Your community board is your neighborhood’s voice to city government. It plays an incredibly important role in decision-making around land-use and preservation issues, as well as a host of other…
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Read MoreRead the full article in The Villager or Gotham Gazette BY ANDREW BERMAN | In July, the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) went on a media blitz, touting their latest report blasting…
Read MoreThe State Senate is at it again – a committee has passed a bill which would remove the cap that currently limits the size of residential buildings in New York…
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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“On Saturdays when I did not have to lecture, we used to visit the saloon of Justus Schwab, the most famous radical center in New York. Schwab was the traditional…
Read MoreIn 1951, Harry Belafonte decided he was finished with singing. For the past few years, he had been taking acting classes at the Dramatic Workshop of The New School with…
Read MoreNew York is at a pivot point. We’ll soon have a new Mayor, City Council, and leaders of city agencies. We’re emerging from a pandemic, and charting our future. Big…
Read More…Abyssinian Baptist Church, a leading force in the fight for abolition and in the Underground Railroad. That and Day’s other connections to prominent Underground Railroad supporters have led historians to…
Read More…of the Auxiliary shaped the Church’s strategy from the periphery, and the church’s missionary program especially became dependent on the association, and the women within it. Mary Abbot Emery. Photo…
Read More…Episcopal Church, the founding congregation of the Zion African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church, the very first black church in New York City. Zion AME had a profound effect on African-American…
Read More…Stop Cafe Center for the Living City Cherry Lane Theatre Christopher Street Tours Chumley’s Church of the Ascension The Church of Saint Luke in the Fields City and Country School C.O….
Read More…is the oldest Catholic church building in Manhattan (other older Catholic church buildings were either demolished or burnt down and rebuilt at later dates). The church was built largely to…
Read More…Catholic Church at 371 Sixth Avenue. In the 1980s, the church became known as one of the most welcoming and accepting Catholic churches in the city for gay congregants; to…
Read More…church building in Manhattan (other older Catholic church buildings were either demolished or burnt down and rebuilt at later dates). The church was built largely to accommodate the expanding population…
Read More…church, rectory, and parochial school. The present-day Our Lady of Pompeii church opened in 1927 just a few yards west of the original church at Bleecker and Carmine Streets. Demo…
Read More…St. Nicholas German Catholic Church, built in 1848 to serve the local German population, was demolished in 1960 for the existing parking lot. The above drawing shows what this church…
Read More…then Duane United Methodist Church (since merged with the former West Fourth Street United Methodist Church to form The Church of the Village) gave Jeanne the space in which to…
Read More…The Thirteenth Street Presbyterian Church in 1902, courtesy of the New-York Historical Society, Robert L. Bracklow Photograph Collection The Greenwich Village Historic District is blessed with a number of beautiful churches…
Read More…Anne’s Church, 110-124 E. 12th St. St. Ann’s Church and rectory, pre-demolition. On 12th Street, between 4th and 3rd Aves., sits the site of the former St. Ann’s Church. In…
Read More…AME Zion sold the church on Church Street and purchased the former Dutch Reform Church at 10th and Bleecker Streets, in close proximity to the area that was known in…
Read More…of Pompeii Church, 1907. Copyright Center for Migration Studies, www.archive.gvshp.org. But this historic (and now landmarked) church is actually the new Our Lady of Pompeii Church, constructed in 1926-27. The…
Read More…community were developing in Little Italy, in the South Village — St. Anthony of Padua nearby on Houston Street –and even in the East Village at Mary Help of Christians….
Read More…21 Stuyvesant Street, which dates to 1803-04. St. Mark’s Church is built on the site of Peter Stuyvesant’s church, thus making it the oldest site of continuous religious worship in…
Read More…1810 the pastor and congregation joined the Episcopal Church and the land was transferred to Zion Church, which was incorporated on March 10, 1810 with a stipend from Trinity Church….
