outcasts continues, newgate prison which was in effect the first sing sing was that crested and greenwich streets in the 1790s. through the 1700s yellow fever, cholera, other plagues run through that tiny little community down at the bottom of manhattan. washington square park in fact starts out as a burial ground for yellow fever and cholera victims because it was for an out of town. the village was one of the places that it was out in the country so you would flee out of the village to get away from the plate. by the 18th of especially, especially video played in 1822, and is that you that people started building permanently in the village. one of the reasons the west village is a famously or infamously the streets curl around on each other and wander all over the place is because people were building along the cow path and the farm path and the streams, and then it just stated by the 1850s when the grid, the avenues and street grid of manhattan flows up and around, it's too late to change all that so the village always maintains this slightly anarchic mess of streets over at that and. that bec