
Ypsilanti, MI: The Midwest’s Greenwich Village
by Petula Brown
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Tucked between southeastern Michigan’s technical and intellectual hubs, Detroit and Ann Arbor, the town of Ypsilanti — “Ypsi,” to locals and friends — is far from New York City, my stomping grounds in the 80s and early 90s. But it’s a progressive, gritty, resurgent community with a funky attitude that improbably reminds me of Greenwich