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...Brooklyn. "But because of this shared experience, people here are far more apt to talk to strangers. I don't know if it's always sex related...but if it is, that's beautiful." Elliot Bloom went home with a woman he met at 2A, a bar in Greenwich Village; he is not so sure it was beautiful. "People died," he says. "I have guilt about it. But I'd rather feel guilty and miserable with somebody else than all alone." --By Josh Tyrangiel...
...Wall Street and Sex and the City and The Sopranos and every opening shot of the tip of the island that was designed to say, "We're in Manhattan right now." Now we will see those shots and know they came Before. When you got turned around in Greenwich Village's crooked streets, the towers were the lodestars. It will be easier to get lost now. "Those were my local mountains," a New Yorker says, but the mountains were laid...
...Manhattan, where "good" is just the name of a restaurant in Greenwich Village and "evil" is what we call the prices at the new Chanel store in SoHo, the concept of miracles seemed a little hokey until last week. A pointy-head at one of the city's universities might have said the idea of the miraculous is an old metaphor that needs demystifying...
FIDDLE FOLK The Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem, vital forces in the 1960s Greenwich Village folk-music scene, blaze a trail for Irish music in America and inspire a number of other singers, including Bob Dylan and Barbra Streisand...
...Vincent's Hospital in Greenwich Village they were running out of Silvadene to treat burn victims, and began raiding the local drug stores. A hospital staff member wheeled around a grocery cart with a sign on the side reading, WE NEED CLOTHING DONATIONS. Within the hour, local residents had brought dozens of shopping bags full of blazers, shoes and pants, for patients whose clothes had been burned off. Edward Cardinal Egan led a team of priests to begin giving last rites. At one point he emerged from the emergency room, wearing blue hospital scrubs. His purple robes peeked...