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East Village, Manhattan

January 19, 2023

The East Village is a neighborhood on the East Side of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It is roughly defined as the area east of the Bowery and Third Avenue, between 14th Street on the north and Houston Street on the south.[2] The East Village contains three subsections: Alphabet City, in reference to the single-letter-named avenues that are located to the east of First Avenue; Little Ukraine, near Second Avenue and 6th and 7th Streets; and the Bowery, located around the street of the same name.

East Village
Neighborhood of Manhattan
Second Avenue and 6th Street, facing south.
Location in New York City
Coordinates: 40°43′41″N 73°59′10″W / 40.728°N 73.986°W / 40.728; -73.986Coordinates: 40°43′41″N 73°59′10″W / 40.728°N 73.986°W / 40.728; -73.986
Country United States
State New York
CityNew York City
BoroughManhattan
Community DistrictManhattan 3[1]
Named1960s[2]
Area
[3]
 • Total1.99 km2 (0.768 sq mi)
Population
 (2016)[3]
 • Total63,347
 • Density32,000/km2 (82,000/sq mi)
Ethnicity
[4]
 • White65.5%
 • Asian14.9
 • Hispanic12.4
 • Black3.9
 • Other3.3
Economics
[3]
 • Median income$74,265
Time zoneUTC−5 (Eastern)
 • Summer (DST)UTC−4 (EDT)
ZIP Codes
10003, 10009
Area code(s)212, 332, 646, and 917

Initially the location of the present-day East Village was occupied by the Lenape Native Americans, and was then divided into plantations by Dutch settlers. During the early 19th century, the East Village contained many of the city's most opulent estates. By the middle of the century, it grew to include a large immigrant population – including what was once referred to as Manhattan's Little Germany – and was considered part of the nearby Lower East Side. By the late 1960s, many artists, musicians, students and hippies began to move into the area, and the East Village was given its own identity. Since at least the 2000s, gentrification has changed the character of the neighborhood.[5]

The East Village is part of Manhattan Community District 3, and its primary ZIP Codes are 10003 and 10009.[1] It is patrolled by the 9th Precinct of the New York City Police Department.

History

Early development

 
Stuyvesant Street, one of the neighborhood's oldest streets, in front of St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery. This street served as the boundary between boweries 1 and 2, owned by Peter Stuyvesant.

The area that is today known as the East Village was originally occupied by the Lenape Native Americans.[6] The Lenape relocated during different seasons, moving toward the shore to fish during the summers, and moving inland to hunt and grow crops during the fall and winter.[7] Manhattan was purchased in 1626 by Peter Minuit of the Dutch West India Company, who served as director-general of New Netherland.[8][9]

The population of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam was located primarily below the current Fulton Street, while north of it were a number of small plantations and large farms that were then called bouwerij (anglicized to "boweries"; modern Dutch: boerderij). Around these farms were a number of enclaves of free or "half-free" Africans, which served as a buffer between the Dutch and the Native Americans.[6][10] One of the largest of these was located along the modern Bowery between Prince Street and Astor Place, as well as the "only separate enclave" of this type within Manhattan.[6][11] These black farmers were some of the earliest settlers of the area.[12]: 769–770 

There were several "boweries" within what is now the East Village. Bowery no. 2 passed through several inhabitants, before the eastern half of the land was subdivided and given to Harmen Smeeman in 1647. Peter Stuyvesant, the director-general of New Netherland, owned adjacent bowery no. 1 and bought bowery no. 2 in 1656 for his farm. Stuyvesant's manor, also called Bowery, was near what is now 10th Street between Second and Third Avenues. Though the manor burned down in the 1770s, his family held onto the land for over seven generations, until a descendant began selling off parcels in the early 19th century.[13][14]

Bowery no. 3 was located near today's 2nd Street between Second Avenue and the modern street named Bowery. It was owned by Gerrit Hendricksen in 1646 and later given to Philip Minthorne by 1732. The Minthorne and Stuyvesant families both owned slaves on their farms.[14] According to an 1803 deed, Stuyvesant's slaves were to be buried in a cemetery plot at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery.[15] The Stuyvesants' estate later expanded to include two Georgian-style manors: the "Bowery House" to the south[13][14] and "Petersfield" to the north.[16][17]

Many of these farms had become wealthy country estates by the middle of the 18th century. The Stuyvesant, DeLancey, and Rutgers families would come to own most of the land on the Lower East Side, including the portions that would later become the East Village.[18] By the late 18th century Lower Manhattan estate owners started having their lands surveyed to facilitate the future growth of Lower Manhattan into a street grid system. The Stuyvesant plot, surveyed in the 1780s or 1790s, was planned to be developed with a new grid around Stuyvesant Street, a street that ran compass west–east. This contrasted with the grid system that was ultimately laid out under the Commissioners' Plan of 1811, which is offset by 28.9 degrees clockwise. Stuyvesant Street formed the border between former boweries 1 and 2, and the grid surrounding it included four north–south and nine west–east streets.[13][14]

Because each landowner had done their own survey, there were different street grids that did not align with each other. Various state laws, passed in the 1790s, gave the city of New York the ability to plan out, open, and close streets.[16][17] The final plan, published in 1811, resulted in the current street grid north of Houston Street – and most of the streets in the modern East Village – were conformed to this plan, except for Stuyvesant Street.[19] The north–south avenues within the Lower East Side were finished in the 1810s, followed by the west–east streets in the 1820s.[20]

Upscale neighborhood

 
Hamilton-Holly House
 
Daniel LeRoy House
Two of the remaining rowhouses on St. Mark's Place. Both are city landmarks.[21]

The Commissioners' Plan and resulting street grid was the catalyst for the northward expansion of the city,[22] and for a short period, the portion of the Lower East Side that is now the East Village was one of the wealthiest residential neighborhoods in the city.[23] Bond Street between the Bowery and Broadway, just west of the East Side within present-day NoHo, was considered the most upscale street address in the city by the 1830s,[18] with structures such as the Greek Revival-style Colonnade Row and Federal-style rowhouses.[24][17] The neighborhood's prestigious nature could be attributed to several factors, including a rise in commerce and population following the Erie Canal's opening in the 1820s.[22]

Following the grading of the streets, development of rowhouses came to the East Side and NoHo by the early 1830s.[22] One set of Federal-style rowhouses was built in the 1830s by Thomas E. Davis on 8th Street between Second and Third Avenues. That block was renamed "St. Mark's Place" and is one of the few remaining terrace names in the East Village.[25] In 1833 Davis and Arthur Bronson bought the entire block of 10th Street from Avenue A to Avenue B. The block was located adjacent to Tompkins Square Park, located between 7th and 10th Streets from Avenue A to Avenue B, designated the same year.[26]

Though the park was not in the original Commissioners' Plan of 1811, part of the land from 7th to 10th Streets east of First Avenue had been set aside for a marketplace that was ultimately never built.[6] Rowhouses up to three stories were built on the side streets by such developers as Elisha Peck and Anson Green Phelps; Ephraim H. Wentworth; and Christopher S. Hubbard and Henry H. Casey.[27]

Mansions were also built on the East Side. One notable address was the twelve-house development called "Albion Place", located on Fourth Street between the Bowery and Second Avenue, built for Peck and Phelps in 1832–1833.[24][25] Second Avenue also had its own concentration of mansions, though most residences on that avenue were row houses built by speculative land owners, including the Isaac T. Hopper House.[25][28] One New York Evening Post article in 1846 said that Second Avenue was to become one of "the two great avenues for elegant residences" in Manhattan, the other being Fifth Avenue.[19]

Two marble cemeteries were also built on the East Side: the New York City Marble Cemetery, built in 1831 on 2nd Street between First and Second Avenues,[29]: 1  and the New York Marble Cemetery, built in 1830 within the backlots of the block to the west.[30]: 1  Following the rapid growth of the neighborhood, Manhattan's 17th ward was split from the 11th ward in 1837. The former covered the area from Avenue B to the Bowery, while the latter covered the area from Avenue B to the East River.[31]

Immigrant neighborhood

19th century

See also: Little Germany, Manhattan
 
Former German-American Shooting Society Clubhouse at 12 St Mark's Place (1885), part of Little Germany

By the middle of the 19th century, many of the wealthy had continued to move further northward to the Upper West Side and the Upper East Side.[32]: 10  Some wealthy families remained, and one observer noted in the 1880s that these families "look[ed] down with disdain upon the parvenus of Fifth avenue".[33] In general, though, the wealthy population of the neighborhood started to decline as many moved northward. Immigrants from modern-day Ireland, Germany, and Austria moved into the rowhouses and manors.[31]

The population of Manhattan's 17th ward – which includes the western part of the East Village and Lower East Side – grew from 18,000 in 1840 to over 43,000 by 1850 and to 73,000 persons in 1860, becoming the city's most highly populated ward at that time.[31][34]: 29, 32  As a result of the Panic of 1837, the city had experienced less construction in the previous years, and so there was a dearth of units available for immigrants, resulting in the subdivision of many houses in lower Manhattan.[31][35]

Another solution was brand-new "tenant houses", or tenements, within the East Side.[32]: 14–15  Clusters of these buildings were constructed by the Astor family and Stephen Whitney.[36] The developers rarely involved themselves with the daily operations of the tenements, instead subcontracting landlords (many of them immigrants or their children) to run each building.[37] Numerous tenements were erected, typically with footprints of 25 by 25 feet (7.6 by 7.6 m), before regulatory legislation was passed in the 1860s.[36]

To address concerns about unsafe and unsanitary conditions, a second set of laws was passed in 1879, requiring each room to have windows, resulting in the creation of air shafts between each building. Subsequent tenements built to the law's specifications were referred to as Old Law Tenements.[38][39] Reform movements, such as the one started by Jacob Riis's 1890 book How the Other Half Lives, continued to attempt to alleviate the problems of the area through settlement houses, such as the Henry Street Settlement, and other welfare and service agencies.[12]: 769–770 

Because most of the new immigrants were German speakers, the East Village and the Lower East Side collectively became known as "Little Germany" (German: Kleindeutschland).[34]: 29 [40][41][42] The neighborhood had the third largest urban population of Germans outside of Vienna and Berlin. It was America's first foreign language neighborhood; hundreds of political, social, sports and recreational clubs were set up during this period.[40] Numerous churches were built in the neighborhood, of which many are still extant.[38] In addition, Little Germany also had its own library on Second Avenue,[41] now the New York Public Library's Ottendorfer branch.[43] However, the community started to decline after the sinking of the General Slocum on June 15, 1904, in which more than a thousand German-Americans died.[41][44]

The Germans who moved out of the area were replaced by immigrants of many different nationalities.[45] This included groups of Italians and Eastern European Jews, as well as Greeks, Hungarians, Poles, Romanians, Russians, Slovaks and Ukrainians, each of whom settled in relatively homogeneous enclaves.[12]: 769–770  In How the Other Half Lives Riis wrote: "A map of the city, colored to designate nationalities, would show more stripes than on the skin of a zebra, and more colors than any rainbow."[39]: 20 

One of the first groups to populate the former Little Germany were Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazi Jews, who first settled south of Houston Street before moving northward.[46] The Roman Catholic Poles as well as the Protestant Hungarians would also have a significant impact in the East Side, erecting houses of worship next to each other along 7th Street at the turn of the 20th century. American-born New Yorkers would build other churches and community institutions, including the Olivet Memorial Church at 59 East 2nd Street (built 1891), the Middle Collegiate Church at 112 Second Avenue (built 1891–1892), and the Society of the Music School Settlement, now Third Street Music School Settlement, at 53–55 East 3rd Street (converted 1903–1904).[47]

By the 1890s tenements were being designed in the ornate Queen Anne and Romanesque Revival styles. Tenements built in the later part of the decade were built in the Renaissance Revival style.[48] At the time, the area was increasingly being identified as part of the Lower East Side.[49]

20th century

See also: Yiddish Theatre District
 
The Village East Cinema/Louis N. Jaffe Theater was originally a Jewish theater.

