…prior to STOMP include Little Shop of Horrors in 1982, Sandra Bernhard’s Without You I’m Nothing in 1988, The Lady in Question in 1989, Eric Bogosian’s Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll in 1990, John Leguizamo’s Mambo Mouth in 1991, and David Mamet’s Oleanna in…
Read More…for the “Rocky Horror Picture Show,” which played every Friday and Saturday night there for 11 years. The theater closed in 1992 and is now the site of a medical practice. 3….
Read More…her love of poetry with rock-n-roll, and essentially launched her career as a performer. Some of the work she read that night would become the songs on her first album, Horses. The…
Read More…of Freedom, an Academy Award, and induction into the Rock and Roll and Songwriters Halls of Fame. This exhibit, presented in augmented reality, allows the viewer to “enter” this historic…
Read More…manufacturing building was meant to harmonize with the adjacent historic Grace Church. The building was home to notable publishers connected to the likes of Norman Rockwell, and to clothing manufacturers….
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…our past programs, click here. Vanished Mansions of Lower Fifth Avenue: Celebrating the Iconic Street at 200 Thursday, April 4, 2024 6 PM In-person Pre-registration required Free Location: Rockwell Gallery at…
Read More…a deep interest in history, literature, and music. Originally from Rockaway, New Jersey, she often visited her extended family in New York City. These interests flourished as she learned about…
Read More…Robbins, the civil libertarian columnist Nat Hentoff, fashion reporter Lynn Yaeger, and self-appointed “Dean of American Rock Criticism” Robert Christgau. It also provided a visual forum for photographers who defined the look and feel…
Read More…of jazz, blues, and rock ‘n’ roll. The spirit of experimentation and innovation that has long defined Greenwich Village continues to thrive, making it a dynamic and ever-evolving hub of…
Read More…Lynn Yaeger; and self-appointed “Dean of American Rock Criticism” Robert Christgau. It also provided a visual forum for photographers who defined the look and feel of the paper — including…
Read More…Fisch World Trade Center and 9/11 Collection” in Village Preservation’s Historic Image Archive. First proposed by David Rockefeller to spur urban renewal in lower Manhattan in the 1940s, the World…
Read More…politically hostile elements from German universities. With the financial support of philanthropist Hiram Halle and the Rockefeller Foundation, The New School obtained funding to provide a haven in the United…
Read More…at this time due to her father’s passing, her mother falling ill, and the growing demands of her career, which was at its peak. Nonetheless, she published Shadows on the Rock (1931),…
Read More…Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, gift of Richard E. Brock. Rattner was known for his bold use of color and the surrealist aspects of his work, often featuring religious themes….
Read More…friends with Raymond Hood, then a 40-year-old still-novice architect a few years away from his greatest achievements, including the American Radiator Building in Midtown (1926) and Rockefeller Center (1932-1940), the…
Read More…raucous gatherings, particularly all-night rock concerts. The park and its occupants made new residents feel unsafe. In response to their complaints, the city imposed a 1 A.M. curfew in the…
Read More…its quarter century mark. And then, some years after that, he opened Cake Shop, a cutting edge rock venue in the Lower East Side that featured bands like Vampire Weekend,…
Read More…the point of view of a worker on site. An Unknown Worker Wearing a Gas mask in front of the Crumbling WTC Chris Rock Signing Hard Hats of Unknown Workers…
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…W. McDarrah: Rock Icons See images from: Fred W. McDarrah: Willem de Kooning at 831 Broadway Fred W. McDarrah (1926-2007) was an American photojournalist renowned for documenting the social, cultural,…
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Read More…at AICH were recorded, edited, and broadcasted on the Manhattan Neighborhood Network in half-hour segments. This episode features a performance by the Thunderbird American Indian Dancers and blues-rock group ‘Indigenous’….
Read More…1940s, when patients with a history of serious mental illness (i.e., schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder resistant to conventional treatment) formed a support group at the Rockland Psychiatric Center that they…
Read More…its unused spaces to the burgeoning local fringe rock bands of the day. The New York Dolls held some of their earliest shows in the space and soon became regulars,…
Read More…publications to partake in muckraking journalism. One prevalent example of its work included the piece written by Ida Tarbell in 1903 about John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company….
