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Highly fashionable in the 19th century, when it was the home of the wealthy, East Village later became a more workaday place for several decades.
In the 1950s it attracted the beatniks. Now it has been regentrified.
Some fine 19th-century houses and the St Mark in the Bowery church are in Stuyvesant Street.

St Mark’s Place was the centre of the Beat Generation when Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and other 1950s writers lived here.

Cooper Square is dominated by the seven-storey brownstone Cooper Union Foundation Building, founded in 1859 by Peter Cooper as a non fee-paying college for working-class students, giving them the chance of an education he never had. His statue stands in the square.
Public speakers were invited to use the Great Hall, among them Abraham Lincoln, who attacked slavery in an electioneering address.