Debra Perelman ?

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Debra has four-story town house on the historic Macdougal-Sullivan Garden in Greenwich Village

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Greenwich Village or The Village as it is known most New Yorkers, is a predominantly residential area, located in the southwest of the district (borough) Manhattan in New York.

The Village is surrounded by Broadway to the east, the Hudson River to the west, Houston Street to the south and 14th Street to the north. Neighborhoods that surround it are the East Village to the east, south SoHo and Chelsea to the north. East Village, once known as the Bowery and Lower East Side, is occasionally mentioned as part of Greenwich Village. However, it is considered a nearby neighborhood.

The names of places in New York are changing, due to the influence of developers, local authorities, or simply because a name is no longer appropriate to its inhabitants. A name does not change only if the residents of the city adopt the collective, which takes years when, for an informal process, however, "Clinton" was never accepted by most residents Village. Similarly, residents of New York seldom refer to the Sixth Avenue as the Avenue of the Americas. A new name may be controversial area, as can the perception of its limits. Greenwich Village was better known as Washington Square in the nineteenth century.

Greenwich Village was a small rural village in the past (hence the name) before being included in New York. Thus, the provision of streets does not coincide with most of the cadastral map in a grid of Manhattan (prepared according to the Commissioners' Plan of 1811). Greenwich Village was allowed to keep the model of the layout of streets when the plan was implemented, which has the effect that a provision contrasts with the ordered structure of other parts of the city. Many streets are narrow and there are turns in place of intersections at right angles. In addition, unlike most of Manhattan, the streets of the Village have names instead of numbers. There are a few numbered streets, but the numbers do not always conform to the model the rest of the city and it does not continue in the neighboring districts. For example, West 4th Street joined the 12th Street West north of the neighborhood.

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Greenwich Village is located on a former swamp. In the sixteenth century, Native Americans called Sapokanikan ("tobacco field"). The first Dutch settlers cleared the site around 1630 and turned into pasture, before appointing Noortwyck. When the British conquered New Amsterdam in 1664, Greenwich Village, then simple hamlet, had developed separately and more than three miles from Manhattan, which was already larger and growing rapidly. The village officially became a village in 1712 and the first reference as "Grin'wich" in the archives of the city dates from 1713. In 1822 an epidemic of yellow fever descended on New York and urged residents to settle in Greenwich Village, where the air was healthier. After that, many decided to stay.

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Greenwich Village is known throughout the world as a bastion of artistic culture and a bohemian lifestyle. The area is renowned for its picturesque, artists and alternative culture. Due to the progressive attitudes of its residents, the Village has traditionally been the focus of new political, artistic or cultural. This tradition of avant-garde enclave of alternative culture since the early twentieth century and at the time based on the development of small presses, art galleries and an experimental theater.

After the Second World War, Greenwich was frequented by painters of expressionism abstrait1. In 1947, the Living Theatre was founded and became one of the main scenes of the theater avant-garde2. The Village Voice, a newspaper investigation, was founded in 19553.

During the heyday of bohemian culture in Greenwich Village became famous for his eccentric characters such as Joe Gould (later described by Joseph Mitchell), the poet Maxwell Bodenheim (1893-1954), who was the author a book called Naked on roller skates before he died murdered by his wife's lover. As well as its greats initiated by Eugene O'Neill. The spirit of rebellion was fueled by political activist, journalist John Reed, the Communist from the start, who died in 1920, and buried in the Kremlin in Moscow. On a more original still, we can also mention Marcel Duchamp, French-American artist with anarchist tendencies and his friends who let go of the balloons in the sky from the top of the Washington Square arch, proclaiming the founding of the "Independent Republic Greenwich Village. "

The Village again became important to the bohemian scene during the 1950s, when the Beat Generation will focus its energy2. Wanting to escape what she felt like an oppressive social conformity, a collection of writers, poets, artists and students in search of freedom went to Greenwich Village. These were the forerunners of the hippie scene in Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco the next decade. The Village and New York City later played central roles in the works of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs, among others.

