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{{Short description|Neighborhood in New York City}}
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The '''East Village''' is a neighborhood on the [[East Side (Manhattan)|East Side]] of [[Lower Manhattan]] in [[New York City]], New York. It is roughly defined as the area east of the [[Bowery]] and [[Third Avenue]], between [[14th Street (Manhattan)|14th Street]] on the north and [[Houston Street (Manhattan)|Houston Street]] on the south.<ref name="EV">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/01/01/nyregion/fyi-649895.html |title=F.Y.I.: East Village History |first=Jesse |last=McKinley |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=June 1, 1995 |access-date=August 26, 2008}}</ref> The East Village contains three subsections: [[Alphabet City, Manhattan|Alphabet City]], in reference to the single-letter-named avenues that are located to the east of [[First Avenue (Manhattan)|First Avenue]]; [[Ukrainian Americans in New York City#Little Ukraine|Little Ukraine]], near [[Second Avenue (Manhattan)|Second Avenue]] and 6th and 7th Streets; and the [[Bowery]], located around the street of the same name.

Initially the location of the present-day East Village was occupied by the [[Lenape]] Native people, and was then divided into plantations by Dutch settlers. During the early 19th century, the East Village contained many of the city's most opulent estates. By the middle of the century, it grew to include a large immigrant population{{snd}}including what was once referred to as [[Manhattan]]'s [[Little Germany, Manhattan|Little Germany]]{{snd}}and was considered part of the nearby [[Lower East Side]]. By the late 1960s, many artists, musicians, students and [[hippie]]s began to move into the area, and the East Village was given its own identity. Since at least the 2000s, [[gentrification]] has changed the character of the neighborhood.<ref name="Kugel">{{cite news |last=Kugel |first=Seth |url=http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/travel/16weekend.html |title=An 80-Block Slice of City Life |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=September 19, 2007}}</ref>

The East Village is part of [[Manhattan Community Board 3|Manhattan Community District 3]], and its primary [[ZIP Code]]s are 10003 and 10009.<ref name="NYCPlanning"/> It is patrolled by the [[9th Precinct, New York City Police Department|9th Precinct]] of the [[New York City Police Department]].
{{TOC limit|3}} Unlike the [[West Village]], the East Village is not located within [[Greenwich Village]].

==History==
===Early development===
[[File:Stuyvesant Street.JPG|thumb|300px|[[Stuyvesant Street]], one of the neighborhood's oldest streets, in front of [[St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery]]. This street served as the boundary between boweries 1{{nbs}}and 2, owned by [[Peter Stuyvesant]].]]

The area that is today known as the East Village was originally occupied by the [[Lenape]] Native people.{{sfn|Brazee|Most|2012|p=8}} The Lenape relocated during different seasons, moving toward the shore to fish during the summers, and moving inland to hunt and grow crops during the fall and winter.{{sfn|Burrows|Wallace|1999|pp=5–23}} Manhattan was purchased in 1626 by [[Peter Minuit]] of the [[Dutch West India Company]], who served as director-general of [[New Netherland]].<ref>{{cite web | title=New York City in Indian possession |last=Bolton |first=Reginald Pelham, 1856–1942 |edition=2nd |publisher=Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation |year=1975 |via=Internet Archive | url=https://archive.org/details/newyorkcityinin00bolt | access-date=September 29, 2019 |page=7}}</ref>{{Sfn|Stokes,|1915|loc=vol. 1, p.6}}

The population of the Dutch colony of [[New Amsterdam]] was located primarily below the current [[Fulton Street (Manhattan)|Fulton Street]], while north of it were a number of small plantations and large farms that were then called ''bouwerij'' (anglicized to "boweries"; {{langx|nl|label=modern [[Dutch language|Dutch]]|boerderij}}). Around these farms were a number of enclaves of free or "half-free" Africans, which served as a buffer between the Dutch and the Native Americans.{{sfn|Brazee|Most|2012|p=8}}{{Sfn|Stokes,|1915|loc=vol. 1, pp. 18–20}} One of the largest of these was located along the modern [[Bowery]] between Prince Street and [[Astor Place]], as well as the "only separate enclave" of this type within Manhattan.{{sfn|Brazee|Most|2012|p=8}}<ref>{{cite book | last=Foote | first=T.W. | title=Black and White Manhattan: The History of Racial Formation in Colonial New York City | publisher=Oxford University Press, USA | year=2004 | isbn=978-0-19-508809-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zf3dR6wabKsC | access-date=September 30, 2019 | page=149}}</ref> These Black farmers were some of the earliest settlers of the area.<ref name="encnyc"/>{{rp|769–770}}

There were several "boweries" within what is now the East Village. Bowery no.{{nbs}}2 passed through several inhabitants, before the eastern half of the land was subdivided and given to Harmen Smeeman in 1647. [[Peter Stuyvesant]], the director-general of New Netherland, owned adjacent bowery no.{{nbs}}1 and bought bowery no.{{nbs}}2 in 1656 for [[Stuyvesant Farm|his farm]]. Stuyvesant's manor, also called Bowery, was near what is now 10th Street between Second and Third Avenues. Though the manor burned down in the 1770s, his family held onto the land for over seven generations, until a descendant began selling off parcels in the early 19th century.{{sfn|Brazee|Most|2012|p=5}}{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=9}}

Bowery no. 3 was located near today's 2nd Street between Second Avenue and the modern street named Bowery. It was owned by Gerrit Hendricksen in 1646 and later given to Philip Minthorne by 1732. The Minthorne and Stuyvesant families both held enslaved people on their farms.{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=9}} According to an 1803 deed, enslaved people held by Stuyvesant were to be buried in a cemetery plot at [[St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery]].<ref name="Valentine's Manual 1862">{{cite book |title=Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York |last1=Valentine |first1=David Thomas (1801–1869) |publisher=[[New York City Council|New York City Common Council]] (publisher) (see [[New York City Board of Aldermen]]). Edmund Jones & Co. (printer) |year=1862 |via=HathiTrust |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433066343512&view=1up&seq=758 |access-date=September 30, 2019 |page=690 }} {{LCCN|10006227}}; {{OCLC|6671620|show=all}}.<div style="margin-left:2em">Re: ''[[Valentine's Manual]]''.</div></ref> The Stuyvesants' estate later expanded to include two [[Georgian architecture|Georgian]]-style manors: the "Bowery House" to the south{{sfn|Brazee|Most|2012|p=5}}{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=9}} and "Petersfield" to the north.{{sfn|Brazee|Most|2012|p=6}}{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=10}}

Many of these farms had become wealthy country estates by the middle of the 18th century. The Stuyvesant, DeLancey, and Rutgers families would come to own most of the land on the Lower East Side, including the portions that would later become the East Village.{{sfn|Burrows|Wallace|1999|pp=178–179}} By the late 18th century Lower Manhattan estate owners started having their lands surveyed to facilitate the future growth of Lower Manhattan into a [[street grid]] system. The Stuyvesant plot, surveyed in the 1780s or 1790s, was planned to be developed with a new grid around [[Stuyvesant Street]], a street that ran compass west–east. This contrasted with the grid system that was ultimately laid out under the [[Commissioners' Plan of 1811]], which is offset by 28.9 degrees clockwise. Stuyvesant Street formed the border between former boweries 1{{nbs}}and 2, and the grid surrounding it included four north–south and nine west–east streets.{{sfn|Brazee|Most|2012|p=5}}{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=9}}

Because each landowner had done their own survey, there were different street grids that did not align with each other. Various state laws, passed in the 1790s, gave the city of New York the ability to plan out, open, and close streets.{{sfn|Brazee|Most|2012|p=6}}{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=10}} The final plan, published in 1811, resulted in the current street grid north of [[Houston Street]]{{snd}}and most of the streets in the modern East Village{{snd}}were conformed to this plan, except for Stuyvesant Street.{{sfn|Lockwood,|1972|p=196}} The north–south avenues within the Lower East Side were finished in the 1810s, followed by the west–east streets in the 1820s.{{Sfn|Stokes,|1915|loc=vol. 5, p. 1668}}

===Upscale neighborhood===
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The Commissioners' Plan and resulting street grid was the catalyst for the northward expansion of the city,{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=11}} and for a short period, the portion of the Lower East Side that is now the East Village was one of the wealthiest residential neighborhoods in the city.<ref name="Saint">{{cite web |first=Christopher |last=Gray |title=Streetscapes / 19–25 St. Marks Place; The Eclectic Life of a Row of East Village Houses |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=November 8, 1998 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/08/realestate/streetscapes-19-25-st-marks-place-eclectic-life-row-east-village-houses.html | access-date=September 29, 2019}}</ref> [[Bond Street (Manhattan)|Bond Street]] between the Bowery and Broadway, just west of the East Side within present-day [[NoHo, Manhattan|NoHo]], was considered the most upscale street address in the city by the 1830s,{{sfn|Burrows|Wallace|1999|pp=178–179}} with structures such as the [[Greek Revival architecture|Greek Revival]]-style [[Colonnade Row]] and [[Federal architecture|Federal]]-style [[rowhouse]]s.{{sfn|Brazee|Most|2012|p=7}}{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=10}} The neighborhood's prestigious nature could be attributed to several factors, including a rise in commerce and population following the [[Erie Canal]]'s opening in the 1820s.{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=11}}

Following the grading of the streets, development of rowhouses came to the East Side and NoHo by the early 1830s.{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=11}} One set of Federal-style rowhouses was built in the 1830s by [[Thomas E. Davis]] on 8th Street between [[Second Avenue (Manhattan)|Second]] and [[Third Avenue]]s. That block was renamed "[[St. Mark's Place (Manhattan)|St. Mark's Place]]" and is one of the few remaining terrace names in the East Village.{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=12}} In 1833 Davis and [[Arthur Bronson]] bought the entire block of 10th Street from [[Avenue A (Manhattan)|Avenue A]] to [[Avenue B (Manhattan)|Avenue B]]. The block was located adjacent to [[Tompkins Square Park]], located between 7th and 10th Streets from Avenue A to Avenue B, designated the same year.{{Sfn|Stokes,|1915|loc=vol. 5, pp. 1726–1728}}

Though the park was not in the original Commissioners' Plan of 1811, part of the land from 7th to 10th Streets east of First Avenue had been set aside for a marketplace that was ultimately never built.{{sfn|Brazee|Most|2012|p=8}} Rowhouses up to three stories were built on the side streets by such developers as [[Elisha Peck]] and [[Anson Green Phelps]]; [[Ephraim H. Wentworth]]; and [[Christopher S. Hubbard]] and [[Henry H. Casey]].{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=13}}

Mansions were also built on the East Side. One notable address was the twelve-house development called "Albion Place", located on Fourth Street between the Bowery and Second Avenue, built for Peck and Phelps in 1832–1833.{{sfn|Brazee|Most|2012|p=7}}{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=12}} Second Avenue also had its own concentration of mansions, though most residences on that avenue were row houses built by [[Land speculation|speculative land owners]], including the [[Isaac T. Hopper House]].{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=12}}{{sfn|Lockwood,|1972|p=59}} One ''[[New York Evening Post]]'' article in 1846 said that Second Avenue was to become one of "the two great avenues for elegant residences" in Manhattan, the other being [[Fifth Avenue]].{{sfn|Lockwood,|1972|p=196}}

Two marble cemeteries were also built on the East Side: the [[New York City Marble Cemetery]], built in 1831 on 2nd Street between First and Second Avenues,<ref name="NYCL-0464">{{cite web |url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/0464.pdf |title=New York City Marble Cemetery |date=March 4, 1969 |publisher=[[New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission]]|access-date=September 28, 2019}}</ref>{{rp|1}} and the [[New York Marble Cemetery]], built in 1830 within the backlots of the block to the west.<ref name="NYCL-0466">{{cite web |url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/0466.pdf |title=New York Marble Cemetery |date=March 4, 1969 |publisher=[[New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission]]|access-date=September 28, 2019}}</ref>{{rp|1}} Following the rapid growth of the neighborhood, Manhattan's 17th ward was split from the 11th ward in 1837. The former covered the area from Avenue B to the Bowery, while the latter covered the area from Avenue B to the [[East River]].{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|pp=15–16}}

===Immigrant neighborhood===
====19th century====
{{See also|Little Germany, Manhattan}}
[[File:Little Germany House.jpg|thumb|200px|Former German-American Shooting Society Clubhouse at 12 [[8th Street / St. Mark's Place (Manhattan)|St Mark's Place]] (1885), part of [[Little Germany, Manhattan|Little Germany]]]]

By the middle of the 19th century, many of the wealthy had continued to move further northward to the [[Upper West Side]] and the [[Upper East Side]].<ref name="Dolkart 2012">{{cite book | last=Dolkart | first=Andrew | title=Biography of a Tenement House: An Architectural History of 97 Orchard Street | publisher=Center for American Places at Columbia College | year=2012 | isbn=978-1-935195-29-0 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OcuBtwAACAAJ | access-date=September 30, 2019 }}</ref>{{rp|10}} Some wealthy families remained, and one observer noted in the 1880s that these families "look[ed] down with disdain upon the parvenus of Fifth avenue".{{sfn|Lockwood,|1972|p=199}} In general, though, the wealthy population of the neighborhood started to decline as many moved northward. Immigrants from modern-day Ireland, Germany, and Austria moved into the rowhouses and manors.{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|pp=15–16}}

The population of Manhattan's 17th ward{{snd}}which includes the western part of the East Village and Lower East Side{{snd}}grew from 18,000 in 1840 to over 43,000 by 1850 and to 73,000 persons in 1860, becoming the city's most highly populated ward at that time.{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|pp=15–16}}<ref name="Nadel 1990">{{Cite book |first=Stanley |last=Nadel |title=Little Germany: Ethnicity, Religion, and Class in New York City, 1845–80 |location=Urbana |publisher=University of Illinois Press |year=1990 |isbn=0-252-01677-7 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/littlegermanyeth0000nade }}</ref>{{rp|29, 32}} As a result of the [[Panic of 1837]], the city had experienced less construction in the previous years, and so there was a dearth of units available for immigrants, resulting in the subdivision of many houses in lower Manhattan.{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|pp=15–16}}{{sfn|Burrows|Wallace|1999|p=746}}

Another solution was brand-new "tenant houses", or [[tenement]]s, within the East Side.<ref name="Dolkart 2012"/>{{rp|14–15}} Clusters of these buildings were constructed by the [[Astor family]] and [[Stephen Whitney]].{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=17}} The developers rarely involved themselves with the daily operations of the tenements, instead subcontracting landlords (many of them immigrants or their children) to run each building.{{sfn|Burrows|Wallace|1999|pp=448–449, 788}} Numerous tenements were erected, typically with footprints of {{convert|25|by|25|ft}}, before regulatory legislation was passed in the 1860s.{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=17}}

To address concerns about unsafe and unsanitary conditions, a second set of laws was passed in 1879, requiring each room to have windows, resulting in the creation of air shafts between each building. Subsequent tenements built to the law's specifications were referred to as [[Old Law Tenement]]s.{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=21}}<ref name="Riis 1971"/> Reform movements, such as the one started by [[Jacob Riis]]'s 1890 book ''[[How the Other Half Lives]]'', continued to attempt to alleviate the problems of the area through [[settlement house]]s, such as the [[Henry Street Settlement]], and other welfare and service agencies.<ref name=encnyc />{{rp|769–770}}

Because most of the new immigrants were German speakers, the East Village and the Lower East Side collectively became known as "[[Little Germany, Manhattan|Little Germany]]" ({{langx|de|links=no|Kleindeutschland}}).<ref name="Nadel 1990"/>{{rp|29}}{{sfn|Burrows|Wallace|1999|p=745}}<ref name="Haberstroh"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/a-short-walking-tour-of-new-yorks-lower-east-side-1572853/?no-ist|title=A Short Walking Tour of New York's Lower East Side|author=Susan Spano|work=Smithsonian|access-date=March 29, 2016}}</ref> The neighborhood had the third largest urban population of Germans outside of [[Vienna]] and [[Berlin]]. It was America's first foreign language neighborhood; hundreds of political, social, sports and recreational clubs were set up during this period.{{sfn|Burrows|Wallace|1999|p=745}} Numerous churches were built in the neighborhood, of which many are still extant.{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=21}} In addition, Little Germany also had its own library on Second Avenue,<ref name="Haberstroh"/> now the [[New York Public Library]]'s Ottendorfer branch.<ref name="NYPL Ottendorfer"/> However, the community started to decline after the sinking of the ''[[SS General Slocum|General Slocum]]'' on June 15, 1904, in which more than a thousand German-Americans died.<ref name="Haberstroh">{{cite web | last=Haberstroh | first=Richard | title=Kleindeutschland: Little Germany in the Lower East Side | website=LESPI-NY | url=http://www.lespi-nyc.org/history/kleindeutschland-little-germany-in-the-lower-east-side.html | access-date=September 30, 2019 | archive-date=September 30, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190930214505/http://www.lespi-nyc.org/history/kleindeutschland-little-germany-in-the-lower-east-side.html | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first=R. T. |last=O'Donnell |year=2003 |title=Ship ablaze: The tragedy of the steamboat General Slocum |publisher=Broadway Books |location=New York |isbn=0-7679-0905-4 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/shipablazetraged00odon }}</ref>

The Germans who moved out of the area were replaced by immigrants of many different nationalities.{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=22}} This included groups of Italians and Eastern European Jews, as well as Greeks, Hungarians, Poles, Romanians, Russians, Slovaks and Ukrainians, each of whom settled in relatively homogeneous enclaves.<ref name=encnyc/>{{rp|769–770}} In ''How the Other Half Lives'' Riis wrote: "A map of the city, colored to designate nationalities, would show more stripes than on the skin of a zebra, and more colors than any rainbow."<ref name="Riis 1971">{{cite book | last=Riis | first=Jacob | title=How the other half lives : studies among the tenements of New York | publisher=Dover | location=New York | year=1971 | isbn=978-0-486-22012-3 | oclc=139827 }}</ref>{{rp|20}}

One of the first groups to populate the former Little Germany were [[Yiddish]]-speaking [[Ashkenazi Jews]], who first settled south of Houston Street before moving northward.{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=23}} The [[Roman Catholic]] [[Polish people|Poles]] as well as the [[Protestant]] [[Hungarians]] would also have a significant impact in the East Side, erecting houses of worship next to each other along 7th Street at the turn of the 20th century. American-born New Yorkers would build other churches and community institutions, including the Olivet Memorial Church at 59 East 2nd Street (built 1891), the Middle Collegiate Church at 112 Second Avenue (built 1891–1892), and the Society of the Music School Settlement, now [[Third Street Music School Settlement]], at 53–55 East 3rd Street (converted 1903–1904).{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|pp=24–25}}

By the 1890s tenements were being designed in the ornate [[Queen Anne architecture in the United States|Queen Anne]] and [[Romanesque Revival architecture|Romanesque Revival]] styles. Tenements built in the later part of the decade were built in the [[Renaissance Revival architecture|Renaissance Revival]] style.{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|pp=26–27}} At the time, the area was increasingly being identified as part of the Lower East Side.<ref>{{cite book | last1=Sanders | first1=R. | last2=Gillon | first2=E.V. | title=The Lower East Side: A Guide to Its Jewish Past with 99 New Photographs | publisher=Dover Publications | series=Dover books on New York City | year=1979 | isbn=978-0-486-23871-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Epqr_te4DBsC | access-date=September 1, 2019 | page=13}}</ref>

====20th century====
{{See also|Yiddish Theatre District}}
[[File:Village East former Yiddish Arts Theatre.jpg|thumb|300px|The [[Village East Cinema]]/Louis N. Jaffe Theater was originally a Jewish theater.]]

