Artifacts of New York City: The IFC Center and Tavern on the Green, 2005-2006

Friends, internationalists and all fellow travelers: the IFC Center is a heaven, a Mecca, like gold at the end of the rainbow. Greenwich Village. 323 Avenue of the Americas / Sixth Avenue & West 3rd Street. Some of the architectural bits date back to before the American Civil War. 

Opened in 2005 and flourishing in 2018. On August 18, 2006, I saw Factotum, with Matt Dillon playing Hank Bukowski (hilarious -- especially if you're a Bukoswki reader). 

It's only about a block and a half from Washington Square Park. Walk along "positively 4th Street" (Bob Dylan way) and you can reach the historic Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street in about five minutes. Our Lady of Pompeii Shrine Church at 25 Carmine Street is a two minute walk away. You can check out the Village Vanguard (178 Seventh Avenue South, opened in 1935 and competes with Baker's Keyboard Lounge in Detroit for jazz history honors) with a less than ten minute walk. 

Hepcats, can you dig? 

IFC Center has a website. Here's a link. The Stonewall Inn's link is here. The Village Vanguard's link is here. Our Lady of Pompeii Shrine Church's link is here. 

Tavern on the Green at 67th Street and Central Park West has a storied history, starting with the architectural core that dates back to its service as a sheepfold in the 1880s. It's primary run as a restaurant lasted from 1934 until the end of 2009. Good news is, it's since been renovated and re-opened under new management beginning in 2014. 

The current president of the USA stuck his greedy paw into the Green zone around 2011, but apparently this came to nothing. 

Website for Tavern on the Green can be reached via this link.