A Walk in Greenwich Village

Format: DVD Runtime: 120 minutes Series: Walking Tour Closed captioned: No Described Video: No

Learn how New York City's most eclectic community emerged from -- and became defined by -- the renegade spirit of its inhabitants. Host David Hartman is an award-winning documentary maker and well-known television figure. He says: "People all over the world know Greenwich Village as a hotbed of political and artistic activity, but perhaps they don't know how it all came about. The story of Greenwich Village is the story of iconoclasts who refused to yield to convention. They were immigrants and educators, manufacturers and merchants, rich folks and the desperately poor. And as we hope to show in this program, their influence is evident today in some very surprising ways."  Also with historian Barry Lewis.