nygirl
July 28th, 2007, 03:55 AM
Welcome to Manhattan the most well known borough of the United State’s most Iconic and arguably most important city, New York. New York is home to well over 8 million people and Manhattan Island is home to 1.5 million of that packed into a land area of 22.96 square miles. The city is a leading center in finance, business, fashion, media, and culture. Known for it’s world class museums, theaters, restaurants, and educational institutions. The city boasts of it’s park’s and efficient transportation system. 170 languages are spoken here everyday and reflect the city’s diverse communities. Manhattan is not the entire city of New York but it is instantly what comes to the mind of many whenever the city is mentioned. Manhattan is 13 miles long and 2 miles wide and is situated in between the East and Hudson rivers. There are actually two “downtowns” on the Island of Manhattan. At the southern tip is the financial district which is the nation’s third largest business district after the Chicago Loop. Midtown Manhattan is the largest. Manhattan as said before is a culture nest. The city is home to the Manhattan Opera which performs in Lincoln Center, one of the worlds most prestigious opera houses. Manhattan also has some of the worlds most extensive collections of art housed in world famous locations such as the Met, Moma, Guggenheim, Frick, and Whitney museums. A tremendous theater scene both on Broadway and off.
On a personal note this is also my home, and no matter how many years I’ve been stomping around on these street’s it has yet to stop fascinating me. No matter where I’ve gone in this world from the west coast of the United states to Europe to Asia briefly to the Caribbean, up to Canada and across the Mediterranean sea nowhere else in the world greets me the way New York does, nor impress me to the level Manhattan has always impressed me. With that I decided to grab what I could out of this city to show to you guys here. I’ve donated my body and time for this series and I really hope you enjoy this. This series will be done in many parts. The photos are not exactly the best and I WANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR that this will not be the most beautiful tour you have seen on here but it will be the most extensive, bar-none. This series is more about quantity than quality and my camera is not made for art. I mostly take pictures of family and friends with it and have been frying the crap out of it for weeks.
While I covered basically all of Manhattan for you there are places that were not covered or covered well. The places include
A small chunk of Harlem
Inwood Hill Park
St. Nicholas Park
A great deal of Marcus Garvey Park
Gracie Mansion
Many portions of Riverside Park
Trump’s River place complex
Roosevelt Island
The piers over in the 50’s on the Hudson River
The Central Park Zoo & Arsenal
Stuyvesant Town & Peter Cooper Village
A lot of NYU
Columbus Park
79th street marina
&
South Street Ferry terminal
We will start this series out with Part 1 which will include Lower Manhattan's Battery Park in the very south and work our way up to Harlem and Uptown eventually. This message will appear at the top of each thread.
With that said, welcome to Gotham City:Welcome to Manhattan the most well known borough of the United State’s most Iconic and arguably most important city, New York. New York is home to well over 8 million people and Manhattan Island is home to 1.5 million of that packed into a land area of 22.96 square miles. The city is a leading center in finance, business, fashion, media, and culture. Known for it’s world class museums, theaters, restaurants, and educational institutions. The city boasts of it’s park’s and efficient transportation system. 170 languages are spoken here everyday and reflect the city’s diverse communities. Manhattan is not the entire city of New York but it is instantly what comes to the mind of many whenever the city is mentioned. Manhattan is 13 miles long and 2 miles wide and is situated in between the East and Hudson rivers. There are actually two “downtowns” on the Island of Manhattan. At the southern tip is the financial district which is the nation’s third largest business district after the Chicago Loop. Midtown Manhattan is the largest. Manhattan as said before is a culture nest. The city is home to the Manhattan Opera which performs in Lincoln Center, one of the worlds most prestigious opera houses. Manhattan also has some of the worlds most extensive collections of art housed in world famous locations such as the Met, Moma, Guggenheim, Frick, and Whitney museums. A tremendous theater scene both on Broadway and off.
