South Manhattan area approximately bounded by Houston, Broadway Hudson and 14th Street, identified with alternative lifestyles and cultures. A pre-war haven for artists and political activists, Greenwich Village became identified in the 1950s with the beat generation and coffee-houses and, in the 1960s, with the Stonewall Riot and gay lifestyles. The Village Voice champions such political and cultural positions, as a neighborhood newspaper with national impact. Yet the village also represents attractive commercial and residential real estate, forces of gentrification that have challenged its alternative qualities in the 1990s even while tourists come to seek them.