Read More…Street Presbyterian Church Although not in Greenwich Village, the Spring Street Presbyterian Church was a bit of an anomaly in terms of its views, which is also reflected in their…
Read More…for travel and things of beauty help to inspire and stock her unique West Village shop. www.instagram.com/madamematovu Open since September 2007 when Rosemary was living nearby, the shop has thrived…
Read More…Our Town, December 12 ‘Catastrophic damage’: Merchant’s House Museum’s dire warning after Landmarks O.K.’s next-door project, Village Sun, December 13 As Our Lady of Guadalupe is celebrated, a church’s story…
Read MoreOriginally erected by the Third Unitarian Universalist Church in 1833 on the corner of Downing and Bleecker Streets, in 1883 this church was sold to the African-American Roman Catholic congregation…
Read More…National Register of Historic Places. The New York City Marble Cemetery Second Avenue Presbyterian Church and the Church of the Nativity Vaults The original church built in 1832 In 1832,…
Read More…courtesy of Judson Memorial Church. Moody’s legacy can be seen in programs offered today at Judson Church, including an immigrants rights task force working to help those immigrants in the…
Read More…church might be changing that understanding. The history of Mother AME Zion Church, now located on West 137th Street, stretches back to the late 18th century. Incorporated in 1801, Mother…
Read More…at St. Mark’s Church, on the corner of 2nd Avenue and 10th Street, and one at Judson Memorial Church at the corner of Washington Square South and Thompson Street. I…
Read More…of Christians, the Roman Catholic Church on 12th Street and Avenue A about which GVSHP recently did some reporting. The church’s surrounding environs were once a thriving Italian-American community. Not…
Read More…gone St. Mark’s Cemetery. These two cemeteries both belonged to St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery. The vaults beneath the Church still exist and remain the final resting place for many prominent…
Read More…to be designated as an individual landmark for the past year. Our Lady of Guadalupe Church bears enormous significance as New York City’s very first church for a Spanish-speaking congregation,…
Read More…a permanent worship space within the church every Sunday evening. Both men were openly-gay within a church that clearly then discouraged homosexuality. Two plaques within the United Methodist Church of…
Read More…the St. Matthews Church until 1857 when enough funds were secured ($8,000) to purchase the church. Between 1904 and 1939, the building remained home to the St. Mark’s Church. By…
Read More…unions, and social security programs; and a local liberal Jewish congregation was developed. 120 East 12th Street 120 East 12th Street, 2011. The church steeple sitting in front of NYU’s…
Read More…of the Harlem Renaissance,” writer, and educator, as literary editor of The Crisis magazine she helped launch the career of countless African American writers and artists. Betty Friedan — Writer…
Read More…and helped introduce the masses to underground forms she mined and popularized. The Widow Marycke — One of a pioneering group of African Americans who formed the first free black…
Read More…of the Harlem Renaissance,” writer, and educator, as literary editor of The Crisis magazine she helped launch the career of countless African American writers and artists. Betty Friedan — Writer…
Read More…Revival style door. In 1901, the mission reopened with the new name of People’s Home Church and Settlement. The Methodist Episcopal Church closed the church in 1930 and sold the…
Read More…Church-in-the-Bowery, as it is known today, was designed in a simple Beaux-Arts style by renowned architect Ernest Flagg in 1900 for the Episcopal congregation at the church. The three-story house…
Read More…the East Village at 11th Street and 2nd Avenue just behind the historic church (next to the church’s rectory, which also happens to be the current home of Village Preservation)….
