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Not only is Lower Manhattan the most densely-populated area in the United States (and one of the wealthiest), it is also where the whole New York party got started. Comprising a roughly triangular area ...more
The great thing about SoHo and Tribecais that you can tell their locations just from their names. “Tribeca” stands for “Triangle Below Canal” and sets up shop between Houston Street to the north ...more
Surrounded by neighborhoods that have succumbed to the dreaded pressures of gentrification over the last few decades, Chinatown stubbornly (and thankfully) maintains its well-established restaurants, open-air ...more
The Lower East Side is a tiny neighborhood packed between Chinatown, Little Italy, the East Village, and the East River, making its street boundaries Grand Street to the south, Bowery to the west, and ...more
For well over a century Greenwich Village embodied the simple, famed openness of New York City. Known nationally as a hotbed of political radicalism, social activism, and creative intensity, the Village ...more
Attention ladies and gentlemen! You are now entering Boho Heaven. The neighborhood known as the East Village, bounded by Houston St.to the south, the Bowery to the west, 14th Street to the north, and the ...more
The neighborhood of Chelsea stretches out in all its trendiness from 14th St. to 30th St. between Broadway and the Hudson River. Once an industrial hub (not to mention the birthplace of the Oreo cookie) ...more
The area just east of Sixth Avenue and north of East 14th Street includes some of the most stunning reminders of old New York. Towering landmarks like the Flatiron Building, New York Life Building, and ...more
Midtown West, from 29th to 59th Streets and from Central Park West to the Hudson River, is New York City at its most unapologetically touristy and commercial. This is the realm of Times Square (at the ...more
The pocket of Manhattan from 29th Street through 59th Street and east of Central Park is occupied mostly by businesspeople, tourists, and others who don't actually live in the area. St. Patrick's Cathedral ...more
This long, thin strip of land between Manhattan and Queens (and directly beneath the Queensborough Bridge) has long been eclipsed by the presence of its two huge, world-famous neighbors. As a mostly residential ...more
The Upper East Side is known for being high-class and high-priced. With one of the highest costs per square foot in American real estate, many of New York's most prosperous residents have resided here ...more
Where can you see people jamming to Caribbean beats on the street corner? Shops selling “Jewish Souvenirs”? Restaurants advertising “Chinese-Spanish” food? The answer is New York's Upper West Side ...more
Spreading from 110th St. to 125th St. and bordered by St. Nicholas Avenue to the east and the Hudson River to the West, Morningside Heightsis dominated by Columbia University. The school sprawls over 36 ...more
Manhattan's largest neighborhood is also one of its most storied and renowned. Though designed in the 19th century to house elite members of the upper class, the neighborhood gave way to poor European ...more
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