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Photo Essay: Out n About in Greenwich Village, NYC
Out and About in Greenwich Village, NewYork
Images by Selwyn Manning – Scoop co-editor, on assignment in New York.
Photo Essay: Greenwich Village, New York, remains one of the most popular precincts on Manhattan Island. It still holds on to its rather Bohemian, folk lifestyle, and is bordered by New York University. It is a folk and rock historian's Mecca with names like Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix having penned and played some of their most famous work here.
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Empire State Building, New York City, towers high above Midtown.
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NYPD: A quiet place to take time-out to file
reports… The area surrounding Sullivan St. Thompson and
Bleecker streets is all fairly safe and has held on to is
folk/jazz vibe. Today too it is rich in 21st century New
Yorker culture, a popular meeting place before heading
further downtown. Here there is just the occasional drunk in
the late of the night.
Le Figaro Café: was a
popular folk music location in the 1960s. Here you can
sample offerings from a great menu (the cheese burger and
salad is pretty good) and enjoy jazz brunch on weekends,
also features belly-dancing on Sundays!
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Bleecker Street, Greenwich Village. See the
Signature Suite apartment (white)
building on right-hand side of the road. Bob Dylan is said
to have written 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall' in September
1962 at this location, in the basement of the Village Gate,
in a small apartment occupied by lighting director Chip
Monck,
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Greenwich Village, looking toward New York
University. This area is one of New York's most popular, and
it is a rock historian's Mecca. Jimi Hendrix played nearby
at Café Wha?
Selwyn Manning is on assignment in New York, his accommodation is courtesy of Wotif.com and Signature Properties, New York. He will be reporting daily on events in the Big Apple, including a United Nations session on peacekeeping/peace-building, and international affairs.
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