2014 Village Award Winner: Pino Prime Meats
…who settled in this neighborhood over 100 years ago. Pino Prime Meats 149 Sullivan Street Nestled two doors south of the church on Sullivan Street is the venerable Pino Prime…
Read More…who settled in this neighborhood over 100 years ago. Pino Prime Meats 149 Sullivan Street Nestled two doors south of the church on Sullivan Street is the venerable Pino Prime…
Read MoreSt. Anthony of Padua Church in 1930 (left) and today (right). 1930 image via NYPL. St. Anthony of Padua Church has stood on Sullivan Street in the South Village since…
Read More…façade of the Archive Building reflects the Chicago work of Sullivan and Adler’s Auditorium building. You can find an actual Louis Sullivan building here in New York right over in…
Read More…join us! Details can be found here. The Children’s Aid Society The crowd will convene in front of the Children’s Aid Society (CAS) on Sullivan Street between Bleecker and West…
Read More…newly-designated South Village Historic District. Only ten years later, this South Village structure was converted to apartments. 181 Sullivan Street before (l.) and after (r.) condo conversion. In the 1830s,…
Read More…vergecampus.com. Located on MacDougal Street, this South Village staple has been open for almost 90 years and is the first café in America to serve cappuccino. This quaint coffee shop…
Read More…the map to be “SoHo”, the blocks of MacDougal, Sullivan, and Thompson Streets south of Houston have always been considered part of the Village. Previous blog posts on this subject…
Read More…Italians while not excluding other Catholics. A rented formerly Methodist church on Sullivan Street between Prince and Houston became St. Anthony’s first home in 1866. That structure quickly became inadequate…
Read More…adjacent MacDougal, Spring, and Sullivan Streets. The eastern and southern borders of Anthony’s farmland touched the neighboring settlement of fellow manumitted slave, Gracia D’Angola. 13. Jan Fort Orange: Jan Fort…
Read More…change particularly in the tenements of Sullivan, Thompson and MacDougal Streets. Known in the 20th century for its large Italian population, the neighborhood during the time of the draft riots…
Read MoreCB2 hearing: 08/15/2019 CB2 hearing: 01/16/2020 – application revised LPC hearing: TBD Sullivan-Thompson Historic District Between MacDougal Street and Sullivan Street —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the CB2 agenda:…
Read More…row houses at 183-185 Bleecker Street (MacDougal/Sullivan Streets). All three buildings have since been demolished. The Freedmen’s Bank was created to help freed slaves and African Americans in general. At…
Read More…not include some of these best-known and best-loved locations. Fortunately, the LPC agreed to designate some of the area we proposed, but the remaining area of MacDougal, Sullivan, and Thompson…
Read More…still be found today. Ahead, learn about five sites where Burr and Hamilton made history. Richmond Hill – Varick, Charlton, King, VanDam and MacDougal Streets The Richmond Hill mansion, via…
Read More…and a Queen Anne style former school. This four-block district includes King Street, Varick Street, Vandam Street, MacDougal Street, Houston Street, and 6th Avenue. It is located on the site…
Read More…apartment on MacDougal Street. The Bitter End today, scene of Peter, Paul and Mary’s debut performance in 1961. Noel Paul Stookey moved to the Village in 1959. While working a…
Read More…featured African Americans actors. Provincetown Playhouse at 133 MacDougal Street. Source: New York Historical Society. This experimental theater company had its beginnings not in Greenwich Village but in Provincetown, Massachusetts,…
Read More…& MacDougal”, Fred Neil (1965) Says TONY: “with this song about lingering on an emblematic street corner pondering retreat to a more comfortable way of life, Neil helped to shape…
Read More…Vanderbilt Whitney’s historic carriage house studio on MacDougal Alley in 1931. Whitney (1875–1942) was an American sculptor and influential art collector who hailed from the wealthy Vanderbilt family and married…
Read More…including Kettle of Fish bar at 114 MacDougal Street, Cafe Wha at 115 MacDougal Street, and the White Horse Tavern at 567 Hudson Street. Click here to purchase a print….
