NY Neighborhoods
1. Lower Manhattan and Battery Park City
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Financial District As quiet, safe, and conveniently located as Tribeca, but without much neighborhood life; it can feel abandoned at night. BoundariesChambers St. to southern tip of Manhattan, East River to Broadway. Subway Stations4,5 to Bowling Green | 4,5 to Wall St. | R,W to Rector | 1 to Rector | R,W to City Hall | 2,3 to Park Pl. | 4,5,6 to Brooklyn Bridge | 4,5 to Fulton | A,C to Broadway | 2,3 to Fulton | J,M,Z to Fulton | J,M,Z to Broad St. | 2,3 to Wall St. | R,W to Whitehall St. Tribeca By many criteria, Tribeca could be considered the best place to live in the city. It enjoys minuscule crime levels, great schools, tons of transit, well-planned waterfront access, and light-filled loft-type apartments in painstakingly rehabbed industrial buildings. But having already overtaken the Upper East Side as the city’s richest precinct, it is prohibitively expensive, and any traces of racial and income diversity are long gone. BoundariesVesey St. to Canal St., Broadway to Hudson River Subway Stations1 to Canal St. Soho Great bars, restaurants, and retail. Bustling during the day, relatively quiet at night, expensive all the time. BoundariesCanal St. to Houston St., Lafayette St. to Hudson River Subway Stations6 to Canal St. | N,Q,R,W to Canal St. | A,C,E to Canal St. | 1 to Canal St. | 6 to Spring St. | R,W to Prince St. | B,D,F,V to Broadway-Lafayette | C,E to Spring St. | 1 to Houston St. Greenwich Village Entertainment options galore, but very expensive—many residents live in subsidized student housing. BoundariesHouston St. to 14th St., Fourth Ave. to Sixth Ave. Subway StationsB,D,F,V to Broadway-Lafayette | 6 to Bleecker St. | 6 to Astor Pl. | R,W to NYU | L,N,Q,R,W to Union Square | A,B,C,D,E,V to W. 4th St. | F,L,V to Sixth Ave.-14th St. East Village The neighborhood with the highest concentration of bars in the city (if not the world) scores off the charts in all the expected areas: retail diversity, restaurant density, proximity to nightlife, and desirability to the creative classes, with only schools and affordability truly lacking. With a typical two-bedroom running at about $3,300 per month, it’s expensive. But thanks to nearby NYU, the East Village has more income and ethnic diversity than most of its neighbors. BoundariesHouston St. to 14th St., East River to Fourth Ave. Subway StationsF, V to Second Ave. | L, N, Q, R, W, 4, 5, 6 to Union Sq. | L to First Ave. | L to Third Ave. Lower East Side Suppose we told you about a neighborhood with some of the city’s best nightlife, along with outstanding restaurants and shops. It’s conveniently located in Lower Manhattan. It’s vital and energetic, gentrifying but reasonably diverse. And a two-bedroom apartment costs around $2,300 a month. Yes, the Lower East Side has some prominent warts: Its housing stock is fairly run-down. It’s noisy. And not everyone wants to live where they go out. But few other neighborhoods offer such a complete New York City experience at this price point. BoundariesCanal St. to Houston St., East River to Bowery Subway StationsF to East Broadway | F,J,M,Z to Essex-Delancey | B,D to Grand St. | J,M to Bowery| F,V to Second Ave. Nolita Virtues and vices are similar to Soho; very expensive and too crowded for green space. BoundariesCanal St. to Houston St., Bowery to Lafayette St. Subway StationsB,D,F,V to Broadway-Lafayette | 6 to Spring St. | J,M to Bowery | 6 to Canal St. | J,M,Z to Canal St. Gramercy and Flatiron The league-average hood is mostly bereft of bars and restaurants despite being rebranded as the more fashionable “NoMad”. Boundaries14th St. to 34th St., East River to Broadway. Subway StationL to First Ave. | L to Third Ave. | 4,5,6,N,Q,R,W,L to Union Square | 6 to 23rd St.