Commemorating a Favorite Concert Hall, the Fillmore East
…with a plaque on it is how much has actually gone on in the background. Plaque-placers like us know that the building owner must be located and communicated with: an…
Read More…with a plaque on it is how much has actually gone on in the background. Plaque-placers like us know that the building owner must be located and communicated with: an…
Read More…The other most recognizable design feature of the Astor Place subway station is the Beaver plaque. According to the S&NR Report: Each plaque features a yellow beaver in honor of…
Read More…Street, just east of 7th Avenue. Although GVSHP did not place the plaque on 74 Charles Street, we have placed eight (and counting) plaques throughout the neighborhood to honor our…
Read More…and its Veteran’s memorial plaque An even larger plaque honoring an even larger community can be found at St. Jospeh’s Church at Sixth Avenue at Washington Place. There a bold…
Read More…culminated in the unveiling: a facsimile of the future plaque to Rev. Egan was revealed, as the actual plaque had not yet been received from the manufacturer. Everyone was then…
Read More…a bronze plaque inside the Statue’s pedestal, which also houses the Statue of Liberty Museum. The home where Lazarus wrote The New Colossus, and the historic plaque marking the home…
Read More…produce a relief plaque of the President. Burke had two sittings to sketch the President in person, and completed the plaque while living at 88 East 10th Street. In March…
Read More…plaque. Later this year, a public unveiling will be held when the plaque is affixed to the exterior of the church. I hope you’ll join us! Find out more about…
Read More…plaque project — obtaining permission from the building’s owner (now Icon Realty, in a recent transfer), getting the plaque fabricated, connecting with some of O’Hara’s supporters then and now —…
Read More…the New York school of photography. This is our 24th plaque unveiling. Our plaque program has honored and marked the homes of local figures from Jane Jacobs to James Baldwin…
Read More…the incredible people, movements and history connected to sites all around us. Each year we unveil two such plaques. Find out more about all our plaques at www.gvshp.org/plaque. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-lcFwPJUXQ …
Read More…Mamford and PFLAG here. Find out more about our plaques program here. And stay tuned for our next unveiling in June! Here is a cool map of all our Historic Plaques….
Read More…Mr. Morse, then the owner of Kiehl’s. So, why was this plaque so special? The Holland Society Plaque The plaque was placed to commemorate the pear tree planted by Governor…
Read More…click here Commemorate the Fillmore East! Plaque Unveiling and Celebration Wednesday, October 29 5:00 P.M. Free; reservations required 105 Second Avenue at East 6th Street Please join GVSHP, Two Boots…
Read More…Village Vexation (Letter to the Editor), New York Post, Village home and studio of Roy Lichtenstein opens after renovation, honored with historic plaque, 6sqft, October 27 Plan to Turn SoHo…
Read More…Boots Foundation had the great pleasure of marking, with a commemorative plaque, the home of poet Frank O’Hara at 441 East 9th Street (just west of Avenue A). In honor…
Read MoreOne of the most beloved features of the Statue of Liberty is the poem inscribed on a bronze plaque inside its pedestal. “Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses…
Read More…The plaque, courtesy of Village Preservation The building still stands and is located within the Noho Historic District. This past Monday, GVSHP placed a historic plaque upon the building as…
Read More…plaques onto the building’s facade. Now, Anderson, when do we get our official invite for dinner?? the plaque on the lower ground floor facade that honors the building’s history one…
Read More…Pennsylvania. Plaque on house where Elizabeth Blackwell lived in Bristol on Wilson Street. The plate under the plaque states, “Donated by the Medical Women’s Federation and Friends”. According to one…
Read More…of interlocking crosses, and floral decorative cover over the light hanging above. A plaque will be blessed in the church and affixed by the doorway to commemorate the Open Door’s…
Read More…history through our historic plaque program, when we installed the plaque above on the former site of the Fillmore East. See more images and read more about the plaque here….
