeded. Committee to Save the West Village Newsletter Issue 1 Masthead, dated March 10, 1962, from Village Preservation’s Preservation History Archive Saving the West Village The concerns…
Read More…year to protect the architectural heritage and cultural history of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo. Current Village Preservation members will vote on a slate of new and renewing…
Read More…political motives than the actual history of a neighborhood’s geographic development. The “South Village” has really always been integral to Greenwich Village since its earliest phases of evolution, and one…
Read MoreVillage Preservation Annual Meeting and Village Awards Each June Village Preservation holds its Annual Meeting and Village Awards presentation. The Annual Village Awards are in recognition of those people, places,…
Read More…that’s just the tip of the proverbial iceberg! CLICK HERE for a Tour of Asian American History in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo You can learn about even…
Read MoreFrancis Morrone Presents: A History of the East Village and Its Architecture Noted architectural historian Francis Morrone’s “A History of the East Village and Its Architecture,” is part of Village…
Read More…204 East 13th Street is a 4-story Neo-Grec style tenement built in 1875. The building has exceptionally vivid and intact architectural detailing on its cornice and lintels. Village Preservation has…
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