Greenwich Village

Neighborhood · Manhattan

Greenwich Village spreads around Washington Square Park, between Houston and 14th Streets.

  • 0.38 square miles
  • 34,147 residents, 2020 Census
  • 97 street corners
  • 6 subway stations
  • 22 bus routes

Its name traces to Groenwijck, Dutch for green district, and it grew from a rural hamlet north of the colonial town; in 1822 a yellow fever epidemic sent New Yorkers out to the village, and many stayed. Washington Square became a military parade ground in 1826 and a public park the next year, and Stanford White's marble arch went up in the 1890s beside New York University, in the Village since the 1830s. After 1910 the Village drew writers, artists and bohemians, followed by Beat writers in the 1950s and folk musicians in the 1960s.

Sources: Washington Square Park (NYC Parks); Greenwich Village (Encyclopaedia Britannica); Greenwich Village (Wikipedia).

Map

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Greenwich Village borders four areas, and Broadway holds more of its corners than any other street, 15 of 97.

Street map of Greenwich Village, Manhattan, outlined among the East Village, the West Village, SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square and Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square, with its six subway stations and Washington Square Park.Midtown South-Flatiron-Union SquareEast VillageSoHo-Little Italy-Hudson SquareWest Village
  • Greenwich 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

  • 6 Av lines L accessible
  • 14 St-Union Sq lines 4 5 6 L
  • W 4 St-Wash Sq lines A B C D E F M accessible
  • 8 St-NYU lines R W
  • Astor Pl lines 6
  • Bleecker St / Broadway-Lafayette St lines 6 B D F M accessible

Getting around

Six subway stations and buses on 22 routes stop in or at the edge of Greenwich Village.

  • 6 subway stations
  • 3 of them listed by the MTA as fully accessible
  • 11 local bus routes
  • 11 express bus routes

Local bus routes

  • L92
  • M1
  • M2
  • M3
  • M8
  • M14A-SBS
  • M14D-SBS
  • M21
  • M55
  • M103
  • T232

Express bus routes

  • SIM1
  • SIM1C
  • SIM3C
  • SIM4C
  • SIM7
  • SIM9
  • SIM33
  • SIM33C
  • SIM34
  • X27
  • X28

Safety record

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

  • 964 police-reported crashes at its corners
  • 9.9 a corner, on average
  • 13.4 the average Manhattan corner
  • 5 corners with a clean record

Signal or safety changes on City record, at 37 of its corners

Leading pedestrian intervals
21
Accessible pedestrian signals
13
Barnes Dance all-way crossings
6
Turn calming
5
Enhanced crossings
5
Safety Improvement Projects
2

Camera tickets

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

  • 0 red-light camera tickets
  • 3,235 school-zone speed camera tickets at three corners
  • 25,070 bus-lane camera tickets at three corners
Most speed tickets
East 3rd Street & Bowery, 1,978
Most bus-lane tickets
East 14th Street & University Place, 10,980

People and homes

The 2020 Census counted 34,147 residents in Greenwich Village, about 89,900 per square mile.

  • 20,097 homes, 2020 Census
  • 441 homes added since April 2010, net, by City Planning's count

Half of its 854 residential lots hold buildings from 1889 or earlier, and 90% of them date from before 1940, by the City's tax lot records.

Parks and landmarks

Parkland
12.4 acres of NYC Parks property
The largest pieces
Washington Square Park (9.7 acres), William F. Passannante Ballfield (0.6 acre) and Fiorello La Guardia Park (0.5 acre)
Designated landmarks
The Brown Building (originally Asch Building), the Judson Memorial Church, the Grace Church and the Judson Hall, among others
Historic districts
Greenwich Village, MacDougal-Sullivan Gardens, NoHo, NoHo Extension, Noho East and South Village, wholly or partly within Greenwich Village

Streets and trees

Trees
1,693 in NYC Parks' records, most often thornless honeylocust, maidenhair tree and London planetree
Street with the most corners
Broadway, with 15 of the area's 97
Height above sea level
From 17 feet at Avenue of the Americas & Greenwich Avenue to 45 feet at East Houston Street & Mott Street
Honorary street names
9 at its corners, enacted by local law

Schools

The City lists five schools in Greenwich Village.

Public schools
2
Charter and private schools
3

Bike share and public art

By the station list of October 3, 2026, 19 bike-share stations stand in Greenwich Village. The City's public art inventory lists seven works in the area, among them Giuseppe Garibaldi (1888), Alexander Lyman Holley (1890) and Washington Square Arch (1895).

  • 19 bike-share stations
  • 7 works of public art

Places the City draws by name in this area: NoHo and Little Italy.

Public safety

How complaints are counted

In 2025 the NYPD recorded 677 major felonies at places in Greenwich Village.

Recorded by the NYPD at places in Greenwich Village

  • 745 major felonies in 2024
  • 1,667 other felonies, misdemeanors and violations in 2025

In 2025, on the streets along the edge of Greenwich Village, the NYPD recorded another 364 major felonies. Counting the streets along its edge, in 2025 the NYPD recorded 30.5 major felonies for every thousand residents the 2020 Census counted in Greenwich Village.

Map of Greenwich Village: 6 shaded patches of its streets, each numbered with the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places there in 2025; unshaded areas are not counted on this map.
Major felonies recorded at public places in Greenwich Village, 2025
  • 5 to 9
  • 10 to 19
  • 20 to 49
  • 50 to 99
  • 100 or more
  • Not shaded: fewer than 5, held back under the rules in How complaints are counted, parks and public-housing grounds, and land in no patch
Each shaded patch is a set of whole street blocks and corners of Greenwich Village, most about 1,000 feet across, and its number counts the major felonies the NYPD recorded at public places on those streets and corners in 2025. The streets along or across the edge of Greenwich Village are not shaded. Homes, shelters, schools, child care, health care, houses of worship, hotels, mailboxes inside buildings, private parking lots and garages, buses and taxis, parks and cemeteries, highways, bridges, tunnels, the tramway and places the NYPD did not name count in the figure above for Greenwich Village and stay off the map. How complaints are counted gives every rule.
Police precincts
6th (most of the area), 9th
Major felonies recorded at places in Greenwich Village, 2021 to 2025

From January to June 2026 the NYPD recorded 266 major felonies at places in Greenwich Village, against 310 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.