People as Places as People.

William Burroughs and Alan Ansen outside San Remo, Photographer : Unknown.

Young People at Washington Square, Photographer : George Roos

NUY Students, 1967, Photographer : unknown.

Village Youngsters - Photographer Ogden Goelet.

Young people in Washington Square, photo by : George Roos

Village party 1990, photographer unknown.

Bye Bye Bohemia

Greenwich village, once a center for bohemians, Beatnicks and creative thinkers, has undergone a change that has left it with a small army of girls all living out their inner Carrie Bradshaw, with daily busses driving around girls anxiously waiting to see the stoop that carrie once sat on, or get a cupcake at magnolia bakery, the once charming, and cheap neighborhood has rents that no artist can pay for. The small local shops have been replaced by expensive designers. It has turned into a safe, and ”chic” neighborhood. Places like washington square park was once filled with hippies and freethinkers is now mainly filled with tourists taking pictures.It is still a small village, but only for the rich or the visitors. The main attraction is no longer the places where people could once go to be themselves, it is a place to get an overpriced cupcake, and a lipstick pen that says MARC JACOBS. Although the style in the neighborhood still varies (it is New York after all) It is far from the bohemic style that is the main style, unless you happen to spot a girl who bought her outfit at free people, or urban outfitters. The soul of Jack Kerouc has left, and been replaced by fictional writer Carrie Bradshaw.