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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>University Place: New York Songlines</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <META content="Landmarks and points of history along Manhattan's University Place and Union Square West." name=description> <META content="New York City, New York, Manhattan, walking tour, guide, history, secret, landmarks, address, architecture, restaurant, nightlife, New York University, Union Square, Washington Square" name=keywords> <META content="Jim Naureckas" name=author> <BODY text=#000000 bgColor=#CCCCCC> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <table border="2" valign="top"><tr> <td width="820" valign="top" bgcolor="CCCCCC"> <CENTER> <H1><A href="http://www.nysonglines.com/">New York Songlines:</A> University Place</H1> <h2>With Union Square West</h2> </CENTER> </td></tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=30 border=0 valign="top"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <TABLE border=0 valign="top"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign=top width=360> <TABLE cellPadding=10 bgColor=#ffcc99 border=2 valign="top"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign=top width=360> <H3>West:</H3> <A name=17st></A> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br> </P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2><a href="broadway.htm#17st">^<br>||<Br>||<br><br></a>B<br>R<br>O<br>A<br>D<br>W<br>A<br>Y</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <TD vAlign=top width=360> <TABLE cellPadding=10 bgColor=#ffcc99 border=2 valign="top"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign=top width=360> <H3>East:</H3> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br> </P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <H2> <CENTER><A href="17st.htm#university"><===</A> EAST 17TH STREET <A href="17st.htm#university">===></CENTER></H2></A> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <TABLE border=0 valign="top"> <TBODY><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=360> <TABLE border=1 cellpadding="10" valign="top"> <TBODY><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=360 bgColor=#ffcc99> <H3>West:</H3> <h3>Hartford Building</h3> <P><B>41:</B> Bruce Kayton reports that Emma Goldman had a massage parlor at the corner of 17th and Broadway; it seems likely to have been this 1895 building. Later housed <a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2081610/" target="_blank"> <I>Partisan Review</I></a> offices, and the office of <a href="http://www.charm.net/~brooklyn/People/AllenGinsberg.html" target="_blank"> Allen Ginsberg</a>. <P><B>37:</B> <a href="http://newyorkdailyphoto.blogspot.com/2007/01/republic.html" target="_blank"> <b>Republic</b></a>, Pan-Asian noodles--noisy but styley (and affordable) <P><B>35:</B> <A href="http://www.heartlandbrewery.com/" target=_blank> Heartland Brewery</A> has good beer, fratty crowd <h3><a href="http://www.nycjpg.com/2003/pages/0723.html" target="_blank"> Decker Building</a></h3> <P><B>33:</B> The Puma Store replaced Union Square Wine & Spirits on the ground floor of this 1893 building. Also known as the Union Building, it was designed by John Edelmann, Louis Sullivan's mentor. It originally had a minaret on top, which was removed for <a name="16st"></a> safety reasons. The building housed <a href="http://www.warhol.dk/" target="_blank"> Andy Warhol</a>'s <b>Factory</b> from 1968 to 1974. Warhol was shot here, on June 3, 1968, by crazed playwright Valerie Solanis. <h3><a href="http://www.preserve2.org/ladiesmile/broadway.htm" target="_blank"> Bank of the Metropolis</a></h3> <P><B>31 (corner):</B> Building with <b>Blue Water Grill</b>, noted seafood restaurant, housed a bank whose directors included prominent local businessmen, including the Tiffany of Tiffany's, the Sloane of Sloane's, the Arnold of Arnold Constable and the Steinway of the Steinway piano company. The building was designed by Bruce Price, the father of Emily Post. It later served as a Parsons School of Design dorm. On September 15, 1984, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Stewart_%28graffiti_writer%29" target="_blank"> Michael Stewart</a> was beaten to death in front of this building by the NYPD for the crime of writing with magic marker on