Many today are too young to remember that the name LaGuardia didn’t always just refer what is frequently called the worst airport in America. Rather, it also referred to a three-term New York City mayor often cited as New York City’s …
Remembering Fiorello LaGuardia Read More »
On May 15, 2012, 128 East 13th Street was designated a NYC Landmark following a six year effort by GVSHP. This is one of the rare cases where a great building was saved literally as it faced the wrecking ball. In …
Saving the One-Time Home of Polo Ponies, Rosie the Riveter, and Minimalist Masterpieces Read More »
The following post was originally written over five years ago as part of a series on East 7th Street. This post described the history of the stretch of East 7th Street between Avenues C and D when it was known …
Political Row, East 7th Street between Avenues C and D Read More »
There are hundreds of individual landmarks in Manhattan alone – many in Greenwich Village, NoHo, the East Village and surrounding areas. In celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Landmarks Law, enacted in 1965, we’re taking a look at some of these …
Landmarks50: The Andrew S. Norwood House, 241 West 14th Street Read More »
(This post is the first of a series called Village People: A Who’s Who of Greenwich Village, which will explore some of this intern’s favorite Village people and stories.) 453 6th Avenue is an apparently unremarkable building, now home to …
Village People: Murray Hall Read More »
Much of the Village Voice from the 1950s to the mid-2000s is available to view online via a Google digitization project. The huge trove of scanned newspapers helps reveal the changes that have occurred over fifty years to the architecture …
In the News: 55 Years Ago Today Read More »
Today we note the passing of Edward I. Koch, Mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989 and former Greenwich Village Congressman, City Councilmember, and Democratic District leader. A resident of Greenwich Village since the 1950’s, for the last …
Ed Koch (1924-2013) and the Village Read More »
Although more and more of the research that GVSHP documents and shares is done online today, we also house a modest non-circulating resource library which contains fiction and non-fiction books, reports and guides on the subject areas of Greenwich Village, …
A Greenwich Village Guide: 1959 Read More »
The Oldest Building in the Village?: Call it whatever you'd like: antique, vintage, or historic. If one thing is for certain ...
Tenement House Act of 1901:
April 12, 1901 marks the date when the New York State Legislature passed the Tenement ...
Live from the Village, It’s Saturday Night!: This day marks the 44th anniversary of the hit late-night variety show, Saturday Night Live ...
Summer in the City: On August 13, 1966, the classic ode to the trials and joys of summer days ...