By the 1890s and 1900s any remaining manors on Second Avenue had been demolished and replaced with tenements or apartment buildings.{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|pp=29–30}} The [[New York State Tenement House Act]] of 1901 drastically changed the regulations to which tenement buildings had to conform.{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|pp=29–30}}<ref>{{cite book | title=The tenement house laws of the City of New York |date=1901 |via=HathiTrust Digital Library | url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009784289 | access-date=December 10, 2019}}</ref> The early 20th century marked the creation of apartment houses,<ref name="NYTs 1929 Jun 2">{{cite news |title=Creating New Apartment Area on Lower Second Avenue – Second Avenue Awakening |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=June 2, 1929 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1929/06/02/archives/creating-new-apartment-area-on-lower-second-avenue-second-avenue.html |volume=78 |issue=26062 |page=1 (column 3; section 11) |access-date=September 1, 2019}} ({{cite book |title=''permalink'' |work=The New York Times |url=https://nyti.ms/394yuis |url-access=subscription |via=[[TimesMachine]]}}).</ref> office buildings,<ref>{{cite news |title=Second Avenue Skyscraper – Martin Engel and Louis Minsky Are to Put up the First There |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=October 5, 1907 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1907/10/05/archives/second-avenue-skyscraper-martin-engel-and-louis-minsky-are-to-put.html |volume=57 |issue=18151 |page=8 (column 7) |access-date=September 1, 2019}} ({{cite book |title=''pdf'' |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1907/10/05/104996309.pdf |via=[[TimesMachine]]}}) ({{cite book |title=''permalink'' |work=The New York Times |url=https://nyti.ms/3GPrrq8 |url-access=subscription |via=[[TimesMachine]]}}).</ref> and other commercial or institutional structures on Second Avenue.{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=30}} After the widening of Second Avenue's roadbed in the early 1910s, many of the front stoops on that road were eliminated.<ref>{{cite web | title=City to Descend on Old St. Mark's – Second Avenue Widening to Take Fifteen Feet off Church's Lawn | work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 | date=June 19, 1912 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1912/06/19/archives/city-to-descend-on-old-st-marks-second-avenue-widening-to-take.html | access-date=September 1, 2019}}</ref> The symbolic demise of the old fashionable district came in 1912 when the last resident moved out of the Thomas E. Davis mansion at Second Avenue and St. Mark's Place, which ''The New York Times'' had called the "last fashionable residence" on Second Avenue.<ref>{{cite web | title=Landmarks Passing On Second Avenue; Keteltas Mansion, the Last Fashionable Residence, to Become a Moving Picture House | work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 | date=November 10, 1912 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1912/11/10/archives/landmarks-passing-on-second-avenue-keteltas-mansion-the-last.html | access-date=September 1, 2019}}</ref> In 1916, the [[Slovene Americans|Slovenian]] community and [[Franciscans]] established the [[Slovenian Church of St. Cyril in New York|Slovenian Church of St. Cyril]], which still operates.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Surk |first=Barbara |date=September 28, 1997 |title="NEIGHBORHOOD REPORT: EAST VILLAGE; Slovenian Church Endures" |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/09/28/nyregion/neighborhood-report-east-village-slovenian-church-endures.html |website=The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331}}</ref>

Simultaneously with the decline of the last manors, the [[Yiddish Theatre District]] or "Yiddish Rialto" developed within the East Side. It contained many theaters and other forms of entertainment for the Jewish immigrants of the city.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3ClbSVEha8gC&pg=PT199 |title=The Rough Guide to New York City |first1=Andrew |last1=Rosenberg |first2=Martin |last2=Dunford |publisher=Penguin |year=2012 |isbn=9781405390224 |access-date=March 10, 2013 }}
* {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6-sGw8H-yRkC&pg=PA171 |title=Let's Go New York City 16th Edition |author=Let's Go, Inc |publisher=Macmillan |year=2006 |isbn=9780312360870 |access-date=March 10, 2013 }}
* {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3c0RAQAAIAAJ |title=Oscar Israelowitz's guide to Jewish New York City |author=Oscar Israelowitz |publisher=Israelowitz Publishing |year=2004 |isbn=9781878741622 |access-date=March 10, 2013 }}
* {{cite news |last=Cofone |first=Annie |url=http://eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes.com/tag/theater-district/ |title=Theater District; Strolling Back Into the Golden Age of Yiddish Theater |newspaper=The New York Times |date=September 13, 2010 |access-date=March 10, 2013 |archive-date=April 23, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160423081700/http://eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes.com/tag/theater-district/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="jweekly1">{{cite news|url=http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/7106/yiddish-music-maven-sees-mamaloshen-in-mainstream/ |author= Ronnie Caplane|title=Yiddish music maven sees mamaloshen in mainstream |newspaper= J|publisher=Jweekly |date=November 28, 1997 |access-date=March 10, 2013}}</ref> While most of the early Yiddish theaters were located south of Houston Street, several theater producers were considering moving north along Second Avenue by the first decades of the 20th century.{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=31}}

Second Avenue gained more prominence as a Yiddish theater destination in the 1910s with the opening of two theatres: the [[Second Avenue Theatre]], which opened in 1911 at 35–37 Second Avenue,<ref>{{cite web | title=$800,000 Theatre Opens on East Side; Big as the Hippodrome, but Many Are Turned Away From First Night's Performance | work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 | date=September 15, 1911 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1911/09/15/archives/800000-theatre-opens-on-east-side-big-as-the-hippodrome-but-many.html | access-date=September 1, 2019}}</ref> and the [[National Theater (Manhattan)|National Theater]], which opened in 1912 at 111–117 East Houston Street.<ref>{{cite web | title='Cures' Great Hall at City College; Harvard Scientist Remedies Faulty Acoustics After a Summer's Experimenting | work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 | date=September 25, 1912 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1912/09/25/archives/cures-great-hall-at-city-college-harvard-scientist-remedies-faulty.html | access-date=September 1, 2019}}</ref> This was followed by the opening of several other theaters, such as the [[Village East Cinema|Louis N. Jaffe Theater]] and the Public Theatre in 1926 and 1927 respectively. Numerous movie houses also opened in the East Side, including six on Second Avenue.{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=32}} By World War{{nbs}}I the district's theaters hosted as many as twenty to thirty shows a night.<ref name="jweekly1"/> After World War{{nbs}}II Yiddish theater became less popular,<ref name="U-Rochester 2005 Sep 29">{{cite news|author= J. Katz|title=O'Brien Traces History of Yiddish Theater |url=https://www.campustimes.org/2005/09/29/obrien-traces-history-of-yiddish-theater/ |work=Campus Times |publisher=[[University of Rochester]] |date= September 29, 2005 |access-date=March 10, 2013}}</ref> and by the mid-1950s few theaters were still extant in the District.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://forward.com/articles/13862/bruce-adler--star-of-yiddish-stage-and-broadw-/ |author=Lana Gersten |title=Bruce Adler, 63, Star of Broadway and Second Avenue |publisher=Forward |date= July 29, 2008|access-date=March 10, 2013}}</ref>

The city built [[First Houses]] on the south side of [[3rd Street (Manhattan)|East 3rd Street]] between [[First Avenue (Manhattan)|First Avenue]] and [[Avenue A (Manhattan)|Avenue A]], and on the west side of Avenue A between [[2nd Street (Manhattan)|East 2nd]] and East 3rd Streets in 1935–1936, the first such [[public housing project]] in the United States.<ref name="encnyc">{{cite enc-nyc2}}<div style="margin-left:2em">{{cite book|title=''Online access → Section → "Lower East Side"'' |url=https://archive.org/details/theencyclopediaofnewyorkcitysecondedition/page/n789/mode/2up |series={{free access}} |date=May 2010 |pages=769–770 |access-date=June 3, 2022 |via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</div></ref>{{rp|769–770}}<ref name="NYCL-0876"/>{{rp|1}} The neighborhood originally ended at the [[East River]], to the east of where [[Avenue D (Manhattan)|Avenue D]] was later located. In the mid-20th-century, landfill{{snd}}including World War{{nbs}}II debris and rubble shipped from London{{snd}}was used to extend the shoreline to provide foundation for the [[Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive]].<ref name="Strausbaugh 2007"/>

In the mid-20th century [[Ukrainian people|Ukrainians]] created a [[Ukrainian Americans in New York City|Ukrainian enclave]] in the neighborhood, centered around Second Avenue and 6th and 7th Streets.{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=36}}<ref name="McKinley 1997"/> The Polish enclave in the East Village persisted as well. Numerous other immigrant groups had moved out, and their former churches were sold and became [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Orthodox cathedrals]].{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=36}} Latin American immigrants started to move to the East Side, settling in the eastern part of the neighborhood and creating an enclave that later came to be known as [[Alphabet City, Manhattan#Loisaida|Loisaida]].{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=37}}<ref name="Foderaro 1987"/><ref name="von Hassell 1996"/>
[[File:St Nicholas Manhattan NYC 1914.png|thumb|200px|[[St. Nicholas Kirche (New York City)|St. Nicholas Kirche]] at East 2nd Street, just west of Avenue A. The church and almost all buildings on the street were demolished in 1960 and replaced with parking lots for the [[Village View Houses]].<ref name="NYT-Kirche-1960"/>]]

The East Side's population started to decline at the start of the [[Great Depression]] in the 1930s and the implementation of the [[Immigration Act of 1924]], and the expansion of the [[New York City Subway]] into the outer boroughs.{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=33}} Many old tenements, deemed to be "blighted" and unnecessary, were destroyed in the middle of the 20th century.{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=34}} A substantial portion of the neighborhood, including the Ukrainian enclave, was slated for demolition under the Cooper Square Urban Renewal Plan of 1956, which was to redevelop the area from Ninth to [[Delancey Street]]s from the Bowery/Third Avenue to [[Chrystie Street]]/Second Avenue with new privately owned [[cooperative housing]].{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=34}}<ref>{{cite web | title=Cooper Sq. Project Is Adding 8 Acres |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 | date=November 30, 1956 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1956/11/30/archives/cooper-sq-project-is-adding-8-acres.html | access-date=September 1, 2019}}</ref>

The [[United Housing Foundation]] was selected as the sponsor for the project,<ref name="NYTs 1959 Jun 3">{{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|''New York Times'', June 3,|1959|p=44}} |date=June 3, 1959 |title=Plan for Cooper Sq. Raises Objections |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1959/06/03/archives/plan-for-cooper-sq-raises-objections.html |work=The New York Times |volume=108 |issue=37020 |page=44 (column 6, top) |issn=0362-4331 |access-date=September 1, 2019}} ({{cite book |title=''permalink'' |work=The New York Times |url=https://nyti.ms/3maNgav |url-access=subscription |via=[[TimesMachine]]}})</ref> and there was significant opposition to the plan, as it would have displaced thousands of people.<ref name="Zipp 2010">{{cite book |last1=Zipp |first1=Samuel |date=2010 |title=Manhattan Projects: The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York |url={{GBurl|YDV3el2fp2YC|pg=PR3}} |type=limited preview |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=October 2, 2019 |page=354 |via=[[Google Books]]}} {{ISBN|978-0-19-977953-6}}; {{OCLC|646816983|show=all}}.</ref> Neither the original large-scale development nor a 1961 revised proposal were implemented and the city's government lost interest in performing such large-scale slum-clearance projects.{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=35}} Another redevelopment project that was completed was the [[Village View Houses]] on First Avenue between East 2nd and 6th Streets, which opened in 1964{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=35}} partially on the site of the old [[St. Nicholas Kirche (New York City)|St. Nicholas Kirche]].<ref name="NYT-Kirche-1960">{{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|''New York Times'', January 27,|1960|p=52}} |date=January 27, 1960 |title=Church Building Faces Demolition – 100-Year-Old St. Nicholas on the Lower East Side Is Sold to Company |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1960/01/27/archives/church-building-faces-demolition-100yearold-st-nicholas-on-the.html |work=The New York Times |volume=109 |issue=37258 |page=52 (column 1) |access-date=October 4, 2019}} ({{cite book |title=''permalink'' |work=The New York Times |url=https://nyti.ms/3xgcDhd |url-access=subscription |via=[[TimesMachine]]}})</ref>

===Rebranding and cultural scene===
====Initial rebranding====
Until the mid-20th century the area was simply the northern part of the Lower East Side, with a similar culture of immigrant, working-class life. In the 1950s and 1960s the migration of [[Beatnik]]s into the neighborhood later attracted hippies, musicians, writers, and artists who had been priced out of the rapidly gentrifying [[Greenwich Village]].<ref name="EV" />{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=35}}<ref name="Miller 1990">{{cite book | last=Miller | first=Terry | title=Greenwich Village and how it got that way | publisher=Crown Publishers | year=1990 | isbn=978-0-517-57322-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0sZ4AAAAMAAJ | access-date=October 2, 2019 }}</ref>{{rp|254}} Among the first displaced Greenwich Villagers to move to the area were writers [[Allen Ginsberg]], [[W. H. Auden]], and [[Norman Mailer]], who all moved to the area in 1951–1953.<ref name="Miller 1990" />{{rp|258}}

A cluster of cooperative art galleries on East 10th Street (later collectively referred to as the [[10th Street galleries]]) were opened around the same time, starting with the Tanger and the Hansa which both opened in 1952.{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=35}}<ref>{{cite web | title=Art: Remember the 50s on 10th St.? |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 | date=December 23, 1977 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/12/23/archives/art-remember-the-50s-on-10th-st.html | access-date=October 2, 2019}}</ref> Further change came in 1955 when the [[IRT Third Avenue Line|Third Avenue elevated railway]] above the Bowery and Third Avenue was removed.{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=35}}<ref>{{cite web |first=Ralph |last=Katz | title=Last Train Rumbles On Third Ave. 'El' |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 | date=May 13, 1955 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1955/05/13/archives/last-train-rumbles-on-third-ave-el-an-era-ends-with-final-run-of.html | access-date=October 2, 2019}}</ref> This in turn made the neighborhood more attractive to potential residents; in 1960 ''The New York Times'' reported: "This area is gradually becoming recognized as an extension of Greenwich Village{{nbs}}... thereby extending New York's Bohemia from river to river."{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=35}}<ref name="The New York Times 1960">{{cite web | title='Village' Spills Across 3d Ave |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 | date=February 7, 1960 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1960/02/07/archives/village-spills-across-3d-ave-demolition-of-el-opened-the-way-for.html | access-date=October 2, 2019}}</ref>

The 1960 ''Times'' article stated that rental agents were increasingly referring to the area as "Village East" or "East Village".<ref name="The New York Times 1960" /> The new name was used to dissociate the area from the image of slums evoked by the Lower East Side. According to ''The New York Times'', a 1964 guide called ''Earl Wilson's New York'' wrote: "Artists, poets and promoters of coffeehouses from Greenwich Village are trying to remelt the neighborhood under the high-sounding name of 'East Village'."<ref name="EV" /> Newcomers and real estate brokers popularized the new name, and the term was adopted by the popular media by the mid-1960s.<ref name="Mele 2000">{{cite book | last=Mele | first=Christopher | title=Selling the Lower East Side: Culture, Real Estate, and Resistance in New York City | publisher=University of Minnesota Press | series=G – Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series | year=2000 | isbn=978-0-8166-3182-7 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sewf0r5An-wC | access-date=October 2, 2019 }}</ref>{{rp|ch. 5}} A weekly newspaper with the neighborhood's new name, ''[[The East Village Other]]'', started publication in 1966. ''The New York Times'' declared that the neighborhood "had come to be known" as the East Village in the edition of June 5, 1967.<ref name="EV" />

====Growth====
[[File:66 Second Ave Anderson Theatre.jpg|thumb|200px|The Phyllis Anderson Theater, one of several theaters that were originally Yiddish theaters]]

The East Village became a center of the [[counterculture]] in New York, and was the birthplace and historical home of many artistic movements, including [[punk rock]]<ref name="TimesPunk">{{cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE3DF1231F93BA35755C0A966958260 |title=In Rocking East Village, The Beat Never Stops |first=Karen |last=Schoemer |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=June 8, 1990}}</ref> and the [[Nuyorican]] literary movement.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nylatinojournal.com/home/news/latest/another_nuyorican_icon_fades_2.html |title=Another Nuyorican Icon Fades |first=Santiago |last=Nieves |work=New York Latino Journal |date=May 13, 2005|access-date=April 14, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071027010459/http://nylatinojournal.com/home/news/latest/another_nuyorican_icon_fades_2.html|archive-date=October 27, 2007|url-status=dead}}.</ref> Multiple former Yiddish theaters were converted for use by [[Off-Broadway]] shows: for instance, the Public Theater at 66 Second Avenue became the Phyllis Anderson Theater.{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=35}} Numerous buildings on East 4th Street hosted [[Off-Broadway]] and [[Off-Off-Broadway]] productions, including the Royal Playhouse, the Fourth Street Theatre, the Downtown Theatre, the [[La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club]], and the Truck & Warehouse Theater just on the block between Bowery and Second Avenue.{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=36}}<ref name="The New York Times 1960" />

By the 1970s and 1980s the city in general was in decline and nearing bankruptcy, especially after the [[1975 New York City fiscal crisis]].{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=37}} Residential buildings in the East Village suffered from high levels of neglect, as property owners did not properly maintain their buildings.<ref name="Mele 2000" />{{rp|191–194}} The city purchased many of these buildings, but was also unable to maintain them due to a lack of funds.{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=37}} Following the publication of a revised Cooper Square renewal plan in 1986,{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=38}} some properties were given to the Cooper Square Mutual Housing Association as part of a 1991 agreement.{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=38}}<ref>{{cite web | title=Perspectives: The Cooper Square Plan; Smoothing the Path to Redevelopment |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 | date=January 27, 1991 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/27/realestate/perspectives-the-cooper-square-plan-smoothing-the-path-to-redevelopment.html | access-date=September 1, 2019}}</ref>

In spite of the deterioration of the structures within the East Village, its music and arts scenes were doing well. By the 1970s gay dance halls and punk rock clubs had started to open in the neighborhood.{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=38}} These included the [[Fillmore East]] Music Hall (later a gay private nightclub called The Saint), which was located in a movie theater at 105 Second Avenue.{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=38}}<ref name="Miller 1990" />{{rp|264}} The Phyllis Anderson Theatre was converted into Second Avenue Theater, an annex of the [[CBGB]] music club, and hosted musicians and bands such as [[Bruce Springsteen]], [[Patti Smith]], and [[Talking Heads]]. The [[Pyramid Club (New York City)|Pyramid Club]], which opened in 1979 at 101 Avenue A, hosted musical acts such as [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]] and [[Red Hot Chili Peppers]], as well as [[drag performer]]s such as [[RuPaul]] and [[Ann Magnuson]].{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=38}} In addition, there were more than a hundred art galleries in the East Village by the mid-1980s. These included [[Patti Astor]] and Bill Stelling's [[Fun Gallery]] at 11th Street, [[Now Gallery]] on 9th Street, as well as numerous galleries on 7th Street.{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=38}}

====Decline====
By 1987 the visual arts scene was in decline.<ref>{{cite web | title=Art Boom Slows In the East Village |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 | date=July 25, 1987 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/07/25/arts/art-boom-slows-in-the-east-village.html | access-date=October 3, 2019}}</ref> Many of these art galleries relocated to more profitable neighborhoods such as [[SoHo, Manhattan|SoHo]], or closed altogether.<ref>{{cite web |date=January 27, 1989 |title=The East Village's Art Galleries Are Alive in Soho |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/27/arts/the-east-village-s-art-galleries-are-alive-in-soho.html |work=The New York Times|issn=0362-4331|access-date=October 3, 2019}}</ref>{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=38}} The arts scene had become a victim of its own success, since the popularity of the art galleries had revived the East Village's real estate market.<ref name="New York Magazine p. 48">{{cite book | title=The Fun's Over: The East Village Scene Gets Burned by Success |work=New York Magazine | publisher=New York Media, LLC | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cuQCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA48 | language=en |date=June 22, 1987 | access-date=October 3, 2019 | pages=48–55}}</ref>
[[File:East Village, New York City, 1998.jpg|thumb|250px|alt=|A wall in the East Village in 1998, featuring a mural of two men]]

