Greenwich Street
Both Greenwich Street – originally called Greenwich Road – and Greenwich Avenue, with which it is sometimes confused, derive their names from the formerly independent country Greenwich Village, which was subsumed by New York City as the city grew northward. "Greenwich" means "Green village", with the "wich" derived from Latin "vicus" through Old Saxon "wick". Of the two roads, Greenwich Street was the shorter, more scenic and popular route to the village, but often flooded until the 19th century, when landfill moved the river's edge farther away.