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Exploring the original West Village
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- Creator
- Alfred Pommer & Eleanor Winters
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Charleston, SC : History Press, 2011
- Physical Details
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- 125 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781609491512, 1609491513
- OCLC
- ocn709890526
- Development of Greenwich Village : a little background -- Christopher Street, the Ninth Avenue El, and the story of William (Bill the Butcher) Poole -- Christopher Street continued : the fighting marine, the Stonewall Inn, Lucille Lortel, and the Theater de Lys -- Weehawken Street : the shortest street in Manhattan, Newgate Prison, and the Empire Brewery -- Pig Alley, the Runaway bunny, and Diane Arbus -- Onward down Charles Street : writers, musicians, and a future mayor -- Perry Street : Frank Serpico, Jane Jacobs, Sir Peter Warren, and Bleecker Gardens -- Up and down West 11th Street : the White Horse Tavern, a palazzo, and many writers and poets -- Busy Bank Street -- West Street : Superior Ink and Herman Melville, Gansevoort Market, the Meatpacking District, and the Death Avenue cowboy -- Up on the High Line, down on Horatio Street : Odets, Baldwin, Pollock, and the Hudson Dusters -- Jane Street and back to Bank Street : Alexander Hamilton and Max Eastman, Auntie Mame and Abingdon Square
Subjects
- City and town life -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
- Historic sites -- New York (State) -- New York.
- Historic buildings -- New York (State) -- New York.
- West Village (New York, N.Y.) -- History.
- New York (N.Y.) -- History.
- West Village (New York, N.Y.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
- New York (N.Y.) -- Buildings, structures, etc.
- West Village (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography.
- New York (N.Y.) -- Biography.