June is one of the most exciting months of the year at Village Preservation. As summer arrives, we invite you to join us for a diverse lineup of programs exploring everything from Revolutionary-era estates and Jazz Age New York to affordable housing, public housing history, art, and LGBTQ+ heritage. This month also features two of […]
The origins of jazz are famously hybrid. The Black diaspora in New Orleans’ cultural melting pot assimilated music as diverse as spirituals and marches around the turn of the 20th century; and it came up with a unique, blues-inflected, syncopated Afro-Western amalgam that, within a few years, would take the country by storm. By the […]
Our Jazz Map of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo, is the first-ever, in-depth, interactive map documenting the history of jazz in our neighborhoods, which have for decades been epicenters of jazz performance and innovation. The map tells the story of the music through over a hundred entries, covering local music venues, recording studios, […]
Village Preservation is excited to share our newest interactive online resource, our Jazz Map of Greenwich Village, the East Village, and NoHo; a multi-layered tool to both explore and share the rich history of our neighborhoods as it relates to that most uniquely American art form, jazz. This dynamic map showcases the clubs, streets, and […]