a subway wall. The cops were all acquitted. </P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <table cellpadding="10" border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="CCCCCC"> <br> <h2><center> <a href="16st.htm#university"> W <===</a>         W 16th ST</h2></center> <p> </td></tr></table> <a name="15st"></a> <TABLE border=1 valign="top" cellpadding="10"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign=top width=360 bgColor=#ffcc99> <h3>Union Square Coffee Shop</h3> <P><B>29 (corner):</B> Building with turquoise stripes looks like a diner, but it's actually a fancy restaurant that's very popular with the beautiful people. The <i>Sex and the City</i> girls often ate here. <P><B>27:</B> Union Square Ballroom </P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <table cellpadding="10" border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="CCCCCC"> <br> <h2><center> <a href="15st.htm#university"> W <===</a>         W 15th ST</h2></center> <p> </td></tr></table> <TABLE border=1 valign="top" cellpadding="10"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign=top width=360 bgColor=#ffcc99> <P><B>11-15 (corner):</B> Labor-owned Amalgamated Bank was a regrettable modernization of Tiffany's jewelry store (1870-1905), which was designed by John Kellum to resemble a Venetian palace. It was given another makeover in 2008-09--with a dark glass facade that reveals the original architecture beneath. Previously on this lot was James Renwick's Church of the Puritans (1846). <a name="14st"></a> <p><b>5-9:</b> <b>Spingler Building</b>, an 1896 Romanesque structure designed by William Hume, takes its name from Spingler House, a hotel that previously occupied this spot; it in turn was named for Henry Spingler, who bought most of Union Square in 1788, when it was still farmland. <h3>Lincoln Building</h3> <P><B>1 (corner):</B> An 1889 Romanesque Revival landmark by <a href="http://www.nyc-architecture.com/ARCH/ARCH-RobertHendersonRobertson.htm" target="_blank"> R.H. Robertson</a>, an early and influential example of skyscraper design. </P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <H2>U<BR>N<BR>I<BR>O<BR>N<BR><BR>S<BR>Q<BR>U<BR>A<BR>R<BR>E<BR><BR>W<BR>E<BR>S<BR>T</H2> </td></tr></table> </TD> <TD vAlign=top width=360> <TABLE cellPadding=10 bgColor=#66ff66 border=2 valign="top"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign=top width=360> <H3>East:</H3> <H2><a href="http://www.museumplanet.com/nyc/us/Union%20Square.htm" target="_blank" title="Image"> Union Square</a></H2> <P><a href="http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=6533" target="_blank" title="Info">Union Square</a> was not named for labor or for the North, but for the fact that Broadway meets and briefly converges with the Bowery (now 4th Avenue), once Broadway's rival as NYC's main street. In the city plan of 1811, Broadway was supposed to be eliminated north of 14th Street, permanently uniting it with Fourth Avenue. Fortunately, NYC was unable to raise money to reroute Broadway, saving Manhattan above Downtown from complete predictability. <P>The parking lot at the north end of the park hosts Union Square <A href="http://www.cenyc.org/HTMLGM/maingm.htm" target=_blank>Greenmarket</A>; Manhattan's best farmers' market. It used to be a meeting place for the <A href="http://www.sca.org/" target="_blank">Society for Creative Anachronism</a>. <br><br><br><br><br> <br> <P>Union Square has a rich political history: 250,000 gathered to support the Union during the Civil War (1861), the largest crowd ever assembled in North America up to that point. Here was the first U.S. labor day parade (1882), Emma Goldman's arrest for telling unemployed to steal bread (1893), the funeral march for Triangle Shirtwaist Fire victims (1911), and protests against Sacco & Vanzetti's execution (1927) and the Rosenbergs' (1953). <p>After the destruction of the World Trade Center, Union Square became the site of an impromptu memorial and peace vigil. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <h3><a href="http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/unionsquarepark/highlights/12346" target="_blank" title="NYC Parks"> James Fountain</a></h3> <p><p>This statue of a mother with two children, by German artist Karl Adolph Donndorf, was installed near the park's western entrance in 1881, a gift from philanthropist Daniel Willis James. I was under the impression that it was intended to promote temperance--it originally had tin cups attachched to it that you could drink from--but according to the Parks Department, James was actually trying to send a message about kindness and charity. