Chad Griffith / Zak Bickel / The AtlanticI’ve lately begun collecting old tourist guides to New York City. Most of them don’t even mention St. Marks Place, which may at first seem not so surprising. St. Marks is an unusually tiny street. It runs for just three blocks, between Astor Place and Tompkins Square Park, and you can walk the whole thing in under 10 minutes. Also, it’s located in the heart of the East Village, a neighborhood that was once a nesting place for misfits, knaves, and wanderers. For a quarter of a century or so, from about the …read more
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