Back in the ’60s and early ’70s Lower Manhattan’s 1902-built Hotel Earle, as it was then called, was something of a flophouse; a grand but dilapidated and seedy apartment hotel in seemingly terminal decline.
At the same time, the neighbourhood in which the Earle stood – Greenwich Village – was becoming the beating heart of New York’s alternative counterculture, reflected by its population of writers and free-thinkers who flocked to its jazz clubs and coffee houses, feeding on the daily intellectual scene of poetry readings and folk sessions.
At the same time, the neighbourhood in which the Earle stood – Greenwich Village – was becoming the beating heart of New York’s alternative counterculture, reflected by its population of writers and free-thinkers who flocked to its jazz clubs and coffee houses, feeding on the daily intellectual scene of poetry readings and folk sessions.
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