…JP Morgan Chase, while Hamilton’s Bank of New York lead to the formation of today’s BNY Mellon. The East Village’s Hamilton Houses The Hamilton-Holly House (L) via Wiki Commons: The…
Read More…the Hudson Park Library in Greenwich Village. Groups of children reading on the roof of the Hamilton Fish Park Library. Source: The New York Public Library The Hamilton Park Library…
Read More…Hamilton’s final resting place here. *Lyrics from Hamilton by Lin Manuel Miranda * To learn more about Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the history and nature of early 19th Century…
Read More…Hamilton Fish, taken while he acted as the 26th US Secretary of State between 1869-1877. Hamilton Fish is known as one of New York State’s youngest and most progressive governors…
Read MoreThe hyped musical “Hamilton” opened on Broadway last weekend to rave reviews. The excitement surrounding the musical and the legacy of Alexander Hamilton, one of the United States’ Founding Fathers,…
Read MoreThe Federal-style rowhouse at 4 St. Mark’s Place, also known as the Hamilton-Holly house and the former home of Trash and Vaudeville, was designated an individual New York City landmark…
Read MoreThe Chintz Age: Tales of Love and Loss for a New New York A book talk with author Ed Hamilton In seven stories and a novella, Ed Hamilton takes on…
Read More…time, and the loser, Burr, became Vice President (I shudder to think if that were the policy now!) The rivalry between Hamilton and Burr, Hamilton’s opposition to Burr in the…
Read More…and 3rd Avenues. It was purchased by Alexander Hamilton (son of the founding father Alexander Hamilton) in 1833 for $15,000 (about $435,000 in current dollar value). Hamilton lived in the…
Read More…Marks Place, a New York City landmark, known now as the Hamilton-Holly house. Purchased in 1833 by Alexander Hamilton Jr., he lived here with his wife Eliza, his daughter Holly,…
Read More…with the U.S. Constitution when it was purchased by Alexander Hamilton Jr., son of the Founding Father and first U.S. Treasury secretary. Several members of the Hamilton and Van Wyck…
Read More…some of the first charitable associations to aid poor women and children. Interesting Fact: Joanna Bethune opened the first school for “young ladies” and in 1806 joined Mrs. Alexander Hamilton…
Read More…Talk about a multi-tasker! The interior of Butter and Alex Guarnaschelli Over on East 1st Street we come to Prune, whose owner and executive chef Gabrielle Hamilton recently won the…
Read MoreHere it is, the much-advertised Hamilton Fish House on Stuyvesant Street. The Hamilton Fish House is a stately home located on lovely Stuyvesant Street in the East Village. It is…
Read More…Stuyvesant-Fish House State and National Register Photos Hamilton-Holly House, 4 St. Mark’s Place Hamilton-Holly House NYC LPC Designation Report Isaac T. Hopper House, 110 2nd Avenue Isaac T….
Read More…the last Dutch Director-General of New Netherland. Petrus built the house for his daughter Elizabeth when she married Nicholas Fish, a close friend of both Alexandar Hamilton and General Lafayette….
Read More…capsule. Randall House, The Hamilton, The Lafayette, Brevoort East…all these grand apartment buildings are located together in just two blocks. The buildings speak to an architectural trend of mid-century modern…
Read More…call home. This idiosyncratic work offers a bold new perspective on gentrification, urban nostalgia, and the evolution of a community. Image courtesy of Amazon. Ed Hamilton– The Chintz Age: Tales…
Read More…is the oldest house in Manhattan still used as a residence. 21 Stuyvesant Street, via CityRealty 21 Stuyvesant Street is also known as the Stuyvesant-Fish House or sometimes the Hamilton Fish…
Read More…she had a son, Hamilton Fish. Hamilton would go on to be the 16th Governor of New York and to have a son named Stuyvesant Fish in 1851. Stuyvesant would…
Read More…Books moved back into the building. In 1979, publisher Hamilton Fish moved his magazine The Nation, the oldest continuously published weekly in the country, to the building. First founded in…
Read More…Landmark Hamilton Fish House, 21 Stuyvesant Street, Individual Landmark Hamilton-Holly House, 4 St. Mark’s Place, Individual Landmark 131 Charles Street, Individual Landmark Old Merchant’s House, 29 East 4th Street, Individual…
Read More…can be traced back to historical figures as esteemed as George Washington, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jacob Astor, but it’s just as deeply connected to Italian immigrants and…
Read More…Nicholas Fish, a close friend of Alexander Hamilton. Fish’s son Hamilton would later become Secretary of State and both New York Governor and Senator. The house appears more or less…
Read More…the power of public history. He also worked on the Hamilton Education Program at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. The program helped thousands of underserved high school students…
Read More…founded in 1787 by members of the New York Manumission Society, an organization devoted to the full abolition of African slavery, led and founded by Alexander Hamilton and John Jay….