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br> <p>The south end of the square in particular is one of Manhattan's great public spaces, a haven for political ranters, skateboarders and breakdancers--and for those who want to watch the passing scene. The <a href="http://www.times-up.org/cm.php" target="_blank"> Critical Mass</a> bicycle rallies used to gather here on the last Friday of every month, before they were broken up by police harassment. There's a craft fair here every year in December. <h3><a href="http://newyorkdailyphoto.blogspot.com/2006/04/gandhi-in-union-square.html" target="_blank"> Gandhi Statue</a></h3> This 1986 work was placed here in recognition of Union Square's history of (mostly) non-violent protest. It depicts Gandhi on his famous Salt March, and provides a path so visitors can walk along with him. </P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820><BR> <H2><A name=14st></A> <CENTER><A href="14st.htm#university"><===</A> EAST 14TH STREET <A href="14st.htm#university">===></A> <br><i>The northern boundary of the East Village.</i> </CENTER></H2> </P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <TABLE border=0 valign="top"><TBODY><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=360> <TABLE cellPadding=10 bgColor=#ffcc99 border=2 valign="top"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign=top width=360> <H3>West:</H3> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/edenpictures/3653949608/" title="8 Union Square South by edenpictures, on Flickr"> <img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2476/3653949608_2473ff7eb4_m.jpg" width="180" height="240" alt="8 Union Square South by edenpictures, on Flickr" align="left" vspace="4" hspace="4" /></a> <p><b>Corner (8 Union Square South):</b> This was the site of the <a href="http://curbed.com/archives/2005/03/17/union_squares_stairway_to_nowhere_vanishes.php" target="_blank" title="Curbed"> <b>Paterson Silk Building</b></a>, built in 1949 for Crawford Clothing to a design by <a href="http://www.nysun.com/arts/rise-and-fall-of-a-modernist-gem/40290/" target="_blank" title="Info"> Morris Lapidus</a>; it was noted for the glass tower on the corner with a jauntily angled roof. Bought in the 1970s by the silk company, which covered it in signage, its Modernist attractions were revealed when it was leased by Odd Job Trading in 1998. <a name="13st"></a> <a href="http://www.thecityreview.com/lapidus.html" target="_blank" title="City Review"> Attempts to save it</a> from demolition via landmarking failed in 2005. Now on the site is a luxury building nicknamed <a href="http://curbed.com/archives/2007/01/03/development_updateorama_8uss_in_tiptop_shape.php" target="_blank" title="Curbed"> 8USS</a>, whose glass corner seems to be a tribute to the lost Lapidus. <br><br><br> </P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>U<br>N<br>I<br>V<br>E<br>R<br>S<br>I<br>T<br>Y</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <TD vAlign=top width=360> <TABLE cellPadding=10 bgColor=#ffcc99 border=2 valign="top"> <TBODY> <TR><TD vAlign=top width=360> <H3>East:</H3> <p><b>Corner (40 E 14th):</b> DSW, Designer Shoe Warehouse, allows you to find your own size without a clerk; Forever 21, frighteningly named designer knockoffs; Whole Foods. Used to be a Bradlees, which used to be May's, and before that Ohrbach's. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br> </P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign=top width=820> <H2> <CENTER><A href="13st.htm#university"><===</A> EAST 13TH STREET <A href="13st.htm#university">===></A></CENTER></H2></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <TABLE border=0 valign="top"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign=top width=360> <TABLE cellPadding=10 bgColor=#ffcc99 border=2 valign="top"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign=top width=360> <H3>West:</H3> <p><b>116 (corner):</b> The building with University Place Gourmet Deli (est. 1976) on the ground floor has been used