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224-226 West 10th Street, c. 1969 Greenwich Village Historic District designation photo
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Happy Anniversary to Far West Village Landmark Victories!
On May 2, 2006, two new historic districts were designated in the Far West Village, the Greenwich Village Historic District Extension and the Weehawken Street Historic District, as part of…
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The Origins of Historic Preservation in Academia
…The first was the passing of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. This resulted in the need for professional historic preservationists to determine and document the historic significance of…
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A Photo Here, A Map There
…to find a piece of the city’s hidden history! One last visual resource we’d like to point out are historic district maps, which can be found on our Historic Districts…
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Sullivan-Thompson, a District of Immigrants
…original proposed South Village Historic District. This was followed by the East Village/Lower East Side Historic District designation in 2012 (strongly supported by GVSHP), and then the South Village Historic…
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Happy Birthday to Four NYC Landmark Districts
…of two buildings included in the St. Mark’s Historic District Extension Twenty-eight years ago, on June 19 1984, the St. Mark’s Historic District Extension was designated. This tiny extension to…
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Elected Officials, Preservationists, Tenant Advocates Condemn Plan by Madison Realty Capital to Demolish Landmarked 1848 Greenwich Village Building for 244 ft. Tall Pied-a-Terre Tower for Super-Rich
…Historic District, and it is believed it would be the tallest tower ever built in any historic district in New York City. Loss of housing and affordability In spite of…
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South Village: Local Landmark Designation vs. National Register Listing
…Designation as a New York City landmark or historic district is a type of local regulation for historic structures. The Landmarks law came into being in 1965 and subjects locally…
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Thank You To Our Members — Making 40 Years of Village Preservation Possible
…District was landmarked as a New York City historic district, and was listed on the State and National Registers of Historic Places. Additionally, the Preservation League of New York State…
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Historic Images and Maps Solve Mysteries of Missing Church and Street
…of historic images and maps, which tell us a lot about how to perform historic building research, and how our neighborhoods’ streetscapes have changed over the years. The present-day Our…
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Five More Reasons to Support Historic Preservation
…— Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo — certainly exemplify that, but historic neighborhoods across the city, country, and world illustrate this irrefutable fact. But the beauty of historic…
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Check out an historic building near you – no special knowledge required
An information page for the St. Mark’s Historic District on the Neighborhood Preservation Center’s designation database. Designation reports are detailed documents created by New York City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission at…
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The New-York Historical Society Finds Its First Home in the East Village
…daughter. The New-York Historical Society, ca. early 1900s. The late 19th century saw significant change to the once-fashionable area around the Historical Society building. Mansions were razed for commercial loft…
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Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation Day Declared!
Rose Mendez proclaimed December 2, 2010 to be Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation Day! City Council Member Rosie Mendez recognized the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation in its…
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Snow Days in Village Preservation’s Historic Image Archive
…Commission’s Greenwich Village Historic District Designation Report, the two buildings closest to the corner (Nos. 442 and 444) were built for Martine just after he purchased the land in 1834-35,…
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Small Stores Thrive in Landmark Districts
…Cupcakes, Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream We walked the streets of the Historic Districts pictured in blue on the map and looked at every location. The St. Marks Historic District…
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The Original World Trade Center, Memorialized in our Historic Image Archive
…& 12th Street rooftop, 1992. From the “Robert Fisch World Trade Center and 9/11 Collection” in Village Preservation’s Historic Image Archive. Click here to visit Village Preservation’s Historic Image archive….
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Village Preservation Update on CB3’s Resolution Supporting Special Retail District
…by the East 10th Street Historic District and the East Village/Lower East Side Historic District designations which recognize the vibrant cultural history of the area, where commercial businesses have long…
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Historic Preservation, In Context
…historic districts, an idea that was quite undervalued in the countries where I have spent a significant part of my life. Born in Karachi, Pakistan but raised in Jeddah, Saudi…
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A Bevy of New Historic Images from Landmarks Applications
…images to our Historic Images from Landmarks Applications collection from our historic image archive, as they become available. Click HERE to see more images from the GVSHP historic image archive. If you…
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From George Washington to Hudson Square: The history of the Charlton-King-VanDam neighborhood
…Houston Street. It was only the fourth designated historic district in New York City when it was landmarked on August 16th, 1966, and for good reason. The Richmond Hill mansion,…
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Village Preservation Update on Special Retail District
…“special district” that will limit where chain stores can locate in the East Village.” You can learn more about some of the potential effects of implementing a Special District by…
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New Historic Images- Astor Place, 10th Street, Village Community School, and more.
