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Tag: James and Karla Murray

More Small Business With Big History

2021 is the year we realize more than ever the need to shop local as much as we can. We know you love to support small, local, independent businesses. And we do too. 2021 is here and Village Preservation continues to add new local independent businesses to our “Small Business/Big History” signage program, in which we […]

Small Business, Big History, and More

We know you love to support small, local, independent businesses. And we do too. And as the recent NY Times editorial put it this past weekend: “In the darkest days of the pandemic this year, it was New York’s small businesses — its coffee shops and restaurants, groceries and bakeries — that remained open, serving […]

Preserving Small Businesses with the Murrays

James and Karla Murray are influential artists, small business advocates, and 2015 GVSHP Regina Kellerman Village Awardees.  They have captured and preserved scores of Village locales (and thousands of NYC locales). Over 80% of the businesses featured in their first book have  gone out of business since its publication in 2008. Their photographs of these storefronts, and the […]

    James and Karla Murray Love GVSHP!

    As 2015 comes to a close, we are thankful for the generous support of our members and all it has allowed us to accomplish this year.  But we still need your help! There is so much more work to do in 2016 to continue the fight. Please consider GVSHP in your year-end giving! In 2015 we lost […]

    Village Awardee — James and Karla Murray

    This is the final post on the 2015 Village Awards. Previous posts highlighted Barbara Shaum, Bonnie Slotnick Cookbooks, David Rothenberg, The Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation and the 201 East 12th Street Renovation. Join us tomorrow as we honor these awardees at the 2015 Village Awards. Today we look at the 2015 Regina Kellerman Award Winner – James and Karla Murray.