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East Village Apartment
During the 19th century, millionaires like the Astors and Vanderbilts had
homes in East Village, but the waves of Irish, German, Jewish, Polish, and
Ukrainian immigrants who flooded into New York City in the 1900s soon
displaced the elite, who moved uptown.
Since then, the area has been home to the Beat generation of the 1950s,
hippies in the 1960s, and punks in the late 1970s and 1980s. Today it's
still a young person's neighborhood, with its experimental music clubs and
theaters and cutting-edge fashion. New York University is in the
area, so there's no shortage of clientele here. Foodies take note: this
neighborhood reputedly contains the most varied assortment of ethnic
restaurants in New York City, from the crush of Indian eateries on the
south side of East Sixth Street (sometimes called "Little Bombay")
to McSorley's Old Ale House, a pub that seems unchanged since it first
opened in 1854. Nearby, in what was once the home of the Astor Library,
the restored Public Theater has been the opening venue for many
now-famous plays.
For more trend-setting street life, head east toward Alphabet City (named
for avenues A, B, C, and D)- still a little rough around the edges but
with many reasonably priced, fun, and gamut-running places to eat, drink,
and shop…and, if you're really getting into the scene, some very cool
tattoo parlors.
A haven from the pressure of classes at New York University, students
regularly gather around the Alamo at Astor Place. The Alamo is a
15-ft (4.5m) steel cube designed by Bernard Rosenthal that revolves when
pushed. Cooper Union, a school that holds many interesting public
lectures and exhibits, was established in 1859 just in time for Abraham
Lincoln to make a campaign speech in its auditorium. Today,
Blue Man Group
performs its popular Tubes Off-Broadway audience-participation
performance art extravaganza at the Astor Place Theater
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