…Historic photos are typically included in applications to provide explanation or context for proposed changes in historic districts or to individually landmarked structures, and GVSHP tracks and provides access to…
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Hot Dog History in the Village Preservation Historic Image Archive
…Village Preservation Historic Image Archive. Sadly, the Greenich Village location closed in 1978, reporteldy after clashing with the local community board. Community Board 2’s District Manager at the time, Rita…
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Book Talk – AGBANY: Capturing a Moment in the Historic Preservation Movement
…the Summer of 2021, Sydney interned with the National Trust for Historic Preservation as an Affordable Housing Intern, researching the intersection of affordable housing and historic preservation through the use…
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City Releases “Special Permit” Requirement Proposal For Hotels South of Union Square; Plan Would Promote Office Tower Development and Destruction of Historic Buildings, Expands “Midtown South” to Greenwich Village and East Village, Rewards Mayor’s Campaign Donors and Fails to Deliver on Rivera’s Neighborhood Protection Campaign Pledge
…landmark protections to these historic properties and greenlight their demolition. The City’s plan specifically envisions historic ca. 1840 rowhouses likes these at (l.) 88 East 10th Street and (r.) 11…
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Historic Storefronts of the Village and East Village
…by our colleague Chelsey Berryhill. Thanks, Chelsey – good eye! GVSHP has been a tireless advocate for designation of historic districts. This blog post features some of the beautiful store…
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Retracing The East Village’s Historic Little Italy
…look at the East Village’s own historic Little Italy, centered around First Avenue near the beloved pastry shop and cafe. While not nearly as famous or intact as similar districts…
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Village Preservation Historic Plaques Honoring African Americans in Our Neighborhood
…also serves as an obvious reminder that a site is historically significant. For African American History month, we’re taking a look at a number of historic plaques we’ve placed throughout…
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AFTER FIVE YEAR CAMPAIGN BY VILLAGE PRESERVATION, CITY LANDMARKS LGBT HISTORIC SITES Sites are City’s First LGBT Landmarks Since Successful 2015 Campaign to Landmark Stonewall Inn
…historic districts and on the State and National Registers of Historic Places (more about Village Preservation’s efforts to recognize and protect immigration, LGBT, African-American, and countercultural landmarks here). In 2017 Village Preservation…
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Village Preservation Historic Plaques Honor Trailblazing Women in our Neighborhoods
Today we’re looking at the historic plaques that Village Preservation has placed throughout our neighborhoods commemorating some of the amazing women who have lived, worked, and changed history here. Historic…
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Ghost Signs Abound in Our Historic Image Archive
…streetscapes is the “ghost sign,” of which Village Preservation’s Historic Image Archive contains a record of many. Ghost signs are the faded, hand-painted advertising signs found on historic buildings, usually…
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Small Stores Thrive in Landmark Districts
…communities. We walked the streets of the Historic Districts pictured in blue on the map and looked at every location. The St. Marks Historic District was easy. The only non-residential…
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City Council Districts 1 and 2 Candidate Forums June 1 and 2, and More 2021 Election Prep
…preservation organizations for forums with the candidates for City Council District 1 (currently represented by term-limited Councilmember Margaret Chin) and City Council District 2 (currently represented by Councilmember Carlina Rivera,…
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City Council Districts 1 and 2 Candidate Forums June 1 and 2, and More 2021 Election Prep
…preservation organizations for forums with the candidates for City Council District 1 (currently represented by term-limited Councilmember Margaret Chin) and City Council District 2 (currently represented by Councilmember Carlina Rivera,…
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East Village Building Blocks Tour: Dry Dock District
Alphabet City owes much of its initial development to shipbuilding, the industry that used to dominate the area. Known as the Dry Dock District, this area used to bustle with…
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Historic Court Decision Had Roots in Village House
…District (Phase III of GVSHP’s proposed South Village Historic District), which GVSHP fought more than ten years to designate. The small federal-style house at 186 Spring Street stood between Thompson…
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New Additions to Our Historic Image Archive and Preservation History Archive: Evelyn G. Haynes
…to the 1980s, mainly composed of photographs, sketching, writings, and historic materials connected to the creation of the Greenwich Village Historic District, the Morris-Jumel Mansion in Upper Manhattan, the architecture…
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The Historic Fire Patrol House No. 2: Not Your Average Firehouse
…building and its surroundings as part of the South Village Historic District. Interior images of Fire Patrol #2 pre-renovation. Photo credit: Village Preservation Historic Image Archive But even before the…
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The 2017 Spring House Tour is right around the corner!
…Thompson and Charlton King-Vandam Historic Districts here. Read the Sullivan Thompson Historic District designation report here. Read the Charlton King-Vandam Historic District designation report here. Read other designation reports here….
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City Council District 1 and 2 Candidate Forums Next Monday and Tuesday, 6/1 and 6/2
…preservation organizations for forums with the candidates for City Council District 1 (currently represented by term-limited Councilmember Margaret Chin) and City Council District 2 (currently represented by Councilmember Carlina Rivera,…
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City Council District 1 (South of Houston Street) Virtual Candidate Forum Tomorrow, Tuesday May 30 at 6pm — Register Now
…City Council District 2 (East Village, NoHo, Greenwich Village east of Sixth Avenue, and 14th-30th Streets/First to Fifth Avenues). You can watch the video here. In City Council District 3…
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This Day in Preservation History: Save Gansevoort Market Founded
…then-existing Greenwich Village Historic District, including all of the Meatpacking District. GVSHP had for years been calling attention to the plight of this historic area, and the rest of the…
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City Council District 2 Candidates Forum
Village Preservation will be holding a forum with candidates for the 2nd City Council District (district map here). Because of the decennial redistricting, this election is for a two-year term, and…
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…be refined to better preserve historic sites and districts. Write the Landmarks Preservation Commission The City’s Abetting the Destruction of Homes and Historic Buildings Must Stop! Demand that the City…
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The Past and Future City with Stephanie Meeks, President of the National Trust for Historic Preservation
…Miami’s Art Deco district, New Orleans’ French Quarter and Baltimore’s districts of rowhouses all draw residents with their historic architecture. But while this trend is a cause for celebration, it…
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Historic Senate Vote Had Roots in Village House
…York City Landmarks Preservation Commission deemed its historic significance insufficiently important to protect (even though New York State determined the house eligible for the State and National Registers of Historic…
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New Historic Images Show Ghost Signs, Long Gone Gathering Halls, and More
Village Preservation has recently added more than two dozen historic images culled from recent landmarks applications to our Historic Image Archive. This includes a series showing printed wall signs on…
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New Historic Images Show Ghost Signs, Long Gone Gathering Halls, and More
Village Preservation has recently added more than two dozen historic images culled from recent landmarks applications to our Historic Image Archive. This includes a series showing printed wall signs on…
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‘Manhattan Promenade’: The Plan for Adaptive Reuse of the High Line ca. 1979, and Other New Historic Images
…Line in 1979 in Our Historic Image Archive HERE View the Full Original 1979 Proposal for Adaptive Reuse of the High Line HERE We’ve also recently added to our Historic…
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New Historic Images from Landmarks Applications Added to Image Archive
…in the Sullivan-Thompson Historic District, the Weehawken Street Historic District, and throughout Greenwich Village. Images range from 1901 to ca. 1980. View the latest additions to our Historic Image Archive…
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‘Manhattan Promenade’: The Plan for Adaptive Reuse of the High Line ca. 1979, and Other New Historic Images
…Line in 1979 in Our Historic Image Archive HERE View the Full Original 1979 Proposal for Adaptive Reuse of the High Line HERE We’ve also recently added to our Historic…
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Contest: Recreate A Historic Photo!
…scavenger hunts in the East Village and Greenwich Village, and created guided walking tours of the Bowery and Meatpacking District. Now we’re sharing the opportunity to create historic photo recreations,…
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Village Preservation’s Historic Image Archive: Interior Motives
…after all). Built in 1851 and described in the Greenwich Village Historic District Designation Report as “one of the most architecturally notable houses in all New York,” the house only…
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Astor Place Reconstruction Recalls Historic Streets, Mosaics & The Alamo
…design, and their paths should continue to be distinct, with a permanent commitment that the memorialization of these highly‐significant historic roadbeds be maintained in perpetuity. The historic street patterns are…
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Metamorphosis: Photos of Gansevoort Market / Meatpacking District by Brian Rose
Metamorphosis: Photos of Gansevoort Market / Meatpacking District by Brian Rose In the winter of 1985 Brian Rose spent several days wandering the streets of the Meatpacking District with his…
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Historic Image Archive Mysteries Solved: Downtown Street Art of the 1980s/’Shadowman’ Edition
…photos, Village Preservation maintains a large archive of many historic neighborhood images from a variety of different photographers and historic sources. Visit our online archive to browse all of Carole’s…
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After Four Year Campaign by Village Preservation, City Agrees to Landmark LGBT Historic Sites
…Pyramid Club at 101 Avenue A (considered the birthplace of politically-conscious drag performance art) and Julius’ Bar in New York City historic districts and on the State and National Registers of…
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Jewish, Hispanic, and Historic Preservationist: the Maritime Pioneers of Greenwich Village
…2023. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47d9-a176-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 While many of Levy’s original properties and his home no longer exist, today’s Greenwich Village Historic District and St. Mark’s Historic District were created by the New York…
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Catherine Clivette and the first Greenwich Village Historical Society
…was best known for founding the Greenwich Village Historical Society; however, the society was one of many causes she would take on throughout her life. Catherine started her career as…
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Can East River Park’s Historic Buildings Be Saved?
