East Village

Neighborhood · Manhattan

East of the Bowery and Third Avenue, between Houston and 14th Streets, the East Village takes in Alphabet City and Little Ukraine.

  • 0.68 square miles
  • 71,436 residents, 2020 Census
  • 123 street corners
  • 5 subway stations
  • 14 bus routes

Peter Stuyvesant's farm lay here in the 1600s, and 19th-century German-speaking immigrants made it part of Kleindeutschland, or Little Germany; the East Village name took hold in the 1960s. Tompkins Square Park, acquired by the city in 1834, honors Governor Daniel D. Tompkins, and the Cooper Union, founded by Peter Cooper in 1859, stands on Cooper Square. First Houses, built in 1935 and 1936, was the nation's first public housing project, and the neighborhood later nurtured many art movements and theaters such as La MaMa.

Sources: East Village, Manhattan (Wikipedia); Tompkins Square Park (NYC Parks); History (The Cooper Union).

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East Village borders five areas.

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  • East Village
  • A neighboring area
  • Park
  • A station in the list
  • Another station

Neighborhood areas and streets: NYC Department of City Planning. Parks: NYC Parks. Stations: MTA.

Neighboring areas

Subway stations

  • 14 St-Union Sq lines 4 5 6
  • 3 Av lines L
  • 1 Av lines L accessible
  • Astor Pl lines 6
  • 2 Av lines F

Getting around

Five subway stations and buses on 14 routes stop in or at the edge of East Village.

  • 5 subway stations
  • 1 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 14 local bus routes

Local bus routes

  • L92
  • M1
  • M2
  • M3
  • M8
  • M9
  • M14A-SBS
  • M14D-SBS
  • M15
  • M15-SBS
  • M21
  • M101
  • M102
  • M103

Safety record

Between 2021 and 2025, its corners averaged fewer police-reported crashes than the average Manhattan corner.

  • 1,511 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 12.3 a corner, on average
  • 13.4 the average Manhattan corner
  • 6 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 56 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
41
Accessible pedestrian signals
20
Turn calming
16
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
11
Safety Improvement Projects
2

Camera tickets

In 2025 its corners had more school-zone speed camera tickets than bus-lane or red-light tickets.

  • 1,852 red-light camera tickets at one corner
  • 11,282 school-zone speed camera tickets at six corners
  • 6,609 bus-lane camera tickets at two corners
Most red-light tickets
2nd Avenue & East Houston Street, 1,852
Most speed tickets
Avenue C & East Houston Street, 7,913
Most bus-lane tickets
1st Avenue & St Marks Place, 6,026

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 71,436 residents in East Village, about 105,100 per square mile.

  • 38,205 homes, 2020 Census
  • 2,032 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 1,929 residential lots hold buildings from 1900 or earlier, and 88% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

NYCHA developments

NYCHA's Bracetti Plaza, First Houses, Lower East Side II, Lower East Side III, Lower East Side Rehab (Group 5), Meltzer Tower, Riis, Riis II and Wald developments lie wholly or partly within East Village.

Bracetti Plaza
Within East Village
First Houses
Within East Village
Lower East Side II
Within East Village
Lower East Side III
Within East Village; privately managed
Lower East Side Rehab (Group 5)
Within East Village
Meltzer Tower
Within East Village
Riis
Within East Village
Riis II
Within East Village
Wald
Within East Village

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
39.9 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
John V. Lindsay East River Park (18.5 acres), Tompkins Square Park (10.5 acres) and Dry Dock Playground (1.5 acres)
Designated landmarks
The First Houses, the Wheatsworth Bakery Building, the Public National Bank of New York Building and the Tompkins Square Lodging House, among others
Historic districts
East 10th Street, St. Mark's and St. Mark's Extension, wholly or partly within East Village

Streets and trees

Trees
4,108 in NYC Parks' records, most often thornless honeylocust, pin oak and Japanese pagoda tree
Street with the most corners
1st Avenue, with 14 of the area's 123
Height above sea level
From 6 feet at Avenue C & East 13th Street to 46 feet at East 13th Street & 4th Avenue
Honorary street names
6 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools and libraries

The City lists 18 schools and two libraries in East Village.

Public schools
12
Charter and private schools
6
Libraries
Ottendorfer Library and Tompkins Square Library

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 38 bike-share stations stand in East Village. The City's public art inventory lists four works in the area, among them Samuel Sullivan Cox (1891), Temperance Fountain (1891) and Peter Cooper (1897).

  • 38 bike-share stations
  • 4 works of public art

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 895 major felonies at places in the East Village.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in the East Village

  • 947 major felonies in 2024
  • 2,596 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of the East Village, the NYPD recorded another 305 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 16.8 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in the East Village.

Police precincts
9th (most of the area), 7th
Major felonies recorded at places in the East Village, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 372 major felonies at places in the East Village, against 445 in the same months of 2025.

Sources: the NYPD's Complaint Data Historic, updated April 28, 2026, and Complaint Data Current (Year To Date), updated July 27, 2026, on NYC Open Data. Figures to June 30, 2026.

Street corners

How the figures above are measured: Methodology.