greenwich avenue 

Greenwich Avenue is the main center for shopping and hanging out in Greenwich, Connecticut. Catering to a wealthy lifestyle, shops and stores on "the ave", as it is called, are pricey. Since rent for these small shops is incredibly high, many stores come and go quickly. Some of the most notable include Rags, Wishlist, LF Stores, and the average chains such as Starbucks and the Gap.
While it serves as a shopping venue, the ave is also a popular teen hangout. Two movie theaters draw young crowds on weekends, and mobs of teenagers often roam up and down the street on a given friday night. In the center of the avenue is a small park, infamous for being the easy place to buy marijuana by the bag. (true greenwichers, however, would never refer to marijuana by that name; in truth, another language is spoken amongst the students in Greenwich and at Greenwich High School...this language is known as Greenwich Ebonics. Pot becomes nugs, drunk becomes swilled, girl becomes biddy...)
The ave becomes a common hangout for everyone, not only those who live close by. Celebs are sometimes spotted shopping in the high-end boutiques on greenwich avenue. Come take a look and decide for yourself whether the lifestyles of the rich and famous is really all that glamorous.

"Let's chill at greenwich avenue tonight"

greenwich avenue by biddyin_gtown June 13, 2006

Old Greenwich 

An extremely wealthy, high-class town in Connecticut - more a neighborhood but has its own zip code making it a more coastal town than anything. Everyone owns at least one Land Rover and some high-class German or Italian sports car and works in Manhattan or neighboring Stamford. Most families bring in $500K+ a year making it one of the wealthiest towns in America. Extremely family-orientated community with excellent schools and beautiful waterfront estates. Old Greenwich is a perfect representation of a high-class, sophisticated society made for the most privileged of people.

If you live in Old Greenwich, you're rich.

Old Greenwich by Chris1012 September 28, 2019

east greenwich 

1: Small, wealthy, suburban town in central Rhode Island. Home to many alcoholic trophy housewives and sheltered, spoiled brats. A town where BMWs outnumber brain cells, and the number of black residents can be counted on one hand.

2: The lone republican refuge in an otherwise democratic state

3: The "other" white town. See: Barrington

Brandon: "Did you hear they're cutting the music program at the high school so they can build a third gym?"

Jason "What do you expect, it's East Greenwich."

east greenwich by lawnboy April 27, 2005

greenwich

Here, in the richest town in the U.S., everyone owns houses bigger than most apartment complexes and drive cars that are more expensive than houses in "the rest" of America. 99% of the town is white, and all the girls wear lacoste and ralph lauren polos and oxfords (collars popped -- that's a given), j. crew classics, "real" juicy couture, and accessorize with prada. Knockoffs? What are those?! After lacrosse or field hockey practice, they all top off their polka-dot hair ribbons with eliza b. or rainbow flip flops. Don't even think about wearing just red or blue, it's all "nantucket red" and "lagoon" or "ocean spray".
Now onto the boys they date:
All wear seersucker or madras shorts/pants, and have long, stylishly unkempt hair. They all sail and play lacrosse, and are exceptional at both, when they aren't stoned or drunk. Their families attend yacht club parties every saturday night, where all the men have names like "tyler" and preppy little nicknames.
For fun in Greenwich, girls shop 'til they drop on "the Ave", where the most popular stores include "Rags" and "Wishlist", where you can pay $70 for a faded shirt that has been "professionally aged" so that the buyer can pretend to be ghetto and poor. And "ghetto" is a word used often in Greenwich. Preppy kids dressed to impress often say things like, "woah, man, your BMW is sooo mad ghetto". For the cash it takes to buy the sportscars that are cruising around Greenwich, you could buy and refurbish a ghetto.
Bottom line: Greenwich is preppy to the max, a prime example of a community so sheltered that most of the people there have an incredibly skewed perspective of wealth.

Greenwich, the home of the plastics.

greenwich by kidfromgreenwich July 6, 2005

East Greenwich 

Small town where teachers feel they desrve everything- Students cheat in simple vocabulary books aka wordly wise- parents have to take away cell phones,playstations, cars, ipods, credit cards, etc. for the kids to feel punished- Percentage of the population that is sober is at an all time low most of the time- Students use "bathroom breaks" to talk on their cell phones in the bathroom with other people who are cutting classes- EGHS can afford a new snack machine and many drink machines but not new text books- New streets are built and each time the house size increases and the amount of land decreases- Parties are BYOB because we all know that everyone has enough to bring.

East Greenwich is the ugliest rich town ive ever been to.

East Greenwich by egri July 20, 2008

Greenwich

greenwich, CT is one of the wealthiest towns in the United States, but as a person who lives in greenwich, most of these definitions are skewed and presumptuous. I don't sail, play lacrosse, wear polo's or lacoste. I am not white,and although I am the minority there is a lot of us in Greenwich, at least 90+ Argentine families, which is where i am from. There definately is the preppy group but to tell you the truth it isnt the majority of the people. While there is a lot of drug addicts and drunks in greenwich the amount of people who smoke between classes (in a school of 3,000 kids) is less than 50, and i personally have never smoked. I just wanted to give people a different view from all the ones that i have been reading which are mainly assumptions and stereotypes. The descriptions other people wrote are true in some ways but still, to a much lesser extent.

Greenwich is something people assume really isn't.

Greenwich by el_wacho1989 December 10, 2008

greenwich

Greenwich (UK) is a Borough in South East London, which is famous for Greenwich Mean Time The former Royal Naval College, The National Maritime Museum and Greenwich Town centre (among Other Things). Despite the borough's significant place in British naval and scientific heritage, it is one of the most deprived areas of London.

Greenwich is one of the most deprived broughs of The East Thames Corridor.

greenwich by Chris Henniker April 26, 2006