East Village in Manhattan

17 February 2016 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General, New York City Reading Time:  12 minutes

Building between First and Second Avenues © Beyond My Ken/cc-by-sa-4.0

Building between First and Second Avenues © Beyond My Ken/cc-by-sa-4.0

East Village is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Manhattan. Its boundary to the north is Gramercy Park and Stuyvesant Town, to the south by the Lower East Side, and to the east by the East River. Generally, although definitions vary on the neighborhood’s exact street boundaries, the East Village is considered to be the area east of Broadway to the East River, between 14th Street and Houston Street. The East Village contains several smaller vibrant communities, each with its own character: Alphabet City, Tompkins Square Park, Bowery, East River Park and La Plaza Cultural de Armando Perez.   read more…

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