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For most of the twentieth century, Sheridan Square served as nothing more than a traffic-safety island. It wasn’t until 1982 that the area went from a paved triangle to a…
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For most of the twentieth century, Sheridan Square served as nothing more than a traffic-safety island. It wasn’t until 1982 that the area went from a paved triangle to a…
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For most of the twentieth century, Sheridan Square served as nothing more than a traffic-safety island. It wasn’t until 1982 that the area went from a paved triangle to a…
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For most of the twentieth century, Sheridan Square served as nothing more than a traffic-safety island. It wasn’t until 1982 that the area went from a paved triangle to a…
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For most of the twentieth century, Sheridan Square served as nothing more than a traffic-safety island. It wasn’t until 1982 that the area went from a paved triangle to a…
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For most of the twentieth century, Sheridan Square served as nothing more than a traffic-safety island. It wasn’t until 1982 that the area went from a paved triangle to a…
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Sheridan Square Dig 30- Regina Kellerman, Village Preservation’s First Executive Director (right)
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Past Village Award Winners, 1991-2021
…Hudson Triangle Garden Idlewild Books Industria Superstudio Jackson Square Park Jaffe Art Theater Interior Restoration Jane Street Garden Jefferson Market Garden Jefferson Market Library Restoration Joe Jr.’s Joe’s Dairy Hettie…
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Ribbon Cuttings, Reopenings, and Anniversaries Bring Neighborhood History to the Fore
This week is full of some particularly notable neighborhood history milestones. Hess Triangle and Village Cigars (photo right by Sai Mokhtari/Gothamist) One hundred years ago this week, the Hess Triangle…
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For most of the twentieth century, Sheridan Square served as nothing more than a traffic-safety island. It wasn’t until 1982 that the area went from a paved triangle to a…
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City Proposes Changes to Jane Street, West 4th Street, Astor Place, and Stuyvesant Street
…Street retain their historic connection to these 17th century streets. Read more HERE. The City’s proposed redesign of the Jane Street Triangle The Jane Street Triangle redesign, presented by the…
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Memorial Day in the Village
…a chance to reflect on the sacrifices and stories of two individual Villagers. Abingdon Square Doughboy McCarthy Square, a triangle of land where 7th Avenue South, Charles Street and Waverly…
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The Loew-Down
…here. But before this triangle became a rather utilitarian delivery bay/open space, did you know that it housed a great movie palace? The theater on the triangle site was constructed…
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James Renwick, Jr., 19th Century Architect Extraordinaire!
…East 10th Street (Nos 114-128), with a dramatic, acutely cornered building at the tip of the triangle. Renwick Triangle James Renwick, Jr. died in 1895 at his home at 28…
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Sheridan Square Dig 2- Regina Kellerman, Village Preservation’s First Executive Director (center)
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The Flatirons of the Village and the East Village
…of Astor Place, at the corner of Stuyvesant Street and East 10th Street. The “Renwick Triangle” located at this intersection consists of seven Anglo-Italianate style houses constructed in 1862, believed…
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Sheridan Square Dig 7- Regina Kellerman, Village Preservation’s First Executive Director (left)
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Sheridan Square Dig 9- Regina Kellerman, Village Preservation’s First Executive Director (center)
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Sheridan Square Dig 10- Regina Kellerman, Village Preservation’s First Executive Director (left)
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Sheridan Square Dig 12- Manhattan Borough President Andrew Stein (in suit on right) cuts the ribbon. From its founding in 1980 until 1984, Village Preservation was known as the Greenwich Village Trust, as noted on the sign.
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Remembering the HIV/AIDS Crisis
…hospital’s historic buildings). A New York City AIDS Memorial (also the winner of Village Preservation’s Regina Kellerman Award) now stands at the northwest corner of the former St. Vincent’s Triangle, which…
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Watching GVSHP, and Village Preservation Efforts, Grow
…later it was (see images from the archeological dig GVSHP supervised when the reconstruction was done), and remains a green jewel in the neighborhood today. Sheridan Square Triangle Garden. “Minimum…
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Strange Bedfellows: Stanford White and Diane Arbus
…oldest house still in use as a residence, New York City’s oldest site of continuous worship, and the only triangle of houses attributed to famed 19th century architect James Renwick….
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Theater Thursday: Novenas for a Lost Hospital at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater
…Triangle at St. Vincent’s Park. Photograph by Julieta Cervantes Rattlestick has done a remarkable job of including many community partners in the making of this piece of art. As it…
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2017 Annual Meeting
…– Lenox Health Greenwich Village/AIDS Memorial/St. Vincent’s Triangle Park The restoration of the O’Toole Building, the new AIDS Memorial (recently praised in Architectural Digest) and St. Vincent’s Triangle Park have…
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The End of Village Cigars
…Triangle located in front of the store. Fortunately, the building housing Village Cigars as well as Hess Triangle are located within the Greenwich Village Historic District, and thus enjoy the…
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Georges Clemenceau, the Dreyfus Affair, and the fight against Anti-Semitism
…Vincent’s Triangle), owned at the time by the librarian of the French community. The NYC AIDS Memorial Park at St. Vincent’s Triangle, the former site of 212 West 12th Street….