One club that tried to resurrect the neighborhood's past artistic prominence was Mo Pitkins' House of Satisfaction, part-owned by comedian [[Jimmy Fallon]] before it closed in 2007.<ref>{{cite news |last=Meehan |first=Peter |title=Chopped Liver and Chilies on Avenue A |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/28/dining/reviews/28unde.html |access-date=February 5, 2013 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=September 28, 2005}}</ref> A [[Fordham University]] study, examining the decline of the East Village performance and art scene, stated that "the young, liberal culture that once found its place on the Manhattan side of the East River" has shifted in part to new neighborhoods like [[Williamsburg, Brooklyn|Williamsburg]] in [[Brooklyn]].<ref name="Prochnow 2011 Fall">{{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|Prochnow, Fall|2011}} |last1=Prochnow |first1=Alexandria Noel |date=Fall 2011 |chapter=The East Village: A Look at the Culture of an East River Neighborhood |chapter-url=http://www.eastriverhistory.webs.com/manhattan/eastvillage.htm |title=Not the Hudson: A Comprehensive Study of the East River |type=blog |publisher=[[Fordham University]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202233745/http://www.eastriverhistory.webs.com/manhattan/eastvillage.htm |archive-date=December 2, 2013 }} Originally retrieved March 5, 2013.<div style="margin-left:3em">''Not the Hudson: A Comprehensive Study of the East River'' was written and designed by fifteen second-year undergrads from [[Fordham University]]'s Honors Program during the Fall 2011 semester in a course on Trends in New York City at Fordham's Lincoln Center Honors Program under the guidance of Roger G. Panetta, PhD. The project yielded sixty essays.</div></ref> There are still some performance spaces, such as Sidewalk Cafe on 6th Street and [[Avenue A (Manhattan)|Avenue A]], where downtown acts find space to exhibit their talent, as well as the poetry clubs [[Bowery Poetry Club]] and [[Nuyorican Poets Café]].<ref name="Trigger-Magazine 2007 May 8">{{cite journal |last1=Saint George |first1=Mikal |title=Rapture Cafe: Coffee is the New Vodka |url=http://www.triggermagazine.com/archives/2007/05/rapture-cafe-coffee-is-the-new-vodka.html |type=a bygone New New City-based blog-ezine of Liberation Iannillo (born 1975) that promoted New York artists and artist related organizations. It launched November 5, 2004, and ceased around 2009 |journal=Trigger Magazine |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070516093131/http://www.triggermagazine.com/archives/2007/05/rapture-cafe-coffee-is-the-new-vodka.html |archive-date=May 16, 2007 }} Originally retrieved April 14, 2008.</ref>

===Gentrification, preservation, and present day===
In the late 20th and early 21st centuries the East Village became [[Gentrification|gentrified]] as a result of real-estate price increases following the success of the arts scene.{{sfn|Brazee et al.|2012|p=39}}<ref name="New York Magazine p. 48" /> In the 1970s, rents were extremely low and the neighborhood was considered one of the least desirable places in Manhattan to live in.<ref name="The New York Times 1984" /> However, as early as 1983, the ''Times'' reported that because of the influx of artists, many longtime establishments and immigrants were being forced to leave the East Village due to rising rents.<ref>{{cite web |title=New Prosperity Brings Discord to the East Village |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=December 19, 1983 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/12/19/nyregion/new-prosperity-brings-discord-to-the-east-village.html |access-date=October 3, 2019}}</ref> By the following year, young professionals constituted a large portion of the neighborhood's demographics.<ref name="The New York Times 1984">{{cite web |title=The Gentrification of the East Village |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=September 2, 1984 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/09/02/realestate/the-gentrification-of-the-east-village.html |access-date=October 3, 2019}}</ref> Even so, crimes remained prevalent and there were often drug deals being held openly in Tompkins Square Park.<ref name="NYTs 1985 Oct 6">{{cite news |ref={{SfnRef|''New York Times'', October 6,|1985}} |last1=New York Times, The |author-link1=The New York Times |last2=Lyons |first2=Richard Daniel (1928–2013) |date=October 6, 1985 |title=If You're Thinking of Living In:" (series) "The East Village |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/06/realestate/if-you-re-thinking-of-living-in-the-east-village.html |type=online |access-date=October 3, 2019}} ({{cite book |title=''permalink'' |work=The New York Times |url=https://nyti.ms/3MhW2Op |url-access=subscription |via=[[TimesMachine]]}}) {{ProQuest|425550537}} (online; US Newsstream).</ref>

Tensions over gentrification resulted in the 1988 [[Tompkins Square Park riot (1988)|Tompkins Square Park riot]], which occurred following opposition to a proposed curfew that had targeted the park's homeless. The aftermath of the riot slowed down the gentrification process somewhat as real estate prices declined.<ref>{{cite web |title=Prices Decline as Gentrification Ebbs |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=September 29, 1991 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/29/realestate/prices-decline-as-gentrification-ebbs.html |access-date=October 3, 2019}}</ref> By the end of the 20th century, however, real estate prices had resumed their rapid rise. About half of the East Village's stores had opened within the decade since the riot, while vacancy rates in that period had dropped from 20% to 3%, indicating that many of the longtime merchants had been pushed out.<ref>{{cite web |title=A New Spell for Alphabet City; Gentrification Led to the Unrest at Tompkins Square 10 Years Ago. Did the Protesters Win That Battle but Lose the War? |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=August 9, 1998 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/09/nyregion/new-spell-for-alphabet-city-gentrification-led-unrest-tompkins-square-10-years.html |access-date=October 3, 2019}}</ref>

By the early 21st century some buildings in the area were torn down and replaced by newer buildings.<ref>{{cite web |author=Jeremiah Budin |url=http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/03/25/look_at_these_nyc_storefronts_pre_and_postgentrification.php |title=Look At These NYC Storefronts Pre- and Post-Gentrification – East Village Gentrification – Curbed NY |publisher=Ny.curbed.com |date=March 25, 2014 |access-date=May 5, 2014}}</ref>
====Rezoning====
Due to the gentrification of the neighborhood, parties including the [[Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation]] (GVSHP), [[Manhattan Community Board 3]], the East Village Community Coalition, and City Councilmember [[Rosie Mendez]], began calling for a change to the area's [[zoning]] in the first decade of the 21st century. The city first released a draft in July 2006, which concerned an area bounded by East 13th Street on the north, Third Avenue on the west, Delancey Street on the south, and Avenue D on the east.<ref>[http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/evles/zoning_proposed.pdf Map of approved zoning changes from New York City Department of City Planning] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304131421/http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/evles/zoning_proposed.pdf |date=March 4, 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/evles/evles3.shtml |title=New York City Department of City Planning, East Village / Lower East Side Rezoning}}</ref> The rezoning proposal was done in response to concerns about the character and scale of some of the new buildings in the neighborhood.<ref name="Haughney 2008">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/15/nyregion/15zoning.html?scp=2&sq=east%20village%20rezoning&st=cse |title=High-Rises Are at Heart of Manhattan Zoning Battle |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |first=Christine |last=Haughney |date=November 15, 2008 |access-date=May 1, 2010}}</ref> Despite protests and accusations of promoting gentrification and increased property values over the area's history and need for affordable housing, the rezoning was approved in 2008.<ref name="Haughney 2008"/> Among other things, the zoning established height limits for new development throughout the affected area, modified allowable density of real estate, capped [[air rights]] transfers, eliminated the current zoning bonus for dorms and hotels, and created incentives for the creation and retention of affordable housing.<ref>{{cite web |title=East Village Rezoning |url=http://www.gvshp.org/_gvshp/preservation/ev_rezoning/ev_rezoning_main.htm |publisher=Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation |access-date=August 18, 2014 |archive-date=December 23, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141223172449/http://www.gvshp.org/_gvshp/preservation/ev_rezoning/ev_rezoning_main.htm |url-status=dead }}* {{cite web |title=Keeping in Character |url=http://www.gvshp.org/_gvshp/preservation/east_village/doc/keeping-in-character.pdf |publisher=Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation |access-date=August 22, 2014 }}</ref>

====Landmark efforts====
[[File:Extra Place from 1st Street.jpg|thumb|200px|"Extra Place", an obscure side street off of East 1st Street, just east of the Bowery]]

Local community groups such as the GVSHP are actively working to gain individual and district landmark designations for the East Village to preserve and protect the architectural and cultural identity of the neighborhood.<ref>[http://www.gvshp.org/_gvshp/preservation/east_village/east_village-main.htm "East Village"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722234108/http://www.gvshp.org/_gvshp/preservation/east_village/east_village-main.htm |date=July 22, 2018 }} on the [[Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation]] website</ref> In early 2011 the [[New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission]] (LPC) proposed two East Village historic districts: a small district along the block of 10th Street that lies north of [[Tompkins Square Park]], and a larger district focused around lower Second Avenue.<ref>[http://www.gvshp.org/_gvshp/preservation/east_village/east_village-main.htm "East Village Preservation"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722234108/http://www.gvshp.org/_gvshp/preservation/east_village/east_village-main.htm |date=July 22, 2018 }} on the [[Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation]] website</ref> before later being expanded.<ref>[http://www.thevillager.com/villager_426/pyramid.html "Editing the East Village"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118034930/http://thevillager.com/villager_426/pyramid.html |date=January 18, 2012 }} on the [[The Villager (Manhattan)|Villager]] website</ref> In January 2012 the East 10th Street Historic District was designated by the LPC,<ref>{{cite web |last=Berger |first=Joseph |title=Designation of Historic District in East Village Won't Stop Project |website=City Room |date=January 19, 2012 |url=http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/designation-of-historic-district-in-east-village-wont-stop-project/ |access-date=September 29, 2019}}</ref><ref name="NYCL-2492">{{harvnb|ps=.|Brazee|Most|2012}}</ref> and that October, the larger [[East Village/Lower East Side Historic District]] was also designated by the LPC.<ref name="NYCL-2491">{{harvnb|ps=.|Brazee et al.|2012}}</ref>

Several notable buildings are designated as individual landmarks, some due to the GVSHP's efforts. These include:
* The [[First Houses]] at East 3rd Street and Avenue A, the country's first public housing development, built in 1935 and designated in 1974<ref name="NYCL-0876">{{cite web |url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/0876.pdf |title=First Houses |date=November 12, 1974 |publisher=[[New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission]] |access-date=September 28, 2019}}</ref>
* The [[Stuyvesant Polyclinic]] at 137 Second Avenue, built in 1884 and designated in 1976<ref>{{cite web |url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/0924.pdf |title=Stuyvesant Polyclinic |date=November 9, 1976 |publisher=[[New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission]] |access-date=September 28, 2019}}</ref>
* The [[Christodora House]], built in 1928 and listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in 1986<ref>{{Cite web |title=East 10th Street Historic District and Christodora House {{!}} Historic Districts Council's Six to Celebrate|url=https://6tocelebrate.org/site/east-10th-street-historic-district-and-christodora-house/|access-date=July 12, 2020|website=6tocelebrate.org|date=January 10, 2014 }}</ref>
* The [[Children's Aid Society]]'s [[Tompkins Square Lodging House for Boys and Industrial School]] at 296 East 8th Street, built in 1886 and designated in 2000<ref>{{cite web |url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2055.pdf |title=Children's Aid Society, Tompkins Square Lodging House for Boys and Industrial School |date=May 16, 2000 |publisher=[[New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission]] |access-date=September 28, 2019}}</ref>
* [[Public School 64]] at 350 East 10th Street, a French Renaissance Revival public school built in 1904–1906 by architect and school superintendent [[C.B.J. Snyder]], designated in 2006<ref>{{cite web |title=LPC Designation Report: Former P.S. 64 |url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/lpc/downloads/pdf/reports/ps64.pdf |publisher=NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission |access-date=August 18, 2014}}</ref>
* [[Webster Hall]], a Romanesque Revival concert hall and nightclub designed in 1886,<ref>{{cite web |title=Webster Hall LPC submission |url=http://www.gvshp.org/_gvshp/preservation/webster_hall/doc/WebsterHallLPCSubmission.pdf |publisher=Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation |access-date=August 18, 2014}}</ref> designated in 2008<ref>{{cite web |url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2278.pdf |title=Webster Hall and Annex |date=March 18, 2008 |publisher=[[New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission]] |access-date=September 28, 2019}}{{dead link|date=January 2020|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
* The Children's Aid Society's [[Elizabeth Home for Girls]] at 308 East 12th Street, built in 1891–1892 and designated in 2008<ref>{{cite web |url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2274.pdf |title=Children's Aid Society, Elizabeth Home for Girls |date=March 18, 2008 |publisher=[[New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission]] |access-date=September 28, 2019}}</ref>
* The [[Wheatsworth Bakery Building]], built in 1927–1928 and designated in 2008<ref>{{cite web |url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2262.pdf |title=Wheatsworth Bakery Building |date=September 16, 2008 |publisher=[[New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission]] |access-date=September 28, 2019}}</ref>
* The [[St. Nicholas of Myra Church (Manhattan)|St. Nicholas of Myra Church]] at 288 East 10th Street, designated in 2008<ref>{{cite web |url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2312.pdf |title=Saint Nicholas of Myra Orthodox Church |date=December 16, 2008 |publisher=[[New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission]] |access-date=September 28, 2019}}</ref>
* The [[Van Tassell and Kearney Horse Auction Mart]] at 126–128 East 13th Street, a horse auction mart built in 1903–1904, designated in 2012<ref>{{cite web |url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2205.pdf |title=Van Tassell & Kearney Auction Mart |date=May 15, 2012 |publisher=[[New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission]] |access-date=September 28, 2019}}</ref>
* The [[First German Baptist Church]] (Town & Village Synagogue) at 334 East 14th Street, designated in 2014<ref>{{cite web |url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2475.pdf |title=First German Baptist Church |date=October 28, 2014 |publisher=[[New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission]] |access-date=September 28, 2019}}</ref>
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File:First Houses in winter from west.jpg|[[First Houses]]
File:Webster Hall.jpg|[[Webster Hall]]
File:Peridance Center 128 East 13th St.jpg|128 East 13th Street
</gallery></div>
[[File:East 5th Street streetscape.jpg|thumb|250px|[[5th Street (Manhattan)|East 5th Street]] between [[Second Avenue (Manhattan)|Second Avenue]] and [[Cooper Square]] is a typical side street in the heart of the East Village]]

Landmark efforts have included a number of losses as well. For instance, although the GVSHP and allied groups asked in 2012 that the Mary Help of Christians school, church and rectory be designated as landmarks, the site was demolished starting in 2013.<ref>{{cite web |title=Two Steps Forward, One Step Back |url=http://www.gvshp.org/_gvshp/preservation/east_village/ev-07-31-13.htm |publisher=Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation |access-date=August 18, 2014 |archive-date=September 6, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130906203131/http://www.gvshp.org/_gvshp/preservation/east_village/ev-07-31-13.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2011, an early 19th-century Federal house at 35 Cooper Square{{snd}}one of the oldest on the Bowery and in the East Village{{snd}}was approved for demolition to make way for a college dorm.<ref>{{cite web |last=Rozdeba |first=Suzanne |title=East Village Group Tries to Save 1820s House |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=February 19, 2011 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/19/nyregion/19metjournal.html |access-date=October 3, 2019}}
* {{cite web |last=Karp |first=Walter |title=Demolition of 35 Cooper Square Approved |website=Village Voice |date=February 14, 2011 |url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2011/02/14/demolition-of-35-cooper-square-approved/ |access-date=October 3, 2019}}</ref> over requests of community groups and elected officials.<ref>{{cite web |title=35 Cooper Square/Bowery Alliance of Neighbors |url=http://www.gvshp.org/_gvshp/preservation/east_village/doc/ltr-lpc-ban-11-12-10.pdf |publisher=Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation |access-date=August 18, 2014}}</ref> Furthermore, the LPC acts on no particular schedule, leaving open indefinitely some "calendared" requests for designation.<ref>{{cite web |title=Landmarking 101: Just what is calendaring and why should I care? – Preservation – Off the Grid |website=GVSHP &#124; Preservation &#124; Off the Grid |date=August 8, 2013 |url=https://gvshp.org/blog/2013/08/08/landmarking-101-just-what-is-calendaring-and-why-should-i-care/ |access-date=September 30, 2019}}</ref> Sometimes it simply declines requests for consideration, as it did regarding an intact Italianate tenement at 143 East 13th Street.<ref>{{cite web |title=Request for Evaluation of 143 E. 13th Street, Manhattan |url=http://www.gvshp.org/_gvshp/preservation/east_village/doc/143-e13th-st-rfe.pdf |publisher=Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation |access-date=August 18, 2014}}</ref> In other cases the LPC has refused the expansion of existing historic districts, as in 2016 when it declined to add 264 East 7th Street (the former home of illustrator [[Felicia Bond]]) and four neighboring rowhouses to the East Village/Lower East Side Historic District.<ref>{{cite web |title=An Uncertain Future for East Village Rowhouses |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=November 25, 2016 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/25/realestate/an-uncertain-future-for-east-village-rowhouses.html |access-date=September 30, 2019}}</ref>

====2015 gas explosion====
{{Main|2015 East Village gas explosion}}

On March 26, 2015, a gas explosion occurred on [[Second Avenue (Manhattan)|Second Avenue]] after a gas line was tapped.<ref>{{cite web |last=Mejia |first=Paula |title=Long Before East Village Explosion, Gas Line Reportedly Was Tapped |website=Newsweek |date=March 29, 2015 |url=https://www.newsweek.com/long-east-village-explosion-gas-line-reportedly-was-tapped-317621 |access-date=February 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150330173538/http://www.newsweek.com/long-east-village-explosion-gas-line-reportedly-was-tapped-317621 |archive-date=March 30, 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> The explosion and resulting fire destroyed three buildings at 119, 121 and 123 Second Avenue, between East 7th Street and [[St. Marks Place (Manhattan)|St. Marks Place]]. Two people were killed, and at least twenty-two people were injured, four critically.<ref>{{cite web |title=Two Men Remain Missing as Remnants of Explosion Are Scoured in Manhattan |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=March 29, 2015 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/29/nyregion/as-hopes-fade-in-search-for-2-men-workers-scour-rubble-at-east-village-blast-site.html |access-date=September 29, 2019}}</ref> Three restaurants were also destroyed in the explosion.<ref>{{cite web |title=3 Restaurants Destroyed in East Village Explosion |website=Gothamist |date=March 28, 2015 |url=https://gothamist.com/food/3-restaurants-destroyed-in-east-village-explosion |access-date=February 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150330150523/http://gothamist.com/2015/03/28/thursdays_east_village_explosion_to.php |archive-date=March 30, 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref> Landlord Maria Hrynenko and an unlicensed plumber and another employee were sentenced to prison time for their part in causing the explosion in New York State Supreme Court. Ms. Hrynenko allowed an illegal gas line to be constructed on her property.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/17/nyregion/east-village-explosion-maria-hrynenko-sentence.html |title=Landlord in Deadly East Village Explosion Sentenced to at Least 4 Years |newspaper=The New York Times |date=January 17, 2020 |last1=Randle |first1=Aaron}}</ref>