by such left groups as the Socialist Workers Party, Socialist Party and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). <a name="12st"></a> <br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <h3>110: Bowlmor Lanes</h3> <p>One of a very few bowling alleys in Manhattan. On the roof is Pressure, a pressurized dome that contains the most beautiful bar in New York. </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>U<br>N<br>I<br>V<br>E<br>R<br>S<br>I<br>T<br>Y</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <TD vAlign=top width=360> <TABLE cellPadding=10 bgColor=#ffcc99 border=2 valign="top"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign=top width=360> <H3>East:</H3> <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> <p><b>101:</b> University Restaurant; long-time diner </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"> <TBODY> <TR><TD vAlign=top width=820> <H2><CENTER><A href="12st.htm#university"><===</A> EAST 12TH STREET <A href="12st.htm#university">===></A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <TABLE border=0 valign="top"><TBODY><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=360> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=1 valign="top"> <TBODY><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=360 bgColor=#ffcc99> <H3>West:</H3> <a name="11st"></a> <p><b>90:</b> Poet <a href="http://www.frankohara.com/Pages/MainPage.html" target="_blank"> Frank O'Hara</a> lived here from February 1957 until the summer of 1959. <p><b>82:</b> Was the <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_Tavern" target="_blank" title="Wikipedia">Cedar Tavern</a></b>, storied bar; see <b>No. 24</b> below. Closed in 2006 when the building was turned into condos. <p><b>80 (corner):</b> In the late 1960s, this building housed the offices of the counter-cultural <a href="http://www.groveatlantic.com/grove/wc.dll?GroveProc~Display~HISTORYGUTS" target="_blank">Grove Press</a>. On July 26, 1968, a grenade was thrown through a window here, apparently in retaliation for Grove's publishing the writings of Cuban revolutionaries. In the mid-1970s, the offices of <i>The Village Voice</i>. </P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> </TD> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>U<br>N<br>I<br>V<br>E<br>R<br>S<br>I<br>T<br>Y</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <TD vAlign=top width=360> <TABLE cellPadding=10 bgColor=#ffcc99 border=2 valign="top"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign=top width=360> <H3>East:</H3> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> </P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"> <TBODY> <TR><TD vAlign=top width=820> <H2><CENTER><A href="11st.htm#university"><===</A> EAST 11TH STREET <A href="11st.htm#university">===></A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <TABLE border=0 valign="top"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign=top width=360> <TABLE cellPadding=10 bgColor=#ffcc99 border=1 valign="top"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign=top width=360> <H3>West:</H3> <br><br><br><br><br> <a name="10st"></a> <p><b>70:</b> Bradley's Bar & Grill was a jazz bar, but is now semi-country. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br> <p><b>64:</b> Grove Press was located here before it moved up the street. Now houses the <a href="http://www.audioschool.com/" target="_blank"> Institute for Audio Research</a>, a school for sound engineers. </P></TD></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>U<br>N<br>I<br>V<br>E<br>R<br>S<br>I<br>T<br>Y</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <TD vAlign=top width=360> <TABLE cellPadding=10 bgColor=#ffcc99 border=2 valign="top"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign=top width=360> <H3>East:</H3> <p><b>75 (corner):</b> <b>Dean & Deluca Cafe</b>, one of several; Felicity works here in the TV show of the same name. This is the same building as the Hotel Albert. <p><b>67:</b> <b>Patsy's</b>, some of the best pizza in Manhattan. <h3>Albert Apartments</h3> <p><b>63 (corner):</b> Formerly the <b>Hotel Albert</b>, named for painter Albert Pinkham Ryder, whose brother owned it. <a href="http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/britlit/rls/rls.html" target="_blank"> Robert Louis Stevenson</a> stayed