Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village | |
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UTC−4 (EDT) | |
ZIP Codes | 10003, 10011, 10012, 10014[2] |
Area codes | 212, 332, 646, and 917 |
Greenwich Village Historic District | |
Location | Boundaries: north: W 14th St; south: Houston St; west: Hudson River; east: Broadway |
Coordinates | 40°44′2″N 74°0′4″W / 40.73389°N 74.00111°W |
Architectural style | various |
NRHP reference No. | 79001604[3] |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | June 19, 1979 |
Designated NYCL | initial district: April 29, 1969 extension: May 2, 2006 second extension: June 22, 2010 |
Greenwich Village,[pron 1] or simply The Village, is a 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. 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.
Its name comes from Groenwijck,
Greenwich Village is part of Manhattan Community District 2, and is patrolled by the 6th Precinct of the New York City Police Department.[1] Greenwich Village has undergone extensive gentrification and commercialization;[10] the four ZIP Codes that constitute the Village – 10011, 10012, 10003, and 10014 – were all ranked among the ten most expensive in the United States by median housing prices in 2014, according to Forbes,[11] with residential property sale prices in the West Village neighborhood typically exceeding US$2,100/sq ft ($23,000/m2) in 2017.[12]
Geography
Boundaries
The neighborhood is bordered by
Into the early 20th century, Greenwich Village was distinguished from the upper-class neighborhood of Washington Square—based on the major landmark of Washington Square Park[15][16] or Empire Ward[17] in the 19th century.
Encyclopædia Britannica's 1956 article on "New York (City)" states (under the subheading "Greenwich Village") that the southern border of the Village is Spring Street, reflecting an earlier understanding. Today, Spring Street overlaps with the modern, newer SoHo neighborhood designation, while the modern Encyclopædia Britannica cites the southern border as Houston Street.[18]
Grid plan
As Greenwich Village was once a rural, isolated
Many of the neighborhood's streets are narrow and some curve at odd angles. This is generally regarded as adding to both the historic character and charm of the neighborhood. In addition, as the meandering Greenwich Street used to be on the Hudson River shoreline, much of the neighborhood west of Greenwich Street is on landfill, but still follows the older street grid.[19] When Sixth and Seventh Avenues were extended in the early 20th century, they were built diagonally to the existing street plan, and many older, smaller streets had to be demolished.[19]
Unlike the streets of most of Manhattan above Houston Street, streets in the Village are typically named rather than numbered. While some of the formerly named streets (including Factory, Herring and Amity Streets) are now numbered, they still do not always conform to the usual grid pattern when they enter the neighborhood.[19] For example, West 4th Street runs east–west across most of Manhattan, but runs north–south in Greenwich Village, causing it to intersect with West 10th, 11th, and 12th Streets before ending at West 13th Street.[19]
A large section of Greenwich Village, made up of more than 50 northern and western blocks in the area up to 14th Street, is part of a Historic District established by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. The District's convoluted borders run no farther south than 4th Street or St. Luke's Place, and no farther east than Washington Square East or University Place.[20] Redevelopment in that area is severely restricted, and developers must preserve the main façade and aesthetics of the buildings during renovation.
Most of the buildings of Greenwich Village are mid-rise apartments, 19th century row houses, and the occasional one-family walk-up, a sharp contrast to the high-rise landscape in
Political representation
Politically, Greenwich Village is in New York's 10th congressional district.[21][22] It is also in the New York State Senate's 25th district,[23][24] the New York State Assembly's 66th district,[25][26] and the New York City Council's 3rd district.[27]
History
Early years
In the 16th century,
The earliest known reference to the village's name as "Greenwich" dates back to 1696, in the will of Yellis Mandeville of Greenwich; however, the village was not mentioned in the city records until 1713.[30] Sir Peter Warren began accumulating land in 1731 and built a frame house capacious enough to hold sittings of the New York General Assembly when smallpox rendered the city dangerous in 1739 and subsequent years; on one occasion in 1746, the house of Mordecai Gomez was used.[31][32] Warren's house, which survived until the Civil War era, overlooked the North River from a bluff; its site on the block bounded by Perry and Charles Streets, Bleecker and West 4th Streets,[33] can still be recognized by its mid-19th century rowhouses inserted into a neighborhood still retaining many houses of the 1830–37 boom.
