(r. to l.) 105 and 107 Bank Street In January, we reported on a disturbing case of a developer destroying two entire landmarked 1846 rowhouses, which had served as the…
Read More…Preservation Commission (LPC) will hold a remote public hearing to consider a revised plan for the partial demolition and “restoration” of nine landmarked 1840s houses at 44-54 9th Avenue/351-355 West…
Read More…relating to the landmarked Judson Memorial Church and Hall it adjoins). NYU Kevorkian Center (r.) seamlessly connects with the roofline of Judson Memorial Hall. The red and yellow brick buildings…
Read MoreThe Keller Hotel (l.) in 1929 (photo via NYPL), and (r.) today. When the building at 150 Barrow Street, known as the Keller Hotel building, was landmarked seven years ago…
Read MoreTen-block, 160-building district gets immediate protections from developers, incl. Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner; brings to 1,250 total number of buildings landmarked in neighborhood since 2003 The NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission…
Read MoreVillage Preservation Executive Director Andrew Berman this winter speaking at the rally we co-organized on City Hall steps demanding the City take action to prevent the destruction of landmarked buildings. …
Read More…of the old Penn Station Since then, more than 33,000 buildings have been landmarked, most of which are located in 114 historic districts and 20 historic district extensions in all five boroughs….
Read More…is considering for landmark designation tomorrow. Amazingly, until 2015, there were no sites in New York City landmarked primarily for their connection to LGBT history. That year, the City landmarked the…
Read More…the advertising agency promoting Zoolander 2 really has a flair for questionably legal billboards, as several people have brought the billboards on the landmarked Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company building on…
Read Morel. to r.: Grace Church, First Presbyterian Church, St. Luke’s-in-the-Field, and St. Mark’s-in-the-Bowery — just a few of the landmarked churches and religious properties that could be altered or destroyed…
Read More…area we had called for being landmarked, with another significant chunk having already been landmarked in 2010. Unfortunately, the southern third of GVSHP’s proposed South Village Historic District was not approved…
Read More…could build a 300 ft. tall tower here. The draft boundaries then presented by L.P.C on April 15 were broad, and include about 85 percent of the non-landmarked properties in…
Read MoreWe’ve seen a disturbing, growing, and preventable rash of landmarked buildings being endangered or demolished on the city’s watch, with the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission and Department of Buildings failing…
Read More…they are located in a historic district. This is not the case. New buildings and rooftop additions are proposed quite frequently in historic districts, and a new tall building isn’t…
Read More…which has now been the Anthology Film Archives for 35 years running, isn’t going anywhere. And we know that the 1876 Kern’s Hall – an important gathering place for German…
Read More…The building became an individual landmark in 2008. 132 West 4th Street (left) in the South Village. GVSHP photograph. 132 West 4th Street Okay, this last one isn’t mentioned in…
Read More…more who have a stake in the city’s lucrative real estate market. REBNY isn’t a big fan of landmarking, because those pesky protected historic buildings can get in the way…
Read More…1919 New Essex Market Courthouse, which became the Millennium Film Workshop in 1967, which has now been the Anthology Film Archives for 35 years running, isn’t going anywhere. And we…
Read More…the current height limits discourage developers from including the affordable units, saying there isn’t enough room to do so. But the facts don’t bear this out. About half of new…
Read More…north side of 11th Street, just across from St. Mark’s Church? The 1867 Dripps map isn’t as detail-specific, but you still get a sense of what the area looked like…
Read More…future use of the space. Veselka Walking into Veselka in the East Village, which you can do 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, you know this isn’t your…
Read MoreVillage Preservation provides an ongoing record of all applications for changes to landmarked properties in our neighborhoods (Greenwich Village, NoHo, Gansevoort Market, the South Village, and the East Village) that…
Read More…transgender) history. In 2015, after a year and a half campaign, the City landmarked Stonewall, making it the city’s first landmark designation based upon LGBT history. But Village Preservation continued to campaign for these additional…
Read More…provided by Russ & Daughters, all in the spectacular and landmarked Astor Center, at Lafayette and East 4th Streets (find out more about the history of the Astor Center, formerly…
Read More14 Gay Street (at left) before the damaging work Village Preservation was shocked and disturbed to discover that the City has given the order to demolish a nearly 200-year-old landmarked…
Read More…Grand Central The story begins in 1968, when Penn Central, the owner of Grand Central Station, unveiled plans to build a tower on top of the landmarked historic terminal. The…
