Neighborhoods
Wikipedia ties Pete Seeger to Chelsea and Greenwich Village in Manhattan. A tie, not always an origin
On the map at 130 West 10th Street
130 West 10th Street, Manhattan: Moved into a townhouse here with the Almanac Singers in the fall of 1941. It was known as the Almanac House, and the group was evicted in January 1942.
Source: bedfordandbowery.com
Places
Listen and read
Music spots
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Venue
Webster Hall
1953–1968Built in 1886 as a hall for hire. In the 1950s Tito Puente, Tito Rodríguez and Pete Seeger played here, and from 1953 to 1968 RCA ran it as a recording studio, where Harry Belafonte and Tony Bennett recorded. On 2 February 1962 Bob Dylan played harmonica here on the title track of Belafonte’s Midnight Special, per Wikipedia.
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