From 1797
The oldest house remaining in Greenwich Village is the Isaacs-Hendricks House, at 77 Bedford Street (built 1799, much altered and enlarged 1836, third story 1928).[39] 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. In 1822, a yellow fever epidemic in New York encouraged residents to flee to the healthier air of Greenwich Village, and afterwards many stayed. The future site of Washington Square was a potter's field from 1797 to 1823 when up to 20,000 of New York's poor were buried here, and still remain. The handsome Greek revival rowhouses on the north side of Washington Square were built about 1832, establishing the fashion of Washington Square and lower Fifth Avenue for decades to come. Well into the 19th century, the district of Washington Square was considered separate from Greenwich Village.
In 1825, the Commercial Advertiser was writing that "Greenwich is no longer a country village. Such has been the growth of our city that the building of one block more will connect the two places" of Greenwich and New York.[40] By 1850, the city had developed entirely around Greenwich Village such that the two were no longer considered separate.
Reputation as urban bohemia
Greenwich Village historically was known as an important landmark on the map of American bohemian culture in the early and mid-20th century. The neighborhood was known for its colorful, artistic residents and the alternative culture they propagated. Due in part to the progressive attitudes of many of its residents, the Village was a focal point of new movements and ideas, whether political, artistic, or cultural. This tradition as an enclave of avant-garde and alternative culture was established during the 19th century and continued into the 20th century, when small presses, art galleries, and experimental theater thrived. In 1969, enraged members of the gay community, in search for equality, started the Stonewall riots. The Stonewall Inn was later recognized as a National Historic Landmark for having been the location where the gay rights movement originated.[41][42][43] On June 27, 2019, the National LGBTQ Wall of Honor was inaugurated at the Stonewall Inn.[44]
The
From the late 19th century until the present, the
In 1924, the
In one of the many Manhattan properties that
On January 8, 1947,
The Village hosted the nation's first racially integrated
The annual
Postwar
Greenwich Village again became important to the bohemian scene during the 1950s, when the
The Village had a cutting-edge cabaret and music scene.
Founded by New York-based artist
Greenwich Village was home to a safe house used by the radical anti-war movement known as the Weather Underground. On March 6, 1970, their safehouse was destroyed when an explosive device they were constructing was accidentally detonated, killing three of their members (Ted Gold, Terry Robbins, and Diana Oughton).[62]
The Village has been a center for movements that challenged the wider American culture, most notably its seminal role in sparking the
Preservation
Since the end of the 20th century, many artists and local historians have mourned the fact that the bohemian days of Greenwich Village are long gone, because of the extraordinarily high housing costs in the neighborhood.[68] The artists fled to other New York City neighborhoods including SoHo, Tribeca, Dumbo, Williamsburg, and Long Island City. Nevertheless, residents of Greenwich Village still possess a strong community identity and are proud of their neighborhood's unique history and fame, and its well-known liberal live-and-let-live attitudes.[68]
Historically, local residents and preservation groups have been concerned about development in the Village and have fought to preserve its architectural and historic integrity. In the 1960s,
Since then, preservation has been a part of the Village ethos. Shortly after the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) was established in 1965, it acted to protect parts of Greenwich Village, designating the small
Rezoned areas
The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation (GVSHP), a nonprofit organization dedicated to the architectural and cultural character and heritage of the neighborhood, successfully proposed new districts and individual landmarks to the LPC. Those include:[71]
- Gansevoort Market Historic District was the first new historic district in Greenwich Village in 34 years. The 112 buildings on 11 blocks protect the city's distinctive
- Weehawken Street Historic District, designated in 2006, is a 14-building, three-block district near the Hudson River centering on tiny Weehawken Street and containing an array of architecture including a sailors' hotel, former stables, and a wooden house.[74]
