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side of the new Parade Ground. Today some twenty thousand Students attend the Washington Square division of New York University. Very few of them know that the original building was built by conviets whom the builders had brought down from Sing Sing. The Stone-Cutters' Guild of New York resented this intrusion into their industry and rioted so violently that the 27th Regiment was quartered in the partly eredted building continuously for four days and four nights, until the strikers had been dissuaded from attacking the convicts. It was here that Morse, working with a handful of students, sent the Hrst telegraph message out into space, it was here too, that Colt conceived and perfected the pistol which bears his name. Wireless communi- cation over great distances and deathly fire-arms were born in Greenwich Village! O shades of the Gread War, look back to Morse and Colt! It was in these exciting days of the mid-century that Washington Square saw its irst labor demonstration and its iirst important duel. William Coleman, founder of the Evening Post, challenged and mortally wounded his friend Jeremiah Thompson, Collector of the Port. The New York Society, feeling that sufficient time had passed for Potter's Fields and public gallows to have been forgotten, declared Washington Square North to be the fashionable residence district of New York. The year 1830 was a propitious time to celebrate the anniversary of the evacuation of the British. Beginning at Tammany Hall, a procession of more than 25 ,000 marched to Washington Square, there to listen to speeches delivered by dottrine Monroe and by Samuel Gouveneur. Celebrities mingled with citizens. Alexander Whaley, a member of the Boston Tea Party, was thereg so were the two men who shared equal glories on the day of the evacuation of New York 5 one, John Van Arsdale, had pulled down the British flag on the Battery flag pole and the other, Anthony Glenn, had pulled aloft the banner of the United States. Democracy and the Star Spangled Banner were gaining momentum, Stanford White designed the Washington Arch which was erecfted in 1889, with the inscription at the top beginning Let us raise a standard to which the wise and 'the honest can repair . . . Washington. Across the park, Washington Square College also bears a diadem across her forehead: Perstando et Praestando-Utilitati. y 7. E ARE NOW at the latter part of the nineteenth century, a gala parade it was that crossed our line of vision from the days of the Sappokanikans to the building of Wash- ington Arch. What then, can be said of the past thirty-four years in Greenwich Village? In a census of not so long ago, Greenwich Village, the so-called Bohemia of New York City, listed more than 25,000 men and women who gave as their professions, artists. But there is more to the story than just that label, artist. O. Henry described the coming of these people: U To quaint old Greenwich Village the art people soon came prowling, ' - hunting for north windows and eighteenth century gables and dutch Q attics and low rents. I -.144 221 4996 UNI!-ep is I , N A. 4 'Him bbc: nip
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an adjacent thoroughfare Was named Reason Street after The Age o Reason But txme erodes and effaces all memorres Reason became Razszn and now rt ns Barrow A Mr John Bandel Jr engmeer to the Comm1ss1oners of the C1ty, was de6t1ned to become, unW1ttmgly the Boswell to th1s 1conoclast1c Johnson He Wr1tes I boarded zn the czty, and zn gozng to the o ce I almost dazly passed the house zn Herrzng Street Cnow Bleekerj where Thomas Pazne reszded, and frequently zn fazr weather saw hzm szttzng at the south wzndow o the first? story room of that house The sash was raised, and a small table or Stand was placed before hzm wzth an open hook placed upon zt whzch he appeared to be readzng He had hzs speftacles on hzs left elbow rested between the thumb and fingers of hzs hand hzs rzght lay upon hrs book and a decanter contaznzng lzquor of the color of rum or brandy was standzng next hzs book or beyond zt I never saw Thomas Pazne at any other place, or zn any other posztzon SW1ft speedrng years saw the Sappokanzkans and the natxve Amerncans vamsh only to be followed rn rap1d success1on by the Dutch the Enghsh the Colonxals and the R6V0lut10H1StS Thomas Paine had d1ed The spmnmg roulette Wheel of Tlme has stopped for a br1ef moment so that We may read the contemporary label New Amer zcans Each dynasty thought xtself everlastmg But l1ke those h1stor1es of greater and more vast terr1tor1es of the past, the old order m Greenwlch V111age keeps changxng Today not far d1s'tant from the s1te of the mrghty Keeya Meeka s tepee the monstrous Emplre State Bunldxng stands Ozymandlas hke lordmg over 1ts lesser ne1ghbors But It too W1ll perhaps some day be only two vast and trunkless legs of stone zn the desert The n1neteenth century w1tnessed