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‘People in Trouble’: A Case Study of the AIDS Crisis in Historical Memory
…to People in Trouble. Like Schulman’s novel, RENT centers around a love triangle involving a female performance artist who cheats on her heterosexual male partner with a lesbian (in People…
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Celebrating the Preservationists of the Greenwich Village Historic District
…South, which local preservationists deemed incompatible with the neighborhood’s architectural landscape. Ruth Wittenberg Triangle, 2017. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia. Both Ruth and Philip Wittenberg also worked to save the Jefferson…
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Veterans in the Village
…reported that over 200 Gold Star Mothers (those who lost their sons in World War I battle) were in attendance. McCarthy Square McCarthy Square, a triangle of land where 7th…
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A Pastry’s Long Journey to the Village
…you have a rectangle; slice the rectangle in half; and slice each half into triangles. Make a notch bisecting the base of each triangle, roll the base toward the tip,…
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Will the Real Petrus Stuyvesant Please Stand Up?
…series of houses known as Renwick Triangle, designed by James Renwick, Jr. Stuyvesant Fish House 21 Stuyvesant Street Renwick Triangle, former site of Elizabeth Fish’s Garden. Peter Gerard was…
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(Re-)Remembering Diane Arbus
…triangle, just around the block from GVSHP’s office (learn more about the history of Renwick Triangle and the surrounding St. Mark’s Historic District here). In 1970 she moved to the…
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Many layers of history on 4th and 5th Streets
…a flat roof with a broken triangle pediment. It has three bays; the windows on the third and fourth floors are six over six, double hung, with a variety of…
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Sheridan Square Uncovered
…site of what is now the Sheridan Square Viewing Garden with the cooperation of the Sheridan Square Triangle Association and the NYC Parks Department. The site, which was then just…
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Business of the Month: Sullivan Street Tea & Spice Company
…208 Sullivan Street used to be a place where it was clearly marked that “Members Only” were welcome. In the 1980s and 90s, the address was home to the Triangle…
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Revitalizing a ‘Gateway to the West Village’
…they are today, but sometimes barren or forbidding places. Now Christopher Park — a .19-acre triangle formed by Christopher, Grove and West Fourth Streets — will be next to get…
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Happy Anniversary St. Mark’s Historic District!
…buried beneath the church. The district also includes much of Stuyvesant Street, which has its own unique history. “Renwick Triangle” houses along East 10th Street and Stuyvesant Street in the…
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Community Board Vote on Rudin/St. Vincent’s Rezoning Tomorrow Night
…Community Board #2 will also be voting on recommendations for the proposed design of the open space which Rudin must provide at the triangle at 7th Avenue, Greenwich Avenue, and…
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March 14th — A Big Day for Village Birthdays
…there until 1968, when she moved to 120 East 10th Street on Renwick triangle, just around the block from GVSHP’s office (learn more about the history of Renwick Triangle and…
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840, 836, and 834 Broadway
…historic shirtwaist strike of 1909-10. Judge James Roosevelt, noted Supreme Court justice and relative of Theodore and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, resided here. For more information on the history of these…
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Take a Virtual Walk! Visit the Homes of Greenwich Village’s Social Change Champions
…correspondent. Milholland continued her activism while developing her career, participating in the shirtwaist and laundry worker strikes in New York City, for which she was arrested. Milholland was entrenched in…
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The Woman On The White Horse: Inez Milholland and the March for Suffrage
…activism while developing her career, participating in the shirtwaist and laundry worker strikes in New York City, for which she was arrested. Milholland was entrenched in the Village’s bohemian community…
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Ida Rauh: A Pioneer at the Crossection of American Theater and Civil Rights
…Borky, Yetta Raff, and Mary Effers link arms as they march to City Hall on December 3, 1909, during the New York shirtwaist strike to demand an end to abuse by…
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East 4th Street and its Political Past
…planned by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, which had staged a similar but slightly smaller walk out and strike of Shirtwaist makers the year before. In 1910 the strikers…
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Women’s History and Our Civil Rights Map
…the history of Clara Lemlich and the 1909 shirtwaist strike, which led to the founding of Women’s History Month; the residences of Lorraine Hansberry, Emma Lazarus, Inez Milholland, and more;…
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Suffragists of the East Village
…Women’s Trade Union League, which sought to unionize working women and advocate for protective legislation. She organized the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union and the Shirtwaist Strike, and fought for…
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(Even More) Artists, Theaters, and Advocates for Civil Rights and Social Justice in Our Neighborhoods
…Lemlich led the New York shirtwaist strike of 1909 and lived at 278 East 3rd Street by 1910. After being blacklisted for her labor union work, Lemlich devoted herself to…
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The oldest house in the Village? It’s not what you think
…died in 1854, the garden was sold off and the beautiful houses now known as Renwick Triangle were built. But in spite of all this history, the house dates to…
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Stanford White’s Murder and the “The Trial of the Century”
…Penn Station. He was also raised at 118 East 10th Street in the East Village’s ‘Renwick Triangle’ in the St. Mark’s Historic District, so we consider him a bit of…