On a personal note this is also my home, and no matter how many years I’ve been stomping around on these street’s it has yet to stop fascinating me. No matter where I’ve gone in this world from the west coast of the United states to Europe to Asia briefly to the Caribbean, up to Canada and across the Mediterranean sea nowhere else in the world greets me the way New York does, nor impress me to the level Manhattan has always impressed me. With that I decided to grab what I could out of this city to show to you guys here. I’ve donated my body and time for this series and I really hope you enjoy this. This series will be done in many parts. The photos are not exactly the best and I WANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR that this will not be the most beautiful tour you have seen on here but it will be the most extensive, bar-none. This series is more about quantity than quality and my camera is not made for art. I mostly take pictures of family and friends with it and have been frying the crap out of it for weeks.
While I covered basically all of Manhattan for you there are places that were not covered or covered well. The places include
A small chunk of Harlem
Inwood Hill Park
St. Nicholas Park
A great deal of Marcus Garvey Park
Gracie Mansion
Many portions of Riverside Park
Trump’s River place complex
Roosevelt Island
The piers over in the 50’s on the Hudson River
The Central Park Zoo & Arsenal
Stuyvesant Town & Peter Cooper Village
A lot of NYU
Columbus Park
79th street marina
&
South Street Ferry terminal
We will start this series out with Part 1 which will include Lower Manhattan's Battery Park in the very south and work our way up to Harlem and Uptown eventually. This message will appear at the top of each thread.
With that said, welcome to Gotham City:
Part Six: The West Village, & Greenwich Village
The West Village ( My neighborhood)
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The West Village is western portion of the Greenwich Village neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Though there are no defined boundaries, the area is usually defined as bounded by the Hudson River and either Sixth Avenue or Seventh Avenue, extending from 14th Street down to Houston Street. Bordering neighborhoods include Chelsea to the north, the Hudson Square section of SoHo to the south, and the core of Greenwich Village to the east. The area is part of Manhattan Community Board 2.
sub-neighborhood, the Far West Village, extends from the Hudson River to Hudson Street.
The neighborhood is distinguished by streets that are "off the grid" — set at an angle to the other streets in Manhattan — sometimes confusing both tourists and city residents alike. These roads were laid out in the 18th century, approximately parallel or vertical to the Hudson, long before the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 which created the main street Grid plan for the rest of the city. Even streets that are nominally part of the grid can be idiosyncratic, at best. West 4th Street crosses West 10th, 11th and 12th Streets, ending at an intersection with West 13th Street. Heading north on Greenwich Street, West 12th Street is separated by three blocks from Little West 12th Street, which in turn is one block south of West 13th Street.
Known as "Little Bohemia" starting in 1916[1], West Village is the center of the bohemian lifestyle on the West Side, with classic artist's lofts (Westbeth Artists Community) and new residential towers designed by American architect Richard Meier facing the Hudson River at 173-176 Perry Street. The Meatpacking District at the top of this neighborhood, also known as the "Gansevoort Historic District", is filled with trendy boutiques and night clubs.
The High Line project plans to connect the historic district to the art galleries in Chelsea and points north. In the plan, elevated train tracks running parallel to Tenth Avenue will be converted to an open greenway. The tracks once served the businesses in the area, but have been long abandoned. Instead of demolishing the structure, the unique features will be used to benefit the entire city.- Wiki
Welcome to The West Village
We'll start off with my Hood
My place ( on the left)
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Sant Abroeus, right on the corner of Perry & West 4th just down the block.. We eat here once every 2 weeks.
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Walking around the block
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My friend Alice's basement apartment
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Angel Feet, which is right across the street from my place
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Perry Street & Bleeker: My hood
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Down my street
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Looking down Commerce
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Around Sheridan Square
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Caliente Cab!
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Looking South down Hudson
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Damn that dog is bigger than the girl
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South down Greenwich
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Just incase you forgot where you were at
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Christopher Street
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Heading West on christopher Street towards the pier
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Christopher street pier
The triplettes
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Sun bathers on the pier
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The view past the Hudson River toward the Jersey City skyline
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The view towards downtown
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South along West Street
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Heading back north
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Around Jackson Square
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Jackson Square
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Looking north along 8th Avenue
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The meat packing district
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Back into the ville
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A common site in Manhattan in the summer
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Best pizza in the city
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Churchill Square
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Christopher Park
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Greenwich Village:
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Greenwich Village (IPA pronunciation: [?gr?n?t? 'v?l?d?]), also called simply the Village, is a largely residential area on the west side of downtown (southern) Manhattan in New York City named after Greenwich, London. Today Greenwich Village is a cosmopolitan neighborhood north of Lower Manhattan, home to celebrities and many young adults.