By the 1890s and 1900s any remaining manors on Second Avenue had been demolished and replaced with tenements or apartment buildings.[50] The New York State Tenement House Act of 1901 drastically changed the regulations to which tenement buildings had to conform.[50][51] The early 20th century marked the creation of apartment houses,[52] office buildings,[53] and other commercial or institutional structures on Second Avenue.[54] After the widening of Second Avenue's roadbed in the early 1910s, many of the front stoops on that road were eliminated.[55] The symbolic demise of the old fashionable district came in 1912 when the last resident moved out of the Thomas E. Davis mansion at Second Avenue and St. Mark's Place, which The New York Times had called the "last fashionable residence" on Second Avenue.[56]

Simultaneously with the decline of the last manors, the Yiddish Theatre District or "Yiddish Rialto" developed within the East Side. It contained many theaters and other forms of entertainment for the Jewish immigrants of the city.[57][58] While most of the early Yiddish theaters were located south of Houston Street, several theater producers were considering moving north along Second Avenue by the first decades of the 20th century.[59]

Second Avenue gained more prominence as a Yiddish theater destination in the 1910s with the opening of two theatres: the Second Avenue Theatre, which opened in 1911 at 35–37 Second Avenue,[60] and the National Theater, which opened in 1912 at 111–117 East Houston Street.[61] This was followed by the opening of several other theaters, such as the Louis N. Jaffe Theater and the Public Theatre in 1926 and 1927 respectively. Numerous movie houses also opened in the East Side, including six on Second Avenue.[62] By World War I the district's theaters hosted as many as twenty to thirty shows a night.[58] After World War II Yiddish theater became less popular,[63] and by the mid-1950s few theaters were still extant in the District.[64]

The city built First Houses on the south side of East 3rd Street between First Avenue and Avenue A, and on the west side of Avenue A between East 2nd and East 3rd Streets in 1935–1936, the first such public housing project in the United States.[12]: 769–770 [65]: 1  The neighborhood originally ended at the East River, to the east of where Avenue D was later located. In the mid-20th-century, landfill – including World War II debris and rubble shipped from London – was used to extend the shoreline to provide foundation for the Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive.[66]

In the mid-20th century Ukrainians created a Ukrainian enclave in the neighborhood, centered around Second Avenue and 6th and 7th Streets.[67][68] The Polish enclave in the East Village persisted as well. Numerous other immigrant groups had moved out, and their former churches were sold and became Orthodox cathedrals.[67] Latin American immigrants started to move to the East Side, settling in the eastern part of the neighborhood and creating an enclave that later came to be known as Loisaida.[69][70][71]

 
St. Nicholas Kirche at East 2nd Street, just west of Avenue A. The church and almost all buildings on the street were demolished in 1960 and replaced with parking lots for the Village View Houses.[72]

The East Side's population started to decline at the start of the Great Depression in the 1930s and the implementation of the Immigration Act of 1924, and the expansion of the New York City Subway into the outer boroughs.[73] Many old tenements, deemed to be "blighted" and unnecessary, were destroyed in the middle of the 20th century.[74] A substantial portion of the neighborhood, including the Ukrainian enclave, was slated for demolition under the Cooper Square Urban Renewal Plan of 1956, which was to redevelop the area from Ninth to Delancey Streets from the Bowery/Third Avenue to Chrystie Street/Second Avenue with new privately owned cooperative housing.[74][75]

The United Housing Foundation was selected as the sponsor for the project,[76] and there was significant opposition to the plan, as it would have displaced thousands of people.[77] Neither the original large-scale development nor a 1961 revised proposal were implemented and the city's government lost interest in performing such large-scale slum-clearance projects.[78] Another redevelopment project that was completed was the Village View Houses on First Avenue between East 2nd and 6th Streets, which opened in 1964[78] partially on the site of the old St. Nicholas Kirche.[72]

Rebranding and cultural scene

Initial rebranding

Until the mid-20th century the area was simply the northern part of the Lower East Side, with a similar culture of immigrant, working-class life. In the 1950s and 1960s the migration of Beatniks into the neighborhood later attracted hippies, musicians, writers, and artists who had been priced out of the rapidly gentrifying Greenwich Village.[2][78][79]: 254  Among the first displaced Greenwich Villagers to move to the area were writers Allen Ginsberg, W. H. Auden, and Norman Mailer, who all moved to the area in 1951–1953.[79]: 258 

A cluster of cooperative art galleries on East 10th Street (later collectively referred to as the 10th Street galleries) were opened around the same time, starting with the Tanger and the Hansa which both opened in 1952.[78][80] Further change came in 1955 when the Third Avenue elevated railway above the Bowery and Third Avenue was removed.[78][81] This in turn made the neighborhood more attractive to potential residents; in 1960 The New York Times reported: "This area is gradually becoming recognized as an extension of Greenwich Village ... thereby extending New York's Bohemia from river to river."[78][82]

The 1960 Times article stated that rental agents were increasingly referring to the area as "Village East" or "East Village".[82] The new name was used to dissociate the area from the image of slums evoked by the Lower East Side. According to The New York Times, a 1964 guide called Earl Wilson's New York wrote: "Artists, poets and promoters of coffeehouses from Greenwich Village are trying to remelt the neighborhood under the high-sounding name of 'East Village'."[2] Newcomers and real estate brokers popularized the new name, and the term was adopted by the popular media by the mid-1960s.[83]: ch. 5  A weekly newspaper with the neighborhood's new name, The East Village Other, started publication in 1966. The New York Times declared that the neighborhood "had come to be known" as the East Village in the edition of June 5, 1967.[2]

Growth

 
The Phyllis Anderson Theater, one of several theaters that were originally Yiddish theaters

The East Village became a center of the counterculture in New York, and was the birthplace and historical home of many artistic movements, including punk rock[84] and the Nuyorican literary movement.[85] Multiple former Yiddish theaters were converted for use by Off-Broadway shows: for instance, the Public Theater at 66 Second Avenue became the Phyllis Anderson Theater.[78] Numerous buildings on East 4th Street hosted Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway productions, including the Royal Playhouse, the Fourth Street Theatre, the Downtown Theatre, the La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, and the Truck & Warehouse Theater just on the block between Bowery and Second Avenue.[67][82]

By the 1970s and 1980s the city in general was in decline and nearing bankruptcy, especially after the 1975 New York City fiscal crisis.[69] Residential buildings in the East Village suffered from high levels of neglect, as property owners did not properly maintain their buildings.[83]: 191–194  The city purchased many of these buildings, but was also unable to maintain them due to a lack of funds.[69] Following the publication of a revised Cooper Square renewal plan in 1986,[86] some properties were given to the Cooper Square Mutual Housing Association as part of a 1991 agreement.[86][87]

In spite of the deterioration of the structures within the East Village, its music and arts scenes were doing well. By the 1970s gay dance halls and punk rock clubs had started to open in the neighborhood.[86] These included the Fillmore East Music Hall (later a gay private nightclub called The Saint), which was located in a movie theater at 105 Second Avenue.[86][79]: 264  The Phyllis Anderson Theatre was converted into Second Avenue Theater, an annex of the CBGB music club, and hosted musicians and bands such as Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, and the Talking Heads. The Pyramid Club, which opened in 1979 at 101 Avenue A, hosted musical acts such as Nirvana and Red Hot Chili Peppers, as well as drag performers such as RuPaul and Ann Magnuson.[86] In addition, there were more than a hundred art galleries in the East Village by the mid-1980s. These included Patti Astor and Bill Stelling's Fun Gallery at 11th Street, as well as numerous galleries on 7th Street.[86]

Decline

By 1987 the visual arts scene was in decline.[88] Many of these art galleries relocated to more profitable neighborhoods such as SoHo, or closed altogether.[89][86] The arts scene had become a victim of its own success, since the popularity of the art galleries had revived the East Village's real estate market.[90]

 
A wall in the East Village in 1998, featuring a mural of two men

One club that tried to resurrect the neighborhood's past artistic prominence was Mo Pitkins' House of Satisfaction, part-owned by comedian Jimmy Fallon before it closed in 2007.[91] A Fordham University study, examining the decline of the East Village performance and art scene, stated that "the young, liberal culture that once found its place on the Manhattan side of the East River" has shifted in part to new neighborhoods like Williamsburg in Brooklyn.[92][93] There are still some performance spaces, such as Sidewalk Cafe on 6th Street and Avenue A, where downtown acts find space to exhibit their talent, as well as the poetry clubs Bowery Poetry Club and Nuyorican Poets Café.[94]

Gentrification, preservation, and present day

In the late 20th and early 21st centuries the East Village became gentrified as a result of real-estate price increases following the success of the arts scene.[95][90] In the 1970s rents were extremely low and the neighborhood was considered among the last places in Manhattan where many people would want to live.[96] However, as early as 1983, the Times reported that because of the influx of artists, many longtime establishments and immigrants were being forced to leave the East Village due to rising rents.[97] By the following year, young professionals constituted a large portion of the neighborhood's demographics.[96] Even so, crimes remained prevalent and there were often drug deals being held openly in Tompkins Square Park.[98]

Tensions over gentrification resulted in the 1988 Tompkins Square Park riot, which occurred following opposition to a proposed curfew that had targeted the park's homeless. The aftermath of the riot slowed down the gentrification process somewhat as real estate prices declined.[99] By the end of the 20th century, however, real estate prices had resumed their rapid rise. About half of the East Village's stores had opened within the decade since the riot, while vacancy rates in that period had dropped from 20% to 3%, indicating that many of the longtime merchants had been pushed out.[100]

By the early 21st century some buildings in the area were torn down and replaced by newer buildings.[101] One example of this was in 2010, when actor David Schwimmer bought an 1852 townhouse on 6th Street and completely rebuilt it, despite having received several notices of its possible landmark status.[102]

Rezoning

Due to the gentrification of the neighborhood, parties including the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation (GVSHP), Manhattan Community Board 3, the East Village Community Coalition, and City Councilmember Rosie Mendez, began calling for a change to the area's zoning in the first decade of the 21st century. The city first released a draft in July 2006, which concerned an area bounded by East 13th Street on the north, Third Avenue on the west, Delancey Street on the south, and Avenue D on the east.[103][104] The rezoning proposal was done in response to concerns about the character and scale of some of the new buildings in the neighborhood.[105] Despite protests and accusations of promoting gentrification and increased property values over the area's history and need for affordable housing, the rezoning was approved in 2008.[105] Among other things, The zoning established height limits for new development throughout the affected area, modified allowable density of real estate, capped air rights transfers, eliminated the current zoning bonus for dorms and hotels, and created incentives for the creation and retention of affordable housing.[106]

Landmark efforts

 
"Extra Place", an obscure side street off of East 1st Street, just east of the Bowery

Local community groups such as the GVSHP are actively working to gain individual and district landmark designations for the East Village to preserve and protect the architectural and cultural identity of the neighborhood.[107] In early 2011 the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) proposed two East Village historic districts: a small district along the block of 10th Street that lies north of Tompkins Square Park, and a larger district focused around lower Second Avenue.[108] before later being expanded.[109] In January 2012 the East 10th Street Historic District was designated by the LPC,[110][111] and that October, the larger East Village/Lower East Side Historic District was also designated by the LPC.[112]

Several notable buildings are designated as individual landmarks, some due to the GVSHP's efforts. These include:

 
East 5th Street between Second Avenue and Cooper Square is a typical side street in the heart of the East Village.

Landmark efforts have included a number of losses as well. Despite the request of GVSHP and allied groups in 2012 for landmarking of Mary Help of Christians school, church and rectory, the site was demolished starting in 2013.[124] In 2011 an early 19th-century Federal house at 35 Cooper Square – one of the oldest on the Bowery and in the East Village – was approved for demolition to make way for a college dorm.[125] over requests of community groups and elected officials.[126] Furthermore, the LPC acts on no particular schedule, leaving open indefinitely some "calendared" requests for designation.[127] Sometimes it simply declines requests for consideration, as it did regarding an intact Italianate tenement at 143 East 13th Street.[128] In other cases the LPC has refused the expansion of existing historic districts, as in 2016 when it declined to add 264 East 7th Street (the former home of illustrator Felicia Bond) and four neighboring rowhouses to the East Village/Lower East Side Historic District.[129]

2015 gas explosion

Main article: 2015 East Village gas explosion

On March 26, 2015, a gas explosion occurred on Second Avenue after a gas line was tapped.[130] The explosion and resulting fire destroyed three buildings at 119, 121 and 123 Second Avenue, between East 7th Street and St. Marks Place. Two people were killed, and at least twenty-two people were injured, four critically.[131] Three restaurants were also destroyed in the explosion.[132] Landlord Maria Hrynenko and an unlicensed plumber and another employee were sentenced to prison time for their part in causing the explosion in New York State Supreme Court. Ms. Hrynenko allowed an illegal gas line to be constructed on her property.[133]

Geography

Neighboring the East Village are the Lower East Side to the south, NoHo to the west, Stuyvesant Park to the northwest, and Stuyvesant Town to the northeast. The East Village contains several smaller vibrant communities, each with its own character.[134]

Subsections

Alphabet City

Main article: Alphabet City, Manhattan
 
A Loisaida street fair in 2008
 
St. Marks Place is a major shopping street, with many businesses that cater to the tourist trade.

