From New York Magazine’s Daily Intelligencer Albert Ledner Defends His White Elephant Can St. Vincent’s Medical Center’s O’Toole Building be saved? Moderinist mavens hope so, and many of them, in chunky art-director glasses, gathered in Chelsea last night to hear its architect, Albert Ledner, 83, defend it. Ledner designed two nautical-themed New York buildings for […]
Foods of the South Village and SoHo: A Walking (and Eating) TourSaturday, September 15; 12:15-3:30 p.m.Meeting place announced upon reservation.$25 GVSHP Members; $40 All others Space is Limited. Advance payment required for reservation.Please send checks payable to GVSHP to: 232 E. 11th Street; New York, NY 10003.To pay by credit card, please visit www.gvshp.org/events.htm Come […]
From the New York Sun West Village Houses a Monument to a 1960s Development BattleBy JULIA VITULLO-MARTINSpecial to the SunAugust 30, 2007 Few strategic victories have been memorialized in such an unprepossessing, undecorated fashion as Jane Jacobs’s vanquishing of Robert Moses’s effort to alter the makeup of Greenwich Village in the 1960s. The West Village […]
from the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, www.gvshp.org Trump ‘Condo-Hotel’: Papers have been filed with the New York City Department of Buildings challenging the legality of the permits granted by the City for construction of the 45-story Trump ‘Condo-Hotel’ at Spring and Varick Streets. GVSHP is working closely with the SoHo Alliance and other […]
From the Villager St. Vincent’s picks architect for hospital building By Albert Amateau St. Vincent’s Hospital last week introduced the international architectural firm of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners as the designer of its proposed new hospital in Greenwich Village. The Aug. 1 announcement came at a meeting of the Community Working Group that St. […]
An op-ed published in the Villager newspaper by GVSHP Executive Director Andrew Berman regarding NYU’s 25-year strategic plan, and the need for the university to find locations outside of the Village/NoHo/East Village if they are to continue to expand. GVSHP and a coalition of community groups, community boards, and elected officials have called upon NYU […]
From the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, www.gvshp.org Two More Federal-Era Houses GVSHP Fought to Protect Are Landmarked: Today the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) voted unanimously to landmark two more surviving federal-era houses (1790-1835) of the thirteen that the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation (GVSHP) and the NY Landmarks Conservancy (NYLC) proposed […]
From the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation , http://www.gvshp.org/ NYU “STRATEGIC PLAN OPEN HOUSE”: This Thursday, June 28, from 2 to 8 pm, NYU will be holding a “Strategic Plan Open House” at Hemmerdinger Hall, 100 Washington Square East. NYU’s announcement refers to it as “Planning for the next 25 years…be part of NYU’s […]
All are invited to: the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation’s2007 Annual Meeting and Presentation of the 17th Annual Village Awards Tuesday, June 19th6:30-8:30 p.m.The Cherry Lane Theatre38 Commerce Street Honoring: Bowne & Co, Inc.13th Street Repertory CompanyFlorence Prime Meat MarketLiz Christy Community GardenPorto Rico Importing Co.Kevin SheaSt. Mark’s BookshopWest Village Dog Owner’s Group81 Barrow […]
From the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation St. Vincent’s Hospital has been working on plans for big changes to its properties on 7th Avenue, and 11th, 12th, and 13th Streets in the West Village. The hospital has announced their intention to modernize and consolidate all of their facilities into one building of as much […]
