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Bethune Street, Greenwich Village. Available for purchase. Greenwich Village was magnetic for many folk musicians in the 1960s.   Cutting their teeth on acoustic guitars in smoke-filled coffee houses, a cadre…

Bethune Street, Greenwich Village. Available for purchase. Chapter 22 of the Strausbaugh book, A History of Greenwich Village, chronicles a few of the colorful personalities that illuminated the magnetic atmosphere of…

Bethune Street, Greenwich Village. Available for purchase. Like a small pond after a heavy rain, Greenwich Village filled with weary yet hopeful souls at the close of WWII.  More than…

Jane Street, Greenwich Village. Available for purchase. In the Strausbaugh book, A History of Greenwich Village, the match that lit the fuse of the famous Stonewall Riot happened during a routine…

Jane Street, Greenwich Village. Available for purchase. In Greenwich Village during the 1960s, it wasn’t all flower power, hippies and free love.  A little beyond the strains of Bob Dylan and Peter, Paul and…

Jane Street, Greenwich Village. Available for purchase. Greenwich Village was in the throes of economic hardship in the early days of the Great Depression.  As described by author John Strausbaugh…

Jane Street, Greenwich Village. Available for purchase. Chapter 12 of the John Strausbaugh, History of Greenwich Village is fittingly called The Coney Island of the Soul.  The chapter describes people…

Oasis off Horatio Street, Greenwich Village Chapter 6 of Strasbough’s A History of Greenwich Village begins: “There was a Greenwich Village then – A refuge for the tormented men whose…

Horatio Street, Greenwich Village “So, to quaint Old Greenwich Village the art people soon came prowling, hunting for North windows and eighteenth-century gables and Dutch attics and low rents.” -…