Charry’s google map, v. 2.0 (old map: v.1.0)
Greenwich Village Historic District, 1969-2019 (GVSHP) (use the menu for musicians’ homes, music venues, etc.)
Civil Rights and Social Justice Map (GVSHP)
Mapping Other Scenes (Mapping Culture, musc293)
Newspapers
- Village Voice online archive (1955-)
- “Last Rites for the Village Voice, a Bohemian Who Stayed on Too Long” (Sep. 5, 2018, NYT)
- East Village Other (1965-1972); online archive
- East Village Eye
Downtown Organizations
- Village Preservation: Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation
- Lower East Side History Project
General
- All Music Guide (comprehensive discographies, reviews, chart info)
- Village Voice listing of current live music performances
- Jazz listings for NY at gothamjazz.com
- The New York City Jazz Record (current scene)
- Citylore
- Center for Traditional Music and Dance
- WNYC Soundcheck: Vanished Venues radio documentary series (Fillmore East, Gerdes Folk City, Village Gate, Max’s Kansas City)
- They Lived Here (addresses)
- Huffington Post New York Music Project
- Brooklyn
- Bronx
- Photo Archives
- Photos from 1940s of any block in NYC
- Mapping historical photos from the NYPL (oldnyc.org)
- New York Preservation Archive Project
- GVSHP Photograph and Image Map
- Urban Archive NYC
- Pop Spots (popspotsnyc.com)
- My Vanishing Downtown (blog with photos)
Greenwich Village
- Film and Radio
- Greenwich Village Sunday, Stewart Wilensky (1960 documentary)
- “Footloose in Greenwich Village” (WNYC radio documentary, 1960); conversation with Theodore Roszak
- 1961 documentary
- Sunday, Dan Drasin (1961 documentary about Washington Square Park protest), Folklore Center (1:35), Star Spangled Banner (12:10)
- The Greenwich Village Story (Jack O’Connell, 1963)
- RFD Greenwich Village 1969
- Photos
- GVSHP Image Archive
- Fred McDarrah: Iconic Images, part 1, part 2, Bob Dylan’s Greenwich Village, Rock icons
- NYU and the Village
- African Americans in Greenwich Village
- “Footloose in Greenwich Village” (WNYC, May 1960)
- 35 Images that Capture the Beatniks’ Heyday in New York City
- Guide to Greek Revival Architecture (Village Preservation)
Lower East Side
- Timeline of Lower East Side
- Photos from the 1940s (Charles W. Cushman Collection)
- Interactive map (LES Business Improvement District)
- East Village Other
- Lower East Side Biography Project
- Lower East Side population density (NYT , 3/1/2012)
- History of tenement houses
- American Vernacular Music Manuscripts, ca. 1730-1910
- Hippies Change Scene in East Village (1967 film footage)
- Downtown 81 (Lower East Side scenes with Jean Michel Basquiat ca. 1981, 10:30)
Visual Art
- LINKS FOR AVANT GARDES IN ART HISTORY (musc277)
- 1913 Armory Show (Primary Sources, Smithsonian)
- Ray Johnson
- Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952-1965 (NYU exhibit)
- Irascible Group (Life, January 15, 1951, p. 34)
- “Inside the Art Bars” (Art in America, 12/2/2013)
- Jackson Pollock
- “Is He the Greatest Living Painter in the United States?” (Life, Aug. 8, 1949)
- Irascible Group (Life, January 15, 1951, p. 34)
- Jackson Pollock 51 (film)
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
- Addresses of artists in NY
- “How Uptown Money Kills Downtown Art” (Village Voice, 2013)
Poetry/Literature
- allenginsberg.org
- A cultural chronology of early beat generation literature
- Jack Kerouac on the Steve Allen show (1959)
- Jack Kerouac, The Writing of On the Road
- William Burroughs on Jack Kerouac
- Pull My Daisy (1959)
- Beats in NY (1959, silent film)
- Ted Joans
Dance
- Yvonne Rainer’s We Shall Run (1963) (google images)
- “Rainforest” (1968): Merce Cunningham (choreography), David Tudor (music), and Andy Warhol (set design) (Wesleyan access only)
Theater
- Living Theater
- The Connection (1961, Shirley Clarke director)
- The Brig (1964, Jonas Mekas director)
Film
- Stan Brakhage: Cat’s Cradle (1959), Dog Star Man, Prelude (1961), Mothlight (1963)
- Jack Smith, Flaming Creatures (1962-63)
- Harry Smith: Harry Smith Archives, Early Abstractions (1946-57)
Performance Art
- A Brief History of Happenings in 1960s New York
- Marina Abramovic
- Institute kickstarter
- Nothing (London, 2014)
- More on Nothing (The Guardian, May 2014)
- Tehching (Sam) Hsieh
- wiki page
- survey of one year performance pieces (artopia)
- time clock piece (1980-81)
- outdoor piece (1981-82)
- “Art About Waiting and What it Takes to Endure” (NYT Style magazine, 9/17/2020)
- The Market (372 Lafayette Ave., Brooklyn)
Early Days
- Bohemia
- The Vault at Pfaff’s
- Bohemia (Mt. Holyoke website)
- O’Brien, Fitz-James. “The Bohemian.” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine. 01 Jul. 1855.
