Book Event: Place, Race, and Story, Friday, April 30th

The Pratt Manhattan Library is pleased to host a Book Signing to celebrate the publication of Professor Ned Kaufman’s book, Place, Race, and Story: Essays in the Past and Future of Historic Preservation. Copies will be available for purchase at a discount. Friday evening April 30, 2010 6 – 8 PM The Pratt Manhattan Library […]

Book Event: Place, Race, and Story, Friday, April 30th

The Pratt Manhattan Library is pleased to host a Book Signing to celebrate the publication of Professor Ned Kaufman’s book, Place, Race, and Story: Essays in the Past and Future of Historic Preservation. Copies will be available for purchase at a discount. Friday evening April 30, 2010 6 – 8 PM The Pratt Manhattan Library […]

Learn about Yorkville History

The History and life in YORKVILLE/KLEINDEUTSCHLAND at Stanley Isaacs Senior Center 415 East 93rd Street @First Avenue. Thursday April 22nd at 2PM 917/494-2983 An exhibit/lecture by Yorkville Historian, Kathy Jolowicz.displays 20 photo panels, depicting the life and times of this once internationally famous landmark in New York City called “Germantown”. It encompasses the era of […]

Protest the NYU Expansion Plan

Press Conference and Open House Tomorrow on NYU Expansion Plan Please join GVSHP and a dozen other community groups tomorrow, Wed. April 14 for a press conference at 4:45 P.M. to highlight our opposition to many aspects of the NYU 2031 Expansion Plan. The press conference will take place in front of the Kimmel Center at […]

GVSHP on St. Vincent's Closure

Hospital Closure and St. Vincent’s Development Plans The announcement of the closure of most services as St. Vincent’s Hospital has been a shock to many. Over the last several years St. Vincent’s had pursued plans for an enormous and very expensive new hospital building, only a fraction of which would have been paid for with a […]

Two fundraisers for History!

MEALS AND SPIELS: AN EVENING OF DINNER & LECTURES ABOUT NYC’S FOOD A Fundraiser in Support of the City Reliquary Museum and Civic Organization Tuesday, April 27 From 7:00p to 10:00p The Brooklyn Kitchen 100 Frost St. Williamsburg, Brooklyn  The City Reliquary Museum, one of Gotham’s quirkiest and spunkiest homegrown museums, located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, […]

GVSHP House Tour Is Coming Up

Join us for the 2010 Village House Tour Benefit! Thank you to our corporate and individual Benefactors, Patrons, and Sponsors of GVSHP’s 12th Annual Village House Tour Benefit and all those who have already purchased tickets. If you haven’t already done so, you can purchase individual tickets for the tour online. View this year’s exquisite […]

GVSHP House Tour Is Coming Up

Join us for the 2010 Village House Tour Benefit! Thank you to our corporate and individual Benefactors, Patrons, and Sponsors of GVSHP’s 12th Annual Village House Tour Benefit and all those who have already purchased tickets. If you haven’t already done so, you can purchase individual tickets for the tour online. View this year’s exquisite […]

O! Multitudes! Three Centuries Of Domestic Architecture On The Lower East Side

O! Multitudes!    Three Centuries Of Domestic Architecture On The Lower East Side During The 1880’s, The Lower East Side Was The Most Crowded Area Of The World.   Come See How Those Immigrants Lived!   Starting In What Is Now Chinatown, This Comprehensive Architectural Tour Explores Housing On The Lower East Side From The […]

O! Multitudes! Three Centuries Of Domestic Architecture On The Lower East Side

O! Multitudes!    Three Centuries Of Domestic Architecture On The Lower East Side During The 1880’s, The Lower East Side Was The Most Crowded Area Of The World.   Come See How Those Immigrants Lived!   Starting In What Is Now Chinatown, This Comprehensive Architectural Tour Explores Housing On The Lower East Side From The […]