Place
East Village
Also known as: East Village Manhattan, EV
A historic Lower Manhattan neighborhood east of the Bowery. Long the city's principal counterculture, punk, queer, and immigrant bohemian neighborhood; home to Tompkins Square Park, the Nuyorican Poets Café, the Bowery Poetry Club, and a continuous independent-business culture along Avenues A and B and the East 9th Street corridor — including Flower Power Herbs & Roots, the directory's NYC herbalist anchor, on E 9th since 1993.
What this is
The East Village runs from the Bowery east to the East River, and from Houston Street north to 14th Street. The neighborhood’s [[eating-the-landscape|identity]] formed through layered immigrant communities (German, Ukrainian, Polish, Puerto Rican), the postwar Beat-and-folk scene, the 1970s-80s punk-and-queer counterculture, and the Tompkins Square neighborhood politics that culminated in the 1988 riot. The street grid (avenues A through D, alphabet) preserves much of that history in independent businesses still on the same blocks.
Listings in the East Village
- [[flower-power-herbs-and-roots]] — herbal apothecary on E 9th since 1993, Lata Chettri-Kennedy (“the green witch of the East Village”)
Bioregional context
Files under [[manhattan]] and through it [[new-york-city]]. Pairs with [[greenwich-village]] to the west — together the two neighborhoods hold most of Lower Manhattan’s long-running independent contemplative-and-herbal infrastructure.
See also
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- Member of: [[place]]
- Contained by: [[manhattan]]
- Contains: [[enchantments]] · [[flower-power-herbs-and-roots]] · [[souen-east-village]]
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Practical
contained by
- Enchantments E 9th Street — same block as Flower Power, half-block from the rest of the East Village's plant-medicine corridor
- Flower Power Herbs & Roots E 9th Street corridor — the East Village's herbalism anchor
- Souen E 6th Street between First and Second — the East Village macrobiotic anchor
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