The neighborhood is bounded by Broadway on the east, the Hudson River on the west, Houston Street on the south, and 14th Street on the north. The neighborhoods surrounding it are the East Village to the east, SoHo to the south, and Chelsea to the north. The East Village, which was formerly known as the Bowery or considered a bona fide part of the Lower East Side, is sometimes (incorrectly) referred to as part of Greenwich Village, but it is actually its own neighborhood. This area directly east of Greenwich Village was named the East Village in the 1980s in order to capitalize on the cachet of Greenwich Village. Many New Yorkers argue that the East Village is still a subsection of the Lower East Side. Contrarily, the West Village is actually part of Greenwich Village; it is that part of the Village west of 6th Avenue.
Greenwich Village was better known as Washington Square--based on the major landmark Washington Square Park[1] or Empire Ward[2] in the 19th century
As Greenwich Village was once a rural hamlet, entirely separate from New York, its street layout does not coincide with most of Manhattan's more formal grid plan (based on the Commissioners' Plan of 1811). Greenwich Village was allowed to keep its street pattern when the plan was implemented, which has resulted in a neighborhood whose streets are dramatically different, in layout, from the ordered structure of other parts of town. Many of the neighborhood's streets are narrow and some curve at odd angles. Additionally, unlike most of Manhattan, streets in the Village typically are named rather than numbered. While there are some numbered streets in the Village, even they do not always conform to the usual grid pattern when they enter the neighborhood. For example, West 4th Street, which runs east-west outside of the Village, turns and runs north, crossing West 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th Streets.
A large section of Greenwich Village, made up of more than 50 northern and western blocks in the area up to 14th Street, is considered part of a Historic District by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. Redevelopment in that area is severely restricted, and developers must preserve the main facade and aesthetics of the buildings even during renovation. Most parts of Greenwich Village comprise mid-rise apartments, 19th-century row houses and the occasional one-family walk-up, a sharp contrast to the hi-rise landscape in Mid-Manhattan and Lower Manhattan
Greenwich Village is located on what was once marshland. In the 16th century Native Americans referred to it as Sapokanikan ("tobacco field"). The land was cleared and turned into pasture by Dutch settlers in the 1630s who named their settlement Noortwyck. The English conquered the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam in 1664 and Greenwich Village developed as a hamlet separate from the larger (and fast-growing) Manhattan. It officially became a village in 1712 and is first referred to as Grin'wich in 1713 Common Council records. In 1822, a yellow fever epidemic in New York encouraged residents to flee to the healthier air of Greenwich Village, and afterwards many stayed.
Greenwich Village is generally known as an important landmark on the map of bohemian culture. The neighborhood is known for its colorful, artistic residents and the alternative culture they propagate. Due in part to the progressive attitudes of many of its residents, the Village has traditionally been 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 by the beginning of the 20th century when small presses, art galleries, and experimental theater thrived.
During the golden age of bohemianism, Greenwich Village became famous for such eccentrics as Joe Gould (profiled at length by Joseph Mitchell) and Maxwell Bodenheim, as well as greats on the order of Eugene O'Neill. Political rebellion also made its home here, whether serious (John Reed) or frivolous (Marcel Duchamp and friends set off balloons from atop Washington Square arch, proclaiming the founding of "The Independent Republic of Greenwich Village"). In Christmas 1949, The Weavers played at the Village Vanguard.
The Village again became important to the bohemian scene during the 1950s, when the Beat Generation focused their energies there. Fleeing from what they saw as oppressive social conformity, a loose collection of writers, poets, artists, and students (later known as the Beats) moved to Greenwich Village, in many ways creating the East-Coast predecessor to the Haight-Ashbury hippie scene of the next decade. The Village (and surrounding New York City) would later play central roles in the writings of, among others, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Dylan Thomas, who collapsed while drinking at the White Horse Tavern on November 9, 1953.
