THE CHANGING CHIC OF NEW YORK.

THE CHANGING CHIC OF NEW YORK. In THE HOUSE OF MIRTH, Edith Wharton makes it clear that when Lily Bart moves west in New York City (I remember the move as being to west of Sixth Avenue), it is a significant step down in social prestige. I just saw in a restaurant review in NEW YORK magazine the following: “this shabby border region of the Village isn’t really a neighborhood at all.” The address of the restaurant (Morandi) is 211 Waverley Place. I checked my memory with Google maps. The restaurant is a couple blocks north of Sheridan Square, which I had always thought of as a center of Greenwich Village, and a couple blocks south of Bank Street, which I had always thought of as one of the nicest neighborhood streets in Greenwich Village. One more reminder that I can’t go home again. NEW YORK is, if anything, an authority on social status in New York. I realize I don’t even know which border the review is referring to.