- Greenwich Village Historic District Extension I, designated in 2006, brought 46 more buildings on three blocks into the district, thus protecting warehouses, a former public school and police station, and early 19th century rowhouses. Both the Weehawken Street Historic District and the Greenwich Village Historic District Extension I were designated by the LPC in response to the larger proposal for a Far West Village Historic District submitted by GVSHP in 2004.[74]
- Greenwich Village Historic District Extension II, designated in 2010, embracing 225 buildings on 12 blocks, contains 19th century houses, 19th and 20th century tenements, and a variety of cultural landmarks.[75]
- South Village Historic District, designated in 2013, covers 235 buildings on 13 blocks, representing the largest single expansion of landmark protections in Greenwich Village since 1969. It includes well-preserved and renovated 19th century houses, colorful tenements, and a variety of sites important to the area's rich immigrant, artistic, and Italian-American history, as well as several low-rise, historically significant New York University buildings on Washington Square South.[76]
The Landmarks Preservation Commission designated as landmarks several individual sites proposed by the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, including the former Bell Telephone Labs Complex (1861–1933), now
Several contextual rezonings were enacted in Greenwich Village in recent years to limit the size and height of allowable new development in the neighborhood, and to encourage the preservation of existing buildings. The following were proposed by the GVSHP and passed by the City Planning Commission:
- Far West Village Rezoning, approved in 2005, was the first downzoning in Manhattan in many years, putting in place new height caps, thus ending construction of high-rise waterfront towers in much of the Village and encouraging the reuse of existing buildings.[79]
- Washington and Greenwich Street Rezoning, approved in 2010, was passed in near-record time to protect six blocks from out-of-scale hotel development and maintain the low-rise character.[80]
NYU dispute
New York University and Greenwich Village preservationists have frequently become embroiled in conflicts between the university's campus expansion efforts and the preservation of the scale and character of the Village.[81]
As one press critic put it in 2013, "For decades, New York University has waged architectural war on Greenwich Village."[82] In recent years, the university has clashed most prominently with community groups such as the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation over the construction of new NYU academic buildings and residence halls. During the design of Furman Hall in 2000, the site of which is adjacent to the Judson Memorial Church, community groups sued the university, claiming the construction of a 13-story tower on the site would "loom behind the campanile of [the church]" and "mar the historic silhouette of Greenwich Village as viewed from Washington Square Park". Despite a justice in State Supreme Court dismissing the case, the university agreed to a settlement with the groups to avoid future appeals, which included reducing the building to 9 stories and restoring the facades of two historic houses located on the site, the Judson House and a red-brick town house where Edgar Allan Poe once lived, which NYU reconstructed as they appeared in the 19th century.[83]
Another dispute arose during the construction of the 26-story Founders Hall, a residence hall planned to be constructed on the site of St. Ann's Church at 120 East Twelfth Street. Amidst protests of the demolition of the church, the university decided to maintain and restore the facade and steeple of the building, parts of which were deteriorating or missing, and it now stands freely directly in front of the 12th Street entrance of the building. Further controversy also arose over the height of the building, as well as how the university would integrate the church's facade into the building's uses; however, in 2006, NYU began construction and the new dorm was completed in December 2008.[84][85]
In recent years, the most conflict has arisen over the proposed NYU 2031 plan, which the university released in 2010 as its plan for long-term growth, both within and outside of Greenwich Village. This included a court battle over the City of New York's right to transfer three plots of Department of Transportation-owned land to the university for constructing staging, which plaintiffs claimed required the consent of the state legislature. Ultimately, the Appellate Division of New York's Supreme Court ruled in the university's favor after a lower court blocked the expansion plan; however, so far, the university has only begun construction on
Demographics
For census purposes, the New York City government classifies Greenwich Village as part of the West Village neighborhood tabulation area.
