East Village (Manhattan)
East Village is a neighborhood in the district of Manhattan in New York . It is east of Greenwich Village , south of Gramercy Park and Stuyvesant Town , and north of the Lower East Side . Within the borough are the Bowery , Alphabet City, and Tompkins Square Park .
The neighborhood was part of the Lower East Side until the 1960s. Once a focal point of New York's subculture, the East Village has become a popular trendy neighborhood.
The population in 2015 was 64,710.
history
founding
In what is now the East Village, there was originally a farm owned by the Dutch governor Wouter van Twiller. Petrus Stuyvesant received the farm in 1651 and it was run by the family for seven generations.
At the beginning of the 19th century, the parcels were sold and incorporated into New York. A residential area developed for a few decades until a large wave of Irish and German immigration began in the 1840s and 1850s. Real estate speculators built large residential complexes with rental apartments and apartments and rented the rooms to workers. The neighborhood was a center of German migration culture with beer gardens, sports clubs, shooting clubs, schools and churches, and was named Klein Germany ( Little Germany ). At that time (at its peak with 370,000 people) the Germans formed the largest German congregation abroad. Due to the loss of many people important to the community in the General Slocum disaster in 1904, it fell apart the following year and immigrants of other nationalities took over the apartments. The quarter was continually expanded to the east by embankments in the East River .
East Village as a trendy district
Until the mid-1960s, the East Village was a northern part of the Lower East Side with similar ethnic and social backgrounds. With the arrival of beatniks in the 1950s, the district became attractive to hippies , musicians and artists who settled there from 1960. To separate the area from the slums of the Lower East Side and to emphasize its proximity to the popular areas of Greenwich Village and SoHo , real estate speculators spread the name East Village. The new name established itself and has been used exclusively since the late 1960s.
A lively music and cultural scene developed in the East Village. Andy Warhol organized a series of shows with musical accompaniment from the band The Velvet Underground in 1966 . The music club CBGB gained international fame through punk rock . In the late 1970s and early 1980s, performance art was heavily influenced by the theaters in the district. The galleries helped numerous postmodern artists to success, including Keith Haring , Jean-Michel Basquiat and Jeff Koons .
Since the 1980s, the district has tended to decline in the number of independent art and cultural institutions. The East Village became increasingly gentrified , with galleries, art stages and the gay and lesbian scene leaving the neighborhood. Today the East Village is a popular district with many parks and numerous museums, libraries, theaters and shops. Several music festivals take place each year, including a nationally known jazz festival.
traffic
The nearest subway stations are Second Avenue (Lines F and M ), Astor Place (Lines 4 , 6 and 6-Express), Eighth Street - New York University (Lines N , Q , R and W ) and First Avenue ( Line L ). The East Village is also served by the M1, M2, M3, M8, M9, M14A, M14D, M15, M15 SBS, M21, M101, M102 and M103 buses.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ East Village (Alphabet City) neighborhood in New York, New York (NY), 10002, 10003, 10009, 10012 subdivision profile - real estate, apartments, condos, homes, community, population, jobs, income, streets. Retrieved July 8, 2017 .
Coordinates: 40 ° 44 ′ N , 73 ° 59 ′ W