 A picture down W. 4th St., with W. 12th running left-right West 4th Street is a narrow one lane street in New York City's Greenwich Village. The street heads east-west through Greenwich Village, then turns north to intersect with West 12th Street. The approximate three block section of West 4th on the southern border of Washington Square Park is also called Washington Square South. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2576x1932, 928 KB) Summary Took this picture myself on December 29, 2005 Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version...
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The Washington Square Arch Greenwich Village (pronounced Grennich Village; also called simply the Village) is a largely residential area on the west side of downtown (southern) Manhattan in New York City. ...
A view of the park showing the Washington Square Arch and the central fountain Washington Square Park is a public park located within the New York City borough of Manhattan. ...
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The Washington Square Methodist Church (135 W. 4th) is an early Romanesque Revival marble edifice designed by Gamaliel King built in 1859-60.[1] Dubbed the "Peach Church" for its assistance to the antiwar movement, Washington Square Church long provided a base for activist groups such as the Black Panthers and Gay Men's Health Crisis. The church was sold in 2005 to a developer for conversion into residential units.[2] A style of building in the late 19th century (roughly 1840 and 1900) inspired by the 11th and 12th century Romanesque style of architecture. ...
The global peace movement refers to a sense of common purpose among organizations that seek to end wars and minimize inter-human violence, usually through pacifism, non-violent resistance, diplomacy, boycott, moral purchasing and demonstrating. ...
The Black Panther Party (originally called the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a revolutionary Black nationalist organization in the United States that formed in the late 1960s and grew to national prominence before falling apart due to factional rivalries stirred up by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. ...
The Gay Mens Health Crisis (GMHC) is a non-profit, volunteer-supported and community-based organization that has lead the United States in the fight against AIDS. It was founded by Larry Kramer and Paul Popham. ...
The West 4th Street subway station at Sixth avenue is one of the major transfer points in the NYC transit system. Sixth Avenue looking south from 18th Street Sixth Avenue is a major avenue in New York Citys borough of Manhattan. ...
The street is also home to the "Cage" basketball and handball courts, a hangout for some of New York's best basketball players and the site of a city-wide streetball tournament.[3] This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...
Sara Giauro shoots a three-point shot, FIBA Europe Cup for Women Finals 2005 Basketball is a sport in which two teams of five players each try to score points by throwing a ball through a hoop (the basket) under organized rules. ...
Team handball (also known as field handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport where two teams of seven players each (six players and a goalkeeper) pass and bounce a ball trying to throw it in the goal of the opposing team. ...
Streetball is an urban form of basketball, played in playgrounds and imitated in gymnasiums across the world. ...
Historic locations and residents West 4th Street has always been at the center of the Village's bohemian lifestyle. The Village's first tearoom, The Mad Hatter, was located at 150 W. 4th St. and served as a meeting place for intellectuals and artists.
 The intersection of West 4th and West 12th Streets The infamous Golden Swan bar (known as the "Hell Hole"), at the corner of Sixth avenue, was a famous haunt of Eugene O'Neill and the setting and inspiration for his play The Iceman Cometh. Writer Willa Cather's first NY residence was at 60 Washington Square South (4th Street beween LaGuardia Place and Thompson Place) and radical journalists John Reed and Lincoln Steffens lived nearby at 60 Washington Square South. Reed later worked in a room in the Studio Club building to complete the series of articles that became his account of the Bolshevik Revolution, Ten Days that Shook the World, later the source for the movie Reds.[4] Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2576x1932, 1151 KB) Summary Took this picture myself on February 10, 2006 Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version...
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Eugene ONeill Eugene Gladstone ONeill (October 16, 1888 - November 27, 1953) was an American playwright. ...
The Iceman Cometh is a play by Eugene ONeill, which was later made into a TV movie in 1960 as well as a big screen motion picture in 1973, both by the same name. ...
Willa Cather photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1936 Willa Sibert Cather (December 7, 1873 – April 24, 1947) is among the most eminent female American authors. ...
John Reed John Jack Silas Reed (October 22, 1887 – October 19, 1920) was a journalist and communist activist, famous for his first-hand account of the Bolshevik Revolution, Ten Days that Shook the World. ...
Joseph Lincoln Steffens (April 6, 1866–August 9, 1936), American journalist, was one of the most famous and influential practitioners of the journalistic style called muckraking. ...
The October Revolution, also known as the Bolshevik Revolution, was the second phase of the Russian Revolution, the first having been instigated by the events around the February Revolution. ...
The title may refer to one of the following. ...
See also Cincinnati Reds Reds is a 1981 movie starring Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton. ...
Sculptor and art patron Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney established the Whitney Studio Club in a brownstone at 147 W. 4th Street in 1918 as a place for young artists to gather and show their work. The facility operated for ten years and was the second incarnation of what would later become the Whitney Museum of American Art.[5] It started the careers of such artists as Ashcan school painter John Sloan, Edward Hopper, whose first one-man exhibit was held there in 1920, and social realists Reginald Marsh and Isabel Bishop. Sloan lived at 240 W. 4th St and painted locations on the street including the Golden Swan. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (January 9, 1875 - April 18, 1942) was a member of the prominent United States Vanderbilt family. ...
Four-story brownstones in Harlem, just south of 125th Street, 2004 Romanesque revival building in Colorado, built in 1890 Brownstone is a brown sandstone which was once a popular building material. ...
Night view of Whitney Museum of American Art The Whitney Museum of American Art is an art gallery and museum in New York City founded in 1931 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. ...
The Ash Can School was remembered on the USPS stamp. ...
John French Sloan (August 2, 1871 - September 8, 1951) was a U.S. artist. ...
Nighthawks. ...
Social Realism is a term used to describe visual and other realistic arts depicting working class activities as heroic. ...
Reginald Marsh (artist) was an American painter most notable for his detailed depictions of life in New York City in the 1920s. ...
The street was later home to the famous folk club Gerde's Folk City (11 W. 4th St.), which hosted the NY debuts of Bob Dylan in 1961 and Simon & Garfunkel. Dylan also lived from early-1962 until late-1964 in a small $80-per-month studio apartment at 161 W. 4th Street[6] and the street may have inspired his 1965 hit song "Positively 4th Street". Bob Dylan (born Robert Allen Zimmerman on 24 May 1941) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and poet whose enduring contributions to American song are comparable, in fame and influence, to those of Stephen Foster, Irving Berlin, Woody Guthrie, and Hank Williams. ...
Bridge Over Troubled Water was Simon and Garfunkels last album; the title track was their only number one hit in the United Kingdom. ...
Positively 4th Street is a song written and performed by Bob Dylan. ...
References - ^ New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, Guide to New York City Landmarks, John Wiley and Sons: 2003, Pg. 50.
- ^ Albert Amateau, "Washington Square church is sold", The Villager, Vol. 75, Num. 10, July 27, 2005 Online version
- ^ Wight Martindale Jr., Inside the Cage : A Season at West 4th Street's Legendary Tournament, Simon Spotlight Entertainment: 2005.
- ^ Patrick Bunyan, All Around the Town: Amazing Manhattan Facts and Curiosities, Fordham Univ Press: 1999, Pp. 143, 147.
- ^ Janet Wolff, "Women at the Whitney, 1910-1930" in Bettina Messias Carbonell, editor, Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts, Blackwell Publishing: 2003, Pg. 485.
- ^ Howard Sounes, Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan, Grove Press: 2002, Pp. 108, 164.
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