Inside Greenwich Village: A New York City Neighborhood, 1898-1918.(Review)(Brief Article)

McFarland, Gerald W. Inside Greenwich Village: A New York City Neighborhood, 1898-1918. Univ. of Massachusetts. Aug. 2001. c.258p. illus. bibliog. index. LC 00-054393. ISBN 1-55849-299-2. $29.95. HIST

McFarland (history, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst; Mugwumps, Morals, and Politics) focuses on a period in which New York's Greenwich Village was a mixed-class, multiethnic urban neighborhood. At the end of the 19th century, where this book begins, Irish immigrants lived in the West Village. The owners of the saloons that dotted the streets became community leaders, and county societies, the Catholic Church, and the Tammany Hall organization fostered the community's …