Read MoreVillage Preservation provides an ongoing record of all applications for changes to landmarked properties in our neighborhoods (Greenwich Village, NoHo, Gansevoort Market, the South Village, and the East Village) that…
Read More…While neighboring areas like the Charlton-King-Vandam and Greenwich Village Historic Districts are relatively protected by their landmarked status, the unprotected South Village – the area south of Washington Square Park…
Read More…District, and urged them to act to preserve them. In that time, one has been landmarked, with no action — or even sign of possible action — on any of the…
Read More…check out our “Small Businesses Thrive in Landmarked Areas” video series and our survey showing lower retail vacancy rates in landmarked areas. Are you a small business that would like…
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Village Preservation was able to get this perfectly intact 1834 federal style rowhouse, which was individually landmarked in 1966, landmarked along with dozens of surrounding buildings as part of the…
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Read More…alterations to two landmarked properties in the St. Mark’s Historic District. GVSHP will be attending the meeting, as we do in Community Board 2, and we encourage you to attend,…
Read More…learn more about this landmarked building’s connection to the Underground Railroad from the designation report. The Isaac T. Hopper Home at 110 Second Avenue, headquarters of the Women’s Prison Association….
Read More…at that time. Stonewall itself was on the top of our list, and in June 2015 after a year and a half campaign, the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) landmarked that…
Read More…the early 1960s it was a thoroughly modern addition to the neighborhood, but somehow it managed to fit in soon-to-be-landmarked Greenwich Village. Creating new buildings in historic neighborhoods or officially…
Read More…and for the kids attending the school right across the street. Needless to say, no one should have to live with this, nor should any landmarked structure be left in…
Read MoreVillage Preservation provides an ongoing record of all applications for changes to landmarked properties in our neighborhoods (Greenwich Village, NoHo, Gansevoort Market, the South Village, and the East Village) that…
Read More…and have been curious about its history… According to the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s designation report, which was written in 1969 when this house was landmarked as part of the Greenwich…
Read More…Historic District in 2006. The City landmarked one-third of it in 2010 and called it the Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II, though we like to think of it as…
Read MoreVillage Preservation provides an ongoing record of all applications for changes to landmarked properties in our neighborhoods (Greenwich Village, NoHo, Gansevoort Market, the South Village, and the East Village) that…
Read MoreVillage Preservation provides an ongoing record of all applications for changes to landmarked properties in our neighborhoods (Greenwich Village, NoHo, Gansevoort Market, the South Village, and the East Village) that…
Read MoreVillage Preservation provides an ongoing record of all applications for changes to landmarked properties in our neighborhoods (Greenwich Village, NoHo, Gansevoort Market, the South Village, and the East Village) that…
Read More…Landmarked churches and other religious institutions (r.) remain safe, for now. Late on Saturday, April 20, the housing deal in the state budget between Governor Hochul and the legislature was…
Read MoreVillage Preservation provides an ongoing record of all applications for changes to landmarked properties in our neighborhoods (Greenwich Village, NoHo, Gansevoort Market, the South Village, and the East Village) that…
Read MoreEver wonder what is going on with the construction of the landmarked building next door, or anywhere in Greenwich Village, NoHo, Gansevoort Market, the South Village, and the East Village?…
Read More33-39 East 7th Street We recently published a detailed report of the Federal style houses which GVSHP has helped to get landmarked, listed on the State and National Registers of…
Read More…interior AND exterior landmarks. Exterior of the Landmarked Jaffe Art Theater In the first few decades of the Twentieth Century, a stretch of Second Avenue in the East Village (which…
Read More…sites in our neighborhoods and our ongoing efforts to preserve them. He discussed three sites Village Preservation has already succeeded in getting landmarked — the Stonewall Inn, Julius’ Bar, and…
Read More…the plan. Since then, GVSHP has been able to get the building landmarked by inclusion in the East Village Historic District, and the historic structure has been preserved (on the…
Read MoreVillage Preservation provides an ongoing record of all applications for changes to landmarked properties in our neighborhoods (Greenwich Village, NoHo, Gansevoort Market, the South Village, and the East Village) that…
Read More…of our concerns and objections. New language keeps intact some protections for current landmarked religious properties. But even the revised bill still clearly overrides protections for any future landmarked properties….
