11 in 1924вЂ“25 when he worked on his novel Manhattan Transfer. 16 was bought in 2006 by Graydon Carter who moved in at no. Mark Knopfler bought the neighbouring no. The upstairs apartment of that house was described in Martin Amis' 1984 novel Money and Christopher Hitchens was a house guest there for six months when he arrived in New York from England. 34 which was built in 1844 in the Gothic Revival style. The journalist Charles Kuralt lived downstairs at no. On February 2, 1979, Sid Vicious died of a drug overdose in no. Marion Tanner, inspiration for the book, play, and musical Auntie Mame lived at 72. The 17-year-old Betty Bacall, soon to be known as Lauren Bacall, moved into no. Cunningham's studio was in the Westbeth complex, a block away. 107 were John Cage and Merce Cunningham, whose phone they'd use to avoid FBI wiretapping. 105 lived John Lennon and Yoko Ono from 1971 until 1973 their neighbours at no. Many notable actors have taught and studied there. The HB Studio, an acting studio founded in 1945 by Herbert Berghof and his wife Uta Hagen, is located at no. It also provides several performance spaces. That complex now houses the Westbeth Artists Community where a large number of notable artists have been in residence. The former Bell Laboratories headquarters, now a National Historic Landmark, occupied the Westbeth complex at no. It retains the name but is no longer located there. The Bank Street College of Education, which was founded in 1916 as the Bureau of Educational Experiments, was located on Bank Street from 1930 to 1970.

Historical locations and notable residents A clerk in the bank's main office on Wall Street had contracted yellow fever, leading the bank to buy land in Greenwich Village in order to have a branch office away from Wall Street where it could conduct business in the event of future emergencies. As with several other east-west streets in the Far West Village, the three blocks west of Hudson Street are paved with setts.Д«ank Street is named for the Bank of New York, which bought eight lots on the street in 1798 and established a branch there. Vehicular traffic runs west-east along this one-way street. It runs for a total length of about 725 metres (2,379В ft) from West Street, crossing Washington Street and Greenwich Street, to Hudson Street and Bleecker Street where it is interrupted by the Bleecker Playground, north of which is Abingdon Square it then continues to Greenwich Avenue, crossing West 4th Street and Waverly Place. Bank Street is a primarily residential street in the West Village part of Greenwich Village in the borough of Manhattan in New York City.

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