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10 Most Charming Spots in the Greenwich Village Historic District
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This year marks the 60th anniversary of the Landmarks Law, which for the first time allowed buildings, neighborhoods, and sites to be preserved through landmark designation in New York City. Designated on April 29, 1969, the Greenwich Village Historic District is one of our city's oldest and largest historic districts. At over 2,200 buildings and 100 blocks, it covers much (but not all) of Greenwich Village between University Place and Washington Street, 13th Street and West 4th Street/St. Luke's Place. Its continuing preservation and oversight remains at the core of Village Preservation's mission, along with that of the 15 other historic districts, over 100 individual landmarks, and eight interior landmarks designated in our neighborhoods since — you can view an interactive timeline of all of these designations here. The Greenwich Village Historic District is undeniably charming — so much so that it’s virtually impossible to come up with a top-10 list of its most alluring architectural gems. But with no insult to sites not included, here is one run at 10 of the most charming sites you’ll find in this extraordinarily quaint historic quarter.

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3-17 St. Lukes Place

Little boys beside the Firemen's Monument, Hudson Park (part of a former Trinity Parish cemetery), Leroy Street, Greenwich Village, New York City, September 4, 1893.
3-17 St. Lukes Place image

3-17 St. Lukes Place

Manhattan: St. Lukes Place - Hudson Street 2, 3 to 13 St. Luke's Place, north side, adioining and east of Hudson Street, seen from Hudson Park on the south side. St. Luke's Place is the eastern extension of Leroy Street cut through the Trinity Church Cemetery in the 1840's. That part of the Trinity Church Farmi on the east side of Hudson Street, from Clarkson to Morton Streets, Was early set aside for a cemetery. After Leroy Street was cut through, the southern half continued to serve as a cemetery until the 1890's, when the bodies were moved up to the cemetery on upper Broadway, and the old cemetery converted into a park, called St. John's Park (not to be confused with St. John's Park on lower Varick Street), later Hudson Park, and opened to the public in 1898. The northern half was promptly built up, and a little later named St. Luke's Place, with its own set of house numbers, which replaced the odd numbers 99-ol Leroy Street. Nos. 1-2 age the side of 420 Hudson Street, the corner building. No. 4ds, at the time of this picture, the residence of Mayor James J. Wilker. March 9, 1929. P. L. Sperr. 2-St. Lukea Plece, north side, in foregtound, entrance ~9 ggol5 P. L. 5err Weptember 24, 1938 3-St. Lukek Place, north sidr, from Nudson Street, looking westward. P. L. Sperr eptember 24, 1938 . : .SS \~S .M S Sw AV2 . 1 4-~ A .w.. o. e21a 917N.E r A73 ;
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3-17 St. Lukes Place

Manhattan: Leroy Street - Greenwich Street Leroy Street, north side, from Greenwich to Hudson Streets, and St. Luke'a Place, the extension of Leroy Street east of Hudson Street through the former Trinity Cemetery. The bend in the street, in the background of the picture, coincides with the old boundary line between the Trinity Church Farm, on the west, and the Herring Farm, on the east. In the 1840's the nonthern half of the cemetery, vhich originally extended from Clarkson to Morton Streets, was given up by Trinity Church. Leroy Street, on being cut through, met the western and of Burton Street, and absorbed it, the whole being renumbered west from Bleecker (formerly Herring) Street. See Leroy Street, eastern section, and St. Luke's Place. June 15, 1930. P. L. Sperr. (2) Leroy Street,Eaat from Pudson Street at St.Luke's Plece. October 2,I938.
3-17 St. Lukes Place image

3-17 St. Lukes Place

Manhattan: St. Lukes Place - Hudson Street 2, 3 to 13 St. Luke's Place, north side, adioining and east of Hudson Street, seen from Hudson Park on the south side. St. Luke's Place is the eastern extension of Leroy Street cut through the Trinity Church Cemetery in the 1840's. That part of the Trinity Church Farmi on the east side of Hudson Street, from Clarkson to Morton Streets, Was early set aside for a cemetery. After Leroy Street was cut through, the southern half continued to serve as a cemetery until the 1890's, when the bodies were moved up to the cemetery on upper Broadway, and the old cemetery converted into a park, called St. John's Park (not to be confused with St. John's Park on lower Varick Street), later Hudson Park, and opened to the public in 1898. The northern half was promptly built up, and a little later named St. Luke's Place, with its own set of house numbers, which replaced the odd numbers 99-ol Leroy Street. Nos. 1-2 age the side of 420 Hudson Street, the corner building. No. 4ds, at the time of this picture, the residence of Mayor James J. Wilker. March 9, 1929. P. L. Sperr. 2-St. Lukea Plece, north side, in foregtound, entrance ~9 ggol5 P. L. 5err Weptember 24, 1938 3-St. Lukek Place, north sidr, from Nudson Street, looking westward. P. L. Sperr eptember 24, 1938 . : .SS \~S .M S Sw AV2 . 1 4-~ A .w.. o. e21a 917N.E r A73 ;
3-17 St. Lukes Place image

3-17 St. Lukes Place

Manhattan: St. Lukes Place - Hudson Street 2, 3 to 13 St. Luke's Place, north side, adioining and east of Hudson Street, seen from Hudson Park on the south side. St. Luke's Place is the eastern extension of Leroy Street cut through the Trinity Church Cemetery in the 1840's. That part of the Trinity Church Farmi on the east side of Hudson Street, from Clarkson to Morton Streets, Was early set aside for a cemetery. After Leroy Street was cut through, the southern half continued to serve as a cemetery until the 1890's, when the bodies were moved up to the cemetery on upper Broadway, and the old cemetery converted into a park, called St. John's Park (not to be confused with St. John's Park on lower Varick Street), later Hudson Park, and opened to the public in 1898. The northern half was promptly built up, and a little later named St. Luke's Place, with its own set of house numbers, which replaced the odd numbers 99-ol Leroy Street. Nos. 1-2 age the side of 420 Hudson Street, the corner building. No. 4ds, at the time of this picture, the residence of Mayor James J. Wilker. March 9, 1929. P. L. Sperr. 2-St. Lukea Plece, north side, in foregtound, entrance ~9 ggol5 P. L. 5err Weptember 24, 1938 3-St. Lukek Place, north sidr, from Nudson Street, looking westward. P. L. Sperr eptember 24, 1938 . : .SS \~S .M S Sw AV2 . 1 4-~ A .w.. o. e21a 917N.E r A73 ;
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