A report on Greenwich Village and West Village

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.

453–461 Sixth Avenue in the Historic District

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

The intersection of West 4th and West 12th Streets

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

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

Gay Street at the corner of Waverly Place

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.

The Cherry Lane Theatre is located in the West Village.

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

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

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

The Cherry Lane Theatre is located in Greenwich Village.

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

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.

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

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

Whitney Museum of American Art under construction in 2013

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

Christopher Park, part of the Stonewall National Monument

90 Bedford Street, used for establishing shot in Friends

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

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Greenwich Village also contains several subsections, including the West Village west of Seventh Avenue and the Meatpacking District in the northwest corner of Greenwich Village.

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Houston Street

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Major east–west thoroughfare in Lower Manhattan in New York City.

East Houston Street between Clinton and Suffolk Streets in the 1920s

Houston Street at Lafayette Street in 1974

Houston Street generally serves as the boundary between neighborhoods on the East Side of Manhattan—Alphabet City, the East Village, NoHo, Greenwich Village, and the West Village to the north, and the Lower East Side, most of the Bowery, Nolita, and SoHo to the south.

An 1893 redrawing of the 1807 version of the Commissioners' grid plan for Manhattan, a few years before it was adopted in 1811

Commissioners' Plan of 1811

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The original design for the streets of Manhattan above Houston Street and below 155th Street, which put in place the rectangular grid plan of streets and lots that has defined Manhattan on its march uptown until the current day.

The city blocks of Portland, Oregon; Savannah, Georgia; and Manhattan shown at the same scale

"A Portraiture of the City of Philadelphia" (1683) by Thomas Holme, the first map of the city.

A portion of a map of the city from 1776; De Lancey Square and the grid around it can be seen on the right

The Mangin–Goerck Plan of 1803; the "warning label" can be seen at the bottom under "Plan of the City of New York"

The only known image of John Randel Jr., the Commission's chief surveyor, by an unknown artist, probably Ezra Ames.

The park-like grounds of the American Museum of Natural Historycalled "Theodore Roosevelt Park" since 1958, but officially part of Central Parkis the only one of the planned public spaces of the Commissioners' Plan which still exists; it was to be "Manhattan Square".

This one of John Randel's survey bolts marked the location of what would have been Sixth Avenue and 65th Street; the location later became part of Central Park

One of Randel's 92 detailed "Farm Maps", showing how the Manhattan grid would sit on the island's topography and extant farms and homesteads. This one is bounded by West 36th Street, Sixth Avenue, West 15th Street, and the Hudson River.

Central Park is by far the largest interruption of the Commissioners' grid, running from Central Park South (59th Street, at the right) to 110th Street (on the left), and from Fifth Avenue (at the top) to Central Park West (Eighth Avenue, at the bottom), and at 843 acre, taking up a little over 6% of the area of Manhattan island.

Andrew Haswell Green, a critic of the Commissioners' Plan, headed the Central Park Commission, which created the street plan for Manhattan above 155th Street

The Knapp map of 1870 shows the progress made in laying out streets above 155th Street as called for in the Central Park Commission's 1868 plan

In 1945, Sixth Avenue was officially renamed "Avenue of the Americas", and was adorned with circular signs for each member country of the Organization of American States, such as this one for Venezuela. The name never caught on with New Yorkers, though, who still insist on calling it "Sixth Avenue". After decades of requiring only one official name, the city at last began to co-sign the avenue with both names. Currently, "Avenue of the Americas" is generally only seen on business stationery and official city documents, or heard from the mouths of tourists.

Frederick Law Olmsted, vociferous critic of the Commissioners' Plan (c.1860)

Clement Clarke Moore objected to the Plan, but made a fortune developing his estate once the Plan's streets were laid down through it. (1897)

Lewis Mumford, a vehement critic of the Commissioners' Plan

Thomas Janvier, an illustration from In Old New York (1894)

Dutch artist Piet Mondrian drew inspiration from the vibrancy of the grid, displaying it in paintings such as Broadway Boogie Woogie (1942).

The Bayard streets still exist as the core of SoHo and part of Greenwich Village: Mercer, Greene, and Wooster Streets, LaGuardia Place/West Broadway (originally Laurens Street), and Thompson, Sullivan, MacDougal, and Hancock Streets, although the last has been subsumed by the extension of Sixth Avenue.

Greenwich Village, then independent of New York City, and the current West Village were not part of the area the Commission was to deal with.

Lower Manhattan

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Southernmost part of Manhattan, the central borough for business, culture, and government in New York City, which is the most populated city in the United States with over 8.8 million residents as of the 2020 census.

The pre-9/11 Lower Manhattan skyline in May 2001, seen from the Empire State Building. The skyline was dominated by The Twin Towers.

New Amsterdam, centered in the eventual Lower Manhattan, in 1664, the year England took control and renamed it "New York".

