Crooked streets and brick townhouses
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Here the Manhattan grid gives up: streets run on the diagonal, cross where they shouldn't, and brick townhouses with stoops give the area a village feel. People come to wander under the trees of Bedford or Grove Street, squeeze into a tiny bistro and end the night in a bar hidden behind an unmarked door.
Greenwich was a hamlet outside the city. In the early 19th century, New Yorkers fleeing yellow fever epidemics took refuge here and the village filled up — without ever adopting the 1811 grid. In 1969, the Stonewall Inn uprising on Christopher Street launched the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement; a few blocks away, Jane Jacobs, who lived on Hudson Street, led the fight that saved the neighbourhood from Robert Moses' highways.
