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East Village apartments are wanted by many young renters and buyers coming to town and remains the coolest area for many. The East Village is located North of Houston and South of 14th Street, east of Washington Square Park. The buildings in the East Village are typically older generation walk-ups with a sprinkling of high rise apartment buildings both rental and cooperative with doormen. There are also some new condos and condominium conversions of loft buildings available for sale along Lafayette Street. The East Village has a real bohemian feel and style, many of the stores are music and art related. The main drag of the East Village is St. Mark’s Place between Third and Second Avenues, the center of hippiedom in the 1960’s when it was the site of one of the city’s larger early discotheques, The Electric Circus. Second Avenue is loaded with restaurants and bars; the East Village is blocks away from New York University so frequently flooded with NYU students. Transportation is easy from this area with two NYC subway lines easily accessible.

A sub-section to the East Village is Alphabet City (named so because it is set between avenues A-D) it's just like the East Village, only more so. Apartments here are generally walk ups and less expensive than in the rest of the area, though rents in the East Village have stayed on the moderate side for some time now. Transportation is relatively easy with a subway usually within a four block walk and buses frequent along the Avenues. There are fabulous restaurants and trendy bars to be found down here too!

Tompkins Square Park, located in the middle of the East Village, has a rich history dating back to the 1870’s as being a hotbed for anarchists. The park is surrounded by walk up apartment buildings most of them pet friendly and the occasional loft building. Since the 1950's beatniks, artists then hippies and bikers (NYC chapter of The Hell’s Angels), punk rockers and finally yuppies (the latter rapidly becoming the most populous group), have populated the East Village.