…Streets Have The Names And Directions They Do Wednesday, September 20, 2023 6:00pm In-Person. Pre-registration required. Free. Location: Hudson Park Library, 66 Leroy St, New York, NY 10014 Village streets…
Read More…Drawing, Italian Film, the Nature of Evil, and many other subjects that would be more common in a private university than a public library. The Jefferson Market Library Frank’s motto…
Read MoreThe caption provided reads: “Tompkins Square, waiting their turn to enter the library. The children’s room is already full, 3.30 P.M.” Tompkins Square Library opened at 331 E. 10th Street,…
Read More…Jefferson Market Library The Jefferson Market Library, on Sixth Avenue and West 10th Street, with its noteworthy clock and bell tower, is a great example of a beautiful and historic…
Read More…Village Streets Have The Names And Directions They Do Wednesday, September 20, 2023 6:00pm In-Person. Pre-registration required. Free. Location: Hudson Park Library, 66 Leroy St, New York, NY 10014 Village…
Read More…a model followed by many of the other structures that were part of Andrew Carnegie’s $5.2 million program for a citywide branch library system. The library, which actually required the…
Read More…via Library of Congress Simkhovitch was one of the pioneers of the Settlement House movement, established to aid and support recent immigrants to this country. In 1902, she and Jacob Riis,…
Read More…a poll of American architects taken in the 1880s, the Jefferson Market Library placed fifth among the ten most beautiful buildings in the United States. Jefferson Market Library. NYPL Vaux…
Read MoreThe House of D: A Panel on the Women’s House of Detention Co-hosted by the Jefferson Market Library. Audre Lorde described the Women’s House of Detention, an eleven-story Art Deco…
Read More…and Genealogy, The New York Public Library. “Manhattan: 2nd Street – Avenue C” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1915. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dc-f56c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 By comparing the height of the building relative…
Read More…Preservation Board of Advisors for many years. Gayle’s preservation battles included saving the Jefferson Market Courthouse in Greenwich Village (now the Jefferson Market Library branch of the New York Public…
Read More…library’s 2016 exhibition Women of the Blackwell Family: Resilience and Change. She has also held digitization-focused positions at Yale University Library, among others. She holds an MLIS from University of…
Read More…the Garden and immediate neighborhood, including the library, Patchin Place, and Milligan Place Meet at the front gate to the Garden on Greenwich Avenue 11am-1pm Special Living History: Spend time with the…
Read More…and the notorious and imposing Women’s House of Detention. Prior to its current incarnation as a beloved library, the Jefferson Market Library, which now frames the view from Patchin Place, was abandoned…
Read More…with only 126 designated throughout the city. Landmarked interior Astor Hall of the NY Public Library, around 1911-1920. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection. The…
Read More…of adaptive reuse, the erstwhile courthouse now serves the community as a library. Jefferson Market Library, an erstwhile courthouse, was saved from the wrecking ball by a last-ditch community effort…
Read More…I’m a parent of a 2-year-old, it really does feels like a neighborhood. The libraries we go to all the time–the Hudson Park Library and the Jefferson Market Library–are fantastic….
Read MoreVillage Award winners from 2021, from left: CASA Magazines (Mohammed Ahmed); the Hudson Park Library; Mercer Street Books and Records (Wayne Conti); NewsBar; Linda Pagan; Pangea Restaurant and Cabaret; and…
Read More…convinced the Mayor to preserve the building as a library. Architect Giorgio Cavaglieri, who also adapted the Astor Library into the Public Theatre on Lafayette Street, converted the courthouse into…
Read More…America in our neighborhoods Margot Gayle in front of an image of the Jefferson Market Courthouse (now library) At Grand and Lafayette Street in SoHo, Rapkin-Gayle Plaza opened honoring Chester…
Read MoreWestbeth. Photo courtesy of Shelley Seccombe This week, our friends at the Jefferson Market Branch Library will host workshops for a new project they are undertaking called Your Village, Your…
Read More…Public Library. The “Then” photograph in this article, courtesy of the Library of Congress, shows Peter Newton and Forest Mann in front of the building that housed The Ink Pot….