Read More(Left to right) Save Gansevoort Market Co-Chairs Jo Hamilton and Florent Morellet, LPC Chair Robert Tierney, and GVSHP Executive Director Andrew Berman following the vote to designate the Gansevoort Market…
Read More…Isabella Graham, along with other early 19th century female humanitarian leaders such as Eliza Hamilton, founded the first voluntary benevolent associations to aid poor women and children. Their substantial contributions…
Read More…1807 was located at present-day West 4th and Bank Streets. The orphanage was cofounded by Alexander Hamilton’s widow Eliza Schulyler Hamilton, who began the work of establishing the organization not…
Read More…space in this Greek Revival house built by the founder of The Nation magazine, Hamilton Fish. Their website states: Tribes was conceived as a venue for underexposed artists, as well…
Read More…Bayard whose home was near what today is Jane Street where Alexander Hamilton died after being shot in the infamous duel with Aaron Burr in 1804. Finally, there is Peter…
Read More…aside, early in the home’s history, Colonel Alexander Hamilton and Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, son and widow of the first Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, lived here. Other…
Read More…of punk rock. From 1976-2016 the business was located at 4 St. Mark’s Place in the landmarked Hamilton-Holly House. In 2016 it moved to 96 East 7th Street. Trash and…
Read MoreClockwise from upper l.: Merchant’s House, Astor Library (now Public Thefater), Salmagundi Club, Hamilton Fish House, Collonade Row. On September 21, 1965, the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) held its very…
Read More…become known as the Hamilton Fish House, or the Stuyvesant Fish House. Future NY Governor and Senator Hamilton Fish was born to Elizabeth and Nicholas here in 1808. In 1836,…
Read More…Berman, Jo Hamilton, former LPC Chair Sherida Paulsen, and Florent Morellet after the vote designating the Gansevoort Market Historic District. click to enlarge The effort to secure landmark designation for…
Read More…granddaughter Elizabeth married a military hero from the American Revolution, one Nicolas Fish. Their son, named Hamilton, after family friend Alexander Hamilton, became governor of New York, and he and…
Read More…part of the present, and stories from our history can be found woven throughout the streets of Greenwich Village. Elizabeth Hamilton On March 15, 1806, a group of upstanding…
Read More…Harlem’s largest historic districts are located in Hamilton Heights/Sugar Hill, outside the boundaries of Central Harlem in Community Board #9). 7.5% of the area being landmarked could hardly be seen…
Read More…believed to have been designed by famed 19th century architect James Renwick, as well as some of earliest-constructed Federal buildings in the city, including the Hamilton Fish House, which was…
Read More…Fish, a close friend of both Alexandar Hamilton and General Lafayette. Fish’s son Hamilton would later become Governor of New York, a US Senator, and Secretary of State. Like the…
Read More…by @Discovering_NYC Petrus built for his daughter, Elizabeth, 21 Stuyvesant Street as a wedding gift 1803-04. She married Hamilton Fish and their home, known as the Stuyvesant Fish House, still…
Read More…his daughter Elizabeth when she married Nicholas Fish, a close friend of both Alexandar Hamilton and General Lafayette. Fish’s son Hamilton would later become Governor of New York, a US…
Read More…Schuyler and Eliza Hamilton Schuyler, the daughter of Alexander and Eliza Hamilton), who, in 1901, 17 years after Lazarus’s death, “found a book containing the sonnet in a bookshop and…
Read MoreOn this date in 1804, just five days following his infamous duel with Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr sold two plots of land in our neighborhood. Why? Well, he was charged with multiple…
Read More…The list of artists who worked at 30 East 14th Street is long and impressive. An extensive but nowhere near complete list includes W. Hamilton Gibson, George E. Bissell, Samuel…
Read More…and impressive. An extensive but nowhere near complete list includes W. Hamilton Gibson, George E. Bissell, Samuel Halpert, Charles Keller, Minna Citron, Kenneth Hays Miller, Arnold Blanch, Harry Sternberg, Yasuo…
Read More…30 East 14th Street is long and impressive. An extensive but nowhere near complete list includes W. Hamilton Gibson, George E. Bissell, Samuel Halpert, Charles Keller, Minna Citron, Kenneth Hays…
Read More…fame; Samuel Bayard, whose brother’s home near present-day Jane Street was where Alexander Hamilton died after being shot in his duel with Aaron Burr; and Peter Stuyvesant, descendant of the…
Read More…of artists who worked at this location is long and impressive. and includes W. Hamilton Gibson, George E. Bissell, Samuel Halpert, Charles Keller, Minna Citron, Kenneth Hays Miller, Arnold Blanch,…
Read More…Gabriele Knecht, Susan Kolker, Valerie Krishna, Justine & John Leguizamo, Brenda Levin, Marc Levy, Linda Yowell Architects, Ruth & Kevin McCoy, Mary Elizabeth McGarry, Deborah Martin & Ed Hamilton, Bethany…
Read More…Brooklyn Museum. Reginald Marsh, Alexander Hamilton U.S. Customs House Murals, 1936-1937. Village Preservation has recently received a series of extraordinary letters from individuals across the world, expressing support for our…
Read More…founded by prominent New Yorkers including Governor, Senator, and Secretary of State Hamilton Fish; prominent merchant and philanthropist John David (J.D.) Wolfe; financier and philanthropist John Jacob Astor III; businessman,…
Read More…the property after he became a pariah for killing Alexander Hamilton (both had served under Washington), which led to the development of the houses found today in this charming district….
