…NoHo. The 2022 election cycle in New York has been rocked by unprecedented upheaval resulting from last-minute court-ordered redistricting of state legislative and congressional district lines. Long-standing district boundaries no…
Read More…rock musical Hair. Joe Papp believed great art was for everyone and he could engage what he called ‘the culturally dispossessed’ through theater. He argued that we have public libraries, why…
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 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…issues-based organizer and community land developer. Harrington has a life-long commitment to social justice and a background in performing arts (including Sweet Honey in the Rock!), and has cleared garbage-strewn…
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…and Slavery in New York (co-edited with Ira Berlin). Jamila Brathwaite is a trustee of the African American Historical Society of Rockland County. She is an educator and curator and…
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…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…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…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…‘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…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…corner of the Village is represented in the book: recollections of jazz clubs and existentialism on Bleecker Street to rock music on St. Mark’s Place and folk singers in Washington…
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…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…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…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…“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…a look at the part of the report that details the South Village’s contribution as a creative center of the mid-twentieth century folk and rock music scene. Many regard the…
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…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…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…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…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…
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…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…premier jazz, rock, and folk music venues of the mid-20th century. Bob Dylan wrote “A Hard Rain’s A Gonna Fall” here. Today Le Poisson Rouge offers a variety of music…
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…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…
Read More…Angeles, minutes before he was shot; the football player Rosie Greer, behind him on the left, helped apprehend the gunman, Sirhan Sirhan. This was one of many assassinations which rocked…
Read More…lilies were transplanted from Washington Square Park Bert has personally recycled plants and rocks from other NYC parks that were destined for the dumpster, and brought them to Sir Winston…
Read More…He had also designed Rockefeller Center and together the partnership would design the Empire State Plaza in Albany and several U.S. Embassies as well as the Time-Life building in Midtown,…
Read More…Century. The cathedral, made of rock-cut Kentucky limestone, was designed in the Gothic style by the renowned architect Josiah Cleveland Cady, who would later build such iconic New York City…
Read More…for great rock album covers Page 48 – 7 Leroy Street (1830), Greenwich Village Historic District South Village Extension, designated 2010. many of the “blocked projects” we have managed to…
Read MoreThe tree lighting ceremony at Washington Square Park will take place on Wednesday, December 11. Photo via Flickr/kbedell. Last week, all eyes were on Rockefeller Center for the lighting of…
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…‘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…the 1950s to the iconic rockers of the CBGB scene in the 1970s like Blondie, Patti Smith, and Debbie Harry. See photos, too, of the beloved Footlight Records, located at…
Read More…to 1890, gave us the first torpedo, the steam-powered rock drill, the ammonia ice machine, and the caloric engine, which brought water to top floors of skyscrapers. The Manufacturing Company…
Read More…everyone from (in owner Nicky Perry’s words) “little old ladies to rock stars, and lonely long-time locals to homesick expats.” She serves them all, and says she loves seeing them…
Read More…featured folk, jazz, and rock performers, with nods to the music that has been made and recorded over the years in Greenwich Village. We celebrated that creative unique spirit and…
Read More…of these artists rocket to stardom after their time at The Bitter End, but they often come back to perform after they’ve hit the big time. Andy Gibb, who broke…
Read More…bill of one-act plays – Cowboy Mouth and The Rock Garden — both by a then-unknown, 20-year-old Sam Shepard. Alongside Caffe Cino, Judson Poets’ Theater, La MaMa and more, Theatre…
Read More…pelted the police with coins and rocks. For two nights thereafter, LGBT New Yorkers and their allies gathered outside of Stonewall, demanding that they be able to live their lives…
