Greenwich Village in the 1930s

Known for the bohemian lifestyle of its residents and being especially famous for the women who lived there in the early part of the last century, Greenwich Village had a sixties kind of exotica long before the sixties.
I've been researching the Village in the 1930s, though, and have found that in some ways, the area had two personalities: one the Bohemia historians prefer to write about  and the other, a much more conservative immigrant population of Irish and, as I recall, Germans, both of whom mistrusted the artists and writers, whom  they saw as wild, immoral radicals.

And once the Depression hit, many of the artists and writers, those who had not died or fallen apart in some way, ran out of money, like millions of others. Those who were left formed a small minority of the neighborhood, which became a tourist attraction and a bit more upscale--not much--as investors renovated apartments. Rent was cheap--seventy-five dollars a month for a nice place--so working couples moved in and changed the Village yet again.