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But nobody questions your morals,
And nobody asks for the rent,
There's no one to pry if we're tight, you and I,
Or demand how our evenings are spent.
The furniture's ancient but plenty, the linen is spotless and fair,
O life is a joy to a broth of a boy
At Forty-Two Washington Square!
--John (Jack) Reed
Greenwich Village is a residential section of the borough of Manhattan, New York City, comprising the area within West 14th Street on the north, Broadway on the east, West Houston Street on the south, and the Hudson River on the west. Although modern apartment buildings have been constructed, many of the district's 19th-century buildings remain, lining its narrow, winding streets. The hub of Greenwich Village is Washington Square Park, which contains Washington Arch. The New School for Social Re
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search and the main campus of New York University are located here. Greenwich Village was settled in colonial times by residents of New York City, which was then confined to the region south of Wall Street. By the mid-19th century, the Village had become an integral part of New York. In the 1880s immigrants moved into the area in increasing numbers. Shortly after 1900, Greenwich Village began to attract artists, writers, actors, and political theorists from all parts of the U.S.
In 1907, Greenwich Village was not as busy as most of the other NYC neighborhoods, its streets had been laid out diagonally to the axis of Manhattan before the island's grid plan was established in 1811. This made travel to the Village a little more difficult, as did the lack of a subway, which did not reach there until 1917. In 1910 when the last tenement was built, the lower Village had a population that was 80 per cent foreign born or of foreign parentage, most of whom worked in
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