Greenwich Village, 12th Street Between Sixth and Seventh Avenues

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This is the last shot of this walk, but before we leave Greenwich Village, I want to lament my failure to remember that 11th Street is where the townhouse was that was accidentally blown up in 1970 by the Weathermen, three of whom were killed in the blast. I walked right by it without a clue! Dammit. It's at 18 West 11th Street and I've found pictures of the house that replaced it, so I know I didn't photograph it. Read a good account of it here.

And isn't this a pretty picture in spite of itself?

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Greenwich Village, 12th Street Between Fifth and Sixth Avenues

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This plaque is right there on the building, telling when it was built and by whom and what style it is. Everything I always want to know. Why don't all buildings have them?

You will also be able to know these things if you enlarge the photo.




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Mary Sargent © 2009 … click to enlarge

And here's one on the building next door. I cannot find out anything at all about Irving and/or Jean Scholnik. Makes me kind of sad.

Greenwich Village, 12th Street Between University Place and Fifth Avenue

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And across the street, a sunny little café. If you want to go through the door and check out the inside, go here for a slide show.

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Greenwich Village, 12th Street Between University Place and Fifth Avenue

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Back to the beginning of yesterday's walk, which started downtown because I was early for a doctor's appointment so I took a few shots on 12th Street to kill some time.

A few doors down from Dr. Dempsey's office is the venerable Cinema Village, one of the important movie theaters in New York. Follow the link for some history. It makes me nostalgic to think of the movie theaters in the 80s, when I moved here. Damn, New York was a movie town. I remember reading at that time that if you didn't go to the movies that much, you should immediately give up your apartment so that someone who did could live here.

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