On January 27, 2021, we submitted crucial information to support our application for landmarking 61 Fourth Avenue to the Landmarks Preservation Commission. What we documented was not merely architecture, but a place where some of the most influential artistic and cultural voices of the 20th century lived and worked (see our TikTok here). Our letter […]
We are looking forward to working with recently inaugurated Mayor Mamdani and his administration, which we hope will repudiate the misguided and failed development and preservation policies pursued by the Adams Administration. We hope, for one, that Mayor Mamdani will offer a break from his predecessor’s record-breaking aversion to new landmark designations. Landmark designations under […]
Recent times have reminded us that the free press is a fragile institution. The publishing history in our neighborhoods reminds us that it is also an indispensable one. Our neighborhoods have long exerted a magnetic pull on independent spirits and malcontents. It should come as no surprise that many of them exercised their freedom of […]
Our interactive tool “Virtual Village” brings users on unique and unexpected journeys.
Our neighborhoods are not only places where great literature was written. It’s also where great literature was published, sometimes at great legal peril, and where tectonic-shifting battles against censorship were led and won. Nowhere is that more true than in the area South of Union Square, where art, commerce, and activism collided. And perhaps no […]
Irish American figures defined the blocks where Greenwich Village meets the East Village.
Few places on Earth have attracted more or a broader array of activists and agitators for social change than Greenwich Village. And much of that activity took place right in the heart of the neighborhood in the Greenwich Village Historic District, where that rich history has been preserved through landmark designation for the past half-century. […]
Greenwich Village has long been associated with the arts and countercultural movements. Former publishing house Grove Press in particular exemplifies this history. Founded in 1947 and named for its location on Grove Street in Greenwich Village, Grove Press rose to prominence after it was purchased by Barney Rosset Jr. in 1951. Though the original location is not […]
