A report on Greenwich Village and Church of St. Luke in the Fields

Historic American Buildings Survey photo of the Chapel of St. Luke in the Fields (1934)

453–461 Sixth Avenue in the Historic District

The intersection of West 4th and West 12th Streets

Street signs at intersection of West 10th and West 4th Streets

Map of old Greenwich Village. A section of Bernard Ratzer's map of New York and its suburbs, made ca. 1766 for Henry Moore, royal governor of New York, when Greenwich was more than 2 miles (3 km) from the city.

Gay Street at the corner of Waverly Place; the street's name refers to a colonial family, not the LGBT character of Greenwich Village

Whitney Museum of American Art's original location, at 8–12 West 8th Street, between Fifth Avenue and MacDougal Street; currently home to the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.

The Cherry Lane Theatre is located in Greenwich Village.

The annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade is the world's largest Halloween parade.

The Stonewall Inn, a designated U.S. National Historic Landmark and National Monument, as the site of the June 1969 Stonewall riots and the cradle of the modern gay rights movement.

The Washington Square Arch, an unofficial icon of Greenwich Village and nearby New York University

396-397 West Street at West 10th Street is a former hotel which dates from 1904, and is part of the Weehawken Street Historic District

Washington Mews in Greenwich Village; an NYU building can be seen in the background

Christopher Park, part of the Stonewall National Monument

Jefferson Market Library, once a courthouse, now serves as a branch of the New York Public Library.

90 Bedford Street, used for establishing shot in Friends

Both are located within the Greenwich Village Historic District, designated in 1969.

- Church of St. Luke in the Fields

When the Church of St. Luke in the Fields was founded in 1820, it stood in fields south of the road (now Christopher Street) that led from Greenwich Lane (now Greenwich Avenue) down to a landing on the North River.

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Bogardus Plaza, the south end of Hudson Street

Hudson Street (Manhattan)

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Hudson Street is a north–south oriented street in the New York City borough of Manhattan running from Tribeca to the south, through Hudson Square and Greenwich Village, to the Meatpacking District.

Other notable buildings on this stretch of Hudson Street include The Church of St. Luke in the Fields and its garden, the White Horse Tavern (notorious for being the bar where poet Dylan Thomas drank and collapsed before he died of alcohol poisoning), and the headquarters of radio station WQHT ("Hot 97"), which has been the site of several shootings including a gunfight between the entourages of 50 Cent and The Game in 2005.

West Village

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The Stonewall Inn at 53 Christopher Street, a designated U.S. National Historic Landmark and National Monument, as the site of the 1969 Stonewall Riots.

173 and 176 Perry Street, rare examples of modern architecture in the Far West Village.

Gay Street at the corner of Waverly Place

The Cherry Lane Theatre is located in the West Village.

The annual Greenwich Village Halloween Parade is the world's largest Halloween parade and takes place in the West Village.

Some 18th-century streets, such as Bedford Street (pictured), are narrow.

66 Perry Street was featured in Sex and the City as Carrie Bradshaw's house.

Whitney Museum of American Art under construction in 2013

The West Village is a neighborhood in the western section of the larger Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, New York City.

St. Luke in the Fields Church is an Episcopal church founded in 1820 on farmland donated by Trinity Church.

Judson Memorial Church

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The Judson Memorial Church is located on Washington Square South between Thompson Street and Sullivan Street, near Gould Plaza, opposite Washington Square Park, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of the New York City borough of Manhattan.

The Chorale's former home was St. Luke's in the Fields on Hudson Street.