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Book Old Greenwich Village

Download or read book Old Greenwich Village written by and published by Preservation Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exquisite color photographs illustrate the architectural heritage of America's best-known haven for bohemians, emphasizing how the early buildings and urban spaces continue to be adapted to contemporary uses and aesthetics without losing the sense of the original village. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Book Greenwich Village  1920 1930

    Book Details:
  • Author : Caroline Farrar Ware
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1994-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780520085664
  • Pages : 548 pages

Download or read book Greenwich Village 1920 1930 written by Caroline Farrar Ware and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Greenwich Village represents American social science during the interwar years at its best. It remains the best community study of New York, important both for its innovative method and for its substantive findings about intergroup relations in a pluralistic, open, and urban society--during a period of crisis and reform ferment."--Thomas Bender, New York University

Book Greenwich Village

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anita Dickhuth
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 9780738572734
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book Greenwich Village written by Anita Dickhuth and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greenwich Village has always attracted the innovative and independent spirit. What began as the site of an important Lenape Indian settlement has since transformed into a tourist attraction and home to celebrities, fine universities, publishers, art schools, choice restaurants, and famed night spots. The seemingly wayward streets in the West Village follow original Native American footpaths and colonial roads. Historic residences lining the quirky and charming streets reflect the area's strong ties to the past. Greenwich Village shows how the many layers of this community's history have created the sense of place that present-day Greenwich Village is famous for.

Book Old Age Poverty in Greenwich Village

Download or read book Old Age Poverty in Greenwich Village written by Mabel Louise Nassau and published by New York ; Toronto : F. H. Revell. This book was released on 1915 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Houses of Greenwich Village

Download or read book The Houses of Greenwich Village written by Kevin Murphy and published by . This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its patchwork of secluded courtyards, gardens and narrow tree-lined streets, New York s Greenwich Village is one of the very few neighborhoods that still retains the charm and timelessness of old New York. In this overview of houses from the early nineteenth century to contemporary Modernist examples, Kevin Murphy explores the architecture and interiors of eighteen houses and two gardens located in what has become one of New York City s most exclusive and desirable residential communities. Beginning with the Robert Blum House (1827), "The Houses of Greenwich Village" traces the rich history behind each home and delves into the compelling biographies of its original owners and architects, revealing the evolution of structure, design, and style in the neighborhood throughout the nineteenth century, as well as its vibrant and at times eccentric character into the twentieth century. The stunning photographs by Paul Rocheleau were specially commissioned for this book and give readers unprecedented access to some of the most beautiful homes in New York."

Book Around Washington Square

Download or read book Around Washington Square written by Luther S. Harris and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A sprawling, comprehensive account of the neighborhood's history from 1797 to the present day... It is a treasure trove for both the historian and the lover of the Village." -- New York Sun

Book Greenwich Village 1963

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sally Banes
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780822313915
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book Greenwich Village 1963 written by Sally Banes and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book does not aim to document comprehensively the extraordinarily rich activity in New York City in the early 1960's. Instead, the author focuses on one year, 1963. This was the most productive year of the period 1958-64, the transition between the Fifties and Sixties. The author also focuses on one other place---Greenwich Village in lower Manhattan. For it was primarily here, in a place already historically and culturally mythologized as avant-garde terrain, that the emerging generation of vanguard artists lived, worked, socialized, and remade the history of the avant-garde. - from the Introduction.

Book The Ghost of Greenwich Village

Download or read book The Ghost of Greenwich Village written by Lorna Graham and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this charming fiction debut, a young woman moves to Manhattan in search of romance and excitement—only to find that her apartment is haunted by the ghost of a cantankerous Beat Generation writer in need of a rather huge favor. For Eve Weldon, moving to Greenwich Village is a dream come true. She’s following in the bohemian footsteps of her mother, who lived there during the early sixties among a lively community of Beat artists and writers. But when Eve arrives, the only scribe she meets is a grumpy ghost named Donald, and the only writing she manages to do is for chirpy segments on a morning news program, Smell the Coffee. The hypercompetitive network environment is a far cry from the genial camaraderie of her mother’s literary scene, and Eve begins to wonder if the world she sought has faded from existence. But as she struggles to balance her new job, demands from Donald to help him complete his life’s work, a budding friendship with a legendary fashion designer, and a search for clues to her mother’s past, Eve begins to realize that community comes in many forms—and that the true magic of the Village is very much alive, though it may reveal itself in surprising ways.

