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Greenwich Village Greenwich Village is a landmark because of the bohemian culture that developed there in 1950’s. Artists, musicians and other avant-garde thinkers propagated an alternative culture that made Greenwich Village a bohemian Mecca. As you descend from midtown to Greenwich village you will immediately notice that the The Lenape , original residents of Greenwich Village called the area Sapokanikan "tobacco field" which was once marshland. The Dutch settlers cleared the land, drained the marsh & turned it into pasture in the early 1600’s . The West Village is everybody’s idea of old New York: winding streets full of interesting shops more
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