Neighborhoods in New York City

Every district has its own personality. Find the one that matches your vibe.

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15 Neighborhoods

Astoria

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Historically Greek, now the most ethnically diverse neighborhood in America — some of the best, cheapest food in the cit

Bushwick

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Street art covers every wall — the Bushwick Collective is the largest outdoor gallery in New York, and the nightlife sta

Chinatown

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The oldest and largest Chinatown in the Western hemisphere — dim sum, dumpling shops, bubble tea, and 30 blocks where ev

DUMBO

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Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass — cobblestones, the most photographed street in New York, and the best-looking

East Village

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The New York of the 1970s punk scene — CBGB is gone, but the streets still have attitude, the best dive bars in the city

Flushing

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Queens' massive Chinatown — bigger, less touristy, and (most New Yorkers agree) with better food than Manhattan's Chinat

Greenwich Village

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Crooked cobblestone streets, preserved brownstones, jazz clubs in basements — the New York of Bob Dylan, James Baldwin,

Harlem

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The cultural capital of Black America — the Apollo Theater, jazz history, gospel brunches, and row houses more beautiful

Lower East Side

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A hundred years of immigrants, tenements, and street-level energy — now layered with hot new bars, music venues, and the

Park Slope

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Stroller alley — but also the most beautiful residential streets in Brooklyn and the gateway to Prospect Park.

SoHo

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Cobblestone streets lined with cast-iron Beaux-Arts buildings — once the center of the American art world, now the world

Upper East Side

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Museum Mile runs up its spine — the Met, the Frick, the Guggenheim, and the most elegant residential blocks in the city.

Upper West Side

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Tree-lined streets between Central Park and Riverside — the neighborhood of Woody Allen, the American Museum of Natural

West Village

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Tree-lined streets, Federal-style row houses, impossibly pretty — the neighborhood New Yorkers aspire to live in and tou

Williamsburg

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Brooklyn's most famous neighborhood — where hipsters invented modern coffee culture, the waterfront gives you the best M