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Fifth Ave. Fifth New School St. University Vincent’s Hospital W. 11th St. E. 11th St. Greenwich Ave. Pl. University GREENWICH VILLAGE 2: A STROLL Waverly Pl. AROUND WASHINGTON SQUARE W. 4th St. Bank St. W. 8th St. Greenwich Begin at Sixth Avenue and W. 11th Street (1, 2, 3, Village or 9 train to 14th Street, south end of the platform). W. 11th St. 1 Walk east on 11th Street, one of the Village’s most 9 Waverly Pl. Perry St. Washington Pl. beautiful blocks. As you approach Fifth Avenue, note the Seventh Ave. S. A F Washington lone modern façade in the otherwise uninterrupted row of C V Square W. Charles St. West E S Park Arch town houses on the south side. A bomb built by members W 4th St. Washington Village Square Park of the Weather Underground exploded here in 1970, New York W. 10th St. killing two Weatherpeople and destroying the original University Bedford St. building. Cross Fifth and walk to University Place, where Christopher St. Grove St. the avenue’s grandeur yields to a smaller-scale, old-English St. Lukes Hudson St. Seminary MacDougal St. Sullivan St. style. Head south on University and, just after Eighth Street, Thompson St. Leroy St. Bleecker St. turn right into Washington Mews. Like the grand town houses Barrow St. overlooking Washington Square that they once serviced, the Carmine St. St. Luke’s Pl. La Guardia Pl. converted carriage houses on this charming cobblestone Morton St. Downing St. lane are now owned by New York University, the biggest 1 landowner in the area. (The university’s purple banners seem Leroy St. 9 Sixth Ave. Soho to hang from half the buildings in the neighborhood.) Exit the Mews at Fifth, turn left, and cross to the Arch. Designed by Clarkson St. W. Houston St. Prince St. King St. Stanford White and built to mark the centenary of George Greenwich St. Washington’s 1789 inauguration, the Arch has played a Washington St. Charlton St. C part in Village life from Henry James’s day to the present. E Spring St. Take a stroll through the park before exiting at the southeast Vandam St. corner and heading south on MacDougal for a stop into one of the street’s justly famous coffeehouses. The cozily Varick St. gloomy Caffe Reggio and Caffe Dante both have intensely Spring St. W. Broadway Wooster St. Mercer St. loyal followings, strong coffee, and rich desserts. When you Greene St. emerge, continue south on MacDougal to Houston, past the last of the neighborhood’s old Italian social clubs, Tiro a Canal St. 1 A Segno (members only). Turn right at Houston to begin Walk 9 C 12, or return to the subway via Sixth Avenue. Watts St. E Desbrosses St. Conservatory Garden El Museo del Barrio Ave. Park e Books LLC, San Francisco. CARNEGIE HILL AND BEYOND E. 104th St. Museum of the The museum-rich slice of the Upper East Side takes City of N.Y. 6 its name from the 64-room brick mansion built by industrialist Andrew Carnegie in 1902 at the corner of North Meadow Fifth Avenue and 91st. Ave. Madison Mt. Carver Sinai Houses Begin at 86th Street and Fifth Avenue (4, 5, or 6 train Hospital to 86th Street). East Meadow For the best view of the classic buildings lining upper Fifth Recreation Avenue, most of which date from the 1920s, head uptown House E. 98th St. on the park side of the avenue before crossing at East 88th Street to the Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd 96th Street Transverse Wright and completed in 1959. (The museum’s café makes 6 an excellent lunch stop and can be entered directly near International E. 96th St. Ave. Third East 88th Street.) On leaving, turn right up Fifth to the old Center of Photography Carnegie mansion, which fi lls the block between East 90th and 91st. Now housing the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Carnegie E. 94th St. Museum, it is well worth an extended visit. Directly across Hill East 91st Street are the handsome twin mansions of the Convent of the Sacred Heart; down the block on the south Jewish Museum E. 92nd St. side is the Spence School, one of the city’s half-dozen elite Ave. Lexington Ruppert schools for girls (it’s Gwyneth Paltrow’s alma mater). Turn Reservoir Towers E. 91st St. left on Madison and left again on East 92nd to the Jewish Cooper-Hewitt Museum, a singular resource for Jewish art and Judaica, National Design Museum with a fi rst-rate bookstore. Head uptown another ten blocks National Academy to two more museum treasures, the Museum of the City of of Design New York and El Museo del Barrio, which share a view 86th St reet Guggenheim Tra E. 88th St. of Central Park’s most elegant and secluded six acres, the nsv South Museum er se Gate Conservatory Garden. Pass through the handsome iron House gates— which once guarded the Vanderbilt mansion at Fifth Central Park 4 5 and East 58th (it was torn down in the 1920s to make way 6 for Bergdorf Goodman)—and fi nd a quiet spot to sit a while in the 19th century. CITY WALKS: New York CITY WALKS: Chronicl Maps © 2004 by Reineck and Reineck. Used with permission from © 2004 by Martha Fay. Text NEW YORK. CITY WALKS: From.

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