Read More…“splendid ceremonies.” The church, which continues to serve the community, is the oldest existing Italian church in the Americas. Tiro a Segna Established on August 14, 1888, Tiro a Segna…
Read More…in the church, one that discriminated against its growing Black congregation, eventually leading to separate services. In 1799 the African American leadership decided to form a separate church, the African…
Read More…Myra Church. The church was built in 1883 as the Memorial Chapel of St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery and designed in the Gothic Revival style by W. H. Ryssell…
Read More…an 8-story tower atop the church impossible. The LPC entered into a “standstill agreement” with the church whereby the church would not proceed with any plans to change the exterior…
Read More…the Italian-American community of Greenwich Village, with over 81.5 percent of parishioners hailing directly from Northern Italy in the earliest years of the church. The church functioned as a center…
Read More…Episcopal Church, 135 West 4th Street, NYC, NY 10014 The Church was commonly referred to as “Peace Church” especially for its activism against the Vietnam War, but it was also…
Read More…infirmary which began its life here. The building which housed the dispensary has since been demolished. New York Infirmary for Women and Children, 58 Bleecker Street 58 Bleecker Street, courtesy…
Read More…of the Village (then Duane United Methodist Church). With this meeting, Jeanne helped launch a worldwide movement, and a national organization which now has over 350,000 members. Jeanne Manford, center,…
Read More…remains were most likely from the burial ground of the Spring Street Presbyterian Church, a staunchly abolitionist church built in 1811 on the site. The Church of St. Luke in…
Read More…Memorial Church; Le Poisson Rouge; McNulty’s Tea & Coffee Co.; P.E. Guerin; Restoration of the Nave of the Church of the Ascension—Regina Kellerman Award. 2010: Albert Bennett; Caffe Reggio; Lucy…
Read More…and after her passing both buildings were taken over by the First Presbyterian Church, becoming their parsonage. However, in 1958, the church, in need of a modern church house, made…
Read More…and more. He also helps facilitate PFLAG NYC’s General Meetings and TransFamilies Project. He has helped plan multiple citywide events for youth and adults as well as multiple LGBTQ+ focused…
Read More…Church is built on the site of Peter Stuyvesant’s former private church, thus making it the oldest site of continuous religious worship in New York City. On December 27, 1657,…
Read More…deeply religious man, and a generous beneficiary to the Episcopal Church. He was intimately involved with the construction in 1822 of St. Luke’s in the Field Church at Hudson and…
Read More…Village landmarking efforts. Let’s see what good fortune mid-May has brought to us in years gone by… Judson Memorial Church, with the Campanile and part of the Hall at right…
Read More…to 1892, but the Collegiate Church dates to 1628. We got centuries of stuff. We have, honestly, being the Dutch Reformed Church that “bought Manhattan from the Lenape,” lots of…
Read MoreChurch of the Ascension, Fifth Avenue at 10th Street While many of our 2011 Village Awardees are located within NYC historic districts, the Church of the Ascension holds the distinction…
Read More…the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Matthew for Dutch, German and English Lutherans. In 1857 it became home to the German Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Mark, established to serve…
Read More…majestic elk, shot and stuffed.” Facade of St. Ann’s in front of Founders Hall First constructed in 1847 as the 12th Street Baptist Church, the church was rebuilt under the…
Read More…Church, and then later St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church. The church was originally constructed to serve the growing German population of what was known as Kleindeutchland in the 19th century….
