Posted February 4, 200817 yr Time for another nysonglines-assisted thread. This one is a walk down Greenwich avenue (not to be confused with the longer Greenwich street in the west village) starting at 8th avenue and finishing at 6th avenue. sorry about all the jumping back and forth across the street. map of Greenwich village in lower manhattan here we go -- a look down greenwich avenue from it's very western end at 8th avenue west side of the street: Jackson Square This 1826 park was apparently named for President Andrew Jackson, a big hero for New York Democrats at the time. east side of the street: one jackson square development -- going up next door to 'my' deli the left rendering is looking down greenwich & the right one is looking back at 8th avenue http://www.corcoran.com/agents/profile.aspx?pref=Y®ion=NYC&userid=1JACKSON at the next intersection past jackson square, a look back at the northside of horatio/w13th st se view -- crossing horatio/w13th st 123-125: Mxyplyzyk; kooky housewares store (say "Mix-y-Plisk") named for Superman's enemy, an elf-like creature who had to be tricked into saying his name backwards to return him to his own dimension. 115 (NW corner Jane St): At this corner in the 1940s was Jane Street Chemists, a drugstore/luncheonette that was a hangout for folksingers like Richard Dyer-Bennet and Millard Lampell, a co-founder of the Almanac Singers who was blacklisted during the McCarthy Era. Now the Soy Luck Club, which serves lactose-free sandwiches and coffee. a look across the street at the east side of the block 118: Cafe de Bruxelles, longstanding Belgian 112: A Salt & Battery, fish and chips mini-chain 108: Tea & Sympathy, Anglophile cafe 96: Flight 001, air travel paraphernalia 94: La Palette, Brazilian/French 90: Johnny's Bar 113 (SW corner Jane St): Benny's Burritos. let's just say you get what you paid for. :laugh: 97: This newish equinox gym used to be the Art Greenwich Theater (SW Corner at w12th St) "A beloved movie house which has served its neighborhood since at least the early 1940s, the Art Greenwich Twin closed in June of 2000. Even though it has since been converted into one of several Equinox Fitness Clubs located throughout the city, it lives on in two recent films as the theater where Marisa Tomei and Vincent D'Onofrio go on a movie date in the 2001 Brad Anderson film "Happy Accidents" and caught in a quick glimpse (with its darkened marquee jutting onto Greenwich Ave) in this past spring's popular romantic comedy "Kissing Jessica Stein". the Greenwich Theatre appears in the 1947 Joan Crawford/Henry Fonda film, "Daisy Kenyon". I don't know if they actually shot on location or copied it in the studio, but it is clearly the Greenwich. They are shown outside it, and I think going into it. Perhaps one of the last views of the Greenwich... Sarah Jessica Parker meets the girls outside of the Greenwich in one of the first episodes of "Sex and the City". The Art Greenwich closed in June of 2000, its final two offerings being Ridley Scott's 'Gladiator' and the Sex Pistols documentary 'The Filth and the Fury'." continuing onward 91: The address from 1913 until 1917 of The Masses, a radical magazine edited by Max Eastman that published John Reed, Carl Sandburg, Upton Sinclair, Sherwood Anderson, Dorothy Day, Helen Keller and Amy Lowell--along with art by the likes of John Sloan and Robert Henri. It was shut down by the government over its opposition to World War I. across the street (corner w12th st) on the right side is the ugly st vincent’s hospital material handling center, but it had an interesting previous life: 86: Was the site of the Greenwich Theater cinema. Earlier was the address of James & Susan Light's 17-room apartment, where many leading artists and intellectual stayed in the 1910s--including writer Djuna Barnes, photographer Berenice Abbott and poet Malcolm Cowley. Dorothy Day was a downstairs neighbor. The building was known as Maison Clemenceau, because French statesman Georges Clemenceau had lived on the site from 1866-69, writing for the Paris Temps--he described this as the three happiest years of his life. other side of the street 81: Artepasta, Italian 77: Chez Brigitte, a tiny restaurant that has served French home-cooking since 1958, when it was founded by by Marseilles-born Brigitte Catapano. Perhaps the cheapest French restaurant around. at 7th avenue This end of the block was the site of Loew's Sheridan, where writer Ruth McKenney and her sister Eileen would go to from their apartment when they wanted privacy. Later a garden, the Village Green. Now the St Vincent's Material Handling Center. all that is going away for a st.Vincent’s hospital mini-mega atlantic yards type project that has the whole neighborhood up in arms: “…$700 million plan for a "green" facility yesterday, including a 21-story building across from its Seventh Avenue facility and the plan to demolish the old building and build luxury