NYC Street With Homes That Were Once Horse Stables

I recently visited New York City’s Greenwich Village neighborhood, where I stumbled upon mews on a street that looked like a world away from Manhattan.

To get there, I took the M train to West 4 Street.

A short walk away, I found the street — called Washington Mews — behind an open gate between Washington Square and 8 Street.

Washington Mews is the name of a cobblestone street that looks like a “retreat” from the city, as an article in The New York Times described it in 1988.

Source: The New York Times

The north side of the street is lined with two-story buildings that used to be horse stables, according to the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation.

Source: Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation