Several key individuals, organizations, and meeting spaces connected to LGBTQ history were located here, including the headquarters of the country's first national LGBTQ rights organization, and prominent writers, artists, musicians, and performers. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

This eleven-story building with Romanesque Revival details was constructed in 1925 by Sugarmann & Berger for the 60 University Place Corp. The firm also designed a number of historic and landmarked buildings on the Upper West Side, in Gramercy Park, and in Greenwich Village.

Many of the most prominent publishers in America and the world were located here, producing some of the most significant works of literature of the last two hundred years. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

Originally built in 1869-70 as a pair of six- and seven-story loft buildings, the current façade and four-story height of this structure dates to 1958, just before the influential publishing house Grove Press moved here. The original 6-story building at 66-68 University Place, which forms the northern two-thirds of the current building, was built by architect Chapin and builder Stewart & Smith in 1869-70. It originally served as the factory and office of Hazelton Brothers, a piano manufacturing firm, for a half-century. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

This building was constructed as part of a row of five-story Greek Revival rowhouses erected for John Morse c. 1843-44. This was the home of the union organizer and civil rights advocate David Livingston, a confidante of Martin Luther King Jr., and the noted jazz club Bradley’s. Go back and click on the tours the building is featured in for additional information and history.

Grove Press, called “the era’s most explosive and influential publishing house” and “the most innovative publisher of the postwar era,” produced incredibly important pieces of 20th century literature while working aggressively and effectively to transform American culture in relation to issues of censorship, sexuality, race, and class. Founded in 1947 on Grove Street in the West Village, Grove Press fully rose to prominence after it was purchased by Barney Rossett in 1951. Over the next decades, an astonishing five extant buildings in the area south of Union Square were home to the Press, its literary magazine the Evergreen Review, and the Press’ Evergreen Theater. A sixth building in the area, 61 Fourth Avenue, served as Rosset’s home from at least 1981 until Rosset’s passing in 2012. For a time, Grove Press’ offices were also located here. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.

In the late 19th and early 20th century, the area south of and around Union Square was the center of piano manufacturing in New York, a huge industry in the city at the time. Click here to send a letter supporting landmark designation of these and other historic buildings south of Union Square.