housing. It would be, in the words of the Sun, "the largest development project in Greenwich Village in 50 years," which in and of themselves are fighting words. The preliminary plans include about 450 units of "high-end housing," 19 mid-block townhouses, 15,000 square feet of street-level retail and 365 hospital beds.” http://curbed.com/archives/2007/10/11/battle_of_st_vincents_ready_to_start_in_earnest.php two boots pizza (the boots being italy/Louisiana) at the corner across 7th avenue St Vincent's Hospital Corner: Founded in 1849 by the Sisters of Charity. Poet Edna St. Vincent Millay was given her middle name because her uncle's life was saved here. Poet Kahlil Gibran died here in 1931, as did Dylan Thomas on November 9, 1953, several days after his famous night at the White Horse. Survivors of the Titanic disaster taken here for treatment. This was the main hospital used for treating victims of the September 11 World Trade Center attack in 2001. Mulry Square Corner: This triangular parking lot was formerly the site of a wedge-shaped diner that is said to have been the inspiration for Edward Hopper's painting Nighthawks. The parking lot's fencing supports Tiles for America, a September 11 memorial consisting of some 6,000 tiles created across the country. There's a proposal to turn Mulry Square into a small park. http://www.tilesforamerica.com/ past the fence and the tiles, the old nighthawk's diner tiling can still be seen. another look down greenwich avenue off Greenwich at the perry st intersection 45: Author William Styron lived here 54-58: Fiddlesticks, Irish-y pub; until the mid-1990s was the infamous Uncle Charlie's gay bar. 46: until it got gentrified out, Greenwich treehouse pub was the long running and atmospheric old village coffeehouse Caffe dell'Artista; downstairs is vegan Village Natural. corner w10th st: saint germain apts looking ahead towards 6th avenue 26: Lafayette Bakery, specializing in French pastries. Nice people. 28: another tiny one -- Lassi Indian was Thali Vegetarian, where everyone got the same meal. (nearby at 22: The Village Voice was founded at this address.) 19: Olde Good Things, an antique store linked to the cult-like Church of Bible Understanding. They were lampooned on Seinfeld as the ''Carpet-Cleaning Cult.'' 15: Empire Szechuan Greenwich is at the address of William Dunlap (1766-1839), called the first American playwright. http://www.wayneturney.20m.com/dunlapwilliam.htm i gotta show this, on the right hector is my repair guy, he and his family run this shop looking across Christopher st toward 6th avenue nearby Jefferson Market Greening Garden on site of former Women's House of Detention. Inmates included black activist Angela Davis, Catholic radical Dorothy Day, labor organizer Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, accused spy Ethel Rosenberg, East Side madame Bea Garfield, Warhol shooter Valerie Solanas and (in an earlier co-ed jail) Mae West. Demolished 1973. Miranda got married here on Sex in the City. not a great pic of the iconic Jefferson market building from across the garden, it’s now a mediocre ny public library branch Jefferson Market Branch, New York Public Library/originally Third Judicial District (or Jefferson Market) Courthouse, 1874-77. Vaux and Withers, architects. Exterior restoration, interior remodeling, 1967, Giorgio Cavaglieri. Further restoration, 1994, Joseph Pell Lombardi. A mock Neuschwanstein assemblage, after Ludwig II of Bavaria's castle, Neuschwanstein, famous from travel posters. here’s a wonderful historic 1926 pic of the old women’s house of detention, where the garden is now. You can also see the Jefferson Market building next to it as well as the old 6th avenue el train and bigelow chemists. More historic pics here: http://www.nyc-architecture.com/GV/GV028JeffersonMarketLibrary.htm bigelow chemists over on 6th ave, the oldest pharmacy in America, still going stronger than ever after 168 yrs :clap: http://www.bigelowchemists.com/ more of Greenwich at 6th ave terminus (although really it continues east as 8th street) gray’s papaya ny-style hotdogs and the great hiphop record shop fatbeats is on this strip too http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray's_Papaya http://www.fatbeats.com/locations.php and with that I leave you with ‘dance’ & the funky-fied opening lines of the rolling stones emotional rescue album: “Hey, what am I doing standing here on the corner of West 8th Street and the 6th Avenue and... Ah, skip it. Nothing. Keith! Watcha, watcha doing? (whistle) Oh, I think the time has come to get out, get out Get up, get out, get into something new Get up, get out, into something new...” *** I hope you enjoyed another leisurely annotated stroll in greenwich village ***
February 4, 200817 yr Very good. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
February 4, 200817 yr No pictures of Day-O or the Dew Drop Inn? Uncle Charlies. Lawd, thats an oldie.