Book The Greenwich Village Waterfront

Download or read book The Greenwich Village Waterfront written by Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Greenwich Village Historic District

Download or read book Greenwich Village Historic District written by New York (N.Y.). Landmarks Preservation Commission and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Inside Greenwich Village

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gerald W. McFarland
  • Publisher : Liverpool University Press
  • Release : 2005-01-01
  • ISBN : 9781558495029
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Inside Greenwich Village written by Gerald W. McFarland and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vibrant portrait of a celebrated urban enclave at the turn of the twentieth century.

Book Greenwich Village

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anna Alice Chapin
  • Publisher : IndyPublish.com
  • Release : 1917
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book Greenwich Village written by Anna Alice Chapin and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1917 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Greenwich Village Quill

Download or read book The Greenwich Village Quill written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II

Download or read book Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II written by New York (N.Y.). Landmarks Preservation Commission and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Republic of Dreams

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  • Author : Ross Wetzsteon
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2007-11-01
  • ISBN : 1416589511
  • Pages : 1122 pages

Download or read book Republic of Dreams written by Ross Wetzsteon and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 1122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If the twentieth century was the American century, it can be argued that it was more specifically the New York century, and Greenwich Village was the incubator of every important writer, artist, and political movement of the period. From the century's first decade through the era of beatniks and modern art in the 1950s and '60s, Greenwich Village was the destination for rebellious men and women who flocked there from all over the country to fulfill their artistic, political, and personal dreams. It has been called the most significant square mile in American cultural history, for it holds the story of the rise and fall of American socialism, women's suffrage, and the commercialization of the avant-garde. One Villager went so far as to say that "everything started in the Village except Prohibition," and in the 1940s, the young actress Lucille Ball said, "The Village is the greatest place in the world." What other community could claim a spectrum ranging from Henry James to Marlon Brando, from Marcel Duchamp to Bob Dylan, from Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney to Abbie Hoffman? The story of the Village is, in large part, the stories old Villagers have told new Villagers about former Villagers, and to tell its story is in large part to tell its legends. Republic of Dreams presents the remarkable, outrageous, often interrelated biographies of the giants of American journalism, poetry, drama, radical politics, and art who flocked to the Village for nearly half a century, among them Eugene O'Neill, whose plays were first produced by the Provincetown Players on Macdougal Street, for whom Edna St. Vincent Millay also wrote; Jackson Pollock, who moved to the Village from Wyoming in 1930 and was soon part of the group of 8th Street painters who would revolutionize Western painting; E. E. Cummings, who lived for years on Patchin Place, as did Djuna Barnes; Max Eastman, who edited the groundbreaking literary and political journal The Masses, which introduced Freud to the American public and also published Sherwood Anderson, Amy Lowell, Upton Sinclair, Maksim Gorky, and John Reed's reporting on the Russian Revolution. Republic of Dreams is beautifully researched, outspoken, wise, hip, exuberant, a monumental, definitive history that will endure for decades to come.

Book A Walk in the Village

Download or read book A Walk in the Village written by Helen Andrews-Hoag and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Notable New York

Download or read book Notable New York written by Stephen W. Plumb and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring 34 walking tours that last from 15 to 90 minutes each, this book offers guide maps as well as brief anecdotes or descriptions of events featuring famous (or infamous) figures at each destination. ." . . lively anecdotes engage the reader and make the book a pleasure to read from cover to cover."--"Library Journal."