Greenwich Village | |
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.jpg) Bird's eye view of Greenwich Village, facing towards the skyline of Lower Manhattan | |
 Location in New York City | |
| Coordinates: 40°44′01″N 74°00′10″W / 40.73361°N 74.00278°W | |
| Country |  United States |
| State |  New York |
| City | New York City |
| Borough | Manhattan |
| Community District | Manhattan 2[1] |
| Named for | Groenwijck (Green District) |
| Area | |
• Total | 0.75 km2 (0.289 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• Total | 22,785 |
| • Density | 30,000/km2 (79,000/sq mi) |
| Demonym | Villager |
| Economics | |
| • Median income | $119,728 |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (Eastern) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
| ZIP Codes | 10003, 10011, 10012, 10014[2] |
| Area codes | 212, 332, 646, and 917 |
Greenwich Village Historic District | |
 453–461 Sixth Avenue in the Historic District | |
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| 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, 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]
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- ^ a b c d "Greenwich Village neighborhood in New York". Retrieved March 18, 2019.
- ^ "National Register Information System – (#79001604)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "NYPL Map Division, Greenwich Village". Nyplmaps.tumblr.com. January 25, 2014. Archived from the original on April 5, 2015. Retrieved January 27, 2015.
- ^ "Greenwich Village". nnp.org. Archived from the original on March 17, 2007. Retrieved December 1, 2010.
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- ^ 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."
- ^ 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."
- ^ Strenberg, Adam (November 12, 2007). "Embers of Gentrification". New York Magazine. p. 5.
- ^ Erin Carlyle (October 8, 2014). "New York Dominates 2014 List of America's Most Expensive ZIP Codes". Forbes. Retrieved October 12, 2014.
- ^ West Village Housing, "trulia.com" Archived May 5, 2020, at the Wayback Machine Accessed January 13, 2016.
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