Alphabet City is the eastern section of the East Village that is so named because it contains avenues with single-lettered names, e.g. Avenues A, B, C, and D. It is bordered by Houston Street to the south and 14th Street to the north. Notable places within Alphabet City include Tompkins Square Park and the Nuyorican Poets Café.[70][135][136] Alphabet City also contains St. Marks Place, the continuation of Eighth Street between Third Avenue and Avenue A. The street contains a Japanese street culture; an aged punk culture and CBGB's new store; the former location of one of New York City's only Automats;[137] and a portion of the "Mosaic Trail", a trail of eighty mosaic-encrusted lampposts that runs from Broadway down Eighth Street to Avenue A, to Fourth Street and then back to Eighth Street.[138]

Alphabet City was once the archetype of a dangerous New York City neighborhood. Its turn-around was cause for The New York Times to observe in 2005 that Alphabet City went "from a drug-infested no man's land to the epicenter of downtown cool".[139] This part of the neighborhood has long been an ethnic enclave for Manhattan's German, Polish, Hispanic, and Jewish populations. Crime went up in the area in the late 20th century but then declined in the 21st, as the area became gentrified.[140] Alphabet City's alternate name Loisaida, which is also used as the alternate name for Avenue C, is a term derived from the Latino, and especially Nuyorican, pronunciation of "Lower East Side". The term was originally coined by poet/activist Bittman "Bimbo" Rivas in his 1974 poem "Loisaida".[71][141]

Bowery

Main article: Bowery
 
Once synonymous with "Bowery Bums", the Bowery area has become a magnet for luxury condominiums as the East Village neighborhood's rapid gentrification continues.

The Bowery was once known for its many homeless shelters, drug rehabilitation centers and bars. The phrase "on the Bowery", which has since fallen into disuse, was a generic way to say one was down-and-out.[142] By the 21st century the Bowery had become a boulevard with new luxury condominiums. Redevelopment of the avenue from flophouses to luxury condominiums has met resistance from long-term residents, who agree the neighborhood has improved but its unique, gritty character is disappearing.[143] The Bowery has also become an area with a diverse artistic community. It is the location of the Bowery Poetry Club, where artists Amiri Baraka and Taylor Mead have held regular readings and performances,[144] and until 2006 was home to the punk–rock nightclub CBGB.[145]

Little Ukraine

 
Taras Shevchenko Place, with St. George's Church on the north side and St. George Academy on the south side

Little Ukraine is an ethnic enclave in the East Village, which has served as a spiritual, political and cultural epicenter for several waves of Ukrainian Americans in New York City as far back as the late 19th century.[146]

At the beginning of the 20th century, Ukrainian immigrants began moving into areas previously dominated by fellow Eastern European and Galician Jews, as well as the Lower East Side's German enclave. After World War II, the Ukrainian population of the neighborhood reached 60,000,[68] but as with the city's Little Italy, today the neighborhood consists of only a few Ukrainian stores and restaurants. Today, the East Village between Houston and 14th Street, and Third Avenue and Avenue A[147] still houses nearly a third of New York City's Ukrainian population.[148]

Several churches, including St. George's Catholic Church; Ukrainian restaurants and butcher shops; The Ukrainian Museum; the Shevchenko Scientific Society; and the Ukrainian Cultural Center are evidence of the impact of this culture on the area.[149] The gallery American Painting, located on E. 6th Street during 2004–2009, presented a painting exhibition by artists Andrei Kushnir and Michele Martin Taylor titled "East Village Afternoon" depicting many of these sites.[150]

Since the early 20th century, St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church has served as the anchor of Little Ukraine, offering daily liturgies and penances, and operating the adjoining St. George Academy, a coeducational parochial school. Starting in 1976 the church has sponsored an annual Ukrainian Heritage Festival, regularly described as one of the few remaining authentic New York City street fairs.[151] In April 1978 the New York City Council renamed Taras Shevchenko Place, a small connecting street between East 7th and 6th Streets, after Taras Shevchenko, Ukraine's national bard.[152]

Political representation

 
1st Avenue, looking north at 10th Street

Politically, the East Village is in New York's 7th and 12th congressional districts.[153][154] It is also in the New York State Senate's 27th and 28th districts,[155][156] the New York State Assembly's 65th, 66th, and 74th districts,[157][158] and the New York City Council's 1st and 2nd districts.[159]

Demographics

Based on data from the 2010 United States Census, the population of the East Village was 44,136, a change of 2,390 (5.4%) from the 41,746 counted in 2000. Covering an area of 250.02 acres (101.18 ha), the neighborhood had a population density of 176.5 inhabitants per acre (113,000/sq mi; 43,600/km2).[160] The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 65.5% (28,888) White, 3.9% (1,743) African American, 0.1% (64) Native American, 14.9% (6,560) Asian, 0% (22) Pacific Islander, 0.4% (182) from other races, and 2.8% (1,214) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 12.4% (5,463) of the population.[4]

The entirety of Community District 3, which comprises the East Village and the Lower East Side, had 171,103 inhabitants as of NYC Health's 2018 Community Health Profile, with an average life expectancy of 82.2 years.[161] This is higher than the median life expectancy of 81.2 for all New York City neighborhoods.[162]: 53 (PDF p. 84) [163] Most inhabitants are adults: a plurality (35%) are between the ages of 25–44, while 25% are between 45 and 64, and 16% are 65 or older. The ratio of youth and college-aged residents was lower, at 13% and 11% respectively.[164]

As of 2017 the median household income in Community District 3 was $39,584,[165] though the median income in the East Village individually was $74,265.[3] In 2018 an estimated 18% of East Village and Lower East Side residents lived in poverty, compared to 14% in all of Manhattan and 20% in all of New York City. One in twelve residents (8%) were unemployed, compared to 7% in Manhattan and 9% in New York City. Rent burden, or the percentage of residents who have difficulty paying their rent, is 48% in the East Village and the Lower East Side, compared to the boroughwide and citywide rates of 45% and 51% respectively. Based on this calculation, as of 2018, the East Village and the Lower East Side are considered to be gentrifying.[166]

Culture

Hare Krishnas

On October 9, 1966, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, held the first recorded outdoor chanting session of the Hare Krishna mantra outside the Indian subcontinent at Tompkins Square Park.[167] This is considered the founding of the Hare Krishna religion in the United States, and the large tree close to the center of the Park is demarcated as a special religious site for Krishna adherents.[167]

Cultural institutions

Neighborhood festivals

 
Sherry Vine and Joey Arias during the 2009 HOWL! Festival

Parks and gardens

Large parks

 
Tompkins Square Park is the recreational and geographic heart of the East Village. It has historically been a part of counterculture, protest and riots.

Tompkins Square Park is a 10.5-acre (4.2 ha) public park in the Alphabet City section of the East Village. It is bounded on the north by 10th Street, on the east by Avenue B, on the south by 7th Street, and on the west by Avenue A.[178] Tompkins Square Park contains a baseball field, basketball courts, and two playgrounds.[179] It also contains the city's first dog run, which is a social scene unto itself.[180] The park has been the site of numerous events and riots:

  • On January 13, 1874, a riot broke out after the New York City Police Department clashed with a demonstration involving thousands of unemployed civilians.[181]
  • On July 25, 1877, during the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, twenty thousand people gathered in the park to hear communist orators speak. New York City police and National Guardsmen eventually charged the crowd with billy clubs, later claiming that the rally was not being held in a peaceful manner. In the wake of this "riot" the city, in conjunction with the War Department, established an official city armory program led by the 7th Regiment.[182]
  • On August 6–7, 1988, a riot broke out between police and groups of "drug pushers, homeless people and young people known as 'skinheads'" who had largely taken over the park. The neighborhood was divided about what, if anything, should be done about it.[183] Manhattan Community Board 3 adopted a curfew for the previously 24-hour park in an attempt to bring it under control.[184] A rally against the curfew resulted in several clashes between protesters and police.[185]

East River Park is 57 acres (23 ha) and runs between the FDR Drive and the East River from Montgomery Street to East 12th Street. It was designed in the 1930s by parks commissioner Robert Moses, who wanted to ensure there was parkland along the Lower East Side shorefront.[186] The park includes football, baseball, and soccer fields; tennis, basketball, and handball courts; a running track; and bike paths, including the East River Greenway.[187]

Community gardens

There are reportedly more than 640 community gardens in New York City – gardens run by local collectives within the neighborhood who are responsible for the gardens' upkeep – and an estimated ten percent of those are located on the Lower East Side and the East Village alone.[188] Development of these community gardens, often on municipally owned land, started in the early 1970s. Although many of these lots were later sold to private developers, others were taken over by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, which preserves the gardens under its ownership.[66]

Open Road Park, a former cemetery and bus depot, is a garden and a playground adjacent to East Side Community High School between 11th and 12th Streets east of First Avenue.[189]

The Avenue B and 6th Street Community Garden was known for a now-removed outdoor sculpture, the Tower of Toys, designed by artist and long-time garden groundskeeper Eddie Boros.[190] It was a 65-foot-tall (20 m) makeshift structure made of wooden planks, from which were suspended an amalgamation of fanciful objects.[191] The tower was a neighborhood icon, having appeared in the opening credits for the television show NYPD Blue and also appears in the musical Rent.[190] It was also controversial: some viewed it as a masterpiece, while others as an eyesore.[190][192] The tower was dismantled in May 2008 because, according to parks commissioner Adrian Benepe, it was rotting and thus a safety hazard. Its removal was seen by some as a symbol of the neighborhood's fading past.[193]

The Toyota Children's Learning Garden at 603 East 11th Street is technically a learning garden rather than a community garden. Designed by landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh, the garden opened in May 2008 as part of the New York Restoration Project and is designed to teach children about plants.[194]

La Plaza Cultural de Armando Perez is a community garden, open-air theater, and green space at 9th Street and Avenue C. Founded in 1976, the garden continues to operate as of 2019,[195] despite having been proposed for redevelopment multiple times.[196]

Marble cemeteries

 
A production of John Reed's All the World's a Grave in the New York Marble Cemetery, which does not contain headstones

On the block bounded by Bowery, Second Avenue, and 2nd and 3rd Streets, is the oldest public cemetery in New York City not affiliated with any religion, the New York Marble Cemetery.[30]: 1 [197] Established in 1830,[30]: 1  it is open the fourth Sunday of every month.[198]

The similarly named New York City Marble Cemetery, located on 2nd Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue, is the second oldest nonsectarian cemetery in New York City. The cemetery opened in 1831.[29]: 1  Notable people interred there include U.S. President James Monroe; Stephen Allen, mayor (1821–1824); James Lenox, whose personal library became part of the New York Public Library; Isaac Varian, mayor (1839–1841); Marinus Willet, Revolutionary War hero; and Preserved Fish, a well-known merchant.[199]

Police and crime

East Village is patrolled by the 9th Precinct of the NYPD, located at 321 East 5th Street.[200] The 9th Precinct ranked 58th safest out of 69 patrol areas for per-capita crime in 2010.[201] As of 2018, with a non-fatal assault rate of 42 per 100,000 people, Community District 3's rate of violent crimes per capita is less than that of the city as a whole. The incarceration rate of 449 per 100,000 people is higher than that of the city as a whole.[202]

The 9th Precinct has a lower crime rate than in the 1990s, with crimes across all categories having decreased by 79.5% between 1990 and 2019. The precinct reported 3 murders, 15 rapes, 119 robberies, 171 felony assaults, 122 burglaries, 760 grand larcenies, and 37 grand larcenies auto in 2019.[203]

Fire safety

 
Ladder Co. 3/Battalion 6

East Village is served by four New York City Fire Department (FDNY) fire stations:[204]

  • Ladder Co. 3/Battalion 6 – 103 East 13th Street[205]
  • Engine Co. 5 – 340 East 14th Street[206]
  • Engine Co. 28/Ladder Co. 11 – 222 East 2nd Street[207]
  • Engine Co. 33/Ladder Co. 9 – 42 Great Jones Street[208]

Health

As of 2018, preterm births and births to teenage mothers are less common in the East Village and the Lower East Side than in other places citywide. In the East Village and the Lower East Side, there were 82 preterm births per 1,000 live births (compared to 87 per 1,000 citywide), and 10.1 teenage births per 1,000 live births (compared to 19.3 per 1,000 citywide).[209] The East Village and the Lower East Side have a low population of residents who are uninsured. In 2018 this population of uninsured residents was estimated to be 11%, slightly less than the citywide rate of 12%.[210]

The concentration of fine particulate matter, the deadliest type of air pollutant, in the East Village and the Lower East Side is 0.0089 milligrams per cubic metre (8.9×10−9 oz/cu ft), more than the city average.[211] Twenty percent of East Village and Lower East Side residents are smokers, which is more than the city average of 14% of residents being smokers.[212] In the East Village and the Lower East Side, 10% of residents are obese, 11% are diabetic, and 22% have high blood pressure – compared to the citywide averages of 24%, 11%, and 28% respectively.[213] In addition, 16% of children are obese, compared to the citywide average of 20%.[214]

