Signs at the corner of Christopher Street and Seventh Avenue in Greenwich Village. New Yorkers call it ""The west village"", and indeed it seems just that, a village outside a big city. Here's skyscrapers have given way to the homes of no high plants. Also, here is where lies the University of New York and home to many students who have moved to all artists, writers and bohemians who lived here. In the most proper of some famous West Village have been installed in luxury apartments away from all