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How New York Women, from Village Bohemians to Suffragettes, Won the Right to Vote

by Elena Goukassian March 22, 2018March 24, 2018

In 1917, female New Yorkers were finally invited to the polling booths. An exhibition at the New-York Historical Society argues this victory was largely due to the local activism of the bohemians of Greenwich Village.

Posted inBooks

The Nostalgic Glow of New York City’s Remaining Historic Neon Signs

Avatar photo by Allison Meier July 26, 2016October 15, 2022

Neon and New York City had their ups and downs over the 20th century, from the glowing signage being an innovative advertisement in the 1920s and ’30s to already telegraphing seediness with its flickering in the 1940s and ’50s.

Posted inIn Brief

President Obama Declares Stonewall Inn First National Monument to LGBTQ History

Avatar photo by Allison Meier June 27, 2016June 28, 2016

Today the beige Stetson hats of the National Parks Service (NPS) will start appearing at the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, as the site was declared a national monument on Friday.

Posted inNews

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s Restored Studio Opens for Public Tours

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 17, 2016May 23, 2016

When Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney set up her sculpture studio in Greenwich Village’s MacDougal Alley, one 1907 newspaper headline blared: “Daughter of Cornelius Vanderbilt Will Live in Dingy New York Alley.”

Posted inNews

Part-Time Faculty Protest Conditions at the New School

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton March 18, 2015March 18, 2015

On Monday protesters gathered outside the New School (TNS), a university in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, to demand better conditions for the school’s part-time faculty.

Posted inArt

Midcentury Expressionist Drama, Novelized

by Joseph Nechvatal September 10, 2014September 10, 2014

PARIS — I recently met in my studio the writer Jake Lamar, a New York ex-pat living in Paris, and spoke to him about his new novel, Postérité (The original English title is “Posthumous”), that will be published today in French by Rivages.

Posted inArt

All Wrong About Lower Manhattan: Rereading Sharon Zukin

by Richard Kostelanetz April 24, 2014April 28, 2014

In the course of writing The Rise and Fall of Artists’ SoHo (Routledge), I read several earlier books about lofts and artists in lower Manhattan. The most embarrassing by far, in spite of some research worth crediting, was Sharon Zukin’s Loft Living: Culture and Capital in Urban Change.

Posted inNews

Rezoning Plan Could Grant More Space for Luxury Condos in Greenwich Village

by Liza Eliano January 23, 2012January 23, 2012

Today in NYC news, the Greenwich Village Historic Preservation Society dropped a press release in our inbox this afternoon on the rezoning of the shuttered St. Vincent’s Hospital site on Seventh Avenue between West 12 and 11 Street that could allow luxury condominiums to rise in its place.

Posted inNews

Searching for Hopper’s “Nighthawks” Diner

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian June 7, 2010

There are many mysteries in 20th C. American art but none are more enduring than the question of the mysterious diner in Edward Hopper’s iconic painting “Nighthawks” (1942). Now, Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York is promising to get to the bottom of it all.

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