Manhattan
West Village
45 min8 stops1.9 miLEAFY
Crooked streets that ignore the grid, a courthouse that became a library, and the best stoops in Manhattan.
The route
1.Jefferson Market Library
A Victorian courthouse turned library — the clocktower kept time for the whole neighborhood.
2.Gay Street
One block long, bent in the middle, and somehow always quiet.
3.Cherry Lane Theatre
The oldest continuously running off-Broadway house, hiding on a bend in Commerce Street.
4.St. Luke in the Fields
A garden behind a brick wall most people walk straight past.
5.The Ear Inn
One of the oldest bars in the city — the shoreline used to be a few feet from the door.
6.Westbeth Artists Housing
Bell Labs invented the transistor's ancestors here. Now it's full of painters.
7.White Horse Tavern
Where the longshoremen drank, and later, the poets.
8.Abingdon Square
A small triangle with a long memory — finish on a bench.