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This is the oldest still-operating pharmacy in the United States (the store’s logo includes the quaint self-description ‘apothecaries’) and yet it’s not run as a museum piece or even all that conscious of its own history. First opened in 1838, when surrounding Greenwich Village still... more

This architecturally idiosyncratic curiosity was built between 1874 and 1877 as local courthouse by a team including Central Park architect Calvert Vaux, and stayed in-use through the end of the Second World War. Previously, the block had been the site of a local market, and the soaring northern... more

This exceptional Greenwich Village mews is probably the city's first example of artist-driven gentrification. Built as a row of stable-houses for the fashionable townhomes that lined Washington Square North or Eighth Street, the alley was a no-frills staging ground for the New York society set... more

An exquisite Greek Revival Episcopal parish church in the heart of Greenwich Village, Grace is one of the few churches in New York that retains the elsewhere-antiquated purpose as the focus of the local community. The church provides extensive adult education classes (mostly, but not entirely, of... more

The concrete capital of NYU's Greenwich Village, Washington Square is a kind of gravitational center for all of Lower Manhattan above Canal Street, drawing an eclectic crowd of students and professors, East Village hippies and West Village yuppies, punks and professionals, musicians and guest... more

This is why book lovers move to New York. Though not New York's most complete (Labyrinth Books) or its most elegant (the Argosy Bookshop), the Strand is a literary experience nonpareil, something like discovering a pre-publication copy of your favorite book, on sale for a buck or two, while... more