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Walking New York:
A walking tour of Dylan-related places...

Greenwich Village NYC - The Official Online Guide for "The Village"

 

Greenwich Village --
In the heart of the Big Apple

 

Beat Generation:
Glory Days in Greenwich Village
(contains the famous Jan 22, 1965 picture of Bob Dylan in Sheridan Square Park)

Greenwich Village Gazette: NEW every Friday with new cartoons, features, movie reviews, RealAudio, and much, much more!

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• VENUES AND PLACES OUTSIDE OF GREENWICH VILLAGE/NEW YORK CITY:

  • CAFFÉ LENA
  • CLUB 47
    
  • MONTOWESI HOTEL

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This page was inspired by the late John Bauldie's Positively 4th Street Revisited article in Q, No. 104, May 1995, pp. 56-57.
The Greenwich Village map (from that article) was scanned by Giulio Molfese and made into an image map by Manfred Helfert, Nov 1998 (click on the numbers or use text links provided below).

Any copyrighted material on these pages is used in "fair use", for the purpose of study, review or critical analysis only, and will be removed at the request of copyright owner(s).
Audio files are DELIBERATELY encoded "low-fi" to enable faster streaming and are intended as "illustrations" and "appetizers" only.
Official and "hi-fi" recordings can (and should) be purchased at your local record dealer or through a number of web-based companies, like CDNow.

• COLLAGE (Greenwich Village footage, "Talkin' New York") (Real Media, 92 KB)

GIL TURNER:
Dylan's first appearances in New York were at hootenannies held in the afternoon hours in Greenwich Village coffee-houses. It was at one of these that I first heard him, blowing blues harmonica with singer-guitarist Mark Spoelstra.

Gil Turner, 'Bob Dylan -- a new voice singing new songs,' Sing Out!, Oct-Nov 1962; reprinted in Elizabeth M. Thomson & David Gutman, The Dylan Companion, London, 1990, p. 65.

• Interview (excerpt) (27 seconds, 110 KB)
  Dylan on playing in various coffeehouses for "a dollar a day" and a cheeseburger...
  (unidentified interview)

• MIKE PORCO INTERVIEW (Dylan at Folk City hootenannies) (Real Media, 132 KB)

• LIAM CLANCY remembers Dylan on Monday night hootenannies (Real Media, 86 KB)

Multimedia tracks on this page
converted to RealMedia from
the Colpix CD-ROM "Highway 61 Interactive"
(out of print, but still obtainable)

• VENUES AND PLACES OF INTEREST IN GREENWICH VILLAGE

  • BITTER END
  • CAFÉ WHA?
  • CEDAR STREET TAVERN
  • COMMONS
  • EARLE HOTEL
  • FAT BLACK PUSSYCAT
  • THE FIFTH PEG
  • FOLKLORE CENTER
  • GASLIGHT CAFÉ
  • GERDE'S FOLK CITY
  • KETTLE OF FISH
  • 94 MACDOUGAL STREET
  • ONE SHERIDAN SQUARE
  • OTHER END
  • PASTOR'S PLACE
  • VILLAGE GATE
  • WASHINGTON SQUARE PARK
  • 161 WEST FOURTH STREET
  • WHITE HORSE TAVERN

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  • Robbie Woliver: Hoot! A Twenty-Five-Year History of the Greenwich Village Music Scene
    (2nd ed.), Pantheon Books, 1986, 1st ed. pbk; NYC, St. Martin's Press, 1996, 2nd ed. pbk.

  • David Hadju: Positively 4th Street
    Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2001