Greenwich Village Size:8" x 10" That's how I first saw

That's how I first saw the rink

wading pools

The first human cannonball

which looks more like a construction site in this 1898 photograph

Greenwich Village Size:8" x 10" That's how I first sawGreenwich Village looks a lot like Italy, with a motorbike dashing by and signs advertising pizza, ravioli and Cafe Borgia. In the 1960s, "the Village" was an incubator for music, arts, politics, literature and ideas, where you could bump into Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg or Andy Warhol. This photo was taken at the corner of Macdougal and Bleecker streets, March 24, 1964, and captures Cafe Borgia, a legendary coffeehouse where people would talk and