Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village, known to locals as just “the Village,” is a residential neighborhood in Lower Manhattan with a famously alternative history.  Low rents and the Village’s central location in the city attracted countless artists, writers, and bohemians throughout the early-to-mid-twentieth century, including Abstract Expressionist painters Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko and Beat icons Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg.  However, as time went on the Village’s success as a cultural center increased its desirability, and the skyrocketing cost of living eventually drove its mainstay of struggling young artists to less expensive haunts – first SoHo and TriBeCa, then ultimately across the East River to Brooklyn.  Still home to hip coffeehouses and experimental Off-Broadway theater, today’s Greenwich Village is an upscale neighborhood, the address of fashion industry leaders Anna Wintour and Marc Jacobs and celebrities Mary-Louise Parker, Matthew Broderick, and Sarah Jessica Parker.

• Visit the crux of many historical left-wing political movements, including anti-Vietnam War protests and the Stonewall Riots
• Home to the Village Voice, the influentialarts and culture-focused alternative weekly newspaper
• Visit NYU campuses throughout the Village