8th Street: Greenwich Village’s Once and Future Main Street A Panel Discussion Part One of our Small Business Series. Historically, Eighth Street has been the heart of Greenwich Village, connecting…
Read More…to tackling the area’s healthcare needs. These efforts were recognized in 2001 when Village Apothecary was presented the Legends of the Village Award by Village Care. To date, Village Apothecary…
Read More…Historic District abuts Washington Square Park, and its borders contain many streets that most would deem essential to the broader definition of “Greenwich Village” – consider Cornelia Street, Downing Street,…
Read More…oldest and largest historic districts, it covers much but not all of Greenwich Village between University Place and Washington Street, 13th Street and West 4th Street/St. Luke’s Place. Its continuing…
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…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 More…Greenwich Village since 1969. Map of the Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II The Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II is located along the southwest…
Read Morewith historian James Nevius $20 per registered login — a portion of the proceeds will benefit Village Preservation’s virtual programming When we talk about Greenwich Village, we tend to focus…
Read More…Street/99 Bank Street Historic Property Address: 771 Greenwich Street/99 Bank Street Suggested comments to describe the effect: I oppose the siting of a 32-ft.-tall 5G tower at 771 Greenwich Street/99…
Read More…Street Name Origins Edward Hopper’s Greenwich Village Mid-Century Modern Music Venues African-American History LGBTQ Sites Pineapples, Pinecones and Acorns of the Village Musicians’ Homes Movie and TV Show Locations Wood…
Read More…at 1 Sheridan Square. The Axis Theater Company currently resides there. The Greenwich Village Follies 220 West 4th Street 220 West 4th Street was home to the Greenwich Village Follies….
Read More…about the group, and the important contributions they made to Greenwich Village and all of New York City. Click here and here to learn more about the Greenwich Village Historic District….
Read More…15th. Selected Shorts: Greenwich Village Stories will feature Village residents Parker Posey and Jane Curtin reading fiction set in the Village alongside Greenwich Village Stories contributors Dave Hill, Penny Arcade,…
Read More…Street and Greenwich Avenue. The first chair of the LPC, Geoffrey Platt, convened a public hearing on the proposed Greenwich Village Historic District on December 9, 1965. The hearing lasted…
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…Christopher & West 4th Streets. Built by architect Herman Lee Meader for the Greenwich Village Players, the theater opened in 1917. It was made popular by producing the “Greenwich Village…
Read More…degrees) who got his break performing in the rock musical review “Lemmings” (3 degrees) which ran at Greenwich Village’s Village Gate Theater (4 degrees) at Bleecker and Thompson Streets (right…
Read More…to Greenwich Village, we find 27 Christopher Street. This building has a very complicated past, with a diversity of owners and uses, one of which was as a school. The…
Read MoreRedistricting in the 2022 Election Cycle and Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo: An Expert Evaluation by the League of Women Voters Thursday, July 21, 6:00pm – 7:15pm ET…
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…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 More…East Village through East Village Building Blocks. Today we’re venturing west into the Greenwich Village Historic District for another musical tour. Map of the Greenwich Village Historic District Village Vanguard…
Read More…author Richard Barone, and based on his new book, Music + Revolution: Greenwich Village in the 1960s, this multi-artist concert chronicles the trajectory of New York City’s historic Greenwich Village…
Read MoreBooks About Greenwich Village Make Great Holiday Gifts: A Book Fair with authors and their books about the Village Together in one room, we are happy to assemble a collection…
Read More…in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo, as downtown and uptown mixed, to help launch the ubiquitous genre we know today. To salute and celebrate that history, Village Preservation…
Read MoreGreenwich Village and surrounding neighborhoods have perhaps the strongest and deepest artistic traditions of any communities on earth. That legacy dates back to the 19th century when this area was…
Read MoreVillage Preservation continues its research on the unprotected and potentially endangered buildings in our area, particularly the section of Greenwich Village and the East Village south of Union Square we have proposed for…
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 More…hotels are built upon former (and in some cases present) eternal resting places. Google Street View of John’s of 12th Street (R) and 305/310 East 12th Street (L) One example…