here, making a big impression on local writers. Novelist Thomas Wolfe lived here (1923-26) when he first moved to New York to teach English at NYU. Frank Zappa's <a href="http://home.online.no/~corneliu/q_interview.htm" target=_blank">Mothers of Invention</a>, <a href="http://www.thefab.net/topics/art_music/cm01_spoonful.htm" target="_blank">Lovin' Spoonful</a>, <a href="http://www.classicrockpage.com/newslet/newsgrap/sep02/chapter14.htm" target="_blank">Michael Bloomfield</a> and electronica pioneers the <a href="http://www.terrascope.org/silver.html" target="_blank">Silver Apples</a> all lived here at the same time c. 1966. John Phillips wrote "California Dreaming" here. </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"> <TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top width=820> <H2><CENTER><A href="10st.htm#university"><===</A> EAST 10TH STREET <A href="10st.htm#university">===></A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <TABLE border=0 valign="top"><TBODY><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=360> <TABLE cellPadding=10 bgColor=#ffcc99 border=1 valign="top"><TBODY><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=360> <H3>West:</H3> <p><b>70:</b> Was The Stirrup, 1960s-era bar. <a name="9st"></a> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br> <p><b>60 (corner):</b> <b>Amorino</b>, New York outpost of an Italian gelato chain; I come here for the hot chocolate, which really resembles molten chocolate. Used to be Spice, local Thai chain; in the 1950s/'60s this was Romanoff Pharmacy, drugstore with a classic soda fountain. </P></TD></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>U<br>N<br>I<br>V<br>E<br>R<br>S<br>I<br>T<br>Y</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <TD vAlign=top width=360> <TABLE cellPadding=10 bgColor=#ffcc99 border=2 valign="top"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign=top width=360> <H3>East:</H3> <p><b>51:</b> <a href="http://lapetitecoquette.com" target="_blank"><b>La Petite Coquette</b></a>; spendy lingerie <br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"> <TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top width=820> <H2><CENTER><A href="9st.htm#university"><===</A> EAST 9TH STREET <A href="9st.htm#university">===></A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <TABLE border=0 valign="top"><TBODY><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=360> <TABLE cellPadding=10 bgColor=#ffcc99 border=1 valign="top"> <TBODY><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=360> <H3>West:</H3> <h3>Brevoort East</h3> <p>Apartments named for the <b>Brevoort Hotel</b>, which was on the west end of this block. <p>On this site, at <b>No. 24</b>, was the original site of <b>Cedar Tavern</b>, where artists like Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko and Franz Kline gathered in the 1950s. Jackson Pollack <a name="8st"></a> was banned from the place for kicking down the men's room door. The bar was also favored by beat writers like Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Frank O'Hara and LeRoi Jones. Jack Kerouac was kicked out at about the same time Pollack was, allegedly for pissing in an ashtray. The bar was fictionalized by Dawn Powell as "The Golden Spur" in the novel of the same name. <p>The bar moved up the street in 1963. </P></TD></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>U<br>N<br>I<br>V<br>E<br>R<br>S<br>I<br>T<br>Y</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <TD vAlign=top width=360> <TABLE cellPadding=10 bgColor=#ffcc99 border=2 valign="top"> <TBODY><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=360> <H3>East:</H3> <h3>Lafayette Apartments</h3> <p><b>33:</b> Built on the site of the <b>Lafayette Hotel</b>, a longtime gathering place of the bohemian elite; it appears as the "Cafe Julien" in Dawn Powell's <i>The Wicked Pavilion</i>. The owner of the Lafayette, Raymond Orteig (who also owned the Brevoort), put up the prize money for flying across the Atlantic that Charles Lindbergh won. Torn down in 1950. On the ground floor today is the <a href="http://www.knickerbockerbarandgrill.com/about.htm" target="_blank"> Knickerbocker Bar & Grill</a>, which claims to have the marble bar on which Lindbergh signed the contract for his trans-Atlantic flight. <br><br><br><br> <p><b>21:</b> Was