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Speaker 1: Podcast Playground. I'm busnight on the next Taking a Walk podcast.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to our special Greenwich Village series. Richard Baron is

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Speaker 1: our guest. Richard, it's so awesome to meet you and

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Speaker 1: thank you for taking a walk. Thank you. I love

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Speaker 1: taking a walk. It really starts with this community that

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Speaker 1: grew over a long period of time that was not

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Speaker 1: part of New York City yet, that was a little

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Speaker 1: apart from what Manhattan was much lower Manhattan, and this

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Speaker 1: was sort of this was a tobacco field or whatever.

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Speaker 1: It was always a unique landscape. So if you look

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Speaker 1: on any map of New York, you'll see a grid.

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Speaker 1: You'll see a grid for most of Manhattan except for

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Speaker 1: Greenwich Village and a few areas to below Greenwich Village

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Speaker 1: in which the streets are winding because their paths based

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Speaker 1: on Dutch traders paths and Native American paths. And when

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Speaker 1: the grid was built, the residence of Greenwich Village refused

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Speaker 1: to be on the grid. And that's just simply one

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Speaker 1: element of what makes Greenwich Village's just always unique. It's

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Speaker 1: not on the grid. I mean, that's the simple just

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Speaker 1: that is such a metaphor. That's next time I'm taking

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Speaker 1: a walk,