| R,W, to 23rd St. | R,W to 28th St. | 6 to 28th St. | B,D,F,N,Q,R,W,V to 34th St.-Herald Sq.| 6 to 33rd St. Chelsea Charming in some places (especially its 400-gallery art colony) and less so in others, including some pockets with high crime. Boundaries14th St. to 29th St., Broadway to Hudson River. Subway StationsN,Q,R,W to Union Sq. | F,L,V to Sixth Ave. | 1,2,3 to 14th St. | A,C,E,L to Eighth Ave.-14th St. | 1 to 18th St. | 1 to 23rd St. | F,V to 23rd St. | R,W to 23rd St. | C,E to 23rd St. | 1 to 28th St. | R,W to 28th St. Midtown West More cultural cachet than Midtown East, but much grittier, with modestly high crime rates (especially around Port Authority) and a high incidence of air, asbestos, and noise complaints. Boundaries29th St. to 59th St., Madison Ave. to Hudson River Subway Stations7 to Fifth Ave. Upper East Side Famously safe, charming, green, and beautiful, but other neighborhoods offer those same virtues while also being cheaper and more densely packed with entertainment. Boundaries59th St. to 96th St., East River to Fifth Ave. Sunway Stations4,5,6 to 59th St.-Lexington Ave. | R,W to 59th St.-Lexington Ave. | N,R,W to Fifth Ave.-59th St. | F to 63rd St.-Lexington Ave. | 6 to 68th St. | 6 to 77th St. | 4,5,6 to 86th St | 6 to 96th St. Upper West Side Some of the most desirable property in the city is on Central Park West, but Amsterdam Avenue is a morass of mid-rises and much of the neighborhood lacks street life. Boundaries59th St. (excluding Columbus Circle) to 110th St., Central Park West to Hudson River Subway Stations1 to 66th St.-Lincoln Center | 1,2,3 to 72nd St. | B, C to 72nd St. | 1 to 79th St. | B, C to 81st St. | 1 to 86th St. | B, C to 86th St. | 1,2,3 to 96th St. | B,C to 96th St. | B,C to 103rd St. | 1 to 103rd St. | B,C to 103rd St. | 1 to 110th St. | B,C to 110th St. Morningside Heights Diverse neighborhood, better for grocery shopping than nightlife; higher prices relative to its location, probably because of the captive audience of Columbia professors. Boundaries110th St. to 155th St., St. Nicholas Ave. to the Hudson River Subway Stations1 to 110th St. | B,C to 110th St. | 2,3 to 110th St.-Central Park North | 1 to 116th St.-Columbia University | B,C to 116th St. | 1 to 125th St. | A,B,C,D to 125th St. | B,C to 135th St. | 1 to 137th St.-City College | 1 to 145th St. | A,B,C,D to 145th St. | C to 155th St. Harlem Despite radical changes in recent years, crime is still relatively high and the public schools could still use improvement. BoundariesCentral Harlem: 110th St. to Harlem River, 5th Ave. to St. Nicholas Ave. Subway Stations6 to 96th St. | 2,3 to 110th St. | 6 to 110th St. | 2,3 to 116th St. | 6 to 116th St. | A,B,C,D to 125th St. | 2,3 to 125th St. | 4,5,6 to 125th St. | 2,3 to 135th St. | B,C to 135th St. | A,B,C,D to 145th St. | 3 to 145th St. | 3 to 148th St.