Eighty-eight percent of residents eat some fruits and vegetables every day, which is about the same as the city's average of 87%. In 2018, 70% of residents described their health as "good", "very good", or "excellent", less than the city's average of 78%.[212] For every supermarket in the East Village and the Lower East Side, there are eighteen bodegas.[215]

The nearest major hospitals are Beth Israel Medical Center in Stuyvesant Town, as well as the Bellevue Hospital Center and NYU Langone Medical Center in Kips Bay, and NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital in the Civic Center area.[216][217]

Post offices and ZIP Codes

 
USPS Cooper Station post office

East Village is located within two primary ZIP Codes. The area east of First Avenue including Alphabet City is part of 10009, while the area west of First Avenue is part of 10003.[218] The United States Postal Service operates three post offices in the East Village:

  • Cooper Station – 93 Fourth Avenue[219]
  • Peter Stuyvesant Station – 335 East 14th Street[220]
  • Tompkins Square Station – 244 East 3rd Street[221]

Education

East Village and the Lower East Side generally have a higher rate of college-educated residents than the rest of the city as of 2018. A plurality of residents age 25 and older (48%) have a college education or higher, while 24% have less than a high school education and 28% are high school graduates or have some college education. By contrast, 64% of Manhattan residents and 43% of city residents have a college education or higher.[222] The percentage of East Village and the Lower East Side students excelling in math rose from 61% in 2000 to 80% in 2011, and reading achievement increased from 66% to 68% during the same time period.[223]

East Village and the Lower East Side's rate of elementary school student absenteeism is lower than the rest of New York City. In the East Village and the Lower East Side, 16% of elementary school students missed twenty or more days per school year, less than the citywide average of 20%.[222][162]: 24 (PDF p. 55)  Additionally, 77% of high school students in the East Village and the Lower East Side graduate on time, more than the citywide average of 75%.[222]

Schools

The New York City Department of Education operates public schools in the East Village as part of Community School District 1.[224] District 1 does not contain any zoned schools, which means that students living in District 1 can apply to any school in the district, including those in the Lower East Side.[225][226]

The following public elementary schools are located in the East Village and serve grades PK–5 unless otherwise indicated:[224]

  • PS 15 Roberto Clemente[227]
  • PS 19 Asher Levy[228]
  • PS 34 Franklin D Roosevelt (grades PK–8)[229]
  • PS 63 STAR Academy[230]
  • PS 64 Robert Simon[231]
  • PS 94 (grades K–8)[232]
  • PS 188 The Island School (grades PK–8)[233]
  • Earth School[234]
  • Neighborhood School[235]
  • The Children's Workshop School[236]
  • The East Village Community School[237]

The following middle and high schools are located in the East Village:[224]

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York operates Catholic schools in Manhattan. St. Brigid School in the East Village closed in 2019.[241]

The following independent schools are located in the East Village:

  • The New Amsterdam School (Waldorf)[242]

Libraries

 
New York Public Library, Ottendorfer branch

The New York Public Library (NYPL) operates three branches near the East Village.

Colleges

New York University

Along with gentrification, the East Village has seen an increase in the number of buildings owned and maintained by New York University, particularly dormitories for undergraduate students, and this influx has given rise to conflict between the community and the university.[245]

St. Ann's Church, a rusticated-stone structure with a Romanesque Revival tower on East 12th Street that dated to 1847, was sold to NYU to make way for a 26-story, 700-bed dormitory. After community protest, the university promised to protect and maintain the church's original facade; and so it did, literally, by having the facade stand alone in front of the building, now the tallest structure in the area.[245] According to many residents, NYU's alteration and demolition of historic buildings, such as the Peter Cooper Post Office, is spoiling the physical and socio-economic landscape that makes this neighborhood so interesting and attractive.[246]

NYU has often been at odds with residents of both the East and West Villages due to its expansive development plans; urban preservationist Jane Jacobs battled the school in the 1960s.[247] "She spoke of how universities and hospitals often had a special kind of hubris reflected in the fact that they often thought it was OK to destroy a neighborhood to suit their needs," said Andrew Berman of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation.[248]

Cooper Union

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, founded in 1859 by entrepreneur and philanthropist Peter Cooper and located on Cooper Square,[249] was, as of 2008, one of the most selective colleges in the world,[250] and formerly offered tuition-free programs in engineering, art and architecture.[251][252] Its Great Hall has been used for several notable speeches, such as Abraham Lincoln's Cooper Union speech,[253][254] and its New Academic Building is the first in New York City to achieve LEED Platinum status.[255]

Transportation

The nearest New York City Subway stations are Second Avenue (F and <F>​ trains), Astor Place (6 and <6>​ trains), Eighth Street–New York University (N, ​R, and ​W trains), and First Avenue (L train).[256] Phase 3 of the Second Avenue Subway is planned to establish two stations on 2nd Avenue, one on 14th Street and one on Houston Street.[257] Bus routes serving the area include the M1, M2, M3, M8, M9, M14A SBS, M14D SBS, M15, M15 SBS, M21, M101, M102 and M103.[258]

Media

Notable residents

 
Punk rock icon and writer Richard Hell still lives in the same apartment in Alphabet City that he has had since the 1970s.
 
Miss Understood stops an M15 bus in front of the Lucky Cheng's restaurant at 2nd Street on First Avenue.
 
