Jamie Bernstein, the author, narrator, director, broadcaster and filmmaker who happens to be the daughter of the famed composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, has lived all over the city.

From her upbringing on West 57th Street to Park Avenue to the Upper East Side to a brief stay at the Dakota, Jamie Bernstein grew up way above 14th Street but developed a special rapport with Greenwich Village as a teen.

In 1967, she and her best friend were 15 years old, “a little too young to appreciate everything, but we were inhaling it all. ... It was the absolute epicenter of coolness in the 60s," she recalls.

“We would walk up and down 8th Street, where all the head shops were — it was just so cool," Bernstein says. "We were young, unofficial hippies, and we felt like we were the coolest peopl

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