Neighborhoods

Getting to Greenwich Village & the West Village

The low-rise grid-break west of Sixth Avenue, plus the Hudson River waterfront and Christopher Street PATH.

Inside the Manhattan Congestion Relief Zone (below 60th St)

The shortlist

Ranked for this corner of the island, best first:

1. 1 PATH Rapid Transit 45–70 min · $3–6
2. 2 Private Black-Car Service 30–55 min · $130–220
3. 3 Ferry Combination 45–70 min · $12–16
4. 4 Rideshare (Uber & Lyft) 30–60 min · $60–120

Getting here, specifically

The West Village is the rare downtown pocket with its own PATH stop: Christopher Street, on the Hoboken–33rd and Journal Square–33rd lines, lands you on Christopher between Greenwich and Hudson, in the heart of the low-rise grid-break. From Newark Penn that means a one-seat ride for $3.25 with no Manhattan transfer. The tangled, off-grid streets west of Sixth Avenue make a car slower than it looks, and you still pay the congestion toll. If you are aiming for the Hudson waterfront or Greenwich Village proper, Christopher Street still wins on foot from there.

The Village sits below 60th Street, inside the Congestion Relief Zone, so every car-based crossing carries the Manhattan congestion charge on top of the tunnel toll — which tilts the math toward rail and, downtown, toward PATH. Open any crossing for its full timing, fare and step-by-step.

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