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Exploring the original West Village
- Title
- Exploring the original West Village / Alfred Pommer & Eleanor Winters.
- Author
- Pommer, Alfred.
- Publication
- Charleston, SC : History Press, 2011.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Winters, Eleanor.
- Description
- 125 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- West Village (New York, N.Y.) > Buildings, structures, etc
- City and town life > New York (State) > New York > History
- West Village (New York, N.Y.) > History
- Historic buildings > New York (State) > New York
- Historic sites > New York (State) > New York
- West Village (New York, N.Y.) > Biography
- New York (N.Y.) > History
- New York (N.Y.) > Buildings, structures, etc
- New York (N.Y.) > Biography
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- IRGV 12-4740
- ISBN
- 9781609491512
- 1609491513
- LCCN
- 2011013396
- Author
- Pommer, Alfred.
- Title
- Exploring the original West Village / Alfred Pommer & Eleanor Winters.
- Imprint
- Charleston, SC : History Press, 2011.
- Added Author
- Winters, Eleanor.
- Research Call Number
- IRGV 12-4740