Lotti Golden, Lower East Side, 1968

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east, village, manhattan, east, village, neighborhood, east, side, lower, manhattan, york, city, roughly, defined, area, east, bowery, third, avenue, between, 14th, street, north, houston, street, south, east, village, contains, three, subsections, alphabet, c. The East Village is a neighborhood on the East Side of Lower Manhattan in New York City It is roughly defined as the area east of the Bowery and Third Avenue between 14th Street on the north and Houston Street on the south 2 The East Village contains three subsections Alphabet City in reference to the single letter named avenues that are located to the east of First Avenue Little Ukraine near Second Avenue and 6th and 7th Streets and the Bowery located around the street of the same name East VillageNeighborhood of ManhattanSecond Avenue and 6th Street facing south Location in New York CityCoordinates 40 43 41 N 73 59 10 W 40 728 N 73 986 W 40 728 73 986 Coordinates 40 43 41 N 73 59 10 W 40 728 N 73 986 W 40 728 73 986Country United StatesState New YorkCityNew York CityBoroughManhattanCommunity DistrictManhattan 3 1 Named1960s 2 Area 3 Total1 99 km2 0 768 sq mi Population 2016 3 Total63 347 Density32 000 km2 82 000 sq mi Ethnicity 4 White65 5 Asian14 9 Hispanic12 4 Black3 9 Other3 3Economics 3 Median income 74 265Time zoneUTC 5 Eastern Summer DST UTC 4 EDT ZIP Codes10003 10009Area code s 212 332 646 and 917Initially the location of the present day East Village was occupied by the Lenape Native Americans and was then divided into plantations by Dutch settlers During the early 19th century the East Village contained many of the city s most opulent estates By the middle of the century it grew to include a large immigrant population including what was once referred to as Manhattan s Little Germany and was considered part of the nearby Lower East Side By the late 1960s many artists musicians students and hippies began to move into the area and the East Village was given its own identity Since at least the 2000s gentrification has changed the character of the neighborhood 5 The East Village is part of Manhattan Community District 3 and its primary ZIP Codes are 10003 and 10009 1 It is patrolled by the 9th Precinct of the New York City Police Department Contents 1 History 1 1 Early development 1 2 Upscale neighborhood 1 3 Immigrant neighborhood 1 3 1 19th century 1 3 2 20th century 1 4 Rebranding and cultural scene 1 4 1 Initial rebranding 1 4 2 Growth 1 4 3 Decline 1 5 Gentrification preservation and present day 1 5 1 Rezoning 1 5 2 Landmark efforts 1 5 3 2015 gas explosion 2 Geography 2 1 Subsections 2 1 1 Alphabet City 2 1 2 Bowery 2 1 3 Little Ukraine 2 2 Political representation 3 Demographics 4 Culture 4 1 Hare Krishnas 4 2 Cultural institutions 4 3 Neighborhood festivals 5 Parks and gardens 5 1 Large parks 5 2 Community gardens 5 3 Marble cemeteries 6 Police and crime 7 Fire safety 8 Health 9 Post offices and ZIP Codes 10 Education 10 1 Schools 10 2 Libraries 10 3 Colleges 10 3 1 New York University 10 3 2 Cooper Union 11 Transportation 12 Media 13 Notable residents 14 See also 15 References 15 1 Notes 15 2 Bibliography 16 External linksHistory EditEarly development Edit Stuyvesant Street one of the neighborhood s oldest streets in front of St Mark s Church in the Bowery This street served as the boundary between boweries 1 and 2 owned by Peter Stuyvesant The area that is today known as the East Village was originally occupied by the Lenape Native Americans 6 The Lenape relocated during different seasons moving toward the shore to fish during the summers and moving inland to hunt and grow crops during the fall and winter 7 Manhattan was purchased in 1626 by Peter Minuit of the Dutch West India Company who served as director general of New Netherland 8 9 The population of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam was located primarily below the current Fulton Street while north of it were a number of small plantations and large farms that were then called bouwerij anglicized to boweries modern Dutch boerderij Around these farms were a number of enclaves of free or half free Africans which served as a buffer between the Dutch and the Native Americans 6 10 One of the largest of these was located along the modern Bowery between Prince Street and Astor Place as well as the only separate enclave of this type within Manhattan 6 11 These black farmers were some of the earliest settlers of the area 12 769 770 There were several boweries within what is now the East Village Bowery no 2 passed through several inhabitants before the eastern half of the land was subdivided and given to Harmen Smeeman in 1647 Peter Stuyvesant the director general of New Netherland owned adjacent bowery no 1 and bought bowery no 2 in 1656 for his farm Stuyvesant s manor also called Bowery was near what is now 10th Street between Second and Third Avenues Though the manor burned down in the 1770s his family held onto the land for over seven generations until a descendant began selling off parcels in the early 19th century 13 14 Bowery no 3 was located near today s 2nd Street between Second Avenue and the modern street named Bowery It was owned by Gerrit Hendricksen in 1646 and later given to Philip Minthorne by 1732 The Minthorne and Stuyvesant families both owned slaves on their farms 14 According to an 1803 deed Stuyvesant s slaves were to be buried in a cemetery plot at St Mark s Church in the Bowery 15 The Stuyvesants estate later expanded to include two Georgian style manors the Bowery House to the south 13 14 and Petersfield to the north 16 17 Many of these farms had become wealthy country estates by the middle of the 18th century The Stuyvesant DeLancey and Rutgers families would come to own most of the land on the Lower East Side including the portions that would later become the East Village 18 By the late 18th century Lower Manhattan estate owners started having their lands surveyed to facilitate the future growth of Lower Manhattan into a street grid system The Stuyvesant plot surveyed in the 1780s or 1790s was planned to be developed with a new grid around Stuyvesant Street a street that ran compass west east This contrasted with the grid system that was ultimately laid out under the Commissioners Plan of 1811 which is offset by 28 9 degrees clockwise Stuyvesant Street formed the border between former boweries 1 and 2 and the grid surrounding it included four north south and nine west east streets 13 14 Because each landowner had done their own survey there were different street grids that did not align with each other Various state laws passed in the 1790s gave the city of New York the ability to plan out open and close streets 16 17 The final plan published in 1811 resulted in the current street grid north of Houston Street and most of the streets in the modern East Village were conformed to this plan except for Stuyvesant Street 19 The north south avenues within the Lower East Side were finished in the 1810s followed by the west east streets in the 1820s 20 Upscale neighborhood Edit Hamilton Holly House Daniel LeRoy HouseTwo of the remaining rowhouses on St Mark s Place Both are city landmarks 21 The Commissioners Plan and resulting street grid was the catalyst for the northward expansion of the city 22 and for a short period the portion of the Lower East Side that is now the East Village was one of the wealthiest residential neighborhoods in the city 23 Bond Street between the Bowery and Broadway just west of the East Side within present day NoHo was considered the most upscale street address in the city by the 1830s 18 with structures such as the Greek Revival style Colonnade Row and Federal style rowhouses 24 17 The neighborhood s prestigious nature could be attributed to several factors including a rise in commerce and population following the Erie Canal s opening in the 1820s 22 Following the grading of the streets development of rowhouses came to the East Side and NoHo by the early 1830s 22 One set of Federal style rowhouses was built in the 1830s by Thomas E Davis on 8th Street between Second and Third Avenues That block was renamed St Mark s Place and is one of the few remaining terrace names in the East Village 25 In 1833 Davis and Arthur Bronson bought the entire block of 10th Street from Avenue A to Avenue B The block was located adjacent to Tompkins Square Park located between 7th and 10th Streets from Avenue A to Avenue B designated the same year 26 Though the park was not in the original Commissioners Plan of 1811 part of the land from 7th to 10th Streets east of First Avenue had been set aside for a marketplace that was ultimately never built 6 Rowhouses up to three stories were built on the side streets by such developers as Elisha Peck and Anson Green Phelps Ephraim H Wentworth and Christopher S Hubbard and Henry H Casey 27 Mansions were also built on the East Side One notable address was the twelve house development called Albion Place located on Fourth Street between the Bowery and Second Avenue built for Peck and Phelps in 1832 1833 24 25 Second Avenue also had its own concentration of mansions though most residences on that avenue were row houses built by speculative land owners including the Isaac T Hopper House 25 28 One New York Evening Post article in 1846 said that Second Avenue was to become one of the two great avenues for elegant residences in Manhattan the other being Fifth Avenue 19 Two marble cemeteries were also built on the East Side the New York City Marble Cemetery built in 1831 on 2nd Street between First and Second Avenues 29 1 and the New York Marble Cemetery built in 1830 within the backlots of the block to the west 30 1 Following the rapid growth of the neighborhood Manhattan s 17th ward was split from the 11th ward in 1837 The former covered the area from Avenue B to the Bowery while the latter covered the area from Avenue B to the East River 31 Immigrant neighborhood Edit 19th century Edit See also Little Germany Manhattan Former German American Shooting Society Clubhouse at 12 St Mark s Place 1885 part of Little Germany By the middle of the 19th century many of the wealthy had continued to move further northward to the Upper West Side and the Upper East Side 32 10 Some wealthy families remained and one observer noted in the 1880s that these families look ed down with disdain upon the parvenus of Fifth avenue 33 In general though the wealthy population of the neighborhood started to decline as many moved northward Immigrants from modern day Ireland Germany and Austria moved into the rowhouses and manors 31 The population of Manhattan s 17th ward which includes the western part of the East Village and Lower East Side grew from 18 000 in 1840 to over 43 000 by 1850 and to 73 000 persons in 1860 becoming the city s most highly populated ward at that time 31 34 29 32 As a result of the Panic of 1837 the city had experienced less construction in the previous years and so there was a dearth of units available for immigrants resulting in the subdivision of many houses in lower Manhattan 31 35 Another solution was brand new tenant houses or tenements within the East Side 32 14 15 Clusters of these buildings were constructed by the Astor family and Stephen Whitney 36 The developers rarely involved themselves with the daily operations of the tenements instead subcontracting landlords many of them immigrants or their children to run each building 37 Numerous tenements were erected typically with footprints of 25 by 25 feet 7 6 by 7 6 m before regulatory legislation was passed in the 1860s 36 To address concerns about unsafe and unsanitary conditions a second set of laws was passed in 1879 requiring each room to have windows resulting in the creation of air shafts between each building Subsequent tenements built to the law s specifications were referred to as Old Law Tenements 38 39 Reform movements such as the one started by Jacob Riis s 1890 book How the Other Half Lives continued to attempt to alleviate the problems of the area through settlement houses such as the Henry Street Settlement and other welfare and service agencies 12 769 770 Because most of the new immigrants were German speakers the East Village and the Lower East Side collectively became known as Little Germany German Kleindeutschland 34 29 40 41 42 The neighborhood had the third largest urban population of Germans outside of Vienna and Berlin It was America s first foreign language neighborhood hundreds of political social sports and recreational clubs were set up during this period 40 Numerous churches were built in the neighborhood of which many are still extant 38 In addition Little Germany also had its own library on Second Avenue 41 now the New York Public Library s Ottendorfer branch 43 However the community started to decline after the sinking of the General Slocum on June 15 1904 in which more than a thousand German Americans died 41 44 The Germans who moved out of the area were replaced by immigrants of many different nationalities 45 This included groups of Italians and Eastern European Jews as well as Greeks Hungarians Poles Romanians Russians Slovaks and Ukrainians each of whom settled in relatively homogeneous enclaves 12 769 770 In How the Other Half Lives Riis wrote A map of the city colored to designate nationalities would show more stripes than on the skin of a zebra and more colors than any rainbow 39 20 One of the first groups to populate the former Little Germany were Yiddish speaking Ashkenazi Jews who first settled south of Houston Street before moving northward 46 The Roman Catholic Poles as well as the Protestant Hungarians would also have a significant impact in the East Side erecting houses of worship next to each other along 7th Street at the turn of the 20th century American born New Yorkers would build other churches and community institutions including the Olivet Memorial Church at 59 East 2nd Street built 1891 the Middle Collegiate Church at 112 Second Avenue built 1891 1892 and the Society of the Music School Settlement now Third Street Music School Settlement at 53 55 East 3rd Street converted 1903 1904 47 By the 1890s tenements were being designed in the ornate Queen Anne and Romanesque Revival styles Tenements built in the later part of the decade were built in the Renaissance Revival style 48 At the time the area was increasingly being identified as part of the Lower East Side 49 20th century Edit See also Yiddish Theatre District The Village East Cinema Louis N Jaffe Theater was originally a Jewish theater By the 1890s and 1900s any remaining manors on Second Avenue had been demolished and replaced with tenements or apartment buildings 50 The New York State Tenement House Act of 1901 drastically changed the regulations to which tenement buildings had to conform 50 51 The early 20th century marked the creation of apartment houses 52 office buildings 53 and other commercial or institutional structures on Second Avenue 54 After the widening of Second Avenue s roadbed in the early 1910s many of the front stoops on that road were eliminated 55 The symbolic demise of the old fashionable district came in 1912 when the last resident moved out of the Thomas E Davis mansion at Second Avenue and St Mark s Place which The New York Times had called the last fashionable residence on Second Avenue 56 Simultaneously with the decline of the last manors the Yiddish Theatre District or Yiddish Rialto developed within the East Side It contained many theaters and other forms of entertainment for the Jewish immigrants of the city 57 58 While most of the early Yiddish theaters were located south of Houston Street several theater producers were considering moving north along Second Avenue by the first decades of the 20th century 59 Second Avenue gained more prominence as a Yiddish theater destination in the 1910s with the opening of two theatres the Second Avenue Theatre which opened in 1911 at 35 37 Second Avenue 60 and the National Theater which opened in 1912 at 111 117 East Houston Street 61 This was followed by the opening of several other theaters such as the Louis N Jaffe Theater and the Public Theatre in 1926 and 1927 respectively Numerous movie houses also opened in the East Side including six on Second Avenue 62 By World War I the district s theaters hosted as many as twenty to thirty shows a night 58 After World War II Yiddish theater became less popular 63 and by the mid 1950s few theaters were still extant in the District 64 The city built First Houses on the south side of East 3rd Street between First Avenue and Avenue A and on the west side of Avenue A between East 2nd and East 3rd Streets in 1935 1936 the first such public housing project in the United States 12 769 770 65 1 The neighborhood originally ended at the East River to the east of where Avenue D was later located In the mid 20th century landfill including World War II debris and rubble shipped from London was used to extend the shoreline to provide foundation for the Franklin D Roosevelt Drive 66 In the mid 20th century Ukrainians created a Ukrainian enclave in the neighborhood centered around Second Avenue and 6th and 7th Streets 67 68 The Polish enclave in the East Village persisted as well Numerous other immigrant groups had moved out and their former churches were sold and