Greenwich Village
Neighborhood Intelligence

Greenwich Village is the Lower Manhattan neighborhood around Washington Square Park, long known as an artists' haven, the East Coast birthplace of the Beat Generation and the 1960s counterculture, and a cradle of the modern LGBTQ movement. Its name comes from the Dutch Groenwijck, or "green district." The official area covered here, NYC Planning's Greenwich Village, runs from Sixth Avenue east to Fourth Avenue, Cooper Square, and the Bowery, and from 14th Street south to Houston Street, so it also takes in NoHo, the blocks north of Houston. New York University and The New School are among its institutional anchors.

The area mixes Federal and Greek Revival rowhouses, nineteenth-century churches, loft buildings, and university buildings. Washington Square Park and its arch form the center, with Judson Memorial Church on the park's south side. Grace Church, a French Gothic Revival design by James Renwick Jr., stands on Broadway at 10th Street. In NoHo, the Merchant's House Museum preserves a rowhouse that was a single family's home for almost a century, Colonnade Row faces Lafayette Street, and the Public Theater occupies the former Astor Library. The Salmagundi Club, a long-established artists' club, is on Fifth Avenue.