Greenwich Village | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:19 1 Geography
00:02:28 1.1 Boundaries
00:04:27 1.2 Grid plan
00:07:49 1.3 Political representation
00:08:19 2 History
00:08:28 2.1 Early years
00:14:03 2.2 Reputation as urban bohemia
00:23:15 2.3 Postwar
00:31:09 2.4 Preservation
00:34:10 2.4.1 Rezoned areas
00:39:31 2.4.2 NYU dispute
00:41:38 3 Demographics
00:45:56 4 Points of interest
00:50:39 5 Police and crime
00:52:13 6 Fire safety
00:52:49 7 Health
00:55:57 8 Post offices and ZIP codes
00:57:20 9 Education
00:59:07 9.1 Schools
01:00:28 9.2 Libraries
01:01:24 10 Transportation
01:02:39 11 Notable residents
01:03:02 12 In popular culture
01:03:12 12.1 Comics
01:04:31 12.2 Film
01:08:06 12.3 Games
01:08:25 12.4 Literature
01:10:16 12.5 Music
01:11:27 12.6 Television
01:14:38 12.7 Theater
01:14:54 13 See also
01:15:41 14 Notes and references
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Greenwich Village ( GREN-itch, GRIN-, -ij) often referred to by locals as simply the Village, is a neighborhood on the west side of Manhattan, New York City, within Lower Manhattan. Broadly, Greenwich Village is bounded by 14th Street to the north, Broadway to the east, Houston Street to the south, and the Hudson River to the west. Greenwich Village also contains several subsections, including the West Village west of Seventh Avenue and the Meatpacking District in the northwest corner of Greenwich Village.
In the 20th century, Greenwich Village was known as an artists' haven, the Bohemian capital, the cradle of the modern LGBT movement, and the East Coast birthplace of both the Beat and '60s counterculture movements. Groenwijck, one of the Dutch names for the village (meaning Green District), was Anglicized to Greenwich. Greenwich Village contains Washington Square Park, as well as two of New York's private colleges, New York University (NYU) and the New School.Greenwich Village is part of Manhattan Community District 2, and is patrolled by the 6th Precinct of the New York City Police Department. Greenwich Village has undergone extensive gentrification and commercialization; the four ZIP codes that constitute the Village – 10011, 10012, 10003, and 10014 – were all ranked among the ten most expensive in the United States by median housing price in 2014, according to Forbes, with residential property sale prices in the West Village neighborhood typically exceeding US$2,100 per square foot ($23,000/m2) in 2017.