==Geography==
Neighboring the East Village are the [[Lower East Side]] to the south, [[NoHo]] to the west, [[Stuyvesant Square|Stuyvesant Park]] to the northwest, and [[Stuyvesant Town]] to the northeast. The East Village contains several smaller vibrant communities, each with its own character.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/stuyvesantpark.pdf |title=East Village, Manhattan: Senior Pedestrian Focus Area |access-date=July 30, 2018 |archive-date=July 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200730222514/http://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/stuyvesantpark.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Subsections===
====Alphabet City====
{{Main|Alphabet City, Manhattan}}
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[[Alphabet City, Manhattan|Alphabet City]] is the eastern section of the East Village that is so named because it contains avenues with single-lettered names, e.g. Avenues [[Avenue A (Manhattan)|A]], [[Avenue B (Manhattan)|B]], [[Avenue C (Manhattan)|C]], and [[Avenue D (Manhattan)|D]]. It is bordered by [[Houston Street (Manhattan)|Houston Street]] to the south and [[14th Street (Manhattan)|14th Street]] to the north. Notable places within Alphabet City include [[Tompkins Square Park]] and the [[Nuyorican Poets Café]].<ref name="Foderaro 1987">{{cite news |last=Foderaro |first=Lisa W. |title=Will it be Loisaida of Alphabet city?; Two Visions Vie In the East Village |newspaper=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=May 17, 1987 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/17/realestate/will-it-be-loisaida-or-alphabet-city-two-visions-vie-in-the-east-village.html |access-date=August 22, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.upress.umn.edu/sles/sles-maps.html |title=Selling the Lower East Side – Geography Page |publisher=Upress.umn.edu |access-date=October 15, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100619111123/http://upress.umn.edu/sles/sles-maps.html |archive-date=June 19, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Exhibitions |newspaper=The Villager |date=October 4, 2006 |url=http://www.thevillager.com/villager_179/exhibitions.html |access-date=August 22, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080706160902/http://thevillager.com/villager_179/exhibitions.html |archive-date=July 6, 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Some of the neighborhoods most iconic establishments such as [[Pyramid Club (New York City)|Pyramid Club]] and [[Lucy's (bar)|Lucy's]] have since shuttered due to new ownership and subsequent [[eviction]]s.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |last2= |first2= |date=February 8, 2024 |title=Owner of Lucy's, iconic NYC dive bar, discusses future plans |url=https://nypost.com/2024/02/08/metro/owner-of-lucys-iconic-nyc-dive-discusses-future-plans/ |access-date=August 3, 2024 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last= |title=The Pyramid is closing once again |url=https://evgrieve.com/2022/10/the-pyramid-is-closing-once-again.html |access-date=August 3, 2024 |website=EV Grieve |language=en}}</ref> Alphabet City also contains [[St. Marks Place (Manhattan)|St. Marks Place]], the continuation of [[Eighth Street (Manhattan)|Eighth Street]] between [[Third Avenue]] and Avenue A. The street contains a Japanese street culture; an aged punk culture and [[CBGB]]'s new store; the former location of one of New York City's only [[Automat]]s;<ref name="Sun">[http://www.nysun.com/food-drink/automat-is-about-to-return-in-the-east-village/38005/ Automat is about to return to the East Village] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080731031641/http://www.nysun.com/food-drink/automat-is-about-to-return-in-the-east-village/38005/ |date=July 31, 2008 }}, Jared Newman, ''[[New York Sun]]'', August 16, 2006; accessed August 25, 2008.</ref> and a portion of the "Mosaic Trail", a trail of eighty mosaic-encrusted lampposts that runs from Broadway down Eighth Street to Avenue A, to Fourth Street and then back to Eighth Street.<ref name="Power">[http://www.thevillager.com/villager_240/hopeforjim.html Hope for Jim Power's public works] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080706004528/http://thevillager.com/villager_240/hopeforjim.html |date=July 6, 2008 }}, Abby Luby, ''[[The Villager (Manhattan)|The Villager]]'', December 5, 2007; accessed September 19, 2009.</ref>

Alphabet City was once the archetype of a dangerous New York City neighborhood. Its turn-around was cause for ''The New York Times'' to observe in 2005 that Alphabet City went "from a drug-infested no man's land to the epicenter of downtown cool".<ref name="Alpha">{{cite web |first=Jennifer |last=Bleyer |title=The Final Frontier, for Now |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=March 13, 2005 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/13/nyregion/thecity/the-final-frontier-for-now.html | access-date=September 29, 2019}}</ref> This part of the neighborhood has long been an [[ethnic enclave]] for Manhattan's [[German American|German]], [[Polish American|Polish]], [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Hispanic]], and [[Jewish American|Jewish]] populations. Crime went up in the area in the late 20th century but then declined in the 21st, as the area became [[Gentrification|gentrified]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Shaw |first=Dan |title=Rediscovering New York as It Used to Be |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |access-date=November 12, 2007 |date=November 11, 2007 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/realestate/11habi.html?_r=1}}</ref> Alphabet City's alternate name [[Loisaida]], which is also used as the alternate name for Avenue C, is a term derived from the [[Hispanic and Latino Americans|Latino]], and especially [[Nuyorican]], pronunciation of "[[Lower East Side]]". The term was originally coined by poet/activist [[Bittman "Bimbo" Rivas]] in his 1974 poem "Loisaida".<ref name="von Hassell 1996">{{cite book | last=von Hassell | first=M. | title=Homesteading in New York City, 1978–1993: The Divided Heart of Loisaida | publisher=Bergin & Garvey | series=Contemporary urban studies | year=1996 | isbn=978-0-89789-459-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=URZPAAAAMAAJ | access-date=October 3, 2019 | page=7}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Schulz |first=Dana |title=Umbrella, Umbrella |date=June 14, 2011 |url=http://gvshp.org/blog/2011/06/14/umbrella-umbrella/ |publisher=Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation |access-date=June 14, 2011}}</ref>

====Bowery====
{{Main|Bowery}}
[[File:Street Sleeper 8 by DS.JPG|thumb|250px|Once synonymous with "Bowery Bums", the [[Bowery]] area has become a magnet for luxury condominiums as the East Village neighborhood's rapid [[gentrification]] continues.]]

The Bowery was once known for its many homeless shelters, drug rehabilitation centers and bars. The phrase "on the Bowery", which has since fallen into disuse, was a generic way to say one was down-and-out.<ref>{{cite web | title=On the Bowery |first1=Steve |last1=Zeitlin |first2=Marci |last2=Reaven | publisher=New York Folklore Society |work=Voices | date=2003 | url=http://www.nyfolklore.org/pubs/voic29-3-4/dnstate.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180118201248/http://www.nyfolklore.org/pubs/voic29-3-4/dnstate.html | archive-date=January 18, 2018 | url-status=dead | access-date=October 3, 2019}}</ref> By the 21st century the Bowery had become a boulevard with new luxury condominiums. Redevelopment of the avenue from [[flophouse]]s to luxury condominiums has met resistance from long-term residents, who agree the neighborhood has improved but its unique, gritty character is disappearing.<ref>{{cite web |last=Beyer |first=Gregory |title=Where the Flophouse Once Ruled, a Call to Go Slow |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=December 16, 2007 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/16/nyregion/thecity/16bowe.html | access-date=September 29, 2019}}.</ref> The Bowery has also become an area with a diverse artistic community. It is the location of the [[Bowery Poetry Club]], where artists [[Amiri Baraka]] and [[Taylor Mead]] have held regular readings and performances,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.boweryartsandscience.org/ |title=Bowery Arts + Science |publisher=Boweryartsandscience.org |date=March 5, 2014 |access-date=May 5, 2014}}</ref> and until 2006 was home to the punk–rock nightclub [[CBGB]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/17/arts/music/17cbgb.html |title=CBGB Closes and Rock Fans Mourn |last=Pareles |first=Jon |date=October 17, 2006 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331|access-date=September 29, 2019 }}</ref>

====Little Ukraine====
[[File:Taras Shevchenko Place.JPG|thumb|250px|Taras Shevchenko Place, with St. George's Church on the north side and St. George Academy on the south side]]

[[Ukrainian Americans in New York City#Little Ukraine|Little Ukraine]] is an [[ethnic enclave]] in the East Village, which has served as a spiritual, political and cultural epicenter for several waves of [[Ukrainian Americans]] in New York City as far back as the late 19th century.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Remnick|first=Noah|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/06/nyregion/with-closing-of-east-village-shop-little-ukraine-grows-smaller.html|title=With Closing of East Village Shop, Little Ukraine Grows Smaller|date=June 5, 2016|work=The New York Times|access-date=April 20, 2020|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

At the beginning of the 20th century, Ukrainian immigrants began moving into areas previously dominated by fellow [[Eastern European]] and [[Galician Jews]], as well as the Lower East Side's [[Little Germany, Manhattan|German enclave]]. After World War{{nbs}}II, the [[Ukrainians|Ukrainian]] population of the neighborhood reached 60,000,<ref name="McKinley 1997">{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/16/nyregion/neighborhood-report-east-harlem-ukrainian-accent-gets-stronger.html |title=Ukrainian Accent Gets Stronger |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=November 16, 1997 |author=McKinley, Jesse}}</ref> but as with the city's [[Little Italy, Manhattan|Little Italy]], today the neighborhood consists of only a few Ukrainian stores and restaurants. Today, the East Village between Houston and 14th Street, and Third Avenue and Avenue A<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.brama.com/stgeorge/ny.html |title=Ukrainians in New York |publisher=[[St. George's Church (Manhattan)|St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church]] |access-date=July 18, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180116002855/http://www.brama.com/stgeorge/ny.html | archive-date=January 16, 2018 | url-status=dead }}</ref> still houses nearly a third of New York City's Ukrainian population.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://utrip.com/plan-travel/united-states/new-york/little-ukraine/ |title=Little Area, Big Heart |publisher=Utrip.com |access-date=July 19, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180817161350/https://utrip.com/plan-travel/united-states/new-york/little-ukraine/ |archive-date=August 17, 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Several churches, including [[St. George's Church (New York City)|St. George's Catholic Church]]; Ukrainian restaurants and butcher shops; [[The Ukrainian Museum]]; the [[Shevchenko Scientific Society]]; and the Ukrainian Cultural Center are evidence of the impact of this culture on the area.<ref>{{cite journal |title="East Village Afternoon" exhibit highlights Ukrainian presence in NYC |journal=The Ukrainian Weekly |date=December 14, 2008 |volume=50 |pages=17}}</ref> The gallery American Painting, located on E. 6th Street during 2004–2009, presented a painting exhibition by artists Andrei Kushnir and Michele Martin Taylor titled "East Village Afternoon" depicting many of these sites.<ref>"Andrei Kushnir and Michele Martin Taylor 'East Village Afternoon'" http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/9FC3 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210516083031/https://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2008/9FC3 |date=May 16, 2021 }}, retrieved March 1, 2021</ref>

Since the early 20th century, [[St. George's Church (Manhattan)|St. George Ukrainian Catholic Church]] has served as the anchor of Little Ukraine, offering daily liturgies and penances, and operating the adjoining [[St. George Academy]], a [[Mixed-sex education|coeducational]] parochial school. Starting in 1976 the church has sponsored an annual Ukrainian Heritage Festival, regularly described as one of the few remaining authentic New York City street fairs.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iCLSJlGfRBMC&q=ed%20koch%20Ukrainian%20festival%20mayor%20new%20york&pg=PA90 |title=The Suburbanization of New York: Is the World's Greatest City Becoming Just Another Town |publisher=Princeton Architectural Press |author=Wasserman, Suzanne |year=2007 |location=New York |pages=90 |isbn=978-1568986784}}</ref> In April 1978 the [[New York City Council]] renamed Taras Shevchenko Place, a small connecting street between East 7th and 6th Streets, after [[Taras Shevchenko]], Ukraine's national bard.<ref>{{cite news |title=F.Y.I. |first=Michael |last=Goldman |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/24/nyregion/fyi-977322.html |newspaper=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=January 24, 1999 |access-date=June 3, 2012}}</ref>

===Political representation===
[[File:1st Avenue 9171.JPG|thumb|250px|alt=|[[1st Avenue (Manhattan)|1st Avenue]], looking north at 10th Street in 2010]]

Politically, the East Village is in New York's [[New York's 7th congressional district|7th]] and [[New York's 12th congressional district|12th]] congressional districts.<ref>[http://www.latfor.state.ny.us/maps/2012c/CD_map_rep_07.pdf Congressional District 7] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200303015359/https://www.latfor.state.ny.us/maps/2012c/CD_map_rep_07.pdf |date=March 3, 2020 }}, New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment. Accessed May 5, 2017.
* [http://www.latfor.state.ny.us/maps/2012c/CD_map_rep_12.pdf Congressional District 12] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200303015426/https://www.latfor.state.ny.us/maps/2012c/CD_map_rep_12.pdf |date=March 3, 2020 }}, New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment. Accessed May 5, 2017.</ref><ref>[http://www.latfor.state.ny.us/maps/2012c/CD_nyc.pdf New York City Congressional Districts] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224164245/https://www.latfor.state.ny.us/maps/2012c/CD_nyc.pdf |date=February 24, 2021 }}, New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment. Accessed May 5, 2017.</ref> It is also in the [[New York State Senate]]'s 27th and 28th districts,<ref>[http://www.latfor.state.ny.us/maps/2012s/SD_map_rep_27.pdf Senate District 27] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200804211028/https://www.latfor.state.ny.us/maps/2012s/SD_map_rep_27.pdf |date=August 4, 2020 }}, New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment. Accessed May 5, 2017.
* [http://www.latfor.state.ny.us/maps/2012s/SD_map_rep_28.pdf Senate District 28] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190322012006/https://www.latfor.state.ny.us/maps/2012s/SD_map_rep_28.pdf |date=March 22, 2019 }}, New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment. Accessed May 5, 2017.</ref><ref>[http://www.latfor.state.ny.us/maps/2012s/SD_nyc.pdf 2012 Senate District Maps: New York City] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224202014/https://www.latfor.state.ny.us/maps/2012s/SD_nyc.pdf |date=February 24, 2021 }}, New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment. Accessed November 17, 2018.</ref> the [[New York State Assembly]]'s 65th, 66th, and 74th districts,<ref>[http://www.latfor.state.ny.us/maps/2012a/AD_map_rep_065.pdf Assembly District 65] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200303020632/https://www.latfor.state.ny.us/maps/2012a/AD_map_rep_065.pdf |date=March 3, 2020 }}, New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment. Accessed May 5, 2017.
* [http://www.latfor.state.ny.us/maps/2012a/AD_map_rep_066.pdf Assembly District 66] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200126212220/https://www.latfor.state.ny.us/maps/2012a/AD_map_rep_066.pdf |date=January 26, 2020 }}, New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment. Accessed May 5, 2017.
* [http://www.latfor.state.ny.us/maps/2012a/AD_map_rep_074.pdf Assembly District 74] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200303020659/https://www.latfor.state.ny.us/maps/2012a/AD_map_rep_074.pdf |date=March 3, 2020 }}, New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment. Accessed May 5, 2017.</ref><ref>[http://www.latfor.state.ny.us/maps/2012a/AD_nyc.pdf 2012 Assembly District Maps: New York City] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225181526/https://www.latfor.state.ny.us/maps/2012a/AD_nyc.pdf |date=February 25, 2021 }}, New York State Legislative Task Force on Demographic Research and Reapportionment. Accessed November 17, 2018.</ref> and the [[New York City Council]]'s 1st and 2nd districts.<ref>[http://www.nyc.gov/html/dc/downloads/pdf/manhattan.pdf Current City Council Districts for New York County] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201203170907/http://www.nyc.gov/html/dc/downloads/pdf/manhattan.pdf |date=December 3, 2020 }}, New York City. Accessed May 5, 2017.</ref>

==Demographics==
Based on data from the [[2020 United States Census]], the population of the East Village was 71,436, a change of −353 (−0.5%) from the 71,789 counted in 2010. Covering an area of {{convert|433.6|acres}}, the neighborhood had a population density of {{convert|164.8|PD/acre|PD/ha PD/sqmi PD/sqkm}}.<ref name="PFF">{{Cite web |date=2020 |title=NTA Manhattan, East Village |url=https://popfactfinder.planning.nyc.gov/explorer/ntas/MN0303?acsTopics=demo-sexAndAge%2Cdemo-mutuallyExclusiveRaceHispanicOrigin%2Cdemo-hispanicSubgroup%2Cdemo-asianSubgroup&censusTopics=populationSexAgeDensity%2CmutuallyExclusiveRaceHispanicOrigin%2CdetailedRaceAndEthnicity%2CrelationHeadHousehold%2ChouseholdType%2ChousingOccupancy%2ChousingTenure%2ChouseholdSize&compareTo=0&showCharts=true&showReliability=false&source=decennial-change |website=Population FactFinder}}</ref> The racial makeup of the neighborhood was 48.9% (34,907) [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 7.6% (5,409) [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 15.0% (10,734) [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], and 1.0% (719) from [[Race (United States Census)|other races]], and 3.9% (2,771) from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] residents of any race were 23.7% (16,896) of the population.<ref name=PFF /><ref name="PLP3A">[http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/data-maps/nyc-population/census2010/t_pl_p3a_nta.pdf Table PL-P3A NTA: Total Population by Mutually Exclusive Race and Hispanic Origin – New York City Neighborhood Tabulation Areas*, 2010] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610170733/http://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/data-maps/nyc-population/census2010/t_pl_p3a_nta.pdf |date=June 10, 2016 }}, Population Division – New York City Department of City Planning, March 29, 2011. Accessed June 14, 2016.</ref>

The entirety of Community District 3, which comprises the East Village and the Lower East Side, had 171,103 inhabitants as of [[New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene|NYC Health]]'s 2018 Community Health Profile, with an average [[life expectancy]] of 82.2 years.{{Sfn|"Community Health Profiles,"|2018|pp=2, 20}} This is higher than the median life expectancy of 81.2 for all New York City neighborhoods.<ref name=":21">{{Cite web |url=https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/tcny/community-health-assessment-plan.pdf |title=2016–2018 Community Health Assessment and Community Health Improvement Plan: Take Care New York 2020 |date=2016 |website=[[government of New York City|nyc.gov]] |publisher=[[New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene]]|access-date=September 8, 2017}}</ref>{{Rp|53 (PDF p. 84)}} Most inhabitants are adults: a plurality (35%) are between the ages of 25 and 44, while 25% are between 45 and 64, and 16% are 65 or older. The ratio of youth and college-aged residents was lower, at 13% and 11%, respectively.{{Sfn|"Community Health Profiles,"|2018|p=2}}

As of 2017, the median [[household income]] in Community District{{nbs}}3 was US$39,584 ({{Inflation|US|39584|2017|fmt=eq}}),<ref name="CB3PUMA">{{cite web |url=https://censusreporter.org/profiles/79500US3603809-nyc-manhattan-community-district-3-chinatown-lower-east-side-puma-ny/ |title=NYC-Manhattan Community District 3 – Chinatown & Lower East Side PUMA, NY |access-date=July 17, 2018 |archive-date=January 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118140610/https://censusreporter.org/profiles/79500US3603809-nyc-manhattan-community-district-3-chinatown-lower-east-side-puma-ny/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> although the median income in the East Village individually was $74,265 ({{Inflation|US|74265|2017|fmt=eq}}).<ref name="stats"/> In 2018, an estimated 18% of East Village and Lower East Side residents lived in poverty, compared to 14% in all of Manhattan and 20% in all of New York City. One in twelve residents (8%) were unemployed, compared to 7% in Manhattan and 9% in New York City. Rent burden, or the percentage of residents who have difficulty paying their rent, is 48% in the East Village and the Lower East Side, compared to the boroughwide and citywide rates of 45% and 51%, respectively. Based on this calculation, {{as of|2018|lc=y}}, the East Village and the Lower East Side were considered to be [[gentrification|gentrifying]].{{Sfn|"Community Health Profiles,"|2018|p=7}}