…Initiative (LESPI) applied to the New York State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) to qualify the two structures for the National and State Registers of Historic Places. SHPO granted the buildings…
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Beyond the Village and Back: The New-York Historical Society
…Streets, the New-York Historical Society’s building is an individual New York City landmark (designated in 1966), part of the Central Park West/West 76th Street Historic District (designated 1973), and part…
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The Cooper Union’s “Voices from the Great Hall”: Digital Archives Of One Of New York’s Most Historic Spaces
…filled this historic location. This free event is open to the public with pre-registration. Whether you visit Cooper Union on May 17 to celebrate the launch of this historic archive…
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More Historic Images Show Us What’s Changed and What’s Remained the Same
…area we urged be landmarked as part of a broader historic district). If you want to access more designation reports for buildings and areas of our neighborhood, containing fascinating historic…
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ONE YEAR LATER, CITY LANDMARKS JUST 3.6% OF HISTORIC BUILDINGS IN ENDANGERED AREA SOUTH OF UNION SQUARE, FAILS TO MOVE AHEAD ON OTHER WEAK “PROTECTIONS” PROMISED AS PART OF TECH HUB DEAL
…buildings were out of a proposed historic district of 193 buildings, of which the seven buildings chosen for landmark designation amount to just 3.6%. A commitment to “establish a protective zoning…
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A View to a Historic Restoration
The arch entrance to the West Yard of St. Mark’s Church In-the-Bowery. Photo courtesy of St. Mark’s Historic Landmark Fund. Any restoration of a historic site within our neighborhoods is…
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Historic Plaques
Village Preservation’s Historic Plaque Program Read blog posts about our Historic Plaque Program Historic plaques can be a wonderful way to educate the public about the remarkable history of our…
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Next Monday — City Council District 2 Candidate Forum
Join us next Monday, May 15, for a forum for candidates of City Council District 2, which as a result of redistricting will include all of Greenwich Village north of…
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City Council District 1 Candidates Forum
…(district map here). This diverse district includes most of Manhattan south of Houston Street. Because of the decennial redistricting, this election is for a two-year term, and the district boundaries…
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Remembering Two Giants of Historic Preservation: Joan Kaplan Davidson and Beverly Moss Spatt
…replacing the house destroyed by the Weatherman bomb explosion on West 11th Street, now considered a classic of modern intervention within a historic district. Read more here and here. Beverly…
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Village Preservation Joins Doctors, Patients, and Staff for Press Conference to Save Historic New York Eye and Ear Infirmary
…stood for over 165 years at the northeast corner of Second Avenue and 13th Street, which would likely lead to the historic building’s demolition. Village Preservation has been leading a…
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Affordable Housing / Historic Preservation: A Roundtable Discussion
Affordable Housing / Historic Preservation: A Roundtable Discussion Presented by Village Preservation, Historic Districts Council, & The New School Center for New York City Affairs – 9/16 The affordable housing…
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Affordable Housing / Historic Preservation: A Roundtable Discussion
Affordable Housing / Historic Preservation: A Roundtable Discussion Presented by Village Preservation, Historic Districts Council, & The New School Center for New York City Affairs Village Preservation’s Executive Director Andrew…
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Exploring Historic Social Justice on Our Civil Rights Map
…since been designated a National Historic Landmark and a New York City Landmark. Learn more about these historic sites and many more on our Civil Rights and Social Justice Map….
