West Village

I think I successfully walked every street in the West Village today (about 14 miles).

Today's walk (everything inside the lines)

West Village is very disorienting.  As you can kind of see from the map above, the streets of the are set a about a 45 degree angle to the rest of the Manhattan grid.  Additionally, most of the streets are named (not numbered), and the ones that are numbered don't necessarily make sense (like how W 4th St. intersects W. 13th St.). Thank God for Google Maps.

Instead of plagiarizing a bunch of stuff off of Wikipedia, I'll let this historical marker do my work for me.

Wasn't that easier?

Start of walk

W 13th St. and 10th Ave.

This is where the Titanic was supposed to have docked when it got to NY

W 13th St. and 10th Ave.

Intersection of W 13th St. and W 4th St.

W 13th St. btw Hudson St. and W. 4th St.

Jackson Square

Greenwich Ave. btw W. 14th St. and  W 13th St.

Old clocks

Greenwich Ave. btw Horatio St. and  Jane St.

Serious enquiries only

Greenwich Ave. btw Perry St. and  Charles St.

Hey - he got 2 takers!

Greenwich Ave. btw Perry St. and  Charles St. (two light posts away form the last one)

One of the first soldiers killed in the Civil War (kind of a weird story actually)

Christopher St. btw Waverly Pl. and  7th Ave.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer_E._Ellsworth

Stonewall Inn

Christopher St. btw Waverly Pl. and  7th Ave.

Village Cigars

Christopher St. btw Waverly Pl. and  7th Ave.

No trespassing

Christopher St. btw 7th Ave. and Bleeker St.

The Archive

Christopher St. btw Hudson St. and Greenwich St.

The Archive

Christopher St. btw Hudson St. and Greenwich St.

Pretty church

Christopher St. btw Greenwich St. and Washington St.

Apartment building

W 10th St. btw Hudson St. and Bleeker St.

Hollow eyes

Charles St. btw Waverly Pl. and Greenwich Ave.

West Village block

Charles St. btw 7th Ave. and W 4th St.

This house is your house...

Charles St. btw W 4th St. and Bleeker St.

...this house is my house

Charles St. btw W 4th St. and Bleeker St.

Home of the first US Literature Nobel prize winner

Charles St. btw W 4th St. and Bleeker St.

I didn't know who it was either

Charles St. btw W 4th St. and Bleeker St.

The woman who wrote "Good Night Moon" lived here

Charles St. btw Hudson St. and Greenwich St.

Yellow house

Charles St. btw Greenwich St. and Washington St.

Charles Lane

Charles Ln. btw 10th Ave. and Washington St.

I liked this window

Perry St. btw Bleeker St. and W 4th St.

Palazzo Chupi

W 11th St. btw Washington St. and 10th Ave.

Palazzo Chupi ground floor (used to be a horse stable)

W 11th St. btw Washington St. and 10th Ave.

View of Hoboken from Hudson River Park

W 11th St. at 10th Ave.

Old houses

Bank St. btw Washington St. and Greenwich St.

West Village block

W 12th St. btw Greenwich Ave. and W 4th St.

Ironclad

W 12th St. btw Washington St. and 10th Ave.

More old houses

Greenwich St. btw Horatio St. and Jane St.

Hand door knocker

Greenwich St. btw Horatio St. and Jane St.

Charlie Chaplin blowing up a rat?

Little W 12th St. btw Washington St. and Greenwich St.

The Standard Hotel & Highline

Little W 12th St. btw Washington St. and Greenwich St.

Alexander Hamilton slept here...

Jane St. btw Washington St. and Greenwich St.

...and didn't wake up.

Jane St. btw Washington St. and Greenwich St.

End of the (High)line

Washington St. btw Horatio St. and Gansevoort St.

Meatpacking District 1

Gansevoort St. btw Washington St. and Greenwich St.

Meatpacking District 2

Gansevoort St. btw Greenwich St. and Hudson St.

Father Demo Square

Bleeker St. btw Downing St. and Carmine St.

Untitled

Greenwich St. btw Charles St. and W 10th St.

Old elevated railroad section

Washington St. btw Bank St. and W 11th St.

Cool facade

Washington St. btw Bank St. and W 11th St.

Trucks under High Line

Washington St. btw Gansevoort St. and Little W 12th St.

Polyhedron

Washington St. btw Little W 12th St. and W 13th St.

Birdhouse?

Waverly Pl. btw 7th Ave. and Charles St.

Gay St.

Gay St. btw Waverly Pl. and Christopher St.

Houses built in 1826

Barrow St. btw Bleeker St. and Bedford St.

Date marker

Barrow St. btw Bleeker St. and Bedford St.

Barrow St. explanation

Barrow St.

Greenwich House

Grove St. btw 7th Ave. and Bleeker St.

Thomas Paine died here

Grove St. btw 7th Ave. and Bleeker St.

This is the cool old house (b. 1822) across the street from the apartment building used as the establishing shot in "Friends" episodes

Grove St. btw Bedford St. and Bleeker St.

Another literary house

Bedford St. btw Barrow St. and Commerce St.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Bedford St. btw Barrow St. and Commerce St.

Bedford St. explanation

Bedford St.

Trapeze school

Houston St. btw Washington St. and 10th Ave.

Fresh cement (I took this on 8/9/14)

Downing St. btw Bedford St. and Bleeker St.

I liked the door on this house

Leroy St. btw Bedford St. and Bleeker St.

Two old houses

Commerce St. btw 7th Ave and Bedford St.

This one's on the right (I don't know about this though - Washington Irving didn't have any kids and his dad's name was William)

Commerce St. btw 7th Ave and Bedford St.

This one's on the left

Commerce St. btw 7th Ave and Bedford St.

Commerce St. explanation

Commerce St.

In the pursuit of magic

Greenwich St. btw Clarkson St. and St. Lukes Pl.

That spade could be an "A" or an "O"; either way it's poor planning on the graphic designer's part

Greenwich St. btw Clarkson St. and St. Lukes Pl.

The first of what will likely be many Freedom Tower pictures

Christopher St. btw Barrow St. and Christopher St.