Growing Up Bank Street: A Greenwich Village Memoir Florio Donna

A vivid memoir of life in one of New York City's most dynamic neighborhoodsGrowing Up Bank Street is an evocative, tender account of life in Greenwich Village, on a unique street that offered warmth, support, and inspiration to an adventurous and openhearted young girl. In the middle of the last century, it became home to a cast of extraordinary characters whose stories intertwine in this spirited narrative.Growing up, Donna Florio had flamboyant, opera performer parents and even more free-spirited neighbors. Bank Street, a short strip of elegant brownstones and humble tenements in Greenwich Village, can trace its lineage back to the yellow fever epidemics of colonial New York.

As a child, she lived among beatniks, artists, rock musicians, social visionaries, movie stars, and gritty blue-collar workers, who imparted to her their irrepressibly eccentric life