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Neighborhood in New York City · United States

# East Village

The East Village is a neighborhood on the East Side of Lower Manhattan.

![East Village](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/East_Village_Second_Avenue.jpg)

East Village · Wikimedia Commons

The place

The East Village is a neighborhood on the East Side of Lower Manhattan. It is roughly defined as the area east of the Bowery and Third Avenue, south of 14th Street, and north of Houston Street. The East Village contains three subsections: Alphabet City, in reference to the single-letter-named avenues east of First Avenue; Little Ukraine, near Second Avenue and 6th and 7th Streets; and the Bowery, located around the street of the same name.

Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Village%2C_Manhattan), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

## Getting to East Village

**Airports:** LaGuardia (LGA), 11 km · Newark Liberty (EWR), 16 km · John F. Kennedy (JFK), 20 km\

- Philadelphia → East Village 132 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · $12–17 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/philadelphia-to-east-village) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Philadelphia&to=East+Village)
- Hartford → East Village 158 km · quickest by road, 2h 45m · $14–20 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/hartford-to-east-village) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Hartford&to=East+Village)
- Albany → East Village 215 km · quickest by road, 3h 18m · $19–27 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/albany-to-east-village) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Albany&to=East+Village)
- From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=East%20Village)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

## No local-transport research exists yet for East Village

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for East Village. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around

- Get in Go Airlink Shuttle - Shared van service to or from most of Manhattan.
- Get in Shared ride van services - Some companies as ETS Airport Shuttle and All County Express run very infrequent shared ride van service between airports.
- Get in in Queens was built as a seaplane harbor, and the Marine Air Terminal still stands, serving Delta (land-bound) flights\]\] {{go | name | url | address 40.77725 | long | phone | hours | wikipedia LaGuardiaairport.jpg | wikidata=Q319654 | content=The smallest of the New York Metropolitan Area's three major airports, but also the closest to Midtown Manhattan.
- Get in Air taxi and air charter companies fly a variety of private charter aircraft and jets, from charter luxury Gulfstream's down to economical piston twins for small groups and individuals.
- Get in It also serves the town of Montclair via the Montclair-Boonton Line with a transfer in Travelling via a PATH or ferry connection in Hoboken, it also serves points north of the city (in New Jersey and New York State west of the Hudson), via the Pascack Valley and Bergen/Main/Port Jervis Line.

From [Wikivoyage: New York City](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/New_York_City), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done

1. [Fire Island](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/fire-island) US 10 ways of moving, 19 sources 71 km
2. [Vinalhaven and the Fox Islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vinalhaven) US 9 ways of moving, 13 sources 561 km
3. [Tortola and the British Virgin Islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tortola) VG 11 ways of moving, 15 sources 2,636 km
4. [Vieques](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vieques) PR 8 ways of moving, 12 sources 2,642 km
5. [Saba](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/saba) NL 8 ways of moving, 22 sources 2,767 km

If you know how people move in East Village – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Ceast-village&title=East+Village&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Feast-village), and the note gets an entry.

Around it

## Next door to East Village

East Village is 2 km from [New York City](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/new-york-city), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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