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Your generosity today will allow Village Preservation to continue the fight to keep our neighborhoods the livable, strong communities that we so love. Make a difference locally. It will reverberate globally #givingtuesday: https://t.co/Ew2wpAbyrz
OTD in 1859, #JohnBrown is hanged for leading an anti-slavery insurrection. Find out how this occasion was marked by one of #GreenwichVillage's most outspoken #AfricanAmerican abolitionists and abolitionist churches, and the rest of their amazing work: https://t.co/tyXs1sioRz
It’s #ElectionDay! Don’t forget to #vote YES on ballot question 5: https://t.co/4t0auCZFMd.
Think your vote doesn’t matter? Read about this #GreenwichVillage church that threw an incredibly tight but consequential presidential election, via @6sqft: https://t.co/n4gpXHurFG
#HappyBirthday to the great #Pop artist #RoyLichtenstein, b. this day in 1923. The amazing artistic innovator lived and worked in his studio in #GreenwichVillage until his death in 1997. We look back at his life and legacy:
https://t.co/ScgCNCA2eq
OTD in 1967, the groundbreaking musical ‘Hair’ debuts at the @PublicTheaterNY, before its record-breaking #Broadway run. Find out how this culture-shifting event came about, and what followed: https://t.co/NIXZwwTrGy
OTD in 1970, #LouReed plays his last show w/the #VelvetUnderground at #MaxsKansasCity. We take a look back at that legendary performance, and everything that led Reed and the Velvets to their split: https://t.co/SmzB3a3djY
OTD in 1871, ‘Ashcan School’ painter John Sloan is born. He chronicled the everyday life of the everyman/woman of #GreenwichVillage+the #EastVillage, as well as co-declaring “The Independent Republic of #WashingtonSquare.” Today we look at his life + art: https://t.co/pt55O0ShM8
Happy 200th birthday to Herman Melville, b. this day in 1819! The great American writer may be more closely associated with the wide open sea, but he was actually deeply-rooted in #GreenwichVillage's #MeatpackingDistrict, where his family name lives on: https://t.co/JfhaIpH1ex
OTD in 1863, the Conscription Act takes effect, precipitating the #DraftRiots, the worst civil unrest in U.S. history. Our neighborhoods, with large #AfricanAmerican+ #immigrant populations, were the scene of much of the violence: https://t.co/29JybwmKSB #neverforget #darkchapter
Happy birthday to #MauriceSendak, born this day in 1928. Did you know Sendak lived and wrote on West 9th Street in #GreenwichVillage?: https://t.co/2h8ts4I2CD