Read MoreExclusively offered to members at the Sustainer Level ($250+) and above. Wednesday, September 28 6:00pm-7:15pm E.T. Location: The Salmagundi Club’s Rockwell Gallery, 47 Fifth Avenue @ Twelfth Street, New York, NY 10003…
Read More…peppered with personal stories and insights from those who were there. Richard Barone (He/Him) is a recording artist, performer, producer, professor, and author. Since pioneering the indie rock scene in Hoboken,…
Read More…Hitler came to power, he began to purge Jews and political opposition from German universities. With the financial support of philanthropist Hiram Halle and the Rockefeller Foundation, The New School…
Read More…programming projects along the way. She has collaborated with our full-time staff to conduct research for our Rock n’ Roll History tours and document historical building records to support our…
Read More…their favorite memories of concerts at the Fillmore East on our East Village Rock Tour, or gathering at a local school to learn about historical figures who helped shape our…
Read More…against Governor Orval Faubus, the Arkansas leader known for sending the National Guard to prevent integration at Little Rock High School. His music was also known for the wide range…
Read MoreAs a young girl born and raised on the rugged coast of Rockland, Maine, few could have guessed Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was…
Read More…information you need? The 2022 election cycle was already rocked by unprecedented upheaval resulting from last-minute court-ordered redistricting of state legislative and congressional district lines. You don’t have to navigate…
Read More…time since COVID. In-person tours are back! Our East Village Rock Tour was a huge hit! * Serve an all-time high of 2,734 students in our children’s education program, 90% of which were…
Read More…Village, including luminaries in the fields of modernist poetry, realist painting, and hard hitting rock ‘n roll. We invite you to use our map as a way to explore some…
Read More…“Alex Harsley is the name. I was born in 1938, in South Carolina; a place outside Rockhill called Newport. And I’ve always been interested in learning about everything. So when…
Read More…area South of Union Square. The renowned record-producer, civil rights activist, and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inductee John Hammond made his very first recordings at the Columbia Phonograph Recording…
Read More…Jesse and Javi have found in the afterglow of the East Village’s rock ‘n roll past. If you would like us to welcome another independent business to the neighborhood, please…
Read More…of four to almost seven hundred students and ninety teachers and administrators. Notable alumni include Adam Horvitz (a.k.a. Ad Rock) of the Beastie Boys, rapper and actor Dante Terrell Smith…
Read More…Best Rock Instrumental Performance for his album “Jazz From Hell,” and the winner of Best Country Vocal Performance for his song “Lucille,” Kenny Rogers. Kenny Rogers accepting his 1977 Grammy…
Read More…building regulation, heavy 70s’ rock, and much more. Along the way, you can snack on a french cruller, play a game of chess, and get decked out in French-vintage-style. The…
Read More…and stories on Afrikaa Bambaataa, Fab Five Freddy, Run DMC, and the Rock Steady Crew. The Eye even boasts being the first publication ever to define the term “hip hop,”…
Read More…her love of poetry with rock-n-roll, and essentially launched her career as a performer. Some of the work she read that night would become the songs on her first album, Horses. The…
Read More…the Village Preservation archives and resources to celebrate this icon of folk and rock in Greenwich Village. We’ll comb through the history of Bob Dylan’s iconic performance locations, like Cafe…
Read More…became known as the longtime venue for the “Rocky Horror Picture Show,” which played every Friday and Saturday night there for 11 years. The theater closed in 1992 and is now the…
Read More…in the room that was formerly a bookstore into which The Monster expanded in 1985. Entertainment ranges from all-female country-rock-indie bands to drag performers, DJs, and more. Part of that…
Read More…Fellowship, a Philippines Heritage Award, a Poetry Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, and a Shelley Memorial Award. In 1973 he was named…
Read More…Phonograph Company and OKeh Records, which eventually merged as Columbia Records, the oldest surviving brand name in the business. Record-producer, civil rights activist, and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inductee…
Read More…folk and rock movements of the 1960s, beginning with the folk revival and tracing the words and music as they evolved into an explosion of self-expression that captured imaginations around…
