Neighborhood Guide: West Village

This neighborhood has priced out many of the artists and writers who might have lived here 40 years ago. But it retains its familiar essence. Plaques serve as reminders of the struggle for gay rights, catalyzed by the riots at the Stonewall Inn. Home to NYU, theaters, cinemas, jazz clubs, coffeehouses and top restaurants, the West Village is still a cornucopia for aesthetes and epicureans.