Read More…led a grassroots effort to save the building, a coalition that successfully thwarted the plans and provided the building new life as a branch of the New York Public Library…
Read More…Jefferson Market Library and Clocktower Thursday, November 16 6:00pm Pre-Registration is Required. Spaces are limited. For Village Preservation members at the $100 level and above. If you weren’t able to…
Read More…Rockwell Gallery at Salmagundi Club, 47 Fifth Avenue (at 12th Street) Co-sponsored by the Salmagundi Club Library Committee, Merchant’s House Museum, and Victorian Society of New York. Meet Q.K. Philander…
Read More…the former firehouse and home of important LGBT cultural history is a storefront and single-family home. Jefferson Market Fire Lookout Jefferson Market Library. NYPL While the Jefferson Market Library is…
Read More…free lending library, which eventually became part of the New York Public Library; serving as President of the New-York Historical Society, Home for Incurables at Fordham and the New York…
Read More…Hotel Knickerbocker, the Morgan Library, and the New York Public Library, which underwent a 2016 restoration of Finn’s ceiling mural of a sky with rosy clouds. Click here to watch…
Read More…interiors to grace the Hotel Knickerbocker, the Morgan Library, and the New York Public Library, which underwent a 2016 restoration of Finn’s ceiling mural of a sky with rosy clouds….
Read More…community and reborn with new purposes: The Jefferson Market Library (formerly a courthouse), and The Public Theater (former the Astor Library). Both institutions celebrate their 50 year anniversaries this fall….
Read MoreHistoric East Village Libraries – & more! A members-only walking tour with NYPL’s John Bacon While the iconic Jefferson Market Library in the West Village is well known to preservationists,…
Read More…3 historic libraries and many other sights along the way. Our tour will conclude at the Ottendorfer Library on Second Avenue which is the City’s oldest free public library, having…
Read MoreJefferson Market Revealed: An Exclusive Showing of the Greenwich Village Collection An exterior and interior landmark, the Jefferson Market Library is an historic cornerstone of the Village. The library’s Greenwich…
Read More…In 2000, Jami sold the company to L’Oreal. 105 Third Avenue (sign may read “Provisions Store”), courtesy New York Public Library This company history, fascinating as it may be, revealed…
Read More…focus on rehabilitation, with sewing classes, a library, and rooftop recreation area where inmates could participate in different sports and other athletic activities. The prison also featured WPA commissioned artwork…
Read More…of James Lenox’s mansion, known for turning Fifth Avenue into the premiere residential address in New York. Lenox’s mansion also eventually came to house his extraordinary library, the Lenox Library,…
Read More…Director Andrew Berman Wednesday, August 16 6:00pm In-Person Pre-registration required Free Location: Jefferson Market Library Preservation battles are fought in all sorts of places — the streets, corporate boardrooms, and…
Read MoreFrom top left: Photo of Robert Frost via Wikimedia, Photo of Emily Post via Library of Congress, Photo of Henry Miller via Wikimedia; From bottom left: Photo of James Baldwin by Allan Warren…
Read More…archive for the Cornell University Library Digital Collections. The archive is held at the Catherwood Library at the Industrial Labor Relations School (ILR). To help landmark this and other buildings…
Read More…Washington Square. 3. Jefferson Market Library and Garden Jefferson Market in 1893 (L) via Wiki Commons and today (R) via Wiki Commons The Jefferson Market Library, constructed in 1874-77, was “one of the ten…
Read More…Division, The New York Public Library. (1919). Arthur A. Schomburg (far right) and Harry A. Williamson (third from left) in a group portrait with fellow members of the Prince Hall Grand…
Read MoreFrom top left: Photo of Robert Frost via Wikimedia, Photo of Emily Post via Library of Congress, Photo of Henry Miller via Wikimedia; From bottom left: Photo of James Baldwin by Allan Warren…
Read More…up plans for an institution that would include a library, a lecture hall, and a museum of artifacts. On November 20, 1894, the New-York Historical Society was founded. And while…
Read More…the Library of Congress. Max Eastman was born on January 4th, 1883 to parents who were progressive ministers at the Park Church in Elmira, New York. The church was founded…
Read More…Tompkins Square Library or any other public institution? ABC No Rio asked for a copy for their zine library…so I gave them one. They’re a fine upstanding public institution. But…
Read More…in Greenwich Village and NoHo’s Cable Building, as well as other landmarks like the Players Club, the Metropolitan Club, Gould Memorial Library, the Bowery Savings Bank Building, and the original…
Read MoreNathan Straus’ First Milk Depot, opened in the summer of 1893, courtesy of the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library, Columbia University. The utilitarian building at 151 Avenue C between 9th and…
Read More…Anniversary of the opening of the cultural powerhouse in the former Astor Library on Lafayette Street. Papp founded the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1954. It was initially chartered as…
Read MoreI have often noticed these old drinking fountains on historic buildings – there is one at the Jefferson Market Library on the corner of 6th Avenue and 10th Street, one…
Read More…giant puppets operated by hundreds of volunteers, dozens of floats, and 50 marching bands. The famous Jefferson Market Library Tower spider joined the parade in 1977. The current iteration of…
Read More…small workingmen’s houses off of West 10th Street between Sixth and Greenwich Avenues, across from the Jefferson Market Courthouse (now library). Patchin Place It was during his years on Patchin…
Read More…shopping bags and Steve stepping in gum right in front of the picturesque public space. The Jefferson Market Library, formerly the Jefferson Market Courthouse, was designed by architect Frederick Clarke…
Read More…worked for Time and Life magazines and her work has been collected at the New York Public Library, Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Harvard, the…
Read More…Shaped New York’s Defining Preservation Battles, with Village Preservation Executive Director Andrew Berman Wednesday, August 16 6:00pm In-Person Pre-registration required Free Location: Jefferson Market Library Preservation battles are fought in…
Read More…Wollensky, and Comedy Cellar. Currently, Lily is preparing to publish her first book. Use of library space for this program does not indicate endorsement by The New York Public Library….
