Jane Isabel Butzner (* May 4th, 1916) was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania as the daughter of a teacher and a doctor. In 1935, she and her Sister Betty moved to New York City, where she fell in love with the quarter of Greenwich Village. There, she worked as a Stenographer and freelance writer.
The fact that the influential city planner Robert Moses, who even spars with President Franklin D. Roosevelt, endangers her quarter with his Plannings for city highways, and considers the destruction of historical Buildings and intact Neighborhoods at best as collateral damage, isn't to her liking at all.