New to the Hood: Cigarville

ByDon

For all your cigar-smoking needs, Cigarville, on the north side of 14th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues.

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  • The Annual Union Square Partnership Commercial Update

    ByDon

    Union Square is bustling, with robust foot traffic recovery, a strong roster of new retail and office tenants, and new mixed-use residential developments in the pipeline.

    Key data points from the last 12 months highlight the district’s strengths:

    1.1M SF of office
    space leased in the
    last 12 months

    58K+ average daily
    riders at Union Square
    -14th Street Station

    13% higher visitor
    activity on Greenmarket
    days in USQ

    370K average daily
    weekday trips to the
    Union Square area

    78K+ SF of ground floor
    retail space leased in
    the last 12 months

    Visitor traffic reached
    a high of 109% recovery
    over January 2020

    DISTRICT TRENDS

    USQ IS THRIVING
    ∫ Union Square’s residents have strong spending power,
    with average household incomes nearly 75% higher than the
    Manhattan average.
    ∫ By the end of 2023, visitor traffic hit 109% of January 2020
    levels, driven by Union Square’s vibrant mix of uses and the
    steady return of office workers.
    ∫ Leading employers choose Union Square, and the biggest
    new leases represent finance, technology, hospitality, and
    fin-tech.
    ∫ Union Square grew as a job center, with its workforce
    increasing by 12% since 2023 to reach 168K employees.
    The tech and innovation sector remains strong, with over 45
    companies located in the area.
    ∫ 43 new businesses opened in the past year, 60% of which
    are food and beverage establishments. Indicating a return to
    in-person dining, the number of new sit-down restaurants in
    the district increased by 25% over the number that opened in
    the previous year.

  • Economic Stats for Greenwich Village

    ByDon

    We may or may not technically live in Greenwich Village, but here are some fun stats anyway:
    Though it’s known as a hotbed of diversity, Greenwich Village is really quite homogeneous according to a new New York University-commissioned study by Appleseed, an economic analysis firm. Some highlights from The Economy of Greenwich Village: A Profile:

    ** The population of the Village last year was 72,025, virtually unchanged since 1990.
    ** Children under 18 comprise only 9.2 percent of the population, compared to almost 23 percent citywide. But between 2000 and 2009, the number of children under age 5 grew by 48 percent.
    ** Working age people (25-64 years) account for 69 percent of the Village population.
    ** Almost 80 percent of Village residents are white folks, 9.3 percent Asian, 6.2 percent Latino, 3 percent mixed race and 2.2 percent black.
    ** Village people have a median household income of just over $100,000 a year, more than double that of the rest of the city.
    ** 82.4 percent of Village residents have college degrees, beating even Cambridge (71.4 percent) and Palo Alto (78.7 percent).
    ** Ten percent of Village peeps work in the arts, recreation and hospitality industries compared to a whopping 18 percent in finance, insurance and real estate.
    ** Universities and colleges employ 10,350 people in the Village and their plans to expand are expected to stimulate growth in the local economy.

  • Comedy in the Park

    ByDon

    NY Laughs: Laughter in the Park 2009

    Sunday, June 7, 2009
    2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
    Laughter in the Park is New York’s only free outdoor comedy series. Every week, we present two hours of comedy at one of six different city parks. NYLaughs, Inc. is a unique non-profit that wants to change the cultural landscape of the Big Apple through humor. We seek to elevate the comic arts and provide laughter for free to New Yorkers on a consistent basis by producing free live comedy shows in New York City’s public spaces; from its parks and streets to its subways. We want to make New York a better place through laughter!