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Even More Charm Added to Greenwich Village Historic District Tour
…west of 6th Avenue it’s a pre-grid street which was joined to West 4th Street and renamed to make them one). This forms a triangle where a classic of row…
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A Rebuilt Corner, a Carpenter House, and an Art Deco Beauty: New Additions to Our Greenwich Village Historic District Map
…almost the entire triangle where Grove Street, Bleecker Street, and Seventh Avenue South meet. Max Siegal was hired to create two matching facades for this angled, L-shaped building. These matching…
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The Most Picturesque Sites in The Village
…as a National Historic Landmark under the name of the “Third Judicial District Courthouse”. Abe Lebewohl Triangle This small patch of well-tended greenery cascading up a beautifully preserved four-and-a-half-story Anglo-Italianate…
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Beyond the Village and Back: Edgar Allan Poe Cottage in the Bronx
…that it must be used for medical care for the “worthy poor.” The peculiar building sits in a triangle between Waverley Place, Christopher Street, and Grove Street. It is across…
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East Village Street Art Lives On
…his older self, the King of Pop. Kobra utilizes bright colors and bold lines to create a kaleidoscope theme throughout all of his murals. This technique of repeating triangles and…
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A Marriage Leads to Construction of Manhattan’s Oldest Residence
…in and form the rest of the St. Mark’s Historic District and ‘Renwick Triangle’ were finally developed. 1831 map showing the Stuyvesant’s landholdings, courtesy of NYPL Digital Collections. No. 44…
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Tulip Time at Abingdon Square Park
…attending their 7th Annual Tulip Celebration on May 7th. (Just 2 days after our annual Spring House Tour Benefit.) The history of the “square” (which is really a triangle) is…
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Greenwich Village Historic District
…Intro 775 Jane Street Triangle Jefferson Market Library LGBTQ Sites St. Vincent’s Small Business Greenwich Village Historic District Resources Journey through Our Interactive Greenwich Village Historic District Map Explore Our…
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LGBT Historic Sites in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo
…Vincent’s Triangle, which housed mechanical equipment for the hospital across the street. The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, 208 West 13th Street The LGBT Community Center has been a…
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Shaping Washington Square Park, Past and Present
…Center for Media, the Connecticut Historical Society, and the Nathan Hale Homestead. From 2008-2013 she served on the board of the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition. Currently, she serves on…
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Celebrating Flag Day!
…movement had no symbol apart from the pink triangle — and few wanted to rally around a Nazi concentration camp badge. Baker worked with a team of 30 to dye…
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#SouthofUnionSquare — James Renwick, Jr. Tour
…block of the intersection of Broadway and 11th Street, and designed dozens more nearby, including the still-extant ‘Renwick Row’ and ‘Renwick Triangle.’ Join us on a tour of these sites…
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Louise Bryant
…an affair, one that apparently everyone in the tight-knit community, with the exception of Jack Reed, knew about. It became a classic love triangle and a theme first appearing in…
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An Exclusive Tour of the Shearith Israel Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue Cemetery on West 11th Street
…laws their forebearers escaped. This small but historic triangle of a cemetery on West 11th Street, established in 1805, is referred to as Shearith Israel’s second cemetery (it’s actually the…
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A Village Gathering: Honoring and Remembering 9/11
…Playwrights Theater, and Village Preservation will hold A Village Gathering at the New York City AIDS Memorial at St. Vincent’s Triangle. It will be a space for reflection, remembrance, and creative expression….
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Book Talk: Sarah Schulman’s “Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993”
…New York Foundation for the Arts, and was presented in 2018 with Publishing Triangle’s Bill Whitehead Award. She is also the co-founder of the MIX New York LGBT Experimental Film…
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Edna St. Vincent Millay: Greenwich Village Was In Her Blood
…documented in the Anglo Saxon Chronicle and tells the story of a love triangle between King Eadgar, his henchman Aethelwold, and Aelfrida, daughter of the Thane of Devon. It premiered…
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The Second Cemetery of Congregation Shearith Israel
…some graves were disinterred and moved into the small, remaining triangle. Three walls were built to contain the cemetery, and much of the original historic fabric of the walls remains…
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Village Preservation in the Press
…explores East Village storefront trends from 2019-2021; vacancies on the rise, EV Grieve, August 1 The “Hess triangle”, the iconic place on the ground of New York that has been…
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October 2023 Programs: Native New Yorkers Walking Tour, Book Talks, and More
…click here. Native New Yorkers Walking Tour with Evan Pritchard Thursday, October 5 5:00pm – 7:00pm Outdoor Walking Tour. Pre-Registration is Required. Spaces are limited. Free. Meeting Place: Chelsea Triangle…
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Three Stops on Christopher Street
…the construction of lines in Brooklyn and Manhattan, including one from Times Square to lower Manhattan that required the widening of Seventh Avenue (and resulting in the Hess Triangle near…
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Film Screening of “Maggie’s Plan”
…“Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke, and Julianne Moore making a pleasing triangle in Rebecca Miller’s offbeat romantic comedy.“ Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair: “a smart, goofy delight”, praising the cast as being…
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