The entirety of Community District 2, which comprises Greenwich Village and SoHo, had 91,638 inhabitants as of NYC Health's 2018 Community Health Profile, with an average life expectancy of 85.8 years.[91]: 2, 20 This is higher than the median life expectancy of 81.2 for all New York City neighborhoods.[92]: 53 (PDF p. 84) Most inhabitants are adults: a plurality (42%) are between the ages of 25–44, while 24% are between 45 and 64, and 15% are 65 or older. The ratio of youth and college-aged residents was lower, at 9% and 10%, respectively.[91]: 2
As of 2017, the median
Manhattan's 3rd Little Italy
Throughout the 1930s, many Italian-Americans starting leaving
Points of interest
Greenwich Village includes several collegiate institutions. Since the 1830s,
The historic
The Village has a bustling
Several publications have offices in the Village, most notably the monthly magazines
Police and crime
Greenwich Village is patrolled by the 6th Precinct of the NYPD, located at 233 West 10th Street.[99] The 6th Precinct ranked 68th safest out of 69 patrol areas for per-capita crime in 2010. This is due to a high incidence of property crime.[100] As of 2018[update], with a non-fatal assault rate of 10 per 100,000 people, Greenwich Village's rate of violent crimes per capita is less than that of the city as a whole. The incarceration rate of 100 per 100,000 people is lower than that of the city as a whole.[91]: 8
The 6th Precinct has a lower crime rate than in the 1990s, with crimes across all categories having decreased by 80.6% between 1990 and 2018. The precinct reported 1 murder, 20 rapes, 153 robberies, 121 felony assaults, 163 burglaries, 1,031 grand larcenies, and 28 grand larcenies auto in 2018.[101]
In 1916, Greenwich Village was the site of a lynching, one of the few in New York since the American Civil War. Italian immigrant and working-class shoemaker Paulo Boleta was beaten and trampled to death by a mob after randomly firing his revolver on a crowded street, wounding one bystander.[102]
Fire safety
Greenwich Village is served by two New York City Fire Department (FDNY) fire stations:[103]
- Engine Company 24/Ladder Company 5/Battalion 2 – 227 6th Avenue[104]
- Squad 18 – 132 West 10th Street[105]
Health
As of 2018[update], preterm births are more common in Greenwich Village and SoHo than in other places citywide, though births to teenage mothers are less common. In Greenwich Village and SoHo, there were 91 preterm births per 1,000 live births (compared to 87 per 1,000 citywide), and 1 teenage birth per 1,000 live births (compared to 19.3 per 1,000 citywide), though the teenage birth rate is based on a small sample size.[91]: 11 Greenwich Village and SoHo have a low population of residents who are uninsured. In 2018, this population of uninsured residents was estimated to be 4%, less than the citywide rate of 12%, though this was based on a small sample size.[91]: 14
The concentration of
Ninety-six percent of residents eat some fruits and vegetables every day, which is more than the city's average of 87%. In 2018, 91% of residents described their health as "good", "very good", or "excellent", more than the city's average of 78%.[91]: 13 For every supermarket in Greenwich Village and SoHo, there are 7 bodegas.[91]: 10
The nearest major hospitals are
Post offices and ZIP Codes
Greenwich Village is located within four primary ZIP Codes. The subsection of West Village, south of Greenwich Avenue and west of Sixth Avenue, is located in 10014, while the northwestern section of Greenwich Village north of Greenwich Avenue and Washington Square Park and west of Fifth Avenue is in 10011. The northeastern part of the Village, north of Washington Square Park and east of Fifth Avenue, is in 10003. The neighborhood's southern portion, the area south of Washington Square Park and east of Sixth Avenue, is in 10012.[108] The United States Postal Service operates three post offices near Greenwich Village:
- Patchin Station – 70 West 10th Street[109]
- Village Station – 201 Varick Street[110]
- West Village Station – 527 Hudson Street[111]
Education
Greenwich Village and SoHo generally have a higher rate of college-educated residents than the rest of the city as of 2018[update]. The vast majority of residents age 25 and older (84%) have a college education or higher, while 4% have less than a high school education and 12% are high school graduates or have some college education. By contrast, 64% of Manhattan residents and 43% of city residents have a college education or higher.[91]: 6 The percentage of Greenwich Village and SoHo students excelling in math rose from 61% in 2000 to 80% in 2011, and reading achievement increased from 66% to 68% during the same time period.[112]
Greenwich Village and SoHo's rate of elementary school student absenteeism is lower than the rest of New York City. In Greenwich Village and SoHo, 7% of elementary school students missed twenty or more days per
Schools
