East Village

Pros: something different; great ambiance
Cons: being off the beaten path, it can be hard to find

On a recent trip to Manhattan, I met up with a friend at Lansky's Lounge, a bar located in the lower East Village. We got there by taking a cab down from Midtown, and my friend wasn't kidding when she told me it was "off the beaten path" and...

Pros: Great escape fun day trip or Weekend
Cons: Slowly losing its gritty edge its so famous for

I lived in the East Village for a little over 4 years. One of many
great things I truly enjoyed about the area was. I can leave
my Corporate job in midtown, take the # 6 to Astor place and enter a new
World. Its a 24 hour place with a wild...

Pros: Fun, and inexpensive
Cons: Not really any cons, but it is not close to Central Park

Pros: cheap drinks
Cons: gets crowded easily

I want to tell everyone about a little place I discovered thanks to a friend of a friend. This place is a little hole in the wall bar called SOPHIE'S...

Bar location - 510 E 5th Street in NYC

I was set loose in NYC recently...

Pros: wierd, diverse, fun
Cons: suddenly trendy

I've lived on the Lower East Side pretty much my entire life (barring the four years my family moved to rural hell). As a result I've borne witness to the insane changes in the East Village over the past 20 years. There was a time when out of towners...

Pros: A little of everything
Cons: Not enough subways

There's plenty to see, do, and eat, and that's even before you hit the "letter" avenues!

My wife and I almost got an apartment in Stuyvesant Town, the campus-like complex located at First Avenue at 14th and stretching several blocks...

Pros: The music scene is still strong and it has great parks, stores and restaraunts.
Cons: All those vegan coffee drinking yuppies in sunglasses listening to Devo really loudly.

New York is a great place for an individual to find himself or herself amongst other fine individuals, and no place in the great city is better for this than the East Village. It really is lovely, some parts of it, and it is located next to the other ...

Pros: TONS of books!
Cons: firetrap

The Strand Bookstore, located near Union Square in the Village, is the greatest bookstore I have ever had the joy to explore. Two stories packed full of books, this is not a place for claustrophobics or a safe place to hide in the event of a fire. But...

Pros: Neighborhood feel, strange and wonderful
Cons: Dirty in spots, but hey--it's NY

We have a family member who lives in the East Village and we always stay with her when we go to the city. After several trips, it feels like home. I never realized that a block in the city could have the feel of a neighborhood. Such a fun, fascinating,...

Pros: Vibrant, young part of the city
Cons: Becoming expensive and gentrified, might seem kind of dingy at first

The East Village has been my spiritual home now for over 10 years.

That's a very pretentious and badly worded way of saying that when I talk about Manhattan, when I talk about New York, I really mean the approximately 15 blocks going east...

Pros: more bars than you ever thought humanly possible
Cons: more cops than you ever thought humanly possible

I love the East Village/Lower East Side. I started hanging out there as a wee lad of 13, taking the Staten Island Ferry & then the subway for nights of record hunting at stores like Sounds, Venus, and Generation. Picking up 40 oz bottles of beer at...

Pros: Still trendy, cool shopping
Cons: None for me

I visit NYC over the years always sting with friends in the East Village and it always been a great time. It's even better after NYC's "clean up" effort -- there is a clear difference the streets are cleaner, the traffic is a wee bit better,...

Pros: walkable, cheap eats, colorful characters
Cons: the perennial corroding effect of gentrification and trendiness

The East Village has a depth of history, of community, and of culture that few tourists, or even weekend partiers from other neighborhoods and boroughs, experience. Yes, you can walk down St. Mark's place and buy used CDs at Sounds and some 3-for-$5...

Pros: Punk and cutting edge coexists with stubborn timeworn charm
Cons: bars are moving in

Remember that there are two "villages" in New York City. What's called Greenwich Village is to the west, and though it has a history of beat-era bohemianism, it is now an extremely wealthy area with cute tree-veiled brownstones, celebs, and...

Pros: awesome stores,nice people
Cons: the gap,starbucks being on every other block

I've lived in the east village my whole life and i love the area. It's great. There is every type of person here, no one is looked on as "weird" or "abnormal". its a place for everyone.

St. Marks Place is my favorite...