Washington Square Park Conservancy Greeter­Guide Resources

About the Park/Washington Square Park Conservancy

Geismar, Joan. Washington Square Park Phase 1A Archaeological Assessment, ​ ​ August 2005. Prepared for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation in preparation for the park’s redesign.

NYC Parks and Recreation. “History of Washington Square Park.” http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/washington­square­park/history

Washington Square Park Conservancy. Organization Website http://washingtonsquareparkconservancy.org/

History of the Park/Square

Folpe, Emily Kies. It Happened on Washington Square. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.

Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation Preservation Archives. Preservation ​ Pioneers Oral History Project, “Interview with Shirley Hayes.” 2000. ​ http://www.gvshp.org/_gvshp/resources/doc/hayes_transcript.pdf

Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation Preservation Archives. Preservation ​ Pioneers Oral History Project, “Interview with Jane Jacobs.” 1997. ​ http://www.gvshp.org/_gvshp/resources/doc/jacobs_transcript.pdf

Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation Preservation Archives. Preservation ​ Pioneers Oral History Project, “Interview with Edith Lyons.” 1998. ​ http://www.gvshp.org/_gvshp/resources/doc/lyons_transcript.pdf

Harris, Luther. Around Washington Square: An Illustrated History of Washington Square ​ Park. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press; 2nd edition, 2003. ​ ​ ​

New York University. NYU Virtual Tour, https://www.nyu.edu/admissions/undergraduate­admissions/visit­us/virtual­tour.html

NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission. “Greenwich Village Historic District Designation Report.” 1969, Area 3, page 107. http://s­media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/0489.pdf

Greenwich Village History

Brown, Mary Elizabeth. “Italians of the South Village.” 2007. http://www.gvshp.org/_gvshp/preservation/south_village/doc/SVItaliansReport.pdf

DesRochers, Iyssa. “Before Washington Square: An Online Exhibit of the Early History of Washington Square Park.” 2012. http://gvh.aphdigital.org/exhibits/show/beforewashingtonsquare

Dolkart, Andrew. “The South Village: A Proposal for Historic District Designation.” 2006. ​ http://www.gvshp.org/_gvshp/preservation/south_village/doc/SVDolkartReport.pdf

Gold, Joyce. From Trout Stream to Bohemia: A Walking Guide through the History of ​ Greenwich Village. Old Warren rd Pr; 2nd edition, 1996. ​ ​

McDarrah, Fred W., and Patrick J. McDarrah. The Greenwich Village Guide: Sixteen Historic Walks, Includes Soho, Tribeca, and the East Village: Antique Shops, Bookstores, Theatres, Clubs, Restaurants, Art Galleries and More. Chicago, IL: Chicago Review, 1992.

Stansell, Christine. American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New ​ Century. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004. ​ ​ ​ ​

Strausbaugh, John. 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues. New ​ ​ York, NY: Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers, 2013.

Ware, Caroline F.: Greenwich Village, 1920 1930: A Comment on American Civilization ​ ‐ in the Post War Years. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1965 (originally ‐ ​ published 1935).

Wetzsteon, Ross. Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village, the American Bohemia, ​ 1910­1960. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 2002. ​

Wilensky, Stewart. “Village Sunday.” circa 1960s. Film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axkC9ifSWys

Images

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog http://www.loc.gov/pictures/

Museum of the City of New York Collections Portal http://collections.mcny.org/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=Home

New York Public Library Digital Collections http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/

NYU University Archives http://www.nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/arch/

Photography Collection of Robert Otter http://www.robertotter.com/