A Walk Around
History
Two Fifth's noteworthy neighbors include a passel of organizations dedicated to improving our minds. Foremost among them is New York University, 
whose "campus" properties include most of the buildings on Washington Square and many in the surrounding neighborhood.
Right next door at eight-12 West Eighth Street is the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture.
A short walk east on Eighth Street leads to The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, dedicated to engineering, design and architecture – and free tuition for the worthy few who are accepted solely on their merits.
Just a few blocks up Fifth Avenue are New School University, Parsons School of Design and the Cardozo Law School.
Four distinguished churches are within a five minute walk of Two Fifth. Just across Washington Square Park is Judson Memorial Church, designed by Stanford White and built in 1891. Just up Fifth Avenue at 10th Street is the Church of the Ascension (1841) and at 11th Street is the First Presbyterian Church, built in 1845. Both are wonderful examples of Gothic Revival architecture; they competed for New York's elite parishioners with the 1846, white marble, ornately decorated Grace Church at Broadway and 10th Street.
There are a host of interesting neighbors within easy walking distance, reason enough for many Greenwich Village walking tours to start right at our doorstep. Eighth Street and its eastern extension, St. Mark's Place, have more attractions, commercial and otherwise, than we could possibly list.
You can learn more about the area – our neighborhood – by clicking on the Web site of the Village Alliance Business Improvement District (BID).
The Museum of the City of New York, is a great place to start your own search of the city's many museums and archives on the web.
