Stride StoriesRunning tour · Manhattan
West Village to the High Line
1.7 mi run
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The stories on this route
Patchin Place
Look through the iron gate: a short dead-end lane of plain brick houses. A builder named Milligan began putting up ten working-class houses here around 1848.
Jefferson Market Library
Look up at the tower at the point of the triangle: red brick, bands of pale stone, and a clock. The top was designed as an enclosed fire lookout, with an enormous alarm bell.
Stonewall Inn
Look at the low brick front with the Stonewall Inn sign. In the late 1960s, a gay bar in New York couldn't get a liquor license. It was illegal for a bar to serve someone known to be gay. Mafia control of gay clubs was a given, and police raids were routine.
75 1/2 Bedford Street
Look for the slim house with the stepped Dutch-style gable, squeezed between its neighbors. It's nine feet six inches wide, and it's often called the narrowest house in New York.
Westbeth
Look up at the open, railed bays in this brick building. In the 1930s it was altered so the elevated freight line, the High Line, could pass right through it.
The High Line at Gansevoort
Look up at the riveted steel viaduct ending above Gansevoort Street. Freight trains once ran through the West Side streets, right among the other traffic. The railroad hired "West Side cowboys," men who rode horses and waved flags in front of the trains.
Stories researched October 2026 · every fact checked against a source
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