Pelham Parkway, named after the Bronx and Pelham Parkway, is an ethnically diverse neighborhood in the central portion of the Bronx. The neighborhood is predominantly…
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The Rockaway peninsula, or more commonly referred to as The Rockaways, is a sandy peninsula of Long Island, all of which is located within the…
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Greenpoint is the northernmost neighborhood of Brooklyn. It’s sometimes referred to as Little Poland, due to its large population of Polish immigrants. After a long…
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Downtown Brooklyn is the third largest central business district in New York City, following Midtown Manhattan and Lower Manhattan. The Brooklyn Bridge directly connects the…
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Chelsea is the epicenter of New York’s gay life. It is home to a large gay population stereotyped as gym-toned “Chelsea Boys”. On 8th Avenue,…
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The name Tribeca is an acronym for “Triangle below Canal Street”. The neighborhood used to be an industrial district dominated by warehouses, but it has…
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Being one of the oldest neighborhoods of the city, the Lower East Side has long been known as an immigrant and low-class worker neighborhood. In…
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The Financial District is a neighborhood at the southern tip of Manhattan which comprises the offices and headquarters of many of the city’s major financial…
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Midtown Manhattan is the busiest and largest commercial district in the United States. Department stores, fashion shops, museums, theaters, television studios and many other businesses are…
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Times Square is a world famous square located at the intersection of Broadway and 7th Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. It’s probably the most bustling place in…
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Hamilton Heights is a neighborhood in the western part of Harlem. Together with the neighborhood of Sugar Hill, the area has been known as the…
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Manhattanville is a mostly industrial neighborhood in Manhattan, characterized by the elevated subway that runs on a viaduct throught the neighborhood. Manhattanville is not a…
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Tremont is a low-income neighborhood in the Bronx. Sometimes it is considered to be a part of the South Bronx. For decades, Tremont has been…
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Clinton Hill is a beautiful residential neighborhood located between Fort Greene and Bedford-Stuyvesant. Once it was a very wealthy neighborhood, by the 1880s and 1890s,…
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Bay Ridge is a middle-class residential neighborhood in Brooklyn. Its tree-lined streets are mostly filled with one- and two-family houses. Unlike many other Brooklyn neighborhoods,…
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The Brooklyn Bridge is one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States; it was opened for use in 1883. Stretching over the East…
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In recent years the neighborhoods of Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill and Carroll Gardens have gone by the collective name of “BoCoCa”. These three neighborhoods all…
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Little Italy is a neighborhood in Manhattan, once known for its large population of Italian immigrants. In the middle of the 20th century however, many…
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