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The South Village is a largely residential area in ___MASK84___ , ___MASK49___ City , directly below Washington Square Park . Known for its immigrant heritage and Bohemian history , the South Village overlaps areas of ___MASK11___ and SoHo . The architecture of the South Village is primarily tenement - style apartment buildings , indicative of the area ' s history as an enclave for Italian - American immigrants and working - class residents of ___MASK49___ . A U . S . state is a constituent political entity of the ___MASK24___ . There are 50 states , which are bound together in a union with each other . Each state holds administrative jurisdiction over a defined geographic territory , and shares its sovereignty with the United States federal government . Due to the shared sovereignty between each state and the federal government , Americans are citizens of both the federal republic and of the state in which they reside . State citizenship and residency are flexible , and no government approval is required to move between states , except for persons covered by certain types of court orders ( e . g ., paroled convicts and children of divorced spouses who are sharing custody ). Christopher Street is a street in the West Village neighborhood of the ___MASK49___ City borough of Manhattan . It is the continuation of 9th Street west of Sixth Avenue . It is most notable for the Stonewall Inn , which was located on Christopher Street . As a result of the Stonewall riots in 1969 , the street became the ___MASK46___ of ___MASK49___ State ' s gay rights movement in the late 1970s . To this day , the inn and the street serve as an international symbol of gay pride . Christopher Street is named after Charles Christopher Amos , the owner of the estate which included the location of the street , who is also the namesake of nearby Charles Street . The West Village is a neighborhood in ___MASK13___ , ___MASK49___ City . Largely thought to constitute the western portion of the larger ___MASK11___ neighborhood within Lower ___MASK13___ , the area is roughly bounded by the Hudson River on the west and Sixth Avenue on the east , extending from West 14th Street south to West Houston Street . The Far West Village extends from the Hudson River to Hudson Street . Bordering neighborhoods are Chelsea to the north , Hudson Square  officially designated in 2009  and the South Village to the south , and the East Village to the east . The City of ___MASK49___ , often called ___MASK49___ City or simply ___MASK49___ , is the most populous city in the United States . With an estimated 2015 population of 8 , 550 , 405 distributed over a land area of just , ___MASK49___ City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States . Located at the southern tip of the state of ___MASK49___ , the city is the ___MASK46___ of the ___MASK49___ metropolitan area , one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world . A global power city , ___MASK49___ City exerts a significant impact upon commerce , finance , media , art , fashion , research , technology , education , and entertainment , its fast pace defining the term " ___MASK49___ minute ". Home to the headquarters of the United Nations , ___MASK49___ is an important ___MASK46___ for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural and financial capital of the world . ___MASK6___ is a large neighborhood in the northern section of the ___MASK49___ City borough of Manhattan . Since the 1920s , ___MASK6___ has been known as a major African - American residential , cultural and business ___MASK46___ . Originally a Dutch village , formally organized in 1658 , it is named after the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands . ___MASK6___ ' s history has been defined by a series of economic boom - and - bust cycles , with significant population shifts accompanying each cycle . ___MASK13___ is the most densely populated borough of ___MASK49___ City , its economic and administrative ___MASK46___ , and the city ' s historical birthplace . The borough is coextensive with ___MASK49___ County , founded on November 1 , 1683 , as one of the original counties of the U . S . state of ___MASK49___ . The borough consists mostly of ___MASK13___ Island , bounded by the East , Hudson , and Harlem rivers , and also includes several small adjacent islands and Marble Hill , a small neighborhood on the U . S . mainland . ___MASK1___ Street is a major east - west thoroughfare in downtown Manhattan , running crosstown across the full width of the island of Manhattan , from Franklin D . Roosevelt East River Drive ( FDR Drive ) and East River Park on the East River to Pier 40 and West Street on the ___MASK80___ . It generally serves as the boundary between neighborhoods , with Alphabet City , the East Village , NoHo , ___MASK11___ , and the West Village lying to the north of the street , and the Lower East Side , most of the Bowery , Nolita , and SoHo to the south . The numeric street - naming grid in Manhattan , created as part of the Commissioners ' Plan of 1811 , begins immediately north of ___MASK1___ Street with 1st Street at Avenue A , although the grid does not fully come into effect until 13th Street . ___MASK84___ , also known as Downtown Manhattan , is the southernmost part of Manhattan , the ___MASK85___ borough for business , culture , and government in the City of ___MASK49___ , which itself originated at the southern tip of Manhattan Island in 1624 . The ___MASK80___ is a river that flows from north to south primarily through eastern ___MASK49___ in the United States . The river originates in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate ___MASK49___ , flows through the Hudson Valley , and eventually drains into the ___MASK27___ , between ___MASK49___ City and Jersey City . The river serves as a political boundary between the states of New Jersey and ___MASK49___ , and further north between ___MASK49___ counties . The lower half of the river is a tidal estuary occupying the Hudson Fjord , which formed during the most recent period of North American glaciation , estimated at 26 , 000 to 13 , 300 years ago . Tidal waters influence the Hudson ' s flow from as far north as Troy . ___MASK11___ , often referred to by locals as simply " the Village ", is a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan , New York City . ___MASK11___ has been known as an artists ' haven , the Bohemian capital , the cradle of the modern LGBT movement , and the East Coast birthplace of both the Beat and ' 60s counterculture movements . " Groenwijck ", one of the Dutch names for the village ( meaning " Green District "), was Anglicized to " Greenwich ". Two of New York ' s private colleges , New York University ( NYU ) and the New School , are located in ___MASK11___ .