Cooper Union Library

Village Awards nomination season is nearly over! Show your support by nominating a person, place, small business, or organization making a positive impact in our neighborhoods. Deadline is 3/16! Nominate here: villagepreservation.org/events/annual-…

#OTD in 1791, inventor, abolitionist, philanthropist, educator, and founder of @cooperunion Peter Cooper is born. This local renaissance man left a legacy of access to higher education and improved and enriched lives for millions. More: villagepreservation.org/2018/02/12/sal…

In the latest Cooperology, NYC mayors at Cooper library.cooper.edu/archives/coope…

Agnes Gund (1938-2025) Cooper Union Great Hall - April 26, 1988 (center) - at the Doris C. Freedman Award ceremony honoring Studio in a School

Innovation was everywhere today— students engineered vessels in OnShape, explored sustainable design on Governor's Island, coded with interrupts, and turned commute data into colorful charts. Our students are pushing boundaries and building the future, one project at a time!

Hundreds turned out last week for our joyous Annual Meeting and Village Awards celebration. Check out the video and pictures and get the lowdown on what is the happiest night of the year in #GreenwichVillage, the #EastVillage, and #NoHo: villagepreservation.org/campaign-updat…

@GVSHP @EastVillageNY @TompkinsLib @LaMaMaETC @vph @Pastpreservers @scdemark @tenementmuseum @LESHistMonth @BoweryBoys @evgrieve and a memorial held in Cooper Union’s Great Hall.. greathallvoices.cooper.edu/Detail/program…

OTD in 1904, the General Slocum Ferry disaster kills over 1,000 mostly immigrant women and children from the East Village, leading to the undoing of what has been the largest German community outside of Europe. More on this monumental tragedy: villagepreservation.org/2018/06/15/rem…

Last night, we had the pleasure of hosting our Annual Meeting & Village Awards in not one, but two incredible historic venues in the #EastVillage, where we celebrated six remarkable awardees and a year of accomplishments: villagepreservation.org/2025/06/12/two…

It’s TONITE at 6pm! Join us at @cooperunion’s historic Great Hall to honor six incredible awardees and celebrate a year of preserving what we love about #GreenwichVillage, the #EastVillage, + #Noho. Come for the camaraderie, community, + inspiring stories: villagepreservation.my.site.com/s/event-detail…

Painful news. P. Adams came to Bard College in 1971 and essentially presented his seminal work on American avant-guard cinema, Visionary Film, in a seminar he taught, that I was fortunate enough to sit in on. To say that he changed my life is a drastic understatement.

P. Adams Sitney, longtime @cooperunion professor (1944-2025)

Our 2025 Village Awardees have been announced! Big congrats to @DanspaceProject @FPNYC @LaLanternaCaffe @stonewallvisctr @lungsnyc & Charles+Kathy Fitzgerald. Join us for the celebration at @cooperunion’s historic Great Hall Wed., June 11. Register now: villagepreservation.org/event/35th-ann…

Intrigued by this 30s view of Cooper Square/Triangle in the 1935 Cable. nycgovparks.org/parks/cooper-t…

May 6 is not just any other day - it's our Founder's Day Celebration at the historic @CooperUnion in NYC! Get ready for a night of inspiration at "Celebrating Women in Engineering: 75 Years of Innovation and Advocacy." Register for this FREE event: lnkd.in/gMATpwYH #SWE75

"This is the best MoMA retrospective in the last five years," writes @artnews about a new show of work by the 1964 School of Art @CooperAlumni Jack Whitten artnews.com/art-news/revie…

On Feb. 27, 1860, Lincoln gave a famous speech at Cooper Union in NYC. It set up his winning presidential campaign. I’ll be on that same stage on the 165th anniversary.