WEST VILLAGE ORIGINALS

Known as "Little Bohemia" since 1916, New York City's West Village has long been a haven for intellectuals, writers, artists, and activists. Here the 19th-century homes lining the narrow cobblestone streets were broken up into apartments to house the newcomers. Gathering places like jazz clubs, piano bars, coffee shops, and bookstores hummed with a sense of freedom from a more rigid society outside the neighborhood's borders. This would be the home of the groundbreaking Westbeth Artists Hou...