Map of East Village

Description:
This map shows parks, nightclubs, bars, restaurants, hotels, museums, tourist attractions, and sightseeings in East Village (Manhattan, New York City).

About East Village

The East Village is a neighborhood in Manhattan, New York City, generally bounded by 14th Street to the north, Houston Street to the south, the Bowery and Third Avenue to the west and the East River to the east. It was originally considered part of the Lower East Side and developed a separate identity in the 1960s. The eastern section, where the avenues are lettered A through D, is known as Alphabet City.

In the 19th century, the area was home to a large German community known as Kleindeutschland ("Little Germany"). This community declined after the General Slocum disaster of 1904, in which more than 1,000 people, mostly German Americans from the neighborhood, died when an excursion steamboat caught fire on the East River. The area later attracted Ukrainian, Polish and Puerto Rican residents.

From the 1950s through the 1980s, the East Village was a center of the counterculture, the arts and punk rock. St. Mark's Place became its best-known street, and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe opened in 1973. Tompkins Square Park was the site of a riot in 1988. The neighborhood is also home to St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery (1799), one of the oldest church buildings in Manhattan, and the Cooper Union, founded in 1859 at Astor Place.