... This is the great advantage and
distinction of Washington Square and Greenwich Village and
this is what has made it popular and it will be greater as
the years go by. It will improve more and more with age,
like an old wine.
"There is only one old section of New York and that is
Greenwich Village and Washington Square, and the public are
also going to preserve this little part of old New York."
Then there is that curious quality about Greenwich so endearing to
those who know it, the quality of a haven, a refuge, a place of
protected freedom.
"It's a good thing," said a certain brilliant young writer-man to me,
"that there's one place where you can be yourself, live as you will
and work out your scheme of life without a lot of criticism and
convention to keep tripping you up. The point of view of the average
mortal--out in the city--is that if you don't do exactly as everyone
else does there's something the matter with you, morally or mentally.
In the Village they leave you in peace, and take it for granted that
you're decent until you've blatantly proven yourself the opposite.
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