ABSTRACT
Elmer Hicks, having built extensively in the Bronx, sought to expand in another territory. He had been thinking seriously of invading Greenwich Village, and sought out the advice of Michael Donovan who was an authority on that region. Hicks had been hearing and reading about the Village, a territory inhabited by impoverished artists and writers, but which attracted rich Bohemians, the young sons and daughters of wealthy families who liked to live in an aura of creative work, even if they themselves could create nothing, and were willing to pay steep rentals for this privilege.
