Peter Hartshorn

“Ultimately, the salon, Steffens noted, helped change the public perception of Greenwich Village, although hardly in the manner Dodge had hoped. What had been a neighborhood better known for cheap rents and no shortage of decrepit apartments was becoming almost chic, a kind of Latin Quarter in Manhattan. Small theaters and art galleries sprang up, and midtown shoppers and tourists took the time to cruise through the Village for a look at the new trendsetters. Steffens did not recall it as being exceptionally fashionable back in 1911, judging his own lifestyle to be “Bohemian, but not the fake sort.” If it was not fake, it was hardly genuine, either. Steffens was not about to starve in Greenwich Village.”
― Peter Hartshorn, I Have Seen the Future: A Life of Lincoln Steffens

“Still influenced by his university days in the lab, Steffens hoped that his reporting would produce “facts of scientific value” on labor issues in New York.”
― Peter Hartshorn, I Have Seen the Future: A Life of Lincoln Steffens