A report on Greenwich Avenue, 8th Street and St. Mark's Place and Greenwich Village
Greenwich Avenue, formerly Greenwich Lane, is a southeast-northwest avenue located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.
- Greenwich AvenueIt extends from the intersection of 6th Avenue and 8th Street at its southeast end to its northwestern end at 8th Avenue between 14th Street and 13th Street.
- Greenwich AvenueNearby, a Native American trail crossed the island via the right-of-ways of Greenwich Avenue, Astor Place, and Stuyvesant Street.
- 8th Street and St. Mark's PlaceThe area west of Greenwich Lane was already developed as Greenwich Village, while the area east of First Avenue was reserved for a wholesale food market.
- 8th Street and St. Mark's PlaceGreenwich Village was allowed to keep the 18th century street pattern of what is now called the West Village: areas that were already built up when the plan was implemented, west of what is now Greenwich Avenue and Sixth Avenue, resulted in a neighborhood whose streets are dramatically different, in layout, from the ordered structure of the newer parts of Manhattan.
- Greenwich VillageThe Cooper Union is located in Greenwich Village, at Astor Place, near St. Mark's Place on the border of the East Village.
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