Read More…will illuminate many examples of adaptive reuse in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and Noho: the Westbeth artists’ residence; the Jefferson Market Library; and the 1900 St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery Rectory, designed by…
Read More…Street retain their historic connection to these 17th century streets. Read more HERE. The City’s proposed redesign of the Jane Street Triangle The Jane Street Triangle redesign, presented by the…
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…shaped LBGT culture in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo over the last century and a quarter — some clandestine and illicit, others shiny and open. The Saint, 105…
Read More…showing the remaining diagonal Stuyvesant Street set against the regular straight street of the 1811 grid plan. Source: NYPL Today Stuyvesant Street is squeezed between Second and Third Avenues, though…
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…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…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…Greitzer had a significant impact upon Greenwich Village. She was a major proponent of preservation, and heavily advocated for historic district and zoning protections within Greenwich Village. Her 1961 Campaign…
Read More…of Women Voters of the City of New York to speak about the process of redistricting and how it has impacted our neighborhoods of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and…
Read MoreVillage Preservation & The New School Present: Artists and Greenwich Village Series – Keith Haring and the Streets of the Village In 1978, 19-year-old Keith Haring (d.1990) moved to New…
Read More…“Hancock Street” between Houston and Bleecker Street, just west of MacDougal Street. The dotted red line shows the route of the Sixth Avenue El, which hooked onto West 3rd Street…
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…Malcolm X and Che Guevera’s The Bolivian Diaries, the latter of which resulted in a fragmentation grenade thrown through the window of the Grove Street Press’ Greenwich Village offices. In…
Read More…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. The map includes pictures of the 2,200+ buildings…
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 More…the TV world Friends created did (and didn’t) line up with reality. The ‘Friends’ apartment building, 90 Bedford Street The spot in Greenwich Village most associated with Friends, and where…
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 More…utilize the stage to make their mark. The Duplex is located within the Greenwich Village Historic District, which turned fifty this year; click here to learn more about Village Preservation’s…
Read More…zoning protections for the neighborhood, [the Tech Hub] would lead to acceleration in out of scale development for the surrounding residential neighborhood.”) The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation and…
Read More…the case, however. For decades, it was libraries and their books that provided such knowledge. In Greenwich Village, several fantastic libraries provided neighborhood residents the chance to learn. The former…
Read MoreAPPROVED on 11/18/2014 CB2 hearing: 11/10/2014 LPC hearing: 11/18/2014 Greenwich Village Historic District Between Greenwich and Hudson Streets Image courtesy of Google Street View —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From…
Read MoreP&T Knitwear, in conjunction with the Lower East Side Preservation Initiative (LESPI), East Village Community Coalition (EVCC), and Village Preservation is pleased to welcome Ada Calhoun for a discussion of her books St. Marks is Dead and Also A Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father, and Me, along with…
Read More…Bedford Street next door, “the narrowest house in Greenwich Village”). 75 1/2 Bedford Street, from the Village Preservation Historic Image Archive And it would be buying real estate in and…
Read More…thirteen years shy of the designation of the Greenwich Village Historic District which would have preserved it, the Tenth Street Studio Building was razed to make way for an apartment…
Read MoreAPPROVED with modifications on 04/07/2015 CB2 hearing: 03/16/2015 LPC hearing: 04/07/2015 Greenwich Village Historic District Between Bank and West 11th Streets Image courtesy of Google Street View —- APPLICATION INFORMATION…
Read More…Greenwich Village and one of the oldest continuously operated art cinemas in the city. And this year it is one of our Village Awardees! Cinema Village, 22 East 12th Street…
Read More…1999. Greenwich Village Cafeteria, 1934 The Bath, 1951 by Paul Cadmus Bar Italia, 1953-55 In April of 2019, we launched our new interactive map, Greenwich Village Historic District, 1969-2019: Photos…
Read More…of theatrical endeavors. The check out other great movies, TV shows, and plays which took place in the Greenwich Village Historic District, explore our Greenwich Village Historic District 50th Anniversary…
Read More…District! Greenwich Village Historic District Designation Reports Explore Greenwich Village Oral Histories Preservation History Archive Greenwich Village Historic District LPC Applications Read Blog Posts about the Greenwich Village Historic District…
