Bounded by the Hudson River to the west, Gansevoort Street to the north, Hudson Street and Sixth Avenue to the east, and Houston Street and Varick Street to the south—with Clarkson Street marking its return to the waterfront—the West Village forms one of Manhattan’s most beloved and idiosyncratic enclaves. Unlike the rigid rectilinear grid that defines most of the island, its streets twist, narrow, and intersect at irregular angles—remnants of the pre-1811 rural road network that once connected the small riverfront village of Greenwich to lower Manhattan.