==Culture==
===Hare Krishnas===
On October 9, 1966, [[A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada]], founder of the [[International Society for Krishna Consciousness]], held the first recorded outdoor chanting session of the [[Hare Krishna (mantra)|Hare Krishna mantra]] outside the Indian subcontinent at [[Tompkins Square Park]].<ref name="Hare">[http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=10823 Hare Krishna Tree] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090602190814/http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=10823 |date=June 2, 2009 }}, New York City Parks Department; accessed August 26, 2008.</ref> This is considered the founding of the Hare Krishna religion in the United States, and the large tree close to the center of the Park is demarcated as a special religious site for Krishna adherents.<ref name=Hare/>

===Cultural institutions===
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'''Preservation institution:'''
* [[Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation]]<ref>{{cite web |author=Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation |url=http://www.gvshp.org/_gvshp/index.htm |title=Home |publisher=GVSHP |access-date=May 5, 2014}}</ref>

'''Gallery:'''
* [[Tenth Street galleries]]

'''Museums:'''
* [[Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space]]
* [[Brant Foundation]] Art Museum
* [[The Ukrainian Museum]]

'''Movie theaters'''
* [[Anthology Film Archives]]
* City Cinema Village East
* Landmark's Sunshine Theater
* Two Boots Pioneer Theater
* [[Village East Cinema]]

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'''Music venues:'''
* [[Bowery Ballroom]] – concerts and shows
* Mercury Lounge – live music
* [[Nublu Club]] – live music
* [[The Stone (music space)|The Stone]] – experimental music
* Rue B – live jazz

'''Taverns:'''
* [[McSorley's Old Ale House]] – Light & Dark Ales, Cheese Platters with Raw Onions

'''Poetry venues:'''
* [[Nuyorican Poets Café]] – music, poetry, readings, [[Poetry slam|slam]]s
* [[Bowery Poetry Club]] – music, poetry, readings, slams
* [[Poetry Project]] at [[St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery]]

'''Health and fitness:'''
* [[Russian & Turkish Baths]], since 1892

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'''Theaters and performance spaces:'''
* [[Amato Opera]]
* [[Bouwerie Lane Theatre]]
* [[Connelly Theater]] – historic Off-Broadway venue
* [[Danspace Project]] – at [[St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery]]
* [[La MaMa E.T.C.]] – [[avant-garde]] theater
* [[Metropolitan Playhouse]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.metropolitanplayhouse.org/ |title=Metropolitan Playhouse Home Page |publisher=Metropolitanplayhouse.org |access-date=May 5, 2014}}</ref>
* [[Richard Foreman|The Ontological-Hysteric Theater]] at [[St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery]]
* The Pearl Theatre Company<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pearltheatre.org/LivePearl/ABO_Hist.shtml |title=The Pearl Theatre Company |publisher=Pearltheatre.org |access-date=May 5, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080915170344/http://www.pearltheatre.org/LivePearl/ABO_Hist.shtml |archive-date=September 15, 2008}}</ref>
* [[Tompkins Square Park]] – Regular site of outdoor music, dance, and performance
* [[Performance Space New York]]
* ''[[Stomp (theatrical show)|Stomp!]]'' – long running Off-Broadway performance
* [[Theater for the New City]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.theaterforthenewcity.net/ |title=Home & Schedule |publisher=Theater for the New City |access-date=May 5, 2014}}</ref>
* Theatre for a New Audience
* [[Wild Project]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://thewildproject.com/performances/index.shtml |title=Performances |publisher=Wild Project |access-date=June 20, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140924173908/http://www.thewildproject.com/performances/index.shtml |archive-date=September 24, 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
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[[File:Nuyorican Poets Cafe in Loisaida section of New York City.jpg|thumb|255px|The [[Nuyorican Poets Café]] has been located off [[Avenue C (Manhattan)|Avenue C]] and East 3rd Street since its founding in 1973.]]
[[File:BoweryPoetryClub.JPG|thumb|255px|The [[Bowery Poetry Club]]]]
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===Neighborhood festivals===
[[File:Joey Arias and Sherry Vine 2009 Howl Festival by DS.jpg|thumb|255px|[[Sherry Vine]] and [[Joey Arias]] during the 2009 HOWL! Festival]]
* Mayday Festival – May 1; yearly.
* [[Charlie Parker Jazz Festival]] – August; yearly.<ref name="Charlie-Parker-Jazz-Festival">{{cite web |date=2007 |title=Charlie Parker Jazz Festival |url=http://www.cityparksfoundation.org/index1.aspx?BD=19702 |publisher=[[City Parks Foundation]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071109010244/http://www.cityparksfoundation.org/index1.aspx?BD=19702 |archive-date=November 9, 2007 |access-date=August 26, 2008 }} Archival access – via [[Wayback Machine]].</ref>
* [[HOWL! Festival]] – Summer; yearly.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.howlfestival.com/ |title=howlfestival.com |publisher=howlfestival.com |access-date=May 5, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/tompkinssquarepark/events/142562 |title=Tompkins Square Park Events : NYC Parks |publisher=Nycgovparks.org |access-date=May 5, 2014}}</ref>
* Dance Parade – Summer; yearly.
* Dream Up Festival – August–September; yearly.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dreamupfestival.org/pastshows.html |title=Dreamup Festival Website |publisher=Dreamupfestival.org |date=April 14, 2014 |access-date=May 5, 2014}}</ref>
* Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade – October; yearly.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.firstrunfriends.org/resources.shtml |title=Tompkins Square Dog Run :: First Run |publisher=Firstrunfriends.org |access-date=May 5, 2014}}</ref>

==Parks and gardens==
===Large parks===
[[File:Tompkins Square Park Central Knoll.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Tompkins Square Park]] is the recreational and geographic heart of the East Village. It has historically been a part of [[counterculture]], protest and [[riots]].]]

[[Tompkins Square Park]] is a {{convert|10.5|acre|ha|abbr=|adj=on}} public park in the Alphabet City section of the East Village. It is bounded on the north by 10th Street, on the east by Avenue B, on the south by 7th Street, and on the west by Avenue A.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tompkins Square Park Highlights : NYC Parks |website=New York City Department of Parks & Recreation |date=June 26, 1939 |url=http://nycgovparks.org/sub_your_park/historical_signs/hs_historical_sign.php?id=12589 | access-date=September 29, 2019}}</ref> Tompkins Square Park contains a baseball field, basketball courts, and two playgrounds.<ref>{{cite web | title=Field and Court Usage Report for Tompkins Square Park : NYC Parks | website=New York City Department of Parks & Recreation | date=June 26, 1939 | url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/permits/field-and-court/issued/M088 | access-date=October 3, 2019}}</ref> It also contains the city's first [[dog park|dog run]], which is a social scene unto itself.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dog Run Culture |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=October 15, 1995 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/15/nyregion/dog-run-culture.html | access-date=September 29, 2019}}</ref> The park has been the site of numerous events and riots:
* [[Tompkins Square Park riot (1874)|On January 13, 1874]], a riot broke out after the [[New York City Police Department]] clashed with a demonstration involving thousands of [[unemployment|unemployed]] civilians.<ref>{{cite book |author=Gordon, Michael Allen |title=The Orange Riots: Irish Political Violence in New York City, 1870–1871 |url=https://archive.org/details/orangeriotsirish00gord |url-access=limited |publisher=Cornell University Press |year=1993 |page=[https://archive.org/details/orangeriotsirish00gord/page/203 203]|isbn=9780801427541 }}</ref>
* On July 25, 1877, during the [[Great Railroad Strike of 1877]], twenty thousand people gathered in the park to hear communist orators speak. New York City police and National Guardsmen eventually charged the crowd with billy clubs, later claiming that the rally was not being held in a peaceful manner. In the wake of this "riot" the city, in conjunction with the War Department, established an official city armory program led by the 7th Regiment.<ref>{{cite web |last=Schulz |first=Dana |title=On This Day: The Tompkins Square Park Communist Rally |date=July 25, 2011 |url=http://gvshp.org/blog/2011/07/25/on-this-day-the-tompkins-square-communist-rally/ |publisher=Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation |access-date=July 25, 2011}}</ref>
* [[Tompkins Square Park riot (1988)|On August 6–7, 1988]], a riot broke out between police and groups of "drug pushers, homeless people and young people known as '[[skinhead]]s'" who had largely taken over the park. The neighborhood was divided about what, if anything, should be done about it.<ref name="Newsday1">Koch Suspends Park Curfew Following bloody clash in Tompkins Square, Manuel Perez-Rivas, [[Newsday]], August 8, 1988, NEWS; Pg. 5.</ref> Manhattan Community Board{{nbs}}3 adopted a curfew for the previously 24-hour park in an attempt to bring it under control.<ref>{{cite news |first=Howard |last=Kurtz |title=Man Refuses to Surrender Film of Clash With Police |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/73629298.html?dids=73629298:73629298&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=SEP+07%2C+1988&author=Howard+Kurtz&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=Man+Refuses+to+Surrender+Film+of+Clash+With+Police%3B+New+Yorker+Jailed+on+Contempt+Charge&pqatl=google |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=September 7, 1988 |access-date=July 6, 2017 |archive-date=January 20, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130120023656/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/73629298.html?dids=73629298:73629298&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=SEP+07%2C+1988&author=Howard+Kurtz&pub=The+Washington+Post&desc=Man+Refuses+to+Surrender+Film+of+Clash+With+Police%3B+New+Yorker+Jailed+on+Contempt+Charge&pqatl=google |url-status=dead }}</ref> A rally against the curfew resulted in several clashes between protesters and police.<ref>{{cite news |first=Michael |last=Wines |title=Class Struggle Erupts Along Avenue B |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/10/nyregion/class-struggle-erupts-along-avenue-b.html |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=August 10, 1988|access-date=September 29, 2019}}</ref>

[[East River Park]] is {{convert|57|acre|ha}} and runs between the [[FDR Drive]] and the [[East River]] from Montgomery Street to East 12th Street. It was designed in the 1930s by parks commissioner [[Robert Moses]], who wanted to ensure there was parkland along the [[Lower East Side]] shorefront.<ref>{{cite web |title=John V. Lindsay East River Park : NYC Parks |website=New York City Department of Parks & Recreation |date=June 26, 1939 |url=http://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/eastriverpark | access-date=September 29, 2019}}</ref> The park includes football, baseball, and soccer fields; tennis, basketball, and handball courts; a running track; and bike paths, including the [[Manhattan Waterfront Greenway|East River Greenway]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Field and Court Usage Report for John V. Lindsay East River Park : NYC Parks | website=New York City Department of Parks & Recreation | date=June 26, 1939 | url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/permits/field-and-court/issued/M144 | access-date=October 3, 2019}}</ref>

===Community gardens===
There are reportedly more than 640 [[Community gardening|community garden]]s in New York City{{snd}}gardens run by local collectives within the neighborhood who are responsible for the gardens' upkeep{{snd}}and an estimated ten percent of those are located on the Lower East Side and the East Village alone.<ref name="NY1">[http://www.ny1.com/Default.aspx?SecID=1000&ArID=83259 East Village Community Garden Gets New Lease On Life] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081210090419/http://www.ny1.com/Default.aspx?SecID=1000&ArID=83259 |date=December 10, 2008 }}, Rebecca Spitz, [[NY1]], June 30, 2008; accessed August 25, 2008.</ref> Development of these community gardens, often on municipally owned land, started in the early 1970s. Although many of these lots were later sold to private developers, others were taken over by the [[New York City Department of Parks and Recreation]], which preserves the gardens under its ownership.<ref name="Strausbaugh 2007"/>

[[Open Road Park]], a former cemetery and bus depot, is a garden and a playground adjacent to [[East Side Community High School]] between 11th and 12th Streets east of First Avenue.<ref>{{cite web | title=What lies below: NYC's forgotten and hidden graveyards | website=6sqft | date=December 21, 2017 | url=https://www.6sqft.com/what-lies-below-nycs-forgotten-and-hidden-graveyards/ | access-date=October 3, 2019}}</ref>

The Avenue B and 6th Street Community Garden was known for a now-removed outdoor sculpture, the Tower of Toys, designed by artist and long-time garden groundskeeper [[Eddie Boros]].<ref name="Vill">[http://www.thevillager.com/villager_209/aforceofnatureleaves.html A Force of Nature Leave] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080921133941/http://www.thevillager.com/villager_209/aforceofnatureleaves.html |date=September 21, 2008 }}, Lincoln Anderson, ''[[Village (magazine)|The Village]]'', May 2–8, 2007; Accessed August 26, 2008.</ref> It was a {{convert|65|ft|m|adj=mid|-tall}} makeshift structure made of wooden planks, from which were suspended an amalgamation of fanciful objects.<ref>{{cite web |last=Schulz |first=Dana |title=Remembering the Toy Tower |date=July 2011 |url=http://gvshp.org/blog/2011/07/01/remembering-the-toy-tower/ |publisher=Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation |access-date=July 1, 2011}}</ref> The tower was a neighborhood icon, having appeared in the [[opening credits]] for the television show ''[[NYPD Blue]]'' and also appears in the musical ''[[Rent (musical)|Rent]]''.<ref name=Vill/> It was also controversial: some viewed it as a masterpiece, while others as an eyesore.<ref name=Vill/><ref name="Goth">{{cite web | title=Gothamist: East Village Community Garden's Tower of Toys to Go | website=gothamist.com | date=May 6, 2008 | url=http://gothamist.com/2008/05/06/tower_of_toys_i.php | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511185034/http://gothamist.com/2008/05/06/tower_of_toys_i.php | archive-date=May 11, 2008 | url-status=live | access-date=October 3, 2019}}</ref> The tower was dismantled in May 2008 because, according to parks commissioner [[Adrian Benepe]], it was rotting and thus a safety hazard. Its removal was seen by some as a symbol of the neighborhood's fading past.<ref>{{cite web |last=Moynihan |first=Colin |title=Creation of a Bygone Era, Soon to Be Demolished |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=May 11, 2008 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/nyregion/11tower.html | access-date=September 29, 2019}}</ref>

The Toyota Children's Learning Garden at 603 East 11th Street is technically a learning garden rather than a community garden. Designed by landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh, the garden opened in May 2008 as part of the New York Restoration Project and is designed to teach children about plants.<ref name="ToyotaTimes">{{cite web |last=Wadler |first=Joyce |title=A New Manhattan Park Teaches Children About Plants |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=May 22, 2008 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/22/garden/22gardens.html | access-date=September 29, 2019}}.</ref>

[[La Plaza Cultural de Armando Perez]] is a community garden, open-air theater, and green space at 9th Street and Avenue C. Founded in 1976, the garden continues to operate {{as of|2019|lc=y}},<ref>{{cite web | title=East Village"Winter Flowers" – Where Will They Bloom Again? – Preservation – Off the Grid | website=GVSHP &#124; Preservation &#124; Off the Grid | date=February 21, 2019 | url=https://gvshp.org/blog/2019/02/21/east-villagewinter-flowers-where-will-they-bloom-again/ | access-date=October 3, 2019}}</ref> despite having been proposed for redevelopment multiple times.<ref>{{cite web | title=NEIGHBORHOOD REPORT: EAST VILLAGE; La Plaza: 1 Life Used, 8 Left | website=The New York Times | date=May 9, 1999 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/09/nyregion/neighborhood-report-east-village-la-plaza-1-life-used-8-left.html | access-date=October 3, 2019}}</ref>

===Marble cemeteries===
[[File:Marble Cemetery - All the Worlds a Grave.JPG|thumb|250px|A production of [[John Reed (novelist)|John Reed]]'s ''All the World's a Grave'' in the New York Marble Cemetery, which does not contain headstones]]

On the block bounded by Bowery, Second Avenue, and 2nd and 3rd Streets, is the oldest public cemetery in New York City not affiliated with any religion, the [[New York Marble Cemetery]].<ref name="NYCL-0466"/>{{rp|1}}<ref name="MarCem">[http://www.marblecemetery.org/ New York Marble Cemetery] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128171004/https://www.marblecemetery.org/ |date=November 28, 2020 }} official site.</ref> Established in 1830,<ref name="NYCL-0466"/>{{rp|1}} it is open the fourth Sunday of every month.<ref name="Marble">{{cite web |last=Beyer |first=Gregory |title=Walls Falling Down at Cemetery in East Village |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=May 1, 2008 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/nyregion/thecity/01ceme.html | access-date=September 29, 2019}}</ref>

The similarly named [[New York City Marble Cemetery]], located on 2nd Street between First Avenue and Second Avenue, is the second oldest nonsectarian cemetery in New York City. The cemetery opened in 1831.<ref name="NYCL-0464"/>{{rp|1}} Notable people interred there include U.S. President [[James Monroe]]; [[Stephen Allen (American politician)|Stephen Allen]], mayor (1821–1824); [[James Lenox]], whose personal library became part of the New York Public Library; [[Isaac Varian]], mayor (1839–1841); [[Marinus Willet]], Revolutionary War hero; and [[Preserved Fish]], a well-known merchant.<ref name="MarCemCit">[http://www.nycmc.org/landmark.html New York City Marble Cemetery] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520104342/http://nycmc.org/landmark.html |date=May 20, 2011 }} official site.</ref>

==Police and crime==
East Village is patrolled by the [[9th Precinct]] of the [[New York City Police Department|NYPD]], located at 321 East 5th Street.<ref name="NYPD 9th Precinct">{{Cite web |url=https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/bureaus/patrol/precincts/9th-precinct.page |title=NYPD – 9th Precinct |website=www.nyc.gov |publisher=[[New York City Police Department]]|access-date=October 3, 2016}}</ref> The 9th Precinct ranked 58th safest out of 69 patrol areas for per-capita crime in 2010.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/crime-safety-report/manhattan/east-village/ |title=East Village and Alphabet City – DNAinfo.com Crime and Safety Report |website=www.dnainfo.com|access-date=October 6, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170415065249/https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/crime-safety-report/manhattan/east-village|archive-date=April 15, 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> {{As of|2018}}, with a non-fatal assault rate of 42 per 100,000 people, Community District 3's rate of [[violent crime]]s per capita is less than that of the city as a whole. The incarceration rate of 449 per 100,000 people is higher than that of the city as a whole.{{Sfn|"Community Health Profiles,"|2018|p=8}}

The 9th Precinct has a lower crime rate than in the 1990s, with crimes across all categories having decreased by 79.5% between 1990 and 2019. The precinct reported 3{{nbs}}murders, 15 rapes, 119 robberies, 171 felony assaults, 122 burglaries, 760 grand larcenies, and 37 grand larcenies auto in 2019.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/crime_statistics/cs-en-us-009pct.pdf |title=9th Precinct CompStat Report |website=www.nyc.gov |publisher=[[New York City Police Department]]|access-date=March 23, 2020}}</ref>

==Fire safety==
[[File:Firehouse 108 East 13th St.jpg|thumb|250px|Ladder Co. 3/Battalion 6]]