Read More…preservation groups have been asking for this area to be landmarked for ten years. While the City has refused to act, after initially promising it would, they have been quite…
Read MoreToday, the Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) will be hearing the new building application for 27 East 4th Street, the site next to the landmarked Merchant’s House Museum. If you can…
Read More…also landmarked by the City, Congregation Mezritch Synagogue appears to be the sole remaining operating tenement synagogue in the East Village, and thus is an important link to what was…
Read MoreVillage Preservation provides an ongoing record of all applications for changes to landmarked properties in our neighborhoods (Greenwich Village, NoHo, Gansevoort Market, the South Village, and the East Village) that…
Read More…swiftly nevertheless), and also encouraged a much faster rate of new demolitions and new development in the non-landmarked parts of the neighborhood than we have even seen, as residential development…
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This 1834 house was individually landmarked in 1974. In 2016 Village Preservation was able to get it and its surroundings landmarked as part of the Sullivan-Thompson Historic District, and listed…
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Read More14 Commerce Street in the Greenwich Village Historic District. Google Street View. In continuation of our Landmarking 101 series, today we’re focusing on active violations on a landmarked property and…
Read More…hardship, and not simply when a developer doesn’t like their property being landmarked, which appeared to be the case here. Just as a fairly applied hardship provision means that developers…
Read MoreVillage Preservation provides an ongoing record of all applications for changes to landmarked properties in our neighborhoods (Greenwich Village, NoHo, Gansevoort Market, the South Village, and the East Village) that…
Read More…designation, the NYU Administration saw the writing on the wall. They knew the complex was going to be landmarked. But they hoped to at least prevent the inclusion in the…
Read More…place to NYU’s expansion plan, we’re also happy that some previously controversial NYU buildings recently were landmarked. They are included in the South Village Historic District approved by the Landmarks…
Read More…or representative hired by the owner of a landmarked property to oversee the project. Afterward, the public is invited to testify on the application. This is a good opportunity for…
Read More…here at GVSHP — figuring out whether or not a site is landmarked. Knowing whether or not a site is covered by landmark designation can be important for a whole…
Read More…influential composers of all time. Both the Ottendorfer Library-German Dispensary and Aschenbroedel Hall are landmarked and, as a result, these features are preserved. For more information…
Read More…York City. In fact, out of more than 33,00 landmarked properties in the entire city, only 117 are interior landmarks. Interior landmarks can only be spaces customarily open to the…
Read MoreVillage Preservation provides an ongoing record of all applications for changes to landmarked properties in our neighborhoods (Greenwich Village, NoHo, Gansevoort Market, the South Village, and the East Village) that…
Read More…design of Silver Towers in the Village (which GVSHP got landmarked in 2008, helping to avoid construction by NYU of a 400 ft tall tower on its open space), and…
Read More…landmarks (landmarked May 9, 1978), but is also listed on the State and National Register of Historic Places (read more about the distinction between and meaning of these designations here)….
