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City Living: Greenwich Village
Longtime Greenwich Village residents lament the neighborhood's transformation from bohemian to bourgeois, but the '50s and '60s were far from the Village's grittiest era: Before there was Sing Sing, in the heart of Greenwich Village was Newgate Prison. Legend has it, condemned prisoners were hanged from a certain elm in Washington Square Park, although naysayers claim evidence is scant.
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