also known as the West Village or the Village - is more upscale than the East Village and is the original corner of cool, the closest any American neighborhood comes to a corner of Paris. At night, Greenwich Village comes alive with sounds from late-night coffeehouses, cafés, experimental theaters, and music clubs.
Downtown charm is personified in lots of low-rise townhouses, thumbnail size gardens, secret courtyards, and a wacky serpentine layout of streets.
Washington Square Park and the rows of townhouses around it with charming alleys behind them are all frozen in time. The park, with its arch famous from much movie exposure, is the heart of the Village. This 9 ½ -acre park at the foot of Fifth Avenue is an oasis and circus combined, where skate boarders, jugglers, stand-up comics, sitters, strollers, sweethearts, chess players, fortune tellers, and daydreamers converge and commune.
Police Station 6th Pct: Greenwich Village 233 W. 10th Street (Btwn. Bleecker and Hudson Sts.) NY, NY 10014 (212) 741-4811 Directions: 1, 9 at Christopher St.-Sheridan Sq.
Schools: You must contact the schools directly to confirm that the address you are interested in is zoned for that school and that they have space for your child.
Residents are jointly zoned to two elementary schools:
