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Greenwich Village Map, NYC
Greenwich Village / West Village
Greenwich runs south from West 14th Street to West Houston Street. The eastern boundary is Fourth Avenue and the western boundary is Seventh Avenue South.Be warned, Greenwich Village was built before the rest of the city so it is not part of the city grid. The streets can be a bit confusing as they wind around and come to sudden stops. It is well known for its slightly rebellious and bohemian atmosphere as well as its jazz clubs and coffeehouses. Washington Square, West Eighth Street, Christopher Street and the Jefferson Market Library are among the interesting sights in Greenwich Village.
The West Village is bounded by West 14th Street on the north, West Houston Street on the south, Seventh Avenue South on the east and the Hudson River on the west.
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Sightseeing Spot
Washington Square Park
W 4th St. - Waverly Pl. and University Pl.- MacDougal St.; A hub for street performers, artists, students. Its side streets lead to to cafes, pubs, curio shops.
URL : http://www.washingtonsquarepark.org/
Subway : A/C/E/B/D/F/V 4th St.-Washington Square
New York University
The big university which will be established in 1831 and holds no less than 48,000 students. There are also many famous subjects of study, such as a movie subject of study, a theater subject of study, the law department, the medical department, and MBA.
Address: 50 W 4th Street
URL : http://www.nyu.edu/
Subway : N/R/W Line 8th St-NY University
Merchant's House Museum
The museum of the individual residence which will remain from the 19th century of only among New York.
Address : 29 E 4th St (bet Lafayette & Bowery Sts)
URL : http://www.merchantshouse.com/
Subway : 6 Line Astor Pl
Open Hours : 13:00-17:00
Forbes Magazine Galleries
The figure of the soldier of no less than 12,000 bodies and 500 miniature ships which the first publication person of "Forbes" of an economic magazine collected are the highlight. It is known for the "Easter egg" which is treasure of a Romanov dynasty.
Address : 62 5th Ave
URL : http://www.forbesgalleries.com/
Subway : B/D/F/V/L Line 14th Street
St. Luke's Place
Located on the 2 blocks northern Houston Street offers a typical Italian styled houses, often used in movies and in some houses, celebrities used to reside.
Subway : 1 Line Houston Street
MacDougal St.
The atmosphere of the 1960s is still strongly created here in the west in Washington Square. It is known that there are also many places the cafe for which the beat generations of the 1950s and the fork singers of the 1960s gathered well, literature, and connected with music.
Subway : 1 Line Houston St, C/E Line Spring St.
Isaacs Hendricks House
In this old house built in the 18th century which will remain in the Bedford St., and this house is oldest house with an air of those days remains in a wall or a wainscot.
Address : 77 Bedford St
Subway : 1 Line Houston Street
The Joseph Papp Public Theater
Off Broadway. Known as a theater where various type of musical. Some of them had been taken in Broadway such as "Bring in the noise".
Address : 425 Lafayette St.
URL : http://www.publictheater.org/
Subway : 6 Line Astor Pl.
Astor Place Theater
Off Broadway. Astor Place Theater is one of the representative theater of "Off Broadway" theater which is located at Colonnade Row in Greenwich Village. It hosts "Blue Man Group TUBES" for more than 15 years.
Address : 434 Lafayette St
URL : http://www.blueman.com/ticketinfo/nyc/
Subway : 6 Line Astor Pl
Astor Place
Astor Place, named from John Jacob Astor who arrived in New York in 1783 and became the richest person in the United States at that time, was the site of the Astor Place Opera House on the corner of East 8th Street which was built to be a fashionable theater in 1847, it was the site of the Astor Place Riot of May 10, 1849. Anti-British feelings were running so high among New York's Irish at the height of the potato famine that they found an outlet in the rivalry between actors Edwin Forrest and the English William Charles Macready. The appearance onstage of the Englishman in Macbeth occasioned so violent a protest in the streets that the police overreacted and fired into the crowd. At least eighteen died and hundreds were injured. The theater itself never recovered from the associations and was razed in the 1860's.
Subway : 6 Line Astor Pl
Colonnade Row
The grandest speculative row houses to date in New York City, these houses were built for the mercantile elite, miles away from their places of work. Unlike the typical row house, this group is not brick, it is not a box with a door, and it doesn't have an exterior stoop or dormer windows. Instead, it is a New York version of Regent's Park in London, with columns built by Sing Sing prisoners. / Marble Corinthian columns front this grand sweep of four Greek Revival mansions (originally nine) constructed in 1833, with stonework by Sing Sing penitentiary prisoners. In their time these once-elegant homes served as residences to millionaires John Jacob Astor and Cornelius Vanderbilt until they moved uptown. Today three houses are occupied on street level by restaurants, while the northernmost building houses the Astor Place Theatre and the Blue Man Group.
Address : 428-334 Lafayette St
Subway : 6 Line Astor Pl
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