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Jules Stewart

Greenwich Village: Past and Present

January 5, 2017 by Jules Stewart 2 Comments

453-461-sixth-avenue-in-the-historic-districtOn a bitterly cold January morning in 1917, the painters John Sloan and Marcel Duchamps, along with friends, climbed to the top of Washington Square Arch to proclaim the secession of Greenwich Village from the United States. Thenceforth the neighborhood that stood as America’s repository of avant-garde art, literature and social enlightenment would be known as the Free and Independent Republic of Washington Square. The stunt defined the character of the Village, as it is popularly known to New Yorkers, for the ensuing half century. [Read more…] about Greenwich Village: Past and Present

Filed Under: History Tagged With: Greenwich, Historic Preservation, New York City, NYC

Being A NYC Yellow Cab Driver in the 1960s

December 27, 2016 by Jules Stewart 2 Comments

jules-stewart-cab-driverThe afternoon I crashed my Yellow Cab into a fire hydrant in West 17th Street I discovered that Gotham Hospital, where I happened to be born, had long ceased to exist. That was not the hospital blown up by The Joker in The Dark Knight. Mine was quietly shut and bulldozed in the 1960s. But this perhaps helps explain a Batman fixation that endures to this day, the 77th birthday of Gotham’s caped hero. [Read more…] about Being A NYC Yellow Cab Driver in the 1960s

Filed Under: History Tagged With: New York City, Public History, Transportation History

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