Posted by John Joseph on November 14, 2018 · 2 Comments
Lit Nerd Wednesday! My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends— It gives a lovely light! First […]
Category: Featured, Global Featured, Greenwich Village, Neighborhoods · Tags: 75 1/2 Bedford Street, artnerd, artnerdnewyork, Chumley's, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Greenwich Village, LitNerd, LitNerd Wednesday, Narrowest House in Greenwich Village
Posted by John Joseph on August 29, 2018 · 1 Comment
Lit Nerd Wednesday! The cliché images of poetry and jazz are well engrained in the pop culture psyche of the 1950s and the Beat Generation. The seeds of that image were […]
Category: Featured, Global Featured, Greenwich Village, Neighborhoods · Tags: artnerd, artnerdnewyork, Circle in the Square Theatre, David Amram, Greenwich Village, Jack Kerouac, Jose Quintero, LitNerd, LitNerd Wednesday, Philip Lamantia, Theodore Mann
Posted by John Joseph on June 13, 2018 · 2 Comments
Lit Nerd Wednesday! Tree-lined streets are a dime a dozen in the Village but very few have the reputation of the timeless Patchin Place. This small alley populated with three […]
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Posted by John Joseph on January 10, 2018 · 2 Comments
Lit Nerd Wednesday! It’s strange to think of West Eighth Street as anything but a few blocks of tacky shoe stores but in the 1950s and 60s it was […]
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Posted by John Joseph on October 4, 2017 · 3 Comments
Lit Nerd Wednesday! It’s hard to imagine when walking past the corner of West 4th and Sixth Avenue that on that little slice of greenery once stood a place […]
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Posted by John Joseph on August 2, 2017 · 1 Comment
Lit Nerd Wednesday! Minetta Tavern has a different identity these days, one of wall-to-wall people, expensive meals and cocktails and reservations hard to come by but in the 1940s it […]
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Posted by John Joseph on June 21, 2017 · 1 Comment
Lit Nerd Wednesday! Greenwich Village during the 1950’s was a magical time in post-WWII bohemia where painters, writers and poets mingled in bars and cafes in what was then part […]
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Posted by Lori Zimmer on February 6, 2017 · 1 Comment
The façade of this Gianni Intili-designed home has been painted with faux-wood doodlings by British Pop artist Richard Woods. The home was subject of a Bravo TV show called “9 By […]
Posted by Lori Zimmer on July 17, 2015 · 3 Comments
The once Bohemian Greenwich Village’s fabled “Twin Peaks” building was once an idyllic and quaint oasis for New York artists. Looking as if lifted out of a Swiss forest rather […]
Posted by artnerdaudra on June 25, 2015 · Leave a Comment
From Sex and the City and Friends to Pop Art and Abstract Expressionism, there are numerous tours of New York City evocative of eras gone by. Another popular NYC pastime? […]
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