![]() We’re also looking to improve the show in other ways and expand in other ways as well - through publishing, social media, live events and other forms of media. We are now producing a new Bowery Boys podcast every other week. The Bowery Boys: New York City History podcast is brought to you …. ![]() You can also listen to the show on Overcast, Google Music and Stitcher streaming radio. To download this episode and subscribe to our show for free, visit iTunes or other podcasting services. Listen Now: Greenwich Village 1960s Podcast *snap* *snap*īut we’re also talking preservation with Andrew Berman, executive director of the Greenwich Village Society of Historic Preservation, to learn how the Greenwich Village Historic District came to be. There’s gonna be mandolins! And chess players. This episode will present a little walk through Greenwich Village in the early ’60s, giving you the flavor of the Village during the era - and an ample sampling of its sights and sounds. In just a few short years, the neighborhood’s community of artists and creators had helped to define American culture. ![]() Nobody was saying that about the Village in the 1960s. ![]() In the 1950s, people often defined Greenwich Village as a literal village with a small-town atmosphere. The Village is the stuff of legends: a hotbed of musicians, artists, performers, intellectuals, activists. This April we’re marking the 50th anniversary of the Greenwich Village Historic District designation from 1969 - preserving one of the most important and historic neighborhoods in New York - and to mark the occasion we are celebrating the revolutionary scene (and the revolutionary moment) that gave birth to it - the Greenwich Village of the 1960s. This is the story of Greenwich Village as a character - an eccentric character maybe, but one that changed American life - and how the folky, activist spirit it fostered in arts, culture and the protest movement came back in the end to help itself. ![]()
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