Read More…MacDougal Street, Dylan originally played backup harmonica here for singer Fred Neil. Stop by to help rock in 2017! The Fat Black Pussycat 11-13 Minetta Street in the 1960’s…
Read More…Wha?, 115 Macdougal St.: Image courtesy of Ajay Suresh Manny Roth, the uncle of Van Halen lead singer David Lee Roth, was the original owner of Café Wha? In 1959,…
Read More…MacDougal Street. 175 MacDougal, where Garnet and her husband lived for a number of years in the 1880s Her father, Sylvanus Smith, was a founder of the free Black community…
Read More…and features this lovely image of the Provincetown Playhouse nearby on MacDougal Street. Provincetown Playhouse on MacDougal Street While there is a wealth of information in the book on the…
Read More…restorative day full of recreational sports and mindful birding. Jefferson Market Garden Scarlet tanager Jefferson Market Garden Jefferson Market Garden is one of the most beloved gardens Greenwich Village has…
Read More…in the Twentieth Century as a row of ten dwellings of uniformly low height, thus conforming to the spirit of the block. These replaced the unusually deep rear gardens and…
Read More…with tower gardens. The food at BB&C centers on local, organic, sustainable and overall responsible procurement. The menu cycles are seasonal and heavily influenced on production from the aeroponic roof-top…
Read More…town? Check out one of the many small community gardens in the East Village. You can find a list of gardens here. Want to learn more about the Labor History…
Read More…(event description) Books to Read: Power at the Roots: Community Gardens, Gentrification, and the Puerto Ricans of the Lower East Side Go deep into the history, community, and cultures of…
Read More…month of May: Saturday, May 16: As part of Lower East Side History Monthy, GVSHP will lead a guided tour of East Village gardens along with Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens…
Read More…walking tours of the East Village Community Gardens, the NoHo Historic District, and historic German buildings in the East Village. Ayo Harrington of Loisaida United Neighborhood Gardens led us through…
Read More…grassroots campaigns, from preserving over one hundred community gardens from the auction block to protecting public parkland on Randall’s Island. Most recently he helped form the South Bronx Unite coalition,…
Read MoreEast Village Community Garden Tour The East Village/Lower East Side is considered the nation’s birthplace of the modern day community garden movement and boasts an impressive collection of fifty-three gardens!…
Read More…Queens. Photo By Christopher Brazee, from LPC Designation report In the planned community of Sunnyside Gardens, Queens, the LPC has designated over 600 buildings. Sunnyside Gardens, Queens In Park Slope,…
Read More…Park Slope / Carroll Gardens (2,602) 7. Brooklyn Heights / Fort Greene (2,445) 8. Lower East Side / Chinatown (2,413) 9. Washington Heights / Inwood (1,995) 10. Astoria / Long…
Read More…31-story Georgetown Plaza (built in 1967) at 60 East 8th Street (Broadway/Mercer Street) and the 35-story Hilary Gardens directly to the south at 300 Mercer Street (completed in 1974), with…
Read More…was filled with close-knit Italian families. Join author Tony Vivolo as he describes growing up on Sullivan Street: a world of stickball games and going to school at Saint Anthony’s;…
Read More…215 Sullivan Street in Greenwich Village, wherein a Children’s Aid Society school for poor children was razed in order to construct 25 new condos, the choicest priced at $18 million….
Read More…Village: St. Anthony’s Market & Flea – Corner of West Houston & Sullivan Street (THU – SUN | 10AM – 8PM) Organized by St. Anthony’s of Padua Church, this flea…
Read More…recreations of original plasterwork and millwork, astounding art collections, lush rear gardens, stunning light fixtures, and so much more. While visiting these extraordinary homes throughout the Village — some nearly…
Read More…plaster work, astounding fine art collections, lush rear gardens, stunning light fixtures, and so much more. One of our trusted House Captains greeted guests under this impressive doorway during our…
Read More…Joe’s Dairy; University Parish of St. Joseph; Women’s Prison Association; 171-173 MacDougal Street Façade Renovation—Regina Kellerman Award 2008: Faicco’s Pork Store; Grey Dog’s Coffee; Pasticceria Rocco; Poetry Project at St….
Read More…scale public works, and Japanese gardens and ceramics, he married the craftsmanship of a traditionalist with a modernist’s appreciation for the power of abstraction and with a surrealist’s sense for…
Read More…Bon Yagi 13th Street Repertory Company 121 Charles Street Restoration 171-173 MacDougal Street Facade Restoration 201 East 12th Street Renovation 34 Commerce Street Restoration 6th Street and Avenue B Garden…
Read MoreAPPROVED 11/14/2017 CB2 hearing: 09/14/2017 LPC hearing: 11/14/2017 Sullivan-Thompson Historic District Between Sullivan Street and Thompson Street —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the CB2 agenda: Application is to correct…
Read More…in the country, a unique set of early reform housing/model tenements built by and for immigrants, and the oldest house in the South Village, 57 Sullivan Street, built in 1817….
