When did people start calling Greenwich Village “the West Village” en masse?

Growing up, I’ve always heard people call it Greenwich Village or simply the Village. Nowadays, both of these names eem to have heavily fallen out of favor, with most people exclusively using “the West Village”.

It appears that community activists coined the term in the 1960s to refer to the Western section of of Greenwich Village, but nowadays people use it to refer to anything West of the East Village.

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