A Brief Encounter

This guy standing on a street corner in Chelsea asked me where Gansevoort and Greenwich Streets intersected. He looked lost, as a tourist would, and what initially lead me to believe his out-of-townness was that he pronounced Greenwich “Green Witch.” Strangely, he pronounced Gansevoort correctly, so I couldn’t correct his green gaffe, and regardless I have no idea where Gansevoort is, other than somewhere in the Wicked Witch of the West Village.