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Greenwich Village "used to feel like the margin of the center of the world, and now it feels like the center of the center of the world." -Andrew Solomon

"I have come to prefer sharing the streets with people who haven't grown up all in the same way and in the same place and with the same ambitions" -Andrew Solomon

I "felt as though I could keep inventing myself downtown. There was scope for me to be both the adventurer I'd tried to become in England and the anxious schoolboy I had been when I lived on 72nd Street." -Andrew Solomon

"When I was a child, I remember driving downtown with my parents to look out the window at the hippies." -Andrew Solomon

'Like most New Yorkers I suffer extreme remorse for the lost city of my youth." -William Sofield

"My mother used to say, 'If you want to be young forever, move to the Village." -Isaac Mizrahi

"I think about the cycles a city goes through historically. People come and go; neigborhoods are built up, broken down, and reborn to find their place in time again" -Jesse Malin

"The brothers were using their mother's recipes - either she was a terrible cook or a terrible recipe writer." -Anita Lo

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"To me, the Village is art, bohemia, beatniks, and freedom. It's like a little European enclave within the city, with everything human-scaled and no skyscrapers in sight." -Donna Karan

"The Village - will we ever really understand it? I ask this not in a figurative, rhetorical, or even existential sense, just in a way that attempts to address how the corner of West 4th Street and 8th Avenue manages to sit nort of the corner of West 12th Street and 8th Avenue without fail every single time I leave my building." -Dave Hill

"I like the sound of that word. Public. This is important because, although sometimes it seems as if it is, the Village is not a gated community." - Linda Ellerbee

"As there is no constant but change, it's not surprising that my Greenwich Village refuses to stay fixed in any orbit. This is both pleasing to me, and sad, and sometimes confusing" -Linda Ellerbee

"The Village has a wonderful raw energy that mixes with its history. I love the expanse of sky that can be seen from nearly anywhere." -Martha Clarke

"In an age of cities,
there is just one village
that is known by people the world over:

Greenwich Village.

It got there by being small.
Let's keep it that way."

-Graydon Carter

“There are many paths through my spiritual and emotional landscape, and I walk them wordlessly, communing with those like-minded souls of history who walked where I walk now, and I too intend to walk here after I am gone.” -Penny Arcade

“If I lived above 14th Street I’d be a regional manager for an office supplies concern.” -Jonathan Adler

“Nobody in the Village has a job; everyone has a calling.” -Jonathan Adler