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 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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- 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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