Village Preservation Launches A Hip-Hop History Map

Village Preservation, or the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, has been working to preserve the history, culture and architecture of Greenwich Village for decades. A majority of their work revolves around spotlighting and paying homage to the rich cultural history of our section of Manhattan. In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of hip-hop, Village Preservation has published an in-depth interactive map of important New York spots in hip-hop’s history. The map was “written and designed by hip-hop historians and experts, several of whom dubbed the East Village, Greenwich Village, and NoHo as The Second Birthplace of Hip Hop for the key role these neighborhoods played in 1979-1984 in transforming Hip Hop from a largely live performance phenomenon in the Bronx, Upper Manhattan, and Brooklyn, to global phenomenon which combined rapping, djing, dancing, graffiti art, and fashion.”