Read More…early rock and roll rented rooms at the Hotel Earle, including Bo Diddley, who stayed there “every time he played in NYC,” and the legendary Chuck Berry. Then in 1964,…
Read More…in Rockland County, Davidson’s Walt Whitman appears to walk along the Appalachian Trail. Emma Goldman’s gravestone in Forest Park, IL features Davidson’s portrait of her in bas relief and another…
Read More…All Over Your Blues”) and two Lovin’ Spoonful songs (“Darling Be Home Soon” and “Younger Generation”). Most people know that the Lovin’ Spoonful, like so many American folk/pop/rock acts of…
Read More…could be seen from 30 or so miles away in New Jersey or Long Island. Whether you were in the East Village, Greenwich Village, Jersey City, or the Rockaways, you…
Read More…in the Park in 1963, starring Robert Redford, opened in 1925, and was designed by architect Herbert J. Krapp. The legendary rock musical Hair, produced by East Village impresario Joseph Papp,…
Read More…Tuli Kupferberg and Ed Sanders, members of the Fugs, an East Village folk-rock group known for their radical political views. In the winter of 1968, Sanders decided to move Peace…
Read More…and here for Part 1, here for Fred W. McDarrah: Iconic Images of the Village & East Village from the 1950s and 60s, here for Fred W. McDarrah: Rock Icons, here…
Read More…dancers. The club’s mixture of a rocking jazz band, sex, comedy, and song and dance attracted some of the biggest names in Hollywood at the time, and some of the…
Read More…1869 to save the lives of babies being abandoned on the streets of New York, the Foundling currently serves over 30,000 people each year in New York City, Rockland County,…
Read More…Barbara Gittings, Ron Gold, Frank Kameny, Nathalie Rockhill, and Bruce Voeller. They were inspired by the Stonewall uprising and the burgeoning LGBTQ rights movements in the Village. Among the Task…
Read More…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…her passion for social justice, her love of classic jazz and rock music (with deep connections to the area), her serious interest in historical research, and most of all, her…
Read More…dancer. She has a best friend, Sophie, but their relationship is on the rocks. The friendship between these two women drives the movie, which is filmed in black and white….
Read More…of the Village. Every corner of the Village is represented in the book: recollections of jazz clubs and existentialism on Bleecker Street, rock music at St. Mark’s Place, folk singers…
Read More…Theater parade on Bleecker Street looking northwest from Christopher Street, L-R: 95 Christopher Street, 342-346 & 350 Bleecker Street visible, ca. 1980. Photo by Carole Teller. Watch the greatest rock…
Read More…and proclamations were given, Villagers danced to the folk, jazz, and rock music of Richard Barone & Friends, Greenwich House Music School’s Faculty Duo Lynn Bechtold and Alon Bisk, Eli…
Read More…Warhol’s traveling multimedia show, The Exploding Plastic Inevitable. That famous “Warhol boost” brought the Velvet Underground into New York City’s avant-garde music world in 1966, and eventually into the Rock…
Read More…venue and everything in between. If the walls of Webster Hall could talk, they would tell of bold socialist organizers, iconic American authors, counter-culture anarchists, and brash rock-and-roll stars. In…
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…of Texas at Austin In December of that year, he received notice that he had won a prestigious $1,000 Rockefeller scholarship. Audrey Wood immediately enrolled him in the playwriting seminar…
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…influential landmarks as the Daily News Building, the Chicago Tribune Building, the McGraw Hill Building, and Rockefeller Center. Soon thereafter and for much of the 1920′s the house was occupied…
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 MoreTony Rosenthal’s Alamo Sculpture on Astor Place. Fifty years ago today, the musical Hair premiered at The Public Theater. The first rock musical, it would go on to become a pacifist…
Read More…in the late 1960s, it became the basement of Electric Lady Studios, where Jimi Hendrix, The Clash, and pretty much every other rock group recorded. Village history never ceases to…
Read More…but when the building officially opened in 2010, the SoHo Alliance published a statement saying: “Trump and his wealthy partners at Bayrock/Sapir so far have not come up with the…
Read More…its meaning 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…
Read More…where Ono still lives to this day. It’s not surprising, though, that the Japanese-born artist and the rockstar initially made their home downtown, living at 105 Bank Street, an 1846 rowhouse…
Read MoreImage courtesy of http://folkcityatfifty.blogspot.com. Gerde’s Folk City was a Greenwich Village music venue central to the folk and rock scenes in this neighborhood for a quarter century. Though always moving…
Read More…the rock and roll that did the same. We will also welcome elected officials and other inspiring speakers to join in the celebration, along with other friends and partners who…
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