Read More…of the 12th Street church, demolished 2005, via Village Preservation’s Historic Image Archive The disembodied church steeple sits in front of a 26-story NYU dorm at 120 East 12th Street…
Read MoreOn December 5, 2020 at about 5:00am, a fire broke out at 116 Second Avenue, a neo-Grec tenement. The six-alarm blaze spread to the 1892 Middle Collegiate Church next door…
Read More…the church grounds, on land now occupied by old dwellings and tenements, Warren Matthews, a representative of the church body explained.” Wright’s towers surrounding St. Mark’s Church. Source: Architizer. Ultimately…
Read More…the early meetings of PFLAG. The church publicized PFLAG meetings in the church bulletin and sometimes on the marquee on 7th Avenue. Ed Egan was already a long-time leader of…
Read More…It wasn’t until 1930 (after 5 years of destruction and construction), that 6th Avenue was extended to Canal Street and connected to Church Street in Lower Manhattan, and that church…
Read More…Grace Church was consecrated at Broadway and 10th Street. The year 1846 was an exciting year for the Gothic Revival. James Renwick Jr.’s design of Grace Church, along with that…
Read MoreOur Lady of Pompeii Church in the Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II On March 7th, 1898, Our Lady of Pompeii Church was incorporated as a separate parish. This South…
Read More…Mary Help of Christians Church, via Wiki Commons Beat poet Allen Ginsberg lived all over the East Village and was a permanent fixture in the neighborhood’s bars, parks, and cultural…
Read More…Webster Hall Yiddish Art Theater Stuyvesant Polyclinic 35 Cooper Square 326 & 328 East 4th Street 432-438 East 14th Street Congregation Mezritch Synagogue Mary Help of Christians Church P.S. 64/CHARAS…
Read More…were urged to yell “fire” rather than “help” to avoid bystander syndrome. And more constructively, the crime is credited with helping to spur the establishment of the 911 system (at…
Read More…guide for an evening program that has educational material for schools and lodges. See heavily redacted shorter and longer English versions. Translated Summary: A six-page summary description by Ruth Rubin….
Read More…philanthropic organizations. Carmine Street Church. Photo courtesy of The New York Farmer and Mechanic, 1846. In an attempt to provide institutional support to these children, the Carmine Street Church began…
Read More…order to vote in a primary election, you must be registered to vote with the party holding the primary. So when you register, you will need to choose a party…
Read More…this time the Carmine Street Church, also known as the West Presbyterian Church, housed in a structure built in 1832, decided to act. Under the leadership of Reverend A.D.F. Randolph,…
Read More…area, The Grace Church, Grace Church Rectory, and Grace Church Memorial House, are all within feet of one another. This cluster of Renwick works provides an unrivaled example of the…
Read More…Off the Grid archive. Abyssinian Baptist Church, 166 Waverly Place The Abyssinian Baptist Church The Abyssinian Baptist Church was located here in Greenwich Village at 166 Waverly Place and had…
Read More…church was built behind the facade of an 1847 church which was incorporated into the new church. In late 2005, NYU announced plans to build a 26-story mega-dorm on the…
Read More…no place to preach, Rabbi Block turned to the Village Presbyterian Church. Village Presbyterian Church on West 13th Street The Brotherhood Synagogue would use the Village Presbyterian Church as their…
Read More…Alliance Church of St. Luke’s-in-the-Fields Church of the Ascension Church of the Ascension Nave Restoration Cinema Village Classic Stage Company Frank Collerius The Comedy Cellar Cooper Union Public Programs Cornelia…
Read More…the Columbia School of the Arts and the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Judson Memorial Church Beyond the formal classical facade of Judson Memorial Church, built by Stanford White…
Read MoreEast Village Gas Explosion Site, 2nd Ave. & 7th St. As we enter July, it’s not hard to notice that some of the dates align with some neighborhood intersections. In…
Read More…In 1847, the German St. Matthew’s Evangelical Lutheran Church built a one-story Greek Revival–style church on East 6th Street between First and Second Avenues. Ten years later, it became St….
Read More…New York.” I couldn’t agree more. Andrew continues: The church steeple sitting on East 12th Street was part of the 12th Street Baptist Church, built on this site in 1847……
Read More…sacredsites@nylandmarks.org or call 212.995.5260. clockwise from top left: Interiors of Grace Church, St. Luke in the Fields, St. Brigid-St. Emory, and Church of the Ascension. The event includes several great…
Read More…solely to Davis. (top) The original nine houses of Colonnade Row; Colonnade Row’s remaining houses today. Carmine Street Church, Carmine Street and 6th Avenue — This church was designed in…
Read More…things we can do to help. Here’s just a few ways:Supporting the Small Business Jobs Survival Act (SBJSA) – GVSHP has long called for the City Council to hear and pass this bill…
Read More…an early member of Daughters of Bilitis. Sadly, she died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 34. Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South Judson Memorial Church, 55…
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