Greenwich Village

Not only have the Blimpies in town been dwindling… the city is down at least two papaya hot dog joints since I’ve been noticing these things. Papaya King, on 7th…

Patchin Place, a dead end squeezed onto the north side of West 10th Street between 6th Avenue and Greenwich Avenue, has its own intrinsic charms, but it’s notable because Manhattan…

A Perry Street townhouse at #43, constructed in 1860, was given a radical remake in 1967 when the entire exterior was covered in grey marble with casement windows, with a…

On this winter view of Perry Street in Greenwich Village, a Curb Your Dog sign is prominent. New York City instituted the “pooper scooper” law in the early 1980s, mandating…

This vest pocket garden at Sixth and West 4th commemorates the Golden Swan Cafe, also known as The Hell Hole, a sawdust-floored dive with a gilded, weather-beaten stuffed swan mounted…

While its name might sound feminine, Greenwich Village’s Jane Street is not named for a woman (in most cases the wife of a wealthy landowner) like Ann, Hester, or Catharine,…

As far as I can tell, there are four “L”-shaped streets in Manhattan, and I just featured one a few days ago (August 2013): Shinbone Alley, a now-privatized lane in…

Max Gordon Corner, at 7th Avenue South, Perry Street and Waverly Place, celebrates the founder of the Village Vanguard jazz club, in front of which the photographer (me) is standing.…

This past Sunday I was heading towards Union Square, taking 12th Street. The east-west numbered streets of Greenwich Village are old enough to have preserved some architectural archaisms, attached townhouses…

I have never been to Weehawken, New Jersey. Not once! And that’s fairly odd, since my visits to other urban New Jersey Hudson River-side locales, such as Jersey City and…

The Village is full of narrow alleys that lead to back houses (buildings that don’t front on the street but instead stand in back of houses that face the street…

A plastic-letter classic. Wish I knew the manufacturer of these. 2/26/13