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Sheridan Theatre, 1926. The theatre seen here is at the southern tip of the triangle formed by Seventh Avenue, Greenwich Avenue, and West 11th Street. The Sheridan Theatre opened in 1921 and was taken over by Loew's in 1926. The house sat 2,342 patrons. The building was demolished by St. Vincent's Hospital in 1969 for a proposed nurses residences (which never came to be).
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A History of Community Gardens
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New York City has the largest network of community gardens in the United States. Community gardens borrow from earlier urban-gardening movements, such as Frannie Griscolm Parsons' educational "Farm-Gardens" of the early 20th-century and Depression-era "subsistence gardens" which provided for communities across the city. Beginning in the 1960s, New Yorkers increasingly favored progressive government programs and looked towards the city to sponsor many past-due revitalization efforts for neighborhoods. One such effort was community gardens, which beautified abandoned lots and, most importantly, allowed the community to have an active say in the design of their urban environment.
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Social Change Champions
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Few neighborhoods in New York can claim as rich a tradition of social advocacy as Greenwich Village. This collection documents the homes and lives of a few of them.
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David Carey, Star of the Yiddish Stage
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David Carey was a prolific Jewish actor in the Yiddish Theater.
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St. Vincent's Triangle, ca, 1976. The plan for a nurses' residence on this plot never came to be. The triangle was used as a community garden and greening-recycling center for many years. Sometime in the late 20th century, St. Vincent's built a low-rise, brick materials receiving center on a section of the plot. The hospital closed in 2010, and a park was planned through community review, and constructed by the development company as part of the hospital to residence conversion work. The park was given to the city in 2017. A year earlier the park was dedicated as the NYC AIDS Memorial Park. (The former hospital was the city's first and largest AIDS ward.) The new park includes an 18-foot steel canopy-shaped public memorial, "to honor New York City's 100,000+ men, women and children who have died from AIDS, and to commemorate and celebrate the efforts of the caregivers and activists."

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76 Greenwich Avenue

\[Greenwich Avenue: IND Eighth Avenue Line, New York, NY] Survey photograph taken in preparation for construction and maintenance of the IND Eighth Avenue Line, New York, NY. View of Greenwich Avenue, at West 11th Street, showing The Sheridan Theatre and laborers with ladders below the marquee. The Sheridan Theatre was opened in 1921 and taken over by Loew's the same month this photograph was taken, December 1926. The Theatre closed in 1969.
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76 Greenwich Avenue

Sheridan Theatre on Greenwich Avenue: Eighth Avenue Line (IND) Survey photograph of theatre at Greenwich Avenue and West 11th Street in the path of the Eighth Avenue Line (IND). Showing theatre with workers on top of marquee with ladders below, street, sidewalk, curb, pedestrian, and automobiles. The Sheridan Theatre was opened in 1921 and taken over by Loew's the same month this photograph was taken, December 1926. The Theatre closed in 1969. Original photographic logbook notation reads: Camera 3 feet west of West Curb Greenwich Avenue. 40 feet north of north house line West 11th Street. Looking northeast and showing southerly half of Greenwich Avenue face of the Sheridan Theatre.
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76 Greenwich Avenue

\[St. Vincent's Triangle.]
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