Greenwich Village played a major role in the development of the folk music scene of the 1960s. Three of the four members of The Mamas and the Papas met there. Village resident Bob Dylan was one of the foremost popular songwriters in the country, and often developments in New York City would influence the simultaneously occurring folk rock movement in San Francisco, and vice versa. Dozens of other cultural and popular icons got their start in the Village's nightclub, theater, and coffeehouse scene during the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s, notably Peter, Paul, and Mary, Simon and Garfunkel, Joan Baez, Phil Ochs and Nina Simone. The Greenwich Village of the 1950s and 1960s was at the center of Jane Jacobs's book The Death and Life of Great American Cities, which defended it and similar communities, while critiquing common urban renewal policies of the time.
Greenwich Village was also home to one of the many safe houses used by the radical anti-war movement known as the Weather Underground. On March 6, 1970, however, their safehouse was destroyed when an explosive they were constructing was accidentally detonated, costing three Weathermen (Ted Gold, Terry Robbins, and Diana Oughton) their lives.
In recent days, the Village has maintained its role as a center for movements which have challenged the wider American culture: for example, its role in the gay liberation movement. It contains Christopher Street and the Stonewall Inn, important landmarks, as well as the world's oldest gay and lesbian bookstore, Oscar Wilde Bookshop, founded in 1967.
Currently, artists and local historians bemoan the fact that the bohemian days of Greenwich Village are long gone, because of the extraordinarily high housing costs in the neighborhood. The artists have fled to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Bushwick, Brooklyn, Long Island City, and DUMBO. 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. Indeed, its cultural uniqueness and apartness are felt so strongly, and so many of its residents' lives are so locally focused, that it is sometimes said thereabouts that "upstate" New York is anywhere north of 14th Street.
Greenwich Village is now home to many celebrities, including actresses/actors Julianne Moore, Liv Tyler, Uma Thurman, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Sedaris, and Barbara Pierce Bush, the daughter of U.S. President George W. Bush, who both live on West Ninth Street.[1]
Greenwich Village includes the primary campus for New York University (NYU), The New School, and Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Cooper Union is also located in Greenwich Village, near Lafayette and Bleecker, but on the border near the East Village.
The historic Washington Square Park is the center and heart of the neighborhood, but the Village has several other, smaller parks: Father Fagan, Minetta Triangle, Petrosino Square, Little Red Square, and Time Landscape. There are also city playgrounds, including Desalvio, Minetta, Thompson Street, Bleecker Street, Downing Street, Mercer Street, and William Passannante Ballfield. Perhaps the most famous, though, is "The Cage", officially known as the West 4th Street Courts. Sitting on top of the West Fourth Street–Washington Square subway station at Sixth Avenue, the courts are easily accessible to basketball and American handball players from all over New York. The Cage has become one of the most important tournament sites for the city-wide "Streetball" amateur basketball tournament.
The Village also has a bustling performing arts scene. It is home to many Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway theaters; for instance, Blue Man Group has taken up residence in the Astor Place Theater. The Village Vanguard hosts some of the biggest names in jazz on a regular basis. Other music clubs include The Bitter End, and Lion's Den. The village also has its own orchestra aptly named the Greenwich Village Orchestra. Comedy clubs dot the Village as well, including The Boston and Comedy Cellar, where many American stand-up comedians got their start.
Each year on October 31, it is home to New York's Village Halloween Parade, a mile-long ad hoc pageant of masqueraders, mummers, drag queens, exhibitionists, drunkards, druggies, puppets and pets that draws an audience of two million from throughout the region, the largest Halloween event in the country. The delighted and high-spirited throngs include everyone from the smallest children dressed in the simplest homemade or store-bought costumes on up to adults bedecked in the most elaborate and ingenious guises and disguises that professional and amateur costume designers and makeup artists can conceive and create with a year's notice.
Several publications have offices in the Village, most notably the newsweekly The Village Voice.