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Greenwich Village has played an important role in the development of the folk music scene in the 1960s. Three of the four members of The Mamas and the Papas met there. One of the residents of the Village, Bob Dylan, was one of the first composers of popular songs countries4, and often the creations in New York directly influenced folk rock movement in San Francisco, and this in both directions. The photo on the cover of Freewheelin 'has also been taken to the Village.

During a trip in 1964, Johnny Hallyday discovered that the two guitarists had long sought. Joey Greco and Raph Dipettro were playing "Trudi Hill Club." Brought them to France to train its future group "Joey and the Showmen."

The dozens of other cultural and popular icons got their start in the Village nightclub, theater, and coffeehouse scene, scene of a café in the 1950's, 60's and early 70's. The Greenwich Village in the 1950s and was 60 at the center of the book by Jane Jacobs The Death and Life of Great American Cities, where she defended and similar communities, at the same time criticizing the policy of urban renewal his time.

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In recent years, the Village has maintained its role as a rebellious defiance of American culture at large. For example, its role in the gay liberation movement. In 1969, the Stonewall riots in Christopher Street marked the beginning of the gay liberation movement in the US5 and worldwide. The oldest bookstore in the publications gays and lesbians, the Oscar Wilde Bookshop was established in Greenwich Village in 1967. Thus, the term "village" soon became a generic term associated with the gay movement (known in English as "gay villages" to refer to areas frequented by gay communities). The disco group The Village People there began. This is one of the hotels in Greenwich that Sid Vicious was found dead. In the 1980 other gay artists invest the district to develop their art, including Nelson Sullivan who practices the art video and, thereby, the self-portrait.

See also the category of the English Wikipedia: The Scene in Greenwich Village.

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Today, artists and local historians bemoan the disappearance of the bohemian culture of the district, mainly due to the explosion in property prices. Artists have long since moved to Williamsburg in Brooklyn, Long Island and New Jersey. However, residents of Greenwich Village still possess a strong community identity and pride in the unique history and fame of their neighborhood. His lifestyle of freedom and recklessness, his unique and different is so strongly felt by its residents many of them do not live anywhere else. It is thus sometimes referred to ironically they are unable to locate New York specifically, apart from vaguely "outside the city (the Village), somewhere north of 14th Street.

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The Village also has a vibrant artistic life. It has indeed many experimental theaters called Off-Broadway and avant-garde called Off-Off-Broadway. For example, the collective of contemporary artists Blue Man Group, which include shot commercials for IBM has taken up residence in the Astor Place Theater (in). The Village Vanguard jazz club hosts some of the biggest names in the discipline on a regular basis. The comedy clubs value both the Village, including The Boston and Comedy Cellar, where many stand-up comic of U.S. made their debut.

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Fictional universe

Between 1994 -2004, the NBC sitcom Friends was set in the Village, although it is filmed and produced in Burbank, California. The scenes outside the building where the apartment is situated Monica is actually located between Grove Street and Bedford Street, in West Greenwich Village.

The characters of the sitcom CBS Aline & Cathy shared an ancient building style "brownstone" in Greenwich Village in the majority of episodes of the mid-1980s.

The character Dr. Strange Marvel Comics comes from the Village.

The film Going on 30 Jennifer Garner about a girl's wish for his birthday to be older (it is a modern version of Big). The film includes a scene where the main character wants to find a boy from her past. When asked his secretary where the boy now lives, it responds "The Village", making confused the main character, who always keeps his behavior and thoughts of a 13 year old girl in an adult body. The Secretary is required to clarify by adding "... ... Greenwich Village."

The heroine of the novel The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot, Mia lives with her mother in an old fire station in Greenwich Village.

Kinky Friedman has lived in the Village that he uses in his novels.

RUEHL no. 925 invented the concept based on a tanner German who established his shop in Greenwich Village, at No. 925.

In 2007, Julie Taymor chose Greenwich Village for the shooting of his film Across the Universe (Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess).
In the movie "Men in Black II", the officer in charge of welcoming new aliens they said they must remain hidden at night but can go out the day in Greenwich Village

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