A report on Greenwich Avenue

Shops on east side of Greenwich Avenue
One Jackson Square at 122 Greenwich Avenue

Southeast-northwest avenue located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.

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Shops on east side of Greenwich Avenue

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Greenwich Village

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Neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City, bounded by 14th Street to the north, Broadway to the east, Houston Street to the south, and the Hudson River to the west.

Neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City, bounded by 14th Street to the north, Broadway to the east, Houston Street to the south, and the Hudson River to the west.

MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village
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.
Blue Note Jazz Club
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
NYPD 6th Precinct
West Village Post Office
Jefferson Market Library, once a courthouse, now serves as a branch of the New York Public Library.
Robert De Niro
Robert Downey Jr.
Hank Greenberg
Emma Stone
90 Bedford Street, used for establishing shot in Friends

Greenwich 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.

West Fourth Street–Washington Square station

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Express station and transfer stop on the IND Sixth Avenue and IND Eighth Avenue Lines of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of West Fourth Street and Sixth Avenue in Greenwich Village, Manhattan.

Express station and transfer stop on the IND Sixth Avenue and IND Eighth Avenue Lines of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of West Fourth Street and Sixth Avenue in Greenwich Village, Manhattan.

Tile caption below trim line
Street stair

This line consisted of a corridor connecting Inwood, Manhattan, to Downtown Brooklyn, running largely under Eighth Avenue but also paralleling Greenwich Avenue and Sixth Avenue in Lower Manhattan.

The "skyscraper alley" of International Style buildings along the avenue looking north from 40th Street to Central Park

Sixth Avenue

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Seldom used by New Yorkers – is a major thoroughfare in New York City's borough of Manhattan, on which traffic runs northbound, or "uptown".

Seldom used by New Yorkers – is a major thoroughfare in New York City's borough of Manhattan, on which traffic runs northbound, or "uptown".

The "skyscraper alley" of International Style buildings along the avenue looking north from 40th Street to Central Park
Looking north from 14th Street in 1905, with the Sixth Avenue El on the right
The historic Ladies' Mile shopping district that thrived along Sixth Avenue left behind some of the largest retail spaces in the city. Beginning in the 1990s, the buildings began to be reused after being dormant for decades.
Sixth Avenue in 1922
Sign for Venezuela on Sixth Avenue
Jefferson Market Library in Greenwich Village

Sixth Avenue is served by the New York City Subway with the IND Sixth Avenue Line north of Houston Street, and the IND Eighth Avenue Line south of Greenwich Avenue.

St. Mark's Place in 2010

8th Street and St. Mark's Place

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Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan that runs from Sixth Avenue to Third Avenue, and also from Avenue B to Avenue D; its addresses switch from West to East as it crosses Fifth Avenue.

Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan that runs from Sixth Avenue to Third Avenue, and also from Avenue B to Avenue D; its addresses switch from West to East as it crosses Fifth Avenue.

St. Mark's Place in 2010
Wanamaker Annex
The original location of the Whitney Museum, three converted townhouses at 8–12 West 8th Street
The German-American Shooting Society clubhouse at #12
Arlington Hall at #19–23, c.1892
Rent Is Too Damn High Party car parked on St Marks Place, where founder Jimmy McMillan lived until 2015
Gem Spa has been the "corner store" for locals for approximately 80 years
Cherries, an adult store on St. Mark's Place whose signage was part of Saturday Night Live's opening montage. The store closed in late 2011.

Nearby, a Native American trail crossed the island via the right-of-ways of Greenwich Avenue, Astor Place, and Stuyvesant Street.

The northern terminal, at 207th Street

IND Eighth Avenue Line

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Rapid transit line in New York City, United States, and is part of the B Division of the New York City Subway.

Rapid transit line in New York City, United States, and is part of the B Division of the New York City Subway.

The northern terminal, at 207th Street
Entrance to 145th Street
Lower-level local station on Central Park West (86th Street)
Brochure showing the elimination of double letters
Pump train in the Cranberry Street Tunnel after Hurricane Sandy
World Trade Center, the southern terminus for the local tracks

The four-track line continues south under Eighth Avenue to 14th Street, where it turns southeast under Greenwich Avenue and south under Sixth Avenue, above the four-track IND Sixth Avenue Line.

Looking south from near North Moore Street

Greenwich Street

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North–south street in the New York City borough of Manhattan.

North–south street in the New York City borough of Manhattan.

Looking south from near North Moore Street
753-57 Greenwich Street at West 11th Street
The corner of Greenwich and Barclay, facing East, near the destroyed World Trade Center after the September 11 attacks in 2001
Pacific Hotel, Greenwich Street, 1836

Both Greenwich Street – originally called Greenwich Road – and Greenwich Avenue, with which it is sometimes confused, derive their names from the formerly independent country Greenwich Village, which was subsumed by New York City as the city grew northward.

Looking northwards from Greenwich Village to Central Park

Seventh Avenue (Manhattan)

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Thoroughfare on the West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City.

Thoroughfare on the West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City.

Looking northwards from Greenwich Village to Central Park
The information booth and sculpture at 39th Street in the Garment District
Madison Square Garden is located between West 31st and 33rd Streets; Pennsylvania Station is under it.
Greater Refuge Temple on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard

Seventh Avenue originates in the West Village at Clarkson Street, where Varick Street becomes Seventh Avenue South (which becomes Seventh Avenue proper after the road crosses Greenwich Avenue and West 11th Street).