While reading Christine Stansell’s take on the turn of a new century aka the bohemian culture in Greenwich Village, I’ve extrapolated a couple of things. First, the massive change in culture and appreciation of the arts in New York City as a whole when all of these different people were put together. It’s fascinating to see that when immigrants were compacted in to that one area in the Lower West Side of Manhattan, it made way for a greater appreciation of the arts, literature and, in a broader sense, the truths of having so many different cultures compacted in a small area. Second, this modernization eventually led to mini revolutions. Whether it was changing the role of women in to the “New Women”, where they ventured in to different routes to quench their thirst for new ideas and interests, or the changing role of men to better fit the needs of these “New Women”. After reading the evolution of Greenwich Village, and eventually New York City as a whole, I found myself wondering if there’s a specific formula for a city to become like New York. Sure we all know that there’s no place like New York City but, what if we were to concentrate the same amount of different cultures in, let’s say, a suburban area in Ohio. Would the result be somewhat similar? Of course, we can’t go back and implicate these changes to find out, but I believe that because New York was the area where an influx of immigrants landed in the 1890’s, it made way for tolerance and eventually acceptance of different ideas and opinions. These same ideas made there way out of the shabby cafes that they were discussed in and eventually were put in to action for change and led to modernization to better accommodate the growing bohemian culture that began to dominate the city. It is because of this diversity that New York has become one of the greatest cities in the world.