Read More…59 Grove Street, where he died on June 8, 1809. That house also no longer stands, but a plaque on the existing house marks Paine’s residence there, as does the…
Read More…of the building. San Remo plaque unveiling; David Amram speaking. In July, GVSHP and the Two Boots Foundation unveiled a historic marker at the location of the legendary former San…
Read More…Register for the livestream of this event here. Plaque Unveiling: Julius’ Bar and the historic civil rights “Sip-In” Corner outside Julius’ Bar Plaque Unveiling on April 21: Julius’ Bar Help…
Read More…on, now located at 55 Bethune Street in Westbeth. The plaque at 66 Fifth Avenue. In 2015 we unveiled one of our historic plaques on 66 5th Avenue in honor…
Read More…honor Guthrie as part of the Historic Landmarks Preservation Center Medallion program, which has placed over fifty historic plaques throughout the five boroughs. Watch the 2013 Woody Guthrie Plaque dedication…
Read More…Two Boots to commemorate this remarkable history with a plaque, celebrating the significance of Basquiat’s life and work. A ceremony in front of the building drew hundreds, and several special guests…
Read More…we placed a plaque on her home to commemorate her life and accomplishments. Watch the video and see the pictures from the plaque unveiling, and learn more about other plaques…
Read More…plaque that served as a “symbolic link between the station and the area above ground which it served.” The 1990 State and National Register report describes the significance of the…
Read More…City Book Award. Click here to register for this in-person event Roy Lichtenstein Plaque Unveiling Thursday, October 26 6:00 pm In-person event Free. Pre-registration is required. Location: 741-745 Washington Street …
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 More…Goldman was jailed.) Both halves of this unlikely pair are memorialized with plaques on the front of the building at 208 West 13th Street. Perhaps ironically, Goldman’s plaque is the…
Read More…flesh, resting at the roof of the world you could say of me, that I was truly Simpleminded. The plaque placed by Village Preservation on 27 Cooper Square to honor…
Read More…contributions to the arts, and we recently discussed Baquiat’s major contributions here on Off the Grid. Read more about the recent plaque here, and about the ongoing GVSHP plaque program…
Read More…of Our Elizabeth Blackwell Historic Plaque Unveiling See Photos of Our Elizabeth Blackwell Historic Plaque Unveiling Listen To Our Podcast About the Blackwell Sisters and African American Dr. Rebecca Cole…
Read More…arts . Read more about the plaque here, and about our ongoing plaque program here. You can also learn more about Basquiat and other great African American and Latinx trailblazers…
Read More…of the tree in Tompkins Square Park. At this year’s lighting ceremony on December 9th, a plaque was also unveiled that details the history of the tree, and how its…
Read MoreI manage GVSHP’s historic plaque program, through which we place two markers on buildings in our neighborhoods each year, highlighting their cultural or social significance. So I am always interested…
Read MoreFrank O’Hara Lived Here Historic Plaque Unveiling and Community Celebration at the Former Residence of Frank O’Hara, 441 East 9th Street Frank O’Hara (1926-1966), a leader of the “New York…
Read More…a plaque on the front of the church, commemorating the first meeting and founding of PFLAG having taken place there. The church is landmarked as part of the Greenwich Village…
Read More…Changed The Course of History Watch Video of Our Elizabeth Blackwell Historic Plaque Unveiling See Photos of Our Elizabeth Blackwell Historic Plaque Unveiling Listen To Our Podcast About the Blackwell…
Read More…Preservation commemorated Baldwin’s time in the Village with a plaque at 81 Horatio. You can view the video here. Village Preservation’s plaque at 81 Horatio Street commemorating James Baldwin’s time…
Read More…marching with son Morty at a 1972 march (left); Village Preservation’s plaque for PFLAG The organization Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) is today the nation’s largest…
Read More…June 23, 2013 we honored this group and location with a plaque. Read more: https://www.villagepreservation.org/2017/06/23/four-years-ago-today-pflag-plaque-unveiled/ Ernest Flagg One of our favorite architects, Ernest Flagg, designed quite a few significant buildings…
Read More…of Historic Places and honoring it with a historic plaque and a Village Award. The Landmarks Preservation Commission is expected to take a final vote on designation of the site…
Read More…trunk of the beloved tree, toppling it. However, a plaque marking the Stuyvesant tree’s spot remains at the corner of 13th Street and Third Avenue. In the East Village neighborhoods,…
Read More…in Greenwich Village (marked by a historic plaque placed by Village Preservation in 2019). From 1963 until 1965, Haley would use this space to conduct over fifty interviews with one…
