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A 90-Minute Walk in
Greenwich Village and SoHo

A stroll through the patchwork quilt of streets in Greenwich
Village takes you to where New York’s best-known writers and
artists have lived, worked, and played. It ends with a tour
of SoHo’s impressive cast-iron buildings, galleries, and shops.
For more details on sights in Greenwich Village, see pages
102–111, and for SoHo sights, see pages 96–101.
e Facade in Washington Mews
Writers House. A passageway
at the front once led up to the gathering spot, to Christopher
Tile Club, a gathering place Street and the Northern GREENWICH AVE
for the artists of the Tenth Dispensary 7. WEST 12TH STREET
Street Studio, where Augustus Follow Grove Street along 5 4
Saint-Gaudens, John LaFarge, Christopher Park to Sheridan A V E N U E 6 WEST 11TH STREET
and Winslow Homer lived. Square, the busy hub WEST 10TH ST PLACE WAVERLEY 3
Mark Twain lived at 24 West of the Village. The Christopher St- 2 WEST 10TH STREET
Sheridan Sq
10th Street, and Edward Circle Repertory WEST 10TH STREET 1 7 1 FIFTH AVENUE
Albee resided at 50 West 10th. Theater 8, which CHRISTOPHER STREET 9 GROVE ST 8 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS (6TH AVE) UNIVERSITY PLACE
Back across Sixth Avenue is premiered plays by 0 q w WASHINGTON
WAVERLY
Milligan Place 4, with 19th- Pulitzer Prizewinner S T R E E T S E V E N T H PLACE MEWS EAST 10TH STREET
century houses, and Patchin Lanford Wilson, is BEDFORD STREET WASHINGTON e EAST 9TH STREET
Place 5, where the poets E. E. now closed. WEST 4TH STREET EAST 8TH ST
SQ PARK
Cummings and John Masefield Cross Seventh WASHINGTON STREET Washington Sq J 8th St-NYU
West 4th St-
both lived. Farther on is the site Avenue and G R E E N W I C H CARMINE ST A.B.C.D.E.F.M r WAVERLY PLACE N.R
of the Ninth Circle bar 6, which continue on Grove HUDSON STREET A V E ) WASHINGTON PL
2 The imposing building of Jefferson when it opened in 1898 was Street. At the BLEECKER STREET
Market Courthouse known as “Regnaneschi’s.” It corner of Bedford Houston ( 6 T H LA GUARDIA PLACE
Street
was the subject of John Sloan’s Street, you can’t miss 1 MERCER STREET
West 10th Street painting Regnaneschi’s Saturday “Twin Peaks” 9 (102 Bedford), a B R O A D W A Y
The junction of West 8th Street Night. Playwright Edward Albee home for artists in the 1920s. BLEECKER STREET
and 6th Avenue 1 has many first saw the question “Who’s Turn back around to look at the A M E R I C A S WEST HOUSTON ST
music and clothing stores afraid of Virginia Woolf?” northeast corner of Bedford and SULLIVAN STREET Broadway-
nearby. Walk up Sixth to West scrawled on a mirror here. Grove streets 0 – the exterior Spring St THOMPSON STREET Lafayette St
B.D.F.M
Ninth Street to see (on the of this edifice had a recurring C.E WOOSTER STREET
left at 425) Jefferson Market role in the TV sitcom Friends T H E SPRING GREENE STREET
Courthouse 2. as the charac ters’ apartment
Turn right at West 10th Street building. 75½ Bedford is O F
3 to the Lillian Vernon Creative the narrowest house in the WEST BROADWAY MERCER STREET Prince St
N.R
Village, and was once the A V E N U E
STREET
Tips for Walkers home of feminist poet Edna BROADWAY
St. Vincent Millay. Head along t BROOME
Starting point: 8th St/6th Ave. Bedford, then left up Carmine Canal St
A.C.E
Length: 2 miles (3.2 km). to Sixth Avenue and turn GRA ND STRE ET STREET
Getting there: Take subway right at Waverly Place. At CANAL
train A, B, C, D, E, or F to West 116 Waverly q, Anne
4th Street-Washington Square Charlotte Lynch, an English
station (8th Street exit). Fifth teacher, held weekly gatherings LISPENARD STREET
Avenue buses M2 and M3 stop in her town house for such
at 8th Street. From here, walk eminent friends as Herman STREET
one block west to 6th. The M5 W A L K E R S T
bus loops near Washington Melville and Edgar Allan Poe,
Square along 8th Street and who gave his first reading of
up Sixth Avenue. The Raven here.
Stopping-off points: This walk A detour left of just half
is designed to take 90 minutes 9 The unusual exterior of “Twin Peaks” a block will bring you to
without any stops. The Little Owl, MacDougal Alley w, a lane
90 Bedford St, is good for lunch. of carriage houses in which
Fanelli’s Café, 94 Prince Street, has Greenwich Village Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
been serving customers since Turn left at Waverly Place past had her studio. She opened the
1847 and was once a speakeasy. the Three Lives Book store (154 first Whitney Museum here in
West 10th St), a typical literary 1932, just behind the studio.
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