Talk:East Village, Manhattan
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¶ I think there should be a separate article on the Lower East Side. The Lower East Side has a historical connotion that the "East Village" completely lacks.
¶ The redirect should be disabled.
¶ No. The EV is part of the LES and there is much more history ABOVE houston street.
¶ Below Houston is historical for the great immigration wave. After that (c.1900) the area above Houston inspired more culturally.
¶ The East Village was a term the developers plugged to seperate it from the Lower East Side, in part, but it should still be kept this way.
[edit] Huh?
"Over the last 100 years, the East Village/Lower East Side has arguably contributed more to American arts and culture than any other neighborhood in the nation."
I will edit it to more reasonable claims.
- Sounds like a good idea, It had to read that again when I saw it. Cyprus 23:23, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Western boundary of the East Village
I think this should be Broadway, and the article about Greenwich Village - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Village - lists Broadway as the Eastern boundary of the Village, so when the Bowery and Third Av. are claimed to be the "rough" western boundaries of the East Village, there is a contradiction that begs the question of what to call the 2-3 blocks between Broadway and the Bowery/Third Av. And please, not "Central Village," a designation I don't accept and would like to stamp out, but which if anything is used for the area between 5th Av. or so and Broadway. Michael 09:53, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] "In the 1980s, real estate developers began promoting the name East Village..."
From almost everything I've read outside of Wikipedia, the name "East Village" was established before the 80s. I haven't found a reputable source on the web, but the term became popular in the 60s during the hippie migration to the neighborhood.
I don't doubt that developers and realtors encouraged the dissociation of EV and LES, or that EV and LES became separate neighborhoods in the 80s, but the section is inaccurate the way it is.
In any case, it doesn't help that most of the article is original research and commentary. Ytny 12:27, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
- I lived in the East Village in 1980. It was often called the East Village at that time, though the term was not really common or widespread. The East Village EYE was already being published by then, and it's not like they made the name up. When I was down there, it was indeed the real estate people who were pushing hard to separate the neighborhood from the Bowery and make it sound more like the high-rent West Village. - Corporal Tunnel 01:26, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
