Greenwich Village's known history dates back to the sixteenth century, when it was a marshland called Sapokanikan by Native Americans who fished in the trout stream known as Minetta Brook. When the Dutch first settled on Manhattan in 1621,...

Greenwich Village (pronounced /ˌgrɛnɪtʃ ˈvɪlɪdʒ/), or simply called the Village, is a largely residential area on the west side of downtown (southern) Manhattan in New York City named after Greenwich, London. A large majority of this district is...

LOOKING FOR SUZUKI BEANE I always get cheered up when I see a mattress on the floor. It probably started that day in 1961 when our old neighbor from Chicago, Peggy, was sitting next to a big plant on the terrace of a...

NEW YORK IN THE FIFTIES By Dan Wakefield Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence. 355 pp. $24.95 DAN WAKEFIELD was 20 years old when, in January of 1952, he boarded a train in his home state of Indiana and headed for New York...

Not for nothing does Gusto call itself a "Bar Americano." Most cocktail menus give me a sinking feeling; after a quick look, I hand them back and order something plain and sensible. But the glorious-looking drinks here, which include six kinds of Bloody Mary and...

Today, Saint Vincent Medical Centers announced that I.M. Pei’s firm Pei Cobb Freed & Partners has been chosen to design Saint Vincent’s new Greenwich Village hospital. The internationally renowned architect will be teaming up with Philadelphia-based Ballinger, a firm known for its healthcare design, according...