Sullivan St. was home to Genovese Family godfather Vincent Gigante. A lifelong resident, shortly before his death in federal prison he told a fellow inmate 'Greenwich Village is the greatest place in the U.S.' - Wiki
Welcome to Greenwich Village
Minetta Street
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Looking South toward Soho
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Ny's favorite Mayor
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Around the NYU campus
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Entering Washington Square Park from the South
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Washington Square Park
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buildings around the park
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cooling off in the fountain
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The Arch
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Looking to the east
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The rows..
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A look up Fifth Avenue
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The Washington Mews
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A green couch rolls down the street
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North towards midtown
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West 4th street
Anyone standing in line for the Groove knows all these faces by heart
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2 Legends next door to eachother.. The village Underground and the Fat Black Pussy Cat
and right across the street is The Bluenote
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Looking back west toward the West Ville
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On a personal note this is also my home, and no matter how many years I’ve been stomping around on these street’s it has yet to stop fascinating me. No matter where I’ve gone in this world from the west coast of the United states to Europe to Asia briefly to the Caribbean, up to Canada and across the Mediterranean sea nowhere else in the world greets me the way New York does, nor impress me to the level Manhattan has always impressed me. With that I decided to grab what I could out of this city to show to you guys here. I’ve donated my body and time for this series and I really hope you enjoy this. This series will be done in many parts. The photos are not exactly the best and I WANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR that this will not be the most beautiful tour you have seen on here but it will be the most extensive, bar-none. This series is more about quantity than quality and my camera is not made for art. I mostly take pictures of family and friends with it and have been frying the crap out of it for weeks.
While I covered basically all of Manhattan for you there are places that were not covered or covered well. The places include
A small chunk of Harlem
Inwood Hill Park
St. Nicholas Park
A great deal of Marcus Garvey Park
Gracie Mansion
Many portions of Riverside Park
Trump’s River place complex
Roosevelt Island
The piers over in the 50’s on the Hudson River
The Central Park Zoo & Arsenal
Stuyvesant Town & Peter Cooper Village
A lot of NYU
Columbus Park
79th street marina
&
South Street Ferry terminal
We will start this series out with Part 1 which will include Lower Manhattan's Battery Park in the very south and work our way up to Harlem and Uptown eventually. This message will appear at the top of each thread.
With that said, welcome to Gotham City:Welcome to Manhattan the most well known borough of the United State’s most Iconic and arguably most important city, New York. New York is home to well over 8 million people and Manhattan Island is home to 1.5 million of that packed into a land area of 22.96 square miles. The city is a leading center in finance, business, fashion, media, and culture. Known for it’s world class museums, theaters, restaurants, and educational institutions. The city boasts of it’s park’s and efficient transportation system. 170 languages are spoken here everyday and reflect the city’s diverse communities. Manhattan is not the entire city of New York but it is instantly what comes to the mind of many whenever the city is mentioned. Manhattan is 13 miles long and 2 miles wide and is situated in between the East and Hudson rivers. There are actually two “downtowns” on the Island of Manhattan. At the southern tip is the financial district which is the nation’s third largest business district after the Chicago Loop. Midtown Manhattan is the largest. Manhattan as said before is a culture nest. The city is home to the Manhattan Opera which performs in Lincoln Center, one of the worlds most prestigious opera houses. Manhattan also has some of the worlds most extensive collections of art housed in world famous locations such as the Met, Moma, Guggenheim, Frick, and Whitney museums. A tremendous theater scene both on Broadway and off.
On a personal note this is also my home, and no matter how many years I’ve been stomping around on these street’s it has yet to stop fascinating me. No matter where I’ve gone in this world from the west coast of the United states to Europe to Asia briefly to the Caribbean, up to Canada and across the Mediterranean sea nowhere else in the world greets me the way New York does, nor impress me to the level Manhattan has always impressed me. With that I decided to grab what I could out of this city to show to you guys here. I’ve donated my body and time for this series and I really hope you enjoy this. This series will be done in many parts. The photos are not exactly the best and I WANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR that this will not be the most beautiful tour you have seen on here but it will be the most extensive, bar-none. This series is more about quantity than quality and my camera is not made for art. I mostly take pictures of family and friends with it and have been frying the crap out of it for weeks.
