A report on West Village, Greenwich Village and Whitney Museum

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.

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

453–461 Sixth Avenue in the Historic District

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

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

The intersection of West 4th and West 12th Streets

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

Gay Street at the corner of Waverly Place

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

Entrance to the Whitney via the High Line

The Cherry Lane Theatre is located in the West Village.

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

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

Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney by Robert Henri (1916)

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

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.

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

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

The Cherry Lane Theatre is located in Greenwich Village.

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

Maurice Prendergast, Central Park, 1900, (1900)

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.

Oscar Florianus Bluemner, Old Canal Port, (1914)

Whitney Museum of American Art under construction in 2013

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

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

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

Edward Hopper, New York Interior, c. 1921

Christopher Park, part of the Stonewall National Monument

George Bellows, Dempsey and Firpo, (1924)

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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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.

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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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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.

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By the 1930s it had evolved into her greatest legacy, the Whitney Museum of American Art, on the site of today's New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.

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Whitney Museum of American Art is located in the West Village. The Whitney was founded in 1931 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, a wealthy and prominent American socialite and art patron. Its permanent collection comprises more than 21,000 works. From 1966 to 2014, the Whitney was located on the Upper East Side; it closed in October 2014 to relocate to a new building in the Meatpacking District/West Village, which opened in May 2015.

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A report on West Village, Greenwich Village and Whitney Museum

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