Read More…to get updates on this application and click HERE to see our Landmarks Application webpage. (l. to r.) 57 Sullivan Street, 2 Oliver Street, 138 Second Avenue, and 801-807 Broadway…
Read More…Backlog95 – (l. to r.) 57 Sullivan Street, 2 Oliver Street, 138 Second Avenue, and 801-807 Broadway – just four of the nearly one hundred sites the LPC was planning…
Read MoreAPPROVED with modifications 11/13/2018 CB2 hearing: 09/13/2018 LPC hearing: 11/13/2018 Sullivan Thompson Historic District Between Thompson Street and Sullivan Street —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the CB2 agenda: Application…
Read More…Pino Prime Meats , located at 149 Sullivan Street, was presented a Village Award for more than a century of providing extraordinary products and customer service to its customers in…
Read More…times. A significantly scaled-back version of the plan, with a greatly reduced and much less visible rooftop addition, was finally approved by the LPC in late 2011. 156 Sullivan, with…
Read More…today consider the streets south of Houston along Sullivan and Thompson Streets included in GVSHP’s study area a part of SoHo, GVSHP found numerous references to the neighborhood’s name as…
Read More…Vaux & Radford for the Society include the Elizabeth Home for Girls, also an individual landmark, at 307 East 12th Street in the East Village and the Sullivan Street Industrial…
Read More…Hudson Square and the South Village HERE.) Speaker Quinn Will Decide if Rezoning Preserves or Undermines Character of Hudson Square and the South Village Tenement at 169 Sullivan Street in…
Read More…the Other Half Lives documentation of blacks living along Minetta Lane and Sullivan, Thompson, Carmine, and Grove Streets, particularly from the 1860s to the turn of the 20th century. Dolkart…
Read More…higher resistance to heat. The fire balconies at 63-67 Sullivan Street in the South Village. Another style still seen today in the South Village are fire balconies. You’ll notice that…
Read More…Another important piece of information is finding out if the building is calendared, which would look like this in DOB: This is the page for 57 Sullivan Street, which has…
Read More…yesterday, and 57 Sullivan Street, which was landmarked just last week. The four original historic districts were found in Greenwich Village and the South Village, with one very small historic…
Read More…new development. The Children’s Aid Society had also begun to solicit bids for its multi-building site on Sullivan Street touting the unused development rights which would allow a much larger,…
Read More…anchored at the intersection of Sullivan Street and West Houston by a tall, papier-mâché tower atop which stood a statue of the martyr and a shrine built in her honor….
Read MoreAPPROVED on 07/07/2015 CB2 hearing: 06/16/2015 LPC hearing: 07/07/2015 South Village Historic District Between Sullivan and Thompson Streets Image courtesy of Google Street View —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From…
Read More…Street, the former Tompkins Square Lodging for Boys at 295 East 8th Street, the former Sullivan Street Industrial School at 219 Sullivan Street, and the former Sixth Street Industrial School…
Read More…year. The deadline for comments on the four buildings in our area is this Thursday, November 19th. The four buildings in our neighborhood are 57 Sullivan Street (near Broome Street…
Read More…our neighborhood are 57 Sullivan Street (near Broome Street in the South Village), 138 Second Avenue (near St. Mark’s Place in the East Village), 2 Oliver Street (on the Lower…
Read More…Hall Ferrando’s Music Hall was located at 184 Sullivan Street. This name stayed from 1902-1905 when it changed to the Villa Manganaro. Here they showcased vaudeville acts, cinematic expositions, trapeze…
Read More…NYC is one which Village Preservation either proposed or played a big hand in getting designated. Read about the Sullivan-Thompson Historic District- a District of Immigrants, Immigrant Stories – America’s Greatest Asset….
Read More…a rally in front of the Children’s Aid Society on Sullivan Street calling upon the City to landmark the remaining two-thirds of the proposed South Village Historic District as soon…
Read More…otherwise on their properties, which is why they have been largely supportive of this policy. To use some real life examples, new construction in SoHo includes 10 Sullivan Street (204…
Read More…spent his early years learning to play violin and piano, practicing composition, and writing a Gilbert and Sullivan-like operetta at the ripe age of 10. Educated at Yale and then…
Read More…such as the Provincetown Playhouse and 186 Spring Street, were lost, and many non-contextual buildings replaced historic buildings such as the Sullivan Street Playhouse. Fortunately, we were able to stop further destruction by…
Read More…Zoom meeting. To submit written testimony of any length in advance of the hearing, click HERE. Sullivan-Thompson Historic District Spring Street between Sullivan and Thompson Streets —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1)…
Read More…Commission voted unanimously today to landmark the third and final phase of GVSHP’s proposed South Village Historic District, called the Sullivan Thompson Historic District! Landmark designation takes immediate effect, covering…
Read More…to show how preservation can, and must, be useful moving forward. The Past and Future City aims to provide that updated road map. St. Anthony of Padua Church, 155 Sullivan…
Read More…protections were granted for the remaining section of our proposed South Village Historic District with the designation of the Sullivan-Thompson Historic District; the entire Greenwich Village waterfront was protected from…
Read More…the historic area around Bleecker and Sullivan Streets for granted, but none of this area south of Washington Square Park was landmarked just five years ago. We risked losing these…
Read More…it, and the house’s demolition became the subject of litigation by a bank which claims it had title to it. The site has since been included in the Sullivan-Thompson Historic…
Read More…of the Children’s Aid Society on Sullivan Street calling upon the City to landmark the remaining two-thirds of the proposed South Village Historic District as soon as possible. We continued…
Read More…our stories about immigration, historic cultural communities, and the changing faces of a neighborhood made richer by its openness to new peoples and ideas. Sullivan Thompson Historic District. Image courtesy…
Read More…I burn my bridges behind me – I never retreat.” Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. Source: NYPL Fiorello La Guardia was born on December 11, 1882 at 177 Sullivan Street (formerly…
Read More…NEWYORKINA La Newyorkina in the Sullivan Thompson Historic District (and a bright pink outpost in Astor Place) is the brainchild of renowned chef, Fany Gerson, a New Yorker who immigrated…
Read More…at 177 Sullivan Street (then known as 7 Varick Place; demolished). His father Achille Luigi Carlo LaGuardia was from Foggia, in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies before Italian unification….
