A report on Greenwich Village and Hudson Square

Federal style houses, c.1820, on Charlton Street in the Charlton–King–Vandam Historic District

453–461 Sixth Avenue in the Historic District

One Hudson Square, at Canal and Varick Streets

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

To the north of the neighborhood is Greenwich Village, to the south is TriBeCa, and to the east are the South Village and SoHo.

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Adjacent to Greenwich Village are the neighborhoods of NoHo and the East Village to the east, SoHo and Hudson Square to the south, and Chelsea and Union Square to the north.

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SoHo, Manhattan

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Neighborhood in Lower Manhattan in New York City.

Niblo's Garden, seen here around 1887, was an entertainment venue on Broadway near Prince Street from 1823 to 1895

The E. V. Haughwout Building at Broadway and Broome Street was built in 1856–57, and has a cast-iron facade by Daniel D. Badger

SoHo also contains former industrial buildings in other architectural styles, and is also dotted with smaller structures like this Federal style house built in 1819–20.

428 Broadway (428-432) was built in 1888–89 and was designed by Samuel A. Warner in the Queen Anne style

Cast-iron buildings at 453–467 Broome Street between Mercer and Greene Streets

Chelsea Career & Technical Education High School, located just outside SoHo

In the 1990s, real estate agents began giving an adjacent neighborhood below West Houston Street various appellations, with no general agreement on whether it should be called (or included as part of) West SoHo, Hudson Square or the South Village.

SoHo and Greenwich Village generally have a higher rate of college-educated residents than the rest of the city.

Tribeca

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Neighborhood in Lower Manhattan in New York City.

Textile Building (1901) in the Tribeca Historic District

"Radio Row", seen here in 1934, was displaced by the building of the World Trade Center. (Photo by Berenice Abbott)

Map of Tribeca (excluding the portion south of Chambers Street) and major parks and transit connections.

Ladder Co. 8 firehouse at Varick and N. Moore Streets

The church also built Hudson Square, a development of brick houses which surrounded the park, which would become the model for Gramercy Park.

As of 2017, the median household income in Community Districts 1 and 2 (including Greenwich Village and SoHo) was $144,878, though the median income in Battery Park City individually was $126,771.

South Village

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The South Village is a largely residential area that is part of the larger Greenwich Village in Lower Manhattan, New York City, directly below Washington Square Park.

In 2012, developer Trinity Real Estate applied for a rezoning of the adjacent Hudson Square area, which would require the approval of both the NYC Planning Commission and City Council.