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A Preservation Pioneer at 100
Marking the 100th anniversary of his birth, today Tablet printed a thoughtful piece on pioneering preservation architect Giorgio Cavaglieri, written by Allan M. Jalon. Giorgio Cavaglieri was born...
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Honoring the Challah
Recently, our fellow-blogger friend, Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York, noted that the facade of the East Village building that is home to Moishe’s Jewish bakery had gotten a facelift. He asked, “Can...
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Pastrami or Lox?
Tough decision, I know. Luckily, in the East Village/Lower East Side, you don’t have to travel far to stock up on both of these Jewish treats. If you’ve ever stood on line for a pastrami on rye at...
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An East Village Synagogue Building Saved
The Congregation Mezritch Synagogue at 415 East 6th Street. Five years ago yesterday GVSHP and the East Village Community Coalition formally requested that the City landmark the historic Congregation...
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The Mystery Behind Henington Hall
A couple of weeks ago I was walking along 3rd Street in the East Village and stopped in front of a sculpture park that I had seen many times before. Just past Avenue B, the park holds a number of metal...
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Throwback Thursday: First Avenue Market Scenes
Courtesy of the Museum of the City of New York (MCNY). Welcome back to another post in our Throwback Thursday series where we feature everyday scenes of yesteryear. I recently came across some neat...
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This May: A Crowdsourced History of the Lower East Side
Last year’s first-ever LESHM brought a participatory “clothesline project” to the developing park at Pier 42 on the East River. Photo from LESHM Tumblr. A friend of mine – and unabashed New York City...
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What the Lower East Side Means to Me
My grandparents (center) on their wedding day in 1946. Also pictured are their parents, each of them or their parents finding their way to the Lower East Side from different parts of the world. Source:...
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The Synagogues of East 6th Street
Today is Yom Kippur, so let’s take a look at some East Village buildings that are, or used to be, synagogues. Jewish immigrants to the East Village and Lower East Side were a significant segment of the...
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Five Hundred Years Ago, The First Ghetto Is Founded
Five hundred years ago today, on March 29, 1516, the Venice Ghetto was established by decree of the Venice Ruling Council. The very first ghetto, it was a tiny 2 1/2 block area on a small, dirty...
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Greek Revival Gone Wrong
This Saturday marks a bittersweet anniversary for us at GVSHP. On that day in 2010, the New York State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) agreed to GVSHP’s request to find 326 and 328 East 4th Street...
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Five Hundred One Years Ago, The First Ghetto Is Founded
Five hundred one years ago today, on March 29, 1516, the Venice Ghetto was established by decree of the Venice Ruling Council. The very first ghetto, it was a tiny 2 1/2 block area on a small, dirty...
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Beyond The Village and Back: Temple Emanu-El, Reform Movement Builder and Shaker
In our series Beyond the Village and Back, we take a look at some great landmarks throughout New York City outside of the Village, the East Village, and NoHo, celebrate their special histories, and...
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Beyond The Village and Back: the Statue of Liberty and “The New Colossus”
In our series Beyond the Village and Back, we take a look at some great landmarks throughout New York City outside of the Village, the East Village, and NoHo, celebrate their special histories, and...
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Happy Chanukah from the Village – Celebrating Through History!
I was holiday shopping at my local bookstore and was delighted to encounter Emily Jenkins’ “All of a Kind Family Hanukkah.” In the book, a Jewish immigrant family prepares for Chanukah in their Lower...
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Jewish History of the Greenwich Village Historic District
This is one in a series of posts marking the 50th anniversary of the designation of the Greenwich Village Historic District. Check out our year-long activities and celebrations at gvshp.org/GVHD50....
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How Greenwich Village and the East Village Launched the 19th Century Hebrew...
Nineteenth-century Jewish immigrant life in New York is well-documented, when massive waves of Jews, first from Germany and then from Eastern Europe, began to flood into the city. This made New York...
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Beyond the Village and Back: Congregation Shearith Israel
In our series Beyond the Village and Back, we take a look at some great landmarks throughout New York City outside of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo, celebrate their special histories,...
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Why Isn’t This Landmarked?: The Hebrew Technical Institute, 9th and...
Part of our blog series Why Isn’t This Landmarked?, where we look at buildings in our area we’re fighting to protect that are worthy of landmark designation, but somehow aren’t landmarked. On December...
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The Downtown Gallery and the Woman Behind the American Art Market
In 1926, Edith Gregor Halpert was twenty six years old. She had, up until the year before, served as one of two female business executives in New York City. But in 1925, she had left the elite position...
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