But the window opened onto the exciting noise of honking cabs and shouting pedestrians, the room was scrupulously clean, and I had free Wi-Fi. Marks Hotel was up four steep flights and so tiny that it held only two things: a bed, and a straight-back chair. No doorman! Though the really nice person at the desk has been there for years." I wasn't sure where they were, could not remember how to use the subway, had no idea where to stay.Ī friend suggested an inexpensive hotel right around the corner from NYU: St. My meetings were all in the East Village, at New York University and the New School. I had not been to New York in nearly 20 years when, suddenly, work brought me there three times last year, and three times again this year. How can it be that I had never heard of it? Lena Dunham set an entire episode of "Girls" here. The street has been immortalized on album covers and in music, movies, videos, TV shows, poems and novels. Abbie Hoffman used to invite the neighbors over to watch TV here. Auden, Patti Smith, Norman Mailer, Jack London, Leon Trostsky, Debbie Harry, James Fenimore Cooper, Thelonious Monk, Jackie Kennedy, Leonard Bernstein, Allen Ginsberg, the Ramones. You want names? Emma Goldman, Andy Warhol, Charlie Parker, Al Capone, W.H. But just about everyone has lived along those three blocks, or has loved, fought, joined a band, planned a revolution, written a poem, danced all night, dropped acid, eaten tacos, gotten drunk, sold something on the sidewalk or crashed on somebody's couch here. It starts at Astor Place and ends three blocks later at Tompkins Square Park. Marks Place, as it turned out, might be the most famous street in all of New York City - outside of Broadway, I guess, and maybe Fifth Avenue.
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