A report on 8th Street and St. Mark's Place, Greenwich Village and Whitney Museum

The original location of the Whitney Museum, three converted townhouses at 8–12 West 8th Street

453–461 Sixth Avenue in the Historic District

The Whitney's original location, at 8–12 West 8th Street, between Fifth Avenue and MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village

The German-American Shooting Society clubhouse at #12

The intersection of West 4th and West 12th Streets

The Whitney Museum of American Art's former (1966–2014) home on Madison Avenue; the Marcel Breuer-designed building has seen numerous subsequent uses.

Street signs at intersection of West 10th and West 4th Streets

Entrance to the Whitney via the High Line

Rent Is Too Damn High Party car parked on St Marks Place, where founder Jimmy McMillan lived until 2015

Map of old Greenwich Village. A section of Bernard Ratzer's map of New York and its suburbs, made ca. 1766 for Henry Moore, royal governor of New York, when Greenwich was more than 2 miles (3 km) from the city.

The Whitney Museum, New York City in 2016: The building was designed by Renzo Piano.

Gem Spa has been the "corner store" for locals for approximately 80 years

Gay Street at the corner of Waverly Place; the street's name refers to a colonial family, not the LGBT character of Greenwich Village

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney by Robert Henri (1916)

Cherries, an adult store on St. Mark's Place whose signage was part of Saturday Night Live's opening montage. The store closed in late 2011.

Whitney Museum of American Art's original location, at 8–12 West 8th Street, between Fifth Avenue and MacDougal Street; currently home to the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.

Banners from April 5, 2019, protest by Decolonize This Place at the Whitney Museum, New York NY, over board vice chair Warren Kanders' ownership of Safariland, a manufacturer of tear gas and other weapons

The Cherry Lane Theatre is located in Greenwich Village.

The annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade is the world's largest Halloween parade.

Maurice Prendergast, Central Park, 1900, (1900)

The Stonewall Inn, a designated U.S. National Historic Landmark and National Monument, as the site of the June 1969 Stonewall riots and the cradle of the modern gay rights movement.

Oscar Florianus Bluemner, Old Canal Port, (1914)

The Washington Square Arch, an unofficial icon of Greenwich Village and nearby New York University

Thomas Hart Benton, House in Cubist Landscape, (c. 1915–1920)

396-397 West Street at West 10th Street is a former hotel which dates from 1904, and is part of the Weehawken Street Historic District

Washington Mews in Greenwich Village; an NYU building can be seen in the background

Edward Hopper, New York Interior, c. 1921

Christopher Park, part of the Stonewall National Monument

George Bellows, Dempsey and Firpo, (1924)

Jefferson Market Library, once a courthouse, now serves as a branch of the New York Public Library.

90 Bedford Street, used for establishing shot in Friends

The area west of Greenwich Lane was already developed as Greenwich Village, while the area east of First Avenue was reserved for a wholesale food market.

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The Whitney Museum of American Art was founded in 1930; at this time architect Noel L. Miller was converting three row houses on West 8th Street in Greenwich Village—one of which, 8 West 8th Street had been the location of the Studio Club—to be the museum's home, as well as a residence for Whitney.

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By the 1930s it had evolved into her greatest legacy, the Whitney Museum of American Art, on the site of today's New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.

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The three former 1838 row houses at 8–12 West 8th Street between Fifth Avenue and Macdougal Street in Greenwich Village were converted in 1931 by Auguste L. Noel of Noel & Miller into the first home of the Whitney Museum of American Art, which sculptor and heiress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney had established in 1929, after the Metropolitan Museum of Art rejected the donation of her extensive collection of contemporary and avant-garde artworks. In 1914, Whitney had started the Whitney Studio at 8 West 8th Street, just behind her own studio on MacDougal Alley. The museum was located here until 1954, when it moved uptown. The building is currently, along with 14 West 8th Street (built in 1900), the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.

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The Cooper Union is located in Greenwich Village, at Astor Place, near St. Mark's Place on the border of the East Village.

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A report on 8th Street and St. Mark's Place, Greenwich Village and Whitney Museum

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