a great section of the city depending on where you are at. It used to be the bohemian capital of america, but now it is over-priced and the home to such 3-rate celebs as Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker. However, If you are a literary buff, as i am, you can still walk around the narrow, red-bricked streets and see the homes of such literary luminaries as Jack Kerouac, Mark Twain, and e.e. cummings. Also while in the west village have a drink at the White Horse, a great bar holding such fame as being the place where Dylan Thomas passed out (and died shortly after) from having too many shots. Dylan used to go there, and Jack Kerouac was such a regular that someone scrawled "Kerouac Go Home!" on the bathroom wall