How long have you lived there? Most New Yorkers still call it the Lower East Side, not the East Village.
25 years as of last month. There are no official boundaries here. It’s whatever you and your friends think it is.
IMO: LES refers to the entire area south of 14th Street until somewhere in Chinatown. The East Village is a smaller neighborhood within that area. Not all portions of the LES are considered the village but the reverse is true.
BUT:
SOME people consider them entrely seperate neighborhoods as you see here:
East Village Map: http://www.citi-habitats.com/images/nyc/sm_evillage.gif
LES map: http://wikitravel.org/upload/shared//thumb/7/7f/Lowereastside_map.png/350px-Lowereastside_map.png