Read More…of New York — the oldest bank in the United States, founded by Alexander Hamilton — began a trend of banks moving temporarily northward to escape the disease. The Bank…
Read More…Grace Church. It was designed in 1887 by James Renwick and the partners in his successor firm — James Lawrence Aspinwall and William Hamilton Russell, Renwick’s grand-nephew. Though a utilitarian…
Read More…Number 2, Lithograph by student P. Reason. Photo from Columbia University Libraries In 1785, founding fathers Alexander Hamilton, Geroge Clinton, John Jay, and several other influential citizens created the New-York Manumission…
Read More…clients as the Vanderbilts, Eliza Hamilton and John Jacob Astor, and Fulton’s steamboat company. In the 1870s, Charles E. Strong joined and led the firm, which during his tenure was…
Read More…early and prominent abolitionist active in the anti-slavery movement. In 1785, he joined with Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Thomas Eddy, and George Clinton (who was married to Hannah Bowne Franklin)…
Read More…here on July 11, 1804, that Burr set out for his infamous duel where he fatally wounded Alexander Hamilton. Richmond Hill was eventually bought by John Jacob Astor, placed on…
Read More…Gilberto, Henry Mancini, Elvin Jones, Roland Kirk, Art Farmer, Chico Hamilton, Horace Silver, Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band, Jack DeJohnette, Elvin Jones, Hubert Laws, and Ravi Shankar, among…
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The 1832 Hamilton Holly House as it’s also known was one of 13 federal style houses in Lower Manhattan which Village Preservation and the NY Landmarks Conservancy proposed for landmark…
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Read More…with esteemed legal minds such as Hamilton Fish, an eventual U.S. Senator from New York and Secretary of State under President Ulysses S. Grant. He married Margaret Stuyvesant Chanler in…
Read More…likely part of a series of renovations undertaken by architect Martin E. Thompson. The institution was popular with founding father Alexander Hamilton, who played a role in incorporating St. Mark’s…
Read More…Justine & John Leguizamo, Brenda Levin, Marc Levy, Linda Yowell Architects, Ruth & Kevin McCoy, Mary Elizabeth McGarry, Deborah Martin & Ed Hamilton, Bethany & Euan Menzies, Marlaine & Andrew…
Read More…the Hamilton Education Program at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and most recently at Giveffect, a software company that specifically serves nonprofits. In addition to his nonprofit work,…
Read More…This lecture will be presented by TR Hamilton, an architectural conservator and historian with degrees from the University of Mary Washington and the University of Edinburgh. He is a native New Yorker…
Read More…and fable belying the fascinating and complex story of Greenwich Village. This lecture will be presented by TR Hamilton, an architectural conservator and historian with degrees from the University of Mary Washington…
Read More…Patrick’s Cathedral and Grace Church, along with partners James Lawrence Aspinwall and William Hamilton Russell. The design of the manufacturing building was meant to harmonize with the adjacent historic Grace…
Read More…noted architect of St. Patrick’s Cathedral and Grace Church, along with partners James Lawrence Aspinwall and William Hamilton Russell. The design of the manufacturing building was meant to harmonize with…
Read More…originally owned by A.C. Gale & Company, and by 1902 were owned by the trustees of the Hamilton Fish Estate. The newly conjoined three buildings were designed in the English…
Read More…themed night like “Alexander Hamilton Night,” conducting “historiette jaunts” around the lower west side of Manhattan, and showcasing readings of “spiritualized poetry” by Juanita Clivette. The society is best known…
Read More…the 1804 Federal-style Stuyvesant-Fish House. The house was a gift from Petrus to his daughter Elizabeth and her husband Nicholas Fish. Their son Hamilton Fish was born and grew up…
Read More…was designed in 1887 by James Renwick, noted architect of St. Patrick’s Cathedral and Grace Church, along with partners James Lawrence Aspinwall and William Hamilton Russell. The design of the…
Read More…of the paper—including Fred W. McDarrah, Sylvia Plachy, and James Hamilton; printing groundbreaking Pulitzer Prize winning illustrator, Jules Feiffer and off-the-beaten path artists like Stan Mack, Mark Stamaty, and Lynda Barry. THE FREAKS…