became Orthodox cathedrals 67 Latin American immigrants started to move to the East Side settling in the eastern part of the neighborhood and creating an enclave that later came to be known as Loisaida 69 70 71 St Nicholas Kirche at East 2nd Street just west of Avenue A The church and almost all buildings on the street were demolished in 1960 and replaced with parking lots for the Village View Houses 72 The East Side s population started to decline at the start of the Great Depression in the 1930s and the implementation of the Immigration Act of 1924 and the expansion of the New York City Subway into the outer boroughs 73 Many old tenements deemed to be blighted and unnecessary were destroyed in the middle of the 20th century 74 A substantial portion of the neighborhood including the Ukrainian enclave was slated for demolition under the Cooper Square Urban Renewal Plan of 1956 which was to redevelop the area from Ninth to Delancey Streets from the Bowery Third Avenue to Chrystie Street Second Avenue with new privately owned cooperative housing 74 75 The United Housing Foundation was selected as the sponsor for the project 76 and there was significant opposition to the plan as it would have displaced thousands of people 77 Neither the original large scale development nor a 1961 revised proposal were implemented and the city s government lost interest in performing such large scale slum clearance projects 78 Another redevelopment project that was completed was the Village View Houses on First Avenue between East 2nd and 6th Streets which opened in 1964 78 partially on the site of the old St Nicholas Kirche 72 Rebranding and cultural scene Edit Initial rebranding Edit Until the mid 20th century the area was simply the northern part of the Lower East Side with a similar culture of immigrant working class life In the 1950s and 1960s the migration of Beatniks into the neighborhood later attracted hippies musicians writers and artists who had been priced out of the rapidly gentrifying Greenwich Village 2 78 79 254 Among the first displaced Greenwich Villagers to move to the area were writers Allen Ginsberg W H Auden and Norman Mailer who all moved to the area in 1951 1953 79 258 A cluster of cooperative art galleries on East 10th Street later collectively referred to as the 10th Street galleries were opened around the same time starting with the Tanger and the Hansa which both opened in 1952 78 80 Further change came in 1955 when the Third Avenue elevated railway above the Bowery and Third Avenue was removed 78 81 This in turn made the neighborhood more attractive to potential residents in 1960 The New York Times reported This area is gradually becoming recognized as an extension of Greenwich Village thereby extending New York s Bohemia from river to river 78 82 The 1960 Times article stated that rental agents were increasingly referring to the area as Village East or East Village 82 The new name was used to dissociate the area from the image of slums evoked by the Lower East Side According to The New York Times a 1964 guide called Earl Wilson s New York wrote Artists poets and promoters of coffeehouses from Greenwich Village are trying to remelt the neighborhood under the high sounding name of East Village 2 Newcomers and real estate brokers popularized the new name and the term was adopted by the popular media by the mid 1960s 83 ch 5 A weekly newspaper with the neighborhood s new name The East Village Other started publication in 1966 The New York Times declared that the neighborhood had come to be known as the East Village in the edition of June 5 1967 2 Growth Edit The Phyllis Anderson Theater one of several theaters that were originally Yiddish theaters The East Village became a center of the counterculture in New York and was the birthplace and historical home of many artistic movements including punk rock 84 and the Nuyorican literary movement 85 Multiple former Yiddish theaters were converted for use by Off Broadway shows for instance the Public Theater at 66 Second Avenue became the Phyllis Anderson Theater 78 Numerous buildings on East 4th Street hosted Off Broadway and Off Off Broadway productions including the Royal Playhouse the Fourth Street Theatre the Downtown Theatre the La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club and the Truck amp Warehouse Theater just on the block between Bowery and Second Avenue 67 82 By the 1970s and 1980s the city in general was in decline and nearing bankruptcy especially after the 1975 New York City fiscal crisis 69 Residential buildings in the East Village suffered from high levels of neglect as property owners did not properly maintain their buildings 83 191 194 The city purchased many of these buildings but was also unable to maintain them due to a lack of funds 69 Following the publication of a revised Cooper Square renewal plan in 1986 86 some properties were given to the Cooper Square Mutual Housing Association as part of a 1991 agreement 86 87 In spite of the deterioration of the structures within the East Village its music and arts scenes were doing well By the 1970s gay dance halls and punk rock clubs had started to open in the neighborhood 86 These included the Fillmore East Music Hall later a gay private nightclub called The Saint which was located in a movie theater at 105 Second Avenue 86 79 264 The Phyllis Anderson Theatre was converted into Second Avenue Theater an annex of the CBGB music club and hosted musicians and bands such as Bruce Springsteen Patti Smith and the Talking Heads The Pyramid Club which opened in 1979 at 101 Avenue A hosted musical acts such as Nirvana and Red Hot Chili Peppers as well as drag performers such as RuPaul and Ann Magnuson 86 In addition there were more than a hundred art galleries in the East Village by the mid 1980s These included Patti Astor and Bill Stelling s Fun Gallery at 11th Street as well as numerous galleries on 7th Street 86 Decline Edit By 1987 the visual arts scene was in decline 88 Many of these art galleries relocated to more profitable neighborhoods such as SoHo or closed altogether 89 86 The arts scene had become a victim of its own success since the popularity of the art galleries had revived the East Village s real estate market 90 A wall in the East Village in 1998 featuring a mural of two men One club that tried to resurrect the neighborhood s past artistic prominence was Mo Pitkins House of Satisfaction part owned by comedian Jimmy Fallon before it closed in 2007 91 A Fordham University study examining the decline of the East Village performance and art scene stated that the young liberal culture that once found its place on the Manhattan side of the East River has shifted in part to new neighborhoods like Williamsburg in Brooklyn 92 93 There are still some performance spaces such as Sidewalk Cafe on 6th Street and Avenue A where downtown acts find space to exhibit their talent as well as the poetry clubs Bowery Poetry Club and Nuyorican Poets Cafe 94 Gentrification preservation and present day Edit In the late 20th and early 21st centuries the East Village became gentrified as a result of real estate price increases following the success of the arts scene 95 90 In the 1970s rents were extremely low and the neighborhood was considered among the last places in Manhattan where many people would want to live 96 However as early as 1983 the Times reported that because of the influx of artists many longtime establishments and immigrants were being forced to leave the East Village due to rising rents 97 By the following year young professionals constituted a large portion of the neighborhood s demographics 96 Even so crimes remained prevalent and there were often drug deals being held openly in Tompkins Square Park 98 Tensions over gentrification resulted in the 1988 Tompkins Square Park riot which occurred following opposition to a proposed curfew that had targeted the park s homeless The aftermath of the riot slowed down the gentrification process somewhat as real estate prices declined 99 By the end of the 20th century however real estate prices had resumed their rapid rise About half of the East Village s stores had opened within the decade since the riot while vacancy rates in that period had dropped from 20 to 3 indicating that many of the longtime merchants had been pushed out 100 By the early 21st century some buildings in the area were torn down and replaced by newer buildings 101 One example of this was in 2010 when actor David Schwimmer bought an 1852 townhouse on 6th Street and completely rebuilt it despite having received several notices of its possible landmark status 102 Rezoning Edit Due to the gentrification of the neighborhood parties including the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation GVSHP Manhattan Community Board 3 the East Village Community Coalition and City Councilmember Rosie Mendez began calling for a change to the area s zoning in the first decade of the 21st century The city first released a draft in July 2006 which concerned an area bounded by East 13th Street on the north Third Avenue on the west Delancey Street on the south and Avenue D on the east 103 104 The rezoning proposal was done in response to concerns about the character and scale of some of the new buildings in the neighborhood 105 Despite protests and accusations of promoting gentrification and increased property values over the area s history and need for affordable housing the rezoning was approved in 2008 105 Among other things The zoning established height limits for new development throughout the affected area modified allowable density of real estate capped air rights transfers eliminated the current zoning bonus for dorms and hotels and created incentives for the creation and retention of affordable housing 106 Landmark efforts Edit Extra Place an obscure side street off of East 1st Street just east of the Bowery Local community groups such as the GVSHP are actively working to gain individual and district landmark designations for the East Village to preserve and protect the architectural and cultural identity of the neighborhood 107 In early 2011 the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission LPC proposed two East Village historic districts a small district along the block of 10th Street that lies north of Tompkins Square Park and a larger district focused around lower Second Avenue 108 before later being expanded 109 In January 2012 the East 10th Street Historic District was designated by the LPC 110 111 and that October the larger East Village Lower East Side Historic District was also designated by the LPC 112 Several notable buildings are designated as individual landmarks some due to the GVSHP s efforts These include The First Houses at East 3rd Street and Avenue A the country s first public housing development built in 1935 and designated in 1974 65 The Stuyvesant Polyclinic at 137 Second Avenue built in 1884 and designated in 1976 113 The Christodora House built in 1928 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 114 The Children s Aid Society s Tompkins Square Lodging House for Boys and Industrial School at 296 East 8th Street built in 1886 and designated in 2000 115 Public School 64 at 350 East 10th Street a French Renaissance Revival public school built in 1904 1906 by architect and school superintendent C B J Snyder designated in 2006 116 Webster Hall a Romanesque Revival concert hall and nightclub designed in 1886 117 designated in 2008 118 The Children s Aid Society s Elizabeth Home for Girls at 308 East 12th Street built in 1891 1892 and designated in 2008 119 The Wheatsworth Bakery Building built in 1927 1928 and designated in 2008 120 The St Nicholas of Myra Church at 288 East 10th Street designated in 2008 121 The Van Tassell and Kearney Horse Auction Mart at 126 128 East 13th Street a horse auction mart built in 1903 1904 designated in 2012 122 The First German Baptist Church Town amp Village Synagogue at 334 East 14th Street designated in 2014 123 First Houses Webster Hall 128 East 13th Street East 5th Street between Second Avenue and Cooper Square is a typical side street in the heart of the East Village Landmark efforts have included a number of losses as well Despite the request of GVSHP and allied groups in 2012 for landmarking of Mary Help of Christians school church and rectory the site was demolished starting in 2013 124 In 2011 an early 19th century Federal house at 35 Cooper Square one of the oldest on the Bowery and in the East Village was approved for demolition to make way for a college dorm 125 over requests of community groups and elected officials 126 Furthermore the LPC acts on no particular schedule leaving open indefinitely some calendared requests for designation 127 Sometimes it simply declines requests for consideration as it did regarding an intact Italianate tenement at 143 East 13th Street 128 In other cases the LPC has refused the expansion of existing historic districts as in 2016 when it declined to add 264 East 7th Street the former home of illustrator Felicia Bond and four neighboring rowhouses to the East Village Lower East Side Historic District 129 2015 gas explosion Edit Main article 2015 East Village gas explosion On March 26 2015 a gas explosion occurred on Second Avenue after a gas line was tapped 130 The explosion and resulting fire destroyed three buildings at 119 121 and 123 Second Avenue between East 7th Street and St Marks Place Two people were killed and at least twenty two people were injured four critically 131 Three restaurants were also destroyed in the explosion 132 Landlord Maria Hrynenko and an unlicensed plumber and another employee were sentenced to prison time for their part in causing the explosion in New York State Supreme Court Ms Hrynenko allowed an illegal gas line to be constructed on her property 133 Geography EditNeighboring the East Village are the Lower East Side to the south NoHo to the west Stuyvesant Park to the northwest and Stuyvesant Town to the northeast The East Village contains several smaller vibrant communities each with its own character 134 Subsections Edit Alphabet City Edit Main article Alphabet City Manhattan A Loisaida street fair in 2008 St Marks Place is a major shopping street with many businesses that cater to the tourist trade Alphabet City is the eastern section of the East Village that is so named because it contains avenues with single lettered names e g Avenues A B C and D It is bordered by Houston Street to the south and 14th Street to the north Notable places within Alphabet City include Tompkins Square Park and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe 70 135 136 Alphabet City also contains St Marks Place the continuation of Eighth Street between Third Avenue and Avenue A The street contains a Japanese street culture an aged punk culture and CBGB s new store the former location of one of New York City s only Automats 137 and a portion of the Mosaic Trail a trail of eighty mosaic encrusted lampposts that runs from Broadway down Eighth Street to Avenue A to Fourth Street and then back to Eighth Street 138 Alphabet City was once the archetype of a dangerous New York City neighborhood Its turn around was cause for The New York Times to observe in 2005 that Alphabet City went from a drug infested no man s land to the epicenter of downtown cool 139 This part of the neighborhood has long been an ethnic enclave for Manhattan s German Polish Hispanic and Jewish populations Crime went up in the area in the late 20th century but then declined in the 21st as the area became gentrified 140 Alphabet City s alternate name Loisaida which is also used as the alternate name for Avenue C is a term derived from the Latino and especially Nuyorican pronunciation of Lower East Side The term was originally coined by poet activist Bittman Bimbo Rivas in his 1974 poem Loisaida 71 141 Bowery Edit Main article Bowery Once synonymous with Bowery Bums the Bowery area has become a magnet for luxury condominiums as the East Village neighborhood s rapid gentrification continues The Bowery was once known for its many homeless shelters drug rehabilitation centers and bars The phrase on the Bowery which has since fallen into disuse was a generic way to say one was down and out 142 By the 21st century the Bowery had become a boulevard with new luxury condominiums Redevelopment of the avenue from flophouses to luxury condominiums has met resistance from long term residents who agree the neighborhood has improved but its unique gritty character is disappearing 143 The Bowery has also become an area with a diverse artistic community It is the location of the Bowery Poetry Club where artists Amiri Baraka and Taylor Mead have held regular readings and performances 144 and until 2006 was home to the punk rock nightclub CBGB 145 Little Ukraine Edit Taras Shevchenko Place with St George s Church on the north side and St George Academy on the south side Little Ukraine is an ethnic enclave in the East Village which has served as a spiritual political and cultural epicenter for several waves of Ukrainian Americans in New York City as far back as the late 19th century 146 At the beginning of the 20th century Ukrainian immigrants began moving into areas previously dominated by fellow Eastern European and Galician Jews as well as the Lower East Side s German enclave After World