WALKING TOURS: THE CITY UNDERFOOT AND OVER TIME

Created by BENJAMIN SUTTON DECEMBER 8TH, 2010

147 West 4th Street: Polly's Restaurant, John Reed Home

(Walking Tour Stops)

by Benjamin Sutton, at Dec. 17, 2010, 1:38 a.m.

Walking tour stop name: 147 West 4th Street: Polly's Restaurant, John Reed Home

Associated walking tour: Literary Greenwich Village

Walking tour stop description: "Summer of 1917 Masses (originated in 1911) closed its offices charged with indictment for sedition. John Reed and others charged with conspiracy. Trials resulted in hung juries. Reed had been covering Russian Rev. He and Louise Bryant took apartment in Patchum Place. Reed wrote the articles that composed Ten Days That Shook the World in upstairs room at Polly Holladay's new restaurant at 147 W. 4th St."

The Italian eatery Ristorante Volar occupies the space that used to be Polly's in the semi-basement of 147 West 4th Street.

Walking tour stop location: POINT (-74.0005526673686944 40.7315728038453315)

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