You say you want a revolution: reimagining Greenwich Village
Now more than ever, the republic of the Village
A Village eccentric’s popular 1920s speakeasy
Greenwich Village, when it was green and a Village
Greenwich Village: past and present
Romany Marie’s bohemian cafes in the Village
Mable Dodge’s bohemian salons in the Village
The Golden Swan: a ‘hell hole’ for Village inspiration
An enclave for artists: a brief history of Greenwich Village
Community Cornerstone: Little Red School House - Elisabeth Irwin High School
John Reed, romantic revolutionary
Warren Beatty’s ‘Reds’: a long, long movie about a communist who died
Experiencing the Community: Eugene O'Neill's ambivalent response to Bohemian Utopia
Emma Goldman: a thoroughly modern anarchist
Remembering Joe and the Caffe Cino
Eddie Brennan on waterfront, White Horse, Dylan Thomas
The remarkable women of Washington Square
Suze Rotolo and Bob Dylan’s left period
Nat Hentoff, the free-thinking quick-change artist of the Village Voice
Henry James and Washington Square
Give me your tired, your poor: the story of poet and refugee advocate Emma Lazarus
Millay’s poetry in a Greenwich Village context
An Interview with the Greenwich Village poet and hellraiser Brigid Murnaghan
Bob Dylan, the Beat Generation and Allen Ginsberg’s America
Greenwich Village: The birthplace of modern American drama
Greenwich Village: The birthplace of modern American drama, part 2
Greenwich Village: The birthplace of modern American drama, part 3
The birth of the Provincetown Playhouse
Swept away by a dark current: the plays of Eugene O’Neill
The gay coffeehouse where Off-Off-Broadway was born
Edward Albee: the art of theatre
The Master of the Method plays a role himself
How George Carlin changed comedy
Six decades of stand-up that show Joan Rivers’ enduring genius
How the 60s New York dance scene revolutionised dance
Martha Graham’s life as an artful innovator of dance
Edgard Varese: in wait for the future
Searching for silence: John Cage’s art of noise
Folk City: New York and the American folk music revival
Folk music in Greenwich Village, 1940s-1953
1940s folkie commune on West 10th Street
Ornette’s permanent revolution
The 1962 Miles Davis Playboy Interview
An argument with instruments: on Charles Mingus
Charlies Parker – Bird lives!
Live at Café Bohemia: hardbop in the heart of Greenwich Village
Nick’s Tavern, the jazz join that went down swinging
Downtown, you’re legendary – the Village Vanguard at 80
The Village Vanguard: a hallowed basement
Café Society: the wrong place for the right people
Friday night fever: Café Society
The story of the Gaslight Cafe
Greenwich Village: the music that defined a scene
Edward Hopper’s Greenwich Village: the real-life inspirations behind his paintings
It takes a Village: Jackson Pollock’s loner legacy reconsidered
Jane Jacobs v Robert Moses, battle of New York’s urban titans
The woman who saved old New York
The hidden charms of the far West Village
Art studios where Whitney was born will admit visitors
Gloria Vanderbilt Whitney: advocate for the American artist
The Velvet Underground and Andy Warhol in Greenwich Village
Triangle fire: one woman who changed the rules
From Greenwich Village to the nation – leading the push for women’s rights
Margaret Sanger and the struggle for women’s rights
A progressive centennial: Margaret Sanger’s 1916 clinic
Lorraine Hansbury’s Greenwich Village: from ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ to civil rights
Before the Stonewall uprising, there was the ‘Sip-In’
The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village, John Strausbaugh
Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia, 1910-1960, Ross Wetzsteon
Greenwich Village Stories: A Collection of Memories, Judith Stonehill
Greenwich Village, Anita Dickhuth
Around Washington Square: An Illustrated History of Greenwich Village, Luther S Harris
It Happened on Washington Square, Emily, Kies, Folpe
Greenwich Village: A Guide to America's Legendary Left Bank, Judith Stonehill
Greenwich Village And How It Got That Way, Terry Miller
Inside Greenwich Village: A New York City Neighborhood, 1898-1918, Gerald W McFarland
Greenwich Village, 1913: Suffrage, Labor, and the New Woman, Mary Jane Treacy
The Improper Bohemians: Greenwich Village in Its Heyday, Allen Churchill
Greenwich Village 1963: Avant-Garde Performance and the Effervescent Body, Sally Banes
Greenwich Village: Culture and Counterculture, Leslie Berlowitz and Rick Beard
Up in the Old Hotel, Joseph Mitchell
Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir, Anatole Broyard
A Freewheelin’ Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties, Suze Rotolo
Hoot!: A Twenty-Five Year History of the Greenwich Village Music Scene, Robbie Woliver
Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution, David Carter
Beat Generation: Glory Days in Greenwich Village, Fred W MacDarrah and Gloria S MacDarrah
The Mural at the Waverly Inn: A Portrait of Greenwich Village Bohemians, Edward Sorel
The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs
The Quill, “a magazine of Greenwich Village,” was founded by Robert Edwards in 1917. It covered arts and culture and even sex, publishing work by Margaret Sanger. The following 18 volumes can be viewed as PDFs and offer a fascinating contemporary insight into the Village at its early 20th century zenith. It was published from offices at 143 West 4th Street.
The story of Greenwich Village, part 1
The story of Greenwich Village, part 2
The story of Greenwich Village, part 3
The story of Greenwich Village, part 4
The Story of Greenwich Village, part 5
The story of Greenwich Village, part 6
The story of Greenwich Village, part 7
The story of Greenwich Village, part 8
The story of Greenwich Village, part 9
The story of Greenwich Village, part 10
The story of Greenwich Village, part 11
The story of Greenwich Village, part 12
The story of Greenwich Village, part 13
The story of Greenwich Village, part 14
The story of Greenwich Village, part 15
The story of Greenwich Village, part 16
The story of Greenwich Village, part 17
The story of Greenwich Village, part 18
Greenwich Village: New York the Way It Was
Citizen Jane: Battle for the City
Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation
Legends of Folk: The Village Scene
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
50 Years with Peter, Paul and Mary
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
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