Ray Sachs
Legend
- Location
- Not too far from Philly
- Name
- you should be able to figure it out...
Enjoying the Greenwich Village shots; I lived there briefly in a long-ago phase of my life. Went to a little below-street level restaurant on Bleecker Street, and at the table behind me sat a young up-and-coming singer/poet named Bob Dylan...
There's so much history in this city, the '60s being just one small chapter. I believe Dylan and Joni Mitchell and a few other notables lived in the Chelsea Hotel, which is still up on 23rd St, just a few blocks up from where I'm staying. She wrote Chelsea Morning about the place. And they all played down in the Village at the various folk clubs, which is really only about 10-15 blocks south of the Hotel. The West Village is probably about the prettiest part of the City at least from what I've seen - the Upper West Side is also very nice but in a much more formal and stately sort of way. The Village is just casually elegant as hell. And then Soho and Noho are really funky but very trendy and also very expensive. Those are the areas that really stand out to me so far. I can't imagine how much it would take to buy a place in the West Village (or really ANYwhere in the Village) - its all VERY high end with exclusive boutiques that just won't quit.
-Ray