A report on Greenwich Village and Eugene O'Neill

Portrait of O'Neill by Alice Boughton
MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village
Portrait of O'Neill as a child, c. 1893
453–461 Sixth Avenue in the Historic District
Birthplace plaque (1500 Broadway, northeast corner of 43rd and Broadway, New York City), presented by Circle in the Square.
The intersection of West 4th and West 12th Streets
O'Neill's first play, Bound East for Cardiff, premiered at this theatre on a wharf in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
Street signs at intersection of West 10th and West 4th Streets
Time Cover, March 17, 1924
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.
O'Neill in the mid-1930s. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936
Gay Street at the corner of Waverly Place; the street's name refers to a colonial family, not the LGBT character of Greenwich Village
The Chaplins and six of their eight children in 1961. From left to right: Geraldine, Eugene, Victoria, Chaplin, Oona O'Neill, Annette, Josephine and Michael.
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.
Grave of Eugene O'Neill
The Cherry Lane Theatre is located in Greenwich Village.
O'Neill stamp issued in 1967
The annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade is the world's largest Halloween parade.
Statue of O'Neil as a boy, sitting and writing, overlooking the harbor of New London, Connecticut
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.
Blue Note Jazz Club
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
Washington Mews in Greenwich Village; an NYU building can be seen in the background
Christopher Park, part of the Stonewall National Monument
NYPD 6th Precinct
West Village Post Office
Jefferson Market Library, once a courthouse, now serves as a branch of the New York Public Library.
Robert De Niro
Robert Downey Jr.
Hank Greenberg
Emma Stone
90 Bedford Street, used for establishing shot in Friends

During the 1910s O'Neill was a regular on the Greenwich Village literary scene, where he also befriended many radicals, most notably Communist Labor Party of America founder John Reed.

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During the golden age of bohemianism, Greenwich Village became famous for such eccentrics as Joe Gould (profiled at length by Joseph Mitchell) and Maxwell Bodenheim, dancer Isadora Duncan, writer William Faulkner, and playwright Eugene O'Neill.

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Lewis Wharf, first home of the Provincetown Players in 1915

Provincetown Players

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Collective of artists, writers, intellectuals, and amateur theater enthusiasts.

Collective of artists, writers, intellectuals, and amateur theater enthusiasts.

Lewis Wharf, first home of the Provincetown Players in 1915
Setting up the stage for Bound East for Cardiff, Fall 1916. Photo shows O'Neill on the ladder, Cook to the far right.
Scene in All God's Chillun Got Wings in which Paul Robeson kissed Mary Blair's hand, attracting national interest.
Susan Glaspell, playwright and one of the founders of the Provincetown Players.

Its productions helped launch the careers of Eugene O'Neill and Susan Glaspell, and ushered American theatre into the Modern era.

Provincetown, Massachusetts had become a popular summer outpost for numerous artists and writers, bohemian residents from Greenwich Village, New York.

Reed c. 1915

John Reed (journalist)

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American journalist, poet, and communist activist.

American journalist, poet, and communist activist.

Reed c. 1915
The Harvard Monthly Vol. 44 (1907)
A native of Oregon, John Reed made New York City the base of his operations.
Reed c. 1917
Worker of the American labor movement, internationalist writer, John Reed. Stamp of USSR, 1987.
The cover of this 1919 British pamphlet emphasizes Reed's short-lived status as Soviet consul.
Cover of Reed's Voice of Labor, October 1919
German edition of 10 Days That Shook The World, published by the Comintern in Hamburg in 1922
Reed's body lying in state in Moscow
Red Square Mass Grave No. 5, inscriptions for Inessa Armand, John Reed, Ivan Rusakov and Semyon Pekalov

Reed made his home in Greenwich Village, a burgeoning hub of poets, writers, activists, and artists.

Early in 1916 Reed met the young playwright Eugene O'Neill.