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Jane Jacobs, born May 4, 1916, and died April 25, 2006, was an author and urbanist who bought this 1842 rowhouse in 1947 and remained until 1968. While living here, she helped lead successful campaigns to ban cars from Washington Square, to defeat Robert Moses' planned Lower Manhattan Expressway, and to stop his plans for "urban renewal" demolition in the West Village. She wrote The Death and Life of Great American Cities while living here.
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