Greenwich Village Historic Walk

The Washington Square Arch stands seventy-seven feet tall as a white marble entrance to the park, marking the southern end of Fifth Avenue. Designed by Stanford White, the structure is crafted from Tuckahoe marble and features a wide…

Gay Street is a short, crooked, one-block lane in the West Village that bends sharply enough to hide its own end from view. Linking Waverly Place to Christopher Street, this narrow passage features a distinct contrast in architecture: the…

The Jefferson Market Library is defined by its ornate, hundred-foot-tall clock tower that rises from a building of red brick and yellow sandstone. Designed by architects Frederick Clarke Withers and Calvert Vaux, the structure occupies a…

Patchin Place is a gated, dead-end alley tucked off West Tenth Street, identifiable by the iron gate at its entrance and its ten small, three-story brick row houses. Developed in eighteen forty-eight or eighteen forty-nine by Samuel…

The Stonewall Inn occupies two modest buildings at fifty-one and fifty-three Christopher Street, distinguished by a continuous, fifty-foot-wide facade that has remained largely unchanged since the nineteen sixties. Originally constructed…

Grove Court consists of a private, gated enclave positioned behind a narrow passage between numbers ten and twelve Grove Street. A wrought-iron gate protects a small courtyard lined with six brick, Federal-style row houses. These homes…

Seventy-five and a half Bedford Street is a brick townhouse with an asymmetrical stepped gable that stands out for being only nine-and-a-half feet wide. Often identified as the narrowest house in New York City, the structure occupies what…

The Cherry Lane Theatre at thirty-eight Commerce Street is marked by a modest, three-story brick façade and a black awning. Built in eighteen-seventeen as a farm silo, the building later functioned as a brewery, a tobacco warehouse, and a…