The New Yorkers simply call it the "Village". Greenwich Village is an authentic country village that became the refuge of New York's population during an epidemy of yellow fever in 1822. Its country legacy is still alive in the complicate web of streets that has never been adapted to the urban plan of New York. The Village remained a little town in the heart of the Big Apple, becoming a refuge for famous artists and writers. Nowadays Greenwich Village is a popular area among gay people and every day more students of the N.Y.U. come here to live. Here you will find traces of E.A. Poe, E. E. Cummings and strolling by Gay Street you will recognize one of the sets where "Carlito's Way" was shoot.
