New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-12-20
Hon Greenwich Village Captipates City Wayfarers
Residents Of This Cymns
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and also why live in Greenwich Viii
J lage It's Just sensible human nature
10 find the centre of things, and that's
what this quaint little section of old
New York is. Here one is within firt-
! ing distance of all activities, and yet
one can be coy if necessary and find
secusion to work hard. live in an
old house with real mahogany doors
J and high ceilings, where thoughts can
! soar without any immediate inhibi-
I tons. Further, my study is far enough
] from Miss La Follette's so that my
/ typewriter can sing its little song with
out. interrupting her activities. i be-
| lieve even the happiest marriage needs
( space, and there are many houses IN
! Greenwich Village which, with a little
/ fixing, remove one from the cliff dwell
( ers. Incidentally, space and low rents
| for benefits received go hand in hand,
rare phenomenon in this city. To es-
cape the roar of traffic, to keep appoint
ments without an hours preliminary
/ sprint, to come home and not die from
exhaustion in the effort, to find space
and high ceilings on a dramatists in
come--that is something to wish for.
did. and found it here"
~ The number Of Thompson Buchanan's
]
81 live in Greenwich Village because
it is the only part of New York that
f.isn't like New York. If the rest Of
America were like New York City all
| the real. Americans would move to
Patagonia. Fortunately, the rest CT
America realizes that New York is
merely the big noise, with Bluff for its
middle name, so they don't take it Sc
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dose of splash and glitter to tone
them up for more real work. We in
Greenwich Village have the double ad-
vantage of living in sane surroundings
and still being near enough the splash
and glitter of Broadway to jump in
for bath. of it whenever we desire
The best description of Greenwich Viii
lage is that il is the one neighborhood
liz New York where brains are not
measured exclusively by dollars and
where you don't have to lie TO create
an impression. The fact being that we
Greenwich Villagers are not easily i'm
pressed by immigrants from other To-
calities."
The home Of Leroy Scott is at 81
Grove st. His answer reads as follows:
"You ask me why live in Greenwich
Village. That's easy. | once lived
with bunch of alleged uplifters on
the East Side, and / used 10 like the
East Side. | can still recommend il as
a fine place for young uplifters-they
may get uplifted there. Also, | lived
up in Harlem, and, begging Harlem's
pardon, was almost bored to death by
the unanimity of its sameness. Also, I
lived up beneath the portentious and
self-conscious shadows of Columbia
College, where Phi. d. degrees are like
ly TO fall on you while you're not
looking-but | moved just in time.
And now I'm in Greenwich Village.
I'm here because it's the nearest and
farthest place in the world. | want
and need quiet-and could hardly
get farther away from the rush and
madness and general bass drumness of
things and at the same time remain
terrestrially present. And | want and
need life and its bustle-and | walk
ten minutes, or ride five, and am in
the midst of the liveliest kind of life
or pretence of life that Broadway or
Fifth av. affords
$50 this is why I'm the sort of COM
muter that lives in Greenwich VILLAGE