While I covered basically all of Manhattan for you there are places that were not covered or covered well. The places include
A small chunk of Harlem
Inwood Hill Park
St. Nicholas Park
A great deal of Marcus Garvey Park
Gracie Mansion
Many portions of Riverside Park
Trump’s River place complex
Roosevelt Island
The piers over in the 50’s on the Hudson River
The Central Park Zoo & Arsenal
Stuyvesant Town & Peter Cooper Village
A lot of NYU
Columbus Park
79th street marina
&
South Street Ferry terminal
We will start this series out with Part 1 which will include Lower Manhattan's Battery Park in the very south and work our way up to Harlem and Uptown eventually. This message will appear at the top of each thread.
With that said, welcome to Gotham City:
Part Six: The West Village, & Greenwich Village
The West Village ( My neighborhood)
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The West Village is western portion of the Greenwich Village neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Though there are no defined boundaries, the area is usually defined as bounded by the Hudson River and either Sixth Avenue or Seventh Avenue, extending from 14th Street down to Houston Street. Bordering neighborhoods include Chelsea to the north, the Hudson Square section of SoHo to the south, and the core of Greenwich Village to the east. The area is part of Manhattan Community Board 2.
sub-neighborhood, the Far West Village, extends from the Hudson River to Hudson Street.
The neighborhood is distinguished by streets that are "off the grid" — set at an angle to the other streets in Manhattan — sometimes confusing both tourists and city residents alike. These roads were laid out in the 18th century, approximately parallel or vertical to the Hudson, long before the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 which created the main street Grid plan for the rest of the city. Even streets that are nominally part of the grid can be idiosyncratic, at best. West 4th Street crosses West 10th, 11th and 12th Streets, ending at an intersection with West 13th Street. Heading north on Greenwich Street, West 12th Street is separated by three blocks from Little West 12th Street, which in turn is one block south of West 13th Street.
Known as "Little Bohemia" starting in 1916[1], West Village is the center of the bohemian lifestyle on the West Side, with classic artist's lofts (Westbeth Artists Community) and new residential towers designed by American architect Richard Meier facing the Hudson River at 173-176 Perry Street. The Meatpacking District at the top of this neighborhood, also known as the "Gansevoort Historic District", is filled with trendy boutiques and night clubs.
The High Line project plans to connect the historic district to the art galleries in Chelsea and points north. In the plan, elevated train tracks running parallel to Tenth Avenue will be converted to an open greenway. The tracks once served the businesses in the area, but have been long abandoned. Instead of demolishing the structure, the unique features will be used to benefit the entire city.- Wiki
Welcome to The West Village
We'll start off with my Hood
My place ( on the left)
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Sant Abroeus, right on the corner of Perry & West 4th just down the block.. We eat here once every 2 weeks.
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Walking around the block
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My friend Alice's basement apartment
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Angel Feet, which is right across the street from my place
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Perry Street & Bleeker: My hood
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Down my street
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Looking down Commerce
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Around Sheridan Square
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Caliente Cab!
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Looking South down Hudson
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Damn that dog is bigger than the girl
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South down Greenwich
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Christopher Street
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Heading West on christopher Street towards the pier
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Christopher street pier
The triplettes
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Sun bathers on the pier
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The view past the Hudson River toward the Jersey City skyline
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The view towards downtown
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South along West Street
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Heading back north
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Around Jackson Square
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Jackson Square
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Looking north along 8th Avenue
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The meat packing district
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Back into the ville
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A common site in Manhattan in the summer
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Best pizza in the city
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Churchill Square
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Christopher Park
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Greenwich Village:
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Greenwich Village (IPA pronunciation: [?gr?n?t? 'v?l?d?]), also called simply the Village, is a largely residential area on the west side of downtown (southern) Manhattan in New York City named after Greenwich, London. Today Greenwich Village is a cosmopolitan neighborhood north of Lower Manhattan, home to celebrities and many young adults.
