At the eastern end of Christopher Street, Sixth Avenue is met by Greenwich Avenue , one of the neighborhood's major shopping streets. Look out for Patchin Place - opening onto W 10th Street by the Jefferson Market Courthouse - a tiny mews whose neat, gray rowhouses are yet another Village literary landmark, home to the reclusive Djuna Barnes for more than forty years. Barnes' longtime neighbor e. e. cummings used to call her "just to see if she was still alive." Patchin Place was at various times also home to Marlon Brando, John Masefield, Theodore Dreiser, Reed and O'Neill.

Across the street, the gourmet food store Balducci's offers pricey yet irresistable delicacies and a respite to your wanderings.

Patchin Place

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