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OPENING
STARTING OUT MANNA OF THE DAY STANLEY |
Prior Experience |
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Over the last several months we have been serializing cafe stories by our Minister of Culture, Robin Hirsch, from what is slowly coagulating into a book called THE WHOLE WORLD PASSES THROUGH: STORIES FROM THE CORNELIA STREET CAFE (a belated sequel to his 1995 memoir LAST DANCE AT THE HOTEL KEMPINSKI). If you are a stickler for chronology here is a possible order: 1. STANLEY 2. MANNA OF THE DAY 3. PRIOR EXPERIENCE 4. STARTING OUT 5. OPENING Then again you might just want to put the whole thing on Shuffle and see how it plays. |
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Cornelia Street is a tiny one-block street in the heart of Greenwich Village, New York City. It was laid out in 1794 on the farm of Robert Herring, who named it for his granddaughter, Cornelia. It has had an interesting history. In the nineteenth century it housed the stables of the rich. During Prohibition it sheltered one of New York's most famous Speakeasies. In the early forties W.H. Auden moved in at Number 7; in the late forties Anatole Broyard opened a bookstore at Number 20; for eleven years into the early fifties James Agee had a writing studio at Number 33; in the late fifties Joe Cino opened his café at No. 31. But by the early seventies all of this was merely history.
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The Cornelia Street Café  29 Cornelia Street, NYC 10014 P: (212)989-9319 F: (212) 243-4207 |
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