Blog Posts by Subject: East Village

A Clue to a Cue

by Laura Ruttum
May 11, 2010

“I’m looking for a pool hall that used to be on 14^th street on the east side. I’m not sure what of its name. It was open at least as late as 1989, and it was next to a nightclub. Can you tell me the name of the hall?”

This was an interesting reference challenge. Normally when one is faced with a business name question, it’s as simple as heading to the yellow pages or reverse directory (also known as an address directory) for the time period in question. Without an exact

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My Library: Sam

by Frank Collerius, Library Manager, Jefferson Market Library
April 19, 2010

Sam is a researcher who makes use of both research and circulating collections at the NYPL. We hope he gets another grant so that he can write "The Library Space as Public Living Room (With Great DVDs): An Anthro-Architectural Analysis."

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Allen Ginsberg and the East Village

by Billy Parrott, Associate Director, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL)
February 1, 2010

My tour of the downtown branches of The New York Public Library continues! After being here for a few years and here for the past few months I am now here for a few days. All of this traveling has been a wonderful experience as each branch is as varied and interesting as the neighborhoods they serve. Spring is around the corner and soon I will be

Where Is St. Marks? Investigating Place Names in the East Village

by Billy Parrott, Associate Director, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL)
January 19, 2010

It is 8th Street, but from Third Avenue to Avenue A it is called St. Marks Place and is named for St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, which is not even on 8th Street, or St. Marks Place, but at the intersection of 10th Street, Second Avenue, and Stuyvesant Street. The land there has been a site of Christian worship since 1660. The history of St. Marks Place doesn’t go back that far, but a surprising amount of history has happened on these four

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East Village Landmarks – 96 and 98 St Marks Place

by Billy Parrott, Associate Director, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library (SNFL)
January 7, 2010

After a number of years in an historic Greenwich Village library I’ve spent the past few weeks in an equally historic East Village library. The Ottendorfer Branch of The New York Public Library is surrounded by literary, political, and musical history. From Leon Trotsky and