Greenwich Village

“Home Journal by magazines of adultery all compact - for the provocative baring of calf and scapula by women who regard it as immoral to take Benedictine with their coffee - for the peopling of Greenwich Village by oafs who think it a devilish adventure to victual in cellars, and read Krafft-Ebing, and stare at the corset-scarred nakedness of decadent cloak-models.”

Prejudices : first series,

“Around 10 P.M. the drapery man walked through Greenwich Village under huge trapezoids of bruise-purple clouds, lit from the perpetual glow of the city.”

Mistress of Justice

“Georgetown was a little like Greenwich Village then, a little like Nome, and a little like Dodge City.”

Simon & Schuster: Roseanne Archy

“She used examples chiefly from Greenwich Village where she lived and also described older city neighborhoods such as Back-of-the-Yards in Chicago and the North End in Boston, as well as developments she had visited in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Baltimore.”

Simon & Schuster: Makeshift Metropolis

“The Yippie! movement — only later in the year was the exclamation turned to acronym by inventing the name Youth International Party — was founded that New Year's Eve, according to the official though not entirely factual story, at a Greenwich Village party, the product — so said its founders, Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin — of an evening of marijuana.”

1968 the Year that Rocked the World

“I really needed to meet Lee, an ex-bartender from Greenwich Village who voluntarily came to the jail to tell us stories about her own drunken debaucheries, and how she got sober.”

Simon & Schuster: Life As We Know It