The East Village wasn't always called that, it was simply part of the Lower East Side until the mid-1960s. Then, the area began changing with a wave of gentrification and rebranding by real estate agents, creating the area now known as the East Village.
that "while the East Village is not listed as such in city zoning maps, the term has been recognized by City Planning officials for about 25, 30 years."
To match its unofficial name, the area also has ambiguous borders, but that's par for the course in New York, where there aren't any official border lines forneighborhoods. Kate Cordes at the NYPL told us, "Neighborhoods are just crowdsourced knowledge and boundaries are unofficial."some boundaries were offered, unofficially stating: "The East Village lies between East 14th Street and Houston Street from the Bowery and Fourth Avenue to the East River.
We ventured over to Tompkins Square Park recently to ask people on the street to highlight what they believed the borders to be (
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