The neighborhood is bounded by Broadway on the east, the Hudson River on the west, Houston Street on the south, and 14th Street on the north. The neighborhoods surrounding it are the East Village to the east, SoHo to the south, and Chelsea to the north. The East Village, which was formerly known as the Bowery or considered a bona fide part of the Lower East Side, is sometimes (incorrectly) referred to as part of Greenwich Village, but it is actually its own neighborhood. This area directly east of Greenwich Village was named the East Village in the 1980s in order to capitalize on the cachet of Greenwich Village. Many New Yorkers argue that the East Village is still a subsection of the Lower East Side. Contrarily, the West Village is actually part of Greenwich Village; it is that part of the Village west of 6th Avenue.
Greenwich Village was better known as Washington Square--based on the major landmark Washington Square Park[1] or Empire Ward[2] in the 19th century
As Greenwich Village was once a rural hamlet, entirely separate from New York, its street layout does not coincide with most of Manhattan's more formal grid plan (based on the Commissioners' Plan of 1811). Greenwich Village was allowed to keep its street pattern when the plan was implemented, which has resulted in a neighborhood whose streets are dramatically different, in layout, from the ordered structure of other parts of town. Many of the neighborhood's streets are narrow and some curve at odd angles. Additionally, unlike most of Manhattan, streets in the Village typically are named rather than numbered. While there are some numbered streets in the Village, even they do not always conform to the usual grid pattern when they enter the neighborhood. For example, West 4th Street, which runs east-west outside of the Village, turns and runs north, crossing West 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th Streets.
A large section of Greenwich Village, made up of more than 50 northern and western blocks in the area up to 14th Street, is considered part of a Historic District by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. Redevelopment in that area is severely restricted, and developers must preserve the main facade and aesthetics of the buildings even during renovation. Most parts of Greenwich Village comprise mid-rise apartments, 19th-century row houses and the occasional one-family walk-up, a sharp contrast to the hi-rise landscape in Mid-Manhattan and Lower Manhattan
Greenwich Village is located on what was once marshland. In the 16th century Native Americans referred to it as Sapokanikan ("tobacco field"). The land was cleared and turned into pasture by Dutch settlers in the 1630s who named their settlement Noortwyck. The English conquered the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam in 1664 and Greenwich Village developed as a hamlet separate from the larger (and fast-growing) Manhattan. It officially became a village in 1712 and is first referred to as Grin'wich in 1713 Common Council records. In 1822, a yellow fever epidemic in New York encouraged residents to flee to the healthier air of Greenwich Village, and afterwards many stayed.
Greenwich Village is generally known as an important landmark on the map of bohemian culture. The neighborhood is known for its colorful, artistic residents and the alternative culture they propagate. Due in part to the progressive attitudes of many of its residents, the Village has traditionally been 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 by the beginning of the 20th century when small presses, art galleries, and experimental theater thrived.
During the golden age of bohemianism, Greenwich Village became famous for such eccentrics as Joe Gould (profiled at length by Joseph Mitchell) and Maxwell Bodenheim, as well as greats on the order of Eugene O'Neill. Political rebellion also made its home here, whether serious (John Reed) or frivolous (Marcel Duchamp and friends set off balloons from atop Washington Square arch, proclaiming the founding of "The Independent Republic of Greenwich Village"). In Christmas 1949, The Weavers played at the Village Vanguard.
The Village again became important to the bohemian scene during the 1950s, when the Beat Generation focused their energies there. Fleeing from what they saw as oppressive social conformity, a loose collection of writers, poets, artists, and students (later known as the Beats) moved to Greenwich Village, in many ways creating the East-Coast predecessor to the Haight-Ashbury hippie scene of the next decade. The Village (and surrounding New York City) would later play central roles in the writings of, among others, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Dylan Thomas, who collapsed while drinking at the White Horse Tavern on November 9, 1953.
Greenwich Village played a major role in the development of the folk music scene of the 1960s. Three of the four members of The Mamas and the Papas met there. Village resident Bob Dylan was one of the foremost popular songwriters in the country, and often developments in New York City would influence the simultaneously occurring folk rock movement in San Francisco, and vice versa. Dozens of other cultural and popular icons got their start in the Village's nightclub, theater, and coffeehouse scene during the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s, notably Peter, Paul, and Mary, Simon and Garfunkel, Joan Baez, Phil Ochs and Nina Simone. The Greenwich Village of the 1950s and 1960s was at the center of Jane Jacobs's book The Death and Life of Great American Cities, which defended it and similar communities, while critiquing common urban renewal policies of the time.