The Cooper Union at Astor Place, where Abraham Lincoln gave his famed Cooper Union speech, is one of the area's most storied buildings.

Photo of Lower Manhattan pictured in 1931

Norman Friend. Sidney's Map Twelve Miles Around New York, 1849. Chromo lithograph, Brooklyn Museum

View from the Woolworth Building in 1913

The Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, 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.

United Airlines Flight 175 hits the South Tower of the original World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

Picture of Lower Manhattan skyline, including the One World Trade Center; taken from Little Island at Pier 55 in November 2021

Chinatown is home to the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere.

The park and surrounding neighborhood of Union Square, located between 14th and 17th Streets, may be considered a part of either Lower or Midtown Manhattan.

The New York Stock Exchange, by a significant margin the world's largest stock exchange per market capitalization of its listed companies, at US$23.1 trillion as of April 2018. Pictured is the exchange's building on Wall Street.

New York City Hall in Lower Manhattan's Civic Center neighborhood

North of Canal Street and south of 14th Street are the neighborhoods of SoHo, the Meatpacking District, the West Village, Greenwich Village, Little Italy, Nolita, and the East Village.

Peretz Square, Houston Street on left; 1st Street on right

List of numbered streets in Manhattan

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The New York City borough of Manhattan contains 214 numbered east–west streets ranging from 1st to 228th, the majority of them designated in the Commissioners' Plan of 1811.

Little West 12th Street as viewed from the rooftop of The Standard, High Line

Irving Place Theatre, from Northeast corner of Irving Place and East 15th Street

The Center for Jewish History at 15 West 16th Street

Korea Way in Koreatown, as seen on 32nd Street, with ubiquitous street signage in Hangul (한글)

A view of the Empire State Building from 33rd Street and Park Avenue Subway Station

Mount Vernon Hotel Museum on East 61st Street

Archdiocesan Cathedral of the Holy Trinity

120-130 East 80th Street, with three of the four East 80th Street Houses; the Astor House is on the left, the Whitney House on the right, and the Dillon House is between them.

West 187th Street stairs to Ft. Washington Avenue

Although the numbered streets begin just north of East Houston Street in the East Village, they generally do not extend west into Greenwich Village, which already had established, named streets when the grid plan was laid out by the Commissioners' Plan of 1811.

Because West 4th Street turns northward at Sixth Avenue, it intersects 10th, 11th, 12th and 13th Streets in the West Village.

Manhattan Community Board 2

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The Manhattan Community Board 2 is a New York City community board encompassing the neighborhoods of Greenwich Village, West Village, South Village, NoHo, SoHo, Little Italy, NoLIta, and a portion of Chinatown in the borough of Manhattan.

Cherry Lane Theatre

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Oldest continuously running off-Broadway theater in New York City.

The theater is located at 38 Commerce Street between Barrow and Bedford Streets in the West Village neighborhood of Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City.

Café Society

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Café Society was a New York City nightclub open from 1938 to 1948 on Sheridan Square in Greenwich Village.

Looking south from near North Moore Street

Greenwich Street

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

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

Greenwich Street runs through the Meatpacking District, the West Village, Hudson Square, and Tribeca.

At that time it was called 'Road to Greenwich', as it was the only continuous road from Lower Manhattan to Greenwich Village other than Broadway.

Whitney Museum

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The Whitney's original location, at 8–12 West 8th Street, between Fifth Avenue and MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village

The Whitney Museum of American Art's former (1966–2014) home on Madison Avenue; the Marcel Breuer-designed building has seen numerous subsequent uses.

Entrance to the Whitney via the High Line

The Whitney Museum, New York City in 2016: The building was designed by Renzo Piano.

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney by Robert Henri (1916)

Banners from April 5, 2019, protest by Decolonize This Place at the Whitney Museum, New York NY, over board vice chair Warren Kanders' ownership of Safariland, a manufacturer of tear gas and other weapons

Maurice Prendergast, Central Park, 1900, (1900)

Oscar Florianus Bluemner, Old Canal Port, (1914)

Thomas Hart Benton, House in Cubist Landscape, (c. 1915–1920)

Edward Hopper, New York Interior, c. 1921

George Bellows, Dempsey and Firpo, (1924)

The Whitney Museum of American Art, known informally as "The Whitney", is an art museum in the Meatpacking District and West Village neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City.

The Whitney Museum of American Art was founded in 1930; at this time architect Noel L. Miller was converting three row houses on West 8th Street in Greenwich Village—one of which, 8 West 8th Street had been the location of the Studio Club—to be the museum's home, as well as a residence for Whitney.

Stonewall Inn the day after President Obama's dedication on June 24, 2016

Stonewall National Monument

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Stonewall National Monument sign at the entrance to Christopher Park

Stonewall National Monument is a 7.7 acre U.S. National Monument in the West Village neighborhood of Greenwich Village in Lower Manhattan, New York City.