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OTD in 1859, #JohnBrown is hanged for leading an anti-slavery insurrection. Find out how this occasion was marked by one of #GreenwichVillage's most outspoken #AfricanAmerican abolitionists and abolitionist churches, and the rest of their amazing work: https://t.co/tyXs1sioRz
Happy 200th birthday to Herman Melville, b. this day in 1819! The great American writer may be more closely associated with the wide open sea, but he was actually deeply-rooted in #GreenwichVillage's #MeatpackingDistrict, where his family name lives on: https://t.co/JfhaIpH1ex