Christopher Square in the West Village

For the West Village development in Dallas, Texas, see West Village, Dallas, Texas

The West Village is the western portion of the Greenwich Village neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Texas ( is a state geographically located in the South Central United States and is also known as the Lone Star State. The West Village is a development in the Uptown area of Dallas, Texas ( USA) Greenwich Village (ˌgrɛnɪtʃ ˈvɪlɪdʒ often simply called the Village, is a largely residential area on the west side of downtown (southern Manhattan The City of New York In New York City, a borough is a unique form of government which administers the five fundamental constituent parts that make up the consolidated city Manhattan Island, in New York Harbor, is much the largest part of the Borough of Manhattan, one of the Five Boroughs which form the City of New York Though there are no defined boundaries, the area is usually defined as bounded by the Hudson River and either Sixth Avenue or Seventh Avenue, extending from 14th Street down to Houston Street. The Hudson River, called Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk, the Great Mohegan by the Iroquois, or as the Lenape Native Americans called it in Unami Sixth Avenue is a major Avenue in New York City 's borough of Manhattan. Seventh Avenue / Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard is a thoroughfare on the West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. Houston Street redirects here For the Major League Baseball player with a similar name see Huston Street. Bordering neighborhoods include Chelsea to the north, the Hudson Square section of SoHo to the south, and the core of Greenwich Village to the east. Chelsea is a neighborhood on the West Side of the Manhattan borough of New York City. This article is about an area of Manhattan, New York City. For the area in London UK see Soho. The area is part of Manhattan Community Board 2. The Manhattan Community Board 2 is a local government unit of New York City, encompassing the neighborhoods of Greenwich Village

A sub-neighborhood, the Far West Village, extends from the Hudson River to Hudson Street.

The neighborhood is distinguished by streets that are "off the grid" — set at an angle to the other streets in Manhattan — sometimes confusing both tourists and city residents alike. These roads were laid out in the 18th century, approximately parallel or vertical to the Hudson, long before the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 which created the main street Grid plan for the rest of the city. The Commissioners' Plan of 1811 was a proposal by the New York State Legislature adopted in 1811 for the orderly development and sale of the land of Manhattan between The grid plan or gridiron plan is a type of City plan in which Streets run at right angles to each other forming a grid. Even streets that are nominally part of the grid can be idiosyncratic, at best. West 4th Street crosses West 10th, 11th and 12th Streets, ending at an intersection with West 13th Street. West 4th Street runs east-west through most of eastern and central Manhattan and then turns north at 6th Avenue to intersect with West 10th 11th 12th and 13th Streets in Heading north on Greenwich Street, West 12th Street is separated by three blocks from Little West 12th Street, which in turn is one block south of West 13th Street. Greenwich Street is a north-south street in the New York City borough of Manhattan.

Known as "Little Bohemia" starting in 1916^[1], West Village is the center of the bohemian lifestyle on the West Side, with classic artist's lofts (Westbeth Artists Community) and new residential towers designed by American architect Richard Meier facing the Hudson River at 173-176 Perry Street. The term bohemian, of French origin was first used in the English language in the nineteenth century to describe the untraditional lifestyles of marginalized and impoverished Artists Loft mainly refers to two different types of rooms It typically refers to an upper story or Attic in a Building, directly under the Roof The Westbeth Artists Community, located at 463 West Street in the West Village neighborhood of the New York City borough of Manhattan An architect is a licensed individual who leads a design team in the Planning and Design of buildings and participates in oversight of Building Construction For the American urban planner see Richard L Meier Richard Meier (born October 12 1934 in Newark New Jersey) The Meatpacking District at the top of this neighborhood, also known as the "Gansevoort Historic District", is filled with trendy boutiques and night clubs. The Meatpacking District, officially known as Gansevoort Market, and also known as MePa, is a Neighborhood in the New York City borough

The High Line project plans to connect the historic district to the art galleries in Chelsea and points north. The High Line is an abandoned 145 mile (233 km section of the former elevated freight railroad of the West Side Line, along the lower west side of New York City Chelsea is a neighborhood on the West Side of the Manhattan borough of New York City. In the plan, elevated train tracks running parallel to Tenth Avenue will be converted to an open greenway. Tenth Avenue / Amsterdam Avenue is a north-south thoroughfare on the West Side of Manhattan in New York City. A greenway is a long narrow piece of land often used for recreation and pedestrian and bicycle traffic and sometimes including multiple transportation ( Streetcar, Light The tracks once served the businesses in the area, but have been long abandoned. Instead of demolishing the structure, the unique features will be used to benefit the entire city.

Sites and attractions

• Jefferson Market Branch, New York Public Library
• High Line
• Hudson River Park
• Meatpacking District
• St. Luke in the Fields Church
• Stonewall Inn
• Village Vanguard
• Alison Nelson's Chocolate Bar
• Westbeth Artists Community

Subway service

A, C, E trains

• 14th Street on the IND Eighth Avenue Line
• West Fourth Street–Washington Square on the IND Sixth Avenue Line

1, 2, 3 trains

• 14th Street on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line
• Christopher Street–Sheridan Square on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line
• Houston Street on the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line

References

External links

• Gansevoort Historic District
• Wikipages West Village, a wiki-based business directory for the West Village
• Veri West Village, Self-publishing neighborhood network