page_title: Jack Newfield
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caption_attribution_description: 35 Charlton Street between Sixth Avenue and Varick Street in the South Village section of the Greenwich Village neigborhood of Manhattan, New York City, was built c.1820 in the Federal style houses. It is located within the Charlton - King - Vandam Historic District. (Source: "NYCLPC Charlton - King - Vandam Designation Report". The railing features a shoe scraper.)
context_page_description: Jack Abraham Newfield was an American journalist, columnist, author, documentary filmmaker and activist. Newfield wrote for the Village Voice, New York Daily News, New York Post, New York Sun, New York Magazine, Parade Magazine, Tikkun, Mother Jones, and The Nation and monthly columns for several labor union newspapers. In his autobiography, Somebody's Gotta Tell It: The Upbeat Memoir of a Working-Class Journalist, Newfield said, "The point is not to confuse objectivity with truth."
  A career beat reporter, Newfield wrote prolifically about modern society, culture, and politics, on a range of topics relevant to urban life, such as municipal corruption, the police, and labor unions, and also professional sports, especially baseball and boxing, as well as contemporary music. He wrote numerous books about modern social and political subjects, including A Prophetic Minority and Robert Kennedy: A Memoir. He received the American Book Award for The Full Rudy: The Man, the Myth, the Mania about New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Newfield was a senior fellow at The Nation Institute, and an Emmy-award winning documentary filmmaker.
context_section_description: Jack Abraham Newfield (February 18, 1938 – December 21, 2004) was an American journalist, columnist, author, documentary filmmaker and activist. Newfield wrote for the Village Voice, New York Daily News, New York Post, New York Sun, New York Magazine, Parade Magazine, Tikkun, Mother Jones, and The Nation and monthly columns for several labor union newspapers. In his autobiography, Somebody's Gotta Tell It: The Upbeat Memoir of a Working-Class Journalist (2002), Newfield said, "The point is not to confuse objectivity with truth."
  A career beat reporter, Newfield wrote prolifically about modern society, culture, and politics, on a range of topics relevant to urban life, such as municipal corruption, the police, and labor unions, and also professional sports, especially baseball and boxing, as well as contemporary music.  He wrote numerous books about modern social and political subjects, including A Prophetic Minority (1966) and Robert Kennedy : A Memoir. (1969). He received the American Book Award for The Full Rudy: The Man, the Myth, the Mania about New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Newfield was a senior fellow at The Nation Institute, and an Emmy-award winning documentary filmmaker.
caption: 35 Charlton Street entrance
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