New York Songlines: Horatio Street

West St | Washington St | Greenwich St | Hudson St | 8th Ave | W 4th St | Greenwich Ave
Named for Gen. Horatio Gates, who defeated the British at Saratoga--arguably the pivotal battle of the Revolutionary War. A Virginian before the war, Gates freed his enslaved workers and moved to New York in 1790.


HUDSON RIVER

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114: These West Coast apartments were put up in 1985.






Washington Commons

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95: West Coast apartments were a Manhattan Refrigerating Company warehouse (1898-1900). Converted 1984.







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83: Rooms to Let, snug rooms rented cheaply by a real Greenwich Village artist.

81: Writer James Baldwin lived here in the 1960s while writing Another Country.

79: A four-story 1870 building that was home to novelist William Gaddis in the 1930s and '40s. It was sold at auction for $7.4 million in 2008.

73: West Village Nursery School, a coop founded c. 1962.

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82: Playwright Clifford Odets lived in this apartment building in 1933-35; he wrote Waiting for Lefty here in 1934.












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Corner (637 Hudson): Bivio, hip restaurant.

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59: Was Astrays Café, New American restaurant


51: Musician Todd Rundgren lived here with famous rock girlfriend Bebe Buell.

47: Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollack briefly lived at this address in the early 1930s.




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Corner (636 Hudson): Hudson Bar & Books, clubby cigar bar; one of only eight bars in New York City where you can legally smoke. Also Yoya, designer kids' clothes





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14: Van Gogh apartments









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Jackson Square

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