Anthony Dapolito was on Manhattan Community Board 2 for over fifty years. A lifelong villager, he was involved in several of the battles against Robert Moses, in particular, the effort to save the South Village from an urban renewal plan, and the battles against the Lower Manhattan Expressway. Dapolito was a strong community advocate, always fighting to preserve people’s homes and improve their quality of life, such as preventing the widening of Hudson Street, and to help find a new non-residential site for the Thompson Street Playground to be built. He shares his remembrances of the fight to close Washington Square to traffic and the push for lower zoning designations for Greenwich Village and Little Italy. He also speaks about many prominent political and preservation figures in Greenwich Village such as Shirley Hayes, Jane Jacobs, and Carmine De Sapio.