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 and explore what a donation means to us on #GivingTuesday.

The second year of NYC’s landmarks law yielded a diverse set of historic sites, stunning in their architectural styles and situated throughout our neighborhoods. Using our Landmarks Timeline Map, we look back:

Join us this August for one of our many exciting programs! We’ve got in-person tours at The NYC Department of Records + the Seaport Museum + virtual lectures aboutManhattan’s waterfront, the end of Dutch rule in NYC + the incredible life of Eve Adams:

Join us one week from today! This fun and colorful FREE lecture explores the history of Art Deco on its centennial, and the many examples of the Jazz Age style that survive in #GreenwichVillage and the #EastVillage. Q & A follows. Register TODAY:

#OnThisDay in 1974, West Village Houses officially opened! A ribbon-cutting was held for NYC’s first infill housing, born from Jane Jacobs & neighbors fighting back against high-rises and demolition. Learn more:

#OTD in 1849, poet, philanthropist, immigrant advocate, and #GreenwichVillage resident Emma Lazarus is born. We take a look back at her life and work in the neighborhood, and her immortal words affixed to the Statue of Liberty:

#HappyBirthday #EdwardHopper, b. this day in 1882. We take a look back at the great painter’s deep relationship to his home in #GreenwichVillage, + how it inspired his work: Want more Hopper, from photos of him at work to videos?:

Oral histories and interactive mapping are just two ways we let you explore the rich and exciting civil rights and social justice history of our neighborhoods. We offer a primer on each:

#OTD in 1816, sidewalk vault inventor, ardent abolitionist, and #GreenwichVillage resident Thaddeus Hyatt is born. We look back at how this unique figure changed our cityscape while working with John Brown to fight the spread of slavery in Kansas + beyond:

The future of one of the #EastVillage’s most historic churches is in doubt. We, @evccnyc, @LESPI_nyc, + many parishioners are working together to ensure it’s preserved. Find out more about is nearly 200 year history and what you can do to save it:

#HappyBirthday to father of video art and longtime Villager Nam June Paik, born on this day in 1932. We take a look back at the remarkable arc of his life and career:

#OTD in 1799, the Rosetta Stone is discovered in Egypt, unlocking the secret to lost, ancient languages. Today we unlock the secret to some lost, not quite ancient immigrant communities that left a mark in our neighborhoods:

Before NYC went high-rise, there were French Flats, bold 18th-century buildings that redefined urban living. Explore #GreenwichVillage & the #EastVillage in this interactive, image-rich map from @GVSHP:

#OTD in 1937, “Gonzo” journalist Hunter S. Thompson is born. Though his work took him all over the world, he lived, wrote, drank, and caroused right here in #GreenwichVillage and the #EastVillage. More on his colorful life + career:

Swing by our July, 2025 Business of the Month, Cowgirl, a Texas-sized, small-town-style eatery that, for over thirty years, has offered great Tex-Mex comfort food in a Western-themed space well suited for all dining and celebratory occasions. More here:.

#OTD in 1898, Berenice Abbott is born. The transformational photographer not only lived in #GreenwichVillage, it was often the subject of her keen lens. More:

RT @NYCRobyn: Happy birthday Emery Roth. @GVSHP.

#OTD in 1922, the Hess Triangle is installed. Once the smallest piece of private property in NY, for over a century it’s been a quirky symbol of #GreenwichVillage’s non-conformity, idiosyncratic street pattern, and “you-CAN-fight-City-Hall” attitude. More:

#OnThisDay, 74 years ago, J.D. Salinger released his best-selling novel The Catcher in the Rye. Today, we joined Holden Caulfield on our own moody stroll through our neighborhood.

Check out a great new batch of historic images from landmarks applications we’ve added to our historic image archive, ranging from the 1870s to early 2000s, incl. lost subways and century-old landmarks: 

Dovetailing our latest interactive map release, we also held a fun + fascinating program shedding light on “French Flats,” the late 19th c. housing innovation that forever changed the way New Yorkers lived. Watch the video: