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Beyond the Village and Back: NY Foundling Hospital
…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,…
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: 80 Fifth Avenue
…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…
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STOMP’s Long Run at the Orpheum Theatre
…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…
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Meet the Interns- Spring 2020
…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…
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Our Epic Greenwich Village and East Village Watch-List
…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….
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Things We’re Looking Forward To Doing Again, Part 4
…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…
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If the Washington Square Hotel Could Talk (or Write, or Sing)
…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,…
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The Greenwich Village Historic District’s Historic Birthday!
…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…
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Collecting New York’s Stories: Stuyvesant to Sid Vicious, Curator Tour
…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…
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Illuminating Forgotten Histories: New York City’s Early Black Communities
…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…
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A Comedy Cellar Night, Benefiting Village Preservation
…was a cab driver with a dream to open a venue in bustling Greenwich Village. He did just that, and now, names such a Chris Rock, Amy Schumer, Jerry Seinfeld,…
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East Village Gardens Walking Tour
…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…
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Book Talk: “Lou Reed, A Life”
Book Talk: Lou Reed, A Life with Anthony DeCurtis Renowned musician Lou Reed invented alternative rock music, at once a source of transcendent beauty and coruscating noise, speaking to millions…
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New York Deco with Tony Robins
New York Deco with Tony Robins The Chrysler Building, the Waldorf-Astoria, Rockefeller Center– these are among the hundreds of Art Deco monuments that, during the 1920s and ‘30s, helped create…
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Christodora Book Talk
…city of the 2020s, enormous changes rock the personal lives of our East Villagers. Moving kaleidoscopically from the Tompkins Square Riots and AIDS activism to the New York City of…
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A Night With The Andy Statman Trio at the Historic Eldridge Street Synagogue
…musicians in modern acustic music… he helped invent the language of progressive bluegress [and] webt on to rediscover klezmer music and reintroduce it to the world.” The Rocky Mountian News…
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Our Lady of Greenwich Village
…Angel, and The 13th Apostle) and John Strausbaugh (The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, Black Like You, Rock ‘Til You Drop) discuss the history and…
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For the Records: The Legacy and Lessons of Bleecker Bob’s
…great names of rock and roll through the decades, time has run out for the oldest record store in the Village. For the Records, a documentary film by Emily Judem…
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Jo Davidson’s “Plastic History,” Featuring His Village Friends
…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…
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The Stonewall National Monument
…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…
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Friends Apartments- Fiction or Fantasy?
…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…
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Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground’s Last Show and Album at Max’s
…of people bought Velvet Underground albums, every one of those people was inspired to start their own rock band. Many musicians have affirmed Eno’s characterization, including Patti Smith, U2, the…
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A Tale of Two 50’s!
Tony 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…
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The Bygone Days of a Cowboy Club in Greenwich Village
…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…
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A History of the Spring Street Presbyterian Church
…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…
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Historic Preservation 101: What is a Landmark?
…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…
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Women’s Work: Celebrating (More) Amazing Female Artists of the Village
…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…
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Tennessee Williams: A Restless Fugitive
…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…
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Gerde’s Folk City: The End of a Greenwich Village Icon
Image 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…
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Celebrating the 15th Amendment on Bleecker Street
…of the rocky road the 15th amendment took to fulfillment of its promise to guarantee the right to vote, it was widely hailed by African-Americans and their supporters as a…
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Smells Like The Pyramid Club
Poster from Nirvana’s second show at The Pyramid Club, April 26, 1990. Image courtesy of Twitter. Nirvana is one of the most influential alternative rock bands of all time. They…
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The Comedy Cellar – 2018 Village Awardee
…as Alan Dershowitz, on topics such as The Russian Probe, Feminism, and the future of America. Other notables who enjoy hanging out as well as performing include Chris Rock, Amy…
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New York in Four Maps – Walking the Village of the Past
…Drawn at a scale of 100 feet to 1 inch, the Randel Farm Maps provide a detailed picture of Manhattan’s hills, streams, beaches, ponds, wetlands, rock formations, and cliffs before…
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No One Had Ever Heard a Howl Like That Before
…war is here O victory forget your underwear we’re free I’m with you in Rockland in my dreams you walk dripping from a sea-journey on the highway across America in…
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East Village Building Blocks Tour: Theaters!
…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…
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One Track Mind: Drawing the New York Subway
…of The Smith Tapes: Lost Interviews with Rock Stars & Icons, 1969–1972. Jeremy Workman, a New York-based filmmaker, directed “One Track Mind,” a documentary about Coppola’s work – watch the…
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Woody Guthrie’s New York Comes Alive
…other legacies current and ongoing. When Woody died, his family took his ashes out to the end of the rock jetty at the end of 36th Street in Coney Island….
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Remembering Hurricane Sandy
…away. Traveling just a few miles from Manhattan to the Rockaways or Howard Beach to help friends and family recover was like traveling to a different universe. Mayor Bloomberg insisted…
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Readers Choice: Top 5 Off the Grid Blog Posts of 2018
…Ethel Rosenberg. Read the entire post here. #2 Rock On, Fillmore East! In its short three years, the Fillmore East defined the music scene of the East Village and so…
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Celebrating the Greenwich Village Historic District’s 50th Anniversary
…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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Remembering a Big Day for East Village Landmarking
…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…
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Allen Ginsberg’s East Village Haunts
…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…
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The Exploding Plastic Inevitable featuring the Velvet Underground
…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…
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Tea & Sympathy, 2019 Village Awardee
…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…
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The Bubble Man in Washington Square Park
…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…
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The Bitter End, 2019 Village Awardee
…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…
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31 Literary Icons of the Greenwich Village Historic District
…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),…
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