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Driving Downtown Streets - Bleecker Street - Greenwich Village New York City NY USA - Episode 25.
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Bleecker Street is a west–east street in the New York City borough of Manhattan. It is most famous today as a Greenwich Village nightclub district. The street connects a neighborhood today popular for music venues and comedy, but which was once a major center for American bohemia. The street is named after Anthony Bleecker, a 19th-century writer whose family farm the street ran through.[1]
Greenwich Village, often referred to by locals as simply the Village, is a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan, New York City. Greenwich Village has been known as an artists' haven, the Bohemian capital, the cradle of the modern LGBT movement, and the East Coast birthplace of both the Beat and '60s counterculture movements. Groenwijck, one of the Dutch names for the village (meaning Green District), was Anglicized to Greenwich.[5][note 2] Two of New York's best colleges, New York University (NYU), and the New School are located in Greenwich Village.[7][8]
Greenwich Village has undergone extensive gentrification and commercialization;[9] the four zip codes that constitute the Village – 10011, 10012, 10013, and 10014 – were all ranked among the ten most expensive in the United States by median housing price in 2014, according to Forbes,[10] with residential property sale prices in the West Village neighborhood typically exceeding US$2,000 per square foot ($22,000/m2) in 2016.
Notable residents
Edward Albee, playwright
Alec Baldwin, actor
Richard Barone, musician, producer
Brie Bella, wrestler
Nate Berkus, interior designer
Matthew Broderick, actor
Barbara Pierce Bush, daughter of former U.S. President George W. Bush
Jessica Chastain, actor
Jacob Cohen (1923-1983), statistician and psychologist
Anderson Cooper, CNN anchor
Robert De Niro, actor
Brian De Palma, screenwriter
Leonardo DiCaprio, actor
Steve Earle, musician
Crystal Eastman, lawyer and NWP leader
Andrew Garfield, actor
Jerry Herman, composer and lyricist
Marc Jacobs, fashion designer
Annie Leibovitz, photographer
Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet and playwright
Julianne Moore, actor
Bebe Neuwirth, actor
Edward Norton, actor and filmmaker
Rosie O'Donnell, actress and comedian
Mary-Kate Olsen, actor and fashion designer
Mary-Louise Parker, actor
Sarah Jessica Parker, actor
Sean Parker, entrepreneur
Edgar Allen Poe, poet and novelist
Leontyne Price, soprano
Daniel Radcliffe, actor
Gilda Radner, actor and comedian
Rachael Ray, television personality and cook
Julia Roberts, actor
Susan Sarandon, actor
John Sebastian, musician
Amy Sedaris, actor
James Spader, actor
Emma Stone, actor
Uma Thurman, actress
Marisa Tomei, actor
Calvin Trillin, feature writer for The New Yorker
Liv Tyler, actor
Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of Vogue Magazine