Dallas BBQ, local chain </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"> <TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top width=820> <H2><CENTER><A href="8st.htm#university"><===</A> EAST 8TH STREET <A href="8st.htm#university">===></A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <TABLE border=0 valign="top"> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign=top width=360> <TABLE cellPadding=10 bgColor=#ffcc99 border=1 valign="top"> <TBODY><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=360> <H3>West:</H3> <p><b>Corner (4-26 E 8th):</b> These buildings date back to 1834, but were converted to fanciful Tudor-style apartments intended for artists by Harvey Wiley Corbett in 1916. Max Eastman, editor of The Masses, lived in No. 12 in 1917; from 1930 to 1935, E.B. White lived at No. 16 on the third and fourth floors; accused spy Alger Hiss lived at No. 22 from 1947 until his perjury conviction in 1950. <a name="waverly"></a> <br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> <table cellpadding="10" border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="CCCCCC"> <br> <h2><center> </a> <a href="http://newyorkdailyphoto.blogspot.com/2006/09/washington-mews.html" target="_blank"> WASHINGTON MEWS</a></h2></center> </td></tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 bgColor=#ffcc99 border=1 valign="top"> <TBODY><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=360> <p><b>Corner (1 Washington Square):</b> Novelists Henry James, William Dean Howells and Edith Wharton are all said to have lived and worked here at some point. (I suspect that none of them actually did.) <br> <br><br><br><br><br> </P></TD></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>U<br>N<br>I<br>V<br>E<br>R<br>S<br>I<br>T<br>Y</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <TD vAlign=top width=360> <TABLE cellPadding=10 bgColor=#ffcc99 border=2 valign="top"> <TBODY><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=360> <H3>East:</H3> <p><b>5-11:</b> The Weinstein Center for Student Living, an NYU dorm built in the 1960s, was where Matthew Broderick lived in the 1990 film <i>The Freshman</i>. <p><b>1 (corner):</b> <a href="http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Authors/about_clifford_odets.html" target="_blank"> Clifford Odets</a> moved to a sparsely furnished room in this building in 1935, just before the opening of his first play, <i>Awake and Sing!</i>. He stayed here even though the play was a success, explaining: "All I wanted was two clean rooms to live in, a phonograph, some records, and to buy things for a girl. Nothing more I wanted." <p>Poet <a href="http://www.magiclink.com/web/lostheroines/webdoc4.htm" target="_blank"> Elinor Wylie</a> moved to a previous building at this address after her divorce in 1922. (The current building was completed in 1930.) Critic <a href="http://etc.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/Companion/wilson_edmund.html" target="_blank"> Edmund Wilson</a> moved here in 1923 (from No. 3 Washington Square) after marrying actress Mary Blair. British occultist <a href="http://www.cix.co.uk/~mandrake/crowley.htm" target="_blank"> Aleister Crowley</a> lived here in 1918. Notables who have lived here more recently include Ricky Lake, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Calista Flockhart. <p>The White Turkey Town House, a restaurant, used to be on the ground floor. "They used to give out molded-wax white turkeys at the end of the meal that, if you could bear to crack off the wax, had solid chocolate insides," a reader recalls. More recently there was <a href="http://www.posmanbooks.com/" target="_blank">Posman Books</a>, which I miss. </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"> <TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top width=820> <H2><CENTER><A href="waverly.htm#university"><===</A> WASHINGTON SQ N / WAVERLY PL <A href="waverly.htm#university">===></A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <TABLE border=0 valign="top"> <TBODY><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=360> <TABLE cellPadding=10 bgColor=#66ff66 border=1 valign="top"> <TBODY><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=360> <H3>West:</H3> <h2>Washington Square Park</h2> <p>Originally a marsh surrounding Minetta