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…(200 14th Street) Jeanne d’Arc building. Image courtesy of skyscrapercity.com Located on the upper border of the Village, the Jeanne d’Arc Building is the earliest surviving example of a French…
Read MoreAPPLICATION APPROVED Greenwich Village Historic District Between Perry and Charles Streets —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the LPC agenda:Four rowhouses, built in the early 19th Century and remodeled in…
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Tribeca resident Richard Corman documented the horrific destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, from his roof at 335 Greenwich Street, and the surrounding area in the…
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Read More…Third Street Music School Settlement”. 1940s Tax Photo of 51-55 East 3rd Street In 1974 the school moved to 233-239 East 11th Street where it remains today (when Third Street…
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…within the Greenwich Village Historic District, visit our Greenwich Village Historic District Map + Tours here, and be sure to click on the dropdown menu for the alphabetical listing of…
Read More…almost 100 years ago right across the street from The Duplex, in a long-lost performance space known as the Greenwich Village Theatre. The Greenwich Village Theatre in 1929 The 500-seat…
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…to both our interactive map of the Greenwich Village Historic District and our Civil Rights and Social Justice Map. Brown’s connection to Greenwich Village begins with Thaddeus Hyatt, a prominent…
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…shape the building of countless housing projects throughout the world, including here in Greenwich Village with Washington Square Village (1958) and in East Village with Jacob Riis Houses (1949) and…
Read More…shape the building of countless housing projects throughout the world, including here in Greenwich Village with Washington Square Village (1958) and in East Village with Jacob Riis Houses (1949) and…
Read More…America was found in Lower Manhattan, comprising much of present-day Greenwich Village and the South Village, and parts of the Lower East Side and East Village. This settlement consisted of…
Read More…make Greenwich Village an iconic destination for so many. This webinar will explore Hopper’s works and their relationship to real life in Greenwich Village. Greenwich Village and surrounding neighborhoods have…
Read More…performance here. Cornelia Street Café Since its debut in 1977, this Greenwich Village restaurant and bar was a place for artists, especially singer-songwriters, to showcase their work. Gaga waitressed at…
Read More…on the Monday before the hearing. Click HERE for suggested guidelines for testimony from Village Preservation. Gansevoort Market Historic District —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the CB2 agenda: Application…
Read More…were supposed to take place in turn-of-the-last-century Little Italy were actually filmed in front of 520-530 and 521-531 East 6th Street in the East Village. And the East Village served as a stand-in for the…
Read More…Lane Theatre. For more Jewish history of the Greenwich Village Historic District, read here or see the Jewish History tour on our Greenwich Village Historic District 50th Anniversary map at…
Read MoreA 1965 paperback edition of Greenwich Village: 1920-1930 available in the GVSHP library. For those familiar with the history of Greenwich Village, the name of author Jane Jacobs is quite…
Read More…Greenwich Village Series – Winter 2023 This four session series explores the history of the black presence in the Greenwich Village area of New York City from 1600-2020. Join 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…
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For more information on the application to the Landmarks Preservation Commission associated with this image, click here….
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For more information on the application to the Landmarks Preservation Commission associated with this image, click here….
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For more information on the application to the Landmarks Preservation Commission associated with this image, click here….
Posted December 15, 2020
Read MoreVillage Preservation provides an ongoing record of all applications for changes to landmarked properties in our neighborhoods (Greenwich Village, NoHo, Gansevoort Market, the South Village, and the East Village) that…
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For more information on the application to the Landmarks Preservation Commission associated with this image, click here….
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8/12/2014 LPC hearing. For more information about this application, click here….
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