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The Original West Village Slideshow Presentation
Architecture -- History -- Interesting Pictures and Stories

An armchair guide book: "Exploring the Original West Village" by Alfred Pommer & Eleanor Winters
Published by The History Press - Click Here to buy a copy from The History Press
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A Slideshow Presentation of the West Village's Past & the Present

The Slideshow Presentation features the writers, poets, artist & famous people of the West Village with information about its history & architecture along with interesting pictures & stories that help join us with the neighborhood's past. Included are about a dozen surviving examples of the Federal & Greek revival artisan homes that used to populate the West Village in the early 19th century. The West Village was the unofficial name for a part of Greenwich Village that roughly speaking falls between: West 14th Street & Christopher St. & west of Greenwich Ave. & the Ave. of the Americas. In the past decades the West Village name has been extended, to include part of a working class neighborhood once known as the South Village (south of Christopher St. too St. Lukes Place between 6th Ave. & West St.) - this is not part of the Original West Village or included in the slideshow.

The slide show of the West Village features: A trip through part of the landmark Greenwich Village Historic District known as "The West Village"
including: Abingdon Square, Bank Street, Christopher Street, Charles St., W. 11 St., W. 10 St., West St.,
Perry St. Horatio St., Jane St., Hudson Street and the historic district of Weehawken St.

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Highlights of the West Village Slideshow Presentation are:

  • St. Veronica's Church and Gene Tunney
  • Find out about "the American Ward" - William "The Butcher" Poole
  • Richard Meier's skyscrapers and Charles Lane plus Memphis Downtown
  • Find out about the 9th Ave. El in the West Village
  • The Weehawkin Historic District
  • A handsome row of Greek Revival homes from 1837
  • The White Horse Tavern - Norman Mailer - Dylan Thomas
  • H B Studio (many famous stars studied acting here)
  • Westbeth - the site of the development of television, radio, sound recording, sound movies, telephonics & public address systems.
  • Find out about Newgate Prison aka NY State Prison
  • A landmark example of a Greek Revival house from 1838
  • Admiral Peter Warren, his estate & Greenwich Village
  • Jane Jacobs, where she lived and wrote "The Death and Life of Great American Cities"
  • Fing out where Serpico actually lived when he was a cop here in the city
  • 'Bleecker Gardens' and Mark & Charles Van Doren
  • "The Family" by Chain Gross
  • Transplanted 'Cobble Court' from the early 19th century
  • The street and buildings where Carson McCullers and Jack Kerouac lived
  • Palazzp Chupi would you describe the color of the Venetian inspired tower as 'hot pink' or 'pompeii red'
  • The house Roy Lichtenstein lived and worked in the last decade of his life
  • A excellent, landmark example of a Greek Revival House from 1842
  • Find out about the "Death Ave. Cowboy" - Gansevoort Market / Pier and the White Fort
  • The landmark, American Seamen's Friend Society Home & Institute Bldg.
  • The site where Herman Melville worked for 19 years
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Additional Highlights include::
  • A Grand Romanesque Revival styled eclair factory, now an apartment house with great gargoyles
  • Alexander Hamilton and the site where he died
  • The street and buildings where Clifford Odets and James Baldwin lived
  • 'Auntie Mane' in real life where she died and where she lived
  • A landmark example of the American Round Arch Industrial style on a former paint factory from 1883
  • Arbingdon Square and the Arbingdon Square Memorial
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More Highlights:
  • Find out about The Masses where the publication was located & Max Eastman & John Reed,
  • Where Sinclaire Lewis lived
  • Where Hart Crane lived
  • Laren Bacall "Miss Greenwich Village"
  • Where Fiorello LaGuardia lived
  • A Greek Revival Townhouse from 1837
  • Where Edward Albee got his inspiration for "Who's Afraid of Viginia Wolf" ( Ninth Circle)
  • Where Almanac House was and where Woodie Guthrie lived
  • Wila Cather, Allen Tate, Katharine Anthony, and Ye Waverly Inn and more
  • Optional (for the 3 ½ hour version) 2 stops outside West Village neighborhood:
  • The Jefferson Market Courthouse - its history, architecture
    (the infamous trial of the century, Harry Thaw / Stephen Crane)
  • Patchin Place, 1845

The private slideshow presentations are hosted by Alfred Pommer a college graduate, an author, an informative
native New Yorker & a licensed New York City guide, who has spent over 30 years researching, creating
& leading tours that focus on the history and architecture in Manhattan's many diverse neighborhoods.

These are links to Alfred Pommer's author page at: amazon.com & at: goodreads for information
about 4 Manhattan neighborhood walking tour guide books authored by Alfred Pommer
& published by The History Press (Arcadia Publishing)

Publisher needed for new nonfiction neighborhood walking tour guide books.

Interested in a Private Slideshow Presentation? - Call: (212) 979-2388 for details
www.nycwalk.com   www.nycslideshow.com   or   e mail

All photographs on this web site are by Alfred Pommer
& all content on this web site, such as graphics, logos, button icons and images
is the property of Alfred Pommer and protected by United States and international copyright laws.
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