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LGBT Historic Sites in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo
…launched an interactive online map of the Greenwich Village Historic District to celebrate its 50th birthday. This great tool allows you to see side-by-side photos of every one of the…
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New Historic Image Collection: The World Trade Center, 9/11, and Its Aftermath, as Seen from Our Neighborhoods
We are proud to share the latest addition to our Historic Image Archive, the Robert Fisch World Trade Center and 9/11 Collection, which contains an incredible array of photos of…
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Stonewall50: Historic Preservation and LGBT History
Stonewall50: Historic Preservation and LGBT History The history of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) people has been bulldozed – literally and figuratively – and given almost no due….
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Demolitions in Our Historic Image Archive: Gone, But Not Forgotten
Village Preservation is always working hard to document, celebrate, and protect the historic character of our neighborhoods, including the great buildings that make Greenwich Village, NoHo and East Village such…
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A ‘Riveting’ Historic Photo Mystery Solved!
GVSHP’s historic image archive reflects an amazing cross-section of NYC history. Many of the images arrived to us unidentified in terms of location. We have solved many historic photo mysteries…
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St. Brigid’s Church Re-Opens, But the Historic East Village Still Needs Your Help
…Historic District. The proposed East Village/Lower East Side Historic District Join GVSHP, local and citywide historic preservation groups, and East Village neighbors to tell the city council to move ahead…
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Trendy Nightspot is the Clue to this Historic Image Mystery, Hiding in Plain Sight
Last week we solved one of our longstanding historic photo mysteries, when Eric Robinson, the cousin of the photographer, Carole Teller, was able to identify the location of this elevated train which…
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Elizabeth Blackwell In Our Neighborhood: The historic sites where America’s first female doctor made her mark
…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…
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New Historic Images Show Remarkable Preservation Progress and Loss in Our Neighborhoods Over the Last 25 Years
We’re extremely proud to share two new collections added to our historic image archive, taken between 1994 and 2001 as part of an effort by Village Preservation and historian and…
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Village Preservation Research Further Documents Historic Significance of 14-16 Fifth Avenue, Refuting Case for Demolition
…to uncover information establishing the clear historic significance of 14-16 Fifth Avenue, a pair of former 1848 townhouses in the Greenwich Village Historic District a developer proposes to demolish and…
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Westbeth Artist’s Housing Historic Plaque Dedication
Westbeth Artist’s Housing Historic Plaque Dedication Join VP to unveil an historic plaque marking the Westbeth Artist’s Housing complex in Greenwich Village. This unique complex of buildings served as the…
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Historic Block Slated for Demolition
50-54 3rd Ave (left side, l. to r.) and 54-64 (right side, l. to r.), 1940s Tax Photos In August 2023 news broke that a row of six historic buildings…
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New Historic Image Archive Collection — “Pandemic and Protest: 2020-2022”
…gone and still among us — as well as small businesses, street scenes, and historic events, searchable by collection, image, map, and keywords. Explore our entire Historic Image Archive —…
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Historic Photo Mysteries Solved
…designated the South Street Seaport Historic District in 1977. Partially Solved: We would love to confirm the location of the building below, as several readers notified us that 250 Pearl Street…
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Historic Preservation at Risk!
…Sullivan Gardens, the St. Mark’s Historic District, SoHo, and Westbeth, as well as districts as diverse as Bedford-Stuyvesant and the Grand Concourse, Jackson Heights and Park Slope. Without landmark designation, many…
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New Historic Image Collections Show Greenwich Village in the 1970s and More
…DeVries Historic Architecture of Lower Manhattan Collection — CLICK HERE Village Preservation’s Historic Image Archive contains nearly 4,000 images of our neighborhoods and landmarks throughout New York, from the late…
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Affordable Housing and Tenant Groups, SoHo, NoHo, and Chinatown Neighborhood Organizations, and Artists and Historic Preservationists Slam de Blasio SoHo/NoHo Upzoning Plan, Urge “NO” Vote
…historic preservation groups gathered today to slam Mayor de Blasio’s SoHo/NoHo upzoning plan, and to call for it to be voted down as it begins the six-month public review and…
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Solving Mysteries in Historic Photos
…can be wonderful to view, and provide valuable information about historic sites, events, or people, as well as charting how things have changed over time. Our historic image archive contains…
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The Meatpacking District Through the Eyes of a Fifth Generation Meat Purveyor’s Daughter
…into the West Washington Market in the now-famous Meatpacking District in 1918. Its history illuminates the story of New York City‘s Meatpacking District — including a deep dive into its…
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