Greenwich Village residents are zoned to two elementary schools: PS 3, Melser Charrette School, and PS 41, Greenwich Village School. Residents are zoned to Baruch Middle School 104. Residents apply to various New York City high schools. The private Greenwich Village High School was formerly located in the area, but later moved to SoHo.[113][114][115]
Greenwich Village is home to New York University, which owns large sections of the area and most of the buildings around Washington Square Park.[6][7] To the north is the campus of The New School, which is housed in several buildings that are considered historical landmarks because of their innovative architecture.[116] The New School's Sheila Johnson Design Center doubles as a public art gallery.[117] Cooper Union has been located in the East Village since its founding in 1859.[118][119]
Libraries
The New York Public Library (NYPL) operates two branches in Greenwich Village. The Jefferson Market Library is located at 425 Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue). The building was a courthouse in the 19th and 20th centuries before being converted into a library in 1967, and it is now a city-designated landmark.[120] The Hudson Park branch is located at 66 Leroy Street. The branch is housed in Carnegie library that was built in 1906 and expanded in 1920.[121]
Transportation
Greenwich Village is served by the
stations are in Greenwich Village.Notable residents
Greenwich Village has long been a popular neighborhood for numerous artists and other notable people. Past and present notable residents include:
- Edward Albee (1928–2016), playwright[124]
- Alec Baldwin (born 1958), actor[125][126]
- Richard Barone, musician, producer[127]
- The Exorcist[128]
- Brie Bella (born 1983), wrestler[129]
- Nate Berkus (born 1971), interior designer[130]
- David Blue (1941–1982), folksinger and companion of Bob Dylan[131]
- Matthew Broderick (born 1962), actor[126][132]
- Barbara Pierce Bush (born 1981), daughter of former U.S. President George W. Bush[133]
- Francesco Carrozzini (born 1982), film director and photographer[134]
- Jessica Chastain (born 1977), actress[126]
- Ramsey Clark (1927–2021), lawyer and activist[135]
- Patricia Clarkson (born 1959), actress[136]
- Francesco Clemente (born 1952) contemporary artist[134]
- Jacob Cohen (1923–1983), statistician and psychologist[137]
- Anderson Cooper (born 1967), CNN anchor[126][138]
- Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), English occultist.[139]
- Hugh Dancy (born 1975), actor[140]
- Claire Danes (born 1979), actress[140]
- Robert De Niro (born 1943), actor[141]
- Brian De Palma (born 1940), film director and screenwriter[126][142]
- Floyd Dell (1887–1969), novelist, playwright, poet and managing editor of The Masses[143]
- Leonardo DiCaprio (born 1974), actor[126]
- Robert Downey Jr. (born 1965), actor and singer[144]
- Steve Earle (born 1955), musician[145]
- Crystal Eastman (1881–1928), lawyer and leader in the fight for woman's suffrage[146]
- Eric Eisner, Hollywood lawyer and former president of The Geffen Film Company[147]
- Maurice Evans (1901–1989), British actor noted for his interpretations of Shakespearean characters[124]
- Andrew Garfield (born 1983), actor[148]
- Hank Greenberg (1911–1986), Hall of Fame baseball player[149]
- John P. Hammond (born 1942), blues singer and guitarist[134]
- Jerry Herman (1931–2019), composer and lyricist[150]
- Dustin Hoffman (born 1937), actor[151]
- Edward Hopper (1882–1967), painter[152]
- Marc Jacobs (born 1963), fashion designer[153]
- Richard Johnson, gossip columnist known for the Page Six column in the New York Post, which he edited for 25 years.[154]
- Wes Joice (1931-1997), owner of the literary hangout, The Lion's Head
- Max Kellerman (born 1973), sports commentator[155]
- Auschwitz.[156]
- Annie Leibovitz (born 1949), photographer[126]
- Arthur MacArthur IV (born 1938), musician, son of General Douglas MacArthur
- Andrew McCarthy (born 1962), actor, writer and television director
- Bob Melvin (born 1961), Major League Baseball player and manager[157]
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet and playwright[158]
- Matthew Modine (born 1959), actor and activist
- Julianne Moore (born 1960), actress[159]
- Nickolas Muray (born Miklós Mandl; 1892–1965), Hungarian-born American photographer and Olympic fencer[160]
- Bebe Neuwirth (born 1958), actress[161]
- Edward Norton (born 1969), actor and filmmaker[162]
- Rosie O'Donnell, actress and comedian[126]
- Mary-Kate Olsen, actress and fashion designer[126]
- Mary-Louise Parker, actress[126]
- Sarah Jessica Parker (born 1965), actress[126]
- Sean Parker (born 1979), entrepreneur[126]
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), poet and novelist[163]
- Leontyne Price (born 1927), soprano[164]
- Daniel Radcliffe (born 1989), actor[165]
- Gilda Radner (1946–1989), actress and comedian[126]
- Rachael Ray, television personality and cook[126]
- Julia Roberts (born 1967), actress[126]
- Susan Sarandon (born 1946), actress[126]
- John Sebastian (born 1944), musician[166]
- Amy Sedaris (born 1961), actress[167]
- Adrienne Shelly (1966–2006), actress, film director and screenwriter.[168]
- James Spader, actor[169]
