West Village

This article is about the neighborhood in Manhattan. For the development in Dallas, Texas, see West Village, Dallas.

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Location in New York City

The West Village is a neighborhood in the western section of the larger Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, New York City.[1] The West Village is bounded by the Hudson River to the west and 14th Street to the north. The eastern boundary is variously cited as Greenwich Avenue, Seventh Avenue, or Sixth Avenue, while the southern boundary is either Houston Street or Christopher Street.

The West Village is part of Manhattan Community District 2, and is patrolled by the 6th Precinct of the New York City Police Department.[2] Residential property sale prices in West Village are among the most expensive in the United States, typically exceeding US$2,100 per square foot ($23,000/m2) in 2017.[3]

  1. ^ Alfred Pommer & Eleanor Winters (2007). Exploring the Original West Village. The History Press. pp. 12–13. ISBN 978-1609491512. It is a roughly trapezoidal area, bounded on the north by Fourteenth Street, on the south by Christopher Street, on the east by Greenwich Avenue and on the west by the Hudson River. ... Greenwich Village these days also includes two areas to the east, one historically known as the Central Village or Washington Square....
  2. ^ "NYC Planning | Community Profiles". communityprofiles.planning.nyc.gov. New York City Department of City Planning. Retrieved March 18, 2019.
  3. ^ "Real Estate Overview for West Village, New York, NY". Trulia.com. Retrieved June 30, 2016.