A report on Bob Dylan and Greenwich Village

Dylan at Azkena Rock Festival in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, in June 2010

The Zimmerman family home in Hibbing, Minnesota

453–461 Sixth Avenue in the Historic District

Dylan with Joan Baez during the civil rights "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom", August 28, 1963

The intersection of West 4th and West 12th Streets

Bobby Dylan, as the college yearbook lists him: St. Lawrence University, upstate New York, November 1963

Street signs at intersection of West 10th and West 4th Streets

The cinéma vérité documentary Dont Look Back (1967) follows Dylan on his 1965 tour of England. An early music video for "Subterranean Homesick Blues" was used as the film's opening segment.

Map of old Greenwich Village. A section of Bernard Ratzer's map of New York and its suburbs, made ca. 1766 for Henry Moore, royal governor of New York, when Greenwich was more than 2 miles (3 km) from the city.

Gay Street at the corner of Waverly Place; the street's name refers to a colonial family, not the LGBT character of Greenwich Village

Bob Dylan and the Band commenced their 1974 tour in Chicago on January 3.

Whitney Museum of American Art's original location, at 8–12 West 8th Street, between Fifth Avenue and MacDougal Street; currently home to the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.

Bob Dylan with Allen Ginsberg on the Rolling Thunder Revue in 1975. Photo: Elsa Dorfman

The Cherry Lane Theatre is located in Greenwich Village.

Dylan performing in the De Kuip Stadium, Rotterdam, June 23, 1978

The annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade is the world's largest Halloween parade.

The Stonewall Inn, a designated U.S. National Historic Landmark and National Monument, as the site of the June 1969 Stonewall riots and the cradle of the modern gay rights movement.

Dylan performs during the 1996 Lida Festival in Stockholm

The Washington Square Arch, an unofficial icon of Greenwich Village and nearby New York University

396-397 West Street at West 10th Street is a former hotel which dates from 1904, and is part of the Weehawken Street Historic District

Bob Dylan performs at Air Canada Centre, Toronto, November 7, 2006

Washington Mews in Greenwich Village; an NYU building can be seen in the background

Dylan and the Obamas at the White House, after a performance celebrating music from the civil rights movement (February 9, 2010)

Christopher Park, part of the Stonewall National Monument

Dylan performing at Finsbury Park, London, June 18, 2011

President Obama presents Dylan with a Medal of Freedom, May 2012

Dylan mural in Minneapolis by Eduardo Kobra

Jefferson Market Library, once a courthouse, now serves as a branch of the New York Public Library.

90 Bedford Street, used for establishing shot in Friends

From February 1961, Dylan played at clubs around Greenwich Village, befriending and picking up material from folk singers there, including Dave Van Ronk, Fred Neil, Odetta, the New Lost City Ramblers and Irish musicians the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem.

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Village resident and cultural icon Bob Dylan by the mid-60s had become one of the world's foremost popular songwriters, and often developments in Greenwich Village would influence the simultaneously occurring folk rock movement in San Francisco and elsewhere, and vice versa.

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4th Street (Manhattan)

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Street in Lower Manhattan, New York City.

Due to the layout of streets in Greenwich Village, West 4th Street, running south to north, intersects West 12th Street, which runs west to east

It continues west until the Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue), where West 4th Street turns north and confusingly intersects with West 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th Streets in Greenwich Village.

The street was later home to the famous folk club Gerde's Folk City (11 West 4th Street), which hosted the New York debuts of Bob Dylan in 1961 and Simon & Garfunkel.

The Village Voice

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American news and culture paper, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.

The final printed edition, featuring a 1965 photo of Bob Dylan on the cover, was distributed on September 21, 2017.

The Village Voice was launched by Ed Fancher, Dan Wolf, and Norman Mailer on October 26, 1955, from a two-bedroom apartment in Greenwich Village; that was its initial coverage area, which expanded to other parts of the city by the 1960s.