Read More…of entertainment and quickly became a tourist attraction. Back when it met at Jefferson Market, John D. Rockefeller was said to enjoy the diversion. Greenwich Village’s storied past is filled…
Read More…creatures, and ostentatious furniture. It situated itself among a slew of popular themed restaurants of the ‘90s and aughts, such as Mars 2112, another NYC oddity, located near Rockefeller Center…
Read More…adorned by a sunken Japanese rock and sculpture garden designed by Bunshaft’s frequent collaborator, Greenwich Village artist and sculptor Isamu Noguchi, and later graced by the addition of artist Jean…
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…from: Fred W. McDarrah: Rock Icons See images from: Fred W. McDarrah: Willem de Kooning at 831 Broadway Fred W. McDarrah (1926-2007) was an American photojournalist renowned for documenting the social, cultural,…
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Read More…Johnny Cash, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Led Zeppelin and the Beach Boys released covers of his songs. Lead Belly was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 by…
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…Village & East Village, Part 2 See images from: Fred W. McDarrah: Rock Icons Fred W. McDarrah (1926-2007) was an American photojournalist renowned for documenting the social, cultural, and political…
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Read More…her coworkers in a video, and lauding the fashion sense of the Noho store, even as she rocketed to super-stardom. Owner Laura became her fashion stylist for the next 15 years,…
Read More…‘gay’ world. (Gay New York, 40-41) The Slide was closed by the police in 1892. From 1976 to 2012, No. 157 housed a rock club called Kenny’s Castaways. The large…
Read More…folk and protest movements, however, and 1964 and 1965 saw a rapid change in his musical style. After a rocky start, Simon and Garfunkel also found mainstream success in 1965….
Read More…a leading venue for rock shows in New York City. The roster of Ritz performers included, Madonna, Tina Turner, Eric Clapton, Prince, Sting, Guns N’ Roses, KISS, among many others….
Read More…the design of John D. Rockefeller’s Riverside Church on Riverside Drive and 120th Street… “…In 1949 Christodora [the settlement] moved into the new Jacob Riis Houses on Avenue D. The…
Read More…neighborhood change from “kind of a rock scene, to Europeans looking at art galleries, and now it’s like a school campus, very young. Compared to how it was, it accommodates…
Read More…of the PDF). Prior to the removal of the high line In 1980, West Coast Co. (Rockrose Development Corp.) purchased the properties – seven of the nine from the Manhattan…
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…Dylan, the Grateful Dead, Itzhak Perlman, Bill Monroe and Jesse McReynolds. Bassist Jim Whitney, who has toured around the world, appears in the country-rock group Miller’s Farm and is a…
Read More…Chrysler Building, or Rockefeller Center. However Greenwich Village and the East Village boast some of their own Art Deco gems, also worth examining. Art Deco was known by several names…
Read Morephoto source: Van Vechten Collection at Library of Congress Edna St. Vincent Millay was born on February 22, 1892 in Rockland, Maine. But the Village was always in her blood;…
Read More…the much-missed icon of 1960’s rock music, the Fillmore East (105 2nd Avenue). Leadbelly [photo from www.youtube.com]Well, it turns out we are not the only ones: last month, a group…
Read More…greatest rock venue in history. These tours will run every Saturday at 3 pm, year round. Learn more here. Each participant gets a keepsake multi-postcard set of classic McDarrah images…
Read More…degrees) who got his break performing in the rock musical review “Lemmings” (3 degrees) which ran at Greenwich Village’s Village Gate Theater (4 degrees) at Bleecker and Thompson Streets (right…
Read More…bygone era of the neighborhood. And it is the quintessential repository for rockers who’ve just finished a gig in a nearby club. The beer is cold, the food is, well,…
Read More…Monroe and Jesse McReynolds. Bassist Jim Whitney, who has toured around the world, appears in the country-rock group Miller’s Farm and is a member of singer/pianist Debbie Deane’s soul and…
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…She made the clothes and jewelry herself then, knitting and crocheting when she could. . This was back when Doc Holiday’s bar was a drug store and rock and rollers…
Read More…the bookfair Dashwood has three small printings in the works. One deals with the work of Stefan Marx and an artist in residency collaboration in the Rockaways and The Castle….
