After undergoing years of gentrification, New York City's Greenwich Village has become almost unrecognizable to its long time residents.
"Long celebrated as an enclave for the avant-garde and radical political movements, Greenwich Village is reinventing itself once again, perhaps more radically than ever before.
This former nexus of bohemian culture, where Bob Dylan transformed folk music and artist Marcel Duchamp proclaimed the founding of 'The Independent Republic of Greenwich Village,' is going upscale. 'The Village' is morphing block by block and store by store into something new and quite different: an enclave for the wealthy.
'The Village is so changed I don't even know it,' said Stan Satlin, a composer who has lived in the artist building called Westbeth for more than 30 years. 'I notice that whenever a restaurant or store closes, a real estate office opens in its place.'"
FULL STORY: Village Keeps Its Vanguard
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