Umbers, Mike, 482–83, 509, 517
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (play), 107
Under a Glass Bell (Nin), 237–38
Underground Uplift Unlimited, 479
Unger, Edith, 128
Union Square, 52–53
United Fruit Company, 279
University in Exile, 200
University of the City of New York, 20–21
University of Virginia, 21
University Place, 248, 249
Untermeyer, Louis, 100, 242
Uplift Lighting, 483
Uprising of the Twenty Thousand, 76–77
Up Your Ass, 427, 428, 431
Urban, Joseph, 188
U.S.A. Confidential (Lait and Mortimer), 211, 217, 218
Vaccaro, John, 466, 530–31
Vagabondia, 128
Vain Victory (musical), 466
Van Dam Street, 13
Vanderbilt, Commodore Cornelius, 51
Vanderbilt, William Henry, 193
Vanderbilt Hall, 129
Van Doren, Charles, 253–54
Van Doren, Mark, 253
Vanguard Records, 386, 392, 393, 394
Van Itallie, Jean-Claude, 234–35, 358, 370, 372, 467
Vanity Fair, 36, 42–43, 44, 114, 127, 182
Van Ronk, Dave, 378–80, 382–83, 388, 391–93, 475–76, 491
Van Rotterdam, Jan, 4
Van Twiller, Wouter, 4, 10
Van Vechten, Carl, 84–85, 102, 103, 151–52, 184, 192
Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 180, 446
Varèse, Edgard, 129, 186–87, 273–74
Varèse, Louise, 129, 186
Varick Street, 13, 132
“varietism,” 89
Variety, 212–13
Variety Theater, 52
Vaughan, Fred, 43–44
Vaughan, Sarah, 207
Veblen, Thorstein, 48
Velvet Underground, 410–11, 480
Ventriloquist’s Wife, The (play), 514, 531
Verne, Jules, 83
Vesti, Eigil, 520–21
Victorian in the Modern World, A (Hapgood), 85–86
Vidal, Gore, 149, 296, 421
Vietnam War, 433–34, 437, 440–41
View, 255
Villa Curonia (near Florence), 82–83
Village Barn, 160, 247, 413
Village Fair, 162, 202
Village Gate, 278, 284, 287, 381, 386, 392, 399, 551
Village Independent Democrats, 345–46, 348
Village People, 467, 515, 517, 533
Villager, 327–29, 330
Village South Theatre, 358
Village Sunday (film), 324, 383
Village Vanguard, 129, 132, 162, 202–8, 278, 280, 284, 287, 305–6
Village Voice, x, 217, 276, 284, 290, 303, 304, 306, 327–31, 337, 340, 343, 345–46, 351, 384, 425, 427, 443, 448, 455–56, 478, 516
Villon, François, 29
Vixen Books, 286
Vodoun, 238
Vogel, Amos, 239, 309–10
Volstead Act, 156
Vorse, Mary Heaton, 109–10
Wagner, Robert, 344, 420
Waikiki Bar, 464
Waiting for Godot (play), x, 330, 333–34
Wakefield, Dan, 229–30, 281, 282, 301–2, 305–6, 421
Wake Up. We’re Almost There (Brossard), 297
Waldorf Cafeteria, 247
Walker, Jimmy, xi, 64, 155, 164–69, 175, 198, 208–9, 345
Walker, William, 164–65
Wallace, Mike, 306
Waller, Fats, 73
Wall Street, 6, 537, 546
Wall Street Crash of 1929, 169, 189
Wall Street Journal, 323
Walter, Kate, 548–49
War (play), 370
Warden, Jack, 449
Ware, Caroline F., 94, 136, 158, 159, 348
Warhol, Andy, 265, 370
Dylan and, 405–7, 411
La MaMa and, 371
Living Theatre and, 354
Solanas shooting, 428–31
Velvet Underground and, 410–11
Warren, Peter, 11–12
Warren, Robert Penn, 350
Warren Weaver Hall, 440
Wartime Prohibition Act, 157–58
Washington, George, 12
Washington, Martha, 12
Washington Mews, 51, 180
Washington Military Parade Ground, 19
Washington Place, 20, 73–74, 196
Washington Square, 19–21, 124, 339–40
Washington Square (James), 20
Washington Square Arch, 57, 73, 139
Washington Square Association, 382–83
Washington Square Bar, 470
Washington Square Book Shop, 81–82, 108, 142
Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit, 190–91
Washington Square Park, ix, 72, 324, 340, 378, 382–86, 425–26, 460–61, 498
Washington Square Players, 108
Washington Square South, 21, 161, 343
Washington Square United Methodist Church, 434
Washington Square Village, 340–41
waterfront. See West Side waterfront
Waters, John, 331, 365, 444, 518–19, 550
Waverly Place, 22, 24, 72
Waverly Theater, 533–34
Weathermen, 436–42
Weaver, Helen, 300–301, 421–22
Weaver, Ken, 401, 408–9
Weavers, the, 377–78, 386
Weber, Steve, 405
Weberman, A. J., 488–90, 494
Webster Hall, 93, 131–32, 146, 175
Weegee, 326, 518
Weeks, Rufus, 97–98
Weill, Kurt, 395
Weinberg, Harold, 178
Weinberg, Jonathan, 522
Welles, Orson, 357
Wells, H. G., 83–84, 88, 145
Wertheimer, Max, 200
Werther, Ralph, 52–54
West, Nathanael, 73
Westbeth Center for the Arts, 493–94, 497, 499–500, 548–50
Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective’s, 499
West Eighth Street. See Eighth Street, West
West Eleventh Street, 132, 219, 446
no. 16, 439–40
no. 18, 436, 438–40, 441–42