Brook, in the early years of New York this area was used as a graveyard for slaves and yellow fever victims, a dueling ground and a place of execution. In 1826 it was designated the Washington Military Parade Grounds, which soon was transformed into a public park. <p>Washington Square was at one point the center of New York society, later becoming the unofficial quadrangle of NYU. In 1961 it was the site of protests over a police crackdown on folksinging, and in 1963, a plan to extend Fifth Avenue through the park was defeated. The present landscaping of the park dates to 1971. <br><br><br><br><br> <h3>Garibaldi Statue</h3> <p><a href="http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/rodcuff/garibald.htm" target="_blank">Giuseppe Garibaldi</a>, a guerrilla fighter, is the hero of Italian reunification. While in exile, he lived briefly in New York City, first on Irving Place and then on Staten Island. <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br><br><br><br> <br><br> </P></TD></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD> <td width="100" align="center"> <table cellpadding="25"><tr> <td align="center"> <h2>W<br>A<br>S<br>H<br>I<br>N<br>G<br>T<br>O<br>N<br><br>S<br>Q<br>U<br>A<br>R<br>E<br><br>E<br>A<br>S<br>T</h2> </td></tr></table> </td> <TD vAlign=top width=360> <TABLE cellPadding=10 bgColor=#ffcc99 border=2 valign="top"> <TBODY><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=360> <H3>East:</H3> <h3>Hemmerdinger Hall</h3> <p><b>100 (corner):</b> NYU's <b>Main Building</b>. Built 1895; first seven floors originally housed the American Bank Note Co. <p>Building replaced NYU's <b>Old Main</b>, a gothic tower completed in 1835; the use of prison labor from Sing-Sing sparked the Stonecutter's Riot in 1834, the first labor riot in NYC. In the old building, Samuel Colt developed the <a name="washingtonpl"></a> revolver and Samuel Morse invented the telegraph; John William Draper in 1840 took one of the first photographs of a person on the roof. Walt Whitman taught poetry here, Winslow Homer painted here, and architects Alexander Jackson Davis and Richard Morris Hunt had offices here. Despite this incredible history, NYU tore down the building because it decided it could make more money with a new building whose ground floor could be rented to a bank. </td></tr></table> <table cellpadding="10" border="0" valign="top"><tr> <td width="360" valign="top" bgcolor="CCCCCC"> <br> <h2><center> WASHINGTON PL  <a href="washingtonpl.htm#university">==> E </a> </h2></center> </td></tr></table> <TABLE cellPadding=10 bgColor=#ffcc99 border=1 valign="top"> <TBODY><TR> <TD vAlign=top width=360> <p><b>Corner (26 Washington Place):</b> NYU's Press Building <h3>The Benedict</h3> <p><b>80:</b> This 1879 NYU building, originally built to house single men, was named after <i>Much Ado About Nothing</i>'s confirmed bachelor. Painters Winslow Homer and Albert Pinkham Ryder lived here, as did architect William Mead and stained-glass artist John La Farge. The Sewer Club used to meet here for undisclosed activities; <a name="4st"></a> Mead's partner Stanford White was a founder. Now houses the 80 Washington Square East Galleries. <h3>Goddard Hall</h3> <p><b>79 (corner):</b> NYU dorm named for actress <a href="http://www.allmovie.com/cg/x.dll?p=avg&sql=B27336" target="_blank">Paulette Goddard</a>, whose fourth husband (following Charlie Chaplin and Burgess Meredith) was novelist Erich Maria Remarque, an NYU donor. The hall, called ''dour and delightful'' by the <i>AIA Guide</i>, combines the 1879 Tuckerman Building (one of New York's first apartments) and the 1894 Lies and Stern Building. </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD> </TR></TBODY></TABLE> <TABLE cellPadding=10 border=0 valign="top"> <TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top width=820> <H2><CENTER><A href="4st.htm#university"><===</A> WEST 4TH STREET <A href="4st.htm#university">===></A></CENTER></H2> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <table cellpadding="10" bgColor=#ffcc99 border="2" valign="top"> <tr><td valign="top" width="820"> <br><br><br><br><br><br> </td></tr></table> <table border="2" cellpadding="10" valign="top"><tr> <td width="800" valign="top"> <p>Is your favorite University Place spot missing? 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