Introduction 1. Neighbors and Strangers
NOTES Introduction 1. Floyd Dell, Love in Greenwich Village, 16. The names and spellings used here are Dell’s. Recent scholars offer variations: Steven Watson, Strange Bedfellows, 123, and Rick Beard and Leslie Cohen Berlowitz, eds., Greenwich Village, 55. 2.Asof1900 no consensus existed regarding the location of the Village’s southern boundary. Some contemporaries placed it at Houston; others said Charlton or Canal. 3. Dell, Love in Greenwich Village, 14. 4. Two phases: Watson, Strange Bedfellows, 123. American quarter: Thomas A. Janvier, “Greenwich Village,” 356–57, and Janvier, In Old New York, 148. Foreign-born popula- tion: Caroline F. Ware, Greenwich Village, 1920–1930, 11. 5. Many Seventh Villagers wrote memoirs and, like Dell, most—e.g., Hutchins Hapgood, A Victorian in the Modern World, and Max Eastman, Enjoyment of Living—implicitly adopted the rise-of-bohemia framework. For treatments of the pre–World War I Village by the next generation of observers see Albert Parry, Garrets and Pretenders, and Allen Churchill, The Improper Bohemians. Three recent studies place the Seventh Village rebels in broader contexts: Watson, Strange Bedfellows; Adele Heller and Lois Rudnick, eds., 1915, The Cultural Moment; and Christine Stansell, American Moderns. 6. Ware, Greenwich Village, 93. See pp. 81–105 for Ware’s comparison of the pre- and post- war Village. 1. Neighbors and Strangers 1. Hapgood, Types from City Streets, 9.By1905 a successor “Chat Noir” was doing business at 551 West Broadway, just around the corner from the original Black Cat. 227 228 Notes to Pages 11–24 2. On African American Villagers prior to the Civil War see Thelma Wills Foote, “Cross- roads or Settlement?” in Beard and Berlowitz, eds., Greenwich Village: Culture and Count- erculture, 120–33.
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