Jane Jacobs’ NYC: Sites that Inspired Her Work and Preservation Legacy

555-567 Hudson Street (555 Hudson Street is the first three-story building on the left)
Her Home
Jane Jacobs’ home still stands today at 555 Hudson Street, just north of Perry Street. A modest 1842 rowhouse which had been substantially altered in 1950, it is here that Jane and her husband Robert raised their family and she wrote the epic tome “The Death and Life of Great American Cities.” In 2009, Village Preservation got the block co-named “Jane Jacobs Way,” visible at the Bank Street end of the block.

There’s no place better to appreciate all things Jane Jacobs than Greenwich Village, the neighborhood in which she lived and which so informed and inspired her writings and activism, in turn helping to save it from destruction.