GREENWICH VILLAGE A Primo Guide to Shopping, Eating, and Making Merry in True Bohemia
Language: English
Published by St. Martin's Griffin (1995), New York, NY, 1995
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New York, NY: St. Martin's Griffin. G/No Dustjacket. (1995). First Thus. Trade PAPERBACK. Sm 4to., 212 pp., rubbed, bumped .
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- Title
- GREENWICH VILLAGE A Primo Guide to Shopping, Eating, and Making Merry in True Bohemia
- Author
- Heide, Robert and John Gilman
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Griffin (1995), New York, NY
- Publication year
- 1995
- Condition
- G/No Dustjacket
- Binding
- Trade PAPERBACK
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0312118694
- ISBN 13
- 9780312118693
- Illustrator
- Black & White Photos & Illus.
- Edition
- First Thus.
- Seller catalogs
- HISTORY-New York City
Locate Keith Haring's Village murals and shop and Haring's Pop Shop, Religious Sex on St. Marks Place, Alphabets, Little Rickie, Grover van Dexter's Second Childhood, and Bleeker Bob's eclectic record emporium.
Take a bar run to old McSorley's, the Eerie Pubs, the Lion's Head, and the White Horse, where Dylan Thomas drank all night. Meet celebrities at Angelina Boone's Pennyfeathers on Sheridan Square or have an egg cream at Stingy Lulu's or the Gem Spa.
Eat the best croissant this side of Paris at Chez Claude. Sip espresso and cappuccino at the Reggio, Caffe Dante, the Bleeker Street Pastry Shop, or De Robertis Pasticceria.
Listen to poetry at the Cornelia Street Cafe of see anew play at Theater for the New City, La Mama, the Nuyorican, of the Ridiculous. Visit the site of the first off-off Broadway theater, the Caffe Cino. Check out the jazz and cabaret scene at Five Oaks, Marie's Crisis, the Vanguard, or the Blue Note.
Enjoy the gastronomical-pizza at John's Southern cooking at the Pink Tea Cup, Polish fare at the Kiev or the Veselka, falafel at Mamoun's, pastrami, kielbasa, chopped liver, sauerkraut, yellow mustard, and Cel-Ray tonic at Katz's. Buy some fancy foodstuffs at Dean & Deluca's and Balducci's. Have your coffee ground at the Porto Rico.
rTake a unique, self-guided tour down wild Christopher Street to the Stonewall, Boots and Saddles, and the Caffe Passione. Follow in the footsteps of freewheelin' Bob Dylan down the twisting alleys of Minetta on a "Positively Fourth Street" walk. Follow the zigzag/East-West walk and see East Village skinheads and their green-haired girlfriends wearing nose rings walking their pitbulls in Tompkins Square Park. Take all the walks, including the Broadway Shopaholic Walk to buy Avirex leather jackets, complete stereo sets, and futon mattresses, an walks through the historic West Village and SoHo.
Added Attractions: Robert Heide's Village play American Hamburger, Tom Lohre's artwork, Phil Cohen's photographs, detailed maps, Greenwich Village history, original poetry, ghost stories, architecture, and much more.
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About the Author
John Gilman is a photographer and writer and the author, with Robert Heide of ten books on popular culture in twentieth-century America. He spent his childhood years in Honolulu and San Francisco'; as a young man, he came to Greenwich Village and stayed. As an actor, he appeared in Village productions at the Caffe Cino, Judson Church, Cafe La Mama, and Theater for the New City. He worked at several publications in New York, including the Village Voice, and was also Executive Director of the American Society of Magazine Photographers. He is a contributor to several publications, including the New York Daily News, Collector's Showcase, and the Village Voice.
pardBooks co-authored by Robert Heide and John Gilman include Home Front America, Disneyana, O-New Jersey, Popular Art Dco, Box-Office Buckaroos, Starstruck, Cartoon Collectibles, and Dime-Store Dream Parade.
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