Read More…Much of the area was landmarked as the SoHo Cast Iron Historic District on August 14, 1973, while additional areas east, west, and southeast of the original district were landmarked…
Read More…landmark protections in Greenwich Village since 1969 and the brought to over 1,100 the number of buildings GVSHP helped get landmarked in the Village, East Village, and NoHo over the…
Read More…on. The block is home to Webster Hall, a building with a long and storied history that GVSHP helped get landmarked in 2008. GVSHP’s partner, the Neighborhood Preservation Center, is…
Read More…the South Village Historic District (Phase II of our proposed South Village Historic District) which was landmarked by the City in 2013. Tenements along Sullivan Street at Prince Street, in…
Read More…South Village landmarked. On that day the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously to designate this I.M. Pei-designed complex, first proposed by GVSHP in 2003, including its landscaping and Picasso sculpture, “Portrait…
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…All were landmarked along with their surroundings as a result of Village Preservation’s campaign and proposal for a South Village Historic District; these buildings were landmarked as part of the…
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Read MoreVillage Preservation provides an ongoing record of all applications for changes to landmarked properties in our neighborhoods (Greenwich Village, NoHo, Gansevoort Market, the South Village, and the East Village) that…
Read More…of accurate or complete information being provided about the neighborhoods by the conveners. City Planning’s presentation appeared to blame landmark designation for retail vacancies in the neighborhood, even though landmarked…
Read MoreVillage Preservation provides an ongoing record of all applications for changes to landmarked properties in our neighborhoods (Greenwich Village, NoHo, Gansevoort Market, the South Village, and the East Village) that…
Read More…began to close down the building and its services over a year ago, and we worked with advocates to demand the building be landmarked to preserve and recognize its critically…
Read More…(and in many ways most odious) piece of NYU’s expansion plan — a 400 ft. tall tower proposed for the landmarked portion of the I.M. Pei-designed Silver Towers complex. For…
Read More…landmarked properties in our neighborhoods, ranging from the Meatpacking District to the South Village and NoHo, and from minor changes to dramatic proposed makeovers. You can find information about the…
Read More…in our report “Ten Years — A Thousand Buildings Landmarked — One Hundred Blocks Rezoned.” Turns out, more than a few of those sites have been the setting for some…
Read More…one of over 3,500 landmarked properties for applications for changes We help support hundreds of local small businesses and cultural and community institutions with our Village Awards, Business of the…
Read More…preservationists, and business and community leaders from our neighborhood Access landmark designation reports with historic information on each of over 3,500 landmarked buildings in our neighborhoods Take one of our…
Read More…is never held, and the building remains calendared but never landmarked (read about buildings in the South Village which were left in this state of ‘landmarks limbo’ for decades). Designation…
Read More…complex including its landscaping and the Picasso sculpture landmarked. NYU initially resisted vehemently, but when they saw the handwriting on the wall that the designation would be approved, they feigned…
Read More…the prices of houses inside historic districts tended to be higher than for comparable houses outside of districts. The value of a property appears to benefit not only from it being landmarked,…
Read More…large-scale sculpture of “Bust of Sylvette” for the University Village/Silver Towers complex, which GVSHP later proposed and successfully fought to have landmarked. The sculpture is one of only two public…
Read More…needs to be done in the years ahead. Our report, “Ten Years: A Thousand Buildings Landmarked: One Hundred Blocks Rezoned” catalogues, among other things, the more than one thousand buildings…
Read MoreVillage Preservation provides an ongoing record of all applications for changes to landmarked properties in our neighborhoods (Greenwich Village, NoHo, Gansevoort Market, the South Village, and the East Village) that…
Read More…stated that a vote would take place on October 31 (time TBD). Once the LPC votes to designate, the building is landmarked and protected, though temporary protections are in place…
Read MoreBuilt in 1936 as the very first public housing development in New York City or the nation, The East Village’s very own First Houses was landmarked on tomorrow’s date in…
Read More…the drop-down for the Feb. 16 meeting, NOT the Feb. 11 meeting). We strongly oppose this plan, which would involve the demolition of two altered but incredibly historically significant landmarked townhouses which were home to some of…
Read More2018 Village Preservation Annual Meeting and Village Awards View Awardees On June 6, 2018 Village Preservation held its 38th Annual Meeting and 28th Annual Village Awards in the landmarked Auditorium…
Read More…several bands of multi-colored terra cotta friezes.” (Page 4) Clusters of wheat decorate the landmarked portion of the Wheatsworth Bakery The photo below shows the Wheatsworth Company operating out of…
Read More2019 Village Preservation Annual Meeting and Village Awards View Awardees On June 12, 2019, Village Preservation held its 39th Annual Meeting and 29th Annual Village Awards in the landmarked Auditorium…
Read More…connections to LGBT history. In 2015, after a year and a half campaign led by Village Preservation, the Stonewall was landmarked by New York City, offering the concrete protections National Register listing…
Read More…landmarked properties in our neighborhood and throughout the city as such. The flaw potentially allowed landmarked buildings to receive demolition or alteration permits which should not be issued. Only after…
Read More…Village, including the landmarked former Beth Hamedrash Hagadol Anshe Ungarn Synagogue at 242 East 7th Street, Congregation Mezritch Synagogue is the sole remaining (partially) operating tenement synagogue in the East…
Read MoreVillage Preservation provides an ongoing record of all applications for changes to landmarked properties in our neighborhoods (Greenwich Village, NoHo, Gansevoort Market, the South Village, and the East Village) that…
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