Since then, and since the pure grain had gotten him divorced from every decent -- and even indecent -- group from Greenwich Village to the Embarcadero, he had become a sucker-rolling freight-jumper.

But Mercer hung on, living, after a fashion, in a Greenwich Village fourth-flight walk-up.

He moved in a `` highly intellectual '' group in Greenwich Village in the late forties, becoming `` internationalized '' overnight.

Only '' a New York hick would expect to find the literary life in Greenwich Village, at any point, later than Walt Whitman's day.

Leila ( Malia Phillips ), 25, is a Greenwich Village painter of Persianesque miniatures who has red hair that cascades almost to her ankles.

She patronized Greenwich Village artists for awhile, then put some money into a Broadway show which was successful ( terrible, but successful ).

Also on the bill at the Fifty-fifth Street is a nice ten-minute color film called `` Sunday In Greenwich Village '', a tour of the haunts and joints.

He lived in " airless rat holes " in Greenwich Village and turned out advertising strips at $ 2 apiece while scouring the city hunting for jobs.

Another early reference reports that " base ball " was regularly played on Saturdays in 1823 on the outskirts of New York City in an area that today is Greenwich Village.

" By 1928, Fuller was living in Greenwich Village and spending much of his time at the popular café Romany Marie's, where he had spent an evening in conversation with Marie and Eugene O ' Neill several years earlier.

The film, which was co-directed with Leach and producer Cynthia Munroe, had been shot in 1963 but remained unreleased until 1969, when De Palma's star had risen sufficiently within the Greenwich Village filmmaking scene.

The Hollys settled in Apartment 4H of the Brevoort Apartments located at 11 Fifth Avenue in Greenwich Village.

Broadway marks the boundary between Greenwich Village to the west and the East Village to the east, passing Astor Place.

In December 2011, Caltech students went to New York and pulled a prank on Manhattan's Greenwich Village.

When police raided one such bar, the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village section of New York City in June 1969, patrons fought back, leading to the Stonewall Riots.

Category: People from Greenwich Village, New York

In 1967, Jones opened his first store, called Zilch, at 217 Thompson Street in the Greenwich Village section of New York City.

Category: People from Greenwich Village, New York

Category: People from Greenwich Village, New York

* City and Country School-A Progressive Children's School in Greenwich Village, New York, founded in 1914 by Caroline Pratt

* Murder in Greenwich Village ( 1937 )

LaGuardia was born in Greenwich Village in New York City to two Italian immigrant parents.

Fiorello LaGuardia statue at LaGuardia Place in Greenwich Village, NYC

* LaGuardia Place, a street in Greenwich Village which runs from Houston Street to Washington Square, is named for La Guardia ; there is also a statue of the mayor on that street.

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the crest of the former metropolitan borough of Greenwich was used as a symbol for the club but this was not used on the team's shirts.

After his death, a " Bogie Cult " formed at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as well as Greenwich Village, New York and in France, which contributed to his spike in popularity in the late 1950s and 1960s.

Butch women were not a novelty in the 1950s ; even in Harlem and Greenwich Village in the 1920s some women assumed these personae.

The social repression of the 1950s resulted in a cultural revolution in Greenwich Village.

The author, who went on to found the Fugs, lived in the beatnik epicenter of Greenwich Village and the Lower East Side in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

The series transplanted the couple to New York's Greenwich Village, updating the 1930s big band glamour to the 1950s beat generation.

During the 1950s through the early 1960s the artists often congregated at the Cedar Tavern in Greenwich Village and during the mid 1960s through the early 1970s at Max's Kansas City on Park Avenue South between 17th and 18th Streets.

Part of the Paris postwar literary movement in the 1950s and a companion to Beat writers in Greenwich Village, Southern was also at the center of Swinging London in the 1960s and helped to change the style and substance of American films in the 1970s.

The Harry Smith Anthology, as some call it, was the bible of folk music during the late 1950s and early 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene.

