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The Lost Village SHARE BUTTON “You came to the Village be- cause you were looking to fit in; because everyone was dif- ferent. You were an artist or you were gay - God forbid you were straight. People came to the Village because it was different,” opens The Lost Vil- lage, a new documentary by Roger Paradiso. NJ STAGE - ISSUE 42 by Gary Wien In today’s Greenwich Village there is debt slavery and pros- titution at New York University due to high tuition and fees for students. NYU and other land- lords are changing the charac- ter of the Bohemian Village due to outrageous rents and pass along real estate taxes. That’s the story told in The Lost Village. INDEX NEXT ARTICLE 80