February 4, 200817 yr day-o is day-no-mo. empty for what seems like eons. unfortunately, i am betting that when something reopens in that space it will be called or let's just say it might as well be called "the vanilla milkshake" if you know what i mean and i know you do. :| dew drop has long changed hands, it's called something else now. i'm not sure it's even open at the moment either. :| and yes gay old uncle charlie went straight irish on ya. :laugh:
February 4, 200817 yr I meant there buildings. Day-O closed because they changed there formula. They shouldn't have tried to remodel the dew drop in just cracked me up. Uncle Charlies = Robyn Bird!
February 4, 200817 yr i think i skipped those two fronts because that was the side of the street i was walking on and they are all closed up. robyn bird lol! i used to have an old vhs of debbie does dallas melting up against the rear window of my car. heh. i've seen her around, err, in real life that is, not just cable tv.
February 4, 200817 yr See any apartments for me over there?? :-D hello? upper right corner of this pic? greenwich ave. at perry st. -- better get over there quick! :wink:
February 4, 200817 yr Yeah... There goes the neighborhood! That aint solon and I bet that apartment is $1,850. mrnyc, trying to block bust they gays out! LMAO!!!
February 4, 200817 yr There goes the neighborhood! That aint solon and I bet that apartment is $1,850. mrnyc, trying to block bust they gays out! LMAO!!! Damn MTS, you are being brutal ever since I was right about the Super Bowl haha.
February 4, 200817 yr Yeah... There goes the neighborhood! That aint solon and I bet that apartment is $1,850. mrnyc, trying to block bust they gays out! LMAO!!! oh i'll block bust for ya -- i'll send him to harlemworld!
February 4, 200817 yr Yeah... There goes the neighborhood! That aint solon and I bet that apartment is $1,850. mrnyc, trying to block bust they gays out! LMAO!!! oh i'll block bust for ya -- i'll send him to harlemworld! Please, all the boys from the West Village and Chelsea are already moving up here. I say keep those queens downtown.
February 5, 200817 yr Nice job, mrnyc; very educational. Imagine Bigelow, a small 168-year-old apothecary, now selling online!
February 5, 200817 yr day-o is day-no-mo. empty for what seems like eons. unfortunately, i am betting that when something reopens in that space it will be called or let's just say it might as well be called "the vanilla milkshake" if you know what i mean and i know you do. :| dew drop has long changed hands, it's called something else now. i'm not sure it's even open at the moment either. :| and yes gay old uncle charlie went straight irish on ya. :laugh: and ages before Day-O, this location was an old-style Italian restaurant called La Marionetta--probably there since the 1930's--( ) with two ancient waiters out of central casting, one of whom would annoyingly approach every customer about to order with a sing-song-y Italian accented "filet mignon filet mignon?" (something obviously not on the menu!). Though they had excellent pizza. http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
February 5, 200817 yr Very cool! It took me about five years to finally remember which was Greenwich Street and which Greenwich Avenue. And until this thread, I never knew the origin of Two Boots.
February 5, 200817 yr I love the street-level cultural history tours. The bring back memories of walks we'd take when I used to visit my friend Greg around 20 years ago. Fabulous city!
February 5, 200817 yr Very cool! It took me about five years to finally remember which was Greenwich Street and which Greenwich Avenue. And until this thread, I never knew the origin of Two Boots. You're not alone. Other streets that got me Fulton st (in BK) and Fulton St. (in Manhattan) Morningside Ave and Morningside Drive Hamilton Place and Hamilton Terrace ...and don't get me start on Queens and the streets, places, avenues, access roads all with the same name that intersect! (for those living in Cleveland imagine a intersection like Van Aken/Chagrin, Northfield & Warrensville with the same name, with an itty bitty "st", "pl" or "ave" after the name. Example, how-in-the-hell does 115 Street, cross 115 Avenue yet 115 Place is five block up on 115 terrace?? :evil: :evil: and to top it off 115 access road run parallel to 115 avenue to ad further confusion! :whip: :whip:)
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