Read More…neighborhoods, Village Preservation placed a plaque on his residence at 27 Cooper Square in 2017. Jean-Michel Basquiat From 1983 until his death in 1988, artist Jean-Michel Basquiat lived and worked…
Read More…be destroyed, and demanding stiff penalties and full reconstruction of the buildings. 14 Gay Street * Unveil three new historic plaques at: —The recently landmarked 70 Fifth Avenue, which served as the…
Read More…social justice and politically and culturally progressive movements Place nearly two dozen plaques marking historically significant sites across Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo In 2022, we: Village Voices,…
Read More…the first time since 2019. Unveiled a plaque honoring jazz icon Charles Mingus, with a ceremony including his friends and collaborators. Conducted candidate forums for our contested local City Council…
Read More…of Emma Lazarus, author of “The New Colossus,” 18 West 10th Street Emma Lazarus (L) via Wiki Commons; Plaque on her former home via Flickr cc Though born into a prosperous family,…
Read More…special role in social justice and politically and culturally progressive movements Place nearly two dozen plaques marking historically significant sites across Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo In 2023,…
Read More…19, 1872 – February 28, 1959). The plaque reads: “The landscape gardener lived here from 1872 to 1913. Her 192 commissions include the East Garden (1913) of The White House,…
Read More…plaque at 112 Waverly Place in celebration of Hansberry’s time there. 13. Patricia Highsmith, 1 Bank Street, 48 Grove Street and 35 Morton Street Author Patricia Highsmith, called the “Dark…
Read More…gratifying,” Contant said. Residents’ Association President Brenda Santiago stands under three plaques behind an East Third Street gate: from 1989 (left), 1974, and a rare round medallion reading “Designated Landmark…
Read More…history stops there. Affixed to a rectangular niche on the left-hand side of the ground floor is this plaque, which commemorates those firefighters who “made the supreme sacrifice” during rescue…
Read More…series of plaques remembering everything from the radical politics of saloon-keeper Justus Schwab (50 E. 1st Street) and the longtime home of poet Frank O’Hara (441 E. 9th Street), to…
Read More…it has a storied history; as the plaques on its exterior attest, it lost most of its men responding to the September 11th attacks, making it one of the hardest-hit…
Read More…its history on its sleeve. We’ve noticed that oodles of buildings throughout the neighborhood supply us with dates, whether on plaques or inscribed in parapets or on cornices. And quite…
Read More…not to notice the abundance of plaques, which commemorate the different chapters of the structure’s storied past. Housing what was originally called Hook & Ladder Co. No. 3, the firehouse…
Read More(l.) 106-108 East 13th Street is a two-story firehouse constructed in 1928 for the New York City Fire Department (originally Hook & Ladder Co. No. 3). Plaques on the exterior…
Read More…for their plaques, erecting markers for Thomas Paine at 59 Grove Street, Mark Twain and Washington Irving at 21 Fifth Avenue, and Henry Hudson in Amsterdam. In the early 1950s,…
Read More…event recording now! Tour the South of Union Square 128 East 13th Street, Frank Stella’s Studio, as taken by Hew Evans of Village Preservation Virtual Plaque Unveiling: Frank Stella’s East…
Read More…East 10th Street in the late 1940s, Burke completed “The Four Freedoms,” a 2 ½-by-3 ½-foot relief plaque commemorating President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, which was used as a model for…
Read More…explored and celebrated Cather’s life and the unique community and sense of place that shaped it. Watch here! Plaque Dedication: Lorraine Hansberry — The first African American woman to write…
Read More…entrance at 225 East 6th Street. In October 2014, the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation unveiled a historic plaque on the building at a ceremony featuring Joshua White of…
Read MoreSan Remo Cafe On Monday, July 29th, GVSHP, along with our friends at Two Boots, unveils our latest historic plaque, this one commemorating the San Remo Café, which was a…
Read More…our story. We have made and continue to make highlighting and preserving those stories a critical part of our mission. Here are some ways to learn more: Historic Plaques Preview…
Read More…to an interview of Gayle that GVSHP conducted in 1996, please visit the oral history page on our site. Plaque on the West 10th Street facade. We helped ring the…
Read More…organization was founded at the Greenwich Village Church in 1973 by Manford, who died at 92 in 2013. GVSHP and PFLAG placed a plaque on the building to mark the…
Read More…commemorated both Filmore East and Bill Graham with a commemorative plaque that can be found on 2nd Avenue and 6th Street. Filmore East plaque. Miriam Friedlander Way. Miriam Friedlander…
Read More…tomorrow night’s program here. Queer Spaces plaque. Photo courtesy of REPOhistory. You may also want to check out: Greenwich Village LGBT History resource page Disappeared LGBT Sites: Oscar Wilde Bookshop…
