“ It Must Be Nice to Be a West Village Girl”

[Anonymous]

I’m surprised this wasn’t posted here

https://www.thecut.com/article/nyc-west-village-neighborhood-new-generation-women-girls.html

…she wanted to rent in the West Village long before she moved to New York. In college at the University of Southern California, she started hearing from high-school friends, girls who had migrated here before her, that it was the place to live — a cobblestoned paradise where a young woman like herself could live an entire life within a block. During her final semester, last year, McKeon started obsessively combing StreetEasy for the perfect postgrad apartment and, to prepare for the move, watched Sex and the City for the first time. (She identifies as a Carrie with some of Miranda’s “girlboss energy”; she majored in entrepreneurship.)

Now eight months in, she likes that the neighborhood reminds her of being back on campus insofar as she is constantly running into people she knows, though instead of classmates, they are girls she follows or who follow her. “I feel like a freshman in New York,” she said.
In person, McKeon seems, just as she does online, to be a remarkably well-adjusted and unjaded New Yorker. On weekends, she likes going out for what she calls a “three-drinker” (a nice dinner with her girlfriends with a self-imposed three-cocktail minimum). She knows the names of the important restaurants (the Corner Store, American Bar, Dante), a couple of age-appropriate bars (Bandits, Bayard’s, the Spaniard), and even some of her neighbors. “I went out to dinner with two girls last night, both of whom live on my street,” she told me. “We met through social media. It’s nice.”

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Everything’s creaky. And … I love it!” McKeon said, slapping the table between us with both hands. “I could stay here forever.”
“There’s a cult mentality” to the neighborhood, McKeon continued. It’s true that many of the young women passing by the bar looked like her clones. They move through the neighborhood in packs, wearing the local uniform: a white tank, light-wash jeans, and Sambas, an iced matcha latte in hand, and hair slicked back into a tight ponytail.

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This isn’t the first time a generation of socially ambitious young women has descended on the West Village and, as one fashion executive explained to me with just a hint of an eye roll, “made the neighborhood their whole personality,” fundamentally changing it along the way. If Sex and the City washed out the last of the neighborhood’s bohemians two decades ago and turned the West Village into a celebrity playground where real adults with real incomes live, the pandemic turned it into something else entirely: a bustling sorority house. “Everyone has the same mind-set. We’re here, we’re young, we’re single. Let’s go out and have fun and be ourselves. Work hard. Play hard,” said a new arrival from Texas with blonde highlights while polishing off a bottle of rosé with her girlfriends one afternoon. They’re basic, they told me proudly. “Basic isn’t a bad thing,” a crew of Cosmo drinkers at Anton’s, just down the street, elaborated. “There’s a reason everyone wants to be like that.” (There’s a sense lately that the entire city, or at least much of downtown Manhattan and the trendier parts of Brooklyn, is going the way of the West Village. “They’re everywhere,” almost everyone I talked to for this story told me.)
A so-called real New Yorker might survey a neighborhood overtaken by this homogenized mass and scoff at what was once a haven for artists and gays, admiringly described to me by multiple people as like Charleston, Georgetown, or “Southie” in Boston. But to the actual people living in those places, these young women, who broadcast their lives like reality television to their millions of followers, may just be the ultimate New Yorkers. They seem to be enjoying their city more than the rest of us do. “Finding a new restaurant to have an Aperol spritz and hang out? That’s a new level of enlightenment,” said Kit Keenan, an influencer and former Bachelor contestant who helped put this new version of the neighborhood on the map. I couldn’t help but wonder, Are the West Village Girls doing something right?

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A must read.

[Anonymous]

Gah. But people will click ... and post ... so it gets written.

[Anonymous]

I read this nonsense. Bleah.

[Anonymous]

may just be the ultimate New Yorkers. They seem to be enjoying their city more than the rest of us do. “Finding a new restaurant to have an Aperol spritz and hang out? That’s a new level of enlightenment,” said Kit Keenan, an influencer and former Bachelor contestant who helped put this new version of the neighborhood on the map. I couldn’t help but wonder, Are the West Village Girls doing something right?

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A must read.

No, no, and no.

But are they doing something right? I guess so. If they're happy...I guess that's something.

[Anonymous]

was a greenwich village chick
went to danceteria, area, private eyes, cgbg
ate @ florent
bought rhinestone & rubber bracelets from an east village artist

these chicks are amateur wannabes
the "west village" is a construct created by real estate agents in the 90s

did walt whitman or mark twain live in the "west village"