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)
City Lore New York Video Treasury (Story Map)
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)
- Greenwich Village Washington Square 1963 8mm Home Movie Cafe Borgia Beatniks Folk Singers Keelan
- 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
- ARCHITECTURE
- Federal Era Row House of Lower Manhattan (Village Preservation)
- 44 Stuyvesant St. (1795 Federal house)
- Guide to Greek Revival Architecture (Village Preservation)
- Tenements of the South Village (Village Preservation)
- Edward LaGrassa’s Cast Iron Architecture of SoHo, Tribeca, and Beyond (Village Preservation)
- Architect Explores New York City’s Greenwich Village | Walking Tour | Architectural Digest
- Fifth Avenue: 1824 to Today (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)
- List of most expensive paintings
- Ray Johnson
- Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952-1965 (NYU exhibit)
- “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)
-
“This Artist Once Spent a Year in a Cage. Now He’s Trying to Enjoy Himself” (NYT, 10/3/2024)
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)