• Village Preservation’s Historic Image Archive

    By Village Preservation This image archive highlights the history of the people and built environment of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo, and New York City in general. It […]

  • Hip-Hop’s Second Birthplace: Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo

    By Village Preservation MAP LINK To celebrate hip-hop and its profound cultural impact, we explore the seminal places of hip-hop’s early days in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo, […]

  • East Village Building Blocks

    By Village Preservation The East Village Building Blocks online resource provides information about 2,200 properties in the East Village, including each building’s date of construction, original architect, original use, and […]

  • Jazz Map of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo

    By Village Preservation This first-of-its-kind interactive map allows you to explore the history of jazz in Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo, tracing this remarkable legacy these streets, where legendary […]

  • Staying Power

    by Ariana Faye Allensworth  Staying Power is a print and online publishing platform dedicated to amplifying a people’s history of public housing. The project uses visual and archival strategies to […]

  • Wesley Augustus Williams

    Wesley Augustus Williams (1897-1984) was born in Harlem to Lucy Metrash and  James Henry Williams, Chief of the Red Caps in Grand Central Terminal.  He’d been inspired as a boy […]

  • Carmen Pabón, La Madrina de Loisaida

    By Imani Vieira Pictured Carmen Pabón and Luis Rivera, son of Adela Fargas of Casa Adela celebrating at the first Loisaida Festival in 1986. Photo taken by Marlis Momber. Carmen […]