A Walking Tour of The West Village
This tour features the writers, poets, artist and famous people of the West Village with
information about it's history and architecture along with interesting pictures
and stories that help join us with the neighborhood's past.
The West Village is an unofficial name for a part of Greenwich Village that
roughly speaking falls between West 14th Street and St. Luke's Place and west of Greenwich Avenue and
the Avenue of the Americas.
This walking tour of Manhattan's past and present features:
A walk through part of the landmark Greenwich Village Historic District known as "The West Village" including Abingdon Square, Charles St., W. 10 St., W. 11 St., Horatio St., West St. Bank St., Christopher St., Bedford St., Commerce St., Barrow St., Grove St., Hudson St., Gay St. Greenwich St., Greenwich Ave., Morton St. St., Luke's Place and Sheridan Square and a neighborhood once known as the West End.
Each participant will be given two itineraries with over 20 stops on each that includes some New York City landmarks and National landmarks.
Each stop is fully discussed.
Some Highlights are:
- St. Veronica's Church & Gene Tunney
Find out about "the American Ward" - William "The Butcher" Poole
- The Weehawkin Historic District
- The Manhattan Refrigerating Co
- Find out about the "Death Ave. Cowboy" - Gansevoort Market / Pier and the White Fort and Herman Melville
- A excellent, landmark example of a Greek Revival House from 1842
- The landmark, American Seamen's Friend Society Home & Institute Bldg.
- Where Herman Melville worked for 19 years
- Richard Mier's skyscrapers and Charles Lane
- The White Horse Tavern - Norman Mailer - Dylan Thomas
- H B Studio (many famous stars studied acting here)
- Westbeth - the site of the development of television, radio, sound recording, sound movies, telephonics and the 1st public address system.
- Newgate Prison NY State Prison, Christopher pier, Robert Fulton
- Jane Jacobs, where she lived and wrote "The Death and Life of Great American Cities"
- Alexander Hamilton and the site where he died
- Abington Square & Peter Warren & Greenwich Village and the Abington Square Memorial and "Auntie Mane"
- The Jefferson Market Courthouse - its history, architecture / the infamous trial at the turn of the last century / Stephen Crane
- Hart Crane - Edward Albee and the Ninth Circle
- Serpico where he actually lived when he was a New York City cop
- Where Fiorello Laguardia lived before becoming mayor
- Lauren Bacall, Allen Tate, Katharine Anthony,Wila Cather and Ye Waverly Inn
- The Masses & Max Eastman, Sinclaire Lewis, Almanac House (Woodie Guthrie)
- Patchin Place, John Reed, Louise Bryant, ee Cummings
- Gay Street (Gentleman Jimmy Walker - "My Sister Eileen - William Kunstler)
- A Greek Revival House from 1837
- Hart Crane lived here
- A wood frame house in the West Village from 1822 and Twin Peaks, Otto Kahan
- The Stonewall Inn (riot) - the Northern Dispensary
- The Federal Archive Building
- St. Luke's in the Fields & Clement Clark Moore, Bret Hart
- 'Bleecker Gardens' and Mark and Charles Van Doren
- "The Family" by Chain Gross
- Lee Chumley and Chumleys was here
- Thomas Pane (the site where he lived & the site where he died)
- Hart Crane - Edward Albee and the Ninth Circle
- Transplanted 'Cobble Court' from the early 19th century
- Grove Court and "The Last Leaf"
- If there is a typical Village block this is the one
- Isaacs - Hendrick's House from 1799 the oldest surviving house in the Village
- The Cherry Lane Theater
- Mayor Jimmy Walker's home
- Poet, Marion Moore lived here
- Find out what is the connection between the movie "On the Waterfront" and Grove St. in the West Village
- Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman had an apartment here just before they were deported
- The Narrowest House in New York City - Edna Saint Vincent Milay and much more
About four and a half hours or five hous long
Meet at: Southeast corner of Christopher St. & Washington St.
Guided by Alfred
Pommer an informative native New Yorker, a college graduate and a Licensed New York City Guide, who has spent over 19 years researching, creating and leading walking tours in Manhattan's many diverse neighborhoods.
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