Tourists and suburban kids followed the bohemian scene and overwhelmed the streets

Evidence

The blind composer-musician Moondog worked the street. The freakish ukulele-strumming, falsetto-voiced Tiny Tim was a favorite at lesbian bars. Brother Theodore (last name Gottlieb), a German-born concentration-camp survivor, introduced an element of Weimar Berlin to the scene with his sardonic audience-baiting rants. Tourists followed. Weekends were hell. Outer borough kids clogged the sidewalks, New Jersey cars cruised the narrow streets. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 258

Categorization

• FICTION: Brother Theodore the concentration-camp survivor bringing Weimar Berlin to Greenwich Village street theater is a vivid character seed — tragic loner turned sardonic street performer.