{"id":22823,"date":"2025-10-30T17:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/22823\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T17:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:41:09","slug":"plaque-goes-up-in-the-village-honoring-amelia-earhart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/22823\/","title":{"rendered":"Plaque goes up in the Village honoring Amelia Earhart"},"content":{"rendered":"

It took Amelia Earhart less than a full day to cross the Atlantic solo, breaking records, a glass ceiling (made of clouds) and inspiring many, but nearly a century later a plaque went up honoring her work and time in Greenwich Village.<\/p>\n

Village Preservation on October 27 unveiled a plaque honoring \u201cpioneer aviator\u201d Amelia Earhart at Greenwich House, where she once lived and worked.\n<\/p>\n

The plaque honors the famed female aviator or aviatrix who lived from 1897 to 1937 and was as a social worker at Greenwich House from 1927 to 1929.\n<\/p>\n

In a city where the past is more honored in books than buildings, the plaque remembers her as an aviator whose \u201cadvocacy and accomplishments helped break down gender barriers in aviation.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

And it cites her \u201crecord-setting solo trans-Atlantic flight\u201d and attempt to \u201ccircumnavigate the globe\u201d that \u201cturned her into a cultural icon and inspired generations.\u201d<\/p>\n

A commemorative U.S. postage stamp in 1967 honored the famous aviator, but this marks a local commemoration honoring her life, work and time in Greenwich Village, as part of many years in New York City.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled to be able to honor and recognize the pioneering and trailblazing aviator Amelia Earhart, whose daring efforts inspired a generation,\u201d said Andrew Berman, executive director of Village Preservation, a nonprofit dedicated to celebrating and preserving the history of Greenwich Village, East Village, and NoHo.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This is the 27th plaque Village Preservation unveiled in Greenwich Village, the East Village and NoHo as part of a program marking the homes of local figures and historic sites.<\/p>\n

Plaques have gone up honoring local and national figures such as Jane Jacobs, James Baldwin, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Mingus, Frank O\u2019Hara, Frank Stella, Martha Graham and Lorraine Hansberry.<\/p>\n

They mark historically significant sites such as the former NAACP headquarters, Julius\u2019 Bar, and the Fillmore East.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cHer entire ethos of breaking boundaries was shaped in large part by her experience in Greenwich Village,\u201d Berman continued. \u201cHonoring her with a plaque on her former home here feels particularly fitting.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Village<\/a>Village Preservation on October 27 unveiled a plaque honoring \u201cpioneer aviator\u201d Amelia Earhart at Greenwich House.Photo courtesy of Village Preservation<\/p>\n

Born Amelia Mary Earhart in Atchison, Kansas, she is best known as an aviator, but Village Preservation in a post notes she shattered \u201ca record-breaking 18,415-foot glass ceiling in her airplane.\u201d<\/p>\n

They praise her as a \u201cstaunch and vocal feminist, an author, a social service worker, a fashion icon, and, for a time, a Greenwich Village resident.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

Earhart may be famous for her work in the sky, but on land, she also showed a sense of social mission and a desire to help.\n<\/p>\n

She became a nurse\u2019s aide in Toronto and in 1919 moved to New York to study medicine at Columbia University, before moving to California where her parents relocated in 1920.<\/p>\n

It was there, in Long Beach, California, that she went on an airplane ride where she found both purpose and passion.\n<\/p>\n

Earhart asked Anita \u201cNeta\u201d Snook, a pioneer aviatrix, for lessons, saying, according to Village Preservation, \u201cI want to fly. Will you teach me?\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\u201cEarhart was dedicated to expanding the role of women in our society,\u201d Berman said. \u201cThat manifested not just in her own incredible feats, but opening the doors for and working with other women to get to the place where she achieved her greatness.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 1921, Earhart bought her first plane, earning her pilot\u2019s license two years later before moving to Boston, where she became a social worker at the Denison House, a settlement home for immigrants.<\/p>\n

She also became a sales representative for Kinner Aircraft in Boston before in 1927 moving to Greenwich Village and then becoming Aviation Editor at Cosmopolitan.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She lived and worked at Greenwich House, at their still-existing main building at 27 Barrow Street, from 1927-1929.\u00a0
\n\"The<\/a>The plaque, created to honor Amelia Earhart.Photo courtesy of Village Preservation\n<\/p>\n

Charles LeBoutillier described her while she was \u201cliving in an apartment in the Village\u201d in the \u201csettlement house.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI think most of the people in the neighborhood knew who she was but nobody took much notice,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cGreenwich House, which was a transformative institution, shaped and reflected her values,\u201d Berman said. \u201cShe wasn\u2019t \u2018just\u2019 an aviator. She was invested in helping transform society.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 1929, Earhart helped found and became the first president of an organization of female pilots that became known as the Ninety-Nines. Earhart served as its first president.<\/p>\n

Keeping her maiden name while married, she wrote to The New York Times, \u201creminding them to never call her Mrs. Putnam,\u201d according to Village Preservation.<\/p>\n

In 1928, she became the first woman to cross the Atlantic in a plane, although others piloted the craft.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

She, in August of that year, became the first woman to fly solo across the North American continent and back\n<\/p>\n

In 1931, Earhart married publisher George Palmer Putnam, who was also vice president of the Explorers Club, and they lived in an apartment at the Hotel Wyndham, 42 West Fifty-Eighth Street.\n<\/p>\n

In 1932, she became the first woman to make a nonstop solo trans-Atlantic flight, earning a Distinguished Flying Cross.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cMy ambition is to have this wonderful gift produce practical results for the future of commercial flying and for the women who may want to fly tomorrow\u2019s planes,\u201d Earhart said.<\/p>\n

In 1937, she set out to fly around the world in a twin-engine Lockheed Electra, with Fred Noonan as her navigator for a 29,000-mile journey.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

After traveling 22,000 miles over the central Pacific Ocean on their way to Howland Island, her plane\u2019s signal vanished.\n<\/p>\n

After a search-and-rescue mission, including U.S. Navy and Coast Guard ships and planes that scoured 250,000 square miles of ocean, they were unable to locate the plane and its occupants.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was tragic and mysterious,\u201d Berman said. \u201cNone of us knows exactly what happened. She knew the risks involved and was not deterred by them.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Earhart and her plane disappeared on July 2, 1937, after nearly 40 days, ending a life and career in which she took on progressively bigger challenges.\n<\/p>\n

Researchers claim an underwater object near Nikumaroro Island, halfway between Australia and Hawaii, could be the plane that disappeared into the ocean.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

They planned to examine the \u201cTaraia Object\u201d in early November as the search for the aircraft that disappeared into the ocean continues, but recently postponed the examination until next year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want people to continue to be inspired by her life and legacy,\u201d Berman said. \u201cWe want people to understand and appreciate the rich ferment of\u00a0 Greenwich Village in helping to create people like Amelia Earhart, James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansbury and Jane Jacobs and other people we honored with our plaque program from their neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It took Amelia Earhart less than a full day to cross the Atlantic solo, breaking records, a glass…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[15069,15070,2519,9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-22823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-amelia-earhart","tag-greenwich-houses","tag-greenwich-village","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}