The Washington Square Arch, a towering marble monument designed by Stanford White, marks the northern entrance to this park. While it draws the eye today, the ten acres beneath your feet hold a much older, darker history. Before it became…
Greenwich Village Music Legends
Walk the historic streets where Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, and jazz greats found their sound in legendary basements and clubs.
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1. Washington Square Park
2. Electric Lady Studios
Electric Lady Studios, located at fifty-two West Eighth Street, is identifiable by its subterranean entrance in the heart of Greenwich Village. Founded in nineteen seventy, it was the first recording studio built specifically for an…
3. Village Vanguard
The Village Vanguard is marked by a long, red awning stretched over the sidewalk at one hundred seventy-eight Seventh Avenue South. It sits in a basement level beneath the street, squeezed into a triangular sliver of space created in…
4. Jones Street & W 4th Street
Jones Street is a quiet, one-block stretch in Greenwich Village that runs between Bleecker Street and West Fourth Street. It is instantly recognizable to many for a single image: the cover of the nineteen sixty-three Bob Dylan album, The…
5. Blue Note
The Blue Note Jazz Club occupies a storefront on West Third Street, marked by its distinctive signage that bears the name of the venue in an unmistakable typeface. Founded on September thirtieth, nineteen eighty-one, by Danny Bensusan, the…
6. Cafe Wha?
Cafe Wha? occupies a low-slung, basement-level space at one hundred fifteen MacDougal Street, marked by a steep staircase descending from the sidewalk into what was once a stable for horses. Manny Roth, an actor and veteran, opened the…
7. Gaslight Cafe
The Gaslight Cafe, once located at one hundred sixteen MacDougal Street, defined the bohemian energy of Greenwich Village between nineteen fifty-eight and nineteen seventy-one. You can identify its former site by the two sets of stone…