Read More…Construction on the building began in 1888 with the backing of John D. Rockefeller and other prominent Baptists. The church’s mission has long been devoted to social outreach and since…
Read More…Clearwater Revival, Deep Purple, Miles Davis, John Lennon, the Fugs, Iron Butterfly, John Sebastian, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, and dozens of other legends of rock. Some of these groups…
Read More…‘Louie’ , was recently on FX’s ‘Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll’, and consistently appears on ‘Inside Amy Schumer’. He also has a show on Sirius. Tickets are $45…
Read More…arriving June 5, 1870. He immediately felt the need to protect himself, and purchased a gun. You may know his name from Jacob Riis Park on the Rockaway Peninsula, or…
Read More…an organic “tap-root” structural system with a central load-bearing core rooted to the below grade bedrock. Floor plates with duplex apartments rotated axially and cantilevered from the core, like branches…
Read More…to rock and roll, from the assassination of Kennedy to the debacle of Nixon, from hippie culture to Yippie culture. “Just the facts” reporting could not adequately chronicle the turbulent…
Read More…became the bedrock of the Whitney collection. MacDougal Alley The Whitneys continued to purchase real estate in the Village, and in 1918 they opened the Whitney Studio Club, located at…
Read More…Building, the McGraw Hill Building, and Rockefeller Center. Soon thereafter and for much of the 1920′s the house was occupied by the very bohemian daughter of the 28th U.S. President,…
Read More…to protect himself, and purchased a gun. You may know his name from Jacob Riis Park on the Rockaway Peninsula, or from the Jacob Riis Houses in the East Village,…
Read More…in its new location in Western Wyoming, close to the Wind River Mountains which is part of the Rocky Mountains. We have previously looked at some of the Friends Village…
Read More…she married Carl Friedan, a theater director who later became an advertising executive. They started a family and moved to a rambling Victorian house in suburban Rockland County, N.Y.’ For…
Read More…the former townhouse of a rock-and-roll legend, or prominent literary figure? This weekend, you can! A backyard treehouse is featured on this year’s house tour It’s not too late to…
Read More…six year old? How did pre-reconstruction Seravalli Park in the West Village look with a gang of neon spandex-clad dancers descending upon it? And if you were the greatest rock…
Read More…to all Americans. There are 2,500 such sites that meet this high standard. The Statue of Liberty, Rockefeller Center and the Metropolitan Museum of Art are examples of local sites…
Read More…Draft Riots. These civil disturbances rocked New York City and revealed a deep racial and class divide that existed in New York City in 1863, one that was particularly visible…
Read More…May 1, 1980 as The Ritz nightclub, and until its relocation in 1986, it was a leading venue for rock shows in New York City. The roster of Ritz performers…
Read More…in the City.” Most people know that the Lovin’ Spoonful, like so many American folk/pop/rock acts of the era, got their start in the clubs of Greenwich Village. But while…
Read More…by Joshua White. Graham closed the Fillmore East in 1971 and went on to stage mega rock concerts in arenas, outdoor stadiums and parks. In 1980, the building was converted…
Read More…dinner. All profits will be donated. On Monday evening, long-time Meatpacking District favorite the Old Homestead Steakhouse provided an early Thanksgiving meal to survivors of the storm in Far Rockaway…
Read More…Of course, most were in the Financial District, the Rockaways, Coney Island, and Staten Island. We were surprised, though, to see several in the Village make the list. L: Cedric…
Read More…planted in honor of Glenn Barnett and all those from the neighborhood who have died of AIDS. Photo courtesy of EV Grieve. Unlike the tree at Rockefeller Plaza or Washington…
Read More…West 49th Street and renamed it the Puncheon. In 1928, Rockefeller Center was planned and the cousins were given $11,000 by landowner Columbia University for the building. They then moved…
Read More…and influential landmarks as the Daily News Building, the Chicago Tribune Building, the McGraw Hill Building, and Rockefeller Center. 134 West 4th Street (r.), with 132 West 4th Street to…
Read More…“As I came of age in the Sixties, at the height of sex, drugs, and rock and roll, it was always a dream of mine to inhabit the neighborhood where…
Read More…those who experienced it and those who wish they did. You can read more about the Fillmore East here and more about our recent program about rock music in the…
Read More…Upham and Co. Building at 508 LaGuardia Place (just south of Bleecker), a Romanesque Revival style building constructed of iron spot Roman brick trimmed with rock-faced brick and terra cotta…
Read More…the Mills House opened, and include some familiar and some antiquated choices — all at a rock-bottom price (then, as well as now). If menus and cuisine culture are your…
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