War II the Ukrainian population of the neighborhood reached 60 000 68 but as with the city s Little Italy today the neighborhood consists of only a few Ukrainian stores and restaurants Today the East Village between Houston and 14th Street and Third Avenue and Avenue A 147 still houses nearly a third of New York City s Ukrainian population 148 Several churches including St George s Catholic Church Ukrainian restaurants and butcher shops The Ukrainian Museum the Shevchenko Scientific Society and the Ukrainian Cultural Center are evidence of the impact of this culture on the area 149 The gallery American Painting located on E 6th Street during 2004 2009 presented a painting exhibition by artists Andrei Kushnir and Michele Martin Taylor titled East Village Afternoon depicting many of these sites 150 Since the early 20th century St George Ukrainian Catholic Church has served as the anchor of Little Ukraine offering daily liturgies and penances and operating the adjoining St George Academy a coeducational parochial school Starting in 1976 the church has sponsored an annual Ukrainian Heritage Festival regularly described as one of the few remaining authentic New York City street fairs 151 In April 1978 the New York City Council renamed Taras Shevchenko Place a small connecting street between East 7th and 6th Streets after Taras Shevchenko Ukraine s national bard 152 Political representation Edit 1st Avenue looking north at 10th Street Politically the East Village is in New York s 7th and 12th congressional districts 153 154 It is also in the New York State Senate s 27th and 28th districts 155 156 the New York State Assembly s 65th 66th and 74th districts 157 158 and the New York City Council s 1st and 2nd districts 159 Demographics EditBased on data from the 2010 United States Census the population of the East Village was 44 136 a change of 2 390 5 4 from the 41 746 counted in 2000 Covering an area of 250 02 acres 101 18 ha the neighborhood had a population density of 176 5 inhabitants per acre 113 000 sq mi 43 600 km2 160 The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 65 5 28 888 White 3 9 1 743 African American 0 1 64 Native American 14 9 6 560 Asian 0 22 Pacific Islander 0 4 182 from other races and 2 8 1 214 from two or more races Hispanic or Latino of any race were 12 4 5 463 of the population 4 The entirety of Community District 3 which comprises the East Village and the Lower East Side had 171 103 inhabitants as of NYC Health s 2018 Community Health Profile with an average life expectancy of 82 2 years 161 This is higher than the median life expectancy of 81 2 for all New York City neighborhoods 162 53 PDF p 84 163 Most inhabitants are adults a plurality 35 are between the ages of 25 44 while 25 are between 45 and 64 and 16 are 65 or older The ratio of youth and college aged residents was lower at 13 and 11 respectively 164 As of 2017 the median household income in Community District 3 was 39 584 165 though the median income in the East Village individually was 74 265 3 In 2018 an estimated 18 of East Village and Lower East Side residents lived in poverty compared to 14 in all of Manhattan and 20 in all of New York City One in twelve residents 8 were unemployed compared to 7 in Manhattan and 9 in New York City Rent burden or the percentage of residents who have difficulty paying their rent is 48 in the East Village and the Lower East Side compared to the boroughwide and citywide rates of 45 and 51 respectively Based on this calculation as of 2018 update the East Village and the Lower East Side are considered to be gentrifying 166 Culture EditHare Krishnas Edit On October 9 1966 A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness held the first recorded outdoor chanting session of the Hare Krishna mantra outside the Indian subcontinent at Tompkins Square Park 167 This is considered the founding of the Hare Krishna religion in the United States and the large tree close to the center of the Park is demarcated as a special religious site for Krishna adherents 167 Cultural institutions Edit Preservation institution Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation 168 Gallery Tenth Street galleriesMuseums Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space New Museum of Contemporary Art Brant Foundation Art Museum The Ukrainian MuseumMovie theaters Anthology Film Archives City Cinema Village East Landmark s Sunshine Theater Two Boots Pioneer Theater Village East Cinema Music venues Bowery Ballroom concerts and shows Mercury Lounge live music Nublu Club live music The Stone experimental music Rue B live jazzPoetry venues Nuyorican Poets Cafe music poetry readings slams Bowery Poetry Club music poetry readings slams Poetry Project at St Mark s Church in the Bowery Theaters and performance spaces Amato Opera Bouwerie Lane Theatre Connelly Theater historic Off Broadway venue Danspace Project at St Mark s Church in the Bowery La MaMa E T C avant garde theater Metropolitan Playhouse 169 The Ontological Hysteric Theater at St Mark s Church in the Bowery The Pearl Theatre Company 170 Tompkins Square Park Regular site of outdoor music dance and performance Performance Space New York Stomp long running Off Broadway performance Theater for the New City 171 Theatre for a New Audience Wild Project 172 The Nuyorican Poets Cafe has been located off Avenue C and East 3rd Street since its founding in 1973 The Bowery Poetry Club Neighborhood festivals Edit Sherry Vine and Joey Arias during the 2009 HOWL Festival Mayday Festival May 1 yearly Charlie Parker Jazz Festival August yearly 173 HOWL Festival Summer yearly 174 175 Dance Parade Summer yearly Dream Up Festival August September yearly 176 Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade October yearly 177 Parks and gardens EditLarge parks Edit Tompkins Square Park is the recreational and geographic heart of the East Village It has historically been a part of counterculture protest and riots Tompkins Square Park is a 10 5 acre 4 2 ha public park in the Alphabet City section of the East Village It is bounded on the north by 10th Street on the east by Avenue B on the south by 7th Street and on the west by Avenue A 178 Tompkins Square Park contains a baseball field basketball courts and two playgrounds 179 It also contains the city s first dog run which is a social scene unto itself 180 The park has been the site of numerous events and riots On January 13 1874 a riot broke out after the New York City Police Department clashed with a demonstration involving thousands of unemployed civilians 181 On July 25 1877 during the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 twenty thousand people gathered in the park to hear communist orators speak New York City police and National Guardsmen eventually charged the crowd with billy clubs later claiming that the rally was not being held in a peaceful manner In the wake of this riot the city in conjunction with the War Department established an official city armory program led by the 7th Regiment 182 On August 6 7 1988 a riot broke out between police and groups of drug pushers homeless people and young people known as skinheads who had largely taken over the park The neighborhood was divided about what if anything should be done about it 183 Manhattan Community Board 3 adopted a curfew for the previously 24 hour park in an attempt to bring it under control 184 A rally against the curfew resulted in several clashes between protesters and police 185 East River Park is 57 acres 23 ha and runs between the FDR Drive and the East River from Montgomery Street to East 12th Street It was designed in the 1930s by parks commissioner Robert Moses who wanted to ensure there was parkland along the Lower East Side shorefront 186 The park includes football baseball and soccer fields tennis basketball and handball courts a running track and bike paths including the East River Greenway 187 Community gardens Edit There are reportedly more than 640 community gardens in New York City gardens run by local collectives within the neighborhood who are responsible for the gardens upkeep and an estimated ten percent of those are located on the Lower East Side and the East Village alone 188 Development of these community gardens often on municipally owned land started in the early 1970s Although many of these lots were later sold to private developers others were taken over by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation which preserves the gardens under its ownership 66 Open Road Park a former cemetery and bus depot is a garden and a playground adjacent to East Side Community High School between 11th and 12th Streets east of First Avenue 189 The Avenue B and 6th Street Community Garden was known for a now removed outdoor sculpture the Tower of Toys designed by artist and long time garden groundskeeper Eddie Boros 190 It was a 65 foot tall 20 m makeshift structure made of wooden planks from which were suspended an amalgamation of fanciful objects 191 The tower was a neighborhood icon having appeared in the opening credits for the television show NYPD Blue and also appears in the musical Rent 190 It was also controversial some viewed it as a masterpiece while others as an eyesore 190 192 The tower was dismantled in May 2008 because according to parks commissioner Adrian Benepe it was rotting and thus a safety hazard Its removal was seen by some as a symbol of the neighborhood s fading past 193 The Toyota Children s Learning Garden at 603 East 11th Street is technically a learning garden rather than a community garden Designed by landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh the garden opened in May 2008 as part of the New York Restoration Project and is designed to teach children about plants 194 La Plaza Cultural de Armando Perez is a community garden open air theater and green space at 9th Street and Avenue C Founded in 1976 the garden continues to operate as of 2019 update 195 despite having been proposed for redevelopment multiple times 196 Marble cemeteries Edit A production of John Reed s All the World s a Grave in the New York Marble Cemetery which does not contain headstones On the block bounded by Bowery Second Avenue and 2nd and 3rd Streets is the oldest public cemetery in New York City not affiliated with any religion the New York Marble Cemetery 30 1 197 Established in 1830 30 1 it is open the fourth Sunday of every month 198 The similarly named New York City Marble Cemetery located on 2nd Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue is the second oldest nonsectarian cemetery in New York City The cemetery opened in 1831 29 1 Notable people interred there include U S President James Monroe Stephen Allen mayor 1821 1824 James Lenox whose personal library became part of the New York Public Library Isaac Varian mayor 1839 1841 Marinus Willet Revolutionary War hero and Preserved Fish a well known merchant 199 Police and crime EditEast Village is patrolled by the 9th Precinct of the NYPD located at 321 East 5th Street 200 The 9th Precinct ranked 58th safest out of 69 patrol areas for per capita crime in 2010 201 As of 2018 update with a non fatal assault rate of 42 per 100 000 people Community District 3 s rate of violent crimes per capita is less than that of the city as a whole The incarceration rate of 449 per 100 000 people is higher than that of the city as a whole 202 The 9th Precinct has a lower crime rate than in the 1990s with crimes across all categories having decreased by 79 5 between 1990 and 2019 The precinct reported 3 murders 15 rapes 119 robberies 171 felony assaults 122 burglaries 760 grand larcenies and 37 grand larcenies auto in 2019 203 Fire safety Edit Ladder Co 3 Battalion 6 East Village is served by four New York City Fire Department FDNY fire stations 204 Ladder Co 3 Battalion 6 103 East 13th Street 205 Engine Co 5 340 East 14th Street 206 Engine Co 28 Ladder Co 11 222 East 2nd Street 207 Engine Co 33 Ladder Co 9 42 Great Jones Street 208 Health EditAs of 2018 update preterm births and births to teenage mothers are less common in the East Village and the Lower East Side than in other places citywide In the East Village and the Lower East Side there were 82 preterm births per 1 000 live births compared to 87 per 1 000 citywide and 10 1 teenage births per 1 000 live births compared to 19 3 per 1 000 citywide 209 The East Village and the Lower East Side have a low population of residents who are uninsured In 2018 this population of uninsured residents was estimated to be 11 slightly less than the citywide rate of 12 210 The concentration of fine particulate matter the deadliest type of air pollutant in the East Village and the Lower East Side is 0 0089 milligrams per cubic metre 8 9 10 9 oz cu ft more than the city average 211 Twenty percent of East Village and Lower East Side residents are smokers which is more than the city average of 14 of residents being smokers 212 In the East Village and the Lower East Side 10 of residents are obese 11 are diabetic and 22 have high blood pressure compared to the citywide averages of 24 11 and 28 respectively 213 In addition 16 of children are obese compared to the citywide average of 20 214 Eighty eight percent of residents eat some fruits and vegetables every day which is about the same as the city s average of 87 In 2018 70 of residents described their health as good very good or excellent less than the city s average of 78 212 For every supermarket in the East Village and the Lower East Side there are eighteen bodegas 215 The nearest major hospitals are Beth Israel Medical Center in Stuyvesant Town as well as the Bellevue Hospital Center and NYU Langone Medical Center in Kips Bay and NewYork Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital in the Civic Center area 216 217 Post offices and ZIP Codes Edit USPS Cooper Station post office East Village is located within two primary ZIP Codes The area east of First Avenue including Alphabet City is part of 10009 while the area west of First Avenue is part of 10003 218 The United States Postal Service operates three post offices in the East Village Cooper Station 93 Fourth Avenue 219 Peter Stuyvesant Station 335 East 14th Street 220 Tompkins Square Station 244 East 3rd Street 221 Education EditEast Village and the Lower East Side generally have a higher rate of college educated residents than the rest of the city as of 2018 update A plurality of residents age 25 and older 48 have a college education or higher while 24 have less than a high school education and 28 are high school graduates or have some college education By contrast 64 of Manhattan residents and 43 of city residents have a college education or higher 222 The percentage of East Village and the Lower East Side students excelling in math rose from 61 in 2000 to 80 in 2011 and reading achievement increased from 66 to 68 during the same time period 223 East Village and the Lower East Side s rate of elementary school student absenteeism is lower than the rest of New York City In the East Village and the Lower East Side 16 of elementary school students missed twenty or more days per school year less than the citywide average of 20 222 162 24 PDF p 55 Additionally 77 of high school students in the East Village and the Lower East Side graduate on time more than the citywide average of 75 222 Schools Edit The New York City Department of Education operates public schools in the East Village as part of Community School District 1 224 District 1 does not contain any zoned schools which means that students living in District 1 can apply to any school in the district including those in the Lower East Side 225 226 The following public elementary schools are located in the East Village and serve grades PK 5 unless otherwise indicated 224 PS 15 Roberto Clemente 227 PS 19 Asher Levy 228 PS 34 Franklin D Roosevelt grades PK 8 229 PS 63 STAR Academy 230 PS 64 Robert Simon 231 PS 94 grades K 8 232 PS 188 The Island School grades PK 8 233 Earth School 234 Neighborhood School 235 The Children s Workshop School 236 The East Village Community School 237 The following middle and high schools are located in the East Village 224 East Side Community High School grades 6 12 238 Manhattan School for Career Development grades 9 12 239 Tompkins Square Middle School grades 6 8 240 The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York operates Catholic schools in Manhattan St Brigid School in the East Village closed in 2019 241 The following independent schools are located in the East Village The New Amsterdam School Waldorf 242 Libraries Edit New York Public Library Ottendorfer branch The New York Public Library NYPL operates three branches near the East Village The Ottendorfer branch is located at 135 Second Avenue The branch opened in 1884 based on a gift from Oswald Ottendorfer who owned the New Yorker Staats Zeitung The Ottendorfer branch designed in the Queen Anne and Renaissance Revival styles is a New York City designated landmark 43 The Tompkins Square branch is located at 331 East 10th Street The library opened in 1887 and moved three times before relocating to its current Carnegie library structure in 1904 243 The Hamilton Fish Park branch is located at 415 East Houston Street It was originally built as a Carnegie library in 1909 but was torn down when Houston Street was expanded the current one story structure was