- “Bohemia Walks and Talks” (Harper’s Weekly, 1857-1858), Wesleyan access only
- Charles Astor Bristed’s “The Gypsies of Art” (translations of Henri Murger’s Scènes de la Bohème), Knickerbocker, January 1853-May 1854
- BohemianLit.com
- Arch Conspirators, 1917 (John Sloan drawing)
- Oldest film footage of NYC (1890s-1900s)
- Film from 1911
- oldnyc.org (old photos)
- Eighty years of New York City, Then and Now (newyorker)
- Photos from the 1970s and 80 by a taxi driver Joseph Rodriguez (New York magazine)
1940s
- Jivin’ in Be-Bop (1946), with Dizzy Gillespie, Milt Jackson
1950s
- The Fifties (Lone Star College library resource guide)
- The Cold War Home Front: McCarthyism (historyonthenet.com), includes Red Channels (1950)
- HUAC McCarthy Hearings transcripts (1953-54)
- Langston Hughes (vol. 2, 945, 973-998)
- Pete Seeger (8/18/1955)
- “Have You No Decency?” (American Experience, McCarthy)
- Marxists Internet Archive (socialist realism in the arts; click on Subject Archive, then Art and Literature)
- Visit to a Small Planet (beatnik scene)
1960s
- The Sixties (Lone Star College library resource guide)
- June 20, 1961: Lennie Tristano (Half Note), John Coltrane, Aretha Franklin (Village Gate), Ornette Coleman (Five Spot), Jack Elliot (Gerde’s Folk City), Carla Bley (Phase 2), Poetry, Folk Singing, Jazz (The Bitter End)
- 1962, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS): Port Huron Statement
- Andy Warhol
- Warholstars.org
- Andy Warhol (documentary by Kim Evans, 1987)
- Stonewall and Beyond: Lesbian and Gay Culture
- William Buckley tv show: Ed Sanders, Jack Kerouac, Lewis Yablonsky (1968)
- Grateful Dead in Palo Alto
1970s-
- Downtown Music, 1971-1987 (Peter Cherche)
- The Downtown Collection (NYU Fales Library Special Collections)
- Love Goes to Buildings on Fire (Will Hermes book) (NPR report)
- A Gathering of the Tribes (arts organization)
- Deadly Art of Survival trailer (Charlie Ahearn, 1979)
- 1970s NY film footage
Crossings
- “Folk and Jazz Concert” (Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp), April 1962
- “Benefit for Leroi Jones” (Cecil Taylor, Frank O’Hara, Morton Feldman, Larry Rivers), Living Theater, June 1963
- Tom Wilson
Other
Real Estate
- The Rise of the Twin Towers (1966-1973) (wirednewyork.com)
- “Manhattan Rents Beckon Brooklynites” (WSJ, 7/24/2012)
- “Is New York Only for the Successful?” (NYT, 8/9/2013)
- “Costly Rents Push Brooklynites to Queens” (NYT, 8/16/2013)
- “Ridgewood Gains Recognition and Quiche May Join the Strudel” (NYT, 12/26/1983)
- “Will Success Spoil Astor Place” (VV, 5/5/2014)
- “Buddy, Can You Spare a Studio” (NYT, 3/7/2014)
- “Watch New York City Gentrify Right Before Your Eyes” (huffingtonpost.com, 3/29/2014)
- “Last Bohemian Turns out the Lights” (NYT, 4/4/2014
- “The Peril of hipster Economics” (AlJazeera, 5/28/2014)
- “Passing of a Video Store and a Downtown Aesthetic” (NYT, 7/27/2014)
- “Are Manhattanites Becoming Brooklyn’s Bridge-and-Tunnel Crowd?” (NYT, 3/4/2015)
- “New York City’s Jazz Venue Renaissance” (theguardian.com, 10/6/2015)
- “Ten Most Expensive and Cheapest Manhattan Neighborhoods to Rent in 2022” (propertynest.com, 1/11/2022)