Greenwich Village

This article is about the neighborhood in Manhattan, New York City. For the village in upstate New York, see Greenwich (village), New York. For the 1944 film, see Greenwich Village (film).

Greenwich Village
Neighborhood
Bird's eye view of Greenwich Village, facing towards the skyline of Lower Manhattan
Bird's eye view of Greenwich Village, facing towards the skyline of Lower Manhattan
Map
Location in New York City
Coordinates: 40°44′01″N 74°00′10″W / 40.73361°N 74.00278°W / 40.73361; -74.00278
Country United States
State New York
CityNew York City
BoroughManhattan
Community DistrictManhattan 2[1]
Named forGroenwijck (Green District)
Area
[2]
 • Total0.75 km2 (0.289 sq mi)
Population
[2]
 • Total22,785
 • Density30,000/km2 (79,000/sq mi)
DemonymVillager
Economics
[2]
 • Median income$119,728
Time zoneUTC−5 (Eastern)
 • Summer (DST)UTC−4 (EDT)
ZIP Codes
10003, 10011, 10012, 10014[2]
Area codes212, 332, 646, and 917
Greenwich Village Historic District
453–461 Sixth Avenue in the Historic District
Greenwich Village is located in Manhattan
Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village is located in New York City
Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village is located in New York
Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village is located in the United States
Greenwich Village
LocationBoundaries:
north: W 14th St; south: Houston St; west: Hudson River; east: Broadway
Coordinates40°44′2″N 74°0′4″W / 40.73389°N 74.00111°W / 40.73389; -74.00111
Architectural stylevarious
NRHP reference No.79001604[3]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPJune 19, 1979
Designated NYCLinitial 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, Dutch for "Green District".[4][a] In the 20th century, Greenwich Village was known as an artists' haven, the bohemian capital, the cradle of the modern LGBTQ movement,[6] and the East Coast birthplace of both the Beat Generation and counterculture of the 1960s. Greenwich Village contains Washington Square Park, as well as two of New York City's private colleges, New York University (NYU) and The New School.[7][8] In later years it has been associated with hipsters.[9][10]

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;[11] 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,[12] with residential property sale prices in the West Village neighborhood typically exceeding US$2,100/sq ft ($23,000/m2) in 2017.[13]

  1. ^ a b "NYC Planning | Community Profiles". communityprofiles.planning.nyc.gov. New York City Department of City Planning. Retrieved March 18, 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d "Greenwich Village neighborhood in New York". Retrieved March 18, 2019.
  3. ^ "National Register Information System – (#79001604)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  4. ^ "NYPL Map Division, Greenwich Village". Nyplmaps.tumblr.com. January 25, 2014. Archived from the original on April 5, 2015. Retrieved January 27, 2015.
  5. ^ "Greenwich Village". nnp.org. Archived from the original on March 17, 2007. Retrieved December 1, 2010.
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  7. ^ "Campus Map". New York University. Retrieved October 31, 2013.
  8. ^ "New York Campus". New York University. Retrieved October 31, 2013.
  9. ^ Greif, Mark. "What Was the Hipster?",New York, October 22, 2010. Accessed April 2, 2023. "Hippie itself was originally an insulting diminutive of hipster, a jab at the sloppy kids who hung around North Beach or Greenwich Village after 1960 and didn't care about jazz or poetry, only drugs and fun."
  10. ^ Yaeger, Lynn. "Why the Coolest Girls Still Go to New York City's Greenwich Village",Vogue, Spring 2017. Accessed April 2, 2023. "For decades they have come here—by plane and train, Greyhound bus and thumb—bright young things in search of a cooler, more meaningful, more creative life. Call them what you will: hipsters, rebels, rule breakers, iconoclasts—these musicians and poets, peace activists and painters, have for more than a century flown their freak flags in the historic alleyways of Greenwich Village."
  11. ^ Strenberg, Adam (November 12, 2007). "Embers of Gentrification". New York Magazine. p. 5.
  12. ^ Erin Carlyle (October 8, 2014). "New York Dominates 2014 List of America's Most Expensive ZIP Codes". Forbes. Retrieved October 12, 2014.
  13. ^ West Village Housing, "trulia.com" Archived May 5, 2020, at the Wayback Machine Accessed January 13, 2016.


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