No, the scene shown here is hardly Forgotten–it’s iconic and emblematic of the Village and has been seen by millions, New York natives and visitors alike. It does have its…
Greenwich Village
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IT’S been two decades since I first walked 6th Avenue for FNY, and things have changed along the avenue in the center of Manhattan (in “The Ferrari in the Bedroom,”…
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It appears as if 121 Charles, at the corner of Greenwich, has been here forever but it is actually a 1967 interloper. It is an 1809 (?) farmhouse moved here…
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In the complicated Greenwich Village street layout, Jones Street, along with Cornelia, is a one-block street between West 4th and Bleecker west of 6th Avenue. It was named for Dr.…
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THE late 1960s and early 1970s were, without a doubt, an era when Fun City was descending into madness and it was thought that NYC was an ungovernable city (in…
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A short lane called Weehawken Street runs between Christopher and West 10th Streets just east of West Street and stands on what, in the colonial era, was on the grounds…
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JAMES J. Walker Park, today facing Hudson Street between St. Lukes Place and West Houston Street, was once an uptown branch of Trinity Cemetery, Â established in 1801 as a churchyard…
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I have something of a fascination for St. Luke’s Place in Greenwich Village, as it has a unique west to east street numbering scheme and is one of the few…
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CASUAL walkers around Greenwich Village will probably come across fractional addresses, such as 548 1/2 (I know there’s a way to access the one-half fraction on my keyboard, but I…
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THIS handsome, 7-story, large, red-brick building at 320 West 12th Street on the southwest corner at Hudson Street has gone by many names during its century-plus existence. Currently, it’s a luxury condominium…
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BEFORE 1928 6th Avenue went only as far south as Minetta and Carmine Streets in the center of Greenwich Village, and was mostly covered by an elevated train north of…
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DESIRING a rather quick walk that would nonetheless allow me to get my air of a weekend — as a work from homer, I am chained to my computer during…