- Anita Steckel (1930–2012), feminist artist known for paintings and photomontages with sexual imagery[170]
- Pat Steir (born 1938), painter and printmaker[134]
- Emma Stone (born 1988), actress[171]
- Uma Thurman (born 1970), actress[172]
- Tiny Tim (1932–1996), singer[citation needed]
- Marisa Tomei (born 1964), actress[173]
- Calvin Trillin (born 1935), feature writer for The New Yorker magazine.[174]
- Liv Tyler (born 1977), actress[175]
- Edgard Varèse (1883–1965), French-born composer[134]
- Chloe Webb (born 1956), actress.[176][177]
- Anna Wintour (born 1949), editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine[134]
In popular culture
Comics
- In the DC Comics universe, Wonder Woman lived in the "Village" in New York City (never called by its full name, but clearly depicted as Greenwich Village) during the late 1960s and early 1970s, when she had lost most of her superpowers. Madame Xanadu lived on Chrystie Street, described alternately as being in "Greenwich Village" and the "East Village".[178]
- In the Marvel Comics universe, Master of the Mystic Arts and Sorcerer Supreme, Doctor Strange, lives in a brownstone mansion in Greenwich Village. Doctor Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum is located at 177A Bleecker Street.[179]
- The first generation of Marvel's X-Men frequently visited the Village while not studying at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters.[citation needed]
- In Akimi Yoshida's Banana Fish sequel/side story, Garden of Light, Eiji Okumura is stated to live in Greenwich Village as an accomplished photographer.[citation needed]
Film
- In Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window (1954) James Stewart's character lives in a Greenwich Village apartment.[180]
- In Eileen McKenney was at 14 Gay Street.
- In Funny Face (1957), Jo Stockton (Audrey Hepburn) works at a bookstore called Embryo Concepts in the Village, where she is discovered by Dick Avery (Fred Astaire).[181]
- In When Harry Met Sally... (1989), Sally drops Harry off in front of the Washington Square Arch after they share a drive from University of Chicago.[182]
- In Wait Until Dark (1967), Susy Hendrix (Audrey Hepburn) lives at 4 St. Luke's Place.[183]
- Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976) chronicles the story of a young Jewish boy in 1953 who moves to the Village, looking to break into acting.
- maître d' (Mickey Rourke) in the Italian section of the Village.
- Big Daddy (1999), Adam Sandler and Cole/Dylan Sprouse's characters live in a Greenwich Village loft.[184]
- Chinese Coffee (2000), an independent film by Al Pacino, which features Pacino and Jerry Orbach, is set in Greenwich Village in 1982.
- The Collector of Bedford Street (2002) is a documentary about a neighborhood block association on Bedford Street that establishes a trust fund for a mentally disabled man named Larry Selman.[185]
- In I Am Legend (2007), Robert Neville (Will Smith) lives in Washington Square.
- Greenwich Village is the setting for the restaurant 22 Bleecker in the Catherine Zeta-Jones, Aaron Eckhart and Abigail Breslin movie No Reservations (2007).
- In Wanderlust (2012) the characters played by Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston live in a New York City apartment located in the West Village.
- The Coen brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) depicts the Village in the early 1960s, focusing on the emerging folk scene.[186]
- In the takes place in the Village.
Games
- Alex's stage in Street Fighter III: 2nd Impacttakes place in Greenwich Village.
- Greenwich Village is a playable multiplayer map in the Freedom Fighters (2003) video game.
Literature
- In her non-fiction, Jane Jacobs frequently cites Greenwich Village as an example of a vibrant urban community, most notably in her 1961 book The Death and Life of Great American Cities.[187]
- Frank and April Wheeler of the 1961 novel Revolutionary Road, and the 2008 film of the same name, used to share an apartment on Bethune Street in the West Village prior to the events of the story.[188]
- O. Henry's 1907 short story, "The Last Leaf", is set in Greenwich Village.
- The anti-hero of the 1961 book Mother Night by author Kurt Vonnegut, and the 1996 film of the same name, Howard W. Campbell Jr., resides in Greenwich Village after World War II and prior to his arrest by the Israelis.[189]
- In Lesley M. M. Blume's children's novel, Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Somerset Sisters, the main characters reside in Greenwich Village.[190]
- The suggestion of moving to the Village shocks newlywed New York aristocrat Jamie "Rick" Ricklehouse in Nora Johnson's 1985 novel Tender Offer. The implication is telling of the Village's reputation in the New York of the 1960s before mass gentrification when it was perceived as lowly and beneath upper class society.[191]
- In Philip Roth's 2000 novel The Human Stain the main character Coleman Silk lives in the Village while studying at NYU.[192]
Music
- "Sapokanikan" by Joanna Newsom is written about historical events that include the history of Greenwich Village.
