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Village Preservation (GVSHP) is a membership-based non-profit preserving Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo since 1980
New York, NY
Joined May 2009
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Preserving #GreenwichVillage, the #EastVillage, and #NoHo is our passion, and our supporters empower our advocacy and research. If preservation is your passion too, we encourage you to visit villagepreservation.org/givi… and explore what a donation means to us on #GivingTuesday.
Village Preservation recommends a “NO” on ballot question no. 3, which NYC voters will soon be deciding upon. Find out why we think this will lead to worse outcomes for neighborhoods + city, removing important checks + balances from decision-making: villagepreservation.org/camp…
We were thrilled to unveil our 29th plaque marking the home of civil rights + civil liberties champion Arthur Garfield Hays, who helped litigate cases from Scopes Monkey to Brown v. Bd. of Ed.
Video: youtu.be/1QQPf8JOJwk?si=Ozld…
More on our plaque program: villagepreservation.org/camp…
#OnThisDay in 1974, #GreenwichVillage's @JudsonChurchnyc was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Designed by Stanford White, this #WashingtonSquare icon bridged faith, art, and social justice: villagepreservation.org/2026…
#HappyBirthday Eugene O’Neill, b. #OTD in 1888. The transformative playwright changed theater forever, with a life and work deeply rooted in the artistic ferment of #GreenwichVillage. Learn more about his career and deep connections to the neighborhood: villagepreservation.org/2017…
We look back at how the country’s very first national LGBTQ+ rights org., @TheTaskForce, was formed in + led transformative campaigns from our neighborhood for a dozen years in the aftermath of Stonewall. Learn more + help us honor + save this history: villagepreservation.org/2026…
Check out the video from last night’s program exploring the origins + development of the tenement in our neighborhoods, and their further evolution uptown in Yorkville. Eyesore or innovation? Blight or beauty? You decide: youtu.be/B2NRs0oGElk?si=Ao55…
THIS EVENING: We’re unveiling a historic plaque, honoring ACLU co-founder and foremost civil liberties champion Arthur Garfield Hays at his longtime home, 24 E. 10th St. 6pm, Free. Learn more:
villagepreservation.org/even…
Landmarked #OnThisDay in 1965, the @MerchantsHouse continues to bring history to life. Learn about and explore our decades-long partnership of shared tours, talks, and history-based events: villagepreservation.org/2026…
Tonite @ 6pm! Free webinar w/Q&A on the history of tenements in Lower Manhattan + Yorkville. See how these oft-derided buildings housed generations of immigrants, artists+working-class NYers, utilizing the latest architectural styles+building innovations: villagepreservation.my.site.…
Plans filed to demolish a great piece of our history on University Place — a building with history connected to some of the great museums, libraries + hospitals of NYC, as well as pre-Stonewall LGBTQ+ life and Prohibition. Learn more + save our history!: villagepreservation.org/camp…
Ghosts, history, and Halloween fun! Discover the haunted past of St. Mark’s Church and the East Village on our October 18 Great Village History Haunt! villagepreservation.org/2026…
Watch our latest program — a conversation with John Strausbaugh, author of “The Village: 400 Years of Beats + Bohemians, Radicals + Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village” about what’s made this neighborhood so exceptional from its earliest days to now: youtu.be/HRvWY_Mtm6c?si=fN8H…
Watch our latest program video exploring the career of Gilded Age master photographer Napoleon Sarony, who from his Union Square studio captured some of the most renowned figures of the late 19th c., from Oscar Wilde to Sarah Bernhardt, Twain to Whitman: youtu.be/tUkbLKAdY50?si=y7-_…
The Senate is now getting in on the act, introducing legislation to implement Trump Administration proposals to gut protections for historic sites, the environment, and Tribal lands. Tell your representatives to OPPOSE this undemocratic, damaging bill: villagepreservation.org/camp…
#OTD in 2008, we began a successful campaign for landmark designation of the Russian Orthodox Cathedral @ 59 E. 2nd St., built in 1891 as the Mt. Olivet Memorial Church. The striking Romanesque Revival bldg. embodies generations of immigrant history. More: villagepreservation.org/camp…
“I should have been born in the Village.” Celebrate what would have been #JohnLennon’s 86th birthday today and learn why he had that desire, from his Bank Street home to Electric Lady Studio: villagepreservation.org/2026…
A Village bar lives on in “Howl.” Explore Allen Ginsberg’s downtown world + the many places that shaped his life + writings:
villagepreservation.org/2026…
Published #OTD in 2007 as part of our decade-long campaign to secure landmark protections for the South Village, read “The Italians of the South Village”: media.villagepreservation.or… + learn more about the So.Village’s rich immigrant, artistic, LGBTQ+ history: villagepreservation.org/camp…