East Village is served by four [[New York City Fire Department]] (FDNY) fire stations:<ref>{{Cite FDNY locations}}</ref>
* Ladder Co. 3/Battalion 6 – 103 East 13th Street<ref>{{cite web |title=Ladder Company 18/Battalion 4 |website=FDNYtrucks.com |url=http://www.fdnytrucks.com/files/html/manhattan/l3.htm | access-date=March 14, 2019}}</ref>
* Engine Co. 5 – 340 East 14th Street<ref>{{cite web |title=Engine Company 5 |website=FDNYtrucks.com |url=http://www.fdnytrucks.com/files/html/manhattan/e5.htm | access-date=March 14, 2019}}</ref>
* Engine Co. 28/Ladder Co. 11 – 222 East 2nd Street<ref>{{cite web |title=Engine Company 9/Ladder Company 6 |website=FDNYtrucks.com |url=http://www.fdnytrucks.com/files/html/manhattan/e9.htm | access-date=March 14, 2019}}</ref>
* Engine Co. 33/Ladder Co. 9 – 42 Great Jones Street<ref>{{cite web |title=Engine Company 33/Ladder Company 9 |website=FDNYtrucks.com |url=http://www.fdnytrucks.com/files/html/manhattan/e33.htm | access-date=March 14, 2019}}</ref>

==Health==
{{As of|2018}}, [[preterm birth]]s and births to teenage mothers are less common in the East Village and the Lower East Side than in other places citywide. In the East Village and the Lower East Side, there were 82 preterm births per 1,000 live births (compared to 87 per 1,000 citywide), and 10.1 teenage births per 1,000 live births (compared to 19.3 per 1,000 citywide).{{Sfn|"Community Health Profiles,"|2018|p=11}} The East Village and the Lower East Side have a low population of residents who are [[Health insurance coverage in the United States|uninsured]]. In 2018 this population of uninsured residents was estimated to be 11%, slightly less than the citywide rate of 12%.{{Sfn|"Community Health Profiles,"|2018|p=14}}

The concentration of [[particulates|fine particulate matter]], the deadliest type of [[air pollution|air pollutant]], in the East Village and the Lower East Side is {{convert|0.0089|mg/m3|oz/ft3}}, more than the city average.{{Sfn|"Community Health Profiles,"|2018|p=9}} Twenty percent of East Village and Lower East Side residents are [[Smoking|smokers]], which is more than the city average of 14% of residents being smokers.{{Sfn|"Community Health Profiles,"|2018|p=13}} In the East Village and the Lower East Side, 10% of residents are [[Obesity|obese]], 11% are [[Diabetes mellitus|diabetic]], and 22% have [[hypertension|high blood pressure]]{{snd}}compared to the citywide averages of 24%, 11%, and 28% respectively.{{Sfn|"Community Health Profiles,"|2018|p=16}} In addition, 16% of children are obese, compared to the citywide average of 20%.{{Sfn|"Community Health Profiles,"|2018|p=12}}

Eighty-eight percent of residents eat some fruits and vegetables every day, which is about the same as the city's average of 87%. In 2018, 70% of residents described their health as "good", "very good", or "excellent", less than the city's average of 78%.{{Sfn|"Community Health Profiles,"|2018|p=13}} For every supermarket in the East Village and the Lower East Side, there are eighteen [[Convenience store|bodegas]].{{Sfn|"Community Health Profiles,"|2018|p=10}}

The nearest major hospitals are the [[Bellevue Hospital Center]] and [[NYU Langone Medical Center]] in [[Kips Bay, Manhattan|Kips Bay]], and [[Lower Manhattan Hospital|NewYork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital]] in the [[Civic Center, Manhattan|Civic Center]] area.<ref>{{cite web |title=Manhattan Hospital Listings |website=New York Hospitals |url=http://www.allny.com/health/hosp-manhattan.html | access-date=March 20, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Best Hospitals in New York, N.Y. |website=U.S. News & World Report |date=July 26, 2011 |url=https://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/area/new-york-ny | access-date=March 20, 2019}}</ref> In addition, [[Beth Israel Medical Center]] in [[Stuyvesant Town]] operated until 2025.<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 9, 2025 |title=Mount Sinai Beth Israel in East Village officially closes after judge dismisses bid to stay open |url=https://abc7ny.com/post/mount-sinai-beth-israel-east-village-officially-closes-judge-dismisses-community-group-bid-stay-open/16148740/ |access-date=April 9, 2025 |website=ABC7 New York |language=en}}</ref>

==Post offices and ZIP Codes==
[[File:Cooper Station Post Office.jpg|thumb|250px|USPS Cooper Station post office]]

East Village is located within two primary [[ZIP Code]]s. The area east of First Avenue including Alphabet City is part of 10009, while the area west of First Avenue is part of 10003.<ref>{{cite web |title=East Village, New York City-Manhattan, New York Zip Code Boundary Map (NY) |website=United States Zip Code Boundary Map (USA) |url=https://www.zipmap.net/New_York/New_York_County/Z_East_Village.htm |access-date=March 21, 2019 |archive-date=November 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221109155442/https://www.zipmap.net/New_York/New_York_County/Z_East_Village.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> The [[United States Postal Service]] operates three post offices in the East Village:
* [[United States Post Office (Cooper Station)|Cooper Station]] – 93 Fourth Avenue<ref>{{cite web |title=Location Details: Cooper |website=USPS.com |url=https://tools.usps.com/go/POLocatorDetailsAction!input.action?locationTypeQ=po&address=10003&radius=20&locationType=po&locationID=1359178&locationName=COOPER&address2=&address1=93+4TH+AVE | access-date=March 7, 2019}}</ref>
* Peter Stuyvesant Station – 335 East 14th Street<ref>{{cite web |title=Location Details: Peter Stuyvesant |website=USPS.com |url=https://tools.usps.com/go/POLocatorDetailsAction!input.action?locationTypeQ=po&address=10003&radius=20&locationType=po&locationID=1464314&locationName=PETER+STUYVESANT&address2=&address1=335+E+14TH+ST | access-date=March 7, 2019}}</ref>
* Tompkins Square Station – 244 East 3rd Street<ref>{{cite web |title=Location Details: Tompkins Square |website=USPS.com |url=https://tools.usps.com/go/POLocatorDetailsAction!input.action?locationTypeQ=po&address=10003&radius=20&locationType=po&locationID=1384801&locationName=TOMPKINS+SQUARE&address2=&address1=244+E+3RD+ST | access-date=March 7, 2019}}</ref>

==Education==
East Village and the Lower East Side generally have a higher rate of college-educated residents than the rest of the city {{as of|2018|lc=y}}. A plurality of residents age 25 and older (48%) have a college education or higher, while 24% have less than a high school education and 28% are high school graduates or have some college education. By contrast, 64% of Manhattan residents and 43% of city residents have a college education or higher.{{Sfn|"Community Health Profiles,"|2018|p=6}} The percentage of East Village and the Lower East Side students excelling in math rose from 61% in 2000 to 80% in 2011, and reading achievement increased from 66% to 68% during the same time period.<ref name=":17">{{Cite web |url=http://furmancenter.org/files/sotc/MN_03_11.pdf |title=Lower East Side / Chinatown – MN 03 |date=2011 |publisher=[[Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy]]|access-date=October 5, 2016}}</ref>

East Village and the Lower East Side's rate of elementary school student absenteeism is lower than the rest of New York City. In the East Village and the Lower East Side, 16% of elementary school students missed twenty or more days per [[school year]], less than the citywide average of 20%.{{Sfn|"Community Health Profiles,"|2018|p=6}}<ref name=":21" />{{Rp|24 (PDF p. 55)}} Additionally, 77% of high school students in the East Village and the Lower East Side graduate on time, more than the citywide average of 75%.{{Sfn|"Community Health Profiles,"|2018|p=6}}

===Schools===
The [[New York City Department of Education]] operates public schools in the East Village as part of Community School District 1.<ref name="Zillow">{{cite web |title=East Village New York School Ratings and Reviews |website=Zillow |url=https://www.zillow.com:443/east-village-new-york-ny/schools/ | access-date=March 17, 2019}}</ref> District{{nbs}}1 does not contain any zoned schools, which means that students living in District{{nbs}}1 can apply to any school in the district, including [[Lower East Side#Schools|those in the Lower East Side]].<ref>{{cite web |title=A Manhattan District Where School Choice Amounts to Segregation |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=June 7, 2017 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/nyregion/a-manhattan-district-where-school-choice-amounts-to-segregation.html | access-date=June 10, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=InsideSchools: District 1 |website=InsideSchools |url=https://insideschools.org/districts/1 | access-date=June 10, 2019}}</ref>

The following public elementary schools are located in the East Village and serve grades PK–5 unless otherwise indicated:<ref name="Zillow"/>
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* PS 15 Roberto Clemente<ref>{{cite web |title=P.S. 015 Roberto Clemente |website=New York City Department of Education |date=December 19, 2018 |url=https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/M015 | access-date=March 22, 2019}}</ref>
* PS 19 Asher Levy<ref>{{cite web |title=P.S. 019 Asher Levy |website=New York City Department of Education |date=December 19, 2018 |url=https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/M019 |access-date=March 22, 2019 |archive-date=December 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202193001/https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/M019 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* PS 34 Franklin D Roosevelt (grades PK–8)<ref>{{cite web |title=P.S. 034 Franklin D. Roosevelt |website=New York City Department of Education |date=December 19, 2018 |url=https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/M034 | access-date=March 22, 2019}}</ref>
* PS 63 STAR Academy<ref>{{cite web |title=The STAR Academy – P.S.63 |website=New York City Department of Education |date=December 19, 2018 |url=https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/M063 | access-date=March 22, 2019}}</ref>
* PS 64 Robert Simon<ref>{{cite web |title=P.S. 064 Robert Simon |website=New York City Department of Education |date=December 19, 2018 |url=https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/M064 | access-date=March 22, 2019}}</ref>
* PS 94 (grades K–8)<ref>{{cite web |title=P.S. M094 |website=New York City Department of Education |date=December 19, 2018 |url=https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/M094 | access-date=March 22, 2019}}</ref>
* PS 188 The Island School (grades PK–8)<ref>{{cite web |title=P.S. 188 The Island School |website=New York City Department of Education |date=December 19, 2018 |url=https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/M188 | access-date=March 22, 2019}}</ref>
* Earth School<ref>{{cite web |title=Earth School |website=New York City Department of Education |date=December 19, 2018 |url=https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/M364 | access-date=March 22, 2019}}</ref>
* Neighborhood School<ref>{{cite web |title=Neighborhood School |website=New York City Department of Education |date=December 19, 2018 |url=https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/M363 | access-date=March 22, 2019}}</ref>
* The Children's Workshop School<ref>{{cite web |title=The Children's Workshop School |website=New York City Department of Education |date=December 19, 2018 |url=https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/M361 | access-date=March 22, 2019}}</ref>
* The East Village Community School<ref>{{cite web |title=The East Village Community School |website=New York City Department of Education |date=December 19, 2018 |url=https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/M315 | access-date=March 22, 2019}}</ref>{{div col end}}

The following middle and high schools are located in the East Village:<ref name="Zillow"/>
* [[East Side Community High School]] (grades 6–12)<ref>{{cite web |title=East Side Community School |website=New York City Department of Education |date=December 19, 2018 |url=https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/M450 | access-date=March 22, 2019}}</ref>
* Manhattan School for Career Development (grades 9–12)<ref>{{cite web |title=Manhattan School for Career Development |website=New York City Department of Education |date=December 19, 2018 |url=https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/M751 | access-date=March 22, 2019}}</ref>
* Tompkins Square Middle School (grades 6–8)<ref>{{cite web |title=Tompkins Square Middle School |website=New York City Department of Education |date=December 19, 2018 |url=https://www.schools.nyc.gov/schools/M839 | access-date=March 22, 2019}}</ref>

The [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York]] operates Catholic schools in Manhattan. St. Brigid School in the East Village closed in 2019.<ref name=Byfield>{{cite web|author=Byfield, Erica|url=https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Seven-New-York-Catholic-Schools-to-Close-After-This-Year-Archdiocese-Says-505358481.html|title=Seven NY Catholic Schools to Close After This Year, Archdiocese Says|publisher=[[NBC New York]]|date=February 5, 2019|access-date=May 5, 2020}}</ref>

The following independent schools are located in the East Village:
* [https://www.newamsterdamschool.org/ The New Amsterdam School] (Waldorf)<ref>{{cite web|date=August 18, 2021|title=The New Amsterdam School Website|url=https://www.newamsterdamschool.org/M315|access-date=March 22, 2019}}{{Dead link|date=July 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

===Libraries===
[[File:Freie Bibliothek and Deutsches Dispensary.jpg|thumb|250px|New York Public Library, Ottendorfer branch]]

The [[New York Public Library]] (NYPL) operates three branches near the East Village.
* The [[Ottendorfer Public Library|Ottendorfer branch]] is located at 135 Second Avenue. The branch opened in 1884 based on a gift from [[Oswald Ottendorfer]], who owned the ''[[New Yorker Staats-Zeitung]]''. The Ottendorfer branch, designed in the [[Queen Anne architecture (United States)|Queen Anne]] and [[Renaissance Revival architecture|Renaissance Revival]] styles, is a [[New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission|New York City designated landmark]].<ref name="NYPL Ottendorfer">{{cite web |title=About the Ottendorfer Library |website=The New York Public Library |url=https://www.nypl.org/about/locations/ottendorfer | access-date=March 14, 2019}}</ref>
* The Tompkins Square branch is located at 331 East 10th Street. The library opened in 1887 and moved three times before relocating to its current [[Carnegie library]] structure in 1904.<ref>{{cite web |title=About the Tompkins Square Library |website=The New York Public Library |url=https://www.nypl.org/about/locations/tompkins-square | access-date=March 14, 2019}}</ref>
* The Hamilton Fish Park branch is located at 415 East Houston Street. It was originally built as a Carnegie library in 1909, but was torn down when Houston Street was expanded; the current one-story structure was completed in 1960.<ref>{{cite web |title=About the Hamilton Fish Park Library |website=The New York Public Library |url=https://www.nypl.org/about/locations/hamilton-fish-park | access-date=March 14, 2019}}</ref>

===Colleges===
====New York University====
Along with gentrification, the East Village has seen an increase in the number of buildings owned and maintained by [[New York University]], particularly dormitories for undergraduate students, and this influx has given rise to conflict between the community and the university.<ref name="Voice">[http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0610,lombardi,72426,2.html As NYU plans towering dorm for 12th Street, East Village neighbors cry foul] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724024616/http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0610,lombardi,72426,2.html |date=July 24, 2008 }}, Kristen Lombardi, ''The Village Voice'', February 28, 2006.</ref>

[[St. Ann's Church (Manhattan)|St. Ann's Church]], a rusticated-stone structure with a [[Romanesque Revival architecture|Romanesque Revival]] tower on [[12th Street (Manhattan)|East 12th Street]] that dated to 1847, was sold to NYU to make way for a 26-story, 700-bed dormitory. After community protest, the university promised to protect and maintain the church's original facade; and so it did, literally, by having the facade stand alone in front of the building, now the tallest structure in the area.<ref name=Voice/> According to many residents, NYU's alteration and demolition of historic buildings, such as the Peter Cooper Post Office, is spoiling the physical and socio-economic landscape that makes this neighborhood so interesting and attractive.<ref name="PacePress">[http://media.www.pacepress.org/media/storage/paper424/news/2008/02/06/Features/Nyus-Continued.Expansion.Into.The.East.Village-3199133.shtml Residents wary of changing physical, socio-economic landscape] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080503092931/http://media.www.pacepress.org/media/storage/paper424/news/2008/02/06/Features/Nyus-Continued.Expansion.Into.The.East.Village-3199133.shtml |date=May 3, 2008 }}, Katla McGlynn, Pace Press, February 6, 2008.</ref>

NYU has often been at odds with residents of both the East and West Villages due to its expansive [[Campus of New York University#Real estate and development|development plans]]; urban preservationist [[Jane Jacobs]] battled the school in the 1960s.<ref>[http://www2.nysun.com/article/74490 A Lightning Rod at 91] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080415144029/http://www2.nysun.com/article/74490 |date=April 15, 2008 }}, Frances Morrone, ''[[New York Sun]]'', April 10, 2008.</ref> "She spoke of how universities and hospitals often had a special kind of hubris reflected in the fact that they often thought it was OK to destroy a neighborhood to suit their needs," said Andrew Berman of the [[Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation]].<ref>Zimmer, Amy. [http://ny.metro.us/metro/local/article/Activists_ask_WWJD/12252.html "Activists ask: WWJD?"]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} ''Metro'' (April 16, 2008)</ref>

====Cooper Union====
The [[Cooper Union|Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art]], founded in 1859 by entrepreneur and philanthropist [[Peter Cooper]] and located on [[Cooper Square]],<ref>{{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|''Charter'',|1857|p=}} |date=1959 |title=Charter, Trust Deed, and By-Laws of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art |url={{GBurl|ek0XAAAAYAAJ|p=1}} |publisher=[[William Cullen Bryant|Wm. C. Bryant & Company]] (printer) |type=61 pages |access-date=June 3, 2022 |via=[[Google Books]] ([[Princeton University]])}} {{LCCN|07014051}}; {{OCLC|17830905|show=all}}.<div style="margin-left:3em">Founding enabled by a NY State Act of February 17, 1857. The land is conveyed for one dollar.</div></ref> was, as of 2008, one of the most selective colleges in the world,<ref name="USNews 2008">{{cite journal |title=America's Best Colleges 2008: Lowest Acceptance Rates |url=http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/webex/lowacc_brief.php |journal=[[U.S. News & World Report]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704031726/http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/webex/lowacc_brief.php |archive-date=July 4, 2008 }}</ref> and formerly offered tuition-free programs in engineering, art and architecture.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/24/nyregion/cooper-union-to-charge-undergraduates-tuition.html?_r=0 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |first=Ariel |last=Kaminer |title=Cooper Union Will Charge Tuition in 2014 |date=April 23, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/t1ccbach_n_brief.php |title=Best Colleges &#124; Find the Best College for You |work=U.S. News & World Report |date=January 31, 2011 |access-date=March 16, 2011 |archive-date=May 13, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513174335/http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/t1ccbach_n_brief.php |url-status=dead }}</ref> Its [[Cooper Union#The Great Hall|Great Hall]] has been used for several notable speeches, such as [[Abraham Lincoln]]'s [[Cooper Union speech]],<ref name="American-Heritage 2010 Winter">{{cite journal |ref={{SfnRef|Holzer, Winter|2010|p=}} |last1=Holzer |first1=Harold |author-link1=Harold Holzer |date=Winter 2010 |title=The Speech That Made the Man |url=https://www.americanheritage.com/speech-made-man |series={{free access}} |journal=[[American Heritage (magazine)|American Heritage]] |volume=59 |issue=4 |access-date=May 5, 2014 }} {{ISSN|0002-8738}}; {{OCLC|535552627}} (article).</ref><ref name="American-Heritage 2004 Apr-May">{{cite journal |ref={{SfnRef|Holzer, April–May|2004|p=}} |last1=Holzer |first1=Harold |author-link1=Harold Holzer |date=April–May 2004 |title=History Now – Cooper Union: Still a Great Hall, After All; The Lure of Playing Cards; The Streets Are Paved With Wigwams; And Much More |url=https://www.americanheritage.com/still-great-hall-after-all |series={{free access}} |journal=[[American Heritage (magazine)|American Heritage]] |volume=55 |issue=2 |access-date=May 5, 2014 }} {{ISSN|0002-8738}}; {{OCLC|97075648}} (article).</ref> and its [[41 Cooper Square|New Academic Building]] is the first in New York City to achieve [[Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design|LEED]] Platinum status.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.arcspace.com/architects/morphosis/cooperunion/cooperunion.html |title=New Cooper Union Building |work=arcspace.com |access-date=March 21, 2010}}</ref>