- "Cornelia Street" by Taylor Swift is written about the singer's time when she rented an apartment there.[193]
- The cover photo for 4th Street in Greenwich Village, near their apartment.[194]
- In an interview with Jann Wenner, John Lennon said, "I should have been born in New York, I should have been born in the Village, that's where I belong."[195]
- Maria Elena Santiago lived in Apartment 4H of the Brevoort Apartments, at 11 Fifth Avenue in Greenwich Village. Here he recorded the series of acoustic songs, including "Crying, Waiting, Hoping" and "What to Do", known as the "Apartment Tapes", which were released after his death.[196]
Television
- The sitcom Barney Miller (1975–82) was set at the fictional 12th precinct NYPD station in Greenwich Village.[197]
- The CBS sitcom Kate & Allie (1984–1989) was set in Greenwich Village.[198]
- The NBC sitcom Friends (1994–2004) is set in the Village. Central Perk was supposedly on Mercer or Houston Street, down the block from the Angelika Film Center;[d] and Phoebe lived at 5 Morton Street.[e] The building in the exterior shot of Chandler, Joey, Rachel, and Monica's apartment building is at the corner of Grove and Bedford Streets in the West Village.[199] One of the show's working titles was Once Upon a Time in the West Village. However, the address on Rachel's wedding invitation is 495 Grove Street, which is actually in Brooklyn.
- The Village features prominently throughout the six seasons of
- On Sex and the City (1998–2004), exterior shots of Carrie Bradshaw's apartment building are of 66 Perry Street, even though her address is given as on the Upper East Side.[citation needed]
- The NBC Sitcom The Cosby Show (1984–92) made several references to the Village during its run, and the townhouse used for exterior shots, though purportedly set in Brooklyn for purposes of the show, is actually located at 10 St. Luke's Place.[202]
- Mad About You was set in the Village. The Buchman's apartment building was at 5th Avenue & 12th Street, just a few blocks north of Washington Square Park.
- The Real World: Back to New York, the 2001 season of the MTV reality television series The Real World, was filmed in the Village.[203]
- Village Barn (1948–50), the first country music show on network television (NBC) originated from a nightclub of the same name in the basement of 52 West 8th Street.
- Greenwich Village is the setting for Disney's Wizards of Waverly Place and Girl Meets World.
Theater
- The play Bell, Book and Candle is partly set in Greenwich Village.
See also
- Cedar Tavern
- The Church of the Ascension
- Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation
- List of New York City Designated Landmarks in Manhattan below 14th Street
- The Market NYC
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Manhattan below 14th Street
- Village Care of New York
- Village People
References
Notes
- ^ During the period of Dutch control over the area, the Village was called Noortwyck ("Northern District", because of its location north of the original settlement on Manhattan Island). (The colony of New Netherland was captured by English forces in 1664.) Dutch colonist Yellis Mandeville, who moved to the Village in the 1670s, called it Groenwijck after the settlement on Long Island, where he previously lived.[5]
- ^ The eleven freed Blacks were Paul d'Angola, Big Manuel, Little Manuel, Manuel de Gerrit de Rens, Simon Congo, Anthony Portuguese. Gracia, Peter Santome, John Francisco, Little Anthony and John Fort Orange.[29]
- Washington Square North, and a founder of New York University; a group portrait of the Johnston Children 1831, is at the Museum of the City of New York[45]
- ^ The Angelika Film Center was said to be "up the block" from Central Perk in "The One Where Ross Hugs Rachel", the sixth season's second episode, placing the coffee house on Mercer Street or Houston.
- ^ This address was given "The One With Joey's New Brain", episode 7–15.
- ^ Pronounced variously /ˈɡrɛnɪtʃ/ GREN-itch, /ˈɡrɛnɪdʒ/ GREN-ij, /ˈɡrɪnɪtʃ/ GRIN-itch, or /ˈɡrɪnɪdʒ/ GRIN-ij.
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