More than 75% of our support comes from members and individuals like you.

With that support, here’s what we’ve done over this decade:

• Secured landmark designation of 1,000 buildings, from West Street to Avenue D (bringing the total number of buildings we’ve helped landmark to over 1,250)
   
• Won zoning protections for dozens of blocks in the East and West Village, including preventing the transfer of air rights from the Hudson River Park along our waterfront, bringing to nearly 100 the number of blocks in our neighborhood with zoning protections

Some of the over 1,000 buildings for which we’ve helped secure landmark designation over the past decade (l. to r.,top to bottom):  Westbeth (2011); 827-831 Broadway (threatened with demolition, saved by landmarking, 2017); 128 East 13th Street (threatened with demolition, landmarked 2012); St. Anthony of Padua Church and Sullivan Street (2016); Minetta Lane (2013); Congregation Mezritch Synagogue (threatened with demolition, landmarked 2012).

• Prevented NYU from building the tallest building ever in Greenwich Village, a proposed 400 ft tall tower on Bleecker Street
   
• Founded our historic plaque program, which now marks and celebrates the history of fifteen vital historic sites

• Began our “Business of the Month” program, celebrating and promoting more than sixty local small businesses
   
• Started our blog “Off the Grid,” which now has over 2,290 posts about our neighborhoods’ history that have been viewed over 1.5 million times

• Taught more than 12,000 students in our first-of-its-kind Children’s Education program
   
• Kicked off our Continuing Education program, which has taught the value of historic preservation to hundreds of real estate professionals
  

One of our walking tours

• Conducted over 600 programs about the history and culture of our neighborhoods, attended by nearly 50,000 people
   
• Became the first group in New York City to post all applications for major changes to landmarked buildings on our website, sharing nearly 900 applications viewed over 200,000 times

• Made almost sixty oral histories with preservation pioneers like Jane Jacobs, artists like Jonas Mekas and Marlis Mober, architects like Jim Polshek and Richard Meier, activists like Chino Garcia, and owners of businesses like Veselka, B & H Dairy, Porto Rico Coffee, Kenny’s Castaways, and Umanov Guitars digitally available on our website, which have now been accessed over 15,000 times

• Inaugurated our YouTube page which now has over 215 videos about our neighborhoods, viewed over 72,000 times
   
• Introduced our Civil Rights and Social Justice Map with over 200 sites of historic significance in our neighborhood, which has been viewed by over 100,000 people
   
• Created our Greenwich Village Historic District Map with then-and-now images of over 2,200 buildings, and information on nearly 1,000 sites of historic or architectural interest
  

• Launched our Building Blocks website with the history and images of all 3,000 buildings in the East Village, which has been viewed by over 167,000 people
   
• Established our online Historic Image Archive, which now has over 2,200 images in nearly 40 collections from the late 18th through the early 21st century, viewed by over 175,000 people

• Celebrated over 70 neighborhood  businesses, cultural and educational institutions, community leaders, and artists with our annual Village Awards, which has been attended by over 3,000 people
   
• Researched the history of over 3,500 buildings in our neighborhoods to help educate the public about their value and advocate for their preservation
   
• Mentored more than 50 interns, teaching the next generation how to document, celebrate, and preserve our history

Imagine what we can do in the 2020s with your strong support.  Give today, and make sure that the future of our neighborhoods honors, celebrates, and preserves its past.