-Lenox Term | C to 155th St. | B,D to 155th St. Washington Heights For better or worse, it has mostly escaped the forces of gentrification; it’s much safer than reputed, with a falling crime rate. Boundaries155th St. to Dyckman St., Harlem River to Hudson River Subway StationsA to Dyckman St. | 1 to Dyckman St. | A to 190th St. | 1 to 191st St. | A to 181st St. | 1 to 181st St. | A to 175th St. | A,C to 168th St. | C to 163rd St. | 1 to 157th St. | C to 155th St. | B,D to 155th St. Brooklyn Heights/Cobble HillThe Heights has never really been an outer-borough neighborhood. But since the Court Street and Atlantic Avenue commercial nexus went from urban no-man’s-land to mini-mall (replete with deep-pocketed chains like Barnes & Noble, Ben & Jerry’s, CVS, and a Regal multiplex), families are even less inclined to move away from the neighborhood. While most are thrilled with the commercial facelift, skyrocketing rents have edged out a few neighborhood institutions — like Peter's Ice Cream, which closed last year after a 77 percent rent increase. Farther down in Cobble Hill, old men still keep watch from their lawn chairs over a vibrant mix of fish stores, butchers, bakeries, and delis. Still, scarcity of product has fed the sellers’ market, and prices are approaching uptown Manhattan levels. — JOEY HOFFMAN Carroll Gardens and Gowanus Tree-lined streets, beautiful brownstones with front and back gardens, a diverse array of restaurants and bars, good local delis and Italian markets: Carroll Gardens’s charms are well catalogued. Its sister neighborhood, Gowanus, splayed along the Superfunded banks of the Gowanus Canal, is desirable primarily for its proximity to said charms. Boundaries15th St. to Union St., Fourth Ave. to Interstate 278 (BQE) Subway StationsF to Fourth Ave.-9th St. | M,R to 9th St.-Fourth Ave. | F,G to Smith-9th St. | F,G to Carroll St. | M,R to Union St. Red Hook A few blocks’ worth of well-regarded restaurants and bars (not to mention Ikea and Fairway) are offset by a large and impoverished housing project and terrible transit. BoundariesRed Hook peninsula between Buttermilk Channel, Gowanus Bay, and Gowanus Canal to Hamilton Ave. DUMBO Two half-neighborhoods with glaring weaknesses that look better when combined. Dumbo supplies the art galleries and waterfront access but is expensive; Downtown Brooklyn provides the stadium-seating multiplex and public-transit hub, but is high in crime and bereft of nightlife. This area has the city's highest rate of creative capital: People in the arts constitute about 20 percent of its workforce. BoundariesDumbo: Sands St. to East River, Brooklyn Bridge (through to the Brooklyn Navy Yard) to Manhattan Bridge Subway StationsF to York St. | F,G to Bergen St. | 4 to Borough Hall | M,R to Court St.-Borough Hall | 2,3 to Borough Hall | A,C,F to Jay St.-Borough Hall | A,C to High St. | M,R to Lawrence St.-MetroTech | 2,3 to Hoyt St. | A,C,G to Hoyt-Schermerhorn | B,M,Q,R to DeKalb | 2,3,4,5 to Nevins | 2,3,4,5,B,Q to Atlantic | D,M,N,R to Pacific | 2,3 to Bergen Fort Greene and Clinton Hill A dynamic and well-rounded Brooklyn neighborhood. Once predominantly black, it now touches just about every corner of the race-income matrix, including a large black middle and upper-middle class. Much of the neighborhood is in a historic district, and its homes, especially in Clinton Hill, are often majestic. The Pratt Institute gives it some gravity as an artistic center. Its crime and public-school rankings remain below average, however, which is why it’s still cheaper to live here than next door in Boerum Hill or Park Slope. BoundariesAtlantic Ave. to Nassau Ave./Flushing Ave., Pratt Institute/Classon Ave. to Flatbush Ave. Subway Stations2,3,4,5,B,Q to Atlantic Ave. | 2,3,4,5 to Nevins St. | B,M,Q,R to DeKalb Ave. | G to Fulton St. | C to Lafayette Ave. | C to Clinton-Washington Ave. | G to Clinton-Washington Ave. | G to Classon Ave. Park Slope No neighborhood is the butt of more stroller jokes or the recipient of more anti-gentrification scorn. But any way you slice it, Park Slope is the very definition of a well-rounded neighborhood. It falls