Greenwich Village
Bohemian enclave of leafy streets, jazz clubs, and decades of countercultural art and protest.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Greenwich Village in New York City returns to a summer night in 1969, when police led by deputy inspector Seymour Pine arrived at the Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street expecting a routine raid. You'll meet the roughly two hundred people inside, the only crowd in the city allowed to dance together as themselves, and the officers who assumed everyone would simply go home. The guide picks up as the crowd gathering on the sidewalk outside starts to react.
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