Most of the following publications are related to the history of Greenwich Village and New York University. Each contains its own bibliography as well which can point the researcher to additional information on the university and the village. The most comprehensive and current source for information on NYU is New York University and the City (see citation below).

Beard, Rick and Leslie Cohen Berlowitz. Greenwich Village. New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1993

Cantor, Mindy. Around the Square: 1830-1890. New York: New York University Press, 1982.

Chapin, Anna A. Greenwich Village. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1917

Churchill, Allen. The Improper Bohemians: A Recreation of Greenwich Village in its Heyday. New York: Dutton, 1959

Greenwich Village, a Photographic Guide. New York: Dover Publications, 1976

Delaney. Edmund T. New York's Greenwich Village. Barre, Mass.: Barre Publishers, 1968

Dell, Floyd. Homecoming. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1933

Dell, Floyd. Love in Greenwich Village. New York: George H. Doran, 1926

Edmiston, Susan and Linda D. Cirino. Literary New York: a History and Guide. Boston: Houghton,Mifflin Co., 1976

Frusciano, Thomas and Marilyn Pettit. New York University and the City. New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1997.

Gayte, Margot and Edmund V. Gillon, Jr. Cast Iron Architecture in New York. New York: Dover, 1974

Goldstone Harmon H. and Martha Dalrymple. History Preserved: A guide to New York City Landmarks and Historic Districts. New York: Schocken Books, 1976

Huxtable, Ada Louise. Classic New York: Georgian Gentility to Greek Elegance. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1964

James, Henry. Washington Square. New York: Harper & Bros., 1881

Janvier, Thomas A. In Old New York. New York: Harper & Bros., 1894

Klein, Milton, ed. New York: the Centennial Years. Port Washington: Kennikat Press, 1976

Lanier, Henry W. and Berenice Abbott. Greenwich Village Today and Yesterday. New York: Harper Bros. 1949

Lockwood, Charles. Manhattan Moves Uptown: an Illustrated History. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin Co. 1976

Lyman, Susan E. The Story of New York. New York: Crown, 1964

Miller, Terry. Greewich Village And How it Got That Way. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc. New York, 1990

City Landmarks Preservation Commission. Greenwich Village Historic District Description Report. 2 vols. New York: The City Record, 1969

Small, Vernal. Nineteenth Century Dwelling Houses of Greenwich Village. New York: Association of Village Homeowners, Landmarks Committee, 1968

Simkhovitch, Mary K. Neighborhood: My Story of Greenwich House. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1938

Still, Bayrd. Mirror for Gotham: New York as Seen by Contemporaries from Dutch Days to the Present. New York: New York University Press. 1956

Tricarico, Donald. The Italians of Greenwich Village. New York: The Center for Migration Studies, of New York, Inc. 1984

Ware, Caroline F. Greenwich Village, 1920-1930, a Comment on American Civilization in the Post-War Years. New York: Harper Colophon Books, 1965 (first published, 1935)

Wertheim, Arthur F. The New York Little Renaissance. New York: New York University Press, 1976

White, Norval and Elliot Willensky. AIA Guide to New York City. New York: Collier Books, 1978

Wolfe, Gerard R.New York: a Guide to the Metropolis. New York: New York University Press, 1975

For more online information on Greenwich Village visit the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation website

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All images and texts in this exhibit are from the Fales Library and University Archives collections with the exception of photographs from the collections of The New-York Historical Society, the Museum of the City of New York and the Metropolitan Museum of Art as indicated. Various staff members from the Fales Library and the NYU Archives made valuable contributions to this web exhibition including:

From University Archives:
Nancy Cricco, University Archivist
Cara Brick, Kate Culkin, Tanya Elder, Lori Finkelstein, Ariana Huberman, Dan Link, Teresa Mora, Amy Surak, Steve Urgola

From Fales:
Marvin Taylor, Fales Librarian
Matthew Barton, Amresh Sinha, Tania Friedel, Chatam Ewing, Brandi Reissenweber, Scott Laird, Camilla Fojas, Helice Koffler, Audrey Kuenstler, Kevin Murphy, Tom Savage, Sujani Reddy

Other contributors:
Sherman Clarke, Paula DeStefano, William McKeldin, Christie Stephenson, Tom Frusciano, Marilyn Pettit