==Transportation==
The nearest [[New York City Subway]] stations are [[Second Avenue (IND Sixth Avenue Line)|Second Avenue]] ({{NYCS trains|Sixth south}}), [[Astor Place (IRT Lexington Avenue Line)|Astor Place]] ({{NYCS trains|Lexington local day}}), [[Eighth Street–New York University (BMT Broadway Line)|Eighth Street–New York University]] ({{NYCS trains|Broadway center local day}}), and [[First Avenue (BMT Canarsie Line)|First Avenue]] ({{NYCS trains|Canarsie Manhattan}}).<ref>{{NYCS const|map}}</ref> Phase{{nbs}}3 of the [[Second Avenue Subway]] is planned to establish two stations on 2nd Avenue, one on 14th Street and one on Houston Street.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://web.mta.info/capital/sas_docs/feis/figure2-01.pdf |title=Second Avenue Subway map |publisher=[[Metropolitan Transportation Authority]]|date=February 2013 |access-date=March 1, 2022}}</ref> Bus routes serving the area include the {{NYC bus link|M1|M2|M3|M8|M9|M14A SBS|M14D SBS|M15|M15 SBS|M21|M101|M102|M103|prose=y}}.<ref>{{cite NYC bus map|M}}</ref>

==Media==
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'''Local news'''
* East Village Feed
* The East Villager
* [[East Village Eye|''The East Village Eye'']]
* ''[[The Village Voice]]''
* ''[[The Villager (Manhattan)|The Villager]]''
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'''Radio'''
* [[East Village Radio]]

'''Television'''
* Obscura Antiques & Oddities, focus of [[Oddities (TV series)|''Oddities'']]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.eastvillagevibe.com/dig-up-macabre-frills-at-obscura/ |title=Dig Up Macabre Frills at Obscura |publisher=East Village Vibe |date=July 9, 2013 |access-date=May 5, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140505230803/http://www.eastvillagevibe.com/dig-up-macabre-frills-at-obscura/ |archive-date=May 5, 2014}}</ref>
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==Notable residents==
[[File:Richard Hell 3 by David Shankbone.jpg|thumb|Punk rock icon and writer [[Richard Hell]] still lives in the same apartment in Alphabet City that he has had since the 1970s.]]
[[File:Miss Understood 7 by David Shankbone.jpg|thumb|[[Miss Understood]] stops an {{NYC bus link|M15}} bus in front of the Lucky Cheng's restaurant at 2nd Street on [[First Avenue (Manhattan)|First Avenue]].]]
[[File:Lotti Golden, Lower East Side c.1968.jpg|thumb|[[Lotti Golden]], Lower East Side, 1968]]
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* [[Skippy Adelman]] (1924–2004) – jazz photojournalist, lived at 488 East Houston, through high school<ref name="USCensus-1940 Julius Edelman" />
* [[Ryan Adams]] (born 1974) – [[alt-country]] musician<ref name="NY-Observer 2017 Jul 10">{{cite journal |last1=Edelstone |first1=Steven |date=July 10, 2017 |title=Ryan Adams' Guide to New York City – What Life Was Like for a Heavy-Drinking, Perpetually Fucked Up Mid-2000s East Village Resident |url=https://observer.com/2017/07/ryan-adams-guide-to-new-york-city/ |journal=[[The New York Observer]] |access-date=April 22, 2020 |quote=Ryan Adams may have left winter behind for the perennial summer of Los Angeles almost a decade ago, but he gifted us ten records and God knows how many unreleased songs while in New York that give brief, yet beautiful snapshots into what life was like for a heavy-drinking, perpetually fucked up mid-2000s East Village resident.}}</ref>
* [[Darren Aronofsky]] (born 1969) – filmmaker<ref>{{cite web |last=Khan |first=Bilal |title=Darren Aronofsky Buys Out Ex Rachel Weisz on Their East Village Townhouse |url=https://ny.curbed.com/2012/1/13/10408670/darren-aronofsky-buys-out-ex-rachel-weisz-on-their-east-village |website=[[Curbed New York]] |date=January 13, 2012 |access-date=February 25, 2024 |quote=Way back in 2005 then power couple Darren Aronofsky, director of such family flicks as ''Black Swan'' and ''Requiem for a Dream'', and then-fiancé now-Daniel Craig roommate and actress Rachel Weisz picked up this townhouse at 215 East 11th Street for $3.4 Million.}}</ref>
* [[W. H. Auden]] (1907–1973) – poet<ref>{{cite web |last=Dundy |first=Elaine |title=At Auden's Birthday |url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2001/jun/09/weekend7.weekend3 |website=[[The Guardian]] |date=June 9, 2001 |access-date=August 27, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306053632/http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2001/jun/09/weekend7.weekend3 |archive-date=March 6, 2016}}</ref>
* [[John Franklin Bardin]] (1916–1981) – novelist<ref>{{cite web |title=John Franklin Bardin, Novelist and Editor, 64 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=July 17, 1981 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/07/17/obituaries/john-franklin-bardin-novelist-and-editor-64.html |access-date=September 29, 2019 |quote=John Franklin Bardin, a novelist, editor and publicity man, died at Beth Israel Hospital on July 9. He was 64 years old and a resident of the East Village.}}</ref>
* [[Jean-Michel Basquiat]] (1960–1988) – artist<ref>{{cite web |last=Hoban |first=Phoebe |author-link=Phoebe Hoban |title=Basquiat |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=April 8, 2018 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/h/hoban-basquiat.html |access-date=September 29, 2019 |quote=Like Basquiat, Thompson lived for a while in the East Village, had notoriously excessive appetites, adored jazz, and was a longtime heroin addict.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Hays |first=Constance L. |title=Jean Basquiat, 27, An Artist of Words And Angular Images |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=August 15, 1988 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/08/15/obituaries/jean-basquiat-27-an-artist-of-words-and-angular-images.html |access-date=September 29, 2019 |quote=Jean Michel Basquiat, a Brooklyn-born artist whose brief career leaped from graffiti scrawled on SoHo foundations to one-man shows in galleries around the world, died Friday at his home in the East Village.}}</ref>
* [[Dana Beal]] (born 1947) – social and political activist.<ref>{{cite web |last=Moynihan |first=Colin |title=A Yippie Veteran Is in Jail Far From the East Village |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=June 11, 2008 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/nyregion/11yippie.html |access-date=September 29, 2019 |quote=With a bushy white moustache that makes him resemble a Civil War-era cavalry colonel, Mr. Beal is a well-known figure in the East Village, where he often roams the streets wearing a tan corduroy blazer and brown leather boots.}}</ref>
* [[Leslie Bibb]] (born 1974) – actress<ref name="portmag">{{cite web |last=Parker |first=Ian |title=The Man Who Fell to Earth: Sam Rockwell |url=https://www.port-magazine.com/fashion/the-man-who-fell-to-earth-sam-rockwell/ |website=Port Magazine |date=July 14, 2014 |access-date=May 18, 2025 |quote=He shares a large loft apartment in Manhattan's East Village, with Leslie Bibb, the actress}}</ref>
* [[Mark Bloch (artist)|Mark Bloch]] (born 1956) – artist
* [[Jeremy Blake]] (1971–2007) – digital artist and painter<ref>{{cite web |last=Kennedy |first=Randy |title=Jeremy Blake, 35, Artist Who Used Lush-Toned Video, Dies |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=July 21, 2007 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/01/arts/design/01blake.html |access-date=September 29, 2019 |quote=Jeremy Blake, an up-and-coming artist who sought to bridge the worlds of painting and film in lush, color-saturated, hallucinatory digital video works, has died, the New York City Police said yesterday. He was 35 and lived in the East Village in Manhattan.}}</ref>
* [[Walter Bowart]] (1939–2007) – co-founder and editor of the ''[[East Village Other]]''
* [[David Bowes]] (born 1957) – painter<ref>{{cite web |title=David Dirrane Bowes |url=http://www.askart.com/artist/David_Dirrane_Bowes/86240/David_Dirrane_Bowes.aspx |website=AskArt.com |access-date=June 7, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160617112130/http://www.askart.com/artist/David_Dirrane_Bowes/86240/David_Dirrane_Bowes.aspx |archive-date=June 17, 2016 |quote=David Bowes is an American painter, born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1957, and first recognized during the early 1980s in New York's East Village.}}</ref>
* [[Richard Brookhiser]] (born 1955) – author, historian<ref>{{cite web |title=In Depth with Richard Brookhiser |url=https://www.c-span.org/video/?304896-1/depth-richard-brookhiser&start=5508 |website=[[C-SPAN]] |date=April 1, 2012 |access-date=April 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200730225816/https://www.c-span.org/video/?304896-1%2Fdepth-richard-brookhiser&start=5508 |archive-date=July 30, 2020 |quote=[01:31:48] We have about an hour and a half left in the program today. We visited Mr. Brookhiser at his house in the East Village of New York City.}}</ref>
* [[William S. Burroughs]] (1914–1997) – novelist, actor<ref>{{cite web |title=The East Village's Own, Allen Ginsberg |url=https://gvshp.org/blog/2012/02/08/the-east-villages-own-allen-ginsberg/ |website=Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation |date=February 8, 2012 |access-date=April 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200229175321/https://gvshp.org/blog/2012/02/08/the-east-villages-own-allen-ginsberg/ |archive-date=February 29, 2020 |quote=Ginsberg and his friends and fellow Beats Jack Kerouac, Gary Corso and William S. Burroughs moved to the East Village in the early 1950s and their experiences and adventures here were well documented, often through Ginsberg's own camera lens.}}</ref>
* [[Chris Cain]] (born 1955) – bassist for the [[indie-rock]] band [[We Are Scientists]]
* [[Max Cantor]] (1959–1991) – journalist and former actor
* [[Julian Casablancas]] – musician<ref>{{cite web |last=Ryzik |first=Melena |title=Julian Casablancas, Thriving on Sunshine With a Solo CD |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=October 1, 2009 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/arts/music/01ryzi.html |access-date=September 29, 2019 |quote=After dinner Mr. Casablancas walked out into the street. It was nearly 1:00{{nbs}}a.m.; it was drizzling. He misses Los Angeles weather, he said. His wife was at home in their East Village apartment; his friends were{{nbs}}... well, what friends?}}</ref>
* [[Ching Ho Cheng]] (1946–1989) – artist<ref>{{cite web |last=Yau |first=John |title=The transformative, unclassifiable art of Ching Ho Cheng |url=https://parisplus.artbasel.com/stories/chinese-american-artist-ching-ho-cheng?lang=en |website=[[Art Basel]] |access-date=February 25, 2024 |quote=They settled in Queens, New York, where Cheng grew up to spend summers taking classes at the Arts Students League before studying painting at Cooper Union School of Art from 1964 to 1968, living in the East Village and then Soho, and hanging out at the popular artist's bar, Max's Kansas City, frequented by Andy Warhol and his entourage.}}</ref>
* [[Alexa Chung]] (born 1983) – model, TV presenter<ref>{{cite web |last=Mather |first=Lindsey |title=Alexa Chung's East Village Living Room Is Pretty in Pink; Here's how to get the look of her stylish retreat |url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/alexa-chung-living-room |website=[[Architectural Digest]] |date=November 15, 2016 |access-date=April 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200730213737/https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/alexa-chung-living-room |archive-date=July 30, 2020}}</ref>
* [[St. Vincent (musician)|Annie Clark]] (born 1982) – musician and singer-songwriter, known professionally as St. Vincent<ref>{{cite web |last=McCarthy |first=Lauren |title=St. Vincent Doesn't Need a Backstory |url=https://www.nylon.com/entertainment/st-vincent-all-born-screaming-album |website=Nylon |date=April 24, 2024 |access-date=May 18, 2025 |quote=For about a decade, she had an apartment in the East Village where she lived "completely illegally"}}</ref>
* [[Christian Cooper]] (born 1963), science writer and editor<ref>{{cite web |last=LaGorce |first=Tammy |title=How Christian Cooper, the Central Park Birder, Spends His Sundays |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/11/nyregion/christian-cooper-extraordinary-birder.html |website=[[The New York Times]] |date=August 11, 2023 |access-date=February 25, 2024 |quote=Mr. Cooper, 60, lives in the East Village with his partner, John Zaia, 53, a bartender.}}</ref>
* [[David Cross]] (born 1964) – actor, comedian<ref>{{cite web |last=Robbins |first=Christopher |title=David Cross Has Had It With East Village, Tells Us He's Moving To Brooklyn |url=https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/david-cross-has-had-it-with-east-village-tells-us-hes-moving-to-brooklyn |website=[[Gothamist]] |date=December 14, 2011 |access-date=February 25, 2024}}</ref>
* [[Quentin Crisp]] (1908–1999) – writer, raconteur<ref>{{cite web |last=Witchel |first=Alex |title=Quentin Crisp, Writer and Actor on Gay Themes, Dies at 90 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=November 22, 1999 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/22/arts/quentin-crisp-writer-and-actor-on-gay-themes-dies-at-90.html |access-date=September 29, 2019 |quote=A resident of the East Village since 1977, and of the same single-room-occupancy building on Third Street since 1981, Mr. Crisp was a neighborhood celebrity known for his wardrobe of splashy scarves, his violet eyeshadow and his white hair upswept a la Katharine Hepburn and tucked under a black fedora.}}</ref>
* [[Alan Cumming]] (born 1965) – actor and performer<ref>{{cite web |last=Mather |first=Lindsey |title=Alan Cumming's $2.2 Million Manhattan Apartment Is a Prewar Gem |url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/alan-cumming-manhattan-apartment |website=Architectural Digest |date=May 13, 2016 |access-date=May 18, 2025}}</ref>
* [[Jackie Curtis]] (1947–1985) – writer, poet, actor [[Andy Warhol|Warhol superstar]]
* [[Candy Darling]] (1944–1974) – actress, [[Andy Warhol|Warhol superstar]]
* [[Rosario Dawson]] (born 1979) – actress, singer and writer<ref>{{cite web |last=Hill |first=Logan |title=Avenue-A Lister |url=https://nymag.com/nymetro/movies/features/12510/ |website=[[New York (magazine)|New York]] |date=August 17, 2005 |access-date=February 25, 2024 |quote='I came up in that neighborhood, I got discovered in that neighborhood, I'm known as a New York person,' proclaims Dawson, as if running for mayor of the East Village (she's more like the queen).}}</ref>
* [[Tory Dent]] (1958–2005) – poet, art critic, and commentator on the AIDS crisis.<ref>{{cite web |last=Saxon |first=Wolfgang |title=Tory Dent, Poet Who Wrote of Living With H.I.V., Dies at 47 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=January 3, 2006 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/03/arts/tory-dent-poet-who-wrote-of-living-with-hiv-dies-at-47.html |access-date=September 29, 2019 |quote=Tory Dent, a poet, essayist and art critic whose verse told of life with a diagnosis of H.I.V. and of the struggle to keep her creativity alive, died last Friday at her home in the East Village.}}</ref>
* [[Lindsay Ellis]] (born 1984) – film critic, author
* [[Negin Farsad]] – writer, director, comedian<ref>{{cite web |last=Dawson |first=Angela |title=EXCLUSIVE: Comedian Negin Farsad Finds Humor in ''Blackout'' |url=https://frontrowfeatures.com/features-category-of-interviews-and-spotlights/comedian-negin-farsad-finds-humor-blackout-16254.html |website=Front Row Features |date=July 4, 2016 |access-date=February 25, 2024 |quote=Comedian Negin Farsad, who lived through those dark hours in the East Village, saw the potential for a hearty romantic comedy from that event, the result of which is ''3rd Street Blackout,'' available on VOD and digital Tuesday July 5.}}</ref>
* [[Sarah Feinberg]] (born 1977) – Interim President of the [[New York City Transit Authority]], and former Administrator of the [[Federal Railroad Administration]]<ref>{{cite web |last=Nessen |first=Stephen |title=A Q&A With Sarah Feinberg, New Interim President Of New York City Transit |url=https://gothamist.com/news/q-sarah-feinberg-new-interim-president-new-york-city-transit |website=[[Gothamist]] |date=March 2, 2020 |access-date=April 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200303151105/https://gothamist.com/news/q-sarah-feinberg-new-interim-president-new-york-city-transit |archive-date=March 3, 2020 |quote=[Q] You live in the East Village, so you take the subway and bus every day? [A] I generally am an L, 4, 5, 6, and frequently a 1{{nbs}}user. Those are my main lines.}}</ref>
* [[Barbara Feinman Millinery|Barbara Feinman]] – milliner
* [[Lady Gaga]] – singer, songwriter
* [[Sharon Gannon]] and David Life – [[yoga]] instructors and co-founders of [[Jivamukti Yoga]] school, which originated in the East Village
* [[Allen Ginsberg]] – [[Beat Generation]] poet<ref>{{cite web |last=Hampton |first=Wilborn |title=Allen Ginsberg, Master Poet Of Beat Generation, Dies at 70 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=April 6, 1997 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/06/nyregion/allen-ginsberg-master-poet-of-beat-generation-dies-at-70.html |access-date=September 29, 2019 |quote=Allen Ginsberg, the poet laureate of the Beat Generation whose ''Howl!'' became a manifesto for the sexual revolution and a cause celebre for free speech in the 1950s, eventually earning its author a place in America's literary pantheon, died early yesterday. He was 70 and lived in the East Village, in Manhattan.}}</ref>
* [[Philip Glass]] – American composer<ref>{{cite web |last=Orlov |first=Piotr |title=Philip Glass on Listening (and Composing) at 80 |url=http://blog.sonos.com/en/philip-glass-on-listening-and-composing-at-80 |website=Sonos |date=April 13, 2017 |access-date=April 20, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170420125734/http://blog.sonos.com/en/philip-glass-on-listening-and-composing-at-80/ |archive-date=April 20, 2017}}</ref>
* [[Lotti Golden]] – artist, songwriter, poet
* [[Nan Goldin]] – photographer
* [[Wade Guyton]] – painter
* [[Ayun Halliday]] – actress and writer
* [[Keith Haring]] – artist
* [[Randy Harrison]] – actor
* [[Matt Harvey]] – MLB Pitcher
* [[Richard Hell]] – musician, author
* [[Abbie Hoffman]] – 1960s political activist<ref name="Strausbach, John, New York Times">Strausbach, John, ''The New York Times''</ref>
* [[Vlad Holiday]] – musician, songwriter
* [[John Holmstrom]] – cartoonist and writer, ''[[Punk (magazine)|Punk]]'' editor
* [[Harold Hunter]] – skateboarder, actor
* [[Sarah Hyland]] – actress
* [[Jim Jarmusch]] – film director, screenwriter, actor, producer, editor and composer<ref>{{cite web |last=Hirschberg |first=Lynn |title=The Last of the Indies |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=July 31, 2005 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/31/magazine/the-last-of-the-indies.html |access-date=September 29, 2019 |quote=After Jarmusch moved to New York in the 70s to attend Columbia, he formed a band called the Del-Byzanteens, and he lived in the East Village, the same neighborhood he lives in now.}}</ref>
* [[Indian Larry]] (born Lawrence DeSmedt) – motorcycle builder and artist, stunt rider, and biker<ref>{{cite web |last=Saxon |first=Wolfgang |title=Indian Larry, Motorcycle Builder and Stunt Rider, Dies at 55 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=August 1, 2004 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/01/obituaries/indian-larry-motorcycle-builder-and-stunt-rider-dies-at-55.html |access-date=September 29, 2019 |quote=Larry Desmedt, a New York-based custom motorcycle builder and biker better known nationally as Indian Larry, died on Monday in Charlotte, N.C., of injuries he suffered doing a stunt on Saturday at an appearance there. He was 55 and lived in the East Village.}}</ref>
* [[Agim Kaba]] – actor, artist and director
* [[Tom Kalin]] – filmmaker
* Allan Katzman – co-founder and editor of the ''[[East Village Other]]''
* [[Kathy Kemp]] – fashion designer and entrepreneur
* [[Alvin Klein]] (1938–2009) – theater critic for ''The New York Times''<ref>{{cite web |author=The New York Times |title=Alvin Klein, Theater Reviewer for The Times, Dies at 73 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=March 7, 2009 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/07/theater/07klein.html |access-date=September 29, 2019 |quote=Alvin Klein, a longtime theater reviewer for the Sunday regional sections of The New York Times and for WNYC radio, died on Feb. 28 at his home in the East Village section of Manhattan.}}</ref>
* [[Vashtie Kola]] – director
* [[Greg Kotis]] – playwright
* [[Paul Krassner]] – publisher of ''[[The Realist]]''
* [[Tuli Kupferberg]] – [[Beat Generation]] poet, and one of the original [[Fugs]]
* [[Stephen Lack]] – actor, painter
* [[Scooter LaForge]] – artist
* [[Ronnie Landfield]] – painter<ref>{{cite web |last=Landfield |first=Ronnie |title=In The Late Sixties, 1993–95, and other writings |url=http://www.abstract-art.com/landfield/la4_writings_fldr/la4a_writing-index.html |website=Abstract Art |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080531063825/http://www.abstract-art.com/landfield/la4_writings_fldr/la4a_writing-index.html |archive-date=May 31, 2008}}</ref>
* [[Greer Lankton]] – artist and dollmaker
* [[Jonathan Larson]] (1960–1996) – musician, composer of the musical ''[[Rent (musical)|Rent]]''
* [[Phoebe Legere]] – musician and artist
* [[John Leguizamo]] (born 1960) – actor, comedian, and monologist<ref>{{cite web |title=Square Feet: Inside John Leguizamo's NYC Home |url=https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/ohnat-5212-c-sqft-john-leguizamo-web_new-york/2177326/ |website=[[WNBC]] |date=June 26, 2013 |access-date=May 15, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220515180532/https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/ohnat-5212-c-sqft-john-leguizamo-web_new-york/2177326/ |archive-date=May 15, 2022 |quote=We're headed to Artists Row in New York City to the East Village townhouse of actor John Leguizamo who added his own unique touches to every room like any true artist would.}}</ref>
* [[Frank London]] (born 1958) – composer, musician<ref>{{cite book |last=Goldstein |first=Miles Elliot |title=Gonzo Judaism: A Bold Path for Renewing an Ancient Faith |publisher=[[Shambhala Publications]] |year=2010 |page=152 |isbn=978-0-8348-2231-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F66FY8OemVgC&pg=PA152 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221119012639/https://books.google.com/books?id=F66FY8OemVgC&pg=PA152 |archive-date=November 19, 2022 |access-date=May 15, 2022 |quote=Frank London is a musician and composer who lives in the East Village and who grew up in Plainview, Long Island. ('It lives up to its name,' he says.)}}</ref>
* [[Frank Lovell]] (1913–1998) – communist politician<ref>{{cite web |last=Saxon |first=Wolfgang |title=Frank Lovell, Marxist Leader And Writer, 84 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=May 23, 1998 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/23/nyregion/frank-lovell-marxist-leader-and-writer-84.html |access-date=September 29, 2019 |quote=Frank Lovell, an American disciple of Leon Trotsky's brand of Marxism-Leninism and a New York City writer and editor concerned with socialist and trade-union issues, died on May 1 at his home in the East Village.}}</ref>
* [[John Lurie]] (born 1952) – musician, painter, actor, producer<ref>{{cite web |last=Edelstein |first=David |title=John Lurie: Growing Up in Public |url=https://www.villagevoice.com/2020/01/28/john-lurie-growing-up-in-public/ |website=[[The Village Voice]] |date=October 30, 1984 |access-date=May 15, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220515180532/https://www.villagevoice.com/2020/01/28/john-lurie-growing-up-in-public/ |archive-date=May 15, 2022 |quote=Lurie's apartment, in the East Village across from a men's shelter, is a mess.}}</ref>
* [[Natasha Lyonne]] (born 1979) – actress<ref>{{cite web |last=Halberg |first=Morgan |title=Natasha Lyonne Won't Be Leaving Her Favorite Neighborhood |url=https://observer.com/2017/10/natasha-lyonne-east-village-apartment/ |website=[[The New York Observer]] |date=October 19, 2017 |access-date=May 18, 2025 |quote=The native New Yorker, who grew up on the Upper East Side, made her way down to the East Village a while ago. In fact, she's lived in the area on and off for 20 years... "I love how things are familiar but also always strange in the East Village," she added.}}</ref>
* [[Madonna (entertainer)|Madonna]] – singer/entrepreneur, in the 1980s<ref>{{cite web |title=Now: Madonna on Madonna |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,957025-9,00.html |website=[[Time (magazine)|Time magazine]] |date=May 27, 1985 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080518191501/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,957025-9,00.html |archive-date=May 18, 2008}}</ref>
* [[Handsome Dick Manitoba]] – singer, saloon owner
* [[Jimmy McMillan]] – political activist, founder of "The Rent is Too Damn High Party"
* [[Butch Morris]] – cornetist, composer and conductor.<ref>{{cite web |last=Ratliff |first=Ben |title=Butch Morris Dies at 65; Creator of 'Conduction' |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=January 30, 2013 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/30/arts/music/butch-morris-dies-at-65-creator-of-conduction.html |access-date=September 29, 2019 |quote=Butch Morris, who created a distinctive form of large-ensemble music built on collective improvisation that he single-handedly directed and shaped, died on Tuesday in Brooklyn. He was 65{{nbs}}... Mr. Morris, who lived in the East Village, died at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Fort Hamilton.}}</ref>
* [[Alexander Motyl]] – artist, academic, activist<ref>{{cite web |title=Alexander J. Motyl – Expert |url=https://www.smithsonianjourneys.org/experts/alexander-j-motyl/ |website=Smithsonian Journeys |access-date=May 18, 2025}}</ref>
* [[Cookie Mueller]] (1949–1989) – actress, model
* [[Joseph Nechvatal]] – [[digital artist]]
* [[Conor Oberst]] – musician
* [[Claes Oldenburg]] – sculptor<ref name="Strausbaugh 2007">{{cite web |last=Strausbaugh |first=John |title=Paths of Resistance in the East Village |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=September 14, 2007 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/14/arts/14expl.html |access-date=September 29, 2019}}</ref>
* [[Tom Otterness]] – sculptor
* [[Ron Padgett]] (born 1942), poet, essayist, fiction writer and translator<ref>{{cite web |title=How the Poet Ron Padgett Spends His Sundays |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/nyregion/how-the-poet-ron-padgett-spends-his-sundays.html |website=[[The New York Times]] |date=January 26, 2017 |access-date=February 25, 2024 |quote=For the movie ''Paterson,'' about a poet named Paterson who lives in Paterson, N.J., the director Jim Jarmusch asked his old friend Ron Padgett, a poet from Oklahoma who lives in the East Village, for a few poems.}}</ref>
* [[Iggy Pop]] – performer, musician
* [[William Pope.L]] (1955–2023), visual artist best known for his work in [[performance art]]<ref>{{cite web |last=Heinrich |first=Will |title=Pope.L, Provocative Performance Artist, Dies at 68 |website=[[The New York Times]] |date=December 27, 2023 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/arts/pope-l-dead.html |access-date=December 31, 2023 |quote=Pope.L was born William Pope on June 28, 1955, in Newark to Lucille Lancaster and William Pope. He spent part of what he remembered as an unstable childhood in Keyport, N.J., and part of it in the East Village with his grandmother Desma Lancaster, an artist who showed quilt pieces at the Studio Museum in Harlem in the 1960s.}}</ref>
* [[Adam Purple]] – creator of the Lower East Side "Garden of Eden"
* [[Daniel Radcliffe]] – actor
* [[Daniel Rakowitz]] (the East Side Cannibal) and his victim and roommate, dancer Monicka Beerle
* [[Joey Ramone]] – musician
* [[Johnny Ramone]] – musician
* [[Bill Raymond]] – actor
* [[Lou Reed]] – musician and songwriter
* [[Joel Resnicoff]] – artist and fashion illustrator
* [[Sam Rockwell]] (born 1968) – actor and Academy Award winner<ref name="portmag" />
* [[James Romberger]] – artist
* [[Mark Ronson]] – musician
* [[Jerry Rubin]] – 1960s political activist<ref name="Strausbach, John, New York Times" />
* [[Arthur Russell (musician)|Arthur Russell]] – musician<ref>{{cite journal |last=Owen |first=Frank |title=Echo Beach |journal=Melody Maker |date=April 11, 1987 |url=http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=45264}}</ref>
* [[Ed Sanders]] – [[New York School (art)|New York School]] poet and one of the original [[Fugs]]
* [[Liev Schreiber]] – actor
* [[David Schwimmer]] – ''[[Friends]]'' actor, and wife, part-time photographer Zoe Buckman{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}
* [[Chloë Sevigny]] – actress
* [[Sam Shepard]] – playwright, actor, author, screenwriter, and director<ref>{{cite web |last=Freedman |first=Samuel G. |title=Theater Rebels of the 60s Gather to Reminisce |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=November 15, 1984 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/11/15/theater/theater-rebels-of-60-s-gather-to-reminisce.html |access-date=September 29, 2019 |quote=Shepard, of course, was not there{{snd}}the former resident of the East Village now eschewing America east of the Mississippi{{snd}}but Lanford Wilson, Leonard Melfi, Crystal Field, Maria Irene Fornes, Kevin O'Connor, Ralph Lee and others were.}}</ref>
* [[Jack Smith (film director)|Jack Smith]] – filmmaker, artist<ref>{{cite web |title=The Notorious Jack Smith: Flaming Creatures and Selected Shorts |url=https://wexarts.org/film-video/notorious-jack-smith-flaming-creatures-and-selected-shorts |website=[[Wexner Center for the Arts]] |access-date=February 25, 2024 |quote=Shot in one of Smith's East Village apartments, ''Hot Air Specialists'' sees Smith, in drag, bring home a trick with propulsive results.}}</ref>
* [[Kiki Smith]] – sculptor<ref>{{cite web |last=Hass |first=Nancy |title=Kiki Smith and the Pursuit of Beauty in a Notably Unbeautiful Age |website=[[T (magazine)|T]] |date=November 26, 2018 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/26/t-magazine/kiki-smith-artist-profile.html |access-date=February 25, 2024 |quote=Strolling with the artist Kiki Smith down the not-entirely-gentrified East Village block where she lives and works, in a townhouse with a cherry-red door, can take a remarkably long time.}}</ref>
* [[John Spacely]] – actor, activist (Junkie, Sid and Nancy, Iboga therapy)<ref>{{cite web |last=Moynihan |first=Colin |title=NEIGHBORHOOD REPORT: EAST VILLAGE; A Threat Shadows a Relic From a Grim Era |website=[[The New York Times]] |date=February 27, 2000 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/02/27/nyregion/neighborhood-report-east-village-a-threat-shadows-a-relic-from-a-grim-era.html |access-date=February 25, 2024 |quote=For nearly two decades, a 60-by-100-foot mural depicting a ravaged-looking man wearing a crucifix earring and a bandanna and smoking a cigarette has loomed over St. Marks Place between Second and Third Avenues. The man in the mural, John Spacely, a heroin addict and a regular presence on the block, was the subject of a 1984 documentary-style film called ''Gringo''.}}</ref>
* [[Regina Spektor]] – singer–songwriter and pianist<ref>{{cite web |last=Abelson |first=Max |title=Songstress Regina Spektor Gets Elevator: Buys $1.1 M. Murray Hill Pad |website=[[New York Observer]] |date=June 17, 2008 |url=https://observer.com/2008/06/songstress-regina-spektor-gets-elevator-buys-11-m-murray-hill-pad/ |access-date=February 25, 2024 |quote=Regina Spektor, the massively charming, epically quirky, Russia-born, Bronx-raised, East Village-bred singer-songwriter, who has two particular Joni Mitchell-caliber songs, "Carbon Monoxide" and "Somedays," that can make this reporter cry, just bought an exceptionally nonquirky apartment in a huge white-brick postwar building at East 34th Street and Third Avenue.}}</ref>
* [[Bobby Steele]] – musician
* [[Frank Stella]] – painter, maintained a studio in the East Village
* [[Ellen Stewart]] – founder of [[La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club|La MaMa, E.T.C.]] (Experimental Theatre Club) in 1961
* [[Adario Strange]] – writer, director
* [[Michele Martin Taylor]] – artist<ref>{{cite news |title=Exhibitions: Intimate Colorist Paintings |work=The Villager |date=November 9–15, 2005}}</ref>
* [[Denyse Thomasos]] (1964–2012), painter known for her abstract-style wall murals that conveyed themes of slavery, confinement and the story of African and Asian Diaspora<ref>{{cite web |last=Edwards |first=Adrienne |title=My Artist Ghost; Nearly 30 years ago, Denyse Thomasos forged a form of abstraction that depicted the unspeakable and unimaginable confinement in slave ships and prisons. Her work had to be seen at the Biennial. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/23/arts/design/denyse-thomasos-whitney-biennial.html |website=[[The New York Times]] |date=March 23, 2022 |access-date=February 25, 2024 |quote=Thomasos lived in the East Village with her husband, Samein Priester, and their daughter, Syann, until her untimely death in July 2012.}}</ref>
* [[Henry Threadgill]] – musician<ref>{{cite web |last=Chinen |first=Nate |title=At Last, a Box Henry Threadgill Fits Nicely Into: Pulitzer Winner |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=April 19, 2016 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/19/arts/music/henry-threadgill-pulitzer-prize-penny-pound.html |access-date=September 29, 2019 |quote=Mr. Threadgill is a longtime resident of the East Village.}}</ref>
* [[Johnny Thunders]] – (John Genzale) purveyor of LES street rock, member of NYDolls and The Heartbreakers
* [[Marisa Tomei]] – actress
* [[Rachel Trachtenburg]] – singer and musician
* [[Marguerite Van Cook]] – artist, musician, writer, producer
* [[Arturo Vega]] – punk rock graphic designer and artistic director.<ref>{{cite web |title=Heather Bain And Ken Moffatt |url=https://nowtoronto.com/events/arturo-vega-nothing-is-true-everything-is-permitted-opening-reception/ |website=[[Now (newspaper)|Now]] |date=November 19–21, 2015 |access-date=November 11, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171112132217/https://nowtoronto.com/events/arturo-vega-nothing-is-true-everything-is-permitted-opening-reception/ |archive-date=November 12, 2017 |quote=Bain's and Moffatt's installation offers a voyeuristic raw glimpse into the life of Arturo Vega. Vega is renowned for his friendship with and devotion to the Ramones and his design of every aspect of the Ramones shows and aesthetic. He lived in the East Village for four decades before his death in 2014.}}</ref>
* [[Steven Vincent]] – journalist and author who was shot and killed in 2005 while reporting in Iraq.<ref>{{cite web |last=Wong |first=Edward |title=American Journalist Is Shot to Death in Iraq |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=August 3, 2005 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/03/international/middleeast/american-journalist-is-shot-to-death-in-iraq.html |access-date=September 29, 2019 |quote=A short, wiry man with a penchant for cigars and a wife named Lisa Ramaci in the East Village, Mr. Vincent recently had articles about Basra published in ''The Christian Science Monitor'' and ''The National Review'', and had also written for ''The Wall Street Journal''.}}</ref>
* [[David Wojnarowicz]] (1954–1992) – painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist, songwriter/recording artist and AIDS activist prominent in the New York City art world.<ref>{{cite web |last=Kimmelman |first=Michael |title=David Wojnarowicz, 37, Artist in Many Media |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=July 24, 1992 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/24/arts/david-wojnarowicz-37-artist-in-many-media.html |access-date=September 29, 2019 |quote=One of many artists of his generation to achieve recognition in the boom-and-bust East Village art scene of the early 80s, Mr. Wojnarowicz was first known for stenciling images of burning houses and falling figures onto the sides of buildings.}}</ref>
* [[Rachel Weisz]] – actress and wife of actor [[Daniel Craig]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Fisher |first=Luchina |title=Why Rachel Weisz Keeps Her Marriage to Daniel Craig Private |website=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] |date=November 18, 2015 |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/rachel-weisz-marriage-daniel-craig-private/story?id=35283293 |access-date=November 11, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200730214640/https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/rachel-weisz-marriage-daniel-craig-private/story?id=35283293 |archive-date=July 30, 2020 |quote=They live in New York City's East Village, where they frequent Japanese restaurants and Tompkins Square Park, where her son has played since birth. They also enjoy staying home.}}</ref>
* [[Charles Wright (novelist)|Charles Wright]] – novelist who wrote ''The Messenger'' (1963), ''The Wig'' (1966) and ''Absolutely Nothing to Get Alarmed About'' (1973).<ref>{{cite web |last=Weber |first=Bruce |title=Charles Wright, Novelist, Dies at 76 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=October 8, 2008 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/08/books/08wright.html |access-date=September 29, 2019 |quote=Charles Wright, who wrote three autobiographical novels about black street life in New York City between 1963 and 1973 that seemed to herald the rise of an important literary talent but who vanished into alcoholism and despair and never published another book, died on October 1 in Manhattan. He was 76 and lived in the East Village.}}</ref>
* [[John Zorn]] – musician and composer<ref>{{cite web |last=Sisario |first=Ben |title=Turning 60, John Zorn Sees His Eclecticism as a Musical Norm |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=July 14, 2013 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/14/arts/music/turning-60-john-zorn-sees-his-eclecticism-as-a-musical-norm.html |access-date=September 29, 2019 |quote=To maintain such an output, Mr. Zorn has adopted a discipline that few could muster or tolerate. He lives alone in the same East Village apartment where he has lived since 1977{{snd}}with what is by all accounts a gigantically ecumenical record collection{{snd}}and works constantly, eliminating distractions like magazines, television or, sometimes, people.}}</ref>
{{div col end}}

