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# East Village

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

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## Every way there

- 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)

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

The field note

What is in and around East Village, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What East Village has

- Y Scheduled flights New York (LGA), 11 km
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 5 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
- Y Ferries Stuyvesant Cove, 1 km, Hornblower Cruises; sailings estimated
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

40.728°, -73.986°

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.

How locals move

## Getting around East Village the local way

- 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.
- Get in More mundane arrivals can be had from New Jersey via NY Waterway and SeaStreak, two fast ferry services.
- Get around The Seventh Avenue Line () serves Broadway above 42nd Street and Seventh Avenue below 42nd Street, and is useful to get to the West Village, Chelsea, and Tribeca neighborhoods as well as the Staten Island or Ellis Island/Statue of Liberty ferries (1 to South Ferry station) and Columbia University (1 to 116th Street station).
- Get around The R also goes up past Astoria to Jackson Heights and beyond, and is joined by the W down through the Financial District and South Ferry (Whitehall St).

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

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Village%2C_Manhattan), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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