Read More…341-343 Bowery, “For Sale”. Source: New York Real Estate Brochure Collection, Avery Library , Columbia University 341-343 Bowery, “For Sale”. Source: New York Real Estate Brochure Collection, Avery Library…
Read MoreManhattan Street in 1861. Major & Knapp Engraving, Manufacturing & Lithographic Co. Published in 1864. Source: New York Public Library Last month reader Mike commented on our Lewis Street post…
Read More…the library to the Upper East Side facing Central Park between East 70th and 71st Streets, and established it as a semi-private institution that stayed in operation past its founder’s…
Read MoreBeatrix Farrand in Maine at her Reef Point library, Beatrix Jones Farrand Collection, 1955-2, Environmental Design Archives, College of Environmental Design. 21 East 11th Street in the Greenwich Village Historic…
Read More…Library. She is best known, however, for her series of children’s books centered around Jenny Linsky, a small yet precocious black cat. The first in the series, The Cat Club,…
Read More…Bar, Jane Friedman and Howl! Arts – Regina Kellerman Award. 2021: Casa Magazines, Mercer Street Books and Records, Newsbar Cafè, Pangea Restaurant and Cabaret, Hudson Park Library, Bon Yagi, Linda…
Read More…Book, January 1920, via the Library of Congress The Brownies’ Book: A Monthly Magazine for Children of the Sun was published in 1920-21 at 70 Fifth Avenue (2-6 West 13th…
Read More…serve as a library until 1911. In the decades between its original use as a library and its adaptive reuse as a theater, the building was home to the Hebrew…
Read More…organizations like the Salmagundi Club, Merchant’s House Museum, New York Public Library, and the American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS). Plaque Unveiling: Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs’ Former East Village Residence…
Read MoreOttendorfer Library-German Dispensary. In the late 19th and early 20th Century, the East Village and Lower East Side were home to a substantial German immigrant community. As a result, this…
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…Immigrants into New York City Immigration and the Village Ottendorfer Library-German Dispensary. The East Village was once home to the largest German community in the world outside of Germany. …
Read More…of the 9 buildings remain. And last, but certainly not least, is The Public Theater, originally built as the Astor Library. John Jacob Astor sought to leave a substantial legacy…
Read More…of the Library of Congress. May Childs Nerney, a secretary of the NAACP, ran the organization’s nationwide campaign against The Birth of a Nation, obtaining letters, securing petitions, planning protest…
Read More…Week” to All National Society Secretaries; 1945. Letter courtesy of ArtStore Library. Black History week, or “Negro History Week”, was begun in 1926 by the noted Black historian and educator…
Read More…Street, NYC ca. 1900 by Jacob Riis. Courtesy of The Library of Congress Basement of the Department of Commerce Building after the fire in 1921. Courtesy of The National…
Read More…American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society with the hopes of their preserving the Cottage as a “historical or high art museum, reading room, and library” (a hope shared by several…
Read More…Street in New York City; the Alma Mater statue (1900–03) at Columbia University; three pairs of bronze doors (1894–1904) at the Boston Public Library; The Four Continents statue (1903–07) at the former United…
Read More…in 1935, and the New York Public Library murals in the McGraw Rotunda titled The Story of the Recorded World, began in 1937. Edward Laning, “The Story of the Recorded…
Read More…graduated in 1941. Selma Hortense Burke with her relief plaque of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. National Museum of the U.S. Navy via the Government and Heritage Library of the State…
Read More…a successful grassroots campaign to save the Jefferson Market Courthouse from demolition and transform the building into a library. Gayle was also a leading advocate for the adoption of the…
Read More…other notable buildings, including the German Library and Dispensary at 135-37 Second Avenue and the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola at 980 Park Avenue. Slightly farther afield, he was also…
Read More…factory (itself a New York City Landmark). 840 Broadway, 1927, Joseph P. Day, New York Public Library According to the designation report, “During the first half of the 20th century,…
Read More…Bromley Map. Photo courtesy of New York Public Library Digital Collections. Under Henry Highland Garnet’s leadership, the Shiloh church was at the center of the anti-slavery fight, leading boycotts of…
Read More…and her father died in this home, and her funeral was held here. Her spirit is said to linger still. JEFFERSON MARKET LIBRARY Jefferson Market Courthouse and the Women’s House…
Read More…travel and tourism, educational programs and other community activities. WPA Poster. Source: Library of Congress. Federal Writers’ Project The Federal Writers’ Project helped to employ thousands of writers during the…
Read More…to be of national distinction. The intent of the founders was to establish a museum and library focused on the history of America and secondly New York State, as seen…
Read More…Library, first floor theater. Join Village Preservation in partnership with Jefferson Market Library for an in-person discussion with musician, playwright, director, and composer Howard Fishman, about his new book To…
Read More…Dell, granddaughter of Floyd Dell, joined us at Jefferson Market Library on Sunday, March 5th, 2017 to tell the incredible story of her grandfather’s romance with Edna St. Vincent Millay….
Read More…Library. Jack will explain and show through a book of photographs and art how this small, triangular plot of land evolved from a food market in the 1830s into a…
Read More…pieces of our city’s history, like the Astor Library and, of course, Astor Place, an enormous collection of their output hides almost in plain sight: the large assemblage of tenements…
Read More…near the southern end of the Jefferson Market Library Garden, and was formerly known as the Village Square triangle. It goes on to mention the 1981 Community Board 2 resolution…
Read More…Library (NYPL) at 135 Second Avenue was designated an individual New York City landmark September 20, 1977, and an interior landmark on August 1, 1981. The library was built in 1883-4…
Read More…tour guide. Shelley Hayreh joined Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, Columbia University in 2010. In her role as Archivist in the Department of Drawings and Archives, she oversees the…
Read More…Stock Exchange, or if you have visited the Hudson Park Library on Leroy Street, the SoHo Arts Library on Mulberry Street, or the Elevated Acre at 55 Water Street. Space…
Read More…where P.S. 34 now stands (for more history of the foundry, see this page). New York City directory, 1883/84, NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11343493, The Digital Public Library of America,…
Read More(Photo Credit: Carl Van Vechten, © Van Vechten Trust. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University) On September 27, 1948, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, more commonly known as…
Read MoreThe following is a re-post originally written by Sheryl Woodruff in 2011: An old photograph can help you find out more about the history of your building. The New York Public Library,…
Read More…organization “the first sailors’ home in the United States to be erected and maintained by a welfare society.” This building held sleeping quarters for around 300, a bank, library, chapel,…
Read More…at the Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library, a digital library dedicated to documenting performance practices in the Americas. “Reverb-Ber-Ber-Rations” by Spiderwoman Theater. Watch the full performance here. This was one…
Read More…and the preservationists whose work has shaped the landscapes of the neighborhoods we love so much. Explore GVSHP’s collection of oral histories here. Sources: http://www.genealogy.com/articles/research/2_oralhs.html https://womenslibrary.org.uk/2017/08/09/what-are-oral-histories-and-why-are-they-important/ https://www.orfonline.org/research/importance-of-oral-history/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/wellness/1996/01/30/passing-down-memories-the-importance-of-oral-history/c2ebd95c-37b6-4a10-b63c-3c8639934015/?utm_term=.92c2f761582a http://library.columbia.edu/content/dam/libraryweb/locations/ohro/The%20Oral%20History%20Bibliography%20–%20A%20CCOH%20Publication.pdf https://www.howardzinn.org/if-history-is-to-be-creative/…
Read MoreThursday, October 27 6:30 PM start time Location: Jefferson Market Library Free In-Person Join us for an in-person event with recording artist, performer, producer, professor, and author Richard Barone for a musical…
Read More…restored rare films and videos, and created high-definition digital transfers. Their archive is enormous and includes 20,000 films, 5,000 videos, 2,000 audio tapes and a library of books, periodicals, photographs,…
Read More…our public programs. Previously, Maya worked for the Morgan Library and Museum as a visitor services assistant and as a transcriber of historical letters from the inaugural librarian. Maya hails…
Read More…the top of which was for servants’ quarters. There were multiple libraries, parlors, sitting rooms, bedrooms, halls, pantries, and skylights. The family library on the second floor, known also as…
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