Greenwich Village’s elegant 19th-century row houses and stately mid-rise apartment homes  have earned the neighborhood its status as a New York City Historic District. But New Yorkers know that Greenwich Village's historic buildings are just part of what makes this iconic Manhattan neighborhood, which runs from Houston Street to 14th Street and from Bowery to Seventh Avenue, one of the most vital and vibrant places to live in Manhattan. The section of Greenwich Village known as NoHo, which is bounded by Houston Street and Bowery Street as well as Astor Place and Broadway, is home to many desirable lofts.

Pick a trend in New York City culture, and chances are that at least a portion of its formative years took place in Greenwich Village. Such disparate New York artists as Eugene O'Neill, Lenny Bruce, Bob Dylan, Isadora Duncan and Dylan Thomas have called Greenwich Village home, and while the Village has naturally lost some of its creative edge during a half-century of gentrification, it is still very palpably and very endearingly Greenwich Village. The neighborhood is still home to numerous jazz clubs, live music venues, art house movie theaters, record stores and funky little joints of all kinds. As it has long been, Greenwich Village remains one of the more interesting food neighborhoods in New York City: history-rich coffee shops share the tree-lined blocks with one-of-a-kind restaurants ranging from Michelin-starred Mario Batali eateries to iconic brick-oven pizzerias to beloved hole-in-the-wall falafel spots. All that history and all that culture have kept Greenwich Village vital, while a number of big-ticket Greenwich Village condominiums -- both pre-war condo conversions and new construction listings -- have helped keep the Village a great place to live, even if Dylan Thomas (or even Bob Dylan) probably wouldn’t recognize the place these days.

The Beaux-Arts pre-war condo conversion at 56 East 13th Street, for instance, is a classic Greenwich Village condominium -- a stately building with an old New York feel, albeit fitted out with some very contemporary luxury condominiums. The new construction luxury condominium 14W14, at 14 West 14th Street, on the other hand, is every bit a modern Manhattan condominium, from its glassy looks to the modern apartments for sale. They’re neighbors -- it’s about a three minute walk from one to the other -- and in today’s Greenwich Village, nothing could make more sense. It's a testament to Greenwich Village's enduring cool and eclecticism that these Greenwich Village condo listings -- which initially seem to have little in common beyond offering apartments for sale in Greenwich Village -- both fit so well within the neighborhood. Now, as ever, Greenwich Village contains multitudes, and does so in style.