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Greenwich Village and the West Side

Greenwich Village and the neighbouring lower west side of Manhattan retain an irregular street pattern that predates the 1811 grid, and now carry the southern end of the High Line and the galleries and museums that followed it.

Type
neighborhood
Status
A name in common use with no authority defining its extent.

Also known as Greenwich Village.

This record covers Greenwich Village together with the adjoining Meatpacking District and southern Chelsea, which are separate customary names for continuous ground on Manhattan's lower west side. GCI groups them because the places recorded here sit within a few minutes' walk of one another and no boundary between them is defined.

What is recorded here

Counts describe this corpus, not the area as a whole.

  • Nightlife4
  • Parks & gardens2
  • Markets2
  • Museums & galleries1
  • Cafés1
  • Restaurants1
  • Waterfront1

Places in Greenwich Village and the West Side

Museums & galleries

Whitney Museum of American Art

Greenwich Village and the West Side

The Whitney Museum of American Art stands at the southern end of the High Line in Manhattan's Meatpacking District, in a building by Renzo Piano opened in 2015, and holds a collection of twentieth and twenty-first century American art.

Visit info checked Sept 2026

Parks & gardens

The High Line

Greenwich Village and the West Side

The High Line is a linear public park on a disused elevated freight viaduct on Manhattan's West Side, opened in sections from 2009 and running from Gansevoort Street to Hudson Yards.

Parks & gardens

Washington Square Park

Greenwich Village and the West Side

Washington Square Park is a public park in Greenwich Village, laid out on a former potter's field and parade ground, with a marble arch of 1892 at the foot of Fifth Avenue.

Markets

Chelsea Market

Greenwich Village and the West Side

Chelsea Market occupies the former National Biscuit Company factory complex on Ninth Avenue in Manhattan, converted in the 1990s into a food hall and office building.

Visit info checked Sept 2026

Nightlife

Ear Inn

Greenwich Village and the West Side

The Ear Inn occupies the James Brown House on Spring Street in Manhattan, a Federal-style building of about 1770 near the Hudson shoreline, and has operated as a bar since the nineteenth century.

Cafés

Caffe Reggio

Greenwich Village and the West Side

Caffe Reggio is a coffee house on MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village, opened in 1927 and holding an espresso machine of 1902 in the front room.

Nightlife

White Horse Tavern

Greenwich Village and the West Side

The White Horse Tavern is a bar on Hudson Street in Greenwich Village, trading since 1880 and long associated with the writers who drank there in the 1950s and 1960s.

Restaurants

John's of Bleecker Street

Greenwich Village and the West Side

John's of Bleecker Street is a coal-oven pizzeria in Greenwich Village, opened in 1929 and serving only whole pies from its original brick ovens.

Waterfront

Hudson River Park

Greenwich Village and the West Side

Hudson River Park is a linear waterfront park running along the west side of Manhattan from Battery Place to 59th Street, built on and between the former commercial piers.

Nightlife

Village Vanguard

Greenwich Village and the West Side

The Village Vanguard is a basement jazz club on Seventh Avenue South in Greenwich Village, opened in 1935 and presenting jazz exclusively since 1957.

Nightlife

Blue Note

Greenwich Village and the West Side

The Blue Note is a jazz club on West 3rd Street in Greenwich Village, opened in 1981 and running two sets most nights.

Markets

Union Square Greenmarket

Greenwich Village and the West Side

The Union Square Greenmarket is an open-air farmers' market on the north and west sides of Union Square in Manhattan, running since 1976 on four days a week.

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