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GVBA News — Winter 2008
GVBA News — Autumn, 2007 pdf
Double Whammy at Mulry — MTA Fan Ventilation Plant
The New Two Towers — St. Vincent/Rudin Development Plans
Funding for Jefferson Market Library
Apartment Buildings Become "Hotels"
NY Leather Street Fair — GVBA Position Letter
The Door Social Service Program
DOT Doesn't Like the American Flag
GVBA News — Winter 2007 pdf
GVBA News — Winter 2006
(Excerpts) GVBA Sponsors Forum for Old Jeff
Manhattan B P Scott Stringer Attends GVBA Congratulatory Fete
Washington Square — More Chicanery by Parks
Astor Wines New Home
Village Beauty Gets A Face Lift & a New Life (Ye Waverly Inn)
Are Fairs Unfair?
Nighthawks Flies Again
GVBA News — Autumn 2006 pdf
GVBA News — Fall 2005 (Adobe Acrobat Reader Required)
GVBA News — Winter 2005 pdf
GVBA News — Fall. 2004
GVBA News — Summer, 2004
GVBA News — Winter 2003 pdf
GVBA News — Winter 2003, 2 pdf
GVBA News — Summer, 2002
GVBA News — Summer, 2001
from the GVBA News — Winter 2005
A New Old Lamppost for Julius' — Tom Bernardin
In order to show Julius’ commitment to the neighborhood and in memory of departed friends, a fund-raising project was proposed to raise $4,000 for a cast-iron Bishop’s Crook lamppost to be placed outside the front door.
Conflict of Interest at Community Board 2
During the last months of the Giuliani administration and soon after Aubrey Lees — who currently chairs the CB2 Parks Committee — was elected chair of Community Board 2, the Greenwich Village Block Associations (GVBA) discussed Ms. Lees’ appointments for the chairs of two important sub-committees: the Business Committee and the Sidewalks Committee
Mae West at the Jefferson Market Courthouse — LindaAnn Loschiavo
In the 1920s, the obligatory initial step towards bringing a play to Broadway was a stop at the NYC Police Department.
The Privatization of Public Parks — Martin Tessler
Events involving commercial activity in public park property have exposed a trend that seems to be gathering speed over the past year
Broken Buildings — Amanda Dorato
We expect developers to behave badly; sometimes they don’t. We expect artists to have overblown egos; often they do. We trust that they will be respectful towards their neighborhood — they’re “sensitive people”, after all.
GVBA News — Fall 2004
Mayor Bloomberg Visits Greenwich Village
On August 9 the Greenwich Village Block Associations (GVBA) welcomed Mayor Michael Bloomberg to Greenwich Village at a Town Hall at the Village Community School. This marks the first time that a sitting mayor has accepted an invitation to a Village forum since Mayor Edward Koch held office.
Memory Lane
On April 14, 1865 John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theater.
Village Pornucopia— Alan Jacobs
... appearance of new porn shops in our storefronts has created an uproar. Public officials, the press, and even the David Letterman show have featured these sleazy joints and the resulting outrage.
Zoning Bonus — Marilyn Dorato
New York City’s zoning law lets universities and hospitals expand without consulting their neighbors. Community facilities can build bigger than residential developers could on the same land, and they can do so “as-of-right”— without community review.
From the GVBA News — Summer 2004
Visiting the Big Apple by Meredith Bergman
... invited to the studio of the late Stephan Weiss to view his sculptures. The artist’s wife, Donna Karan, offered the sculpture entitled the Big Apple to the Hudson River Park in the hope that it will be placed in a location (for the span of 2-3 years) close to Charles Street*.
Plaque for the Friends of the Jefferson Market Library Bell
The Horatio Street Block Association by Bill Cornwell
The Horatio Street Association is one of our most venerable block associations.
Jane Jacobs Home Coming by Betsy Mickel
... pleasure of Jane Jacobs’s company for a few days in May. The renowned urban planner and author of the seminal work, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, was on a (short) book tour promoting her latest book, Dark Age Ahead.
21st Century Jeff by Cynthia Crane
On February 5th the New York Public Library held a Planning for Results meeting at the Jefferson Market Library.
Memory Lane Summer 2004
Villagers know that Dylan Thomas had his final drink and many more before it at the White Horse Tavern.
The Porn Store — XXX It Out by Alan Jacobs
On Saturday, Dec. 6, 2003, the storefront at 515 6th Ave. (between 13th & 14th) was a tawdry but harmless 99-cent shop..., but not really bothering anyone.
From the GVBA News — Winter 2003
Tidbits About Jane Street by Warren Allen Smith
• A good sources for finding details about Greenwich Village buildings is “The Greenwich Village Historic District Designation Report,” written to support historic designation for Greenwich Village and published in 1969.
Plaques Installed on Village Firehouses by Marilyn Dorato
On June 16, the GVBA installed commemorative brass plaques on our two Village firehouses, Squad 18 on West 10th Street and Engine 24, Ladder 5 on 6th Avenue below Houston.
Memory Lane Winter 2003
One If By Land Restaurant is sited in Aaron Burr’s former carriage house on Barrow Street, Between those uses, it was a blacksmith. A lucky horseshoe forged there was carried by Charles Lindberg on his famous transAtlantic flight.
Crime & Punishment in the Hudson River Park by Marilyn Dorato
This is the freckled face of crime. Daisy — a 7 month old Welsh Springer Spaniel — was enjoying the new Hudson River Park one balmy August afternoon.
Is Too Late Not Soon Enough — A Conflict by Marilyn Dorato
A few years ago when Aubrey Lees became chair of Community Board 2, she appointed two committee chairs that seemed to the GVBA to constitute a “conflict of interest.”
From the GVBA News — Summer 2003
Tea and Candlelight by Jan Whitaker
Just before America entered the first world war, Greenwich Village brought America a taste of Paris's Latin Quarter, in the guise of tea shops.
The Cat’s Tale
(A Ballad of Bozoemia)
(from Judge Magazine- 1927)
She toted tea, so the story goes,
In “The Apple Green Kitty” inn.
The one by the Mews - and pink as a rose
She purred the tea for him.
As US Vice President, John Adams lived at Richmond Hill which stood on a hill above Minetta Brook’s entry into the Hudson River near Charlton St. It was Washington’s New York headquarters during the Revolution and it is where Lifeguardsman Hickey tried to poison him.
2002 GVBA reps met with Congressman Jerrold Nadler to discuss community concerns. Bedford Downing Pres. Livvie Mann opened with a query lower Manhattan’s traffic woes - too many trucks driving through Manhattan to avoid tolls...
Congratulations to FEDORA who celebrates 50 years in business this June!
(Portland Oregonian July 9, 1922)
Greenwich Village, long celebrated as the sanctuary of free speech and free spirits, has now yielded the very latest designs in women’s dress. Under the patronage of Kate Seabrook, the Village designers, weavers, and modistes recently lifted the bushel measure from their shining light and put the world wise to the real thing in wearing apparel.
Shame on SLA by Livvie Mann
... two years long and counting. It's a story that's all too familiar in Greenwich Village, where, for every 186 residents, man, woman, and child, there is a bar of some kind.
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