Read More…to lecture in New York City and throughout the country. Plaque commemorating Emma Goldman at 208 East 13th Street It is not until 1903 that she moves to a tenement…
Read More…our nation. Of course there’s the Abingdon Square Doughboy Statue that honors those who served in World War I, and the large plaque affixed to the front of St. Joseph’s…
Read More…that they would never move again.” In 2015, GVSHP and Two Boots commemorated Baldwin’s time in the Village with a plaque at 81 Horatio Street. Unsurprisingly, the event drew many…
Read More…it seems apropos. In 1923, the Greenwich Village Historical Society (a long-defunct and entirely separate organization from GVSHP, with which we are nevertheless often confused) installed a plaque at this…
Read More…and the Two Boots Foundation will have a ceremony on Wednesday, May 30 at 6 p.m. unveiling a plaque on the building at 50 East First Street. The celebration will…
Read More…no longer exists, but a podium and plaque commemorating the 50th anniversary of the reading of “Howl” stand on the sidewalk in front of a restaurant at 3115 Fillmore. 3119…
Read More…J.M. Kaplan Fund), proposing and securing landmark status for the complex in 2011, and unveiling a historic plaque on the complex in 2018. As we celebrate a half-century of Westbeth,…
Read More…now a hat shop), where she lived from 1953 to 1960, before she bought and moved to 112 Waverly Place in 1960. GVSHP unveiled a historic plaque at 112 Waverly…
Read More…Emma Lazarus, 18 West 10th Street Emma Lazarus via Wiki Commons; a plaque outside her former home at 18 West 10th Street via Wally Gobetz/Flickr Born into a financially successful family, Emma…
Read More…Emma Lazarus via Wiki Commons (L); a plaque outside her former home at 18 West 10th Street via Wally Gobetz/Flickr Lazarus (1849-1887) lived at 18 West 10th Street in Greenwich Village. Born into…
Read More…found there today. 10. Home of Emma Lazarus, author of “The New Colossus,” 18 West 10th Street Emma Lazarus (L) via Wiki Commons; Plaque on her former home via Flickr cc Though born…
Read More…to 112 Waverly Place. Village Preservation unveiled in 2017 a plaque at 112 Waverly Place in celebration of Hansberry’s time there. 13. Patricia Highsmith, 1 Bank Street, 48 Grove Street and 35 Morton…
Read More…the happiest three years of his life. Clemenceau was honored here at his old address with a commemorative plaque, located on the old Loew’s Sheridan Theater, which replaced the building…
Read More…get the Hesses to hand it over voluntarily, but they refused, and in 1922 installed the plaque indicating their continued ownership of this tiny piece of land, in spite of…
Read More…that led Irish, Germans, Chinese, Eastern Europeans, and Italians to emigrate. Click here to watch (54 minutes) James Wall Finn Plaque Dedication Irish-American muralist and decorative artist James Wall Finn was…
Read More…she lived from 1953 to 1960, before she bought and moved to 112 Waverly Place in 1960. GVSHP unveiled a historic plaque at 112 Waverly Place in celebration of Hansberry’s…
Read More…garage, factory and warehouse building designed by Wm. Steele and Sons Co. and built in 1917-19. Application is to install four stretch banners and a plaque sign. PHOTOS OF THE…
Read More…site, and to reinstall a recreation of the historic plaque tiles in this area with long term stewardship. Spread the word to help save a piece of Yiddish theatre. Additional…
Read More…by a small plaque on the exterior of the building which simply says “Heal The Sick.” In 1831, carpenter Henry Bayard and mason John Tucker built the Dispensary’s current building…
Read More…Tavern, San Remo, Lion’s Head Tavern, The Gaslight, and Kettle of Fish (Amram joined us for the unveiling of our historic plaque marking the former site of the San Remo Cafe). In…
Read More…CB2 agenda: Application to LPC to renew a Certificate of Appropriateness for public art installed by the Whitney Museum on the covering for a railway opening and an informational plaque at…
Read MoreGet the latest news from Village Preservation — advocacy campaigns, oral histories, plaques, programs, and online resources. It can all be found in our latest twice-yearly newsletter accessible HERE. Village…
Read More…View more than a dozen videos from Village Preservation exploring and celebrating black history, from plaque unveiling ceremonies honoring Lorraine Hansberry, Alex Haley, James Baldwin, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, to tours…
Read More…92 Grove Street No. 92 Grove Street also features a historic plaque placed by Village Preservation in May 2019 to commemorate the author’s work and his time in Greenwich Village….
Read More…½ by 3 ½ foot relief plaque commemorating President Franklin D. Roosevelt, which was used as a model for his image on the U.S. dime coin. Burke is celebrated for…
Read MoreAs Village Preservation prepares to unveil a plaque commemorating the “Sip-In” at Julius’ Bar on April 21, 1966, one might wonder about the Mattachine Society of New York, which organized…
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