no. 25, 446
no. 263, 184
Westenberg, Robert, 509–10
Western Federation of Miners, 119
Western Union, 160
West Fourth Street, 128, 359
no. 146, 130, 166, 343, 458
no. 161, 395, 397
no. 243, 532
West Fourth Street Subway Station, 533
West of the Moon (play), 369–70
West Side Highway, 220, 466–67
West Side waterfront, 218–24, 466–69, 519–22, 549
West Street, 218–19, 220, 466–67, 548
West Tenth Street, 11, 180
no. 58 1/2, 57
no. 130, 194
no. 250, 507–8
West Thirteenth Street, 55, 122, 268–69, 447
West Twelfth Street, xii, 188, 517–18, 550
no. 114, 181–82
no. 319, 235
Wetzsteon, Ross, xiii
Wexler, Haskell, 332
Whalen, Philip, 300
Wharf Theatre, 109–10
What Did I Do? (Rivers), 252
When Queens Collide (play), 530–31
Where the Money Was (Sutton), 173
Whistler, James McNeill, 31–32, 102
White, Edmund, 361, 528
Cino and, 361, 366
Hotel de Dream, 54
States of Desire, 366, 513
Stonewall Uprising and, 457, 512
on Village bars and clubs, 54, 463, 470, 517, 518
on Village streets, 423–24, 426
White, George, 285–87
White, Josh, 207, 279, 280
White, Stanford, 57–58
White Horse Tavern, 217–18, 222–23, 232, 328, 374–75, 445
Whitman
, Walt, ix, 27, 34, 39–45
Agee and, 197
Bruno and, 126
Fulton ferry and, 18–19
Ginsberg and, 300
Leaves of Grass, 36, 39–45, 339
Pfaff’s and, 28, 37, 39–40, 41, 46
Whitney, Eli, 51
Whitney, Gertrude Vanderbilt, 51–52, 104, 187, 190–91
Whitney, Harry Payne, 51–52
Whitney Museum of Modern Art, 52, 104, 187
Whitney Studio, 52
“whorearchy,” 34
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (play), 356, 357
Who Walk in Darkness (Brossard), 296–97
Whyte, William H., Jr., 341
Wicked Pavilion, The (Powell), 93–94, 149, 342
Wicker, Randy, 460–64, 468–69, 479–83, 507–11, 540, 552
Wigwam, 160
Wilde, Oscar, 45, 112, 114
Wilder, Clinton, 358
Wilensky, Stewart, 324, 383
Wilentz, Eli, 341, 400, 402–3
Wilentz, Sean, 402
Wilentz, Ted, 400–403
Wiley and Putnam, 23
Wilkerson, Cathy, 436–42
Will, Gustav von (aka Tava), 522
Willa Cather Living (Lewis), 95
Williams, John A., 382–83
Williams, Jonathan, 401
Williams, Oscar, 235–36
Williams, Tennessee, 229, 351, 352, 355, 361, 364, 409
Williams, William Carlos, 146, 179, 253, 289, 295
Willie, John, 286
Wilson, David, 43
Wilson, Earl, 323
Wilson, Edmund, 151, 181–83, 201, 237–38
Wilson, Jane, 235, 236, 245, 253
Wilson, Lanford, 358, 361–62, 365, 367, 527
Wilson, Robert, 361
Wilson, Woodrow, 120–21, 186
Winchell, Walter, 207–8
Winogrand, Garry, 499
Winters, Shelley, 326, 401
Wintour, Anna, 137
Wobblies (IWW), 91–93, 104, 106, 119, 122, 161, 293
Wodehouse, P. G., 125
Wojnarowicz, David, 522
Wojtowicz, John Stanley, 507–11
Wolf, Dan, 327, 328, 330, 344, 345–46, 448, 456
Wolfe, Thomas, 183–86, 298
Wolff, Francis, 205
Women Behind Bars (play), 444
Women in Love (movie), 522
Womrath’s, 400
Wonderful Town (musical), 73, 203
Wood, Thelma Ellen, 151
Woodlawn, Holly, 513
Woods, Robert “Bobby,” 414–15
Woodstock Festival, 455–56, 488
Woollcott, Alexander, 112
Workers Music Alliance, 192–93, 194
Works Progress Administration (WPA), 199–200, 220, 251, 262
World’s Columbian Exposition (1893), 98
World’s Fair (1958), 187
World’s Fair (1964), 420
World War I, 117, 120–21, 168, 209
World War II, 181–82, 215–17, 227–28, 262, 327
Wright, Richard, 279
Yankee Ward, 25, 63
Yanovsky, Zal, 369, 404
Yarrow, Peter, 393. See also Peter, Paul and Mary
Yeah, 408
Yippies, 396, 409, 429, 450
You Can’t Go Home Again (Wolfe), 186
You Can’t Win (Black), 293–94
Young, Art, 98
Young, Izzy, 273, 382–84, 394, 409
Young, La Monte, 410, 493
Youngerman, Jack, 311–12
Ziegfeld, Flo, 114
Ziegfeld Frolic, 130
Ziegfeld’s Follies, 167, 188
Zion AME Church, 70
Ziprin, Lionel, 387–88
Zodiac, the, 518
Zoo Story, The (play), 356–57
About the Author
JOHN STRAUSBAUGH covered downtown Manhattan history and culture as a writer and editor for the weekly New York Press from 1988 through 2002. For the New York Times he wrote and hosted the “Weekend Explorer” series of articles, videos, and podcasts on New York City history. He has also written for the Washington Post, NPR, and PBS. His previous books include E: Reflections on the Birth of the Elvis Faith, Rock ’Til You Drop, and Black Like You. A former resident of Greenwich Village, the Lower East Side, and Hell’s Kitchen, he now lives in Brooklyn Heights.
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