Your true Green-Village denizen does not like to look at unattractive objects if he can possibly avoid it.
Of course, they do make use of Sixth Avenue occasionally, on their rare trips uptown.

But it is in the same spirit that a country dweller would take the railway in order to get into the city on necessary business.

As a matter of fact there is no corner of New York more conveniently situated for transportation than this particular section of Greenwich.

I came across a picturesque real estate advertisement the other day: "If you ever decide to kill your barber and fly the country, commit the crime at the corner of Eighth Street and Sixth Avenue.

There is probably no other place in the world that offers as many avenues of flight." But nothing short of dire necessity ever takes a Villager uptown.