Read MoreAPPROVED with modifications 10/24/2017 CB2 hearing: 09/14/2017 LPC hearing: 10/24/2017 South Village Historic District Between MacDougal Street and Sullivan Street —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the CB2 agenda: Application…
Read More…Novelist Henry Miller even described him once as “The stratospheric Colossus of Sound.” During his time in our neighborhoods, he resided with his wife Louise at 188 Sullivan Street. Isamu…
Read More…of Washington Square South between MacDougal Street and Sullivan Street to make way for the NYU Vanderbilt Hall Law School. In the upper left you can also see the old…
Read More…the streets that run south of Washington Square — MacDougal, Sullivan, Thompson, Wooster, Greene, and Mercer Streets — are named for Revolutionary War generals: Alexander McDougall—his father spelled the name…
Read More…the Village Vanguard on Charles Street a year earlier, and even had a little place called the Village Fair on Sullivan Street before that. Though initially billed as a spot…
Read MoreWITHDRAWN CB2 hearing: 02/11/2016 LPC hearing: 03/15/2016 South Village Historic District Between MacDougal Street and Sullivan Street —- APPLICATION INFORMATION —- 1) From the CB2 agenda: Application is to install…
Read MoreAPPROVED on 06/14/2011 Greenwich Village Historic District Between Sixth Avenue & MacDougal Street APPLICATION: A pair of Queen Anne style flats houses built in 1876. Application is to replace windows….
Read More…in the Village and East Village. 172 (l.) to 178 Bleecker Street, btw. Sullivan and MacDougal Streets — a row of mid-19th century houses with artist’s studios added around…
Read MoreBeginning in the late 18th century, the area more or less defined by today’s Bleecker, Mercer, Thompson, Sullivan, MacDougal, and Carmine Streets started to grow as a free Black community…
Read More…Lane and MacDougal Street And we didn’t stop there. We began a partnership with the GO (Grace Opportunity) Project, offering our children’s education program, History and Historic Preservation, free of…
Read More…Bleecker Street is no massive townhouse on a corner, but instead one of four handsome red brick tenements between MacDougal and Sullivan Streets, each five stories tall with retail on…
Read More…Landmarks Conservancy in 2003. Five of the houses identified in the report had already been designated by 2007 — 127, 129, and 131 MacDougal Street near Washington Square Park, 4 St….
Read More…Several of the others, including 127, 129, and 131 MacDougal Street, 4 St. Mark’s Place, and 67 and 94 Greenwich Street have been individually landmarked. 7 Leroy Street was included…
Read More…building, which was taking place at the same time and saw the destruction of residences on the entire block between the park and West 3th Street and MacDougal Street and…
Read More…Ziegfeld Follies, broke box-office records on Broadway, were the dancing goats in the movie version of ”The Sound of Music,” and strutted their stuff on television for Ed Sullivan, Jack…
Read More…(read her statements HERE), this means that she is now responsible for ensuring that it is kept. Minetta (l.), MacDougal (m.), and Bleecker Streets are included in the area north…
Read More…located on the corner of MacDougal Street and Minetta Lane that is also attributed to giving Bob Dylan his start. By 1972, Bruce had signed 0n with Columbia Records with…
Read More…an alarming rate (recently, it was announced that MacDougal Street’s Manhattan Theatre Source, home of the beloved Greenwich Village Follies, will be the latest to close its doors). The Provincetown…
Read More…was created as a result of the extension of Sixth Avenue beginning in 1925 and the de-mapping of the southern terminus of MacDougal Street (you can read more about that…
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