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453–461 Sixth Avenue in the Historic District

The intersection of West 4th and West 12th Streets

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

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

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.

The Cherry Lane Theatre is located in Greenwich Village.

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.

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

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

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.

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Among the first venues for what would soon be called "Off-Off-Broadway" (a term supposedly coined by critic Jerry Tallmer of the Village Voice) were coffeehouses in Greenwich Village, in particular, the Caffe Cino at 31 Cornelia Street, operated by the eccentric Joe Cino, who early on took a liking to actors and playwrights and agreed to let them stage plays there without bothering to read the plays first, or to even find out much about the content.

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The only known photograph taken during the first night of riots, by freelance photographer Joseph Ambrosini, shows gay youth scuffling with police.

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Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village

Christopher Park, where many of the demonstrators met after the first night of rioting to talk about what had happened, now features a sculpture of four white figures by George Segal that commemorates the milestone.

Gay rights demonstration in Trafalgar Square, London, including members of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF). The GLF in the UK held its first meeting in a basement classroom at the London School of Economics on October 13, 1970. The organization was very informal, instituting marches and other activities, leading to the first British Gay Pride March in 1972.

Banner reading "Stonewall was a riot" pictured during Berlin Pride, 2009

Queer anarchists at Stockholm pride with banner reading "Remember Stonewall"

The Stonewall, a bar in part of the building where the Stonewall Inn was located. The building and the surrounding streets have been declared a National Historic Landmark.

The sign left by police following the raid is now on display just inside the entrance.

A banner hanging from the top of the building the day after President Obama announced creation of the Stonewall National Monument

Plaque commemorating the Stonewall Riots

In Paris (France), town square commemorating the Stonewall Riots

The Stonewall riots (also known as the Stonewall uprising, Stonewall rebellion, or simply Stonewall) were a series of spontaneous protests by members of the gay community in response to a police raid that began in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City.

Ten police officers—including two policewomen—barricaded themselves, Van Ronk, Howard Smith (a column writer for The Village Voice), and several handcuffed detainees inside the Stonewall Inn for their own safety.

East Village, Manhattan

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Neighborhood on the East Side of Lower Manhattan in New York City.

Stuyvesant Street, one of the neighborhood's oldest streets, in front of St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery. This street served as the boundary between boweries 1 and 2, owned by Peter Stuyvesant.

Former German-American Shooting Society Clubhouse at 12 St Mark's Place (1885), part of Little Germany

The Village East Cinema/Louis N. Jaffe Theater was originally a Jewish theater

St. Nicholas Kirche at East 2nd Street, just west of Avenue A. The church and almost all buildings on the street were demolished in 1960 and replaced with parking lots for the Village View Houses

The Phyllis Anderson Theater, one of several theaters that were originally Yiddish theaters

A wall in the East Village in 1998, featuring a mural of two men

"Extra Place", an obscure side street off of East 1st Street, just east of the Bowery

East 5th Street between Second Avenue and Cooper Square is a typical side street in the heart of the East Village

Once synonymous with "Bowery Bums", the Bowery area has become a magnet for luxury condominiums as the East Village neighborhood's rapid gentrification continues

Taras Shevchenko Place, with St. George's Church on the north side, and St. George Academy on the south side.

1st Avenue, looking north at 10th Street

The Nuyorican Poets Café has been located off Avenue C and East 3rd Street since its founding in 1973.

Sherry Vine and Joey Arias during the 2009 HOWL! Festival

Tompkins Square Park is the recreational and geographic heart of the East Village. It has historically been a part of counterculture, protest and riots

A production of John Reed's All the World's a Grave in the New York Marble Cemetery, which does not contain headstones

New York Public Library, Ottendorfer branch

Punk rock icon and writer Richard Hell still lives in the same apartment in Alphabet City that he has had since the 1970s

Miss Understood stops a bus in front of the Lucky Cheng's restaurant at 2nd Street on First Avenue.

In the 1950s and 1960s, the migration of Beatniks into the neighborhood later attracted hippies, musicians, writers, and artists who had been priced out of the rapidly gentrifying Greenwich Village.

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

Bob Dylan

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American singer-songwriter.

The Zimmerman family home in Hibbing, Minnesota

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Dylan performs during the 1996 Lida Festival in Stockholm

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

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

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

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.

Following the release of Todd Haynes' Dylan biopic I'm Not There, J. Hoberman wrote in his 2007 Village Voice review: