Greenwich Village is a small part of Manhattan south of 14th Street and West Broadway. The streets of the village, as opposed to when they are numbered in most of Manhattan. Although it was once a mecca of bohemian and alternative culture, a few Bohemians could afford to live here today. Greenwich Village is now traded on the edge of refinement. Many celebrities and personalities now call the Village their home, one of them, Liv Tyler, Jon Stewart, Uma Thurman, Julianne Moore and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Greenwich Village also hosts some of the best universities in the nation - New York University and Cooper Union's main campuses are located in the village. Modern Greenwich Village is located in the former marshes. 16th century Indians called it Sapokanikan (Tobacco Field), Dutch settlers called the "New Amsterdam." In 1630, English settlers conquered the New Amsterdam settlement, and Greenwich Village began in the village are completely separate from the rest of Manhattan in New York City. Greenwich Village in 1713 was officially designated Grin'wich Common Council records. Yellow fever outbreak in the 1820s forced many residents to leave their homes in Manhattan and healthier air in Greenwich Village, therefore, to find the village was populated densely populated. The city has always been at the forefront of new movements of art, politics and culture, but many believe reached its creative peak in the middle of the 20th century. Throughout the Greenwich Village bohemian culture is a milestone. The area is known for the various forms of alternative and avant-garde art and culture. Eugene O'Neill, American playwright celebrated, was a regular Greenwich Village in 1910. In 1950, a group of artists, which will eventually stand as the Beat Generation can be found in an oasis of Greenwich Village, Village figures to work vigorously Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S. Borroughs, and Dylan Thomas. More, many legendary musical acts of the 1960s can follow the roots as Greenwich Village, like The Mamas & the Papas, Peter Paul and Mary, Simon and Garfunkel, Joan Baez and Nina Simone. Even though Greenwich Village is no longer starving artists in the group, it is still the leading progressive, liberal attitude. Village Voice, a doctor-oriented tabloids focus on events in and around Greenwich Village was the first and the best of its kind, although the recent buy-out battle left the newspaper at its best. Alternative to an underground newspaper, is available to subscribe to non-residents of the village. Village Voice held by the Greenwich Village "on the map" after the collapse of the Beat Generation and the village had a love affair with anything alternative or avant-garde. The world's oldest gay and lesbian bookstore, Oscar Wilde Bookshop, which is located in Greenwich Village, and was founded in 1967. Village hosts the annual New York's Village Halloween Parade - a one-kilometer long procession of drunks, Misfits, drag queens, exhibitionists, and the "ordinary" people dressed. Halloween Parade is the biggest event in the United States and attract audiences around two million viewers.