VIDEOS
A Walk in Greenwich Village with David Hartman and Historian Barry Lewis
Reverend Joseph A. Cogo, David Hartman and Barry Lewis in Our Lady of Pompeii Church.
Photo: Joseph Sinnott/Thirteen, 2001.
Photo: Joseph Sinnott/Thirteen, 2001.
A Channel Thirteen (WNET) Production
Executive Producer: Jodie Sheff
Producer: James Nicoloro
Director of Photography: Mark Gunning
Debut: March 5th, 2001, 8 p.m.
Greenwich Village, long synonymous with New York's bohemians, artists and intellectuals is revealed as having a more complicated history than is usually imagined with pre-Civil War nabobs settling in around Washington Square, immigrant Italians claiming large swaths of the South and West Village, 17th century free blacks farming land by the Minetta Creek and the more famous generations of "underground" types from the bohemians of the 1910's to the beats of the 50's and the gays of the 60's. Sites include Washington Square, Jefferson Market Library, the Stonewall, Chumley's, Zito's Bakery, the now-gone 10th Street Studio Building and the Provincetown Playhouse. Interviews include Richie Havens, "beat era" authority Ann Charters, community activist Reverend Joseph A. Cogo of Our Lady of Pompeii Church and Loraine Gordon, owner of the legendary Village Vanguard.
Barry Lewis with Richie Havens at the Café Wha.
Photo: Joseph Sinnott/Thirteen, 2001.
Photo: Joseph Sinnott/Thirteen, 2001.
Note: Thirteen has released 5 of the 11 walking tour videos for sale on Thirteen.org. They include A Walk Around Brooklyn, A Walk In Greenwich Village, A Walk Through Central Park, A Walk Through Harlem, A Walk Up Broadway. To purchase these videos click here and scroll down the page, they are listed in alphabetical order.