much ln GreenW1ch Vrllage An attempt was made by Gouveneur MOIIIS to get the crooked crazy streets 1nto the ofHc1al map of the c1ty but h1s commxssxoners gave lt up as a bad job In 1822 another ep1dem1c sent more resrdents up mto the V1ClI11tY of Potter s Fzeld By th1s txme the V1llage had become urban consclous so Potters Fzeld was hurr1edly covered over and 1n 1826 the old graveyard was declared to be the new Washzngton Mzlztary Parade Ground But thxs d1d not prevent one of the heavy cannons set up on the mornmg celebra t1on from smkmg down mto a recently dug and poorly' filled grave HE UNIVERSITY of the Clty of New York was founded 1n 1830 on the east 21 SH . . f . ' ' up u a A ... ... . . , ., , . I - . . ' : . a : . , . D a 9 O U 9 9 . .... . I n u a n 0 -' . . . . , s ' 1 a ' 9 ' 9 , . . . . a a . . 1 , . . 9 . . . . . . L svn in ' Z 'El lo PIFSTARI CCCK'F
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They were fleeing into a safety Where they could practice their art unmolested, un- hampered by the conventions of the rest of the city of New York. They were fleeing into a sanctuary for the mind and for the emotions. A place where no one would bother about the kind of clothes they wore, about the way in which they let their hair grow, and about the way they let their ideas grow. Such a sanctuary, despite the fact that the Village is no longer as picturesque as it used to be, and despite the fact that pent houses have replaced attics, Greenwich Village still is. People who want freedom-freedom from convention, freedom from the tongues and the thoughts of more conventional folk still flee to Greenwich Village. Here, they may still dress, and act, and talk as they please. Here they may shirk their thoughts, paint their pictures, and write their poetry unhampered by a citizenry: still conven- tional and staid and unimaginative. Yes, they came looking for flagged courtyards and for delightfully tangled streets, they came looking for retreats and for sanctuaries, for havens and for escapes from boredom and from monotony. They came, these wild-eyed, long-haired young men, in pastel-colored smocks and black flowing ties- they came, these brittle-looking, slen- der young blondes, puffing away incessantly at cigarettes held between two trembling fingers . . . art students, cubists, futuristS, poets, playwrights, novelists . . . they opened studios, they opened art shops, they opened restaurants. just like their early ancestors fleeing before the epidemic, these nineteenth and soon to follow twentieth century children were also fleeing into the safety of the Village. There does not appear to be any record of the day when our Village first be- came the center of Art, but if the age of a building may be construed to be a calen- dar, we can look on West Fourth Street, near Sixth Avenue, to the ramshackle Old Studios as they were called until most of the original building was torn down re- cently. The estimate made by historians of this part of N eu! York and confirmed by engineers of the wrecking concern which cleared away the debris 'was that the Old Studios must have been built in the 1830's. It has been confirmed that John La- Farge had his studio here, and it was here that F-Frdx,-X xl-7f he produced his most famous Ascension. The 5' - - wit -. - Village beckoned and the young artist came, F ,Ur Dq seeking garrets and cellars, seeking all of the 4 -.f:gH E-: ,, ' ' - dinginess and poverty which seems inherent to A 3 the status of one who seeks expression in Art. Robert Blum, who won his fame in pen draw- ings, lived in an old house facing Grove Street Q! ' H Park. Jules Guerin, illustrator and painter of I bmi: murals, lived in the same house, and it was ..fi from here that he drew his inspiration for the M y H panels which now decorate a part of the Lin- ..l.ii if coln Memorial at Washington. It was the ,ffe ,,.f e - atmosphere of peace and freedom from inter- ,ef 1 if 1' 'f::r': .,.' f' : 2f'-Glu ruption which the Village offered to these young Artists-they answered the call. 6' if Q' '. . . I 1, 3 . I ii T 1 ' 5 ff-1 5 1 'lg ,x f ' T fa it 2' - -,,. . 5- A, e 'fri ' f fi. f ff f .v Mi X f ff- A 4, my, J ,f un- K l gym, ' I A Iilllh' ,X 'I M, ' df, f -1. V ' f -2 F a , F , Y r V ' . m ' K V ffl' ' i ni' H X ' 9 I 1 X 1 an 1' . i . xr st ' ' , X x, ll '1 1 Ki' t K x V iv' 1 x ' 1. it X 1 'Z 1 .ff ,....,.n. X - -1w.w-.- ,1::g,qt-5.5.4 -N -:Ply ' f Leis! ,eiizii'fr-i-5.1-5'--'J : , PEM s' :W 2'-ff-'.1f-54.27,-falf' X' X migtfffiiyl' ' gf' vf I M, f - ' -- 43, i F 1 U Jn 1 - 1- 4 ll. 1 9,1 J I 1 tv' 4 if ' . ' 'Q f 1 r ml , i , 1 ji fa U ,v If X f., Z J fn I igffifi, I I .I 1 J r ,g 5' L91 7, ,ff 5 ff ', e , ff , 43 H ll l' , f ,fwfr 79-f sf' ,. KN , , 1, , ,J .'5-4424,-1 - 'f'f'f' 'I---'-:'f',43fffLf e95?v.'g1ZjH2E!'f'?- Y-a: g.9f gif .4-,Viv mr 22 an 1 rf' ' . 4 13' f 1 .1 IAS- . e . f23 O56 Vfvlye A 9 l 5 , ' , -4-
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