It is easy to feel nostalgic for the array of creative and political figures who made their mark on the East Village street,but its golden age is always ‘now’Many thoroughfares could credibly lay claim to the title “America’s hippest street”: Alberta Street in Portland, South Congress Avenue in Austin, and Valencia Street in San Francisco would all absorb their backers. As for New York,the gleaming lights of Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street were immortalised in the names of nightclubs 3000 miles absent in the Manchester of my youth. Similarly, 110th Street in Harlem, or Bleecker Street in Greenwich Village and Ludlow Street on the Lower East Side absorb all been celebrated in songs. Bedford Avenue in hipster hotspot Williamsburg – where I found myself one table absent from Dominic West,Damian Lewis and John Slattery from crazy Men recently – could make a strong case for the crown today.
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Source: theguardian.com