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In 1922, aspiring composer Kenneth Harvey travels from the Midwest to Greenwich Village, New York, where he hopes to interest famed composer Kavosky in his concerto. Kenneth wanders into a speakeasy owned by the brash Danny O'Mara, who wants to put on a musical extravaganza showcasing his singing sweetheart, Bonnie Watson.
Ruth Budinoff was born in Brooklyn, New York.She attended Hunter College and Barnard College and worked as a demographer for the Bell Telephone Company. [1] Wittenberg developed a strong connection to the Greenwich Village neighborhood as a college student who idolized Village literary and intellectual figures like Crystal Eastman, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Floyd Dell, and Mabel Dodge.
The New York Women's House of Detention was a women's prison in Manhattan, New York City from 1932 to 1974. Built on the site of the Jefferson Market Prison that had succeeded the Jefferson Market in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, [1] the New York Women's House of Detention is believed to have been the world's only Art Deco prison. [2]
From 1797 [35] until 1829, [36] the bucolic village of Greenwich was the location of New York State's first penitentiary, Newgate Prison, on the Hudson River at what is now West 10th Street, [35] near the Christopher Street pier. [37] The building was designed by Joseph-François Mangin, who would later co-design New York City Hall. [38]
The village population was 1,777 at the 2010 census. [5] The Village of Greenwich is located at the southern town line of the Town of Greenwich; a small part of the village is in the Town of Easton. The village developed on both sides of the Battenkill River and is served by Route NY-29.
B. Morena Baccarin; Richard Barone; Hyatt Bass; Lillian Bassman; Paul Bateson; Cat Bauer; Paul Beattie; Lauren Belfer; David Blue (musician) Bonnie Bluh; Nancy Bogen
The Old Grapevine was a tavern in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City at the southeast corner of Sixth Avenue and 11th Street. [1] The tavern was located in a three-story roadhouse built in the 18th century and was originally called the Hawthorne. It was later named after a grapevine that grew on one of its walls. [1]
[10] [11] Also nearby was the Folklore Center, a bookstore/record store owned by Izzy Young and notable for being a musicians' gathering place and center of the New York folk-music scene. [12] [13] Live at The Gaslight 1962 (2005), a single CD release including ten songs from early Dylan performances at the club, was released by Columbia ...