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Washington Square
From MacDougal, turn left
to Washington Square North,
to see the finest Greek Revival
houses in the United States.
Built of red brick, they have
marble balustrades and
en trances flanked by columns.
Writer Henry James set his
Washington Square in No. 18,
his grandmother’s home.

Washington Square Park and Arch
WEST 12TH STREET 4
A V E N U E 6 5 WEST 11TH STREET SoHo
Walk south on Thompson, a
GREENWICH AVE
WEST 10TH ST PLACE WAVERLEY 3 typical Village street lined with
Christopher St- bars, cafés, and shops. Turn left at
WEST 10TH STREET Sheridan Sq 1 7 1 2 WEST 10TH STREET FIFTH AVENUE Houston, SoHo’s northern limit,
CHRISTOPHER STREET 9 0 GROVE ST 8 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS (6TH AVE) PLACE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY PLACE and right onto West Broadway,
S E V E N T H
S T R E E T
lined with some of the city’s
q
WAVERLY
w
MEWS
most famous galleries along
WASHINGTON STREET G R E E N W I C H BEDFORD STREET CARMINE ST Washington Sq WASHINGTON e WAVERLY PLACE 8th St-NYU with a large number of chic
EAST 10TH STREET
and arty boutiques.
SQ PARK
EAST 9TH STREET
J
EAST 8TH ST
Turn left at Spring Street
West 4th St-
WEST 4TH STREET
N.R
HUDSON
r
for yet more tempting shops,
A.B.C.D.E.F.M
STREET
which is the heart of the Cast-
B R O A D W A Y
Houston A V E ) BLEECKER STREET WASHINGTON PL then right at Greene Street t,
Iron Historic District. Many
Street ( 6 T H LA GUARDIA PLACE
1 MERCER STREET of these fine buildings now
A M E R I C A S WEST HOUSTON ST Fifth Avenue Turn left at the end of Greene
house high-end stores.
Pause at
Street onto Canal Street, the
THOMPSON STREET
BLEECKER STREET
to look back
Broadway-
the atmosphere of New York
Spring St SULLIVAN STREET Lafayette St at Washington end of SoHo, to see how quickly
B.D.F.M

C.E WOOSTER STREET Square Park, can change. This noisy street
T H E SPRING GREENE STREET with its famous is full of hawkers and discount
Washington Square
O F Prince St Arch. Go across to Two electronics stores. You can
explore bargains for the next

A V E N U E WEST BROADWAY MERCER STREET BROADWAY N.R an elegant carriage house two blocks and then turn left
Fifth Avenue; opposite
is Washington Mews e,
up Broadway. Keen shoppers
STREET
can turn right back onto Spring
Canal St t BROOME complex. John Dos Passos, Street and head for the NoLita
A.C.E Edward Hopper, and Rockwell district, featuring clothing stores
Kent lived in the studio at by trendy, aspiring designers.
STREET
No. 14a at various times.
G RAND STRE ET
CANAL
Go back up Washington
Square North, past some elegant
houses. Writer Edith Wharton
lived at No. 7. Now walk
LISPENARD STREET
beneath the arch and across
STREET
Washington Square Park. On
W A L K E R S T
the right, as you leave the park,
is the fine Judson Memorial
Church and Tower r by
0 meters 500
Stanford White and the
0 yards 500 Kimmel Center for University
Life. The Center was built on
Key the site of a boarding house,
known as the “house of genius,”
Walk route
where Theodore Dreiser wrote
An American Tragedy. t Cast-iron facade, Greene Street
Footbridge and colorful trees in Central Park
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