Growing up Bank Street : a Greenwich Village memoir / Donna Florio.

"Growing Up Bank Street is a uniquely Greenwich Village coming-of age-story, set on a legendary street whose irrepressible residents have helped shaped the story of America since Colonial times. A sparkling memoir of beatniks, rock stars, artists, AIDS activists, and free-thinkers, in an eccentric n...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Florio, Donna, 1955- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York : Washington Mews Books, an imprint of New York University Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Florio, Donna, > 1955-
Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.) > Biography.
Bank Street (New York, N.Y.)
Italian American women > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Artists > New York (State) > New York > Biography.
Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.) > Intellectual life > 20th century.
New York (N.Y.) > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Artists.
Intellectual life.
Italian American women.
New York (State) > New York.
New York (State) > New York > Greenwich Village.
1900-1999
Biographies.
Genre:
Biography.
Biographies.
Physical Description:viii, 225 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Variant Title:
Greenwich Village memoir
Format: Book
Partial Contents:
  • My Bank Street
  • My Bank Street
  • Opera on Bank Street
  • My building
  • The Frydels
  • Mr.Bendtsen
  • Mrs. Swanson and the Browders
  • John Lavery
  • Grace Bickers
  • Lena
  • Sabine
  • Sid Vicious
  • Artistic Bank Street
  • John, Yoko, Rex, and many more
  • Al
  • John Kemmerer
  • George and Gloria
  • Stylish and splendid Bank Street
  • Jack Heineman Jr.
  • Jack and Madeline Gilford
  • Auntie Mamie : Marion Tanner
  • Bella Abzug
  • Secret Bank Street
  • The jester, the Bishop, and the eavesdropper
  • Stella Crater
  • Yeffe Kimball
  • The heart of Bank Street
  • Billy Joyce
  • Marty, Roz, and Marty's harem
  • The many kinds of friendships
  • Epilogues.