The Restless Mecca

The Restless MeccaOn a dusty table in the back room of a Greenwich Village antique shop lies an etching that pictures a mighty stand of oak being cleared to make way for the construction of a cabin. A few disconsolate figures, their heads bowed, mourn the vile encroachment of the metropolis. The title of the etching is The End of Greenwich Village and the date on it is 1859.Greenwich Village ended, then, more than a hundred years ago. The crooked lanes of "Grenege," the Green Village,...