Read More…to go out of existence after 1875, though it’s founder and leader James K. Hamilton Wilcox continued his work for both women’s and African American suffrage throughout his lifetime. It…
Read More…the University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus (where it is called “Endover’), in the Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park in Hamilton, Ohio, and in private collections in Miami and Southampton. But…
Read More…Boerum Hill; Jackson Heights, Hamilton Heights (Sugar Hill), and the South Street Seaport, among many others. The Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, Grand Central Terminal, and the Woolworth Building all…
Read More…on November 2, 1787 — in Lower Manhattan by the New-York Manumission Society and founding fathers Alexander Hamilton and John Jay. The institution prepared the city’s Black students, many of…
Read More…Helena Dudley, Lillian Wald, Mary McDowell, Florence Kelley, Alice Hamilton, and Edith Abbott. Christodora House was constructed in 1928 as a settlement house for low- income and immigrant residents, providing…
Read More…City Landmarks in the same block, the Hamilton Holly House at 4 St. Marks Place (a federal house which GVSHP helped get landmarked in 2003) and the Daniel Le Roy…
Read More…the Holland Tunnel. Designed by architect Hector Hamilton for Charlton Street physician George Stivers, the Tunnel Garage’s eye-catching design is generally referred to as “Art Deco,” as it embodies the…
Read More…pizza!) Japadog brings Japanese-style Canadian hotdogs to St. Mark’s (Gothamist) Pete Wells reviews Cornelia Street Asian-fusion Spot Wong (NY Times) Gabrielle Hamilton of Prune eyes Belcourt space for her New…
Read More…to landmark designation the buildings are well preserved. Into this mix came Jo Hamilton, a local resident with a strong interest in preserving the Meatpacking District who recently joined the…
Read More…Hamilton and his 1807 arrest for allegedly plotting to capture the US Southwest to form a new country — led officials in New York City to rename Burr Street Charlton…
Read More…Hill Neighborhood Association; Friends of the Lower East Side; Lefferts Manor Association; Hamilton Heights – West Harlem Community Preservation Organization. Remember, tune in to the live feed next Tuesday, September…
Read More…States, and Alexander Hamilton, Founding Father, first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Chief of Staff to General George Washington whom Burr killed in a duel in 1804. In 1997, it…
Read More…usually associate Aaron Burr with the Village. (I personally always associate him with New Jersey, where he was born, where he killed Alexander Hamilton, and where he is buried.) However,…
Read More…Community Task Force Murray Hill Neighborhood Association Lefferts Manor Association Hamilton Heights – West Harlem Community Preservation Organization 404 East 14th Street and the East Village Art Scene A slideshow…
Read More…It is the second oldest church in New York City. Popular of late founding father Alexander Hamilton played a role in incorporating St. Mark’s Church as the first Episcopal parish independent of…
Read More…the property in 1797, planning its future development with lots of 25 by 100 feet on three streets, which became Charlton, King and Vandam. After his duel with Alexander Hamilton,…
Read More…his former apartment, gallery and gathering space on 3rd Street and Avenue D in an historic Greek Revival house built by the founder of The Nation magazine, Hamilton Fish. As…
Read More…Burr. Read more about Burr, Alexander Hamilton, and the Charlton-King-Vandam Historic District here. A map of the relatively small historic district. See the full map with surrounding districts and a…
Read More…1940. Designed by architect Hector Hamilton for Charlton Street physician George Stivers, the Tunnel Garage’s eye-catching design is generally referred to as “Art Deco,” as it embodies the streamlined forms,…
Read More…a time of enormous hope for many African Americans in New York City. On that day, Reverend William Hamilton announced at the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, “[n]o more shall…
Read More…Network 10th & Stuyvesant Streets Block Association Flatbush Development Corporation Greenwich Village Community Task Force Murray Hill Neighborhood Association Lefferts Manor Association Hamilton Heights – West Harlem Community Preservation Organization…
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