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East Village Revisited

The East Village is surrounded by an aura of enchantment. It’s as though a magic force had infused the run-down buildings east
of the Bowery and 3rd Avenue, from 14th Street to the north and Houston Street to the south, with the very stardust of creation. This was where beatnik culture was born and thrived in the 50s, and, before then, Ukrainian and Polish intellectuals settled in the area and prepared the ground for what was to become the standard world-view of the post-war decades. In words, in music, and in art.

In these neighbourhoods, history …