just slightly below average in two: affordability (the average two-bedroom rental is $2,275) and diversity. In all other areas, it’s somewhere between above grade and superlative: It’s blessed with excellent public schools, low crime, vast stretches of green space, scores of restaurants and bars, a diverse retail sector, and a population of more artists and creatives than even its reputation for comfortable bohemianism might suggest (more, in fact, than younger, trendier Williamsburg). It might not be everyone’s idea of a perfect neighborhood, but statistically speaking (by a hair), there’s nowhere better. Boundaries15th St. to Flatbush Ave., Prospect Park West to Fourth Ave. Subway StationsD,M,N,R to Pacific St. | 2,3,4,5,B,Q to Atlantic Ave. | 2,3 to Bergen St. | B,Q to Seventh Ave. | 2,3 to Grand Army Plaza | M,R to Union St. | M,R to 9th St. | F to Fourth Ave./9th St. | F to Seventh Ave. | F to 15th St./Prospect Park Prospect Heights Though it is invariably thought of as up-and-coming (perhaps because of all the bars and restaurants popping up in recent years), Prospect Heights is in fact a fairly well-established and diverse middle-class outpost. It offers excellent train access to Manhattan, a bounty of green space thanks to Prospect Park, and reasonable rental prices (an average two-bedroom costs $1,675). But the quality of housing varies significantly from block to block, with well-kept brownstones and new developments juxtaposed with properties in a state of disrepair. BoundariesEastern Pkwy. to Atlantic Ave., Franklin Ave. to Flatbush Ave. Subway Stations2,3,4,5,B,Q to Atlantic Ave. | 2,3 to Bergen St. | B, Q to Seventh Ave. | 2, 3 to Grand Army Plaza | 2,3 to Eastern Pkwy.-Brooklyn Museum | S to Botanic Garden | 2,3,4,5 to Franklin Ave. | S to Park Pl. Williamsburg Few other enclaves inspire the kind of love-it-or-loathe-it partisanship that this one does. But the thing to remember is that Williamsburg is actually a rather large neighborhood, both in population (it’s home to about 125,000 people, about the same as Harlem) and geography. Near the L-train stops, it offers a fantastically hip (or annoying, depending on your disposition) array of bars, restaurants, and shopping, and some sparkling new developments. The eastern and southern borders are more affordable but less safe, and lag in retail density and access to green space. BoundariesFlushing Ave. to North 14th St./Nassau Ave./McGuinness Blvd./Meeker Ave., Bushwick Ave. to Kent Ave. Subway StationsG to Flushing Ave. | G to Broadway | G to Metropolitan-Lorimer | J,M,Z to Marcy Ave. | J,M to Hewes St. | J,M to Lorimer St. | J,M to Flushing Ave. | L to Bedford Ave. | L to Lorimer St. | L to Graham Ave. | L to Grand St. | L to Montrose Ave. | L to Morgan Ave. Astoria Most Manhattanites know Astoria only for its beer gardens, but this large—about 170,000 people—and eclectic neighborhood has much more to offer, including reasonably priced housing, strong ethnic clusters that have weathered the first waves of gentrification, good shopping at both local markets and big-box retailers, and pedestrian-friendly streets. The downside is a lack of foliage and park access, as well as a commute that is reasonable to midtown but cumbersome to lower Manhattan. Boundaries36th Ave. to Twentieth Ave./Con Ed Power Plant/19th Ave., Ditmars Blvd./BQE/Northern Blvd. to East River Subway StationsN,W to 36th Ave. | R,V to 46th St. | R,V to Northern Blvd. | R,V to Steinway | N,W to Broadway | N,W to 30th Ave. | N,W to Astoria Blvd. | N,W to Astoria-Ditmars |
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