Greenwich Village was also home to one of the many safe houses used by the radical anti-war movement known as the Weather Underground. On March 6, 1970, however, their safehouse was destroyed when an explosive they were constructing was accidentally detonated, costing three Weathermen (Ted Gold, Terry Robbins, and Diana Oughton) their lives.
In recent days, the Village has maintained its role as a center for movements which have challenged the wider American culture: for example, its role in the gay liberation movement. It contains Christopher Street and the Stonewall Inn, important landmarks, as well as the world's oldest gay and lesbian bookstore, Oscar Wilde Bookshop, founded in 1967.
Currently, artists and local historians bemoan the fact that the bohemian days of Greenwich Village are long gone, because of the extraordinarily high housing costs in the neighborhood. The artists have fled to Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Bushwick, Brooklyn, Long Island City, and DUMBO. 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. Indeed, its cultural uniqueness and apartness are felt so strongly, and so many of its residents' lives are so locally focused, that it is sometimes said thereabouts that "upstate" New York is anywhere north of 14th Street.
Greenwich Village is now home to many celebrities, including actresses/actors Julianne Moore, Liv Tyler, Uma Thurman, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Sedaris, and Barbara Pierce Bush, the daughter of U.S. President George W. Bush, who both live on West Ninth Street.[1]
Greenwich Village includes the primary campus for New York University (NYU), The New School, and Yeshiva University's Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Cooper Union is also located in Greenwich Village, near Lafayette and Bleecker, but on the border near the East Village.
The historic Washington Square Park is the center and heart of the neighborhood, but the Village has several other, smaller parks: Father Fagan, Minetta Triangle, Petrosino Square, Little Red Square, and Time Landscape. There are also city playgrounds, including Desalvio, Minetta, Thompson Street, Bleecker Street, Downing Street, Mercer Street, and William Passannante Ballfield. Perhaps the most famous, though, is "The Cage", officially known as the West 4th Street Courts. Sitting on top of the West Fourth Street–Washington Square subway station at Sixth Avenue, the courts are easily accessible to basketball and American handball players from all over New York. The Cage has become one of the most important tournament sites for the city-wide "Streetball" amateur basketball tournament.
The Village also has a bustling performing arts scene. It is home to many Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway theaters; for instance, Blue Man Group has taken up residence in the Astor Place Theater. The Village Vanguard hosts some of the biggest names in jazz on a regular basis. Other music clubs include The Bitter End, and Lion's Den. The village also has its own orchestra aptly named the Greenwich Village Orchestra. Comedy clubs dot the Village as well, including The Boston and Comedy Cellar, where many American stand-up comedians got their start.
Each year on October 31, it is home to New York's Village Halloween Parade, a mile-long ad hoc pageant of masqueraders, mummers, drag queens, exhibitionists, drunkards, druggies, puppets and pets that draws an audience of two million from throughout the region, the largest Halloween event in the country. The delighted and high-spirited throngs include everyone from the smallest children dressed in the simplest homemade or store-bought costumes on up to adults bedecked in the most elaborate and ingenious guises and disguises that professional and amateur costume designers and makeup artists can conceive and create with a year's notice.
Several publications have offices in the Village, most notably the newsweekly The Village Voice.
Sullivan St. was home to Genovese Family godfather Vincent Gigante. A lifelong resident, shortly before his death in federal prison he told a fellow inmate 'Greenwich Village is the greatest place in the U.S.' - Wiki
Welcome to Greenwich Village
Minetta Street
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Looking South toward Soho
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Ny's favorite Mayor
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Around the NYU campus
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Entering Washington Square Park from the South
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Washington Square Park
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buildings around the park
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cooling off in the fountain
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The Arch
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Looking to the east
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The rows..
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A look up Fifth Avenue
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The Washington Mews
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A green couch rolls down the street
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North towards midtown
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West 4th street
Anyone standing in line for the Groove knows all these faces by heart
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2 Legends next door to eachother.. The village Underground and the Fat Black Pussy Cat
and right across the street is The Bluenote
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Looking back west toward the West Ville
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