Charming streets, specialty foods, throbbing   music.
                  With its charming, narrow streets and 19th-century brick
                  town houses, cozy taverns and leisurely pace, Greenwich
                  Village is a world apart from the rest of high-rise Manhattan.
                  Much of the neighborhood, from University Place to Hudson
                  Street, has retained its historic character and quaint feel.
 

                  The neighborhood has a multitude of Off-Broadway theaters and among
                  the popular jazz clubs are the Blue Note, Village Vanguard and Sweet
                  Basil.

                  Since the beginning of the 20th century, the Village has been home to
                  artists and writers as well as families. Increasingly, newer residents tend to
                  be entertainment celebrities and Wall Street professionals.,

                  The neighborhood has two highly regarded pre-k-5 elementary schools.
                  The arts-oriented, 520-pupil P.S. 3 is in a landmark building at 490
                  Hudson Street, at Grove Street. The 735-pupil P.S. 41 at 116 West 11th
                  Street at Sixth Avenue uses local artists, writers and musicians in its
                  programs, said Lois Weiswasser, the principal. THE independent K-8
                  Village Community School is housed in a five-story, 19th-century building
                  at 272 West 10th Street.

                  In 1969, most of the Village was designated a historic district. Within the
                  district, development is carefully monitored to make sure that it is
                  consistent with the neighborhood's historic fabric.

                  There are hundreds of remaining Federal and Greek Revival buildings
                  from the 1820's to 1845 in the Village, as well as Italianate buildings from
                  the 1850's to the 1880's, said Joyce Gold, a historian who conducts
                  walking tours in the neighborhood.

                  THE Village dates back to the 16th century when there was an old
                  Algonquin Indian settlement there called Sapokanican. Washington
                  Square was originally a marshland with a trout stream running through it
                  called Minetta Brook. After the English captured New Amsterdam from
                  the Dutch in 1664, the settlement was transformed into a small town,
                  "Grin'wich," (later "Greenwich") and by the early 19th century, "Village"
                  was added to the name.

                  Washington Square became a public park in 1827 and wealthy merchant
                  families settled in mansions on lower Fifth Avenue and in brownstones
                  built on the north side of Washington Square in the 1830's. Originally the
                  houses had backyards, and residents kept their horses in stables in the
                  cobblestoned Washington Mews, which is now the property of New
                  York University.

                  In the late 19th century, large numbers of Italian immigrants settled in the
                  south part of the Village and many of their descendants are parishioners of
                  the 1926 Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Pompeii, at Bleecker
                  and Carmine Streets.

                  On St. Luke's Place west of Seventh Avenue is the James J. Walker
                  Park, named in honor of the Prohibition-era Mayor, who lived at No. 6.

                  Another former New York Mayor, Edward I. Koch, is a longstanding
                  Greenwich Village resident. Many playwrights and actors have homes in
                  the Village, including John Guare, Gwyneth Paltrow, and, most recently,
                  Julia Roberts. Adding a cultural, intellectual and youthful flavor to the
                  neighborhood are students and faculty members of New York University,
                  New School University, Parsons School of Design, Hebrew Union
                  College and the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law.

                                             Boundaries:
                                                  North - 13th Street
                                                  South - 8th Street
                                                  East - Third Avenue
                                                  West - Sixth Avenue 

  Buses:
   1.Crosstown on 14th Street and 9th Street(Westbound) and 8th
      Street/10th Street (Eastbound)
   2.5th Avenue and Broadway for downtown
   3.6th Avenue and 4th Avenue for uptown
   4.3rd Avenue uptown and downtown

 Private Schools:
   1.Little Red Schoolhouse, 196 Bleecker Street, (Coed, Pre K. - 8th
      Grade);
   2.Grace Church School, 86 Fourth Avenue, (Coed, Jr. K. - 8th
      Grade)

 Universities, Colleges & Schools:
   1.NYU, Washington Square;
   2.NYU Law School, 110 W. 3rd Street;
   3.Hebrew Union, 1 W. 4th Street;
   4.Leonard N. Stern School of Business at NYU, 44 W. 4th Street;
   5.New School, 66 W. 12th Street;
   6.Parsons School of Design, 66 Fifth Avenue

 Landmarks:
      Bleecker Street
      West 8th Street
      First Presbyterian Church
      Washington Square
      Washington Arch
      Washington Square North
      NYU; Shepherd’s Market library
      Balducci’s Market
      Strand Bookstore
      various jazz clubs, coffehouses and restaurants

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