==See also==
* {{Portal-inline|New York City}}
* [[Curry Row]] – a cluster of [[South Asian]] restaurants between [[First Avenue (Manhattan)|First]] and [[Second Avenue (Manhattan)|Second Avenues]] in the East Village

==References==
===Notes===
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<ref name="USCensus-1940 Julius Edelman">{{cite book |ref={{SfnRef|||}} |last1=1940 United States Census |author-link1=1940 United States census |title=''"Edelman, Julius" (son → age 16 → in household of Harry Edelman → at 488 East Houston Street)'' |series=New York City → Manhattan Assembly District 6 → Block K → S.D. (supervisor's district) No. 14 → E.D. ([[enumeration district]]) No. 31–511 – Enumeration date: April 9, 1940 → Line 71 → Family 17 |url=https://www.familysearch.org/search/ark:/61903/1:1:KQTZ-KTN |url-access=registration |type=database with images |publisher= |access-date= |via=[[FamilySearch]] }}<div style="margin-left:3em">Digital source → NARA digital publication T627 → Digital image 2 (of 18). ''Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790–2007''. RG (record group) No 29. [[Washington, D.C.]]: [[National Archives and Records Administration]] (2012). Roll 2635.</div></ref>
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==External links==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160303183311/http://www.evpcnyc.org/index2.html East Village Parks Conservancy]
* [http://www.tripadvisor.com/Travel-g60763-c124710/New-York-City:New-York:East.Village.html East Village TripAdvisor]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100301220138/http://eastvillagevisitorscenter.com/ East Village Visitors Center]
* [http://www.lespi-nyc.org Lower East Side Preservation Initiative]
* {{Subreddit|eastvillage|East Village}}

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| Northwest = [[Union Square, Manhattan|Union Square]]
| West      = [[Bowery]], [[NoHo, Manhattan|NoHo]]
| Southwest = [[Chinatown, Manhattan|Chinatown]], [[Little Italy, Manhattan|Little Italy]]
| North     = [[Gramercy, Manhattan|Gramercy]]
| South     = [[Lower East Side]]
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