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Village of Greenwich Historic District is a national historic district located at Greenwich in Washington County, New York. It includes 165 contributing buildings, six contributing sites (parks), one contributing structure, and 27 contributing objects.
Village Barn was the first country music program on American network television.Broadcast by NBC-TV from May 24, 1948 [1] –September 1949 and from January 16–May 29, 1950, the live weekly variety series originated from The Village Barn, a country music nightclub in New York City's Greenwich Village.
[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 ...
Founded by New York-based artist Mercedes Matter and her students, the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture is an art school formed in the mid-1960s in the Village. Officially opened September 23, 1964, the school is still active, at 8 W. 8th Street, the site of the original Whitney Museum of American Art .
The Odeon is a restaurant in New York City. [1] The restaurant opened in 1980, in space previously occupied by Towers Cafeteria. [2] The restaurant was founded by Lynn Wagenknecht, Keith McNally, and Brian McNally. [3] [4] Wagenknecht continues to run the restaurant. Wagenknecht has characterized the restaurant as a brasserie. [5]
Barney Josephson (February 1, 1902 – September 29, 1988) was the American founder of Café Society in Greenwich Village, New York's first integrated nightclub. Opening artists in 1938 included Billie Holiday , who first performed the song " Strange Fruit " there.
Rocco Restaurant was an Italian restaurant on Thompson Street (Manhattan) in Greenwich Village. [1] Ralph Redillo, the superintendent of the building, has said it was a “big mob joint” and in the 1950s, attracted Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio. Later celebrity guests included Johnny Depp, Robert De Niro and Screw Magazine editor Al ...
Marie Marchand (May 17, 1885, Băbeni, Vâlcea County — February 20, 1961, Greenwich Village, New York), known as Romany Marie, was a Greenwich Village restaurateur who played a key role in bohemianism from the early 1900s through the late 1950s in Manhattan.