At the ceremony at the Waldorf-Astoria, which was telecast on the Fuse TV cable network, songwriter Carole King inducted Mann and Weil and other songwriting colleagues from the 1950s and early 1960s, including Ellie Greenwich ( posthumously ) and Jeff Barry, Otis Blackwell ( posthumously ), Mort Shuman, and Jesse Stone ( posthumously ).

The novel tells of the bohemian lifestyle of musicians, writers and other artists living in Greenwich Village in the late 1950s.

Baldwin started writing Another Country in Greenwich Village in 1948 and only completed it in Istanbul in 1962-he had been working on it while in Paris in the 1950s.

Due to overwhelming disgust with the impending overdevelopment of Greenwich Village during the late 1950s and early 1960s, residents organized to fight further destruction of historic buildings and townhouses within the village.

Greenwich Village also played a major role in the development of the folk music scene of the 1960s.

The origins of New York's punk rock scene can be traced back to such sources as late 1960s trash culture and an early 1970s underground rock movement centered on the Mercer Arts Center in Greenwich Village, where the New York Dolls performed.

He attended Carleton College before he moved to New York City, where he became part of the folk music scene in Greenwich Village during the first half of the 1960s.

* Ellie Greenwich ( 1940 – 2009 ), Brill Building songwriter and performer, who with her then-husband Jeff Barry, created a number of popular hit records during the 1960s

The band had its roots in the folk music scene based in the Greenwich Village section of lower Manhattan during the early 1960s.

The Voice was launched by Ed Fancher, Dan Wolf, John Wilcock, and Norman Mailer on October 26, 1955 from a two-bedroom apartment in Greenwich Village, which was its initial coverage area, expanding to other parts of the city by the 1960s.

From the late 1940s to the 1960s, the bohemian free-love tradition of Greenwich Village was carried on by the beat generation, although differing with their predecessors by being an apparently male-dominated movement.

Rivers performed in numerous comedy clubs in the Greenwich Village area of New York City in the early 1960s, including The Bitter End and The Gaslight Cafe, before making her first appearances as a guest on the TV program The Tonight Show originating from New York, hosted at the time by Jack Paar.

Musicians from New York have also dominated the Jewish-American klezmer scene, the Greenwich Village old-time music revival, and the straight 1960s pop music exemplified by the Brill Building sound.

Several of the city's leading jazz clubs are still located in Greenwich Village, which was also one of the primary bases of the American folk music revival of the 1960s.

During the 1960s, while living in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan, Young released two solo albums, The Soul of a City Boy and Young Blood.

Powell composed several electronic music pieces in the 1960s, some of which were performed at the Electric Circus in New York's Greenwich Village, a venue that also saw performances by groundbreaking rock music acts like The Velvet Underground, The Grateful Dead, and Blue Oyster Cult.

The Clancy Brothers were contemporaries of Bob Dylan and they became friends as they played the clubs of Greenwich Village in New York in the early 1960s.

After stints at City College of New York and as the manager of a folk music coffee shop ( a " basket house ") in Greenwich Village in the 1960s, he started his publishing career in the complaints department of Ace Books.

The first act derives its name ( International Stud ) from an actual Gay bar of the same name at 117 Perry Street in Greenwich Village in the 1960s and 1970s.

Unlike most folk musicians who were a part of the early 1960s Greenwich Village music scene, Travers grew up in that New York City neighborhood.

That he was black was well known in the Greenwich Village literary community from the early 1960s.

While attending the Clerk Typist School in Fort Dix, New Jersey, he began writing songs on his typewriter and spent almost every weekend visiting Greenwich Village in New York City during the emerging early 1960s folk revival.

Of the songwriters on the Greenwich Village scene of the 1960s, Dave Van Ronk said, " Dylan is usually cited as the founder of the new song movement, and he certainly became its most visible standard-bearer, but the person who started the whole thing was Tom Paxton ... he tested his songs in the crucible of live performance, he found that his own stuff was getting more attention than when he was singing traditional songs or stuff by other people ... he set himself a training regimen of deliberately writing one song every day.