completed in 1960 244 Colleges Edit New York University Edit Along with gentrification the East Village has seen an increase in the number of buildings owned and maintained by New York University particularly dormitories for undergraduate students and this influx has given rise to conflict between the community and the university 245 St Ann s Church a rusticated stone structure with a Romanesque Revival tower on East 12th Street that dated to 1847 was sold to NYU to make way for a 26 story 700 bed dormitory After community protest the university promised to protect and maintain the church s original facade and so it did literally by having the facade stand alone in front of the building now the tallest structure in the area 245 According to many residents NYU s alteration and demolition of historic buildings such as the Peter Cooper Post Office is spoiling the physical and socio economic landscape that makes this neighborhood so interesting and attractive 246 NYU has often been at odds with residents of both the East and West Villages due to its expansive development plans urban preservationist Jane Jacobs battled the school in the 1960s 247 She spoke of how universities and hospitals often had a special kind of hubris reflected in the fact that they often thought it was OK to destroy a neighborhood to suit their needs said Andrew Berman of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation 248 Cooper Union Edit The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art founded in 1859 by entrepreneur and philanthropist Peter Cooper and located on Cooper Square 249 was as of 2008 one of the most selective colleges in the world 250 and formerly offered tuition free programs in engineering art and architecture 251 252 Its Great Hall has been used for several notable speeches such as Abraham Lincoln s Cooper Union speech 253 254 and its New Academic Building is the first in New York City to achieve LEED Platinum status 255 Transportation EditThe nearest New York City Subway stations are Second Avenue F and lt F gt trains Astor Place 6 and lt 6 gt trains Eighth Street New York University N R and W trains and First Avenue L train 256 Phase 3 of the Second Avenue Subway is planned to establish two stations on 2nd Avenue one on 14th Street and one on Houston Street 257 Bus routes serving the area include the M1 M2 M3 M8 M9 M14A SBS M14D SBS M15 M15 SBS M21 M101 M102 and M103 258 Media EditLocal news East Village Feed The East Villager The East Village Eye The Village Voice The Villager Radio East Village RadioTelevision Obscura Antiques amp Oddities focus of Oddities 259 Notable residents Edit Punk rock icon and writer Richard Hell still lives in the same apartment in Alphabet City that he has had since the 1970s Miss Understood stops an M15 bus in front of the Lucky Cheng s restaurant at 2nd Street on First Avenue Lotti Golden Lower East Side 1968 Skippy Adelman 1924 2004 jazz photojournalist lived at 488 East Houston through high school 260 261 Ryan Adams born 1974 alt country musician 262 Darren Aronofsky born 1969 filmmaker 263 W H Auden 1907 1973 poet 264 John Franklin Bardin 1916 1981 novelist 265 Jean Michel Basquiat 1960 1988 artist 266 267 Dana Beal born 1947 social and political activist 268 Mark Bloch born 1956 artist Jeremy Blake 1971 2007 digital artist and painter 269 Walter Bowart 1939 2007 co founder and editor of the East Village Other David Bowes born 1957 painter 270 William S Burroughs 1914 1997 novelist actor 271 Richard Brookhiser born 1955 author historian 272 Chris Cain born 1955 bassist for the indie rock band We Are Scientists Max Cantor 1959 1991 journalist and former actor Julian Casablancas musician 273 Ching Ho Cheng 1946 1989 artist Alexa Chung born 1983 model TV presenter 274 David Cross born 1964 actor comedian 275 Quentin Crisp 1908 1999 writer raconteur 276 Jackie Curtis 1947 1985 writer poet actor Warhol superstar Candy Darling 1944 1974 actress Warhol superstar Tory Dent 1958 2005 poet art critic and commentator on the AIDS crisis 277 Lindsay Ellis born 1984 film critic author Jonathan Larson 1960 1996 musician composer of the musical Rent Rosario Dawson born 1979 actress singer and writer 278 Negin Farsad writer director comedian Sarah Feinberg born 1977 Interim President of the New York City Transit Authority and former Administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration 279 Barbara Feinman milliner Lady Gaga singer songwriter Sharon Gannon and David Life yoga instructors and co founders of Jivamukti Yoga school which originated in the East Village Allen Ginsberg Beat Generation poet 280 Philip Glass American composer 281 Lotti Golden artist songwriter poet Nan Goldin photographer Wade Guyton painter Ayun Halliday actress and writer Keith Haring artist Randy Harrison actor Matt Harvey MLB Pitcher Richard Hell musician author Vlad Holiday musician songwriter Abbie Hoffman 1960s political activist 282 John Holmstrom cartoonist and writer Punk editor Harold Hunter skateboarder actor Sarah Hyland actress Jim Jarmusch film director screenwriter actor producer editor and composer 283 Indian Larry born Lawrence DeSmedt motorcycle builder and artist stunt rider and biker 284 Tom Kalin filmmaker Agim Kaba actor artist and director Allan Katzman co founder and editor of the East Village Other Kathy Kemp fashion designer and entrepreneur Alvin Klein 1938 2009 theater critic for The New York Times 285 Vashtie Kola director Greg Kotis playwright Paul Krassner publisher of The Realist Tuli Kupferberg Beat Generation poet and one of the original Fugs Stephen Lack actor painter Scooter LaForge artist Ronnie Landfield painter 286 Greer Lankton artist and dollmaker Phoebe Legere musician and artist John Leguizamo born 1960 actor comedian and monologist 287 Frank London born 1958 composer musician 288 Frank Lovell 1913 1998 communist politician 289 John Lurie born 1952 musician painter actor producer 290 Madonna singer entrepreneur in the 1980s 291 Handsome Dick Manitoba singer saloon owner Jimmy McMillan political activist founder of The Rent is Too Damn High Party Butch Morris cornetist composer and conductor 292 Cookie Mueller 1949 1989 actress model Joseph Nechvatal digital artist Conor Oberst musician Claes Oldenburg sculptor 66 Tom Otterness sculptor Iggy Pop performer musician Adam Purple creator of the Lower East Side Garden of Eden Daniel Radcliffe actor Daniel Rakowitz the East Side Cannibal and his victim and roommate dancer Monicka Beerle Joey Ramone musician Johnny Ramone musician Bill Raymond actor Lou Reed musician and songwriter Joel Resnicoff artist and fashion illustrator James Romberger artist Mark Ronson musician Jerry Rubin 1960s political activist 282 Arthur Russell musician 293 Ed Sanders New York School poet and one of the original Fugs Liev Schreiber actor David Schwimmer Friends actor and wife part time photographer Zoe Buckman citation needed Chloe Sevigny actress Sam Shepard playwright actor author screenwriter and director 294 Jack Smith filmmaker artist Kiki Smith sculptor John Spacely actor activist Junkie Sid and Nancy Iboga therapy Regina Spektor singer songwriter and pianist Bobby Steele musician Frank Stella painter maintained as studio in the East Village Ellen Stewart founder of La MaMa E T C Experimental Theatre Club in 1961 Adario Strange writer director Michele Martin Taylor artist 295 Henry Threadgill musician 296 Johnny Thunders John Genzale purveyor of LES street rock member of NYDolls and The Heartbreakers Marisa Tomei actress Rachel Trachtenburg singer and musician Marguerite Van Cook artist musician writer producer Arturo Vega punk rock graphic designer and artistic director 297 Steven Vincent journalist and author who was shot and killed in 2005 while reporting in Iraq 298 David Wojnarowicz 1954 1992 painter photographer writer filmmaker performance artist songwriter recording artist and AIDS activist prominent in the New York City art world 299 Rachel Weisz actress and wife of actor Daniel Craig 300 Charles Wright novelist who wrote The Messenger 1963 The Wig 1966 and Absolutely 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income housing Archived June 27 2020 at the Wayback Machine New York Post May 14 2017 Accessed April 22 2020 Actress Rosario Dawson grew up in an East Village squatter s den where she was discovered sitting on the stoop Nessen Stven A Q amp A With Sarah Feinberg New Interim President Of New York City Transit Archived March 3 2020 at the Wayback Machine Gothamist March 2 2020 Accessed April 22 2020 Q You live in the East Village so you take the subway and bus every day A I generally am an L 4 5 6 and frequently a 1 user Those are my main lines Hampton Wilborn April 6 1997 Allen Ginsberg Master Poet Of Beat Generation Dies at 70 The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved September 29 2019 Allen Ginsberg the poet laureate of the Beat Generation whose Howl became a manifesto for the sexual revolution and a cause celebre for free speech in the 1950s eventually earning its author a place in America s literary pantheon died early yesterday He was 70 and lived in the East Village in Manhattan Orlov Piotr Philip Glass on Listening and Composing at 80 Archived April 20 2017 at the Wayback Machine Sonos April 13 2017 Accessed April 20 2017 a b Strausbach John The New York Times Hirschberg Lynn July 31 2005 The Last of the Indies The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved September 29 2019 After Jarmusch moved to New York in the 70s to attend Columbia he formed a band called the Del Byzanteens and he lived in the East Village the same neighborhood he lives in now Saxon Wolfgang August 1 2004 Indian Larry Motorcycle Builder and Stunt Rider Dies at 55 The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved September 29 2019 Larry Desmedt a New York based custom motorcycle builder and biker better known nationally as Indian Larry died on Monday in Charlotte N C of injuries he suffered doing a stunt on Saturday at an appearance there He was 55 and lived in the East Village The New York Times March 7 2009 Alvin Klein Theater Reviewer for The Times Dies at 73 The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved September 29 2019 Alvin Klein a longtime theater reviewer for the Sunday regional sections of The New York Times and for WNYC radio died on Feb 28 at his home in the East Village section of Manhattan Landfield Ronnie In The Late Sixties 1993 95 and other writings various published and unpublished essays reviews lectures statements and brief descriptives at http www abstract art com landfield la4 writings fldr la4a writing index html Archived May 31 2008 at the Wayback Machine Square Feet Inside John Leguizamo s NYC Home Archived May 15 2022 at the Wayback Machine WNBC June 26 2013 Accessed May 15 2022 We re headed to Artists Row in New York City to the East Village townhouse of actor John Leguizamo who added his own unique touches to every room like any true artist would Goldstein Miles Elliot Gonzo Judaism A Bold Path for Renewing an Ancient Faith Archived November 19 2022 at the Wayback Machine p 152 Shambhala Publications 2010 ISBN 9780834822313 Accessed May 15 2022 Frank London is a musician and composer who lives in the East Village and who grew up in Plainview Long Island It lives up to its name he says Saxon Wolfgang May 23 1998 Frank Lovell Marxist Leader And Writer 84 The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved September 29 2019 Frank Lovell an American disciple of Leon Trotsky s brand of Marxism Leninism and a New York City writer and editor concerned with socialist and trade union issues died on May 1 at his home in the East Village Edelstein David John Lurie Growing Up in Public Archived May 15 2022 at the Wayback Machine The Village Voice October 30 1984 Accessed May 15 2022 Lurie s apartment in the East Village across from a men s shelter is a mess Now Madonna on Madonna Time magazine May 27 1985 Ratliff Ben January 30 2013 Butch Morris Dies at 65 Creator of Conduction The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved September 29 2019 Butch Morris who created a distinctive form of large ensemble music built on collective improvisation that he single handedly directed and shaped died on Tuesday in Brooklyn He was 65 Mr Morris who lived in the East Village died at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Fort Hamilton Owen Frank April 11 1987 Echo Beach Melody Maker Freedman Samuel G November 15 1984 Theater Rebels of the 60s Gather to Reminisce The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved September 29 2019 Shepard of course was not there the former resident of the East Village now eschewing America east of the Mississippi but Lanford Wilson Leonard Melfi Crystal Field Maria Irene Fornes Kevin O Connor Ralph Lee and others were Exhibitions Intimate Colorist Paintings The Villager November 9 to 15 2005 Chinen Nate April 19 2016 At Last a Box Henry Threadgill Fits Nicely Into Pulitzer Winner The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved September 29 2019 Mr Threadgill is a longtime resident of the East Village Heather Bain And Ken Moffatt Archived November 12 2017 at the Wayback Machine Now November 19 21 2015 Accessed November 11 2017 Bain s and Moffatt s installation offers a voyeuristic raw glimpse into the life of Arturo Vega Vega is renowned for his friendship with and devotion to the Ramones and his design of every aspect of the Ramones shows and aesthetic He lived in the East Village for four decades before his death in 2014 Wong Edward August 3 2005 American Journalist Is Shot to Death in Iraq The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved September 29 2019 A short wiry man with a penchant for cigars and a wife named Lisa Ramaci in the East Village Mr Vincent recently had articles about Basra published in The Christian Science Monitor and The National Review and had also written for The Wall Street Journal Kimmelman Michael July 24 1992 David Wojnarowicz 37 Artist in Many Media The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved September 29 2019 One of many artists of his generation to achieve recognition in the boom and bust East Village art scene of the early 80s Mr Wojnarowicz was first known for stenciling images of burning houses and falling figures onto the sides of buildings Fisher Luchina Why Rachel Weisz Keeps Her Marriage to Daniel Craig Private Archived July 30 2020 at the Wayback Machine ABC News November 18 2015 Accessed November 11 2017 They live in New York City s East Village where they frequent Japanese restaurants and Tompkins Square Park where her son has played since birth They also enjoy staying home Weber Bruce October 8 2008 Charles Wright Novelist Dies at 76 The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved September 29 2019 Charles Wright who wrote three autobiographical novels about black street life in New York City between 1963 and 1973 that seemed to herald the rise of an important literary talent but who vanished into alcoholism and despair and never published another book died on October 1 in Manhattan He was 76 and lived in the East Village Sisario Ben July 14 2013 Turning 60 John Zorn Sees His Eclecticism as a Musical Norm The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved September 29 2019 To maintain such an output Mr Zorn has adopted a discipline that few could muster or tolerate He lives alone in the same East Village apartment where he has lived since 1977 with what is by all accounts a gigantically ecumenical record collection and works constantly eliminating distractions like magazines television or sometimes people Bibliography Edit Brazee Christopher D Most Jennifer L January 17 2012 East 10th Street Historic District PDF New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission Brazee Christopher D Most Jennifer L Presa Donald G Kurshan Virginia October 9 2012 East Village Lower East Side Historic District PDF New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission Community Health Profiles 2018 Manhattan Community District 3 Lower East Side and Chinatown Including Chinatown East Village and Lower East Side PDF New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene 2018 Retrieved March 2 2019 publication website OCLC 55003958 55590980 2003 OCLC 85896482 2006 OCLC 928401894 all editions 2015 Burrows Edwin G and Wallace Mike 1999 Gotham A History of New York City to 1898 New York Oxford University Press ISBN 0 195 11634 8 Lockwood Charles 2003 1972 Bricks and Brownstone The New York Rowhouse 1783 1929 An Architectural amp Social History New York McGraw Hill ISBN 978 0 07 038310 4 OCLC 571984 all editions Stokes Isaac Newton Phelps The Iconography of Manhattan Island 1498 1909 Compiled From Original Sources and Illustrated by Photo Intaglio Reproductions of Important Maps Plans Views and Documents in Public and Private Collections 1915 1928 via Internet Archive University of Pittsburgh LCCN 16 765 OCLC 9511425 556524674 6071805 886643643 556524674 Vol 1 1915 Vol 2 1916 Vol 3 1918 Vol 4 1922 Vol 5 1926 Vol 6 1928 White Norval Willensky Elliot Leadon Fran 2010 AIA Guide to New York City 5th ed New York Oxford University Press pp 192 203 ISBN 978 0 19538 386 7 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to East Village Manhattan 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